Tag: newmann

I threw on a few scenes from Uprising to try to recapture Hermann’s voice (because honestly, I was not letting him be as difficult a person as he actually is in fic) and I gotta say, the moment where he pulls out the Kaiju blood and Precursor!Newt is all “Is that Kaiju blood?” is fucking hysterical because it’s clearly the Precursors being like 

um

Is that ours?

And you can tell they’re so pissed and taken aback but they gotta play along even though they’re super bad at it and just terrible at pretending to be Newt. Like, the only reason they’ve gotten away with it this long is because 1) they’ve stayed away from people like Hermann who know Newt, like they are genuinely freaked at the prospect of being within 100 feet of Hermann because they know he’s the one person who could sniff them out and 2) because “alien possession” as an explanation is a genuinely batshit insane thing to figure out. 

So I had a random thought about Alice and how Hermann must view “her” and it kinda plays into/powers a lot of The Prisoners’ Dilemma / Kidnapping AU but it still applies to canon so I figured I’d talk about it here.

– Newt says, “you can finally meet Alice,” in Uprising, which implies that he’s mentioned her to Hermann before.

– Hermann is clearly upset and gay about the very existence of Alice, but brushes off the mention of her immediately.

– This leads to the inevitable conclusion that he avoids thinking about her or discussing her. And this means, tragically, that Hermann, at some point, tried to do “the right thing”, so to speak. 

Oh, not the really right thing, societally, which would be to stop being a petty bitch about Newt’s “girlfriend” regardless of whether he and Newt had a relationship, and actually accept the dinner invitation (which was almost certainly a trap). But he at least doesn’t do the “wrong” thing which would be to relentlessly cyberstalk and track down every flaw about this witch who stole Newton. 

– Because if Hermann had gone looking for information about “Alice”, things like her resume, her alma mater, or even just her picture, chances are he wouldn’t have found anything. 

– Which would have raised every alarm bell and a ton of questions about who the fuck is “Alice” and maybe got him digging enough to do something sooner.

Because frankly there’s just no way that petty, nosy ( “Please excuse him, he’s a Kaiju grrrrrroupie.”) Hermann Gottlieb didn’t cyberstalk the fuck out of “Alice” unless he actively chose not to do so because he knew it would be his very bad instinct to do so. He tried to do the right thing and oops, may have doomed the world in the process.