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The Only Way Out is Down (81887 words) by Avelera
Chapters: 15/16 – To Rebehold the Stars – Hermann
Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies)
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, Seduction, Cuddling & Snuggling, Fluff, Angst, Trauma, Therapy
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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Almost to the end! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! 😀

katedoesntexist:

#40 from this one as requested by @idonotbitemythumbatyou

“C’mon, Herm! I’ve almost got a fire ready. Get out the
marshmallows,” Newton called from further up the beach where he was gathering
driftwood.

It was January, 2026, exactly one year after the end of the
war. Newton had been adamant about commemorating the occasion somewhere warm and
remote, so the two found themselves on an isolated island in the Maldives, sunset
turning the receding tide into alternating splashes of turquoise, violet and orange.

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Can you imagine Hermann as a pilot (still the same math genius, still involved in the programming of the Jaegar he pilots with his sister) but slightly less insufferable because he doesn’t have the same chip on his shoulder over failing the pilot program at the Academy. But he’s still insufferable due to the stress that affects everyone at the Shatterdome and the loud & obnoxious head of K-Science hate-flirting with him in the dining hall doesn’t help :D

Oh yeah, dude! I mean, I wrote a fic where he got to be a Jaeger pilot with Newt as his co-pilot. 

I totally agree that Hermann wanted to be a Jaeger pilot, and that some of the chip on his shoulder and unnecessary saluting is a result of that dream maybe not working out. Most likely it was his illness/injury (whatever is the issue with his leg) that prevented him from becoming one (though wouldn’t it be interesting if it was a lack of Drift compatible partner? And then Newt comes along? I mean, Hermann never even questioned that they’d be compatible and there’s definitely a fic in there somewhere). 

But my bigger head canon is that pre-Kaiju, Hermann’s lifelong dream was to become an astronaut. I mean, it’s not like joining the Army, becoming an astronaut requires so much mathematical and scientific knowledge, I headcanon that the ambitionis what got him into the sciences in the first place when he was a kid (back in the “Space Champion” days). Transitioning that desire over to wanting to become a Jaeger pilot was only natural. Being at the forefront of the war in the K-Sciences studying the Breach and programming Jaegers was only natural when that dream failed. 

But yeah, I think Hermann would have been a fabulous Jaeger pilot, if perhaps a difficult one to work with even then. And I think it’s obvious (if not canonical??) that that was his dream.