It didn't almost-- [Or did it? Hermann seems to have hit the nail on the head with that one. He has a brief flash of Lightcap in his mind, like a connection of similar ideas, and--
No. No, that is impossible. That is... Not Hermann. But if anyone could have, with Newt--but no, why would...he didn't... He looks over at Hermann's quiet profile, and feels a swell of emotion starting in his gut and chest. Hermann cared about him that much as to risk his own life to--
He can't shake the idea of Lightcap, of D'onofrio, of what the press said about their relationship...and Newt thinks of the NYE video Joaquin showed him, and the conversation and Newt's yearning just to see Hermann. Even if it wasn't a romantic gesture, the Drift, it was terribly romantic, terribly loving in a way that went beyond both friendship and romance--
Why? he wants to ask, knowing Hermann himself doesn't know. Or does he, even now, years before the event? Why me? and Thank you.
He's been too quiet, gawking at Hermann, and Newt tries to say something, spew out some science, just to get himself off the thought that was the most beautiful thing anyone has ever done for me, and I don't even remember it.]
Do you think we... Do you think a Jaeger slapped a pons on one of them and we--? No, that's ridiculous. That's really absurd, although, maybe if we could attach something we could control one and--
There's no way, though, I mean, a Jaeger is just a vessel for the two brains, but the Kaiju--that's like trying to mindcontrol. We have no idea what their brains are like, what they think; that's territory I can't even begin to guess at, their compulsions, their instincts--we couldn't be Drift compatible with a Kaiju...!
[Hermann fidgets under Newton's stare, self-conscious in a way that has nothing to do with his disability. He doesn't know how to feel about it at all, really. It's never been so personal before now. That he does it isn't a question; he knows he will- would now probably. Why? Well there's a thousand reasons why but none of which he can explain.
He sets his rice down]
I very much doubt the PPDC would have built a Pons specifically for a kaiju. Reread your bullet points regarding our drift capabilities again.
[It's a terrible idea, the nervous twisting in his gut informs him. But if they could find out for a certainty..]
[Newt grumbles and reads them, and again. And a third time aloud just because he's clearly not seeing what Hermann wants him to see. Obviously there had to be a pons involved the FIRST time, right? So what was he ...]
... Are you...Are you saying you think they're being mind-controlled? Or that they're mentally linked or something, like all attached wirelessly to a super-mainframe or some shit? [He shook his head] We're ghost-drifting, Hermann. That's all this is. WE are linked, not the Kaiju. An exaggerated ghost-drift enhanced by the Porter. You and me--
Besides! An intact brain is extremely difficult to harvest from the corpse; the skull plate is so dense that by the time you drill into it the brain's rotted away. You'd have to go for the secondary brain and those are almost always damaged by the battle. Jaeger pilots aren't nearly careful enough and their weaponry is too crude and the Kaiju too resilient to be killed u without causing a lot of blunt-force trauma or lacerations, rendering samples damaged beyond use!
...Although. [He considers for a second] If they WERE breeding, which I'm not going to say they are--well, clearly they are, if there's a junior, unless it's just a smaller Kaiju--but if they were? Theoretically, a fetal or newly hatched or newly born Kaiju might have a soft enough skull section for us to physically embed a line directly to the cortex and jack into it, as it were!
[But what could you even learn from a baby Kaiju? It's brain isn't even fully developed, it's instincts not yet honed. It's just an animal. Unless.
...Unless.
Unless Hermann is right. If that were the case, the Kaiju would be so much more dangerous than they ever imagined.]
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No. No, that is impossible. That is... Not Hermann. But if anyone could have, with Newt--but no, why would...he didn't... He looks over at Hermann's quiet profile, and feels a swell of emotion starting in his gut and chest. Hermann cared about him that much as to risk his own life to--
He can't shake the idea of Lightcap, of D'onofrio, of what the press said about their relationship...and Newt thinks of the NYE video Joaquin showed him, and the conversation and Newt's yearning just to see Hermann. Even if it wasn't a romantic gesture, the Drift, it was terribly romantic, terribly loving in a way that went beyond both friendship and romance--
Why? he wants to ask, knowing Hermann himself doesn't know. Or does he, even now, years before the event? Why me? and Thank you.
He's been too quiet, gawking at Hermann, and Newt tries to say something, spew out some science, just to get himself off the thought that was the most beautiful thing anyone has ever done for me, and I don't even remember it.]
Do you think we... Do you think a Jaeger slapped a pons on one of them and we--? No, that's ridiculous. That's really absurd, although, maybe if we could attach something we could control one and--
There's no way, though, I mean, a Jaeger is just a vessel for the two brains, but the Kaiju--that's like trying to mindcontrol. We have no idea what their brains are like, what they think; that's territory I can't even begin to guess at, their compulsions, their instincts--we couldn't be Drift compatible with a Kaiju...!
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He sets his rice down]
I very much doubt the PPDC would have built a Pons specifically for a kaiju. Reread your bullet points regarding our drift capabilities again.
[It's a terrible idea, the nervous twisting in his gut informs him. But if they could find out for a certainty..]
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[Newt grumbles and reads them, and again. And a third time aloud just because he's clearly not seeing what Hermann wants him to see. Obviously there had to be a pons involved the FIRST time, right? So what was he ...]
... Are you...Are you saying you think they're being mind-controlled? Or that they're mentally linked or something, like all attached wirelessly to a super-mainframe or some shit? [He shook his head] We're ghost-drifting, Hermann. That's all this is. WE are linked, not the Kaiju. An exaggerated ghost-drift enhanced by the Porter. You and me--
Besides! An intact brain is extremely difficult to harvest from the corpse; the skull plate is so dense that by the time you drill into it the brain's rotted away. You'd have to go for the secondary brain and those are almost always damaged by the battle. Jaeger pilots aren't nearly careful enough and their weaponry is too crude and the Kaiju too resilient to be killed u without causing a lot of blunt-force trauma or lacerations, rendering samples damaged beyond use!
...Although. [He considers for a second] If they WERE breeding, which I'm not going to say they are--well, clearly they are, if there's a junior, unless it's just a smaller Kaiju--but if they were? Theoretically, a fetal or newly hatched or newly born Kaiju might have a soft enough skull section for us to physically embed a line directly to the cortex and jack into it, as it were!
[But what could you even learn from a baby Kaiju? It's brain isn't even fully developed, it's instincts not yet honed. It's just an animal. Unless.
...Unless.
Unless Hermann is right.
If that were the case, the Kaiju would be so much more dangerous than they ever imagined.]
Holy shit--