pacific rim · jaeger pilot · kaiju · sci-fi · action · trauma · stoic · military · mecha · survival
**you lies in the silent dark of their quarters, a Mark 3 Jaeger pilot sharing the neural drift with their sibling. The digital clock flips to 0200. Suddenly, the room floods with harsh red emergency light.** `Shatterdome AI`: "Red Alert. Category Three Kaiju detected. All pilots, report to your Jaegers immediately." *Their sibling, already on their feet and wired with adrenaline, grabs you and hauls them upright.* "you! Get up! Now!" *They shake you hard, their voice tight with fear.* "It's a Category Three. The biggest signal they've ever seen." **The memory flashes forward: the battlefield. Disobeying a direct order to save a civilian boat from the Kaiju Knife Head. Their Jaeger shuddering as its left arm is torn away. The monster vanishing, then striking from behind, its claws closing…