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100 days of enemy recs: 41. Pacific Rim
Sometimes, you become a pen pal with someone, and you kind of fall in love with them? A little? Just from the words they write? And then you finally meet them in person and it turns out they're an utterly insufferable asshole, but unfortunately also hot. And it's too late to do anything about it because the two of you are the only geniuses who can save the world, so you spend years working in close quarters under unimaginable stress with only each other to take it out on. And then it turns out that in order to save the world, the two of you are going to have to merge minds with each other and a monster - and it'll probably kill you, because you're obviously not compatible, but then it turns out you two are compatible? Like super compatible? Like soulmates compatible? And you save the world together and everything is amazing.
But then one of you drifts away, and it hurts, but there's no reason that needs to be a reason, until years go by and then you discover that maybe you were also compatible with the monster and the "girlfriend" you thought he had left you for was actually a monster brain in a jar and the "drifting away" was a bit literal and his mind has been completely taken over by the monster and also he's going to destroy the world if you don't stop them - stop him, this time - and it has to be you, because you're the only one who can get through to him even a little. And you do, you save the world, but you haven't saved him yet, because he's tied up in a basement cell with the monster still wrapped around his brain - and the story ends there because they didn't get funding for a third movie.
Luckily there's fanfic. (Most of it goes AU after the first movie but there's a fair amount where you save him after the second, too.) This is just a tiny sampler of it.
But then one of you drifts away, and it hurts, but there's no reason that needs to be a reason, until years go by and then you discover that maybe you were also compatible with the monster and the "girlfriend" you thought he had left you for was actually a monster brain in a jar and the "drifting away" was a bit literal and his mind has been completely taken over by the monster and also he's going to destroy the world if you don't stop them - stop him, this time - and it has to be you, because you're the only one who can get through to him even a little. And you do, you save the world, but you haven't saved him yet, because he's tied up in a basement cell with the monster still wrapped around his brain - and the story ends there because they didn't get funding for a third movie.
Luckily there's fanfic. (Most of it goes AU after the first movie but there's a fair amount where you save him after the second, too.) This is just a tiny sampler of it.
- ich hasse dich (3418 words) by que_sera
Fandom: Pacific Rim (2013)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb, Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori
Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, POV Outsider, Foreign Language, Deutsch | German
Having a second language in common is useful sometimes. - How to Train Your Kaiju (21753 words) by psikeval
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Pacific Rim (2013)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb
The one where they adopt a baby kaiju! - i bring scientists (you bring a rockstar) (14102 words) by pseudoanalytics
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb
Characters: Newton Geiszler, Hermann Gottlieb, Amara Namani, Vik Malikova, Ou-Yang Jinhai, Ilya (Pacific Rim), Suresh (Pacific Rim), Tendo Choi, Hannibal Chau, Mako Mori, Raleigh Becket
Additional Tags: Team as Family, Found Family Dynamics, Post-Movie: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Mission Fic, Ghost Drifting, Post Recovery Newt, K-Science (Pacific Rim), Getting Together, First Kiss, Making Out, fluff with plot, Jurassic Park References, Domestic Fluff, Kidnapping
Telling them that he was getting along with Newt was supposed to be an unmissable signal that he was only speaking under duress, Hermann is not sure why it's not working.
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I have never seen a Pacific Rim but wow did I never osmosis ANYTHING about the plot of the second movie, huh.
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(Also, there's something about that summary that makes them sound epic and love crossed and that's kind of amazing given that they're mostly there for exposition and comic relief in the movies. Don't get me wrong, I love them -- and the movies -- but sometimes it's all about perspective.)
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