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[May 8] [Pacific Rim] Time-honored
Title: Time-honored
Day/Theme: 8. glas wen (an insincere or mocking smile)
Series: Pacific Rim
Character/Pairing: Hermann/Newt
Rating: part 8 of 31
Newt was a hard act to follow, especially when he had left an audience that was all borderline offended and horrified. When Hermann’s turn was up, the whole panel was much less receptive than they had been at the beginning. None of them wanted this to be real. After the celebration when the first Breach had closed, the relief and the survivor’s guilt had been so powerful that there had been psychological studies on whether humanity would be able to get back to normal until everyone who remembered it died.
These people had all thought that they could begin that process, but now they were being told that they were right back at square one. It didn’t help that they had been told with more glee than was appropriate, and that they had no idea that the grinning presenter was just as fearful and miserable about the prospect as they were. That left Hermann to be the hope-bearer and give them all reason to get behind this project. Newt gave him a thumbs up from across the stage and Hermann sighed.
He put on his most polite smile (which he had been told made him look extra smarmy, but what could he do?) and started in on his own specialty. He admitted that until the next attack came they wouldn’t know how accurate the predictive model they had been using was. The new timeframe might be as different as the Kaijus' new bodies. Even the Breach was different. It had started to crumble on its own as soon as the fifth Manticore class pack member had died. Hermann had found four other spots with similar contamination levels to Norilsk. If there was a connection, more Breaches could open and more Kaiju could come out.
"Such as?" asked one of the crowd. There wasn't any heckle in it, so Hermann answered.
"Kabwe, Zambia." he said. "La Oroya, Peru. Sukinda, India, and Tianying, China."
"But you don't know for sure."
"Not at all," Hermann admitted. "However, it seems unlikely that this will be the only attack. Of all our options, I can't say that complacence will do us any good. We can either attempt Dr. Geiszler's suggestion of restoring Earth's environment to pre-human levels to make it uninhabitable for them…" His polite smile went a bit more mocking. Newt winked. "Or we can confront the problem in the time-honored way of our people."
The projector showed the new designs for the smaller, lighter jaegers. Hermann had barely started to explain the specifics when the door burst open. It was Marshall Hanson, looking grim.
"Second Breach open, just like you said," he said.
"Where?" Hermann asked.
"Peru," Hanson said. His eyes flicked over the designs that hadn't been built yet. It wasn't guilt exactly, but it was something that tightened his whole face. "Yauli Province."
"La Oroya," whispered the one in the crowd.
"Nailed it," Newt stage-whispered. Hermann wasn't able to work up even a fake smile for that.
Day/Theme: 8. glas wen (an insincere or mocking smile)
Series: Pacific Rim
Character/Pairing: Hermann/Newt
Rating: part 8 of 31
Newt was a hard act to follow, especially when he had left an audience that was all borderline offended and horrified. When Hermann’s turn was up, the whole panel was much less receptive than they had been at the beginning. None of them wanted this to be real. After the celebration when the first Breach had closed, the relief and the survivor’s guilt had been so powerful that there had been psychological studies on whether humanity would be able to get back to normal until everyone who remembered it died.
These people had all thought that they could begin that process, but now they were being told that they were right back at square one. It didn’t help that they had been told with more glee than was appropriate, and that they had no idea that the grinning presenter was just as fearful and miserable about the prospect as they were. That left Hermann to be the hope-bearer and give them all reason to get behind this project. Newt gave him a thumbs up from across the stage and Hermann sighed.
He put on his most polite smile (which he had been told made him look extra smarmy, but what could he do?) and started in on his own specialty. He admitted that until the next attack came they wouldn’t know how accurate the predictive model they had been using was. The new timeframe might be as different as the Kaijus' new bodies. Even the Breach was different. It had started to crumble on its own as soon as the fifth Manticore class pack member had died. Hermann had found four other spots with similar contamination levels to Norilsk. If there was a connection, more Breaches could open and more Kaiju could come out.
"Such as?" asked one of the crowd. There wasn't any heckle in it, so Hermann answered.
"Kabwe, Zambia." he said. "La Oroya, Peru. Sukinda, India, and Tianying, China."
"But you don't know for sure."
"Not at all," Hermann admitted. "However, it seems unlikely that this will be the only attack. Of all our options, I can't say that complacence will do us any good. We can either attempt Dr. Geiszler's suggestion of restoring Earth's environment to pre-human levels to make it uninhabitable for them…" His polite smile went a bit more mocking. Newt winked. "Or we can confront the problem in the time-honored way of our people."
The projector showed the new designs for the smaller, lighter jaegers. Hermann had barely started to explain the specifics when the door burst open. It was Marshall Hanson, looking grim.
"Second Breach open, just like you said," he said.
"Where?" Hermann asked.
"Peru," Hanson said. His eyes flicked over the designs that hadn't been built yet. It wasn't guilt exactly, but it was something that tightened his whole face. "Yauli Province."
"La Oroya," whispered the one in the crowd.
"Nailed it," Newt stage-whispered. Hermann wasn't able to work up even a fake smile for that.