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Character: Newton "Newt" Geiszler
Series: Pacific Rim
Age: 34, almost 35
History: Here a quick note! There are some minor discrepancies (regarding Newt's very early upbringing) between the novel and what's written on the wiki. As the wiki is citing dvd/blu ray features I'll go with that as the details are very small and hardly likely to come up much in the course of threads etc but I thought I should just make a quick note of that. Word of God states that if the film and novel come into conflict then the film is canon. I'll be disregarding the drift space thing for his age seeing as three other things disagree with it and agree with him being just shy of 35!
Canon Point: End of the film
Personality:
According to the PPDC personnel dossier for Newt, he's described as having borderline manic personality and poor social skills and they show in the way he completely talks over Hermann most of all, the way he talks to Raleigh when they meet, the fact that when Hermann talks he'll ridicule him (verbally or via blah blah blah hand motions) and the way he talks to Hannibal Chau of all people. It's strongly implied in both the novel and film that he either has manic personality disorder or that he's bipolar although there's no official confirmation of that at this point in time. Newt comes across as passionate, wild and defiant - it's mentioned that he suffers from chain of command issues due to the approach he takes. Like drifting. With Kaiju. After Marshall Stacker Pentecost said no.
Newt's relationship with the Kaiju is a complicated one and that's long before he decides it's a great idea to go drift with a Kaiju brain. Growing up with a love of manga and monster movies that not only started his interest in all sciences, it also had the added effect of him having a very different attitude towards Kaiju compared to most. In Hermann's words, he's a Kaiju groupie - he calls them awesome (in all meanings of the word in the novel) and his arms have Yamarashi as well as another Kaiju tattooed on them - the rest of his body, according to extra information, is covered in similar tattoos. He thinks they have to be understood rather than simply killed unlike pretty much everyone else.
That isn't to say Newt isn't brilliant. He has his doctorates, he created a milking machine and he and Hermann have co-written papers to help the pilots and at this stage they seem to be all that's left of K-Science and they do good work. When they work because Hermann files many complaints about basically everything about Newt down to his taste in music with a yellow tape line dividing their room with the Kaiju entrails not being on Hermann's side being a particular sticking point. Nevertheless, they do know that the other is right at times but it's science, you never want the other guy to be right and Newt, when Hermann's theories are picked over his drifting idea, is described as sullen, basically boiling with more intellect than he can handle. Honestly, Newt is a case study of being too smart for your own damn good. However, prior to his drift experiment he does point out that the Kaiju are clones of each other, discussing the classification system and afterwards he understands how the Kaiju work and why they attack in the way that they do. He also understands how having a silicon based organism vs carbon based makes them more deadly due to conductivity and such.
In the novel, during preparation for his Kaiju drift experiment, Newt thinks of his own mind as "highly creative, instinctive, yet profoundly analytical" going on to add that he likes to see where his (in his own thoughts still) methodical, logical, reasoning mind will go. Still, when compared with Hermann, Newton comes across as chaos and entropy - his side of the lab is a mess, bits of Kaiju and tanks of Kaiju everywhere, he tends to just slop things around. Even though he's extremely intelligent, described as a genius, with six doctorates and teaching experience at MIT, his excitement and more importantly burning desire to prove Hermann wrong means he doesn't always think important things through. When he drifted with the Kaiju, he completely forgets that the drift process is a two-way connection and it's through this, the Kaiju picking up his memories that likely triggers the double event in Hong Kong. The Kaiju are looking for him. Which almost gets him eaten by Otachi and then the baby Otachi is carrying but luckily it finally nets him that Kaiju brain.
Again related to chain of command issues is the fact that when dealing with black market Kaiju parts dealers, Newt really doesn't behave the way one should in a place called the boneslum and dealing with a man by the name of Hannibal Chau. He gets completely distracted by the chance to see all the various Kaiju parts (given that Stacker gave Chau the rights to Kaiju remains to help fund the Hong Kong base then it's very likely that he's the one Newt gets his newer parts from at least) and chatters on like an idiot. His excitement of being right, of his idea working, of his idea being so damn cool means that he babbles on and forgets that he's with a dangerous man even though he gets a butterfly knife to the nostril. Then guns pointed at him as he's thrown out and off to a public bunker when the Kaiju attack. And then after all that he returns and demands his Kaiju brain from Chau, calling him a 'one-eyed bitch'.
But the thing is that Newt is brave. Everyone knows the dangers of a solo pilot trying to control a Jaeger. Everyone knows the mental strain of drifting solo. A Kaiju brain is an unknown quantity. But he does it. Then he does it again, this time with Hermann right after a double event. And it's through being brave that they figure out how to get through the Breach so they can pass that knowledge on and have their version of a big damn hug at the end. (Because Newt isn't going through Hermann's fist bump issues again.)
Skills and Abilities:
First and foremost, Newt is a scientist - he's the second youngest MIT entrant, he has six doctorates and he also taught at MIT too. It's never stated as to what these doctorates are exactly but biology is definitely the foremost of them because he deals with the biological samples, discusses DNA etc, dismisses Hermann's mathematics (because what an old rivalry, maths/physics vs the life sciences) and he's pioneered research into artificial tissue replication. He does have interests in all areas of science and they do have many areas of overlap, especially when it's something like K-Science and they're dealing with such unknowns.
Additionally, family gave Newt an interest and some experience in electronics and their application and he proves to be very good at it. In canon he's developed the "milking machine" for the extraction of chemicals (very nasty, very toxic chemicals) from the Kaiju as well as somehow cobbling together a Pons from bits and pieces (the Pons is the basically the helmet with connections that allows for the drift process to be initiated) to initiate a drift with a damaged lump of Kaiju brain.
It's highly unlikely Newt has any combat experience whatsoever unless you count yelling at Hermann. And that could be a doctorate all of its own.
First Person Sample:
[On Newt's side of the lab, stained with Kaiju goop (goop, not poop, he's not a freak Hermann) and buried under various papers, memos, draft reports and scientific journals, there's a journal, ostensibly to record notes when a dictaphone just won't do.
Some of these notes refer to K-Science, the others less so.]
Difficulties in constructing Kaiju taxonomy. Becomes apparent that both traditional morphological approach won't work when we have no common ancestor that we know of and that the differences in appearance are too great. DNA approach also bust - too close to one another from examining specimens from different times. Serizawa scale only used for categories, thinking new system needed. Toxicity + time + other variable. Maybe morphology + behaviour to define rough categories for further analysis. Mass might be good but no accurate ability to calculate mass. Will need more samples.
Another 'friendly chat' from HR. Whatever passes for HR. Noise complaints. Hermann again. Music universal language, Hermann apparently not fluent. Unsurprised.
Suggested line down centre of lab has slope. Lecture lasted forty-seven minutes approximately. Approx due to using milking machine + getting a sandwich. Secondary lecture about lab hygiene. Reminded Hermann I removed gloves - Hermann suggests I be added to the 'no Kaiju parts' on his side of the room rule. That was a good one, laughed, saw twitch of satisfied smile.
Thinking about Kaiju secondary brain again. Unsure if hemisphere dependent like Jaegers or anterior/posterior or perhaps other function, still running with stegosaurus second brain for rear reflex control, unfortunately no way to confirm/reject hypothesis.
Invite Hermann to Godzilla marathon to console self, still frustrated at lack of true info + understanding of Kaiju, understanding is key. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution but no evolutionary understanding in truth of Kaiju.
Hermann declined invitation. Called a groupie again. Pointed out that I'm closer to rock star, not that Hermann would know. Will play Rammstein to illustrate point better. Again, music is universal language. German also our universal language.
1417 Hermann visibly vibrating.
1420 Asked Hermann to hold my coffee
1421 Hermann mad 'I am a doctor with blah blah blah not a magnetic stirrer' (note, ask if Star Trek fan)
1422 Hermann made unclassifiable noise when told not to resort to stick up his ass to stir coffee
Compile notes with Hermann before new report submission, sleep + shower if time before next briefing with Pentecost, more thoughts on Kaiju brain + understanding thinking about Jaegers + drifting process, not hard to recreate Pons system, will suggest at next briefing.
Additional first person samples here!
Third Person Sample: here or:
He ran his hands through his hair with frustration before he finally looked up from the microscope slides. Was he wearing gloves or not? Were his hands (or gloves) clean or not? Was that Kaiju goo in his hair or not? None of that mattered at the moment when he was this tired and when he couldn't exactly remember how long it had been since he'd last slept (Hermann was keeping note, he suspected but he wasn't stupid, he was a biologist, he knew just how long before processes began to shut down from lack of sleep) because they were all up against the clock. He'd been on this program for a decade now. He had six doctorates, he was considered a pioneer in artificial tissue research, he'd come up with a milking machine to extract the chemicals from Kaiju to better understand them and yet--
That was the crux of the matter. Not understanding. Of course, dangerous. Awesome in the actual literal sense of the word, as in causing awe and terror. It was like dinosaur, no one remembered that dinosaur meant formidable before it meant great or terrible. Aka big. If only they could understand and if only people would actually realise what he meant by understand but of course they had the Kaiju cults because aren't we all (or people, not him, not some of them but you know, people, as an entity) were superstitious monkeys about that kind of thing. Understanding something meant knowing how it worked. That was science. Understanding the structures, understanding how two chemicals came together, understanding how this adaptation meant this organism could survive in one place.
Whatever, this was his life. Science was his life, understanding why things did what they did, what made them do that, how they managed it - why else was he here and employed? So what if he loved the Kaiju? So what if he'd decorated his body with them, colours and lines and monsters glaring at people whenever he rolled up his sleeves. At least they meant something to him. The Kaiju left their mark everywhere else, why not on him too? The tattoos were his choice. Let people write him off, he worked better when he had to prove himself, status as second youngest MIT admittance.
Speaking of his ink, one of his sleeves had slipped down as he'd been working so he rolled it back up, grinning down as Yamarashi was revealed once more.
"Okay little guy, one more analysis and we'll take a break, sound good?"
A derisive snort drifted over from Hermann's side, the sort of background noise he'd become used. Time for some music, he thought, stretching over to hit play on the computer, the sudden surge of pounding drums and wailing guitars drowning Hermann out.
Personal Journal:
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Other Characters Played:
Tanis |
drageridder | OriginalCharacter: Newton "Newt" Geiszler
Series: Pacific Rim
Age: 34, almost 35
History: Here a quick note! There are some minor discrepancies (regarding Newt's very early upbringing) between the novel and what's written on the wiki. As the wiki is citing dvd/blu ray features I'll go with that as the details are very small and hardly likely to come up much in the course of threads etc but I thought I should just make a quick note of that. Word of God states that if the film and novel come into conflict then the film is canon. I'll be disregarding the drift space thing for his age seeing as three other things disagree with it and agree with him being just shy of 35!
Canon Point: End of the film
Personality:
According to the PPDC personnel dossier for Newt, he's described as having borderline manic personality and poor social skills and they show in the way he completely talks over Hermann most of all, the way he talks to Raleigh when they meet, the fact that when Hermann talks he'll ridicule him (verbally or via blah blah blah hand motions) and the way he talks to Hannibal Chau of all people. It's strongly implied in both the novel and film that he either has manic personality disorder or that he's bipolar although there's no official confirmation of that at this point in time. Newt comes across as passionate, wild and defiant - it's mentioned that he suffers from chain of command issues due to the approach he takes. Like drifting. With Kaiju. After Marshall Stacker Pentecost said no.
Newt's relationship with the Kaiju is a complicated one and that's long before he decides it's a great idea to go drift with a Kaiju brain. Growing up with a love of manga and monster movies that not only started his interest in all sciences, it also had the added effect of him having a very different attitude towards Kaiju compared to most. In Hermann's words, he's a Kaiju groupie - he calls them awesome (in all meanings of the word in the novel) and his arms have Yamarashi as well as another Kaiju tattooed on them - the rest of his body, according to extra information, is covered in similar tattoos. He thinks they have to be understood rather than simply killed unlike pretty much everyone else.
That isn't to say Newt isn't brilliant. He has his doctorates, he created a milking machine and he and Hermann have co-written papers to help the pilots and at this stage they seem to be all that's left of K-Science and they do good work. When they work because Hermann files many complaints about basically everything about Newt down to his taste in music with a yellow tape line dividing their room with the Kaiju entrails not being on Hermann's side being a particular sticking point. Nevertheless, they do know that the other is right at times but it's science, you never want the other guy to be right and Newt, when Hermann's theories are picked over his drifting idea, is described as sullen, basically boiling with more intellect than he can handle. Honestly, Newt is a case study of being too smart for your own damn good. However, prior to his drift experiment he does point out that the Kaiju are clones of each other, discussing the classification system and afterwards he understands how the Kaiju work and why they attack in the way that they do. He also understands how having a silicon based organism vs carbon based makes them more deadly due to conductivity and such.
In the novel, during preparation for his Kaiju drift experiment, Newt thinks of his own mind as "highly creative, instinctive, yet profoundly analytical" going on to add that he likes to see where his (in his own thoughts still) methodical, logical, reasoning mind will go. Still, when compared with Hermann, Newton comes across as chaos and entropy - his side of the lab is a mess, bits of Kaiju and tanks of Kaiju everywhere, he tends to just slop things around. Even though he's extremely intelligent, described as a genius, with six doctorates and teaching experience at MIT, his excitement and more importantly burning desire to prove Hermann wrong means he doesn't always think important things through. When he drifted with the Kaiju, he completely forgets that the drift process is a two-way connection and it's through this, the Kaiju picking up his memories that likely triggers the double event in Hong Kong. The Kaiju are looking for him. Which almost gets him eaten by Otachi and then the baby Otachi is carrying but luckily it finally nets him that Kaiju brain.
Again related to chain of command issues is the fact that when dealing with black market Kaiju parts dealers, Newt really doesn't behave the way one should in a place called the boneslum and dealing with a man by the name of Hannibal Chau. He gets completely distracted by the chance to see all the various Kaiju parts (given that Stacker gave Chau the rights to Kaiju remains to help fund the Hong Kong base then it's very likely that he's the one Newt gets his newer parts from at least) and chatters on like an idiot. His excitement of being right, of his idea working, of his idea being so damn cool means that he babbles on and forgets that he's with a dangerous man even though he gets a butterfly knife to the nostril. Then guns pointed at him as he's thrown out and off to a public bunker when the Kaiju attack. And then after all that he returns and demands his Kaiju brain from Chau, calling him a 'one-eyed bitch'.
But the thing is that Newt is brave. Everyone knows the dangers of a solo pilot trying to control a Jaeger. Everyone knows the mental strain of drifting solo. A Kaiju brain is an unknown quantity. But he does it. Then he does it again, this time with Hermann right after a double event. And it's through being brave that they figure out how to get through the Breach so they can pass that knowledge on and have their version of a big damn hug at the end. (Because Newt isn't going through Hermann's fist bump issues again.)
Skills and Abilities:
First and foremost, Newt is a scientist - he's the second youngest MIT entrant, he has six doctorates and he also taught at MIT too. It's never stated as to what these doctorates are exactly but biology is definitely the foremost of them because he deals with the biological samples, discusses DNA etc, dismisses Hermann's mathematics (because what an old rivalry, maths/physics vs the life sciences) and he's pioneered research into artificial tissue replication. He does have interests in all areas of science and they do have many areas of overlap, especially when it's something like K-Science and they're dealing with such unknowns.
Additionally, family gave Newt an interest and some experience in electronics and their application and he proves to be very good at it. In canon he's developed the "milking machine" for the extraction of chemicals (very nasty, very toxic chemicals) from the Kaiju as well as somehow cobbling together a Pons from bits and pieces (the Pons is the basically the helmet with connections that allows for the drift process to be initiated) to initiate a drift with a damaged lump of Kaiju brain.
It's highly unlikely Newt has any combat experience whatsoever unless you count yelling at Hermann. And that could be a doctorate all of its own.
First Person Sample:
[On Newt's side of the lab, stained with Kaiju goop (goop, not poop, he's not a freak Hermann) and buried under various papers, memos, draft reports and scientific journals, there's a journal, ostensibly to record notes when a dictaphone just won't do.
Some of these notes refer to K-Science, the others less so.]
Difficulties in constructing Kaiju taxonomy. Becomes apparent that both traditional morphological approach won't work when we have no common ancestor that we know of and that the differences in appearance are too great. DNA approach also bust - too close to one another from examining specimens from different times. Serizawa scale only used for categories, thinking new system needed. Toxicity + time + other variable. Maybe morphology + behaviour to define rough categories for further analysis. Mass might be good but no accurate ability to calculate mass. Will need more samples.
Another 'friendly chat' from HR. Whatever passes for HR. Noise complaints. Hermann again. Music universal language, Hermann apparently not fluent. Unsurprised.
Suggested line down centre of lab has slope. Lecture lasted forty-seven minutes approximately. Approx due to using milking machine + getting a sandwich. Secondary lecture about lab hygiene. Reminded Hermann I removed gloves - Hermann suggests I be added to the 'no Kaiju parts' on his side of the room rule. That was a good one, laughed, saw twitch of satisfied smile.
Thinking about Kaiju secondary brain again. Unsure if hemisphere dependent like Jaegers or anterior/posterior or perhaps other function, still running with stegosaurus second brain for rear reflex control, unfortunately no way to confirm/reject hypothesis.
Invite Hermann to Godzilla marathon to console self, still frustrated at lack of true info + understanding of Kaiju, understanding is key. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution but no evolutionary understanding in truth of Kaiju.
Hermann declined invitation. Called a groupie again. Pointed out that I'm closer to rock star, not that Hermann would know. Will play Rammstein to illustrate point better. Again, music is universal language. German also our universal language.
1417 Hermann visibly vibrating.
1420 Asked Hermann to hold my coffee
1421 Hermann mad 'I am a doctor with blah blah blah not a magnetic stirrer' (note, ask if Star Trek fan)
1422 Hermann made unclassifiable noise when told not to resort to stick up his ass to stir coffee
Compile notes with Hermann before new report submission, sleep + shower if time before next briefing with Pentecost, more thoughts on Kaiju brain + understanding thinking about Jaegers + drifting process, not hard to recreate Pons system, will suggest at next briefing.
Additional first person samples here!
Third Person Sample: here or:
He ran his hands through his hair with frustration before he finally looked up from the microscope slides. Was he wearing gloves or not? Were his hands (or gloves) clean or not? Was that Kaiju goo in his hair or not? None of that mattered at the moment when he was this tired and when he couldn't exactly remember how long it had been since he'd last slept (Hermann was keeping note, he suspected but he wasn't stupid, he was a biologist, he knew just how long before processes began to shut down from lack of sleep) because they were all up against the clock. He'd been on this program for a decade now. He had six doctorates, he was considered a pioneer in artificial tissue research, he'd come up with a milking machine to extract the chemicals from Kaiju to better understand them and yet--
That was the crux of the matter. Not understanding. Of course, dangerous. Awesome in the actual literal sense of the word, as in causing awe and terror. It was like dinosaur, no one remembered that dinosaur meant formidable before it meant great or terrible. Aka big. If only they could understand and if only people would actually realise what he meant by understand but of course they had the Kaiju cults because aren't we all (or people, not him, not some of them but you know, people, as an entity) were superstitious monkeys about that kind of thing. Understanding something meant knowing how it worked. That was science. Understanding the structures, understanding how two chemicals came together, understanding how this adaptation meant this organism could survive in one place.
Whatever, this was his life. Science was his life, understanding why things did what they did, what made them do that, how they managed it - why else was he here and employed? So what if he loved the Kaiju? So what if he'd decorated his body with them, colours and lines and monsters glaring at people whenever he rolled up his sleeves. At least they meant something to him. The Kaiju left their mark everywhere else, why not on him too? The tattoos were his choice. Let people write him off, he worked better when he had to prove himself, status as second youngest MIT admittance.
Speaking of his ink, one of his sleeves had slipped down as he'd been working so he rolled it back up, grinning down as Yamarashi was revealed once more.
"Okay little guy, one more analysis and we'll take a break, sound good?"
A derisive snort drifted over from Hermann's side, the sort of background noise he'd become used. Time for some music, he thought, stretching over to hit play on the computer, the sudden surge of pounding drums and wailing guitars drowning Hermann out.