#roy the little carmine engine

[thefluffyrailway-official]

𝕊𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕕 ℙ𝕦𝕡𝕤!

𝙰𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚞𝚙 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎!!

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(𝙰𝚄 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚘 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚜: @steam-beasts <𝟹)

[notstars-doors]

For the Pacific Rim au: how do Dick and Wally befriend the other Titans? How does their first mission as a team go? Does Roy have any history with Jade or Donna in this 'verse? fuck i love this idea so much i have so many questions sdfjl

Dick and Wally just have this natural, gravitational pull. They’re so close that they just radiate pure friendship and trust and loyalty, and others want to take part in that. It helps that the rest of the Titans were in their sector in training, as they’re all on a similar level of skill and compatibility. They both already knew Donna and Roy from their childhood, so that was an easy enough friendship to fall back into, and the rest of them fell into place after that.

Roy and Jade were definitely an on and off thing during training. That’s how Dick and Wally got to know Jade, and subsequently Artemis. They both hit it off right away with her, loving her sarcasm and eye for mischief. They made fast friends with them both. Donna and Roy are too focused as pilots to even consider trying a relationship while active in the program, but after years of being in the drift, they eventually figure out how to say out loud the things that have been in their heads all this time.

When Tim, Conner, and Bart enter the academy a few years after them, Dick immediately latches on Tim. He’s got the technical skill of a engineer with a PhD - at the age of 18 - and Dick feels like he has as much to learn from him as he can teach. Tim makes friends with Conner and Bart during training, so when he introduces them to his new surrogate brother and his boyfriend, Wally and Bart hit it off right from the start. They’re as alike as Dick and Tim, and can spend hours talking about physics and chemistry and Kaiju biology. They’re both massive geeks and it’s really nice to have SOMEONE to talk about this shit with.

Cass and Steph enter the academy the same year as Tim, but Dick and Wally already know them very well: Cass is Dick’s adoptive little sister. Bruce had found her the same way he found Dick, but she needed far more guidance than he did. She threw herself into training in a way Dick had only ever seen in Bruce, and to this day she is still the Most capable fighter ever recorded in the Jaeger program. She’s quiet and ruthless, but luckily she has her other half that has softened her up more than anyone will know: Steph.

Steph manages to befriend everybody, particularly Tim and Conner, tying them all together like the red string of fate. She’s bubbly and friendly but always goes with her gut, because she knows she can trust it. And eventually, so does the rest of the team.

When they finally get the government to green light the ‘Titans’, their first deployment as a squad is a double event: Category 3 and 4 on the Alaskan coast, codenamed Spineripper and Austerity. Dick and Wally, as the founders of the team, are on point in Crimson Thunder. Striker Obsidian flanks them on the right, Red Victory on their left. Carmine Fury, as a heavy hitting tank of a machine, defends the coastline with Envy Assassin, which nimbly uses various projectiles and blades from afar to protect the Miracle Mile.

The Titans take down the two Kaijus in less than one hour, their combined skills and implicit trust making it easy for each of them to do their job accordingly. Dick takes his natural place as leader, with Wally supporting his every decision as it flows into his mind through the drift.

Jaeger pilots are known for their unpredictability - it makes them adaptable in the field, but it makes it hard to force them into submission, as most militaries do. Luckily, the Titans aren’t a squad of random Rangers put together for their abilities. They’re friends, and that’s what makes them the strongest Jaeger Team to date: they trust each other not because they have to, but because they WANT to, and they carry that with them through the drift.