deflect:

Then they were in full Drift together… with the brain of Baby Otachi Junior right there with them. Gottlieb had never Drifted, and his mind went through a moment of screaming dislocation before the Geiszler Array took over and performed the neural handshake. Newt had a complete tour of Hermann’s mind, within a fraction of a second.

numbers language of the universe and they will hide me I can hide behind them because they are never angry they are never wrong they choose no sides and expect nothing they are purely themselves and will never betray me

Newt had mud between his toes at Lake Como. Gottlieb was soldering together a robot can I build an intelligence that will pass the Turing test and if I could of course I can I must never say anything abut it until it is done or Father will

Something triggered a response deep inside Baby Otachi’s species memory. The light around them grew strange, water and distorted, the Anteverse seen through amniotic fluid, Baby Otachi perceiving its world through Otachi’s senses, aware in the womb, waiting knowing hungry

Precursor

Hermann had never seen one. Newt felt his mind unhinge and put itself back together. Is that what happened to me— 

Pacific Rim, the official movie novelization, by Alex Irvine

So I’m of two minds on what D&D classes Newt and Hermann would be. In either case I think Hermann is definitely a straight-up Wizard but consider:

1) Hermann is a wizard, Newt is a sorcerer, and they bicker all day about How Magic Works

2) Hermann is a wizard, and Newt is that asshole who took six different multi-classes and they still bicker about How Magic Works