avelera:

The Only Way Out is Down (48738 words) by Avelera 
Chapters: 10/16 – Fraud – Hermann
Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies), La Divina Commedia | The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb
Characters: Newton Geiszler, Hermann Gottlieb, Jake Pentecost
Additional Tags: Post-Movie: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Literary References & Allusions, Coma, Rescue, Newton Geiszler is a Dork, POV Newton Geiszler, Newton Geiszler Recovery Arc, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Dreamscapes, Past Relationship(s), Other Additional Tags to Be Added, The Drift (Pacific Rim), Drift Side Effects, Hell, Inferno AU, Stream of Consciousness, Worried Hermann Gottlieb, Explicit Language, Past Mind Control, POV Hermann Gottlieb, Precursors are super dead, Memory Loss, Memory Alteration, Bickering, BAMF Hermann Gottlieb, Kissing, Canon-Typical Violence, Injury, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Explicit Sexual Content, Consensual Sex, Hurt/Comfort

Summary:
The invasion of the Anteverse was successful, and the Precursors have been destroyed, but Newt still hasn’t awoken from his coma and doesn’t respond initially to Drift attempts from Hermann to wake him.

But when one day a connection is established, Hermann and Newt find themselves in a mingled mindscape that seems informed by Dante’s “Inferno”. Together, they pass through the Nine Circles, nine memories of Newt’s years under Precursor control in the hopes it will help free Newt from his own head.

Yet questions linger: how much did the Precursors take from Newt, to what lengths will Hermann go to free him, and is the other even truly there, or merely a rabbit of the other’s making, a wish fulfillment fantasy that they’re chasing into the abyss?

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YAAAAY one of my FAVORITE chapters is here! Chapter 10, Fraud, perhaps one of my favorite things I’ve written in a LONG time :3

avelera:

The Only Way Out is Down (48738 words) by Avelera 
Chapters: 10/16 – Fraud – Hermann
Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies), La Divina Commedia | The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb
Characters: Newton Geiszler, Hermann Gottlieb, Jake Pentecost
Additional Tags: Post-Movie: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Literary References & Allusions, Coma, Rescue, Newton Geiszler is a Dork, POV Newton Geiszler, Newton Geiszler Recovery Arc, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Dreamscapes, Past Relationship(s), Other Additional Tags to Be Added, The Drift (Pacific Rim), Drift Side Effects, Hell, Inferno AU, Stream of Consciousness, Worried Hermann Gottlieb, Explicit Language, Past Mind Control, POV Hermann Gottlieb, Precursors are super dead, Memory Loss, Memory Alteration, Bickering, BAMF Hermann Gottlieb, Kissing, Canon-Typical Violence, Injury, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Explicit Sexual Content, Consensual Sex, Hurt/Comfort

Summary:
The invasion of the Anteverse was successful, and the Precursors have been destroyed, but Newt still hasn’t awoken from his coma and doesn’t respond initially to Drift attempts from Hermann to wake him.

But when one day a connection is established, Hermann and Newt find themselves in a mingled mindscape that seems informed by Dante’s “Inferno”. Together, they pass through the Nine Circles, nine memories of Newt’s years under Precursor control in the hopes it will help free Newt from his own head.

Yet questions linger: how much did the Precursors take from Newt, to what lengths will Hermann go to free him, and is the other even truly there, or merely a rabbit of the other’s making, a wish fulfillment fantasy that they’re chasing into the abyss?

–

YAAAAY one of my FAVORITE chapters is here! Chapter 10, Fraud, perhaps one of my favorite things I’ve written in a LONG time :3

Old married couple Newmann – just straight up sharing everything. They’re still invited to conferences together and people who are attentive to those kinds of things will notice that Newt is wearing the same tie Hermann was yesterday. Picking up each other’s habits in the classroom – Hermann saying “fortune favours the brave” before an exam; Newt wheeling a goddamn blackboard into a lecture hall (from the stuffy confines of the basement) to demonstrate a particularly theory-heavy bit of research

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2/2 – some weekends they drink A Lot of tea and they just rinse out the same mugs (“World’s Best Husband (and Physicist)” (the latter scrawled on in permanent marker – a six month wedding anniversary present from Newt to Hermann – now chipped and fading) and one that was just a goodie from a science thing but that Newt has also defaced/decorated with all kinds of Nerdy Scribbles) – and they never keep track of who’s using which one.

addendum to Hermann saying fortune favours the brave – one time, he’s not paying attention, and he says “dude” and realises just soon enough to like….turn it into a mumble, but the student sitting closest to him definitely thinks they heard Dr Gottlieb say “dude” like what??? ? ?

oh i love this i love this so MUCH….!!!!!

oh my god. hermann saying “fortune favors the brave” before an exam is so cute because then it gives the students a chance to incorporate the saying into their own vocabularies and then pass it on until newt hears it and he’s like “where did you hear that??” the answer is usually “a friend of a friend of a friend who’s in this physics class started using it and it’s so cryptic that everyone in my biology class is now using it” and newt just Knows it came from hermann.