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theyoungperish) wrote2013-11-16 02:54 am
theyoungperish) wrote2013-11-16 02:54 am
app to kore
[Player information]
Player Name: Alyssa
Age: 20
E-mail: andalltheworlds @ gmail
Other characters played at Cape Kore: n/a
[Character information]
Name: Charles “Chuck” Hansen
Canon: Pacific Rim
Canon Point: Right after Chuck and Stacker flip the switch and blow up Striker Eureka to take out the Kaiju.
Age: 21
Player Name: Alyssa
Age: 20
E-mail: andalltheworlds @ gmail
Other characters played at Cape Kore: n/a
[Character information]
Name: Charles “Chuck” Hansen
Canon: Pacific Rim
Canon Point: Right after Chuck and Stacker flip the switch and blow up Striker Eureka to take out the Kaiju.
Age: 21
Appearance:
Inventory:
Inventory:
♔ one (1) civvies outfit:
♔ one (1) leather ‘Striker Eureka’ jacket
♔ one (1) simple grey T-shirt
♔ one (1) pair of jeans
♔ one (1) pair of boxers
♔ one (1) pair of socks
♔ one (1) pair of heavy duty boots
♔ one (1) set of dogtags
♔ one (1) analog wrist watch
Abilities: Nothing too super about him, but Chuck copilots a robot the size of a skyscraper, and he’s got to keep himself in top form. Likely, he’s a master at hand to hand combat of various forms, as well as fighting with a hanbō. In addition, Chuck has enough of a grasp of engineering to be able and capable when it comes to figuring things that are wrong with his Jaeger and going about fixing it up. Aside from this, nothing much?
History:
T h e B e g i n n i n g
The world starts on August 14th, 2003 for Charles “Chuck” Hansen. Born to Angela and Hercules “Herc” Hansen, he was a normal child, raised by two loving parents -- even if his dad was often gone because he was a member of the Royal Australian Air Force. Not much is known of Chuck’s early life, just that he spent most of his time with his mother, and grew up in her shadow.
For nine years, Chuck is the same as your average child.
And then Trespasser -- the first Kaiju -- attacks San Francisco in 2013. The American government couldn’t have predicted it, nobody could have, and nobody was prepared or able to take it down immediately. For six days, the Kaiju laid waste to the Californian west coast, destroying San Francisco, Sacramento and Oakland, leaving a swath of 35 miles of destruction in it’s way. Tens of thousands are killed, and all military weapons are unable to pierce the Kaiju’s thick skin.
Eventually, they drop three nuclear bombs, and sacrifice the Bay Area in hopes of stopping Trespasser. It works, and the populace pulls together, thinking the Kaiju can be nothing more than an anomaly, nothing more than a fluke.
They are wrong.
Six months later, Hundun emerges from the breach and attacks Manila. Four months after that, Kaiceph makes land in Cabo San Lucas. The Kaiju can be successfully killed by nuclear strikes, but the plan is nothing less than pyrrhic, the damage being laid out by the Kaiju is equaled by the damage the nuclear strikes themselves are dealing out. Before any alternate options can be figured out, a fourth Kaiju emerges from the breach and hits Australia.
It’s name is Scissure, and here, is where Chuck Hansen’s story begins in earnest.
S c i s s u r e
Scissure emerges from the breach and attacks Sydney on September 2, 2014. Though there have been just three previous battles with Kaiju, the army has some planning in case another attacks. Before Scissure can hit Sydney, it is lured away, and hit with a nuclear missile.
The attack simply slows down the creature, and without delay it turns back to the city and rampages through downtown Sydney. The battle against Scissure lasts three days, and eventually there is simply an order for evacuation, a mere hour before the Kaiju will be nuked. In the end, the plan works, but half the city is lost in the crossfire.
And somewhere in the middle of this, Angela Hansen dies.
While Angela had been, or would be, crushed in a building during the Kaiju’s attack, Chuck had still been at school when the evacuation order came through. Herc had only enough time to rescue one of them; he picked Chuck, and Chuck never forgave him for it. The death of his mother and the perceived ‘failure’ of his father for being unable to save her spurs hatred and revenge to root deep in Chuck’s psyche. It fuels him, enables him to keep going forward and burning with the need to take revenge for the mother he lost, the childhood that died with her, and the life he should have had.
For Chuck, this is the first defining moment of his life, and the one that will become the building block for the person he became. For Humanity on a whole, however, Scissure comes with the final realization that the current methods are unviable. Following Scissure, Dr. Jasper Schoenfield and Caitlin Lightcap become inspired by Schoenfield’s son’s monster and robot action figures and draw up the first designs for what will eventually become Jaegers.
P a n P a c i f i c D e f e n s e C o r p s
From the first moment Chuck hears about the PPDC’s conception, and his dad’s involvement in it, he knows what he is destined to become. He joins the Academy at the tender age of twelve, mere two years after his mother’s death, and he graduates at the age of fifteen, still young and growing -- a spitfire of vengeance and anger only barely reigned in by his dad’s anchoring of him in the drift. Chuck’s nature is at it’s very essence a headstrong, impulsive one, and he lets it carry himself up the ranks quickly, excelling in all areas of the Academy. At this time, his father had been piloting a jaeger -- Lucky Seven -- with Chuck’s uncle, Scott, but during the middle of battle Herc saw something that nearly caused the drift to falter and wound up nearly destroying their Jaeger. Scott is reported to the authorities, Lucky Seven is decommissioned, and Herc is left without a co-pilot.
Things might have gone very differently from this point on, but Chuck is drift compatible with his father and so they suit up and become the first and last to pilot a Mark V jaeger. For six years the Hansen team protect the coast, becoming the best and brightest team, bagging ten kills and beating the formerly held record. Chuck takes to being famous like a duck to water, it causes his ego and arrogance to become even more ingrained, because now he has things to back it up and he deserves the praise after having protected the multitudes for so long. To Chuck, it just proves that he is the best and that others know it, and it’s incredibly lucky that he doesn’t see fit to abuse this as perhaps his Uncle once did. Instead, Chuck focuses singlemindedly on being a ranger, on staying the best damn ranger in the program and doesn’t let anything infringe upon this.
But there’s only so long a war can go on without one side or the other getting crafty, and the Kaiju have been playing with all the advantages for far too long.
T h e P l a n
By 2025, the war with Kaiju has been going on for twelve years. There has been little in terms of success since 2020, when the first Category III burst through the breach and was just barely stopped by Raleigh Becket, and the continued losses of the once illustrious PPDC has caused humanity -- or rather, the governments -- to lose faith in the Jaeger pilots.
The PPDC loses funding, and though things have been tight for the past years, now it must make one final stand, one final attempt at a win. They have eight months until the funding cuts out completely and the Anti-Kaiju defense wall encompassing all Pacific coastlines are completed. After that point, there will be no room for funding of a dying, money hemorrhaging military nation to continue on. In the face of this, Marshall Stacker Pentecost comes up with the last plan -- a run at the Breach with a nuclear warhead in hopes of piloting a Jaeger down the mouth of the Breach and collapsing it from the inside. All remaining pilots are meant to relocate to the Hong Kong shatterdome following the shutdown of their own ‘domes, and from there the last mission will be carried out.
Before they can fly out, the day after the Sydney Shatterdome is shut down, a Kaiju attacks. Mutavore breaks through the proclaimed “impenetrable” wall within an hour, and proceeds to rampage through Sydney. According to the Pacific Rim Novelization, Mutavore takes down two jaegers before bursting through the wall and into the city. Echo Saber and Vulcan Specter are taken down easily, and in the end, Striker Eureka defeats it in the midst of the city that was supposedly well protected, and the team flies to Hong Kong minus two needed jaeger teams.
Following the defeat of Mutavore, there are riots and rampages among populaces. They were told they were finally safe and now, now they know it was all a lie. The rich and powerful live as far inland as they can get, but the poor dwell on the coast and atop boneslums, places built right on top of Kaiju bones, ripe with radiation left over from the downed Kaiju or even humanity’s own nuclear weapons. The populace wants to know why the jaeger program has been decommissioned since it’s the only thing that works, and the governments have no good answers.
Chuck however, thinks it’s all a load of shit. The Kaiju wall was never going to work and he’d always said that, scoffed in interviews over it, and it still managed to take over a spiraling PPDC. After Mutavore, an interviewer asks if he’s still going to Hong Kong even following the failure of the Wall, and Chuck’s answer -- “Well yeah, they’re my orders.” -- speaks volumes as to the sheer loyalty he’s got for the Marshall and the PPDC, as well as a look into the soldier he’s become.
So Herc and Chuck get on a plane and fly out to Hong Kong, arriving around the same time the Marshall and Raleigh do and from the start Chuck dislikes the fact that a “washed out” Ranger is the last hope. When he’d been young, Chuck had idolized the Beckets, but following Knifehead -- with one brother dead, and the other running away -- he realizes that idolization is foolish. He views Raleigh as all that has brought the PPDC to its knees, and he has held onto a grudge for five long years, there is no way he will let it go just because Becket came back.
It makes him uneasy, and to some degree Chuck was right to be so.
The first Drift between Raleigh and Mako Mori goes down the drain, with Raleigh falling out of sync and Mako chasing the RABIT. They nearly blow a hole straight through the Shatterdome, and it’s only Herc, Chuck and Tendo’s quick thinking and action that powers down Gipsy Danger before she can destroy them all. As they convene in the Marshall’s office Chuck doesn’t mind stating all this, claiming that he doesn’t want a has-been and a rookie protecting him on this mission when they can’t even successfully drift. He’s made to leave the office, and in his anger he provokes both Raleigh and Mako, insulting Mako and causing Raleigh to throw the first punch. They’re evenly matched, but at the end Raleigh catches Chuck and takes the upper hand with the use of one of Mako’s moves, and winds up getting the Gipsy Danger team grounded. Even though he’s already been beaten, and even though his father and the Marshall have ordered him to stop, Chuck charges forward as if to drag Raleigh back into a fight, and Herc has to physically force Chuck into a different area entirely to prevent more fights.
Still, it comes to their own detriment that Gipsy is grounded, because the next Kaiju battle, against an unprecedented Double EVent, goes south incredibly quickly. Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon are taken down, all pilots killed, and Striker is left alone in the battlefield, facing down the two Kaiju. It seems as if they’ll be able to take them out, Otachi falling at their hands, when Leatherback’s organic EMP -- the first of it’s kind -- takes out the digital wiring and leaves the Hansens stranded helpless in the harbor.
Herc climbs out of his harness even as Chuck warns him not to, and he’s thrown against the wall, breaking his arm in the process. Even though they’re left without their jaeger functioning, the Hansens are the only thing standing between the Kaiju and the coastline, and so they pick up flare guns and climb out onto the hull, firing up into Leatherback’s eye in an attempt to do something. It just makes the Kaiju angry, and in the nick of time, Gipsy Danger is dropped down from above.
Forgetting his prior rage, Chuck cheers on Gipsy, and here his faith is restored in some manner. But even though Gipsy manages to take down both Kaiju, Herc is still injured and unable to pilot Striker.
But the Kaiju are still going to come through the Breach, and there’s only a tiny reprieve between one battle and the next -- and Chuck still has to climb into that conn-pod with his dad or not. So Herc stays behind as the Marshall suits up and joins Chuck, knowing that all four of them are likely walking to their deaths, but that if he didn’t do it then the entire world was doomed. Before Chuck can climb into the Conn-pod, Herc comes to say goodbye, and though Chuck had always been bitter and antagonistic towards his dad, he ends that all, offers and asks for forgiveness by saying that he’d always known what his dad wanted to say. That there was no need to say he loved him, or that he was proud of him -- Chuck had always known, in the back of his mind as the drift ebbed between them.
He says goodbye, pressing a kiss to Max, his dog’s head, and tells him “look after him for me,” because all along the dog was the only way the Hansens could show their feelings towards each other. And then Chuck turns upon his heel and walks away, towards Stacker and his fate. But Herc calls out, one last time, and though he’s clearly trying not to cry, says a simple, “Stacker, that’s my son you got there. That’s my son.”
There are no other words needed between them, and it’s the forgiveness Chuck had wanted but hadn’t asked for. So he goes off to die, head held high.
The battle against the two Category IV Kaiju is nearly impossible. Gipsy loses an arm, and one leg is crippled, and while Striker is still mostly intact, the nuclear warhead strapped to his back is jammed, and they can’t shoot it towards the Breach. With the arrival of Slattern, the first Category V, there seems like only one option, and Stacker and Chuck make the decision to detonate the payload right there, taking the two kaiju with them in an attempt to “clear a path for the lady.”
In the end, Chuck gives his life, and they kill one Kaiju, severely damage the other, and it offers Gipsy Danger the chance to drag the Kaiju down into the Breach with them where they’ll detonate the nuclear core powering her in an attempt to close the Breach and save the world.
Chuck dies without knowing if they’ll be successful but hoping they will be, and it’s here that he’ll wake up in Cape Kore, twenty one years old and dead.
Personality:
History:
T h e B e g i n n i n g
The world starts on August 14th, 2003 for Charles “Chuck” Hansen. Born to Angela and Hercules “Herc” Hansen, he was a normal child, raised by two loving parents -- even if his dad was often gone because he was a member of the Royal Australian Air Force. Not much is known of Chuck’s early life, just that he spent most of his time with his mother, and grew up in her shadow.
For nine years, Chuck is the same as your average child.
And then Trespasser -- the first Kaiju -- attacks San Francisco in 2013. The American government couldn’t have predicted it, nobody could have, and nobody was prepared or able to take it down immediately. For six days, the Kaiju laid waste to the Californian west coast, destroying San Francisco, Sacramento and Oakland, leaving a swath of 35 miles of destruction in it’s way. Tens of thousands are killed, and all military weapons are unable to pierce the Kaiju’s thick skin.
Eventually, they drop three nuclear bombs, and sacrifice the Bay Area in hopes of stopping Trespasser. It works, and the populace pulls together, thinking the Kaiju can be nothing more than an anomaly, nothing more than a fluke.
They are wrong.
Six months later, Hundun emerges from the breach and attacks Manila. Four months after that, Kaiceph makes land in Cabo San Lucas. The Kaiju can be successfully killed by nuclear strikes, but the plan is nothing less than pyrrhic, the damage being laid out by the Kaiju is equaled by the damage the nuclear strikes themselves are dealing out. Before any alternate options can be figured out, a fourth Kaiju emerges from the breach and hits Australia.
It’s name is Scissure, and here, is where Chuck Hansen’s story begins in earnest.
S c i s s u r e
Scissure emerges from the breach and attacks Sydney on September 2, 2014. Though there have been just three previous battles with Kaiju, the army has some planning in case another attacks. Before Scissure can hit Sydney, it is lured away, and hit with a nuclear missile.
The attack simply slows down the creature, and without delay it turns back to the city and rampages through downtown Sydney. The battle against Scissure lasts three days, and eventually there is simply an order for evacuation, a mere hour before the Kaiju will be nuked. In the end, the plan works, but half the city is lost in the crossfire.
And somewhere in the middle of this, Angela Hansen dies.
While Angela had been, or would be, crushed in a building during the Kaiju’s attack, Chuck had still been at school when the evacuation order came through. Herc had only enough time to rescue one of them; he picked Chuck, and Chuck never forgave him for it. The death of his mother and the perceived ‘failure’ of his father for being unable to save her spurs hatred and revenge to root deep in Chuck’s psyche. It fuels him, enables him to keep going forward and burning with the need to take revenge for the mother he lost, the childhood that died with her, and the life he should have had.
For Chuck, this is the first defining moment of his life, and the one that will become the building block for the person he became. For Humanity on a whole, however, Scissure comes with the final realization that the current methods are unviable. Following Scissure, Dr. Jasper Schoenfield and Caitlin Lightcap become inspired by Schoenfield’s son’s monster and robot action figures and draw up the first designs for what will eventually become Jaegers.
P a n P a c i f i c D e f e n s e C o r p s
From the first moment Chuck hears about the PPDC’s conception, and his dad’s involvement in it, he knows what he is destined to become. He joins the Academy at the tender age of twelve, mere two years after his mother’s death, and he graduates at the age of fifteen, still young and growing -- a spitfire of vengeance and anger only barely reigned in by his dad’s anchoring of him in the drift. Chuck’s nature is at it’s very essence a headstrong, impulsive one, and he lets it carry himself up the ranks quickly, excelling in all areas of the Academy. At this time, his father had been piloting a jaeger -- Lucky Seven -- with Chuck’s uncle, Scott, but during the middle of battle Herc saw something that nearly caused the drift to falter and wound up nearly destroying their Jaeger. Scott is reported to the authorities, Lucky Seven is decommissioned, and Herc is left without a co-pilot.
Things might have gone very differently from this point on, but Chuck is drift compatible with his father and so they suit up and become the first and last to pilot a Mark V jaeger. For six years the Hansen team protect the coast, becoming the best and brightest team, bagging ten kills and beating the formerly held record. Chuck takes to being famous like a duck to water, it causes his ego and arrogance to become even more ingrained, because now he has things to back it up and he deserves the praise after having protected the multitudes for so long. To Chuck, it just proves that he is the best and that others know it, and it’s incredibly lucky that he doesn’t see fit to abuse this as perhaps his Uncle once did. Instead, Chuck focuses singlemindedly on being a ranger, on staying the best damn ranger in the program and doesn’t let anything infringe upon this.
But there’s only so long a war can go on without one side or the other getting crafty, and the Kaiju have been playing with all the advantages for far too long.
T h e P l a n
By 2025, the war with Kaiju has been going on for twelve years. There has been little in terms of success since 2020, when the first Category III burst through the breach and was just barely stopped by Raleigh Becket, and the continued losses of the once illustrious PPDC has caused humanity -- or rather, the governments -- to lose faith in the Jaeger pilots.
The PPDC loses funding, and though things have been tight for the past years, now it must make one final stand, one final attempt at a win. They have eight months until the funding cuts out completely and the Anti-Kaiju defense wall encompassing all Pacific coastlines are completed. After that point, there will be no room for funding of a dying, money hemorrhaging military nation to continue on. In the face of this, Marshall Stacker Pentecost comes up with the last plan -- a run at the Breach with a nuclear warhead in hopes of piloting a Jaeger down the mouth of the Breach and collapsing it from the inside. All remaining pilots are meant to relocate to the Hong Kong shatterdome following the shutdown of their own ‘domes, and from there the last mission will be carried out.
Before they can fly out, the day after the Sydney Shatterdome is shut down, a Kaiju attacks. Mutavore breaks through the proclaimed “impenetrable” wall within an hour, and proceeds to rampage through Sydney. According to the Pacific Rim Novelization, Mutavore takes down two jaegers before bursting through the wall and into the city. Echo Saber and Vulcan Specter are taken down easily, and in the end, Striker Eureka defeats it in the midst of the city that was supposedly well protected, and the team flies to Hong Kong minus two needed jaeger teams.
Following the defeat of Mutavore, there are riots and rampages among populaces. They were told they were finally safe and now, now they know it was all a lie. The rich and powerful live as far inland as they can get, but the poor dwell on the coast and atop boneslums, places built right on top of Kaiju bones, ripe with radiation left over from the downed Kaiju or even humanity’s own nuclear weapons. The populace wants to know why the jaeger program has been decommissioned since it’s the only thing that works, and the governments have no good answers.
Chuck however, thinks it’s all a load of shit. The Kaiju wall was never going to work and he’d always said that, scoffed in interviews over it, and it still managed to take over a spiraling PPDC. After Mutavore, an interviewer asks if he’s still going to Hong Kong even following the failure of the Wall, and Chuck’s answer -- “Well yeah, they’re my orders.” -- speaks volumes as to the sheer loyalty he’s got for the Marshall and the PPDC, as well as a look into the soldier he’s become.
So Herc and Chuck get on a plane and fly out to Hong Kong, arriving around the same time the Marshall and Raleigh do and from the start Chuck dislikes the fact that a “washed out” Ranger is the last hope. When he’d been young, Chuck had idolized the Beckets, but following Knifehead -- with one brother dead, and the other running away -- he realizes that idolization is foolish. He views Raleigh as all that has brought the PPDC to its knees, and he has held onto a grudge for five long years, there is no way he will let it go just because Becket came back.
It makes him uneasy, and to some degree Chuck was right to be so.
The first Drift between Raleigh and Mako Mori goes down the drain, with Raleigh falling out of sync and Mako chasing the RABIT. They nearly blow a hole straight through the Shatterdome, and it’s only Herc, Chuck and Tendo’s quick thinking and action that powers down Gipsy Danger before she can destroy them all. As they convene in the Marshall’s office Chuck doesn’t mind stating all this, claiming that he doesn’t want a has-been and a rookie protecting him on this mission when they can’t even successfully drift. He’s made to leave the office, and in his anger he provokes both Raleigh and Mako, insulting Mako and causing Raleigh to throw the first punch. They’re evenly matched, but at the end Raleigh catches Chuck and takes the upper hand with the use of one of Mako’s moves, and winds up getting the Gipsy Danger team grounded. Even though he’s already been beaten, and even though his father and the Marshall have ordered him to stop, Chuck charges forward as if to drag Raleigh back into a fight, and Herc has to physically force Chuck into a different area entirely to prevent more fights.
Still, it comes to their own detriment that Gipsy is grounded, because the next Kaiju battle, against an unprecedented Double EVent, goes south incredibly quickly. Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon are taken down, all pilots killed, and Striker is left alone in the battlefield, facing down the two Kaiju. It seems as if they’ll be able to take them out, Otachi falling at their hands, when Leatherback’s organic EMP -- the first of it’s kind -- takes out the digital wiring and leaves the Hansens stranded helpless in the harbor.
Herc climbs out of his harness even as Chuck warns him not to, and he’s thrown against the wall, breaking his arm in the process. Even though they’re left without their jaeger functioning, the Hansens are the only thing standing between the Kaiju and the coastline, and so they pick up flare guns and climb out onto the hull, firing up into Leatherback’s eye in an attempt to do something. It just makes the Kaiju angry, and in the nick of time, Gipsy Danger is dropped down from above.
Forgetting his prior rage, Chuck cheers on Gipsy, and here his faith is restored in some manner. But even though Gipsy manages to take down both Kaiju, Herc is still injured and unable to pilot Striker.
But the Kaiju are still going to come through the Breach, and there’s only a tiny reprieve between one battle and the next -- and Chuck still has to climb into that conn-pod with his dad or not. So Herc stays behind as the Marshall suits up and joins Chuck, knowing that all four of them are likely walking to their deaths, but that if he didn’t do it then the entire world was doomed. Before Chuck can climb into the Conn-pod, Herc comes to say goodbye, and though Chuck had always been bitter and antagonistic towards his dad, he ends that all, offers and asks for forgiveness by saying that he’d always known what his dad wanted to say. That there was no need to say he loved him, or that he was proud of him -- Chuck had always known, in the back of his mind as the drift ebbed between them.
He says goodbye, pressing a kiss to Max, his dog’s head, and tells him “look after him for me,” because all along the dog was the only way the Hansens could show their feelings towards each other. And then Chuck turns upon his heel and walks away, towards Stacker and his fate. But Herc calls out, one last time, and though he’s clearly trying not to cry, says a simple, “Stacker, that’s my son you got there. That’s my son.”
There are no other words needed between them, and it’s the forgiveness Chuck had wanted but hadn’t asked for. So he goes off to die, head held high.
The battle against the two Category IV Kaiju is nearly impossible. Gipsy loses an arm, and one leg is crippled, and while Striker is still mostly intact, the nuclear warhead strapped to his back is jammed, and they can’t shoot it towards the Breach. With the arrival of Slattern, the first Category V, there seems like only one option, and Stacker and Chuck make the decision to detonate the payload right there, taking the two kaiju with them in an attempt to “clear a path for the lady.”
In the end, Chuck gives his life, and they kill one Kaiju, severely damage the other, and it offers Gipsy Danger the chance to drag the Kaiju down into the Breach with them where they’ll detonate the nuclear core powering her in an attempt to close the Breach and save the world.
Chuck dies without knowing if they’ll be successful but hoping they will be, and it’s here that he’ll wake up in Cape Kore, twenty one years old and dead.
Personality:
"As for you, well you're easy: you’re an egotistical jerk with daddy issues, a simple puzzle I solved on day one. But you are your father’s son. So we'll Drift just fine." —Stacker Pentecost to Chuck
There are many things to be said of Chuck Hansen, but of these, the most easily apparent are the fact that he’s a perfectionist, arrogant and confident in his own skills, and demeaning to those he doesn’t consider worth his time and effort. Chuck is, as Stacker Pentecost eloquently stated, an egotistical jerk who has issues with his father, as well as everyone else. But he is more than just a bitter, single minded Ranger. Chuck was raised in war, he was baptized by the death of his mother and rose from the ashes of Sydney like a vengeful spirit. He was encompassed by the need to become the best, and once he managed that -- becoming the youngest Ranger, holding the highest kill count -- he never lost the drive to strive for further. To Chuck, protecting the world from the Kaiju is something that rests solely upon his own shoulders, even if he cannot pilot a jaeger by himself.
But I’m getting ahead of myself here. Let’s start at the very beginning, shall we?
Chuck Hansen is, at the very base, a stubborn bastard. He knows what he wants and he will pull no stops to get it. He pushes himself to insane levels, holds himself to immense standards, and he holds everyone else around him to those standards too. From a young age, Chuck pushed himself to become a jaeger pilot -- but more so he pushed himself to be the best jaeger pilot out there and this didn’t mean simply training in the kwoon, or in the knowledge of the drift or any other parts needed to become a Ranger. Chuck pushed himself to be the best in everything he learned, and he went even further from that point and became as knowledgeable about the jaeger he would be piloting as could be. In the end, he was capable of being an engineer and putting his beloved Striker Eureka back together when it had been damaged in battle with a Kaiju. Considering the fact that he is an accomplished and able engineer of skyscraper tall robots by the age of twenty one, when he’d barely started training a mere decade at most before, it speaks volumes as to the amount he’d pushed himself. This is very much fueled by the perfectionist tendencies that are buried deep in Chuck’s psyche.
Since a young age Chuck has lived off the anger and bitterness that Scissure’s attack and Herc’s failure to save his mother incited within him. This, is where his perfectionism sprouts, but also where the vast majorities of his issues stem from. Chuck has major anger issues; while he’s grown up in the cockpit, raised on the values of the PPDC and all it stands for, he’s also an arrogant, cocky jerk who is incited into a rage far too easily. He all too often gives into the urge to provoke people into throwing the first punch, and feels far from responsible in doing so. In truth, he feels justified, because it’s not as if he threw the first punch, is it? But Chuck is perpetually angry, not just at his Dad, but at everyone, and that coupled with his single-minded desire to become the best, to be the savior the world needs and hasn’t had has left Chuck with literally no life outside of the PPDC and his jaeger. He has no friends, no girlfriends, he’s alone -- and that’s the way he likes it. In part, this is because he views most people as unworthy of his time, but Chuck has also been so single minded and angry for so long that he can not find it in himself to empathize with others. He has little to no people skills, and doesn’t believe he needs them. Even with the other jaeger pilots, Chuck socializes only when needed, and this is certainly due to his ego problems.
On the topic of problems, Chuck is chock full to the brim with daddy issues. It’s hard to say whether or not Chuck had a good relationship with his father before Scissure, but it’s ultimately somewhat unlikely. Given that his father was part of the RAF, it’s likely he was more of a distant, fleeting figure. Chuck grew up more so on the principles that the PPDC fed him than he did on any fatherly relationship. This is not to say that Herc didn’t try to be a good father to his son, but Chuck pushed him away rather than let himself be comforted and relied only on himself, partially because he didn’t want to let himself get close to anybody else and lose them, but partially because he held nothing but bitter resentment towards his father and a withering sort of childish love a young child holds towards their parents. Chuck views his father as a rival and a checkpoint, he aims to surpass his father in terms of ability and will push himself to great lengths to accomplish this. Beyond the drift, their relationship is described in canon as “non-existent,” and Chuck himself even says that the only reason they still talk is because they’re drift compatible, and good at destroying things. To a degree, he’d said this in a childish pique of rage, aiming at Herc’s sore spots so he could hit as hard as he could and get out of there. To Chuck, any hint of vulnerability is a weakness and something he cannot allow himself to feel, and so he pushes everyone away and only lets himself show any hint of positive emotion towards his dog, Max, who has become something of an intermediary between father and son.
In the end, before he goes off to die, it becomes apparent that Chuck does still love his father beneath all the layers of bitterness and anger, but this is more so a way of seeking forgiveness. Chuck is young, he’s a mere twenty one years old, fearless and invincible, and he’s just realized that this is the end, that it’s far from likely that he will come back from this mission. To some degree he’d known that before, and some of his attitude around the ‘dome came from a want to be remembered for something, even if that something wasn’t the best thing in the world. But Chuck had been the best, he was famous and bright and filled with righteous anger and arrogance. He held himself to the belief that he could do no wrong, that he was so valuable that he could have no repercussions -- and to a certain degree he was absolutely right in this. But Chuck is still human, he’s still got limits, and when his father gets injured and grounded, Chuck realizes that if even the heroes, the ones he strove to beat, are not quite invincible, then why would he be?
So he climbs into the conn-pod alongside Stacker Pentecost, the one man he respects above everything because he’s earned it, and Chuck knows he is going off to die. He is resigned to the knowledge of this, and as Stacker and Chuck flip the switch to detonate the bomb they do it to provide Gipsy Danger some reprieve from the Kaiju, they “clear a path for the lady” so they can drop into the breach and light it up, hopefully saving those who are left.
Chuck dies with the knowledge that his father is listening, up in LOCCENT, and one of the last things he says is a simple: “My dad always said, if you had the shot you take it.” It’s an apology, forgiveness, and goodbye all wrapped in one.
They flip the switch and Chuck Hansen dies where he’d always thought he’d belonged, strapped into the harness of his jaeger in an attempt to save the world.
[Samples]
A C T I O N
In which Chuck is a little shit and hassles scientists
In which domesticity elludes Chuck
P R O S E
The first thing Chuck notices is the lack of ache in his limbs. When Striker had gone down it had been painful, bile in the back of his throat with every toss of the conn-pod, limbs trembling and jerking with strain as they’d fought off the two Kaiju.
And Chuck hadn’t ever been religious, hadn’t ever had any faith in some damn deity that could have abandoned them to the Kaiju, but he’d never thought he’d end up behind some pearly gates either. The lack of pain is confusing -- so he opens his eyes, winces at the light branded across his vision, leaving him momentarily blind.
It’s stark, spartan, and familiar for it. Chuck had grown up military, and the sparse furnishings are somewhat familiar -- but it still aches to not see Max’s dog bed at the foot of his, to not see little toys strewn about from his dog playing. His legs slip over the edge of the bed as he moves and sits up, and that’s when Chuck realizes he’s not in some burned, charred to bits piece of poly-synthetic drive suit anymore. The clothes are soft, familiar, and his leather ‘Striker’ jacket is comforting about his shoulders.
Something isn’t right. Something really, really isn't right and he surges to his feet, throws the door open and stalks down the hall, noting names without really thinking about it. The further he walks without seeing faces, without seeing anything familiar the more angry he gets, brow furrowed and darkened like a storm-cloud.
The first person he sees is going to get a hand at their shoulder, turning them around to face one angry Ranger, and a short, terse, heavily accented, “Where the fuck is this?”
Anything Else?
But I’m getting ahead of myself here. Let’s start at the very beginning, shall we?
Chuck Hansen is, at the very base, a stubborn bastard. He knows what he wants and he will pull no stops to get it. He pushes himself to insane levels, holds himself to immense standards, and he holds everyone else around him to those standards too. From a young age, Chuck pushed himself to become a jaeger pilot -- but more so he pushed himself to be the best jaeger pilot out there and this didn’t mean simply training in the kwoon, or in the knowledge of the drift or any other parts needed to become a Ranger. Chuck pushed himself to be the best in everything he learned, and he went even further from that point and became as knowledgeable about the jaeger he would be piloting as could be. In the end, he was capable of being an engineer and putting his beloved Striker Eureka back together when it had been damaged in battle with a Kaiju. Considering the fact that he is an accomplished and able engineer of skyscraper tall robots by the age of twenty one, when he’d barely started training a mere decade at most before, it speaks volumes as to the amount he’d pushed himself. This is very much fueled by the perfectionist tendencies that are buried deep in Chuck’s psyche.
Since a young age Chuck has lived off the anger and bitterness that Scissure’s attack and Herc’s failure to save his mother incited within him. This, is where his perfectionism sprouts, but also where the vast majorities of his issues stem from. Chuck has major anger issues; while he’s grown up in the cockpit, raised on the values of the PPDC and all it stands for, he’s also an arrogant, cocky jerk who is incited into a rage far too easily. He all too often gives into the urge to provoke people into throwing the first punch, and feels far from responsible in doing so. In truth, he feels justified, because it’s not as if he threw the first punch, is it? But Chuck is perpetually angry, not just at his Dad, but at everyone, and that coupled with his single-minded desire to become the best, to be the savior the world needs and hasn’t had has left Chuck with literally no life outside of the PPDC and his jaeger. He has no friends, no girlfriends, he’s alone -- and that’s the way he likes it. In part, this is because he views most people as unworthy of his time, but Chuck has also been so single minded and angry for so long that he can not find it in himself to empathize with others. He has little to no people skills, and doesn’t believe he needs them. Even with the other jaeger pilots, Chuck socializes only when needed, and this is certainly due to his ego problems.
On the topic of problems, Chuck is chock full to the brim with daddy issues. It’s hard to say whether or not Chuck had a good relationship with his father before Scissure, but it’s ultimately somewhat unlikely. Given that his father was part of the RAF, it’s likely he was more of a distant, fleeting figure. Chuck grew up more so on the principles that the PPDC fed him than he did on any fatherly relationship. This is not to say that Herc didn’t try to be a good father to his son, but Chuck pushed him away rather than let himself be comforted and relied only on himself, partially because he didn’t want to let himself get close to anybody else and lose them, but partially because he held nothing but bitter resentment towards his father and a withering sort of childish love a young child holds towards their parents. Chuck views his father as a rival and a checkpoint, he aims to surpass his father in terms of ability and will push himself to great lengths to accomplish this. Beyond the drift, their relationship is described in canon as “non-existent,” and Chuck himself even says that the only reason they still talk is because they’re drift compatible, and good at destroying things. To a degree, he’d said this in a childish pique of rage, aiming at Herc’s sore spots so he could hit as hard as he could and get out of there. To Chuck, any hint of vulnerability is a weakness and something he cannot allow himself to feel, and so he pushes everyone away and only lets himself show any hint of positive emotion towards his dog, Max, who has become something of an intermediary between father and son.
In the end, before he goes off to die, it becomes apparent that Chuck does still love his father beneath all the layers of bitterness and anger, but this is more so a way of seeking forgiveness. Chuck is young, he’s a mere twenty one years old, fearless and invincible, and he’s just realized that this is the end, that it’s far from likely that he will come back from this mission. To some degree he’d known that before, and some of his attitude around the ‘dome came from a want to be remembered for something, even if that something wasn’t the best thing in the world. But Chuck had been the best, he was famous and bright and filled with righteous anger and arrogance. He held himself to the belief that he could do no wrong, that he was so valuable that he could have no repercussions -- and to a certain degree he was absolutely right in this. But Chuck is still human, he’s still got limits, and when his father gets injured and grounded, Chuck realizes that if even the heroes, the ones he strove to beat, are not quite invincible, then why would he be?
So he climbs into the conn-pod alongside Stacker Pentecost, the one man he respects above everything because he’s earned it, and Chuck knows he is going off to die. He is resigned to the knowledge of this, and as Stacker and Chuck flip the switch to detonate the bomb they do it to provide Gipsy Danger some reprieve from the Kaiju, they “clear a path for the lady” so they can drop into the breach and light it up, hopefully saving those who are left.
Chuck dies with the knowledge that his father is listening, up in LOCCENT, and one of the last things he says is a simple: “My dad always said, if you had the shot you take it.” It’s an apology, forgiveness, and goodbye all wrapped in one.
They flip the switch and Chuck Hansen dies where he’d always thought he’d belonged, strapped into the harness of his jaeger in an attempt to save the world.
[Samples]
A C T I O N
In which Chuck is a little shit and hassles scientists
In which domesticity elludes Chuck
P R O S E
The first thing Chuck notices is the lack of ache in his limbs. When Striker had gone down it had been painful, bile in the back of his throat with every toss of the conn-pod, limbs trembling and jerking with strain as they’d fought off the two Kaiju.
And Chuck hadn’t ever been religious, hadn’t ever had any faith in some damn deity that could have abandoned them to the Kaiju, but he’d never thought he’d end up behind some pearly gates either. The lack of pain is confusing -- so he opens his eyes, winces at the light branded across his vision, leaving him momentarily blind.
It’s stark, spartan, and familiar for it. Chuck had grown up military, and the sparse furnishings are somewhat familiar -- but it still aches to not see Max’s dog bed at the foot of his, to not see little toys strewn about from his dog playing. His legs slip over the edge of the bed as he moves and sits up, and that’s when Chuck realizes he’s not in some burned, charred to bits piece of poly-synthetic drive suit anymore. The clothes are soft, familiar, and his leather ‘Striker’ jacket is comforting about his shoulders.
Something isn’t right. Something really, really isn't right and he surges to his feet, throws the door open and stalks down the hall, noting names without really thinking about it. The further he walks without seeing faces, without seeing anything familiar the more angry he gets, brow furrowed and darkened like a storm-cloud.
The first person he sees is going to get a hand at their shoulder, turning them around to face one angry Ranger, and a short, terse, heavily accented, “Where the fuck is this?”
Anything Else?