[Letty is a part of shatterdome culture, not quite a product of it, but she fits, she understands it, she's comfortable here. She is privy to its victories and prone to its failures, for better or for worse, but she is also an inductee. She is capable, sometimes, of separating herself from it enough to remember a time before kaiju were a worldwide threat, when failing to be a hero wasn't cause for exile.
She won't say she doesn't still have to work around some disappointment when she catches sight of Mira around now that she's back, but it doesn't make her dismiss her fellow pilot. Letty is also aware of the ways in which people can be broken in less obvious ways, knows that showing it - that acting on it - is not the greatest crime that can be committed.
So she straddles the line, ignores her when she's busy herself or when Mira is especially self-effacing, doesn't beg for her attention, doesn't chase after her. But when she chooses to sit in the scaffolding around Letty's Ten Second Devil? When Letty herself is sick of climbing in and out of the guts of her jaeger to retrieve tools?]
Hidalgo. Climb down here and hand me that number two torch, would you?
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She won't say she doesn't still have to work around some disappointment when she catches sight of Mira around now that she's back, but it doesn't make her dismiss her fellow pilot. Letty is also aware of the ways in which people can be broken in less obvious ways, knows that showing it - that acting on it - is not the greatest crime that can be committed.
So she straddles the line, ignores her when she's busy herself or when Mira is especially self-effacing, doesn't beg for her attention, doesn't chase after her. But when she chooses to sit in the scaffolding around Letty's Ten Second Devil? When Letty herself is sick of climbing in and out of the guts of her jaeger to retrieve tools?]
Hidalgo. Climb down here and hand me that number two torch, would you?