[LightMaster]

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

Actually, that's retconly speaking. Technically speaking would be about how that retcon added all this information that made the Destiny Gundam so... odd.

Technically speaking, all other VL Systems were retroactively added in after Destiny's appeared. Originally, it was the single, solitary Mobile Suit with it; before Stargazer was animated and before Strike Freedom was "officially" given it's own Wings of Light.

And yet oddly enough they never even officially name the wings of light system used by the Destiny.

I'm not understanding what you mean, Voiture Luimere is what they're all called. Destiny is the only one that actually has a special name, that being "Wings of Light".

supplementary material confirms that the Destiny's wing binders were based off of the Freedom's and supposedly improved upon them.

What materiel?

As for your comment on the design being based around Shinn... well, frankly speaking, why does it look more like the Perfect Strike rather than the Destiny Impulse?

It doesn't look all that much like the Perfect Strike, the weapon placement is similar, but that might just be because it's a fairly efficient way to put all those weapons together. All the same, Impulse is based on Strike and Destiny on Impulse; Freedom, in so far as the in-show canon goes, isn't based on the Strike at all.

The Impulse took everything about the Sword Strike and the Launcher Strike and doubled it, which the Destiny did... not.

Likely because the Destiny Silhouette showed them how inefficient and cumbersome such a design could be. Two Anti-Ship Swords, and Two Beam Cannons can't be all that light for example. Impulse only carried either set-up at a time, your asking Destiny to nearly put on the combined weight of Blast and Sword.

All the Strike Freedom's can really do is swing upwards.

Not at all, they can pivot around on the back just like Freedom's. Sprawled on to the sides, or spread out behind like all those times you see Freedom deploy the Baleena's.

It's hard to justify how the Strike Freedom looked just as capable because, well... Destiny was full of reused stock animation, most of which was based off of the Freedom's fully opened wings pose.

How is it hard to justify it when you just did, no justification is better then "Well, It did it in the show".

And fully opened doesn't mean squat for "more vernier/thrusters" when it can't move in the full range of the Freedom's, whose ten wing panels means it has more thrusters than the Strike Freedom's eight, DRAGOON units or no.

False, Freedom has more wing sections, but Strike Freedom has more vernier per-section. If memory serves, the last two wing sections on either side have no noticeable engines on them- likely just there for heat dissipation or fuel storage. Comparatively, with the DRAGOON's docked, Strike Freedom has at least 4 engines per-wing. And I believe it was Mark on Mechatalk who speculated based on the wording of an entry on SF's Kit manual that even with the Remotes docked- the VL system functions in a reduced capacity.