He clucks his tongue sympathetically as he climbs inside the cockpit.
"I'm sorry, love. You can tell me all about it in a minute, just let me get strapped in."
He's pretty sure most people still assume pilots talking to their Jaegers out loud is kind of like how a mechanic will talk to a car, coax it along as he works on it, but it's different. Jaegers are more or less sentient (more, in Herc's mind), and they like to be spoken to like anyone else.
He settles the helmet on and steps into the foot clips, waiting for the countown to initiate the neural handshake.
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Date: 2013-07-16 03:34 am (UTC)"I'm sorry, love. You can tell me all about it in a minute, just let me get strapped in."
He's pretty sure most people still assume pilots talking to their Jaegers out loud is kind of like how a mechanic will talk to a car, coax it along as he works on it, but it's different. Jaegers are more or less sentient (more, in Herc's mind), and they like to be spoken to like anyone else.
He settles the helmet on and steps into the foot clips, waiting for the countown to initiate the neural handshake.