OF COURSSSE…..this is so sappy but it’s all sleety and gross out today so i earned it
The later months of the year, in Newt’s opinion, are the best, if not just because it’s finally socially acceptance to eat a shit-ton of candy and junk and lie around inside all day. Newt eats a shit-ton of candy and junk all throughout the year, but he and Hermann usually spend their summers travelling or going to the beach (newly kaiju free, which is a plus, because Newt was finally able to actualize his lifelong dream of taking surfing lessons, even if he quit after two days) and Newt works all the calories off. Not October through December, though; he rakes leaves, and he shovels the path to their small townhouse when it snows, and sometimes he and Hermann will go for a walk through the woods, but that’s about it.
Basically, these days he gets some organic insulation in the colder months, especially since rationing isn’t a thing anymore and people are making pies and seasonal Oreos and peppermint mochas and everything again. He’s like a hibernating bear or something. He’s probably hairy enough.
Hermann’s very fond of his hot bod, which is a definite plus–he’s all skinny and bony, even with Newt making sure he doesn’t skip meals anymore, so he usually wraps himself around Newt in their bed or on the couch or when they venture out into the cold like Newt’s his own personal heater. It’s a win-win situation. Hermann’s warm, and Newt gets an armful of handsome husband.
Hmm, I’m sort of have a few theories? There’s the film I fear we’ll get, there’s the film I think we’ll be lucky to get, and the film I don’t think we’ll get and if we did it probably would be the actual death of me.
1) Pacific Rim 3 is just a Rampage-style monster movie fest about the invasion of the Anteverse starring Jake and/or a random new cast AGAIN and the plotline from the first two films is just further ignored, including closure for Newt. I don’t actually think this will happen but it’s sort of how I’d ground myself rather than get too excited were PR3 to be announced.
2) What I think is the most likely scenario. PR3 features Jake and is about the invasion of the Anteverse. Hermann is puttering around in the background somewhere and we get some references and a shot of Newt screaming his head off like the kid from the Exorcist in a cell somewhere. Then, just as all hope seems lost because they need intelligence about the Anteverse in order to launch the Big Finale Attack, Newt shows up miraculously cured and delivers the needed info. He and Hermann get one more scene before the end of the film, piloting a Jaeger or something ridiculous lol and no deeper meanings are explored in the film other than finding increasingly ludicrous ways for robots to beat up monsters. But at least Hermann and Newt are together and better! (This film instantly becomes option 1 if one or both of them die and I will officially flip the fuck out).
3) Newt and Hermann actually get the B Plot of the film! Look, there’s no universe in which I think a story like TOWOID (which is technically envisioned as a PR4) or any of the other numerous wonderful Newt recovery arc stories is going to make it to the big screen or that Newt’s recovery will be A Plot. Pacific Rim is, at its heart, a movie about monsters fighting robots and it’s going to be about improbably good-looking hot-shot pilots getting in robots to do just that. If we’re very lucky there will be some bigger themes at stake about war and loss and climate change and saving the world. Frankly, I’d be over the moon even if the A Plot is just an action movie, if the B Plot is Newt and Hermann and they get to carry some of the heavier themes, but again, this isn’t the film I think we’ll ever get just the one I’d love. One where wresting Newt out of the Anteverse actually takes a bit of time and we get some trippy glimpses of the place through his eyes and some idea of what’s been HAPPENING to him, where he gets to come back a hero, and we get some confirmation of Newt/Hermann maybe not with a kiss but I’ll take the Hollywood approximation of no no-homo girlfriend showing up and a clear portrayal of them as each other’s most important person without whom they fall apart. Maybe some hand holding (ooh la la!).
As for how I’d write it? I’d probably open with Mako waking up in a hospital and use her as the vehicle to introduce us to how the world has changed in the inevitable time skip since PR2. I’d throw Raleigh back in too if I could, hell, get the whole crew back together including Tendo and Hannibal Chau off somewhere! Show the war is about to be launched, maybe introduce the idea that no one really knows anything about the Anteverse except one man (dun dun DUN) and it’s up to Hermann to bring Newt back to his senses so they can get that info to launch the invasion maybe? The whole shot of Newt throwing open the doors to some super secret war meeting to announce that he’s there to help, etc etc… Lots of themes of redemption and kicking ass. But that’s all wish list stuff, honestly if it was ever announced my first question would be WHO IS DIRECTING before I’d get ANY kind of hopes up. And I realize the question is more about what film I’d make if I could but I just can’t shrug off the inevitabilities of Hollywood enough to even begin to explore the art house film I’d make about Newt’s rescue and recovery ;P Basically if you want to see those, just read my fics. That’s my take on the story.
Wowow BIG FEELS.. ;—; I reallly don’t know what to say, I mean kudos to Burn and Charlie’s performances(+make up artists and styling artists) who make any of my imagination possible. But THANK YOU so much for getting so highly attached to it?!!!
Not so- obviously, I’m sharing less than what I had actually drawn! Like anyone else, it did take me a while to get used to them and make the likeness and appeal meet where I wanted it to be.
These are some test runs from April
and below is how I draw them now!
I can’t blame you though, I’ve been together with my gf for almost 5 years now and she sometimes dreams in the art style I draw because it’s so natural for her to imagine that way.
So not much else to say than thank you for the lovely compliments and glad you are enjoying the ride! ^U^)9″
One of my favorite HC’s about Hermann is that he’s this darkly passionate dude. Newt will observe him humming along to The Smiths, low lighting, reading An Oresteia, and calling that a good Saturday evening. He’ll bring up the death of Alan Turing and look personally offended. He mopes. He’s melancholic. Whereas Newt faces the Kaiju attacks with excitement and interest, Hermann becomes pensive and mournful. Every death is his fault. He could have done something differently, anything differently to change the outcome. Despite the lab being reasonably small, Newt always feels like Hermann’s distant; looming, far away, and not entirely approachable. He gazes out windows. He sighs instead of answering Newt’s questions directly. He complains about his joints only to say he knows it’s going to rain or that no work will get done for the rest of the day. He’ll mutter to himself cryptically, whole series of numbers from his calculations, without any explanation. He’s perfected the glossy, unseeing, stare, and yet his hands shake viciously. The same Hermann who barely speaks during the day looks absolutely strung out as he works, hair sticking-up, covered in chalk dust, and listening to Tchaikovsky all through the night.
The first time Newt tells him about his love of the Kaiju over letter, Hermann writes back something along the lines of the myth of Icarus and how “When you strive for the sun, you too will land amongst the sea. Except, I think you might actually prefer it there.” When they work together, it becomes clear in their routines; Newt takes breaks and won’t go to the lab for days. Hermann is constantly at his desk, recalculating, pursuing, chasing. His father looms as a constant reminder of crippling doubt. He doesn’t eat or sleep for days. He wants to do more, to be better, to be enough. With that same energy he often feels he’s chasing Newt down too. Newt who strings him along by letter and by lab partner, but never sits still long enough to pay Hermann any real attention. Newt who flirts and teases, but never takes anything seriously. Newt who wants fast, hard, and dangerous, but doesn’t know the consequences of his pursuits until it’s too late. So Hermann wakes up each cold, grey, morning resigned to his fate; inefficient and unloved (or at least, that’s what he tells himself.) He imbues tragedy where the cracks in the narrative allow it. Like gold used to reattach pieces of a shattered vase, he knows to repair the world he has to focus on where it breaks first. After all, equations are only fractured things meticulously melded back together. After all, those same fractures grace his limbs and his family lineage and his heart. After all, the lonely and isolated logician he is, doesn’t know any another way to calibrate reality than through the lens of total despair.
Avelera 