#also i struggled to articulate all my thoughts sorry if this is like. weirdly phrased. i am exploding

[hawkesque]

ok hello. i have thoughts.

short answer: yes.

long answer: absolutely yes! 

the two main things we see with drift compatible pairs in pacific rim are 1) well, compatibility and 2) sparring (physically and/or verbally). mako and raleigh find they’re compatible when they spar; herc and chuck fight and have disagreements; newt and hermann’s entire relationship is built on fighting with each other. having disagreements and fights is not a “despite of” thing, it’s literally how you can tell two people are compatible--they aren’t identical, they compliment!

we see the same thing w/ bj and hawkeye: they have an instant chemistry in WTK, and they fight in petty (aint love grand) and serious (preventative medicine) ways, but they’re still at each other’s sides by the end. fighting alone wouldn’t make them incompatible by a long shot! plus, their back-and-forth shows they have this innate sense of how each other’s brain works--they slot together perfectly. imo they’ve got every characteristic of a drift compatible pair :-)

Are Hawkeye and BJ drift compatible? Sound off