Pacific Rim AU

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Just bear with me guys bc every fandom has to have the pacific rim au okay (if you haven’t seen this movie and you love action/scifi idk what you’re doing watch it rn; also this is a very long post)

• Aslan is the head of the program, of course
• So Polly and Digory were two of the first drift-compatible pilots of the Jaeger program
• They started out as single pilots bu teamed up when it was obvious that one person couldn’t pilot a Jaeger solo
• Their Jaeger was a Mark-1 called Ringer
• They were a very good team, but the machine only lasted for three attacks and they eventually retired to just helping in the Jaeger program
• A few years pass and the Jaeger program gets new recruits, the Pevensie siblings
• Peter and Susan were the best candidates the program had seen yet, working together in their Mark-3 Jaeger High Royale, to run over a dozen missions
• They’re still running missions when their other two siblings join about a year later when they reach the age
• Edmund and Lucy are just as good, if not better, in their Mark-4 Jaeger, Justly Valiant 
• Lucy quickly befriends Tumnus, the Jaeger-Tech Chief and the LOCCENT officer who oversees Jaeger missions, and is their eyes and ears in the fight. 
• Edmund was really cocky and a straight-up ass until he and Lucy went on a duo mission with another Jaeger team and the other team was killed when their Jaeger was destroyed by the Jadis Kaiju; he sobered and matured really quickly
• They’re new celebrities because of their incredible fighting power that almost rivals their older siblings’
• Because they were so good, a lot of the other teams were jealous and didn’t associate with them
• Besides Peter and Susan, Ed and Lucy didn’t have very many friends 
• One team that really let them in were two older pilots who retired into running the pilot training program (older means like, early 30′s while they’re early 20′s), the Beavers; their decommissioned Jaeger was a Mark-1 and was simply called The Beaver Dam
• High Royale and Justly Valiant often run missions together, and people refer to them as the kings and queens of the Jaeger program because of how many successful missions they run
• One day, High Royale falls short in a fight and the Jaeger is destroyed 
• They were injured in the fight, nearly killed, and they were seasoned enough in High Royale that the program didn’t see how they could come back in a new Jaeger when they had many other recruits ready to go in the newer Marks, so they were forcibly retired
• While Peter is devastated, always searching for a way back to the inside of the gigantic machines, Susan slowly loses her need to return and settles into a calmer life, watching the attacks on TV and being silently grateful she was out of harm’s way
• She has a bit of PTSD from it, so she forces the memories out of her mind sometimes to keep calm
• Peter can’t fathom how she could try to forget, because he doesn’t have as much trauma as she does and she didn’t tell anyone about how bad it was for her sometimes
• Meanwhile, Justly Valiant is making great strides in fighting the Kaiju
• A new team has risen in the ranks, Caspian and Eustace, who pilot The Dawn Treader 
• Justly Valiant and The Dawn Treader start to frequently run missions together, but as the Kaiju attacks get more frequent, Justly Valiant falls and is destroyed, so Edmund and Lucy retired out of the program, too.
• While they understand that they have to go and it would be difficult to get a new Jaeger for the duo this late in the game (think of it as being around the time that Pacific Rim takes place in the timeline), Ed and Lucy are sad to go, since the program has become their home
• Caspian is stressed, because he has big shoes to fill (literally big) now that the kings and queens of the program are gone, and he and Eustace are one of the few teams left.
• One day, Tumnus gets an alert that a category IV Kaiju is leaving the breach and is headed directly toward the mainland
• It was their first fight since Justly Valiant was decommissioned
• Caspian and Eustace are deployed; they fight the Jaeger but the Miraz Kaiju rips the right arm off the Jaeger, which causes Caspian (the right hemisphere) to have a seizure and die
• As they were closer than anything and were way more than friends, Eustace is devastated
• He considers leaving the program but it was entirely too late in the game and the Jaeger Program needed all the help they could get, so he stays to help any way he can
• Eustace has trouble bonding with anyone else; they bring in Lucy and Edmund, even Peter (they try with Susan but she’s been out of contact with her siblings and others for a very long time), but none of the drifts are stable enough to pilot
• Finally, Aslan brings in Jill Pole, an old classmate of Eustace’s from the Jaeger Academy
• They drift easily, which surprised Eustace because they weren’t really friends in school; Aslan’s involvement with the two of them changed things
• While people did have bets on whether or not they would get together, Jill and Eustace were only good friends (because they were both gaaaayyy)
• The situation with the breach was getting increasingly more dangerous, so Aslan brought back the Justly Valiant and Ringer crews, grabbing for every pilot that was willing to help
• Each team got a new Jaeger that would run for one mission, and Peter was teamed with Ed and Lucy in the biggest Jaeger the program had ever built, a massive Mark-5 called Cair Paravel
• Eustace and Jill end up being the ones to destroy the breach, as Cair Paravel is the last standing to guard them
• When the breach was finally sealed, all the surviving pilots reunited to celebrate the Jaeger program’s victory and are awarded medals
• Susan never shows, distancing herself further and further from the program and everything that reminds her of it, including her family

AHHHH THIS IS SO GOOD IM CRYING

I’m crying, tysm :’)