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— THE PACIFIC PREFERENCE
WHEN THEY FIND OUT YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON THEM
Characters: Eugene Sledge, Snafu Shelton, Bob Leckie, Sidney Phillips, Hoosier Smith, Hillbilly Jones + Captain “Ack-Ack” Haldane
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A/N: *sighs* men. let me know if you guys want a part 2 with other characters from the pacific (e.g. john basilone, burgin, jay de l’eau, bill leyden, runner, chuckler etc)!!! pls enjoy and leave a like/reblog/feedback <33 ^.^ // [ko-fi] [commissions] / this was inspired by my love @littlemissvincentvega from this post <3
EUGENE SLEDGE “SLEDGEHAMMER” —
He’s flustered, but he doesn’t do anything about it. Eugene’s frail and bookish, so he’s too shy to pursue you.
Whenever you walk past him, he has to get a good look of you, maybe just a crumb of your face, before keeping his head down.
Sid would tease him and never let it go.
“Give me a break, you ol’ greaser—”
“Hey, I’m just sayin’. The missus needs a friend!”
and Snafu would just make remarks about you, much to Eugene’s annoyance and a sense of motivation to make a move before someone else does.
Eugene is confident that he would get to ask you out some day, because he was raised to be kind and a gentleman. Time will tell.
MERRIELL “SNAFU” SHELTON —
Learning about your crush on him boosts his ego and is way too cocky about it.
“What did I tell ya? Getting to the likes of Y/N is like discovering a goldmine. I’m gonna reel them in.”
Snafu obviously bothers you during the day by flirting with you, trying to get your attention because he likes getting attention.
He doesn’t leave pleasant remarks at first, but he goes straight down to business.
“So, doll. Dinner? Movie? Picnic under the stars? How ‘bout I take you to the back of the train and you can show me your caboose? ;)”
Snafu will eventually learn to be more respectful. But at least he’s polite when he tries to talk and hang out with you more.
ROBERT “BOB” LECKIE —
This man is charming. He managed to win over Stella’s family over dinner, so he could do the same with you.
He won’t stop thinking about you. But he’ll get a bit insecure and overthink about other irrelevant things.
“I wonder what you don’t like about me?”
His friends from How Company make fun of him, reading out loud the letters you wrote to him.
He shows up to your house unexpectedly, all fresh and clean, in uniform, and he asks you out for dinner.
Deep down, he’s nervous af - he’s overthinking if it doesn’t work out if you two ever start dating.
When he takes you out you can tell he’s a nervous wreck and he doesn’t know where else to go from there, but you assure him he’s doing fine.
SIDNEY “SID” PHILLIPS —
Sid is already getting along with you, so nothing really changes when he finds out you have a crush on him. If anything, it brings the two of you closer.
He likes to talk to you about anything, and he’ll eventually bring up taking you out for dinner or a picnic under the stars.
Sid will tell you all about Eugene, life in Mobile, baseball, the rotting coconuts in Pavuvu, anything to keep you around.
“Here, y/n. How about I drop you home? I can squeeze you in on my bike!”
He’s surprised that he’s not as nervous when you two become more than friends.
Sid realizes he’s falling for you hard and it’s gonna kill him once he’s sent off to fight again.
BILL “HOOSIER” SMITH —
This cocky little shit
When Hoosier confronts you about it, he has a big smirk on his face.
“A lil’ bird told me you got your eyes on me.” (The lil’ bird in question was Chuckler.......)
He wastes NO time asking you out. And of course, you accept.
If you smoke, he offers you a cigarette from his pack.
Hoosier is a goofball and he never fails to make you laugh when you two are bonding together.
He’ll stuff cigarettes up his nostrils and once he finally takes you out, let’s say at a fancy restaurant, he’ll stuff the chopsticks up his nostrils. Anything to hear that laugh of yours.
1ST LT. EDDIE “HILLBILLY” JONES —
He’s flattered, all right.
Even from the dungarees and dirt, he’s known for having a clean, fresh and handsome appearance, according to Sledge’s book.
Hillbilly’s a gentleman. If he were to take you out sometime, he’d make you feel like there’s no other person in his life but you.
Ack-Ack pushes him to make a move. He assures him that it wouldn’t hurt to leave some room for a little bit of bonding.
“I know I’m serious when I need to be serious, but I’m a helpless disciple saved by Christ when I found out about you.”
So of course, he’s gonna come in with his guitar and play you a song to win you over.
CAPTAIN ANDREW “ACK-ACK” HALDANE —
Of course, of all people, you develop feelings for the skipper.
Since he’s a good leader who pulls everyone together during the war, you could understand why you like him. He’s also a very sweet guy.
The thing is, he already knows. You’re too shy to even confess your feelings to him in person or in letters, anonymously or not. In fact, no one even told the skipper about it and nobody needed to. He just knows. A good captain is always observant.
You two are alone for a moment, and his casual, calm and friendly tone manages to help you feel more comfortable and less nervous.
He gives you one of the blankets his dad made for everyone. He wraps it around you at night when you’re feeling cold or afraid.
#the pacific preference#the pacific x reader#hbo the pacific#the pacific#eugene sledge x reader#snafu shelton x reader#bob leckie x reader#sid phillips x reader#hoosier smith x reader#hillbilly jones x reader#ack ack x reader#reader insert#preference
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got bored, remade that one sprite of karen and frank but made the pose a little more unique, this sprite edit is kind of old but thats okay :)
(the original sprite below!)
#criminal case#criminal case pacific bay#karen knight#frank knight#workaholic / karenfrank#i still prefer the original sprite but it was fun making this
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*looks at newt* that is a man who watches httyd at least 3 times a week and owns neon green alien socks
#hes extra snuggly when wearing the toothless hoodie :]]#pacrim and httyd have such similar vibes imo. pacrim is the older sibling of httyd or something#anyway yes I’m convinced newt has a toothless tattoo somewhere#might’ve even been his first tattoo!!!! how cute would that be#hermann never saw httyd so they’re watching all the films together! they both cry at stoick’s death#he appreciates the soundtrack a lot#newt can rant for hours about the different dragon species#also about httyd 3 and its… impact#I think he relates to httyd 1 hiccup a lot but prefers httyd 2#oh my god imagine him singing and dancing for hermann at the ‘dancing and the dreaming’ song#turns out I have a lot of thought on this. might bullet point + post them at some point#my art#pacific rim#pacific rim fanart#newton geiszler#hermann gottlieb#newmann
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crazy how often you see the exact same people who defend aang not killing the fire lord (usually for the fanon interpretation of it being about preserving air nomad culture), be the exact same people who say how "refreshing" it is that luz lets belos die.
i just think that's interesting. no comment here. just interesting.
#i could go on a long rant about how people try to make these two things both 'fit' with their own preferred politics#or the many ways they try to make it out like aangs decision is about everything Except pacifism which they really dont like and cant vibe#with without the excuse of 'cultural preservation' that they pretend is indisputable canon#but cartoon twitters overall ideology is a mess of contradictions#so trying to make a real analysis of it is in many ways an inherently fake idea#so i just... won't do that :)
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according the mat oxley podcats: pecco doesn't want marc as a teammate (i think people for obvious reasons) but gigi does want marc so suppose the fraction between these two is only going to grow more
#wich idk#more problems yei 😭 like i want marc in the red team but at the seme time nop#cuase idk prefer the padock and evydsi sides like they are in this kinda pacifi not pacif way#motogp#marc marquez#pecco bagnaia
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I love how all of the trailers for this season of Picard had that clip of Worf saying that he now prefers pacifism to combat, and then the actual series has Worf personally killing more people than he did in seven seasons of TNG, four seasons of DS9, and four movies put together.
#star trek picard#worf#he *prefers* pacifism but it's not a *strong* preference#and his objection is that combat harshes his vibe; he still has no problem with killing people
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#doing the lords work here truthfully#will be honest one of the reasons i prefer to gif the pacific is bc#it HAD COLOUR#bob and mota cannot relate#okay its dawn here etc etc etc#but generally!!!#simi.txt#simi.ps
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I need Inej Ghafa to listen to Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve in a rage room as she smashes shit. I think it’d be cathartic for her and it’s what she deserves
#before anyone says anything#remember this is the woman (my bff) who left a slaver tarred and feathered on the steps of the#*on the steps of the Church of Ghezen#and this is the woman who was fully ready to kill a whole room of people when she thought Kaz’s life was at stake#she prefers pacifism sure but she has her moments#betsey rambles#six of crows
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hgnngng thinking abt Mako and Raleigh,,, thinking about the drift compatibility,,,, thinking about how their connection is first illustrated by him literally speaking her language in their first words to each other,,,, many thoughts head full
#i really do care them..... man#mako mori#raleigh becket#pacific rim#mossy speaks#still unsure if i prefer to ship them or see them as a sibling dynamic but literally either way. god. them
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There's a few minor characters in a later One Piece arc that disprove your theory re: inheritance of fish-like traits, but your world-building speculation is really interesting!
Actually one of Big Mom’s young sons looks fully Fishmen. De-Chat.
Got these two asks so I looked into it a bit more.
Something I find really interesting is that Big Mom's kids, De-chat and his mermaid sisters look nearly the same as full-blooded fishmen and merfolk. Big Mom is interesting because she doesn't really look human due to her size but is apparently just a little to short to count as a giant. It might be possible that she has giant ancestors somewhere in her past--but also who knows, she could also have fishmen or merfolk ancestors as well.
Again, this is just me trying to make sense of One Piece biology that was never supposed to make any sense. Oda only designs characters based on how they look and fit into the story. He's not going to limit his artistic talent to reality or make world building rules that might also put restrictions on what he can draw.
But for me, how I'd make sense of Big Mom's kids looking so much like their seafolk fathers is to say that somewhere in her background she has a fish-person or merfolk parent. Given how Oda says their dna works, with it remembering any secondary species (like whale shark, or goldfish) it makes sense that human hybrids generally get more human traits because one parent lacks a secondary species to pull from. Meanwhile, both fish-people and merfolk are human, so the genes have more ways of combining in a way that emphasis human traits.
But if someone has seafolk ancestors their dna would still carry that secondary species, even if they themselves do not have any fish traits. If they then had children with a fish-man or mermaid that child could have a higher chance of inheriting fish traits. This could explain why Big Mom has such pure looking seafolk children.
Meanwhile other hybrids we see like Sapi look nearly entirely human except for a fin on his head. Dellinger is interesting because he looks almost fully human as well, but most of it seems to be because he can hide those traits. He can choose whether or not to have human teeth, or hide his fin.
I'm no expert on dna or genealogy so my head-cannon is probably nonsense, but to me seafolk kind of feel like eeve in a way, where they're dna is kind of unstable. Whenever they have kids what they look like is a complete crap-shoot, where anything is possible. On top of that it doesn't seem like their abilities or size is always determined by their fish traits. Some of them look nearly human, except with non-human skin tones, while others look extremely inhuman--like Zeo or Hammond.
Which again is very purposeful on Oda's part. He's drawing cool characters. The reasons why they look the way they do doesn't matter to him at all. I just try and come up with reasons because I find it fun.
#ask#thanks for the ask!! :)#one piece#fishmen#merfolk#i would also like to know how these people know what their fish type is because they rarely look anything like them#how does Jinbe know he's a whale shark fish-man?#he has 0 whale shark traits#how does arlong know he's sawshark and not a sawfish?#cuz it'd make way more sense if he was a sawfish given he has no barbels#and also sawfish are way bigger then sawsharks so wouldn't he prefer to have that as his secondary fish species?#also how come Kurobi is just a ray? or Dosun a hammerhead shark?#that's not a singular species#I mean I assume Dosun is a great hammerhead because that's the one people know#and Kurobi is a manta ray of some kind for similar reasons#also Hatchan is just an octopus#but the giant octopus is the one people know the most so maybe he's that#did these guys just decide they didn't need to pick something more pacific?
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Hello! I just watched a video on YouTube and heard some brief news about Masters of the Air. One of the two men watched one episode (as far as I know, some people can watch four episodes in advance on a separate site offered by Apple). According to that person, he said Callum Turner’s character definitely leads the show! If you’re interested in that video, check out this link: https://www.youtube.com/live/irW9drTiwxc?si=rbJG6zYgMFPx393Y
(relevant info starts at 54:46, for anyone interested)
thanks for the link! i did have to laugh at the guy Emphatically shaking his head "No", austin butler Isn't the lead, necessarily.
basically, in the video, the guy who watched the first episode says, "butler's, like, the number two but i would still…put callum turner as the lead", and earlier says "i think it's pretty clear watching the show, callum turner is the lead". which still makes sense imo, given egan and cleven were both leaders and were best friends. also, i did speculate that having someone like austin butler in the cast would be a boon for the MotA promos
this could end up being a winters and nixon situation, but with the winters spotlight on egan...maybe? whatever the case, the guy saying these things Did say he only watched one episode, so.
#we'll just have to wait and see!#and like yeah. duh. if they have austin butler then they're gonna put his face Everywhere to get the austin butler fans#i don't think callum turner has as rabid a fanbase#not that they used household names to reel in an audience for BoB or the pacific (i don't think?)#but we're in a different entertainment world. the same rules don't apply#good news for the folks out there who preferred BoB over the pacific! bad news to the ones who're the opposite (my sister lol)#masters of the air#hbo war#asks
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rule number 1 of being a giant monster in an american movie: take out a fucking bridge
#golden gate bridge is preferred but any is fine :]#godzilla#pacific rim#cloverfield#🗡️.txt#original.txt
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As a follow up to my last post: I also used to live off of a disgusting amount of caffeine so it's not like I can judge--
#I would quite literally drink pepsi for breakfast sometimes mfjsjdjajw#and drink a monster for the days I got like... an hour of sleep and had to show up for my 8am class kfhwoshsi#except I drank the shit that tasted like capri sun pacific cooler--#I have cut back significantly tho fkqhsohsowhw and prefer mountain dew amped now#getting my first degree was a fucking ~experience~#data log: personal
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Ok, I'm going to make a prediction here, just for funsies
Leafs are out in the first round, again
Leafs fire their current coach
Leafs hire Boudreau
#prediction#although#i would much prefer he be hired by a western conference or even pacific division team
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i watched the second pacific rim movie and the thing about it is like. i don’t think it was bad per se. it was just very disappointing. there was a lot that could’ve worked well! there was a lot i’d probably be willing to forgive if there was a third movie! but there won’t be so i’m just left feeling incredibly dissatisfied.
#i don’t think i’ve ever felt more meh about a piece of media#surprisingly this is one thing I’ve watched that i didn’t become very emotionally invested in#so i didn’t care too much about character choices and stuff#i just expected more :/#however i will say as someone who prefers strong platonic relationships to romance…#hermann and newt are in love your honor. there’s no straight way around whatever they’ve got going on#pacific rim
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i love noir aunt may but jesus the pacifism is annoying. man was literally going to eat you alive (and ate your HUSBAND alive like six months ago) and then you blame the dude who just saved you from that. “an unarmed man” bro???
and the whole “above the law” thing like miss ma’am you are a communist in the 1930s ??? your husband was already murdered for being a communist in the 1930s ??? who gives a shit about a little vigilantism. especially when i cannot stress this enough, you were about to be eaten alive
#brot reads marvel comics#spiderman noir (2009) 4#idk like its one thing to personally prefer to not be violent#but like youre a communist in the 1930s quite literally being assassinated#its rhe way she rationalzies nonviolence here that irks me within that context#like your husband was assassinated and you almost faced that same fate#do you truly think just demonstrating in the street is going to be the only solution ???#the whole ‘give me the gun’ thing like jesus#again its one thing for personal individual pacifism but that just seems so like#pacifism even against the systems. which is nuts#again this is the great depression and she knows how the system is inherently corrupt and her husband was literally assassinated#but OHHH i dont wanna live in a world where ppl kill each other :(#you already do !!! stand up for yourself !!#you wont even do SELF DEFENSE ???#you SCOLD the guy who literally just saved you from being eaten alive ???
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