driftwithme
shan's pacrim blog
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Posting about Chuck Hansen and Raleigh Becket on 2023? More likely than you think.
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driftwithme · 5 hours ago
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Every time my brother and I rewatch Pacific Rim we start discussing which school Yancy and Raleigh might have been troublemakers at.
Current fave choices are South or Diamond, iykyk
Also there’s no way they could have held the line at the miracle mile off Anchorage, it’s not on the gulf, and if there is 2million people in Anchorage in my lifetime I’ll shit myself (current population is under 300,000 I think and that’s big)
I would LOVE to see a kaiju flounder in the mud flats though
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driftwithme · 5 hours ago
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Why do I have to work on double event day man this is bullshit
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driftwithme · 5 hours ago
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driftwithme · 5 hours ago
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Happy Double Event Day to all who celebrate! 🥳
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driftwithme · 5 hours ago
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Chuck Hansen will be dead in 4 days :(
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driftwithme · 1 month ago
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feels so wrong that itll be 2025 soon. fake year. science fiction year
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driftwithme · 1 month ago
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i hate australian people they need a dumb fucking nickname for every single word. can’t even get in a car accident without some australian asshole coming up to you and saying “oh gotcha self in a carblammy there aintcha mate” kill yourself and go to hell
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driftwithme · 1 month ago
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I prefer when fics doesn't use the drift as a magical solution to every problem the pilots encounter.
I love when it's specified that they can't read minds outside the drift. At most, they share dreams or drift in their sleep. Yes, they know each other better than anybody else, but isn't it that humans spend their whole lives with themselves and still can't figure themselves out? There's a whole profession dedicated to helping humans understand their minds for a reason.
The Hansens drifted for years and still their relationship was complicated, because they lacked the communication skills beyond the drift to make it work (or they had them and didn't know where to start, which is totally valid, we've all been there).
Mako and Raleigh were drifting during the Double Event and yet Mako managed to surprise Raleigh with the Chain Sword. They were in each other's mind, yet Raleigh didn't know something Mako did. He learned about it when the time came and not before.
Pentecost and Chuck were arguing out loud during Pitfall. They were drifting there, they were in each other minds, but the urge to verbally communicate overrode the neural link between them.
The drift is science, not absolute magic. It has it's limitation, like anything else.
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driftwithme · 1 month ago
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this is so fucking funny to me. imagine your BOSS who is the VERY IMPORTANT HEAD GUY of this WHOLE operation says this to you. like how do you even respond to that
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driftwithme · 1 month ago
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Fic concept:
Herc doesn't get hurt by accident during the Double Event, right before reaching the flare guns, but Chuck hurts his leg while they are climbing up to fire them, 'cause Leatherback slightly rocks the Striker then.
The twist is that the you are my son moment still happens-- because they need a Marshall on deck and Chuck's the only one left for it. Pentecost's speech to Chuck changes a bit, telling Chuck that he might be a narcissistic child with daddy issues, but he is also Herc's son so he knows what needs to be done (it's an echo of what he'll tell Mako and Raleigh). But Herc? He is beyond proud of Chuck for becoming Marshall as he tells Pentecost that it'll be his son's voice talking from the deck. You can even add some implicit note here on how Herc's mission is to protect Chuck until the end.
What if you even revert the final moments of the Hansen? Chuck gives a little speech on deck on how his old man always said that if you have the chance, you should take it. It's during Pitfall that Chuck gives the command to detonate the bomb and Herc goes "that's my son on deck" as a freaking threat on the kaiju. Emphasis on Pentecost echoing the thought because Mako is on the jaeger that will blow up the Anteverse.
That's how Mako and Chuck kinda inherit the Jaeger program.
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driftwithme · 1 month ago
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Btw assume almost all my chaleigh stuff can be platonic, romantic, queerplatonic or really anything you like. You can adapt it to fit your own view of their dynamic!
The same with any other duo not related by blood or family bonds (in which that sense, the dynamic is strictly the one of a family or simply non-romantic, okay?).
Regarding of my preference, I just love to see stuff about Chuck and Raleigh being close!
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Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori and Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket PACIFIC RIM 2013 | dir. Guillermo Del Toro
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driftwithme · 2 months ago
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It's tiiiiiiiime
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driftwithme · 2 months ago
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we as a society got over Pacific Rim too fast.
- banging soundtrack just awesome
- lead female character with her own fully realized arc that had nothing to do with a love interest
- the concept of drifting is so fucking cool and prime fanfic material
- those two gay fucking weirdo scientists who drifted together inside a fucking alien brain like hello
- IT PULLS OUT A SWORD IN OUTER FUCKING SPACE
- kaijus are cool. that's all.
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driftwithme · 2 months ago
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Thing is:
Yes, the trauma of piloting a jaeger is real but so it's the need to pilot it, so I need an au where the PPDC created a program to help pilots cope with the need to go fight.
It's literally a simulation center where you play for scores. That's it. They tricked all governments to keep a space where they can turn piloting a jaeger into a videogame. It's not dangerous for the brain, helps collect data, the k-science department can create new kaiju by combining info they know or replicate old versions, etc.
I'm talking about a "everyone can live if you want to" type of au where Chuck can complain about a game Eruka being slower than real life Eruka, or the Kaidonovsky can run a betting poll of who can score more against the new kaiju Newt created.
They also work on how to make the j-pilot training super effective. What is the first thing cadets see when they go in the simulator for the first time? Oh yes, Mako's score on top in red intimidating the hell out of them.
They get "themed parks" that are in fact recruiting centers. People pay to play, but in some cases the scouts also find a compatible pair.
I don't know, I think it'd be fun.
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