Soukoku Stories

Pacific Rim AU

(A/N: started out with just Soukoku but grew so I just made it kind of general. Sorry if this has typos or incorrect information. It's late and I'm tired. Also R.I.P. me trying to come up with names for the Kaiju)

Dazai

Was recruited at 15

When emergency struck in the form of a category 2

Codename: Slasher

and a pilot was needed immediately Marshal Ogai Mori came to pick a candidate personally and take them back to the Yokohama Shatterdome.

Dazai was ahead of the class so Mori picked him for his intellect and ruthless attitude.

He was assigned to Oda because Oda's old partner retired.

He and Oda defeated the Kaiju and continued to work well for three years.

Their Jaeger is called White Venus.

Mark 4

76.2 metres (250 ft)

Specialised in long range combat.

Equipped with long range missiles, gas cans, electric stun barbs, and various other projectiles such as throwing stars.

Basic Lasers, solid sword and chains

Extremely thick and strong metal plating.

Good for withstanding attacks by claws, tusks and/or teeth.

Weakness(s): heavy and bulky, due to design not as fast as other Jaegers.

One of the other Jaeger pilots was injured in a fight with a particularly nasty Category 3

Codename: Spike

so Oda was called to fill in for him.

Oda and the partner of the pilot he was filling in for were killed in the first Category 4 attack.

Oda volunteered to be the second pilot even though he knew it could be a suicide mission.

Dazai once did a three pilot operation with Oda & Ango (Think Crimson typhoon's three pilot thundercloud formation but less martial arts focused)

The Kaiju hey fought was Codename: Slammer

Youngest Jaeger pilot in Pan-Pacific Defense Corps history

(Chuuya is a month older than Dazai)

After Oda's death Mori worked with him personally for a year

Meanwhile Mori's partner Yukichi Fukuzawa found a trainee to work with . . . a troublemaker called Edogawa Ranpo.

Fukuzawa picked Ranpo up off the streets and spent the year training him. Ranpo is a fully capable pilot but chooses to work in the research division.

Mori inherited the position of Marshal after the previous Marshal retired.

Mori's Jaeger is called Elise

Mark 6

81.77 metres (268 ft)

Specialised in long and medium range combat

Equipped with electrified chains, solid katana, arc whip , as well as a plasma cannon.

Best Jaeger for its time in terms of flexibility and movement. (Until Demon Revenger)

Once Mori feels Dazai is ready for a new partner he orders Nakahara Chuuya to be transferred to Yokohama.

Chuuya 's Jaeger is called Arahabaki

12.07 metres (39 ft, 7.2 inches)

It's a small Jaeger (like the size of Scrapper built by Amara Nimani) designed for extreme close quarters combat.

These "mini Jaegers" work in teams of three

One of Chuuya's team members goes rogue trying to collect parts from a Kaiju

Codename: Ironclaw

while it was still alive, severely injuring most members of the team.

Chuuya was lucky, and managed to get away in team opting to leave his team members behind to guarantee his own safety

A decision he still thinks about

Mori pairs Dazai and Chuuya together and plans to have them train together

But before he can there's a Kaiju located near the shatterdome

Mori locks them in the Dazai's quarters to keep them safe.

They both have the same idea and Dazai picks the lock.

The other Jaegers are all being repaired.

Dazai and Chuuya "hijack" the only operational Jaeger, a junker Mark 1, a relic that the techs were not bothering to update because it was headed for the scrap yard.

The Jaeger is called Double Black

It's completely analog with no fancy instruments like the modern Jaegers have but they still manage to take down the Kaiju

Codename: AngelShark

Which they later find out is a category 5

Impressed with their incredible performance and obvious drift compatibility Mori makes them an official pilot duo and commissions the first Mark 7, an experimental Jaeger for them.

This Jager is called Demon Revenger

85.34 metres (280 ft)

It has enhanced mobility and flexibility and lighter stronger alloys.

It's now the fastest, most agile Jaeger, in the fleet.

Specialised for close and medium range combat

Equipped with plasma cannon, various and sundry projectiles (missiles etc), electrified chains with sword form, electrified and solid katana, and arc whip.

Dazai and Chuuya quickly earn the nickname Soukoku

They're the team with the highest kill rate.

Dazai works to help train a recruit named Ryunosuke Akutagawa and his twin sister Gin.

The Akutagawa twins pilot a Mark 6 called Rashoumon.

Later he also trains Nakajima Atsushi who eventually partners with Ryunosuke to pilot the second Mark 7 Jaeger called Moonlight Beast

Meanwhile Gin goes on to partner with Ichiyo Higuchi to pilot a Mark 6 Jaeger called Black Lizard

Tachihara Michizou and Ryrou Hirotsu pilot a Mark 5 called Falling Camelia

When Dazai is training cadets Chuuya pilots Golden Demon with Ozaki Kouyou

Atsushi helps Dazai train cadets Mayazawa Kenji and Izumi Kyouka.

When the two cadets graduate the academy they pilot a Mark 7 called Demon Snow.

Kunikida Doppo works in the research department with Ranpo but is also a fully trained pilot of a Mark 4 called Matchless Poet.

He and Ranpo can co-pilot if there's an emergency

Yosano Akiko is a medical officer but can co-pilot Golden Demon with Kouyou.