#hakuja

[shysheeperz]

[caede-plays-rimworld]

3rd of Jugust, 5500

Thanks to Berrios’s warnings, Adkins and Von were prepared when a fierce tribeswoman attacked their encampment. The attacker, Hakuja, only had a small knife, so she posed little threat and was quickly incapacitated. Adkins tended to Hakuja’s many gunshot wounds. At Von’s insistence, Adkins unhappily allowed the unclothed and unwashed stranger to use her bedroll until she could walk home unaided. She fumed over it and stormed off on a long, aimless walk. Von played horseshoes to let off some steam and pass the time without a place to sleep.

The huskies, Heaven and Merlin, curled up next to Hakuja, unperturbed to be sleeping beside a stranger instead of Adkins. Von let them be, despite himself refusing to sleep in the same room as a prisoner. He fed Hakuja one of his freshly-made meals, hoping to help her get back on her feet faster. Adkins, who returned from her walk during this, made a snide remark and immediately left again.

This happened to coincide with the start of a heat wave, which the siblings didn’t really prepare for - they chose to land in a boreal forest, after all. Thankfully, Hakuja was back on her feet in no time, and left before the heat wave became too grave to allow for travel in her state.

[eternal-gromnommer]

In celebration of this year's Kaijune, I decided to re-watch Pacific Rim: Uprising to check if it really was as bad as everyone was claiming it was and I remember it being.

It...kinda was.

Heaps of wasted opportunities, character arcs that went nowhere, random pointless death of Mako Mori (boo!) and a whole new cast of teens who have little appeal and just rehash the story beats of the first film.

Which is a shame, because it did have a lot of cool ideas that could have been better-executed. Like the hybrid-drones, or Obsidian Fury, the kaiju-brain controlled Jaeger.

But by far the biggest wasted opportunity was the rather bland and underwhelming Mega Kaiju, which just looked like a bigger Kaiju with the component parts barely evident. So for Kaijune I whipped up a redesign of how I'd try to make it look more distinct and have the component parts accounted for.

Raijin, Hakuja and Shrikethorn remain mostly unchanged, just with more distinct palettes to highlight the patchwork nature of the fusion and with a reduced number of digits to make the fused limbs less cluttered.

The centerpiece of the Mega Kaiju head is Raijin's inner head, with Shrikethorn's inverted upper jaw now forming the lower jaw and Raijin and Shrikethorn's original lower jaws forming a "collar" around the neck. Hakuja's head is split entirely in half to form "horns" and the tusked lower jaw similarly bisected to form "mandibles". Raijin's four head-plates are all present, with the bottom two on the chest and the top two forming a crest atop the fused head. Ten eyes from Shrikethorn, six from Hakuja and sixteen from Raijin add up to a total of 32: way more than canon!Mega Kaiju's ten.

The redesigned Mega Kaiju also has eight limbs instead of six. The two main forearms are a fusion of Shrikethorn and Raijin's arms, while a smaller pair on the chest are Hakuja's intact frontmost limbs. The two pairs of hind legs are Hakuja's four back legs, with the middle pair fused to Raijin's legs and the back pair fused to Shrikethorn's legs. Hakuja's dorsal armor plates now stand up like spikes on the Mega Kaiju's back, and the tails are partly Raijin and partly Shrikethorn, with Hakuja armor plates forming spear-like tips.

And finally, as a stitched-together Frankensteined kaiju, the seams are still clearly visible, made from the ripper drones that tore apart the three components and sewed them up into one. The seams and stitches occasionally leak blue kaiju blood now and then: furthering the Mega Kaiju design as a mutilated, tortured monstrosity, clearly not designed to survive very long and merely live long enough to wreck its immediate foes, reach Mount Fuji, and jump inside to its death to fulfill the Precursors' master plan to trigger a massive eruption and cause a mass extinction event.

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Hakuja - VTuber: Nijisanji

[ksksksrahrah]

[rugops]

KaiJuly 2019 day 29: Hakuja (Pacific Rim 2)

[More Monsters]

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Diamond Select isn’t done with Pacific Rim Uprising figures -- next is Hakuja, expected in January 2019.

[jimpluff]

Pacific Rim Uprising kaiju figures by Tamashii