#「 ❛ jake pentecost • interactions ❜ 」

[jedi-kat-18]

now that you've pointed it out, I do think its a valid point that Stacker wouldn't have told everybody about his son. questions, though: do you think raleigh would've learned about jake when drifting with mako? it seems like a pretty big thing to hide, seeing as uprising wants us to think Mako and Jake were super close growing up. But I'm interested in hearing ur thoughts :0c

Oh yeah, Raleigh totally knows about Jake. I think a meeting between them would be pretty interesting. Raleigh would have Mako's memories of her childhood with Jake, and at least know him a little bit, but depending on how long he's been out of contact with Mako, Jake might Know very little about Raleigh.

[virtuousouls]

closed for @rosewaterdrunk​ | mako mori!

after nate had told him that mako was here and alive, jake had been determined to find her. they had a rocky relationship (most of that being jake’s fault, he knew), but she was the only family he had left. not only that, but he had failed to save her. the guilt ate him every day. but jake had thought they were on the way to mending things and could here as well. “mako,” jake called out, after finally finding her. “it’s true. you are here and... alive.” he was a little cautious saying that, knowing nate had said she was confused and didn’t have all her memories. “i’m so relieved to see you.”

[monsterblogging]

Looking at PRU's interactions between Jake and Mako from the perspective that a number of them could have been derived from material written for Raleigh and Herc is definitely making things interesting.

Raleigh and Herc would have had the "two people who remember Stacker Pentecost in very different ways" thing going on, certainly.

[seizonshe]

[    ᴸᴼᴬᴰᴵᴺᴳ ˑˑ        ]    welcome    to    #seizonshe,    a    private    and    independent    medium-activity    blog    for    𝙼𝙰𝙺𝙾    𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙸    from    𝙶𝚄𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙴𝚁𝙼𝙾    𝙳𝙴𝙻    𝚃𝙾𝚁𝙾'𝚂    PACIFIC    RIM.    strictly    first    movie    and comics based,     and    multiverse,    with    verses    for    𝙳𝚄𝙽𝙴,    𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁    𝚆𝙰𝚁𝚂,    𝙳𝙲    &    𝙼𝙰𝚁𝚅𝙴𝙻    𝚄𝙽𝙸𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙴,    𝙵𝙰𝙽𝚃𝙰𝚂𝚈    &    𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴.    written    adoringly    by    𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚊.    no previous knowledge of pacific rim required, as i wish to explore mako as her character beyond canon. psd by jeyneedits &. borders by me.

(1) aesthetics, (2) prompts.

an    exploration    of   : the    sci-fi    genre,    the    tragedy    hero,    the    force    within,    the    pupil,    the    soulmate, the quiet soul, the sword made of flesh, the softness of feminitiy &. the female rage, the longing for belonging, the strike of traumma.

𝙵𝚄𝙻𝙻 𝙽𝙰𝙼𝙴: 森マコ  Mori Mako (RANGER N. R-MMAK_204.19-V) 𝙱𝙸𝚁𝚃𝙷𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙴: January 9th, 2005 in Tanegashima, Japan. 𝙵𝙰𝙼𝙸𝙻𝚈: Sumako Mori (deceased), Masao Mori (deceased), Stacker Pentecost (adoptive father, mentor, sensei), Jake Pentecost (adoptive brother). 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙵𝙴𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙾𝙽: officer of the pacific defense corps J'Tech, ranger in training, engineer, later pilot of the jaeggar gipsy danger aka lady danger. 𝙷𝙴𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃: 5' 5" (1.65 m) 𝚆𝙴𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃: 121 lbs 𝙷𝙰𝙸𝚁 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙴𝚈𝙴𝚂: black (with blue highlights) and brown. 𝙹𝙰𝙴𝙶𝙶𝙰𝚁 𝙿𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙽𝙴𝚁: Raleigh Becket. 𝚂𝙴𝚇𝚄𝙰𝙻 𝙾𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: bisexual, demiromantic. 𝙿𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴𝚂: resilient, strong, respectful, brave, reverent, resourceful, trustworthy, single-minded, methodic, disciplined, organized, clean, loyal, pure. 𝙽𝙴𝙶𝙰𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴𝚂: stubborn, demanding, rigid, cloistered, intolerant, introverted, hermetic, dogmatic, lonely. * NOTES FROM THE ORIENTATION: more information about the pilot can be found on the ranger file above.

this blog is private and selective which means i'll only reply and answer mutuals.

i welcome affiliates ! but not exclusives.

the only thing i recognize from the second movie is jake. everything else... nah. so please respect that.

if you don't know pacific rim you are more than welcomed to follow anyway. i have many multiverses coming up, like modern, spy verse etc and mako is genuinely an easy muse to interact with.

while i speak portuguese, spanish and english, mako is japanese. i'll have to use the translator for whenever she speaks in japanese, so forgive any mistakes, please.

reblog memes from the source, please.

don't be a bad person. no hate speech. i won't interact if you use youtubers, shady celebrities, and the like. i do not engage in callouts if not to help someone else. this is a safe space for everyone no matter what.

i love plotting, so let's have fun !

[kaijuposting]

So I watched Pacific Rim for the first time yesterday, in my late 20s (holy shit holy fuck holy shit why did I not see this sooner et cetera).

I've got a copy of the sequel Uprising too but I've heard some less good things about it (that it may contradict stuff in the first one etc) - would you recommend Uprising or is it better to just stick to the classic?

It depends on the movie experience you're looking for/what you're willing to put up with. In order to explain fully, I'll have to drop some mild spoilers, so be warned.

Uprising goes whole hog with a very pro-cop, pro-military attitude. Mako Mori is basically a cop. Jaegers are weaponized against civilians. There's child soldiers. Where the first movie presents the PPDC as a problematic institution that sometimes performs useful services (its bias toward protecting the wealthy is noted), Uprising presents it as unambiguously good and desirable to be a part of. The film seems to be completely unaware that the world it depicts is utterly dystopian. To see a sequel to a Guillermo del Toro film basically go "police states are cool and cool people support them!" is... jarring, let's say.

And then of course there's the whole storyline with Newt and Hermann. Some people enjoy it for the angst/angst fic potential. I personally just hate it because to me it just feels like what fundamentalists think will happen if you crack open a medieval grimoire or use a Ouija board or something. Like, it just feels this close to a corruption story from a Chick tract to me. Also, the movie turns Hermann into this utter doormat around Newt. It's very hard to imagine that this version of Hermann Gottlieb ever actually argued with Newt, and it's very difficult to imagine that the Hermann of the first film would have put up with Newt's behavior in this movie.

And yes, there's some... continuity weirdness. Like Newt's supposedly been drifting with the kaiju brain chunk from the first movie for ten years, even though the chunk being good for only one drift was a major plot point in the first film. Now of course minor continuity errors aren't a big deal, but here it just feels really sloppy; and in light of the way the second film lionizes the PPDC, it feels like another case of just not caring what the original film was doing.

And of course, what ultimately ends up happening with Mako Mori was a severe [everybody disliked that] moment.

The jaeger designs aren't as varied as they are in the first film, and the fight scenes suffer from a lot of visual clutter. The kaiju themselves are fine, but it's kind of hard to appreciate them when all of the clutter just makes it difficult to register what you're seeing.

And speaking of visuals, if you were really into the look of the first film, or into the way del Toro used color symbolism, Uprising is going to be a letdown. Like the first Pacific Rim film uses the color yellow for Raleigh. Uprising basically uses the color yellow because the first movie used the color yellow.

And then on the other hand... there's Jake Pentecost and Liwen Shao.

John Boyega's acting is great. He makes the character incredibly funny and likable. Sure, the whole thing with Jake being Pentecost's son doesn't really make a lot of sense, but when I actually watch him I just can't really care that much. Mainly I just wish he'd been in a much better movie, where maybe he was Pentecost's nephew or something. He and Nate Lambert read as ex-boyfriends, and for me their interactions are fun to watch.

Liwen Shao is so fun to watch as this genuinely kind of terrible person. In my view the character is utterly wasted on a story that doesn't really seem to appreciate why she's terrible. However, she's kinda got that whole evil girlboss vibe. If you like it when women are kinda evil, you might enjoy Liwen Shao.

So yeah, it's really down to what you're interested in and willing to put up with. It's really not a good film, but some parts of it can be enjoyable.

[chrisodonnell]

They have never exactly been friends, but she had helped train him, and she was the sister of his best friend and first Drift partner. Ex-best friend. Ex-Drift partner. Those days were long gone, but having her here reminded him. And he would rather not be reminded.

Nate on Mako and Jake, Pacific Rim Uprising: Ascension [Ch. 19]

[theloccent]

Wow! It’s already May! Time flies when you’re having fun or when all the days run together because you’re quarantined in your home due to a global pandemic!

We’ve got a whole new month ahead of us with fun things though so without further ado! 

Jake’s Birthday! 

So last month was Mako’s birthday and this month it’s Jake’s! On May 31st we’ll be posting all things Jake all day long so join us in rec-ing some of your favorite Jake content or creating something new! Just tag it #HappyBirthdayJake.

Days in PacRim in May

May 15th: Onibaba attacked Tokyo and Mako was adopted by Stacker Pentecost. 

May 17th: Tendo’s Birthday! Everyone loves Tendo and. Tendo-friendo.

May 25th: The Sydney Shatterdome was officially opened.

Regular Events

WIP Wednesdays: you can post a section of one of your WIP and tag it #LoccentWIPWednesday. Any pairing any fandom; its fun to show off your work.

Supportive Sundays: the time when we shout out our favorite fanworks. You can reblog one of these posts and shout out one of your own favorites or make your own post and tag it #LoccentSupportiveSunday

Other Events

There are also a few events happening in the fandom that we aren’t running or working on but are definitely cool so we’re giving them a shout out! Check out the links for more information!

Socialbreach Fest May 4th-10th (link)

a week long celebration of newmann fanworks based around the theme of physical contact, ranging from art, fic, edits, and whatever else sparks joy

#1day1newmann art-fic-challenge (link)

You can publish works with Newt and Hermann, together or separately, any of their interaction related to the topic of the current day, under the tag #1day1newmann !

[sweetjaegerlove]

by CasGetYourShotgun

Amara Namani doesn't have many memories of her birth parents or adoptive father. But she does have her siblings.

Words: 502, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Pacific Rim Summer Bingo 2020

Fandoms: Pacific Rim (Movies)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Amara Namani, Mako Mori, Jake Pentecost, Raleigh Becket

Relationships: Mako Mori & Amara Namani, Amara Namani & Jake Pentecost, Mako Mori & Jake Pentecost, Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori, Mako Mori & Jake Pentecost & Amara Namani, Amara Namani & Raleigh Becket

Additional Tags: Post-Movie: Pacific Rim (2013), Adopted Sibling Relationship, Siblings, Growing Up, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, uprising don't interact, Hugs, the title sounds sad but i promise this isn't more angst

pacific rim July 1, 2020 at 02:28PM via AO3 works tagged 'Pacific Rim (2013)'

[avelera]

Petition to just fanon Uprising as taking place 5 years after Pacific Rim 1 instead of 10

The “ten years” line in Pacific Rim: Uprising just makes no fucking sense to me, it’s so unnecessary, because it should just be five years for a variety of reasons. Now, I tend to just watch certain *cough* newt related *cough* parts of PR:U when I rewatch it so my understanding of the timeline of the other parts might be fuzzy, but here’s my best understanding of what’s going on in Uprising and why it makes no friggin’ sense that it takes place ten years later:

- Pacific Rim 1 was really specific with its dates, including having the first Kaiju show up in 2013, the year the movie was released. I know it’s often hard to know when exactly a film will be released, but just saying Uprising takes place 5 years after PR1 makes sense because the film comes out 5 years later, and so all the actor ages match up too.

- How old exactly is Amara Namani, 16? She’s clearly older than 6 years old in the flashback to the attack on LA but the last attack on LA by a Kaiju wasn’t necessarily in 2025. Also there’s no visible Wall of Life, which canonically would make it at least 5 years before that, frankly she shouldn’t even be born yet during the time she supposedly lost her parents. If it’s 2030 though instead of 2035, it makes much more sense. 

- How old is Jake Pentecost exactly? Ten years since PR1 but we’re still talking about Stacker Pentecost as if he didn’t die a decade ago, and Jake was supposedly thrown out of the PPDC before that. He would have to be around 30 in that case, older than Boyega, since back then the PPDC didn’t use child soldiers he’d have to have been in the Academy at age 18 and been there long enough to have a record before he could get in trouble. It would also mean he hasn’t piloted a Jaeger in a really long time, probably too long to not need refresher training, we’re talking like Mark 6′s (at least) now and he would have been trained on a Mark 3 at latest.

- The way Newt and Hermann interact makes much more sense if it’s been a 5 year gap. Ten years is a really long time to still act like such a goddamn puppy Hermann you adorable man so casually with one another, Hermann legitimately behaves as if very little time has passed at all. Five years as an adult (sorry to burst your bubble, kids, but you’re gonna find that it’s increasingly true) is really not that long of a time though. I’ve got friends I haven’t seen in five years but it still feels like yesterday. Ten years? Not so much. Five years is enough time that Hermann can treat Newt as he does: as if they both got caught up in silly side projects and lost track of time, but they’re happy to finally reunite. It’s also long enough for Newt to be a veteran of Shao but not be fired yet dear lord Liwen would toss a man that annoying like last week’s garbage if she could, not hold onto him for ten years. And for that matter, if it’s ten years how old was Liwen when the Breach closed and she supposedly hired Newt? 15? 20? If it’s ten years she’s known the man almost half her life and she still hates him! And again: simple actor ages, Newt and Hermann look five years older, not ten. Everything about their relationship in the film makes more sense with a five year gap.

- Finally, technology. PR1 takes place in 2025 but the technology is not that advanced compared to today except in places where it’s clear a lot of money and energy was spent like Jaegers, Drift technology, and holo-projectors. In my view, you’ve only got about 5 years of advancement visible in PRU: Jaegers are a bit more streamlined and Drift compatibility doesn’t have to be as deep in order to pilot a Jaeger (which, fandom complaints aside makes total sense as the aspect of the Drift you’d want to improve upon so you can recruit more pilots outside the super specialized compatibility ones that are hard to replace!). Even Hermann’s Kaiju blood rocket fuel makes less sense for 10 years later because samples would probably have dried up by then with no new Kaiju, but five years it’s totally reasonable that there’s enough lying around for him to get his hands on it, that the cleanup efforts from the attacks aren’t further along, and that there’s still a lot of chaos and vagrancy. All the Jaeger pilots were wiped out in 2025 so having a small batch like Nate and the others as adults but needing to turn to younger recruits to fill out the ranks also makes sense as an act of desperation out of fear the Kaiju might come back any minute now, rather than a morally questionable ongoing institution ten years out.

It also just makes everything in general a lot less sad if we don’t assume things are still this bad after ten years and Newt and Hermann have been apart a full decade anyway thanks for coming to my TED talk Uprising taking place 10 years later instead of 5 is stupid, thank you and goodnight.

[sourcecalls]

Hey I'm Reighley Becket from Pacific Rim and I'd like to find literally anyone. I was a part of the Uprising storyline and had become good friends with Jake Pentecost and played a lot with the kids. Interact with this post if you remember any of this please!

!!!

[canon-callers]

Hey I'm Reighley Becket from Pacific Rim and I'd like to find literally anyone. I was a part of the Uprising storyline and had become good friends with Jake Pentecost and played a lot with the kids. Interact with this post if you remember any of this please!

@cantuseeme

[amartworks]

pac rim 1 au where it’s mostly cheesy interactions and also jake pentecost is there – he and mako run a jaeger together called Storm Harbinger and are absolutely unstoppable on the battlefield. i started drawing and couldnt stop 

[virtuousouls]

closed for @roarunderpxpercuts​ | any in any location!

“is there anywhere to get a drink around here?” jake asked the first person that was closest to him. he was making most of having the freedom to move around this world, unlike in sydney. it was exciting seeing new places, especially when they were completely different to anything he had ever known. the world was inhabited, but it also seemed like a lot of people in sydney were also here. jake was also just grateful not have another set of fake memories planted in his head.

[wits-writing]

Pacific Rim Uprising (movie review)

Thanks to a weak marketing campaign eventually leading to a middling box office take, the first Pacific Rim was essentially a cult classic before it premiered. Its status is earned due to the well-drawn (if archetypal) characters, lived-in production design and an all-timer action sequence in the Battle of Hong Kong. All of that filtered through Guillermo Del Toro’s sense of direction that left room for quiet moments that breath life into the characters and emphasize themes of cooperation and overcoming trauma, literalized through the Drift. Beneath all the giant robots versus kaiju spectacle was a beating heart that was able to strike a chord with enough people as they saw Raleigh Beckett, Stacker Pentecost, and Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi, one of the few returning actors in the sequel) among others made it the kind of movie that can still be discussed five years later.

But I’ll be surprised if people are still discussing Pacific Rim Uprising five days from now.

Directed by Steven S. DeKnight, Uprising tells the story of Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), son of Stacker Pentecost, ten years after the supposed end of the Kaiju War from the first movie. A wash out from the PPDC training program, he’s drafted back in to train the next generation of pilots by his adopted sister, Mako. With the fear of a kaiju resurgence always present in everyone’s mind, the Jaeger program is threatened with potential replacement by a new legion of Jaeger-drones developed by the private sector with the help of former PPDC scientist and kaiju-expert Newt Geiszler (Charlie Day). When a mysterious black Jaeger, called Obsidian Fury, makes key strikes against the PPDC, it reveals a mystery that could lead to the return of humanity’s enemies from beneath the Pacific.

And it has all the dramatic weight of a helium balloon.

[Full Review Under the Cut]

A lot can and has been said about the characters in the original Pacific Rim being overly-broad, but there was a dimensionality to them in how their backstories were spelled out through the visual storytelling and the chances they were given to interact that the connections they made with each other felt genuine. There is absolutely none of that this time around as the characters are too busy explaining the plot to each other for there to be a single moment of genuine characterization. The one character that best exemplifies this is Nate Lambert (Scott Eastwood), who has some past animosity with Jake and they’re apparently romantic rivals for the affections of a female Ranger who barely gets any screen time, but there’s nothing to him or that rivalry. This is an across the board issue in Uprising. For a story where a major part of the sci-fi conceit is the characters needing to connect with each other’s minds and embrace their feelings, there’s no meat on the bones of any of the character dynamics.

The worst offender being the relationship between the adopted siblings, Jake and Mako. Almost as soon as the movie does what could be described as the bare minimum in establishing their relationship as siblings, Mako is unceremoniously killed off and Jake gets thirty seconds of screentime at most to mourn. Boyega and Kikuchi are good performers both doing well with what little they’ve been given, but it doesn’t fix how little there is to begin with. This issue is compounded by the dozen fresh-faced cadets in the Jaeger program, since it’d be generous to call any of them one-dimensional and I’m not in a generous mood for this movie. The one potentially interesting new character among those cadets is Amara Namani (Caelee Spaeny), a street punk girl with a gift for engineering who built a miniature Jaeger, Scrapper, out of decommissioned parts from the mechs. She gets to have just enough scenes of developing a friendship/mentorship with Jake that it makes you wonder why they bothered with Eastwood’s character at all instead of making this the focus.

There was a point early in Uprising where the quick-paced editing and the camera moving around with little apparent purpose behind any of it where I thought, “Oh no, the entire movie’s going to be like this.” When it was exactly that, I wasn’t surprised or angry as much as numb to everything going on. This movie refuses to slow down at all, even when it’s trying to be emotional in a clumsy retread of one of the previous movie’s best moment. The editing compounds every strike against this movie it would’ve had anyway, like middling jokes that land with a thud not having a beat to breath. It gets worse when the action scenes kick in as the weight and power the Jaegers and Kaiju had in the previous movie are replaced with weightless struggles. I have no problem with the more toyetic designs of the Jaegers this time around or their more anime-esque actions in themselves, since that’s true to the mech and kaiju genre roots, but the lack of any meaningful dramatic buildup to the action makes it a bunch of sound and fury, but without the fury. Like someone turned the volume up to eleven on the most repetitive drum solo ever.

Pacific Rim Uprising isn’t completely without merit. Some bits of world-building could’ve been fun if the movie took its time to give them focus, including Scrapper, Jaeger-Kaiju hybrids and new weapon systems for the Jaegers that add visual variety to the otherwise bland action. However, without a vision of its own to give this life beyond a bland attempt at spectacle at the expense of where the first movie excelled, there’s nothing to stay in the brain long after watching it. I find Uprising hard to recommend unless you’re desperate for some giant robot versus monster action and have already watched the original movie more times than you can count along with all the anime and tokusatsu that inspired it.

[motleystitches]

All the reasons to embrace Pacific Rim: Uprising (aka a surprisingly good sequel)

JaI understand why this movie doesn’t set a spark to the fandom fuse given the dearth of Mako and Raleigh and Hansens, but that’s not inherently a bad thing because this movie has a sort of naturalism in it that’s seldom seen in movies and rarer in sequels.  Furthermore, there’re some distinctively non-typical western style plotting going on that’s very refreshing. Namely, this movie has the following:

spoilers, of course

1. Female genius industry-mogul who makes a valuable contribution to the plot; willingness and effectiveness to go from very fashionable to grimy for the sake of the world. I know China loves Ironman*, so it’s kind of wonderful this movie essentially did a genderswap subplot that at the same time continues with the theme of female engineers from PacRim.

(PacRim 2 is probably only greenlighted because of the money it made with PacRim 1 in China) 

2. Newt Giesler getting cut down to size: that is, his characterization as a villainous spy is beautiful and perfect. The fact that a “underdog hero” becomes a hero is quite an interesting exploration. The repeated reference to the heroic feat he accomplished with Hermann in the first movie only emphasizes this is done on purpose. That the “turn” due to an inherent flaw in their character and sheer bad luck is actually a surprisingly sophisticated piece of character development.  Newt’s ego is so clearly a flaw in character, but it tends to get ignored in movies that like to exalt genius beyond criticism. Hah, this sequel gives you sympathy AND consequences WITHOUT expecting forgiveness  (at the same time still gives enough leeway for Newt/Hermann for those into this pairing). Villainy due to character trait that becomes twisted. This. Is. Good. 

3. Follow that up with, the recognition that fluency Mandarin is actually difficult (there have been too movies where the “genius” character has fluency in Mandarin while it’s actually being ridiculous) is actually pretty great. 

6. “I am not my father” as a theme: that’s actually very refreshing ESPECIALLY when the father is a hero. Stacker Pentecost by Idris Elba is a character difficult to follow, so heh, this movie actually *created* a character instead of trying out a second-rate version. Let’s count the ways his character made sense**: he grew up with Mako, was actually fully trained before going rogue, the reason he went rogue is actually a good one and underlines the inherent neural-load dear partner trauma outlined in Pac1. Further, he went rogue employing an existing skillset which he clearly can return to, and he counted on siblings being protective of each other to escape the law. That was, he counted on Mako, so his “rogue” actually did not mean he wanted to escape the family. Not only does it speak to Pentecost family values, it makes his relationship with Nate even better.

**Also, John Boyega had a MUCH better character plot-arc as Jake Pentecost than in Last Jedi mostly because the villain is Not Glamorized as Emo-Hurt-Angst.

8. So, on Jake-Nate (slash pairing of choice in this movie really) pretty much hinted at that the world of PacRim 2 is comfortable post-present. Comfort with cross-cultural foods  (Oreos and sirarcha and toppings), co-ed dorms, linguistically ambiguous names, and yes, lack of romance and hints of confusing overtures. How much did I like that Jake and Nate recognizes each other’s strengths and that Jules gets to make her choice to kiss both of them. (Which does, in my fandom brain, makes me think that perhaps in this world, OT3 is a much more normal thing given the whole Drift Partner thing so that’s why Chuck is quite mad at Raleigh for making Mako choose). Apparently Nate’s played by Clint Eastwood’s son and he plays it as such (that is, the pretty hero) which actually makes the archaism of his character even more pronounced in the setting. It’s kind of great....especially in contrast to Jake and Naramani’s characters. 

9. Now, on Naramani and her teammates: there are three generations in this movie and the interactions are incredibly subtle- Stacker (and to a definite extent, Mako), Jake-Nate-Jules, and Naramani and Vic and co. Stacker and Mako generation are the ones making decisions- remote would be great, but has inherent vulnerabilities (hello Real-World anxieties), so responsible decisions must be made. Then you have Jake etc who felt more freedom in making choices but still feel beholden to the previous generation and needs a way out. Then you have Naramani et co. who were still part of the traumatized generation but of a healing world where PPDD has become much more..ornamental in a way so it’s much more a case of personal glory (clearly not the pay) for them until the kaijus come again. Anyways, in terms of world-building, this is actually a more complicated case to present than in Pac I and gives PacRim verse a better sense of having history. 

In conclusion, this movie doesn’t follow up with *character* in a typical sequel manner, it explores the themes of PacRim 1 quite thoroughly, which makes it a very effective sequel and gives it a grandeur in scale of plotting and world that the fandom should embrace. 

[casualtysought]

JAKE VERSES

IN YOUR SHADOW, pre-pacific rim VERSE 001, undeserved and unrealistic expectations Any threads or interactions that happen after Stacker Pentecost adopts Mako Mori and Jake is still in service with the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. Jake struggles to live up to his fathers reputation and expectations which causes him to lash out, with loud problems with authority and the strict rules of the PPDC, Jake faces scrutiny and disappointment from his father, his superiors and his comrades in arms despite his potential.

WAYWARD SON, pre-pacific rim: uprising VERSE 002, the prodigal son .Any threads or interactions that occur after Jake has left the PPDC. He spends the majority of his time collecting valuable resources to trade in the Black Market and is not on speaking terms with his father but his relationship with his sister Mako Mori is extremely close.

PRODIGAL SON RETURNS, during pacific rim: uprising, or after VERSE 003, we’re coming for them Any threads or interactions that happen during the events of Pacific Rim: Uprising or after. Jake has retured to the PPDC and is in charge of training the new cadets against the return threat of the Kaiju and the Precursors. Jake has a tense relationship with Nate Lambert and has begun to build a mentor / mentee relationship with Amara Namani.

MASS EFFECT, during the main trilogy VERSE 004, up among the stars Jake was dishonorably discharged from the Alliance Navy due to insubordination and the attempted assault of a superior officer. His father, Stacker Pentecost, was an N7 soldier as was his sister Mako Mori. Following the Geth attack on the Citadel, Mako pulled strings to have Jake reinstated rather than serve jail time for the theft and attempted sale of stolen Alliance weaponry.

After the Geth attack and Commander Shepard’s death, Jake became an N7 soldier and was tasked with training and leading new Alliance cadets on Horizon when the Collectors attacked the colony. Jake escaped the Collectors when Commander Shepard rescued the survivors of Horizon and chose to follow Commander Shepard to Cerberus to help against the Collector threat and to hopefully rescue his abducted cadets.

During the Reaper invasion, Jake was stationed on Earth and is one of the many to push the human resistance on the ground while Commander Shepard fought to unify the combined armies of the galaxy.

MASS EFFECT, andromeda VERSE 005, to see stars none had seen before Following his father’s death, Jake left to join the Andromeda Initiative and was one of the first of the Security force to be woken from stasis aboard the Nexus and was one of the many to rebel against authority following the rationing of food, lack of resources and leadership and was exiled. Jake operates out of Kadara port and is one of Vetra’s contacts amongst the exiles.

STAR WARS, any trilogy VERSE 006, this is how liberty dies. Jake was born and raised on Coruscant and raised alongside his adoptive sister, Mako Mori, by his single father Stacker Pentecost. Together the Pentecost family rose in the Coruscant Security Militia. Stacker Fought in the Civil War and was injured saving the council from a terrorist attack and was rewarded and promoted for his troubles. Mako fought in a second Civil War against and was promoted for her part in saving the planet from a planet destroying weapon. Jake attempted to pursue a career in the security militia like his family but his insubordination, unwillingness to submit to authority and his rebellious and often rude personality caused Jake to leave the cadets. He works as an independent smuggler and trader both in the Upper city and the Underground.

Original Trilogy: Jake has joined the Rebel Alliance, utilizing his trade, contacts and prowess for piloting and battle to resist the Imperials. The Sequels: Jake was reinstated by the Republic and drafted to fight in the Clone Wars. He’s a Slicer and Juggernaunt often deployed on ground assaults or sabotage missions. New Republic: Jake is a member of the Resistance. He works to smuggle supplies to the Resistance and partakes in flash attacks against First Order bases, transports and factories. *Obviously will need to plot interactions due to using John Boyega as a FC. Twin or Clone aus or can simply be “look-a-likes”.