#newton recovery arc focs u r the only thing holding me together...

[gh0stlymoth]

It's kinda sad what for a grip newmann still has on my brain, i will just be going about my day and go: they wrote letters for 3 YEARS that's 36 months of letters, presumably not short either, also long enough to become a constant in each others life, only to then meet and the reality and difficulty of irl convos crashing in and them disliking eachother, spending 3 years with no contact to then getting assigned to the same shatterdome for 5 years, in which their research department dwindles and dwindles but they stay put, they stay together, probably form the weird kind of friendship you form when you are both scientists at the end of the world and survival depends on your numbers and your analysis, supporting each other in little ways, like reminders to eat and sleep... they still bicker, they still fight, but ultimatly they are still the one stable constant they have in the uncertainty of everything, and even if they don't show it, they care for each other and then the double event happens, they drift with a Kaiju and each other and then the world is saved, everything is layed out in the drift and they can rest, learn to live with each other without the pressure of war because a life without the other has become uninaginable, or so it seems, only for Newt to draw back, not noticable at first, but steadily, until he tells Hermann that he is going to Shao Industries and he leaves... 10 years of sparse contact... 10 years in which Hermann still keeps the picture of himself and Newt close... 10 years in which Newts mind is taken over by the Precursors... and still the one thing that brakes him out, the one thing that breaks the 10 year grip the hive mind has on him, if even just for a second, is seeing Hermann about to die by his own hands and not fighting him and and..... nghhhhhhhhhhdhdhshdhd