bakerstreet | The Apocalypse is Cancelled

Pacific Rim AU
We always thought alien life would come from the stars. But it came from deep beneath the sea, a portal between dimensions in the Pacific Ocean. Something out there had discovered us. The first Kaiju made landfall in San Francisco. The second attack hit Manila. Then the third one hit Cabo. Then we learned this was not going to stop. In order to fight monsters, we created monsters of our own. We needed a new weapon. The Jaeger Program was born. Two pilots, our minds, our memories, we were connected. Man and machine became one.

Instructions:

1. Choose a role (or multiple roles!) and post with your character/fandom.
2. Ask for any of mine specific, if you want
3. Jaeger & Kaiju name generator exists, use it as needed
4. Go big or go extinct. Or just have fun, that works too.

Roles:

1. Jaeger Pilot: The rock stars of the kaiju wars. You and your partner may be siblings, spouses, parent and child, or just two people who have the trust and compatability necessary for a successful Drift. Get out there and kick some ass.

2. Engineer: The war against the kaiju isn't just fought by the pilots. You're one of the countless support staff that design, repair, and enhance the Jaegers for maximum kaiju-smashing potential.

3. Scientist: Biologist, physicist, kaiju groupie. You study these horrific monsters so you can figure out how to destroy them...or you just really have a thing for alien anatomy.

4. Mission Control: Off the front lines but not out of the battle. You're watching the monitors, dealing out the orders, and generally making sure your Jaeger pilots don't do anything more stupid than normal.

5. Civilian: A black market dealer in kaiju organs, a reporter trying to get her big scoop, or just some poor schmuck trying not to get stepped on. You're one of the folks that the Jaegers are fighting for.

6. Other: Go wild.

Scenarios:

1. Preparations: Dealing with kaiju is a process, not a moment. Pilots need to physically and mentally hone their strength, engineers need to perfect the Jaeger weaponry and armor, scientists need to run their experiments, and black market dealers need to make their money.

2. First Neural Handshake: It's time to Drift with your partner. You'll experience each others' most painful secrets, joyous memories, and the time you got drunk and made out with the captain of the football team. Hang on, it'll be a bumpy ride.

3. Downtime: Chill out, have a beer, pretend the world isn't ending. You can explore the thriving towns that have grown up amongst the kaiju remains or just stay in the Shatterdome doing combat practice. However you relax, you've earned it.

4. Kaiju Detected: Battle stations, folks. Get to your cockpit, your command post, or your underground bunker. The monsters are coming, and they ain't gonna stop until someone does something about them.

5. Combat Mode: It's go time! You're in the heat of things, punching these otherworldly abominations in the face with your awesome. Remember to call your attacks; it makes them more powerful if you shout their names first.

6. Aftermath: Job well done, folks. Sit back, enjoy the celebrations, put another tick mark on your kill count...and if necessary, mourn the dead.

7. Other: Go further wild.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Engineer you say....Canon blind but i do like space, mechs, and mechs fighting giant monsters.]

[Old Reginald was one of the originators of the Jaeger tech, specifically the neural handshake upgrades, and figured if the PPDC wasn't going to do enough, it was up to him, collecting children orphaned by the Kaiju and setting up his own Shatterdome to train them.
Klaus is one of those, most compatible with his siblings, of course, but whatever, if you've got an idea LMK, I'll roll with most anything.]

[Resident LOCCENT lead and mission control.]

[Almost certainly the youngest engineers on the team.]

[Mechanic/engineer. She studies the Kaiju to better outfit the Jaegers against known defenses/offenses. Also: she lost her family in a Kaiju attack when she was young & hasn't talked since, but has something of a 6th sense for incoming Kaiju activity, she's more reliable than the seismic wave detectors.]

[Secret former pilot of one of the Extra Famous Legacy Jaegers, notable for being the only Jaeger which could be successfully piloted "solo". Now doing mission control after the Astral Pulse (which acted as the second pilot) was lost in a battle.

Has only done a neural handshake with a barely understood bit of technology and doesn't know what that will mean if he tries to do one with another human person.]

Edited 2026-05-28 20:08 (UTC)

[One of the second run of pilots, when they first started with the two-pilot system. He is technically retired, as his copilot bailed and broke the neural handshake the first time they had a deployment. He works command center and LOCCENT these days, dreading -and likewise hoping for- the day he gets called up to pilot again.]

[ Voice-testing, so thank you for your patience in advance! Scientist turned Pilot ]

[Definitely a member of one of the Kaiju cults that's sprung up.
Possibly there as a plant working for the PPDC to make sure things don't get out of hand.]

[Scavenger & civilian engineer/mechanic. Possibly working on building a Jaeger herself ~~in a cave with a box of scraps~~]

[Retired pilot, now works as a mechanic. He has a knack for knowing/spotting the weak points on any new Kaiju to emerge.
Could probably pilot again in a pinch.]

[He's the guy who ousted the resident gang kingpin and bone collector. He's picked up some of the same business partnerships, but not all of them, and he's becoming known as a fair boss and a reasonable guy to work for by anyone put out by the previous guy or by the government.]

[Civilian, mechanic, enforcer for a black-market kaiju-parts dealer, you name it, he's probably done it.]

[Engineer, maybe command center - used to be prisoner of a Bone Collector, still more than a little jumpy due to the experience]

[Pilot, obviously. Though more because it's his only way out rather than out of any real sense of duty.]

[Son of a former pilot and her engineer, an engineer/mechanic and reserve pilot in his own right - he graduated the Academy, but he's had a hell of a time finding anyone he's more than just passingly compatible with.]

[Son of a bone-collector, managed to get away and join the academy thanks to getting separated during a kaiju attack. He did, unfortunately wash out of the pilot academy due to 'anger issues', which is to say he defended another slum-kid like himself from one of the nepo babies and got blacklisted for it.
Or, rather, got shuffled off into an engineering and repair position at the local 'Dome, because as it turns out he's a damn good mechanic. He could definitely pilot, though, if given the chance.]

[Civilian of sorts, her father was a pilot, she may be a potential pilot, but she mostly just gets by reselling parts -Kaiju and mechanical alike- and possibly runs a Church of the Kaiju on the side]

[Doctor, either Civilian or PPDC, whichever, y'all need a medic.]

[ retired pilot. he lost his partner (and his wife) in an attack, and was too broken by the experience to continue fighting. now forced out of retirement, he teaches new pilots how to fight, enemy weaknesses, etc. totally down for forcing him into piloting out of necessity. ]

[Bare bones about her: sarcastic seer with a knack for finding trouble, or having trouble find her. More in-depth information about her is here. Can easily AU her into just about anywhere. Probably a pilot?]

[Voicetesting, please be gentle. Scientist, maybe? Medical type attached to the Jaeger pilot program?]

[ Most likely a pilot, maybe a retired one that has to come out of retirement.]

[ooc: probably a pilot. It's her Thing in canon, after all. Fight em till we/she can't. Apologies to the potential trauma for her Drift partner, though. That'll be a Mess, peeking into her memories and all.]

[ ... pilot. also incredibly dusty. ota gen; crosscanon, castmates, aus all good. ]

[administrator at your Shatterdome of choice.]

The Apocalypse is Cancelled

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Edwin Payne - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA

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