More Jaeger Pilot AU doots. Tendo has a concern about Newt’s sleeping habits and Newt and Hermann get tested for drift compatibility, amongst a couple other things
I don’t think I posted these already but if I did…oops
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Steve Irwin in a Jaeger would be entertaining.
Look over there. There’s a Catergory 3 Kaiju. Biggest one yet.
Ah’m gonna wrassle with it.
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#yeah but who’s his drift partner. a crocodile. just a crocodile. its not a special or humanoid croc its literally just a croc strapped in.
THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I’VE REBLOGGED THIS BUT I DON’T CARE BECAUSE IT HAS IMPROVED EVERY TIME
Croc Brain: Bite and death roll.
Steve Irwin: Bite and death roll it is mate!
Jaeger Academy years for Newt and Hermann. So many emotions.
Rally Car AU cuz drift compatibility fits so well with the driver-navigator relationship in rally car racing imho
I’ve never wanted a sports AU in any fandom I’ve been in before, but here we are
Newt is the driver, Hermann the navigator. Just feels like it fits with their particular skill sets and personalities
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Links to Pacific Rim creator Travis Beacham's own posts on drift compatibility and drifting
- Drift compatibility is psychological, not genetic
- The better you know someone, the more likely you are to be drift compatible
- Drift compatibility is potential, not fate
- Drift compatibility can be a choice
- Friendship is the foundation of drift compatibility
- The drift requires trust
- Trust is fundamental; also drift compatibility can be determined with anything that tests how well you can anticipate each others' moves
- That even includes multiplayer video games
- Many cadets wash out during Pons training when secrets come out in the drift and shatter their relationships
- A lot of pilots get messed up by flinching over sexual thoughts
- Trying to avoid thoughts just makes them worse
- Not everything you see in the drift is always real; also the way to deal with thoughts is just let them flow by
- Pilots communicate through "headspace"
- Illustration of a conversation in headspace
- First drifts can be very confusing, because partners don't understand each others' minds very well yet
- The drift exposes pilots to each others' raw, unfiltered thoughts
- Raleigh knew what Yancy was going to say
- The drift doesn't let you read your partner's mind like a database, and you may not necessarily understand what you see. Also when Pentecost says he carries nothing into the drift he means he's calm and stable.
- Pentecost gained this calmness through meditation
- Trying to block your partner from your mind will make you lose control of the Jaeger
- Pilots who fall below 90% sync will be in trouble
- General information plus info on RABITs
- You can chase your partner's RABIT
- Another post confirming you can chase your partner's RABIT
- More RABIT info
- More general information
- Travis Beacham defines ghost drifting
- Partners' personalities can rub off on each other
- Neural overload doesn't hit you all at once; it accumulates
- The time a pilot can go solo varies, and it's a steep curve from fine to dead
- More info on solo piloting
- Being high in the drift probably makes it harder to avoid chasing the RABIT
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PACIFIC RIM Lexicon Entry #2: Headspace
In an active neural handshake, the interlaced subconsciouses form a “headspace.“ This is the arena of the drift in which the bridged minds communicate. It can feel literal or quite abstract, conversational or highly subliminal. Each crew unconsciously negotiates its own consensus expression. But the result in most cases grows to be much faster than verbal communication. An experienced crew will find that increasingly sophisticated deliberations can play out in a matter of seconds.
“They’re in my head…”
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Blue version under the cut cuz I like both
Newt’s tattoo template from @silverstarsart (thank you for making and sharing it for us!)
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This might be one of my favourite scenes of anything ever cause it’s so blindly obvious how connected they are after the drift!!!! The way they carry this speech - it doesn’t sound at all like two separate people with separate thoughts, this is ONE thought, ONE message and it is bouncing between them speaking so effortlessly. It’s so different to how they talk together earlier on in the film - they don’t cut each other off or argue or talk over each other, the sentences flow between the both of them like they’re one person. It’s honestly amazing to hear two people sound so incredibly connected
More Pacific Rim-Loki AU featuring Mobius and Loki’s first time drifting and piloting a Jaeger against a kaiju
It…doesn’t go well…