It's not their performance (scene)

The candidate trials at 6am on January 2, 2025. 
==Iconography==
On wall to the right of the viewing area: 
* 507: (a room? a hallway?)
* 尊重: Esteem, respect, regard 
* 毅力: perseverance
* 勇氣: courage
==Background==
(source)
i’m just imagining in a world where the pacrim production team actually gave a shit about the triplets, the three of them standing in the background of the kwoon fight
jin grabbing hu by the shoulders and miming kicking him in the balls (read: DO THIS, MAKO!! REMEMBER WHAT WE TAUGHT YOU!!)
hu pretending to be raleigh getting his ass kicked and crying about it
cheung pretending he doesn’t know them
and mako cracking up so badly stacker has to stop the fight and kick the trips out before the test can continueeee
==Dark Horse==
"Dark Horse" by PunkHazard/[Duvallon.tumblr.com| Duvallon]
===Headcanons===
(source)
"it's not their performance i'm disappointed in, it’s yours"
(headcanon that mako knew all three candidates personally and knew they weren’t ready but they were also the only ones trained enough to even have a chance at being compatible with raleigh and ranger pickings are pretty slim lately)
(headcanon that they’re a bit older than her but they started training a lot later)
(headcanon that all three of them were huge wei triplet stans and stuck with the HK dome even after the jaeger program got shut down)
(right up until they started training with the trips– who adopted one each and put them through the fucking WRINGER so hero worship quickly turned to respectful admiration saturated with fear and dread and then eventually resignation)
(lbr it’s just that the triplets know how hard piloting a jaeger is and they don’t want these kids to die on the off chance they actually get to pilot one ok)
(also they totally pitted them against each other to see who’s the best teacher)
(all three are drift compatible with each other, but they’re not balanced enough for a three-way drift)
(headcanon that they took A LOT OF SHIT from the trips after the fight but in pretty good humor because they’re all happy that mako kicked raleigh’s ass)
(one of them was like ‘wow not fair how come mako never kicked my ass’ and cheung & hu smacked jin for being a bad influence)
===Characters===
Mako Mori
* Was not given permission by the Marshal to try
* Memorized all six files front to back
* Thought having a common geological point of reference would help in the Drift
** It does: this common increased their potential compatibility by about seven percent upon running the algorithm.
** Cheung agrees this is not an insubstantial increase, though he warns numbers aren't all to the Drift
Li Yuan one of the final six candidates Mako believes may hold a candle to Raleigh, however "the ease of [Jin's] movements broadcasting to Mako that at least one candidate won't be able to measure up"; the second file in Mako's stack
Edwards 
* the first file in Mako's stack; like the other four, this candidate isn't ready
Steven Thomas 
* Hu expects him to lose four-nothing to Raleigh
Wei Hu 
* Notices Mako before Cheung and Jin, invites her onto the mat
* Answers, "None of them are ready." when Mako asks for their evaluations
* the day he stops complaining about Rangers with last names that sound like first names is the day Mako knows he's been replaced by a parasitic mind-controlling alien: 「Thomas will probably go down four-nothing.」 As he hands the files to Jin, his brow wrinkles and he rolls his eyes. 「Steven? Thomas Steven? Steven Thomas?」
「Steven Thomas.」
Hu heaves a familiar sigh.
* Asks Mako about her candidacy but drops the subject
** 「You're not going to try?」
「No,」 Mako answers, eyes narrowing. 「The Marshal did not give me approval.」
He wisely doesn't press the issue, but calls Cheung and Jin over instead.
Wei Jin 
* training Li Yuan
* Along with Cheung, picks up the half staves with which they were training 
Wei Cheung
* Finds Mako's hypothesis that a common geographical point of reference, leading to a seven percent increase in potential Drift Compatibility, sound: "Seven's not a small bump," Cheung agrees.
** Though he warns numbers aren't all to the Drift
Andy Kang
* "the best out of the five you gave us, but he's not on the level of a pilot yet. We helped as much as we could, but..." (Cheung)
* From Seattle
** Becket spent some time there as well when he was younger; Mako thinks having a common geological point of reference would help in the drift, and it increased their potential compatibility by about seven percent when she ran the algorithm.
Wen
* Speaks Chinese >Cantonese or Mandarin?<
The Candidates
* All the candidates screened need at least another three months before they'll be up to snuff, but trained pilots are rare so late in the game and the Rangers still in the program were either rejected from earlier rounds or came just out of the now-defunct Academy. 
*「Do you think,」 she says, 「they would be able to drift at all?」
「Better than nothing,」 Hu answers dismissively. 
Mako winces. 
** The Weis remain as gentle as ever about their opinions when prompted, but at least the candidates are out of earshot
* Cheerfully talking in the corner. 
** Andy's been conscripted into translating between Thomas's English and Wen's Chinese, though he doesn't look too bothered about it. The Hong Kong Shatterdome's crew has been mixing languages for as long as she can remember.
Cheung, Jin, Hu
* Mako's never known the Weis to be gentle about their opinions when prompted, but at least the candidates are out of earshot.
Meis
* First few Drifts: Hong Kong Shatterdome: the easiest jumping-off point for Mako's initial Drifts with all of them
* After the first few Drifts, they found the anchor that works best: 
** Jin and Hu: Cheung
** Cheung: the Marshal
* They could mock Mako about how much of her mind is occupied by Coyote Tango, but she has enough ammunition to fire back, with all the pranks they'd pulled ever since team Cherno Alpha arrived in Hong Kong.
===Worldbuilding===
* The Hong Kong Shatterdome's crew has been mixing languages for as long as she can remember. >Yay, Shatter!<
===The Drift===
* Having a common geological point of reference would help in the Drift
** It could: it increased their potential compatibility by about seven percent when Mako ran the algorithm.
** "There's going to be some variation, but it's not all geography"
* After the first few drifts, one can find the anchor that works best
==Gallery==
It's not their performance 1 Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0650.jpg
It's not their performance 2 weis Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0651.jpg
It's not their performance 3 raleigh cadets weis Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0652.jpg
It's not their performance 4 raleigh weis cadets Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0653.jpg
It's not their performance 5 stacker mako tablet Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0655.jpg
It's not their performance 6 cadet raleigh Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0654.jpg
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It's not their performance 8 raleigh scar burn Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0657.jpg
It's not their performance 9 cadet weis TBD, raleigh Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0658.jpg
It's not their performance 10 cadets weis tbd, raleigh Pacific Rim 2013 1080p screencaps KISSTHEMGOODBYE NET 0659.jpg
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