#minotaur // aubrey keay

[th3houseofleaves]

pacific rim drift compatibility (mostly) thoughts for the ocs n co!

-> mason and aubrey keay: they were originally pacific rim ocs who piloted a jaeger together. they're twins so it was a natural assumption that they'd pair up together. aubrey has an easier time working with others, but has only done that once or twice. the only other person that mason can drift with is his older brother, connor. connor is why mason and aubrey wanted to become jaeger pilots!

-> the vasilyev brothers: the three of them are by far the most stable and in sync pilots out of all my ocs. you wouldn't think so because theyre all so messy but it works. all three of them have been able to drift with other people but nowhere near as well as they work with each other. outside of their older brothers, aeron works best with their cousin milan. but milan doesn't like being a jaeger pilot much and has only worked with them a handful of times.

-> nate rayner and zack kawakami: they're cousins and each others best friends. if they were to need to pilot a jaeger and drift they'd do so well together but literally neither one of them wants to. nate is more focused on mechanics and repairing shit, and zack deals with computers rather than people so. Yeah.

-> akira nomura: he's easily the most versatile pilot. he doesn't have a set partner because he was trained in a way that expected him to adapt to whatever he was told. he's been able to drift with quite a few different people, though none of those times were as in sync and powerful as he could've had with a pilot he had real compatibility with.

-> kit warren: by far the person kit has the most drift compatibility with is roy. they're childhood best friends, they've been there for each other through thick and thin, and there's not much in their memories that they wouldn't share with each other since the other person probably knows about it anyways. they'd be able to complete the neural bridge / neural handshake so so fast it's crazy. they'd be a team that experiences "ghost drifting" where they're still kind of synced even outside of the drift. they just operate on the same wavelengths it's insane. they'd be a pretty famous pilot duo to me.

-> kit warren pt. 2: eventually dick and kit are able to drift together but it takes so much fucking work. they spend a ton of time together trying to build trust with each other and find some common ground so that they can drift successfully and not keep failing. in a pacific rim au this is how they'd start their relationship, when they're getting to know each other better while working towards being drift compatible.

-> dove baek: while i don't think they'd ever be a jaeger pilot i still need to talk about them because they're rotting my brain SO. if they were a pilot, i think they'd have a hard time drifting with anyone because it takes so long for them to trust that people won't leave them. they're someone who'd have to work hard to drift with anyone and that would be smth that i think would block them from being considered for a pilot at all honestly. if i was to choose someone they'd be compatible with it'd probably be helena. i just think they click well enough they'd be able to figure it out.

[th3houseofleaves]

the different twins i muse or muses who have twins that i have are on my mind rn

nathan rayner and micah ravenwood are twins in a complicated sense. they're not biologically related, technically, but they also aren't human. (it's complicated.) nathan is physically older than micah by a couple years but micah is the older twin. micah lived lifetimes by itself waiting for its brother to be born again, nathan has died several times before but always comes back looking for his family. micah is death itself and nathan is fear embodied, the two of them have been intertwined since the first people began to die and fear was breathed into the world. micah always comes first – in the cycle of creation and in the cycle of rebirth. micah will change his vessel and nathan will be reborn and they will always look enough alike to pass as siblings.

mason and aubrey keay are the most functional twins. they've had good lives, good parents, and more siblings than they know what to do with. they're stable and they support each other well. the sports they've both chosen to compete in were originally chosen so theyd be able to spend time together. mason is a competitive figure skater and aubrey plays hockey. when mason starts streaming it's only natural that aubrey will join him. aubrey's handles on everything are almost the same as mason's, even the name he uses to stream with mason. his is resekaplan2 to mason's resekaplan. mason's fans call him reese whereas mason is kap. they're each other's best friend.

and the most tragic twins of all time, jackie and kieran bennett. they're so cain and abel coded and they can both hold so much mental illness in them. kieran thinks he's his sister's murderer and jackie sold their souls to bring kieran back to life. jackie is willing to be something less than human because a life without her brother wouldn't be much of a life at all. they're the same age but jackie is his big sister and always will be, sometimes it feels like she's older than him only because kieran feels so small and she is so stable to him. it's jackie who comes to pick him up when he's sixteen and alone in the emergency room after a fight that he had no chance in winning. it's kieran who's learning how to help his sister as best he can, who's taking his meds and trying to do better because jackie doesn't worry as much when he's doing better.