#wei triplets

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

I had all but forgotten about Cryptozoic's Pacific Rim trading cards, released in 2014 and dramatically scaled back from their original plans for a full set. Instead they released a binder that contained two autograph cards and seven wardrobe cards. (Oh, to be the person paid to cut up clothes and wedge them inside trading cards.) Although this arrangement is billed as a factory set, eBay reveals that there are at least nine wardrobe cards (the others are Raleigh/Chuck and the Kaidonovskys).

They're pricey, but as someone who was dead broke during that big prop auction... a little tempting.

[kaijuposting]

All the Pacific Rim Character Birthdays I Could Find

...And by "all," I mean I will be writing down character birthdays from all the sources I can find, some of which contradict each other! It definitely sheds some insight into how ideas changed during development, and I think it shows some evidence that not everyone was always up to date - for example, Mako and Raleigh's Drift Space bios seem to be up to date, but Newt's is clearly an older version, as indicated by his age being given as 45 rather than 35.

Update: I found a post on Travis Beacham's blog that lists birthdays! I've added them now.

Mako Mori Bio posted by GdT on Twitter: January 9th, 2006 Drift Space Special Feature: April 23rd, 2003 Man, Machine, & Monsters: April 23rd, 2003 Pacific Rim Novelization: April 23, 2003 Travis Beacham's Blog: April 23, 2005

Raleigh Becket Bio posted by GdT on Twitter: April 11, 1991 Drift Space Special Feature: December 11, 1998 Man, Machine, & Monsters: December 11, 1998 Pacific Rim Novelization: December 11, 1998 Travis Beacham's Blog: December 11, 1998

Yancy Becket Travis Beacham's Blog: November 7th, 1995

Stacker Pentecost Bio posted by GdT on Twitter: September 9, 1983 Man, Machine, & Monsters: December 30, 1985 Pacific Rim Novelization: December 30, 1985 Travis Beacham's Blog: December 30, 1985

Hercules Hansen Man, Machine, & Monsters: November 10, 1980 Pacific Rim Novelization: November 10, 1980 Travis Beacham's Blog: November 10, 1980

Chuck Hansen Man, Machine, & Monsters: August 14, 2003 Travis Beacham's Blog: August 14, 2003

Sasha Kaidonovsky Man, Machine, & Monsters: February 9, 1991 Travis Beacham's Blog: February 9, 1991

Aleksis Kaidonovsky Man, Machine, & Monsters: January 31, 1998 Travis Beacham's Blog: January 31st, 1989

The Wei Triplets Man, Machine, & Monsters: December 24, 1998 Travis Beacham's Blog: December 24th, 1998

Tendo Choi Man, Machine, & Monsters: May 17, 1992 Travis Beacham's Blog: May 17th, 1992

Newt Geiszler Drift Space Special Feature: January 19, 1980 Man, Machine, & Monsters: January 19, 1990 Pacific Rim Novelization: January 19, 1990 Travis Beacham's Blog: January 19, 1991

Hermann Gottlieb Man, Machine, & Monsters: June 9, 1989 Pacific Rim novelization: June 9, 1989 Travis Beacham's Blog: June 9, 1989

Notes:

Beacham stated that Aleksis Kaidonovsky's 1998 birthdate was a typo.

Beacham's blog lists Mako's birth year as 2005, but given that 2003 is listed far more commonly, I'm inclined to think his date may be in error.

[hollowwarriors]

Not even that, Chuck, the Wei brother and some of the others are Gen Z 🫠🫠 OLDER Gen Z yeah, BUT STILL GEN Z!

The Pacific Rim novelization has Herc Hansen looking at Newt and Hermann like "I wonder what they think of me, I bet they think I'm all old and washed up" like HELLO you people are ALL MILLENNIALS HERE????

[foolscapper]

Game night is the worst.

My second piece for @edgeofhopezine!

[winchester-burger]

life may be rough but at least at the end of the day there are always the pacific rim mutuals in my phone <3

[driftwithme]

PACIFIC RIM CHARACTER HEIGHTS!!!!

Aleksis Kaidonovsky: 210cm

Stacker Pentecost: 189cm

Herc Hansen: 185cm

Raleigh Becket: 183cm

Chuck Hansen: 183cm

Yancy Becket: 181cm

Hannibal Chau: 180cm

The Wei Tang Triplets: 179cm

Sasha Kaidonovsky: 177cm

Hermann Gottlieb: 175cm

Tendo Choi: 173cm

Newton Geiszler: 169cm

Mako Mori: 169cm

[burrito-toast]

P.O.V: Two of the coolest Jaegers + Their pilots drop. Only to be killed in the very next scene

It’s not you Pacific Rim, it’s me.

(but seriously why did they need to die so quickly-)

[ghostgirlvii]

I finally received my loot from @edgeofhopezine !!!! The first fanzine I ever financed because where would I get more PacRim merch??!! I would say the extra 30€ had to pay for the customs kind of leave a bitter sweet taste, customs are so bitch to ask for such a high price, but it was either that or don't get my stuff.... Not the zine fault!!!

Look at this! I quickly checked some of the fanart in the zine and 😭�� amazing!

That Striker keychain??? Fucking stole my heart 🫶 and Chuck sticker with Max? I'M BEING BLESSED! till I saw one beautiful but oh painful fanart lol

[taintedmind6669]

[gardenofchrome]

The Gods within the Machines (on AO3)

Inspired from @driftwithme's post

Summary:

In the alternative universe where the Jaegers pilot are the gods above and the Precursors are demons from below.

(Raleigh and Chuck alternating POVs) (Greek Mythology inspired) (Pacific Rim doesn’t belong to me)

Haven't written about PR in a while- its hard to get their characterizations right 😭

[addictsitter]

do you think guillermo del toro is aware of what he created when he invented drift compatibility for pacific rim

[stiltonbasket]

Shuifang daughter #1 is absolutely her mother’s daughter? She comes home from the baoshi to find out that her parents have suddenly adopted three babies and she freaks out? She also pulls a “run away to Ning-shushu”.

Little Wei Shufen was an only child for several years, since A-Lan and Lan Fang had previously decided they were happy with just one...and while A-Fen was glad to be an older sister, she was not happy about having to move out of her parents' room so that they could tend to the triplets at night without waking her.

[mvncesa]

pac rim gave us a jaeger piloted by three people (the only ones to pull this off) & we only get to see them for three minutes

[airasilver]

Why you keep this in the tags @driftwithme? It's so true. I mean we see Raleigh on screen but is it really? Are they just in Raleigh's body together or is it just the one that was the most 'put together' (not ripped in half or etc?) so it was the best one to use?

Do the others see Raleigh? Do they see Yancy? Do they see both? At the same time?

Oh! Chuck hanging around Herc and Stacker also because of the last run. Stacker goes to see Mako but only when Chuck takes over Herc's body to go hang out with his best friend.

(It's easier to tell with Chuck, Stacker, and Herc than it is with the Becket brothers. They and the Gage Twins (are they still alive? At least one of them) are the hardest since the Wei Tang brothers are gone.)

(Shoot. The twins are dead according to the Wiki. Let's say one lived like Raleigh for this.)

addicted to relationships where one person is a ghost but it's unclear who's haunting who

[qourmet]

alright, no more disabled tyrant's pet palm fish from me. i just wanted to draw da, er, san & si bao + bao xue as more grown-up

headcanons under the cut

the idea that heng is the only black fish despite looking the Most like their dad gets me.... i like to think he grows up Laid-back + the fact that qiongxue & heng have the same hair texture won't ever Not get me

kai xin & wei all probably look like identical triplets with their hair down & their robes removed

qiongxue probably steals wei's accessories

heng probably crawled into his little sister's cradle Once when they were babies & knocked the fuck out & now it's not unheard of to find the two youngest siblings napping in the same room

even though heng is the shortest of the quintuplets, he's still taller than Dad. qiongxue is the only one as short as Dad.

all 4 of the youngest siblings call da-ge "grandpa's boy"

[quitealotofsodapop]

I wonder who's the recent in in this continued stoned egg AU if the twins and lunar node triplets are already born. Other than the other unnamed sons in Paramita's story could it be like Wei-Chen from American Born Chinese? Technically he counts as a non canon kiddo, albiet a more modern one.

I love the idea of baby girl Yuebei still being the one to destroy LBD as an unborn baby - but in the post Jttw stone egged au she can still destroy the witch as a toddler (maybe her first ever show of divine power).

Fun fact taken from this article from @journeytothewestresearch! The names of the kiddos from "Journey to the South" refer to "imaginary/shadow" planets in chinese astrology - Jidu/Ketu and Luohou/Rahu being the lunar nodes (and possible early observations of Neptune and Uranus) and Yuebei Xing being lunar apogee (when the moon is farthest from the sun).

The only shadow planet not mentioned is Ziqi (紫气/"Purple Mist").

So I bet a tiny purple-masked baby is the next one in line :3

Also fun fact, these pseudo planets are included on the inscriptions/design on Zhu Bajie's rake, in addition to the planets. I like the idea of Wukong asking his pig bro about the pattern and getting a lesson in chinese astronomy, only to come away with some cute naming ideas for his future eggs.