#gnaws on steel

[yuwuta]

You know I’m here to listen to you ramble about every AU ily give us the pacific rim NGE 🤲🏽

- @yuutito

aleks beloved, thank you for always enabling my rambling 💞 this is the kinda ask where i wish i could draw because there are such vivid images of what each jaeger/mech would look like to me but for now consider the following in the yuuta verse: 

hiromi and kento used to be co-pilots on the same jaeger, and despite having average drift compatibility, they had a near perfect streak. there were theories that judgeman would be even more successful with a single pilot, and ultimately hiromi was the better fit, which works out in the end because it turns out kento and satoru are a near perfect match in terms of compatibility, holding the record for a co-pilot duo. kenjaku is a much less predictable jaeger, but satoru and kento are the only pair to co-pilot it and survive. 

the zenin family has snuck their way into jaeger mechanics and government control of them. they almost exclusively build and fund mechs for their own family members, and have their own training program they put their pilots through to ensure that they are the only ones able to pilot the robots. other big families and government sectors don’t like this, but the zenins fund so many refuge relief and engineering programs, that nobody can say anything. 

the only good thing is because they tailor the mechs to their pilots, the drift compatibility of the co-pilots matters much less. 

toji is the first person in history to solo pilot a jaeger, and proves that solo piloting is possible, but only in extremely rare cases. he piloted alongside megumi for a while until playful cloud was put out of commission and toji retired to focus on stealing the zenin’s training regiment and teaching it to other pilots in training. megumi’s co-pilot is now yuuji, and sukuna was a jaeger was sponsored by the gojo family (which the zenin’s are still mad about)  

the zenin’s wormed their way into the financial and political side of things, but the gojo family is famous for their pilots and engineers. satoru’s mother and father were hailed as one of the greatest pilot duos, and even though they never wanted satoru to become a pilot, their deaths inspired him to take his training seriously. his cousins and aunts and uncles are a mix of co-pilots and engineers. it’s expected that yuuta become one or the other, but after rika’s death, he decides on the pilot route. it seems to be the fate of the gojo’s that the death of a loved one leads the path to pilot training. 

rika’s parents were scouted by the gojo family and the government to help build mechs. they packed up everything to move to sendai and begin their research and construction. rika was that little kid running around the hangar and yuuta was much less enthusiastic and much more scared one tailing behind her. even though her parents were brilliant engineers, rika always loudly proclaimed her dreams of becoming a pilot. when she dies, her parents memorialize her dreams by designing and naming a jaeger after her, and they only think its right that yuuta be its pilot. 

yuuta and rika have always been a special pair, and so even though their actions concerning you are far from normal, it’s not a surprise either. yuuta was asked to be rika’s pilot, but he also did it because he thought it was the right thing to do. but now, as yuuta watches you recover after he/rika saved you after an attack, he knows that wanting you is the wrong thing—but if he found you through piloting, if he found you through rika, how wrong could that be? how bad could a pilot really be—they’re the heroes after all, right?

anyways enough about yuuta’s pacrim au, time to talk about other ones teehee

there’s a pink wolf in your dreams and it always saves you from whatever impending doom is heading your way: a pack of hungry coyotes, the unstable ledge of a cliff, a group of angry huntsmen with arrows and pitchforks. it’s been this way every since your last co-pilot died in battle, while you were still connected to him. you try to make sense of it, try to find comfort in the savior of your dreams, but the natural human response is to scream and shout and wake up in cold sweat when face to face with a wild animal in your face. so, the instinct kicks in when you tiredly roll into the sparring room and the newest recruit has a head of pink hair and scar over his left eye that mirrors the one of the wolf in your dreams, is to run away as fast as you can. it’s futile though, because itadori yuuji is more than the wolf in your dreams and your destined co-pilot, he’s your soulmate. 

in a sort of post-war world, you and kento are very comfortable in your retirement. you have the respect of the entire world, support from every government, enough money to last multiple life times. the jaeger program is kept in effect, but at a much smaller scale due to the reduced likelihood of an attack; so, when the radar picks up the possibility of another attack years after the last one, kento isn’t happy to hear you’ve volunteered yourself for the war efforts. there are new recruits, younger recruits, even other experienced recruits who never fully retired—he doesn’t understand why it has to be you. he just got happy with his life with you. it turns into a whole argument, and ends with you leaving for your old base by yourself. your old jaeger has long since been retired, and you feel nervous stepping into the cockpit of a new mech after all these years, but much of it dissipates when you step in to find kento already suited up and waiting for you, because there’s no way he’d let you go out to war without him by your side. 

it’s a poorly kept secret that you and megumi are soulmates. with an almost perfect drift compatibility and a lifetime of friendship to solidify your coordination and teamwork, the only mystery is why you two refuse to actually date each other. your argument is that there’d be no privacy or true intimacy in that relationship—you and megumi are already, always, physically in each other’s minds; dating wouldn’t leave room for anything more. megumi’s argument is that he’s simply waiting for you to realize that you’ve been in his head long before your first drift sequence. when people aren’t wondering about the status of your relationship, they often take note about how even though you and megumi are co-pilots, you resemble pilot and mech more often than not: you have the controls and megumi seems to carry out your every command. 

[rambunctioustoons]

different drum // the stone poneys 🎶

[pippalovestunabrick]

NUREYEV:(IN LOVE)Juno. JUNO:(RELIEVED AND IN LOVE)There he is. NUREYEV:I love you. I'm sorry. I'm so, so-- JUNO:Get over here. (KISSING SOUNDS MY BELOVED)

[transjackfairy]

portsmouth, 1997 // paris, 2022

[waters-and-the-wilde]

oh hey so i was thinking about. how it's not actually funny but it is a little bit funny how nureyev is decades in debt trying to make things right while the life of his first love is dangled over his head by the people who broke into his mind and will never give him a moment's peace, and juno spent like a decade in debt bc he spent too much on dinner dates with criminal courtesans in his twenties and had to work for a mob boss to pay it off

(and it's not actually funny bc that was also implied to be a bad contract made while juno was in a vulnerable place and spending all that time at the valley was direct result of spiraling from the fallout of his relationship with diamond and deciding it was better to just play the fantasy on loop and go home alone and never actually trust anyone again)

[ofthecaravel]

so tired of only being attracted to one man in the whole entire world how do i get him to move out of my brain danny wagner you need to start paying rent NOWWWWWW i am SICK of your kind handsome gentle giant sparkly eyed talented intelligent nonsense

[a-romantics-guide-to-life]

there's also the idea where his daughter is taking ice skating lessons and you're her coach

OMG YEA and like maybe you were a figure skater who had a career ending injury so you started to teach kids how to ice skate and billy signed kara up on a whim since it aligned with his practice schedule so you started to teach her one on one teaching her your old simple spins and how to skate quickly and one time billy stays later to watch you two practice and you end up asking him

“wanna join mr.bonney?”

and the way that he would lace his skates so quickly and joins you two on the ice and even learns a simple spin too that has kara going “you look like a monkey daddy!” and you three laugh and billys heart nearly EXPLODES from how natural it was to be with you and kara and he ends up asking you out to dinner

[eelektrik]

me when the mental illness makes me act mentally ill

[madzwashere]

Me patiently waiting for the new penumbra episode

[j-hawthorn]

I FINISHED ALL THREE OF THE SAINT OF STEEL BOOKS AND IM SCDEAMING CRYING THROWING UP

[honeyed-latte]

"You should age up that character so the ship isn't so bad!"

No, in fact now Im going to make them younger because you decided to be pushy and weird. The things I'll do out of spite are boundless do not test me

[storybookprincess]

i’ve got a poetry program coming up this friday & it’s really been a struggle to plan for it while acting like i have “average library worker during national poetry month” levels of enthusiasm about poetry & not “insane in the goddamn membrane” levels

[thinglostinfire]

Beat Trails into Reverie (I still have the post game reverie corridor, but overall I'm done) and it was really-really good (surprised Pikachu face)

It was like the devs didn't have enough time, so they cut the usual bs and stayed focused on the main characters actual development. (like some of bs jokes are still there, but not like it was in the beginning of the CS3)

Rean route was top tier - nice culmination of the CS series. Everything with him since Act 3 and futher was just so... Chef's kiss.

C route - no words, jus Pterodactyl Screech. (didn't expect to like it so much)

And now I'm gonna replay all nine games.

[bgtop]

im gonna RRYRAHAYGHGHG

[dankovskaya]

Maybe they sent Leon in alone because as evidenced by literally everything he does throughout the whole game he has spent practically every waking moment since 1998 compulsively training himself to the point of inhuman insanity out of fear of being thrust into another zombie situation

[postmanlinksbootyshorts]

first zendaya pulling that insane mugler archive and now anok yai for british vogue. this is my personal fashion 9/11