Mark III Launch gala (meta)

The Mark III Launch gala is a black tie affair held mid-September/October in Hong Kong.
See also: Mark III gala scraps
==Quick Facts==
* September-October is the best time to visit Hong Kong: Typhoon season's over and the humidity's plummeting
* Although two of the Mark III Jaegers are based in Anchorage, who wants to go to /Alaska for a party? 
* Logan, Yancy, and Raleigh've already clashed, the Matadors are on a high from having launched a couple weeks earlier! and the Chromites might all be atwitter 'cause their big day is in a month
* Logan's tie is so not long for this world that he's ditched it before appetizers. Meanwhile, Jamie's just /owning it. Jackson ditched his after the second course. 
* The triplets take an hour to work up their nerve to raid the buffet table; Liu drags them out five minutes later. 
* Andrea's a nervous wreck. Logan's totally ignoring whoever it is in favor of teasing Feng or antagonizing ... someone. Jackson's trying to figure out how to pay attention to both them and Wash. And failing miserably at being suave all around. He tries his hardest to be as cool as Wash, lemme tell you. And then he sulks 'cause it's supposed to be /his party (and Logan, Andrea, Chao, Feng, and the other Mark IIIs) and why is she stealing the spotlight. (Because that was the plan, Liu will say). 
==Same Gender Ranger-esque==
The possibility of a +1 requesting a same gender Ranger-esque would be handled by discussions between the PPDC's PR people and the +1s' agents who, we would hope, know their employer's preference. They'd try to match people up based on height, too, so they can alter wardrobes as needed (what kind of heel, colours, etc). Maybe interests so the evening wouldn't be completely awkward. Pre-party plotting and digging for acceptable candidates through the entire team to satisfy potential donor wishes, whee! 
Personnel files: not just good for employment history and medical records!
=== Big Names, Big Egos ===
The more republican-leaning people rich enough to be Jaeger program donors in 2017 are of two minds about the PPDC's tolerant attutitude: 
* One the one hand, "my view is the correct and only view!" 
* On the other hand, having their names attached to the most popular, well-regarded, lucrative, and other adjectives venture the planet has ever seen. 
The PR people who can (hopefully) spot potential problems, run interference, and sit rich people who might make a fuss over such things far, far away from people who may become victim to their ire.
===Swinging===
I don't actually know how the Spares swing, if they swing, but so long as they're not squicked, it should be okay for a night. Like how Logan wouldn't care who he's paired with because he plans on ignoring them the entire time.
 
===Jamie===
Juliet's either Jamie's date or he picked his own
==Attendees==
Imagine the briefing the +1s got before showing up. And on the /other side of the table? Picture Jamie trying to explain to Logan how to act in polite company.
And the entire time, Logan's just "I really don't know why I'm supposed to care." >_<
The +1s get the privilege of walking in with the Ranger-esques and the first and last dances of the evening. They are also told who all will be there so they never end up just standing around (ie, they never seem out of place and their egos are unsnubbed).
===Andrea===
Something like this happening to Andrea at this event, so the event isn't populated by stuffy and old people--a whole bunch of people who maintain their fancy cars themselves attend, too. (And the gifset because eventual pictures!)
===Eadith===
On the one hand, Nguyen would totally ask her to be his date and she would be one of the first people PR offered an invitation. On the other, 3/4 of the attendees I've seen are twenty-somethings/late teens. TL;DR, I expect she's there, I just haven't seen her. 
===Feng===
Logan and Feng do a somehow on-beat, bizarre pairs' dance that, on occasion, mows people down. Shaolin's handler spends the entire evening hovering by the ice sculptures ready to deflect Feng far, far away, but even if they succeed in keeping Feng away from them, there are still the flower arrangements, fine china, and potential donors to worry about.
And there goes Feng, getting tangled in a table cloth and sending the whole thing to the ground. 
===Juliet===
She's in a slinky sapphire number.
===Liu===
Liu is ambiguous and somewhat threatening (only to Jackson, and only with regards to his behaviour when he dances with Wash ('cause he's going to have to, so are all the newly Rangers. Jaeger program 'n all that)).
=== Nate ===
Nate is there, of course, thanks to her parents' company's Jaeger program ties. She quickly sets to work on all but the Australian Rangers (figuring she'll have plenty of time to charm them once they're in Sydney).
===Vanessa===
Vanessa /is on the guest list, however the PR person in charge of the horse trading announced she's removed herself from the guest list. 
===Wash===
Not only is Kirra wearing 3.5 heels (that Juliet is working out how to steal), thus adding 2.5 inches to her height where she can look Jackson in the eye, she's got more height on him 'cause of this tiara-y thing that Liu's lending her--her hair's in a pony braid high up on her head and it's held in place by an ornament in the shape of a dragon's head that turns her braid into its body. (Juliet recognizes it instantly and demands answers; Liu assures her it's only a replica: "Grandfather wouldn't let it out of the house, otherwise.")
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