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Jaeger From Heaven

Chapter 1: Meeting With The Mouthpiece

you can probably guess where this is going...

Part 2 of Anny Day Now: An Arcane/Pacific Rim Crossover Series

by dogpawsswapgod, with Pearlhound on Ao3

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Guess who rewatched Pacific Rim for the millionth time.

So here's an interesting little detail in Pacific Rim: A lot of the people in the Bone Slums/Exclusion Zone are wearing face masks that are stained blue. Here's some pictures from the film (again, thanks movie-screencaps.com!), brightened to make it easier to see:

So what's up with that? Pacific Rim: Man, Machines, & Monsters has the answer:

During pre-production Costume Designer Kate Hawley sent Production Designer Andrew Neskoromny a photo of an Asian factory where indigo fabric was being dyed. "Everything gets stained," recalls Neskoromny. "People's clothes, their fingers, their nails, just everything. I said, 'Oh yeah, that looks great. We've got to do a bit of that.'" Hawley took the idea even further. "The idea is that the blue blood has got into people's bodies," she says. "and you can see bits of blue coming through their breathing masks, like a little subtle poison."

It's an interesting touch - and it's one that leaves me with some questions. Other sources have it that kaiju blue is so potent that it can dissolve sidewalks, and based on that information you'd kinda expect people who'd inhaled enough kaiju blue for it to show up on their masks to be a lot worse off than these fairly healthy-looking people. So do the toxins in kaiju blue break down relatively quickly? Or does Hannibal Chau have an effective treatment? Or maybe even the local kaiju church? Or is it something else?

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