Discussion Anime / MobileSuitGundamNarrative

So, Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. It was originally this:

• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The three main characters are rumored in-story to be the "Miracle Children": three children who predicted the Sydney Colony Drop. Throughout the film, much doubt is cast on whether all of them are genuine Newtypes, or only one of them really is. This eventually gets Played for Drama:
  • Michele, being an adopted daughter of the Luio family, is credited with advising Luio Woomin to make every positive business decision—which explains Luio and Co.'s longevity and survival throughout the upheavals of the Universal Century. While it turns out she has limited Newtype ability herself, much of her "predictions" were all down to her very good sense of economics and social psychology. She had to keep up The Masquerade of being a genuine powerful Newtype as part of her deal with her Titans handlers, so that they could keep Rita.
  • Rita, as it turns out, is the genuine article, which makes her a valuable commodity that the Titans don't want to let go of. When Luio and Co. came in with an offer to adopt all three of them, the Titans counter-offered by claiming that there was only one—giving them Michele in turn so that they can continue subjecting Rita to experimentation. The subterfuge involved in all of this—which ended with Michele getting to enjoy a privileged life and Rita undergoing whatever hell of experiments leading to her ghost inhabiting the Phenex—is the source of all of Jona's resentment against the world.

I changed it to this for accuracy:

• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The three main characters are rumored in-story to be the "Miracle Children": three children who predicted the Sydney Colony Drop. Throughout the film, much doubt is cast on whether all of them are genuine Newtypes, or only one of them really is. This eventually gets Played for Drama:
  • Michele, being an adopted daughter of the Luio family, is credited with advising Luio Woomin to make every positive business decision—which explains Luio and Co.'s longevity and survival throughout the upheavals of the Universal Century. While it turns out she has limited Newtype ability herself, much of her "predictions" were all down to her very good sense of economics and social psychology. She had to keep up The Masquerade of being a genuine powerful Newtype as part of her deal with her Titans handlers, so that they could keep Rita.
  • Rita, as it turns out, is the genuine article, which makes her a valuable commodity that the Titans don't want to let go of. When Luio and Co. came in with an offer to adopt "the true miracle child," the Titans couldn't find a difference between the three. Since they were nigh-identical in power, they decided it doesn't matter which they gave Luio and Co., so intentionally gave a fake so they could experiment on the true Newtype. The subterfuge involved in all of this—which ended with Michele getting to enjoy a privileged life and Rita undergoing whatever hell of experiments leading to her ghost inhabiting the Phenex—is the source of all of Jona's resentment against the world.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut I don't know if it actually applies? We know what is and what isn't magic or mundane. Rita has powers, Jona awakens to his, and Michele gets by mostly on social engineering. In-Universe there's discussion, but it's very much a setting trope and would need an almost complete rewrite because the bulk of the entry isn't really relevant.