#i want yall to know Sabo specifically learnt Japanese for Ace!!!

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Ooh… but the Sabo returns moment would be bangin as a small comic idea

the South African shatterdome has sent over transfers, more pilot candidates and engineers in exchange for foot soldiers from the SEA shatterdome to assist with the rebuilding efforts around africa and the middle east, the last Kaiju “Sleipnir” CAT III wrought true blinding destruction there before it got put down by the Spanish Jaegers: Aguila Negra and Romeo Salvaje

Ace, Marco and the other off duty Rangers and high ranking officers are assembled to greet this exchange party, and its a smooth process, it has all the poise and properness of any military procession

That is until the mechanic/engineer division enter the hangar, Sabo is part of this division — traumatic kaiju attack = lost all his memories except for his knowledge on jaeger programming, and ofc general human existence (talking reading writing and in this day and age combat) he just forgot about Ace and beinf a pilot and being MARRIED!?!?

Well its a huge commotion when Sabo sets eyes on Ace… Ace who at that particular moment wasnt looking at him rather looking at a very interesting spot above Whitebeards shoulder (theyre standing in formation opposite to each other) and then theres chaos

Major Outlook— whats wrong!??!

Outlook?

Ace hasn’t heard that surname in a very long time (seven years to be exact) and as far as he can remember, all of Sabo’s family died in the second coming breach—

And then there’s the heavy sound of running footsteps and Ace is bodily taken off his feet by a taller man, blonde— his hair is longer (Sabo always used to have his hair cropped short—) sabo? And they’re speaking to him in disjointed japanese and Ace realises that weird ass accent— his his husband—!!

(Ace is half Brazilian half japanese, same as Luffy, his preferred speaking language is japanese but he is fluent in english, Sabo is british canadian and learnt japanese when he was at the jaeger academy, Marco is American with spanish roots and only speaks english, knows disjointed chinese and some japanese thanks to Ace)

And Ace claws into Sabos mechanic overalls, holds him tightly, realises that he was alive and Sabo’s trying to explain what happened and he can sense Marco hovering over them in concern

Aufhfhf it would be very emotional and confusing for them all 🥺

Basically Sabo got rescued by coast guard and was then taken to another survivor encampment, there he followed the refugees to the south african shatterdome to heal and seek work, here he remembers instinctively (cuz all shatterdomes are kinda the same) how to get around and how to do stuff TM, its where they assign him — Dragon is the SA marshal — to the jaeger engineering department because Sabos in no mental state to pilot