if trsmp had come out in the pacific rim era there'd be 8 billion AUs of Pangi and Lukey being immediately drift compatible. which would be Wrong it should be Pangi and Mocha being Incredbily drift compatible pilots together to the point of ghost drifting really early on and being so in sync then Mocha dies and Pangi nearly has a breakdown but still Needs to pilot. and he tries to deal with this by forcing compatibility with Lukey (who's sort of a Newton Geiszler equivalent scientist in this world but also kinda idolises piloting even tho he's. not so good at stuff like that) but Pangi is tormented by Mocha's death and kinda obviously trying to replace him with Lukey and Lukey is super reticent and closed off to revealing any actual memories of his so they just can't make the drift happen. until they spend time working together and building trust and eventually Pangi acknowledges he'll never get Mocha back but he cares about Lukey too even if it's never going to be the same as it was with him and Lukey finally allows Pangi into his head (memory lane. idk what his memories are probably he lost his town to a kaiju attack or smth and now he's obsessed with dealing with the kaiju in a sort of. corruption parrallel) and they can finally work in sync and drift. anyway nobody would write that they'd just do them being instacompatible and it'd make me really mad so I'm glad ppl don't write pacrim AUs anymore.