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Livesterm doodle, thanks for coming :D

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Even as a young child, Raleigh Becket loved sweaters 

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My ass just had to Google "why my egg tortilla is not baking correctly on the air fryer" before I gave up and ate the half baked thing.

My first attempt at cooking was bad, but at least it was somehow edible (please please please don't let me get a stomachache for this)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Raleigh Becket/Chuck Hansen, Yancy Becket/Scott Hansen, Hercules Hansen/Stacker Pentecost Characters: Chuck Hansen, Hercules Hansen, Yancy Becket, Raleigh Becket, Mako Mori, Stacker Pentecost, Tendo Choi, Sasha Kaidonovsky Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Chuck Hansen Lives, Yancy Becket Lives, Fluff and Angst, trying to change the past, Made Up Science, Temporal Paradox Summary:

Chuck Hansen works in secret to find a way to change the timeline. He does but he can’t do the one thing he really wants; save his mum.Ch

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When I say that Yancy is actually more arrogant than Raleigh and that Raleigh looked the part of the golden boy, but he always second-guessed himself...

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Raleigh in the background drinking orange juice at 3AM before a drop will never stop being funny in the context of Yancy trying his best to not scream

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I checked the folder and now I can read it 🥺💖

Thank you for the reply!!!

Hey, the link to your Pacific Rim Canon 101 file is broken :(

I was wondering if you could please share it again with us? I was so excited to read it, because I love the movie so much and I wanted to dive further into the lore you had complied.

My pacrim blog is @driftwithme , by the way!

You should be able to access it through the folder link! If you still have trouble with it, Disroot is probably having server trouble, and I recommend trying again later.

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Your blog gives me so much serotonin, I'm currently in the middle of thesis writing hell and your Pacific Rim headcanons do so much for my sanity. Not sure if you'd read this fic series slready, but it seems right up your alley!

https://archiveofourown.org/series/4442128

As someone who writes in this blog to escape the thesis writing hell, I'm glad to be of service 🫡🫡

Also OMG I STARTED READING IT LAST YEAR BUT I LOST THE LINK AND I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR IT. AND YOU JUST FOUND IT. OMG THANK YOUUUUUUU !!!

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Raleigh Becket low-key flexing on everyone on that Shatterdome while thinking of himself as a hasbeen??? He's insane.

"I'm not what I used to be" my brother in Christ, your verbal retorts got even Pentecost sweating. He had to pull rank on you because you had him on the verge of punching you in the face.

Raleigh got kicked from the PPDC and he came back 5 years later to prove why he is the golden problem child of the Jaeger Program.

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The ghost of Scott Hansen chasing Chuck during the movie events because half his hatred towards Raleigh is in fact Chuck projecting his hurt over Scott.

Let me explain:

Chuck hated Herc for not saving his mother, but what about Scott? Chuck must have grown with Scott always there, next to his dad. Even when he didn't see them much, Scott was always there, a figure that he couldn't blame like he blamed Herc, that was half a stranger, half the last family Chuck and Herc had. I can see Herc asking Scott for help with Chuck. He could be the cool funny uncle, the one who sometimes apologizes for Herc, the one who embarrasses Chuck but is fond of him.

Scott was the last person Herc and Chuck could find support with. Their last solace.

And then Scott betrayed them both.

Fuck, Herc found out about whatever Scott did during a drift. I can't recall if I'm getting it right, but I think it was during a drop even. You're there, fighting for your life, when you find out a secret so twisted it makes you send your brother to jail or whatever happened to Scott. In that moment, Herc and Chuck lost the last member of their family. Not to death or some kaiju, but to his own stupidity.

Scott almost got him and Herc killed.

Chuck must have hated Scott so much after that. He was a coward, a liability, he put the program in danger and he would never, ever be someone like Scott Hansen. Chuck would be the best and the most reliable pilot. He would clean the name and the honor of the Hansens, he wouldn't be just a dead weight like his dad or uncle.

And then Knifehead happens.

And then the official reports come in and all of them are saying that Raleigh Becket got Yancy Becket killed because he was too immature to follow orders. He did what no Jaeger pilot should ever do (survive when their copilot dies) and he had lost one of the best Jaegers up to date. He was kicked from the Jaeger Program, he had lost everything. Worst even, his failure has marked the end of the Golden Age of Jaegers. Pilots started to die, Jaegers were dropping like flies and the once invincible Beckets were nowhere to be seen.

It would make sense if in Chuck's mind, Raleigh had fallen in the same category as Scott. Unlike with Scott, Chuck had the opportunity to say all he wanted to say to Raleigh.

Think about Chuck's dialogues again. All he said was halfway right. Mako was a rookie, Raleigh hadn't been a pilot in 5 years, one of them had zero experience in real battle and the other was known for disobeying and putting others at risk. Chuck was an asshole, but he's attitude came from concern, fear and trauma. Mako and Raleigh did almost kill everyone on the Shatterdome.

Chuck never apologized to Mako per se because it was never about her. Herc apologizes to Raleigh for him and Chuck lets his regret show. It's like all was fed by Chuck's past experiences and some of his prejudices, right? He didn't personally know Raleigh at all, but Chuck did know someone who seemed to be similar to Raleigh.

I'm just saying. Scott's existence and the inferred relationship he had with Chuck could explain why Chuck reacted as bad as he did to Raleigh coming back after all those years.

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My favorite headcanon is that Shatterdomes have special rooms for their local pilots, because they were supposed to live there most of the time.

You know Raleigh and Yancy's holographic clock that would alert them of any kaiju attack with all the immediate information about it? Like that.

The Beckets had that clock, a kitchen, a punching bag for training in their room, they had the Lady Danger logo on the wall... I'm just saying that it'd be cool if every pilot duo had their rooms similarly personalized.

Or better, they had their rooms personalized for them. I like to believe people would show them certain kindness and consideration because at the end of the day, they were the crazy ones willing to pilot a giant machine to kill the kaiju.

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I love for a world where Yancy is everyone's favorite Victim #1. It's the older sibling in him that designated him for such faith, truly.

Newton and Hermann ask him to go to the labs later and he appears dismayed but on time. "What are you minions plotting now". He sits for two crazy hours straight listening to Newt and Hermann rant possible solutions of how ans why he could have appear in the middle of the ocean as if nothing happened after Operation Pitfall. When Herc finally gets him out he's green and horrified, wondering if he is part kaiju (he is not, they ckecked) or if he is a ghost (Herc's trying hella hard not to laugh because this is serious goddammit!!!).

Pentecost requests him to deal with some diplomats while Herc and him are out (going on a freaking date, he knows, Herc told him). His face is stuck on a painful smile and that's how Raleigh finds Mako putting ice to his face pitifully on their room. He just wishes his brother and bestfriend were better at hiding their amusement. Hello? He is in misery???

He is the one the cooks call when they want someone to taste their new food (sometimes a miracle from heaven, sometimes the devil's ass served on a plate). He is the guy the med bay calls when they have developed a brand new kaiju-based treatment for his old hurts (at least Chuck and Raleigh are trapped with him, Victim #2 and #3). He is the j-techs out to go when they need an alibi to go out to a bar ("Yancy needs enviroment enrichment!") and the man who sits a listen to Mako's rant when Raleigh is being ridiculous or when she doesn't want to worry or bother Raleigh (he gets it and never complains about that one).

He's Thee Testing Guy.

It happens so often, he teases Raleigh about being jealous of not having enough time with his older brother. Because Raleigh more than once has tell people to back off or fuck off or some variant, forcing his brother to rest.

Raleigh knows Yancy doesn't mind, that the people on the Shatterdome does it because they love Yancy, that he's good company and an amazing listener and his brother has such a good heart. But they didn't grow up with Yancy. They don't know that his older brother always wanted to be a hero. That Yancy is the type to hide his pain and continue on and on until his body collapses, playing it as nothing but "being a bit old already haha".

Yancy's smart enough to take care of himself most of the time, but after he came back to live, his sense cracked a bit. Survivors guilt? No, whatever is opposite of that. Yancy feels guilty because he died and left Raleigh alone and didn't help the program when it needed him. He is desperate to reclaim years of his life that are gone. He is terrified that all his friends and co-workers would disappear and he'd die on his sleep or wake up screaming tied to some kaiju testing table. Stacker and Chuck suffer from that too, but they were dead for hours. Yancy was dead for 5 years.

Yancy is like that dog that you must reject play time with because they need to rest and eat. It breaks your heart who impossibly fond you are of him. He's so good, so gentle and looks so strong that most people sometimes forget he is human too.

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“You know it’s not canon, right?”

“They only have a couple lines”

“CHUCK IS DEAD”

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like the rock bears the weather

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I need to start posting here more. Hey guys do you ever think about raleigh being more disabled than he is in the movie. he says “my left arm is kinda shot” but he doesn’t really show it! though (and this might be me seeing things) I think he looks like he’s straining more in the fight scenes where he uses his left arm. I think the anchorage incident left a lot of his nerves and muscles damaged. I think he spent a good year and a half doing physical therapy to get it back into a condition where he could use it semi-normally again. and he still feels sore and needs to rest and do soothing stretches if he overexerts himself. it’s a constant reminder of what he lost, what he survived, and what he has to live for. I also think he has chronic migraines as a side effect of long term drifting 😊

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At the end of the day, my take is that most of the Jaeger pilots we know from Pacific Rim (2013) could have been in the military, except Raleigh.

He doesn't know how and when to shut the fuck up, he won't shut up if he's being witness to some injustice, he will disobey orders if the orders don't make sense to him or risk someone's life, he won't partake in any form of cruelty or keep it down because it is a superior doing it...

Yeah, maybe the movie is right and he is nothing special when it comes to physical or intellectual attributes. What sets him aside and makes him a fantastic ranger is that Raleigh will never ignore his principles and his guts. He's willing to stand up for what he believes in even if life punches him down again and again.

He might not have been a chosen one by design (since we know Travis Beacham actively tried to make him the contrary of that, actually), but he is a classic hero in what matters most: not giving up and standing for what's right.

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In terms of worldbuilding, I'm very much aware that Guillermo del Toro didn't want the PPDC to work like the military or to be assumed to work like the military.

Problem is that you have a considerable number of important characters with military background that ends up bleeding to their job in the PPDC. It means that even if at its core the PPDC is not and will not be the military (ever), it still holds aspects of it and that should be recognized as a problem.

Take Pentecost, for example. He effectively pulls up rank on Raleigh when he mentions that Raleigh is a ranger and he himself is Marshall. Of course, pulling rank is not exclusive to the military, but given the context and Pentecost's past, it ends up reading exactly like a high ranking officer would talk to his subordinate.

Mako and Chuck also exhibit typical behavior of children who grew up with military dads. The level of exigence they operate under is not just due to the fact they grew up between Shatterdomes or that they were at war— it is also the result of a parent that expects something of their children and kids want to meet their expectations, make their parents proud. Mako and Chuck can be described as methodical, almost obsessed with their missions. This is not necessarily bad, as it makes them passionate and relentless on the path to achieve their dreams, but it is also a heavy tool on their mental health.

Militars are also more prone to knowing when to shut up and suck up when someone with more power than them makes a decision they don't agree with. That Pentecost and Herc are at the top of the command in the Jaeger Program at the end of it is not a surprise. They are trained to obey what their superiors say and to find a way around their orders, basically making things work out of nothing. I'm not saying that only an officer could do that, just that they had the training to back it up and prepare them more for that situation.

Militar culture is not only about weapons. It was developed through centuries of warfare to face better against crisis. The chain of command is an easy way to organize everyone's function so it is clear in the middle of the chaos what your job is, what orders you must obey, who you should be following, etc. Things like living in quarters, eating rations, maintaining a tight schedule, keeping up with the routine... That's necessary in a place like the Shatterdomes, where everything needs to work like a clock.

I'm really happy that Pacific Rim is not military propaganda and that it doesn't romanticize war. That might be one of my biggest reasons for it to be one of my favorite movies.

It's simply that in order to avoid romanticizing something, you need to look at the complexity of the worldbuilding and recognize the good and the bad within some facts.

And while I'm at it: the Jaeger Program freaking works like the aviation. I'll just leave it there lmao.