#pacific rim!au

[rosewaterandivy]

@myosotisa - maybe it goes a lil something like this? (v. rough first go, apologies)

You nearly drown screaming his name. Sea water and blood surging up your throat in violent fits of coughing, body so cold it feels as if you’re burning. Teeth chattering, you fight to grip the life preserver, wishing your body could get with the program and give up the ghost.

Eventually, the helicopter comes. Hands lift you from the brackish sea and strap you to a gurney. Lights flicker behind your eyelids, flashes of white like so many fireworks. A voice, gruff and familiar, Promise me. Hey, keep your eyes open f’me, c’mon. The sound reverberating through your chest, rumbling the cage of your ribs.

Lips moving against the crown of your skull, split and dripping blood into your hair. Y’gotta get back, for me, for Max. Promise me. An uncerimonious shove into the single rescue pod on board. A violent scream tearing from your lungs, fingers clawing against the glass.

Eyes. Blue. Sorrowful yet resigned. No tell-tale curl of his lips now, just the fond pull of them as he takes one last look. “Don’t do this,” You beg through snot and tears, banging your fist all the while. “Please don’t do this, I can’t–”

He releases the trigger and kicks the pod from the PONS bay just as the tail of a kaiju smashes through what remains of the jaeger. As you freefall, the rough crackle of his voice echoes through your mind, You promised.

_

He’s back in the PONS too soon; everyone realizes that, in retrospect.

And it’s not even his fucking rig because Jackal Romeo had been lost to the breach. Spilt right down the middle sending Steve toppling to the waves below.

He shakes it loose before he can chase the rabbit.

Owens loads him for a drop in a spare jaeger, Orion Echo, and he’s spitting fury the whole way because Robin has somehow been roped into this clusterfuck too.

“No.”

“Not a request Harrington,” Owens intones. “It’s an order.”

Robin, his best friend who shouldn’t be anywhere near a PONS bay, suiting up with a tentative smile reserved for Steve.

Neural handshake initiating.

He presses his mouth into a thin line and shakes his head.

“It’ll be fine Steve,” She says. “Just a training exercise, no big whoop.”

Neural pathways strong and holding.

The calibration is the easy part— right brain, left brain. Two pilots to handle the neural load, learned the long and hard way since that first kaiju attack all those years ago. It’s simply too much for one person to handle, bust blood vessels in eyes, crimson flowing from ears and nose in steady torrent.

Steve is a… unique case. His parents piloted a jaeger and became the de facto choice for the Shatterdome. He grew up in this rusted hunk of metal, scampering underfoot in the garage much to the head mechanic, Wayne’s, chagrin. And, when he came of age, it only made sense to put the golden boy in the academy to become a jaeger pilot.

The fact that he could drift with just about anyone was a welcome surprise.

And one they were putting to the test now.

Immediately, a spike of pain goes through his head, seeking out the familiarity of his former partner’s mind to find, instead, the chaotic fuzziness of Robin’s. The jaeger shudders, plates of metal screeching through his ears.

“Shut it down,” He grits out through clenched teeth. “Owens, shut it the fuck down.”

He ignores the falling of Robin’s face, feels her breaths evening out, but can’t bring himself to fold away the memories. Knows it would all come out in the drift regardless.

And he’s given so much already, hasn’t he? Doesn’t he deserve to keep some things for himself?

Orion Echo remains at a standstill, PONS bay thrumming with mechanical whirs. Robin helps him out of the suit, helmet cradled in her hands.

Steve stalks off without a word.

_

There were several rapid knocks on your door as the opening credits of a movie ran. Checking your phone briefly to confirm your UberEats order, you toss it to the side rising from the sofa.

Several clicks and turns later you open the door to reveal none other than Jim Hopper, known as Chief during his jaeger days, holding the food you’ve ordered he grouses, “You’ve gotten sloppy,” and barrels his way inside the apartment.

Incredulous as you shut the door and do up the locks, “You intercepted my UberEats order? Tyler was going to get mad tips, poor guy.”

He rolls his eyes and set the bag on the counter. “You couldn’t even pretend to check the peephole? What if I was some creep?” Realizing too late the window of opportunity he’d given you.

“First of all, you are some creep and secondly,” You make your way to the burger and fries in the greasy bag. “Tyler was supposed to leave it on the doorstep and knock - easy peasy.”

Peeling back the paper, you take a bite, “Ah, five stars Tyler, way to go bud!” And continue to eat while Hop stares you down. “So,” You say grabbing a napkin to dab at the corners of your mouth, “To what do I owe the pleasure, Chief?”

_

[trucbiduleschouettes]

We were talking about Pacific Rim AU

Niquis is just a little weirdo who serves food at the cantine but has a very well known obsession about the Kaijus and daydream of seeing one taxidermised and get to do something with their bones herself-

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[nuwildcat]

Chapter 9 of Echoes in My Dreams

Hi party people! I just put Chapter 9 of Echoes up on Ao3! This is the second to last chapter of this story with the Grand Finale coming up within the next week. I am so excited to share this chapter with you, its big and a big deal.

Happy Reading!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41994372/chapters/109509705#main

[fey-changeling]

Pacific Rim!AU entering my brain like

[r0b0t1me]

had fun painting a sketch by @giantrobotslug

[peachesofteal]

Thinking-

about a Pacific Rim AU where Simon and Johnny are in love and together, but not drift compatible. They’re both right side pilots, stronger and more dominant over their left side counterparts, and in a Jaeger, they just don’t work.

It’s all well and good, until Simon’s co-pilot of almost five years is killed. All that work, all that time… wasted.

Simon could kill him himself, if some poor sod didn’t already do the job.

Their captain starts the process of finding a replacement, cranking through cadets in an attempt to find a very specific person, a very specific brain capable of completing a neural bridge with Simon, until they finally stumble upon you.

Johnny is thrilled. He reads your file, pours over your record, drinks up every detail available, all before ever laying eyes on you. He finds your social media, your hometown paper, education record, service record, the works. You’re a shiny, smart, capable yang to Simon’s yin. You’ll be perfect.

A perfect match, he thinks. Thank fucking Christ.

But…

Simon instantly dislikes you. You’re too bright, sunshine abrasive in the dark of his life. He’s dismissive and stand offish, irritated by the fact command did not allow him and Johnny to even try drifting again, instead choosing to place him with a complete stranger shipped to his doorstep from halfway around the world. He doesn’t want you crawling around in his brain. He doesn’t want his memories to become yours, and vice versa. He doesn’t want you in his- their life. He wants you to fuck off.

It beats you down. You weren’t sure what to expect, but it wasn’t this. A co-pilot who can’t even look at you? Who dismisses you at every turn? It’s awful. You had heard stories about the Ghost, sure… but didn’t expect him to be so resistant to a new partner.

It’s so awful, you get pissed drunk one night. End up in a dark dive bar, licking your wounds and moaning to yourself about how all your training, all your work, is going to be for nothing. You’re going to fail. You’ll never pilot a Jaeger, because your co-pilot is too resistant, too controlling, won’t even try. It sucks.

So, okay. You have a little pity party. You try to drown your sorrows, and the guy next to you is very, very sympathetic. He listens to you cry about it, empathizes with your struggle and tries to commiserate with you.

It helps, of course, that he’s gorgeous. Blue eyes, golden like a god, long strands of mohawk perfectly framing his sheer bone structure.

“Dinnae worry, hen. ‘M sure he’ll come around. He’s just got to get to know ye s’more.” He coos, pressing a blazing hot thigh against yours with a wink. You lean a little bit into him, let him trace his fingertips down your spine, across your neck.

You’re so distracted, you don’t know the mass of a man wearing a mask, sitting in the shadows. Watching.

[drrav3nb]

Know that we have met before and that we will meet again. - Mia Hollow (insp)

[startheskelaton]

They will be friends eventually … eventually

[imagine-darksiders]

More mecha Monty for the soul :)

Fnaf mecha au

Y/n is also a janitor in this au, and is generally tasked with cleaning the exterior of the mechs.

MNT-3, or 'Monty,' has a bully for a pilot, and the mech really doesn't like him.

I'm thinking Monty ends up rejecting the pilot and the company spends days trying to hire a new pilot, all of whom are ejected from Monty's cockpit, until eventually, he puts in a request that has management reeling.

The only pilot MNT-3 wants as his partner is none other than the nobody cleaner who has no piloting experience whatsoever.

[cloned-eyes]

Pacific Rim AU! Echo (bonus is fives)

[amazeingartist]

been meaning to draw ori’s pacific rim au for a while now, it scratches my brain so nicely I kept accidentally readin the whole chapters when looking for the bit I needed lol

[rosewaterandivy]

Phármakon

summary: in the end, Owens got what he wanted, you and Harrington back in the Drift. because who cares about grief in the face of the apocalypse?

pairing: s.h. x reader

warnings: violence, poor coping mechanisms, grief, savior-complex, suicidal ideation, critique of celebrity culture, kaiju, vague science

prequel

remedy

poison

scapegoat

[trucbiduleschouettes]

From the Pacific Rim!AU again: Navi and Katellig are co pilots and Katellig isn't happy about it (don't try to give her a different co pilot tho, she wouldn't let you-)

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[nuwildcat]

Currently watching Pacific Rim to snag little lines and references to toss into the ending of Echoes. Stacker Pentecost gets some of the best damn lines in this movie, I am in awe.

[glass-noodle]

drift compatible

(pacific rim AU)

thanks @extraordinaryandroid for dragging me into this movie and this AU I’m dying. I’m living

[somewillwin]

Drawing wolfwren scenes as pacific rim au part 1 shhshshhs