[The whole fucking point of the Jaegers is to protect people. To save lives. And that--didn't happen that night. It started with a boat of ten fisherman that they dropped because the kaiju took them off guard and there's no coming back from there and it just kept coming at them, driving them back back back until they're not protecting the miracle mile anymore, they're fighting a battle on two million people's doorsteps and once it gets to this point, it's all just collateral damage.
The Shatterdome is destroyed. Half the techs are gone. Tendo is gone. Just like that. And what's worse is that the Becket boys have no idea if it was Gipsy or the kaiju that took them out. In the middle of the fight, they were fighting to stay alive, to kill this son of a bitch, they weren't thinking about the buildings they ran into until it's over, it's dead and their home, their crews, their best friend are all dead too.
Afterwards, it's just clean up. Burying their dead, salvaging what they can. The Anchorage Shatterdome isn't going to reopen, they're relocating down to Vancouver and that makes sense, but it still feels like the final nail in the coffin. Like they failed to save their home and their friends and there's no making it right ever.
Raleigh and Yancy keep fighting because that's what they do. They're Rangers and Gipsy more or less escaped the fight unharmed. No worse than usual and it's easy enough to repair her. And Alison survived the attack too, though fuck knows how, he's never asked her. He saw her at Tendo's funeral for a brief moment, knows that she stayed with them during the move but hasn't really seen her or tried to find her because there's just. Too much there. Too much history. Too much like he killed her chance at happiness because fuck man, Tendo was so over the moon for her, they would've been great together.
And maybe he should've predicted that it'd all come to a head someday. He just didn't think it'd be like this. It starts with the one year anniversary of Knifehead's attack, when the Shatterdome gathers together and they all drink to their fallen comrades and maybe Yancy has one too many or it's just grief and guilt and old lust coming to the surface but he finds himself stumbling down the hall with Alison and how they actually get to her bunk seems to be a fucking miracle since they don't seem to stop kissing or touching or trying to strip off clothes the second they leave the gathering.
He's maybe the worst person in the world, killed his best friend and then slept with the girl of his dreams, yeah you're a real class act, Yancy Becket.]
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[The whole fucking point of the Jaegers is to protect people. To save lives. And that--didn't happen that night. It started with a boat of ten fisherman that they dropped because the kaiju took them off guard and there's no coming back from there and it just kept coming at them, driving them back back back until they're not protecting the miracle mile anymore, they're fighting a battle on two million people's doorsteps and once it gets to this point, it's all just collateral damage.
The Shatterdome is destroyed. Half the techs are gone. Tendo is gone. Just like that. And what's worse is that the Becket boys have no idea if it was Gipsy or the kaiju that took them out. In the middle of the fight, they were fighting to stay alive, to kill this son of a bitch, they weren't thinking about the buildings they ran into until it's over, it's dead and their home, their crews, their best friend are all dead too.
Afterwards, it's just clean up. Burying their dead, salvaging what they can. The Anchorage Shatterdome isn't going to reopen, they're relocating down to Vancouver and that makes sense, but it still feels like the final nail in the coffin. Like they failed to save their home and their friends and there's no making it right ever.
Raleigh and Yancy keep fighting because that's what they do. They're Rangers and Gipsy more or less escaped the fight unharmed. No worse than usual and it's easy enough to repair her. And Alison survived the attack too, though fuck knows how, he's never asked her. He saw her at Tendo's funeral for a brief moment, knows that she stayed with them during the move but hasn't really seen her or tried to find her because there's just. Too much there. Too much history. Too much like he killed her chance at happiness because fuck man, Tendo was so over the moon for her, they would've been great together.
And maybe he should've predicted that it'd all come to a head someday. He just didn't think it'd be like this. It starts with the one year anniversary of Knifehead's attack, when the Shatterdome gathers together and they all drink to their fallen comrades and maybe Yancy has one too many or it's just grief and guilt and old lust coming to the surface but he finds himself stumbling down the hall with Alison and how they actually get to her bunk seems to be a fucking miracle since they don't seem to stop kissing or touching or trying to strip off clothes the second they leave the gathering.
He's maybe the worst person in the world, killed his best friend and then slept with the girl of his dreams, yeah you're a real class act, Yancy Becket.]