WE'LL PUT OUT EVERY LAST FIRE ON EARTH!

i see someone finally took notice of my tags *rubs hands together* i dont have a whole lot, bc my brain likes to leave me with vague ideas and not give me anything more, but i have enough! and i will share it with you :)

ok so, first things first: this isn’t just a pacific rim au, its a pacfic rim FUSION au. (which, in my opinion are suitably different things that i need to comment on it jkdfkdj)

the way things work is that the kaiju came, and the promare got flung into this universe at approximately the same time. i can’t decide which actually came first bc i like both options, and i’m an indecisive bitch.

KRAY FORESIGHT DOES NOT EXIST FUCK THAT DUDE

deus prometh, however, does. and he was called in to work on the jaeger program for a very important discovery he made: the promare can be used as an alternate power source for jaegers

of course, prometh works on developing the complete version of his prometech engine, that doesnt harm the burnish

what i’m leading up to here is that jaegers work a lot like the deus x machina, but the burnish powering the engine and the mech pilot have to be ~drift compatible~ for the jaeger to work. (also they look like jaegers and not the deus x machina bc i like the way the jaegers look better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sorry, prometh.)

fast forward a few years and galo thymos, a young man whose family was killed in a kaiju attack, (and he was taken in by ignis ex, one of the first ever jaeger pilots, before even the prometech versions existed) joins the ppdc, with stunning piloting skills.

thing is, there’s a problem.

galo can’t find a burnish hes drift compatible with.

he tries. over and over and over again, he tries. but he cant seem to find that connection, that spark he needs to find in anyone.

days, weeks, months go by. eventually, galo stops trying. he’s a pretty good mechanic too, so he starts working on the jaegers, bc he doesnt want to leave the ppdc. (he can still help people like this, can still stop them from ever feeling the way he did that horrible night, even if it’s not the way he wanted to do it. that should be good enough, right? ...right?)

skip another couple years, and galo is a superb jaeger mechanic, whos fallen right with the burning rescue (marshal ignis ex’s jaeger) crew. hes comfortable (but not happy, how could he be happy at the end of the world with his dream having been slowly, achingly, been ground to dust under something that isn’t anyone’s fault?)

all of a sudden, these new burnish recruits pop up, out of the woodwork.

all anyone’s wondering is “where did they come from?”

surprise, surprise, it’s lio and his gang

lio is like, terrifyingly powerful. and yet. he cant seem to find someone drift compatible, so the ppdc is forced to keep him on base.

it’s a little demoralizing, having a secret weapon that they cant even use.

but galo’s been watching lio, and he’s intrigued...

the burning rescue crew has noticed that galo is more himself than hes been for a while now

galo’s even doing what used to be his training routine when he was a pilot recruit again, although he only ever does it when no one else is using the gym

lio stumbles across galo one night, and is instantly fascinated. he’d seen galo around the shatterdome, of course, but he’d never seen him like this, putting himself wholeheartedly into something, shining like a star, burning hotter than any mere flame ever could.

lio eventually tears himself away before he gets caught by galo and slinks back to his room.

days pass. almost all the pilot candidates the ppdc’s been throwing at lio have been deemed incompatible.

meanwhile, the burning rescue crew have been trying to get galo to come watch lio’s matches with them. finally he agrees, just to get them off his back.

the day galo tags along is the day lio goes through the last of the pilot hopefuls.

lio scans the room, looking for someone, anyone, that even might have a chance of being compatible so he can finally get out there and fight.

his eyes meet galo’s. the air in the room sharpens. people part like water before lio as he walks towards him.

they end up having a match. and it’s amazing.

neither can actually get in a hit on each other bc it feels like they know what the other is thinking before he himself does.

everyone watching is completely blown away by how fluid it looks, like it was a routine practiced a thousand times. it almost looks like the two of them are dancing.

galo and lio are definitely drift compatible. (and they were drift compatible. omg they were drift compatible)

they get their own jaeger after they do a few test drifts with no problem.

their jaegers official name is Rainbow Wildfire but they go back and forth on unoffically calling it lio de galon or galo de lion

anyway from here the plot goes kinda like the pacific rim movie does except no one dies bc i’m a sucker for a happy ending

this got a lot longer than i expected it to bc it was originally like. a couple tumblr dms to my friend

redraw of a galo from last year!!! :3