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Anyone else planning to play PPDC personnel/K-Science nerds? I'm thinking that this guy has probably been with the organization for several years, most likely with one of the Asian branches.
Sooo I am thinking of apping Luke fon Fabre as the son of a corrupt politician resulted in a lot of lives unnecessarily lost when kaiju defense/planning for the city (some fictional place north of LA) was funneled to an illegitimate contractor. Subsequently people hate his family's guts and his father was probably killed by a vigilante out for revenge. MOSTLY JUST LEAVING THIS NOTE HERE in case anyone wanted an excuse to be from the same city and maybe know about the scandal/hate luke's guts.
Okay, so, Mike's canon has some things that will mesh well with Pacific Rim, but I still have some questions.
Spoilers below just in case anyone actually wants to watch the trainwreck that is Mike's canon!
In his canon, after being sent to military school for behaviour issues, he was selected via nepotism for an experiment and was mind-merged with a sentient AI that proved dangerous - as in, it went haywire and killed a lot of people while he was still merged with it. After that happened, he was taken captive by his own higher-ups and injected with some neon-greeny serum that erased years from his memory, but left with a computer chip embedded in his forearm under a tattoo that has his classified files on it.
My questions are these:
Would it be better to take Mike from before or after he's forcibly made amnesiac? And if the answer is 'after', how should the AI incident be couched? It does have probes that go into the brain, so I could see it as a possible Jaeger-tech experiment with neural spikes and his memory being erased so he couldn't tell anyone about it, but the chip still being evidence that it happened. If the answer is 'before,' he's more of a blank slate, and a lot of his canon wouldn't really apply.
Yuri is being apped as a transfer in from the Alaska academy. He was there for six months and was kicked out/"reassigned" as part of a disciplinary action resulting from some Trouble (a fight or something) that is sort of undefined until I fill in the blanks with CR!
So anyone also coming in from Alaska let me know if you want to know Yuri/know of him/seen him around/DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIM GETTING BOOTED. Yuri has a huge issue with people who lack social responsibility or people who abuse their power so whatever trouble he got into probably involved one of those two issues.
For U.S./World news and technology nerds: I'm having Guy Cecil as the son of a super-wealthy, super-high-profile corporate/military family from Los Angeles that got completely decimated in a massive, thousands-dead tragic explosion that no one could figure out the cause of. (IT WAS POLITICAL FOUL PLAY) Anyone is free to play with ANY of this if it sounds fun!! (and let me know if it's too specific / i'm overstepping!)
His dad ran Hod Inc, a powerful military technology development corporation who were reputed for huge public charity efforts and investments in peacetime military tech application for public welfare (this part was not very famed outside of the US, but super famous inside. To the rest of the world, they are definitely most remembered for blowing up. That is mostly what they are remembered for in the US too, nowadays...). When the Kaiju hit, they were then part of American contributions to Jaeger technology. In 2015 during the major push for Jaeger construction and pilots, Guy's mom and sister, both U.S. Marines (Mom a decorated hero), were drift compatible, a perfect match with the family company being involved in Jaeger tech construction! Until tragedy struck, and the whole of Hod - along with the entire industrial sector and a chunk of residential - was leveled in a massive explosion and fire, killing thousands, including the entire Gardios family but Guy. Rumors were flung all over the place - Hod was irresponsible with safety, or Hod flew too close to the sun with something they were trying to do with the Jaeger, or foul play was involved. Guy moved in with ~friend of the family~ fon Fabre, and essentially dropped out of public view, with a very brief resurface during the POLITICAL SCANDAL (see Luke's comment).
Guy is enrolling under his mother's not-famous maiden name, Cecil, and the last time his face was in the news he was 15 and sooty! But staff in the know probably know he's the Gardios heir with a chip on his shoulder, and obviously anyone who drifts with him will figure it out... and tech nerds can know about Hod's stellar tech prowess (and probably suspect foul play the most, if they were also involved in development, 'cause Hod's rep and tech were STELLAR).
AHAHA ALSO I HAVE A QUESTION. I've tapered it down from canon, but Guy has a major anxiety trigger reaction to close proximity to girls - is that still ok (only male sparring partners etc, PROBABLY ONLY GETS IN IF HE CAN DRIFT WITH A DUDE?), or are signs of situational PTSD considered an unacceptable psychological imbalance for a pilot? (i figure it isn't due to the pilots in the movie, but the girl thing...)
Anybody else coming from Japan? Kou will be keeping his canon life in a small town (not Inaba but a real town that is similar enough) but since his Daddy is rich he's done some traveling around and been to some boring social things and business conferences, etc. So there's a chance he could've bumped into some of your dudes if you like.
SO I GUESS I AM APPING A SECOND. assuming that is allowed?? I think it's allowed. I hope so.
anyway. Simon of Gurren Lagann fame. THE ROUGH BACKGROUND right now is he and Kamina were from a small mining town in canada, and after a kaiju attack squished their town killing their parents kamina forcefully dragged Simon to the academy in alaska insisting they were drift compatible obviously and they were going to kill all the kaiju together. A confused and distressed simon followed and blah blah stuff happens a couple years later they are indeed piloting a jaeger, probably based in Nagasaki.
After a year of piloting together Kamina dies in a particularly brutal attack, and after dealing with his grief in his own way, Simon takes up the encouragement to enter the academy in chile to seek out others he can be drift compatible with cuz he's not done fighting Kaiju
Simon will be about 20 (i'm moving around timelines in this AU cuz obviously simon wasn't piloting a jaeger at 13) a veteran pilot, somewhere in the middle of his arc to becoming the badass who can destroy the heavens with his drill, and of course had all of the fame that comes with being a ranger tho honestly he always was kind of obviously in kamina's shadow.
AND SO BASICALLY OBVIOUSLY TOUCH BASE ME IF YOU WANT TO HAVE KNOWN HIM either from his time in the alaskan academy (would've been around 2018) or his time as a pilot (2019) or if you were just fans of his and kaminas (jaeger name pending).
Late to offer this up but anyone from Alaska is welcome to have seen Yancy around during the times he would've been there.
He'd have been friendly in general for people who came across him but fairly distanced from the academy program due to the differences in the way Alaska was run. But he could've been spotted or approached in the cafeteria.
Kate is from New York. Much like in canon, her dad is incredibly rich because of the company Bishop Publishing, for those people who pay attention to books.
Kate might have been seen in some fancy parties, but she generally flies pretty far under the celebrity radar. So if there are any other rich kids, they have probably been in touch.
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Spoilers below just in case anyone actually wants to watch the trainwreck that is Mike's canon!
In his canon, after being sent to military school for behaviour issues, he was selected via nepotism for an experiment and was mind-merged with a sentient AI that proved dangerous - as in, it went haywire and killed a lot of people while he was still merged with it. After that happened, he was taken captive by his own higher-ups and injected with some neon-greeny serum that erased years from his memory, but left with a computer chip embedded in his forearm under a tattoo that has his classified files on it.
My questions are these:
Would it be better to take Mike from before or after he's forcibly made amnesiac? And if the answer is 'after', how should the AI incident be couched? It does have probes that go into the brain, so I could see it as a possible Jaeger-tech experiment with neural spikes and his memory being erased so he couldn't tell anyone about it, but the chip still being evidence that it happened. If the answer is 'before,' he's more of a blank slate, and a lot of his canon wouldn't really apply.
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So anyone also coming in from Alaska let me know if you want to know Yuri/know of him/seen him around/DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIM GETTING BOOTED. Yuri has a huge issue with people who lack social responsibility or people who abuse their power so whatever trouble he got into probably involved one of those two issues.
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His dad ran Hod Inc, a powerful military technology development corporation who were reputed for huge public charity efforts and investments in peacetime military tech application for public welfare (this part was not very famed outside of the US, but super famous inside. To the rest of the world, they are definitely most remembered for blowing up. That is mostly what they are remembered for in the US too, nowadays...). When the Kaiju hit, they were then part of American contributions to Jaeger technology. In 2015 during the major push for Jaeger construction and pilots, Guy's mom and sister, both U.S. Marines (Mom a decorated hero), were drift compatible, a perfect match with the family company being involved in Jaeger tech construction! Until tragedy struck, and the whole of Hod - along with the entire industrial sector and a chunk of residential - was leveled in a massive explosion and fire, killing thousands, including the entire Gardios family but Guy. Rumors were flung all over the place - Hod was irresponsible with safety, or Hod flew too close to the sun with something they were trying to do with the Jaeger, or foul play was involved. Guy moved in with ~friend of the family~ fon Fabre, and essentially dropped out of public view, with a very brief resurface during the POLITICAL SCANDAL (see Luke's comment).
Guy is enrolling under his mother's not-famous maiden name, Cecil, and the last time his face was in the news he was 15 and sooty! But staff in the know probably know he's the Gardios heir with a chip on his shoulder, and obviously anyone who drifts with him will figure it out... and tech nerds can know about Hod's stellar tech prowess (and probably suspect foul play the most, if they were also involved in development, 'cause Hod's rep and tech were STELLAR).
AHAHA ALSO I HAVE A QUESTION. I've tapered it down from canon, but Guy has a major anxiety trigger reaction to close proximity to girls - is that still ok (only male sparring partners etc, PROBABLY ONLY GETS IN IF HE CAN DRIFT WITH A DUDE?), or are signs of situational PTSD considered an unacceptable psychological imbalance for a pilot? (i figure it isn't due to the pilots in the movie, but the girl thing...)
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anyway. Simon of Gurren Lagann fame. THE ROUGH BACKGROUND right now is he and Kamina were from a small mining town in canada, and after a kaiju attack squished their town killing their parents kamina forcefully dragged Simon to the academy in alaska insisting they were drift compatible obviously and they were going to kill all the kaiju together. A confused and distressed simon followed and blah blah stuff happens a couple years later they are indeed piloting a jaeger, probably based in Nagasaki.
After a year of piloting together Kamina dies in a particularly brutal attack, and after dealing with his grief in his own way, Simon takes up the encouragement to enter the academy in chile to seek out others he can be drift compatible with cuz he's not done fighting Kaiju
Simon will be about 20 (i'm moving around timelines in this AU cuz obviously simon wasn't piloting a jaeger at 13) a veteran pilot, somewhere in the middle of his arc to becoming the badass who can destroy the heavens with his drill, and of course had all of the fame that comes with being a ranger tho honestly he always was kind of obviously in kamina's shadow.
AND SO BASICALLY OBVIOUSLY TOUCH BASE ME IF YOU WANT TO HAVE KNOWN HIM either from his time in the alaskan academy (would've been around 2018) or his time as a pilot (2019) or if you were just fans of his and kaminas (jaeger name pending).
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He'd have been friendly in general for people who came across him but fairly distanced from the academy program due to the differences in the way Alaska was run. But he could've been spotted or approached in the cafeteria.
He likes cadets in general so it's all good.
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Kate might have been seen in some fancy parties, but she generally flies pretty far under the celebrity radar. So if there are any other rich kids, they have probably been in touch.