Meme: Reverse Questions

[not_acute]

Muns: Post here listing all of the characters you play (you might want to list journals, too, just for reference) or are thinking of playing.

Everyone: Ask the MUNS anything about the GAME or THEIR PUPS, because we all know the muns will answer when the characters won't. They can be specific questions ("How does he feel about her?") or general questions ("Why did you choose this pup?", "How do you channel them?", etc.) You can even have pups ask the questions, but ANSWERS are coming from the MUNS.

Comments

[sciencesaggressively]

I think he'd be more supportive of it than not. I also think he viewed the Jaegers and their pilots as tools in his own grand slam plan to close the Breach--he hadn't even recognized Raleigh as the pilot who'd taken down Yamarashi and that would have been a big deal, especially within the PPDC--so I'm not entirely convinced the ethics of the whole thing would really be a big issue for him. He'd still work as hard as he could to find the best way to fight in the way only he's capable of doing.

[di]

Interesting. XD I will want to snag on this when I app a future character, I think it could be fascinating for them to talk.

In a less selfish ask...

Do you think that drifting with a kaiju affected Newt's view of them in general, and in what way? Is that kind of understanding something that he would like to spread more broadly across people he knows?

[sciencesaggressively]

Oooooh, so excite!

I definitely think the drifts affected his view of them. In the beginning of the film, he's got a lot of gusto about wanting to see them alive, up close and even that first drift with the damaged brain didn't really hinder him all that much--the only reason he said he couldn't do another drift was because he didn't think there was another brain. But he mentions emotion, he sees how the kaiju are created, he gains all that knowledge about how badly those Precursors wanted to take over and I think that would change anyone's perspective. It didn't change the fact that he was interested in them (and really, interested is not a good word for it because look at the guy, he's so deep into studying them that he's got them tattooed all over his body, it goes way beyond a scientific interest) but I definitely don't think he would want to spread that understanding, at least not through the way he'd experienced it, with others.

Even when Hermann offered to drift with him the second time, Newt asks him really, you'd do that for me? He corrects himself after, says with me, but I think that before Hermann had made that offer, Newt was going into that second drift pretty much assuming it would kill him. In Darrow, he's still got that hivemind in his head. He has nightmares and flashes of memories of what the kaiju felt--not just the pain of death thanks to the Jaegers but also all that rage, purely engineered rage and need to destruct. He wouldn't want that for anyone.

WOW, that got long, I have a lot of Newt feelings ;____;