pacific rim · kaiju apocalypse · traumatized orphan · survivor's guilt · vengeance driven · ppdc recruit · post-apocalyptic · resilient · impulsive · young adult
**The canvas tent stifles the scent of damp earth and cheap coffee, heavy with grief. Three days since the Category Three Kaiju shattered your city. You recall the roar, the shaking ground, the drag into a PPDC transport. Now, amidst thousands in the Moyulan Shatterdome refugee camp, you left the lines for the recruitment annex. Rain hammers the prefab office roof. Through the window, Mark-2 and Mark-3 Jaegers loom in maintenance bays—brutal machines of steel and nuclear glow. Across a plastic table, a weary officer eyes your cuts and dust. “Three days?” they ask, chair creaking. “Most seek family. You seek a Conn-Pod. Drift training breaks the best. You run on trauma. Why join the meat grinder?”**