He could feel Hermann's embarrassment and subsequent annoyance radiating through the connection and that--more than any other reaction in the room--told Newt he had put his foot in his mouth this time. Ah, oops.
But that was quickly set aside as Joaquin teased him. Out of my league, huh? That says just as much about your thoughts on Manolo as it does about Manolo himself, Newt thought in a moment of self-awareness, his gaze wandering from assessing the guitarrista to Hermann as the tour continued.
"I just wanted to see his guitar, not get in his pants," he playfully assured Joaquin. And speaking of the guitar, he'd have to hit Manolo up later, see if he was open to a jam session. Maybe they could start a band, though it'd be an interesting challenge melding whatever 1930s small-town Mexican guitar music was with Newt's preferred punk rock sound. He guessed he could always just teach him Wonderwall. Who didn't need that one in their arsenal, right?
"She was also the last Jaeger and the one to go through the Breach and close it." Newt wasn't exactly dissatisfied with the explanation. Hermann always explained the Jaeger well, but he explained it like a man who was speaking to the well-informed. Unless Hermann gave them a Jaeger rundown when Newt wasn't looking, there was a lot that probably didn't make a lot of sense. He picked up a yardstick and attempted to use it to extend his reach up the model. "Her core was located in the chest. That would have been what powered her, similar to a car's engine or the fire in a furnace. The cockpit would have been in the head compartment. It's detachable and lowered onto the body before the Jaeger is deployed into battle. Normally the Jaeger takes two pilots, though Beckett, Mako's co-pilot, famously solo-piloted the Jaeger very briefly to bring the damaged unit ashore--" Oh. Death of a brother. Probably not a good topic right now. But Newt had a good enough diversion. "Gipsy's first Kaiju kill was Yamarashi," Newt pointed to the monster tattooed on his left forearm. "Busted through Los Angeles only a few months after Gipsy was first launched. Also one of the first Kaiju I worked on while serving the PPDC. Very awesome badboy. ...Or girl. You know, we never really determined the sex of any of them."
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But that was quickly set aside as Joaquin teased him. Out of my league, huh? That says just as much about your thoughts on Manolo as it does about Manolo himself, Newt thought in a moment of self-awareness, his gaze wandering from assessing the guitarrista to Hermann as the tour continued.
"I just wanted to see his guitar, not get in his pants," he playfully assured Joaquin. And speaking of the guitar, he'd have to hit Manolo up later, see if he was open to a jam session. Maybe they could start a band, though it'd be an interesting challenge melding whatever 1930s small-town Mexican guitar music was with Newt's preferred punk rock sound. He guessed he could always just teach him Wonderwall. Who didn't need that one in their arsenal, right?
"She was also the last Jaeger and the one to go through the Breach and close it." Newt wasn't exactly dissatisfied with the explanation. Hermann always explained the Jaeger well, but he explained it like a man who was speaking to the well-informed. Unless Hermann gave them a Jaeger rundown when Newt wasn't looking, there was a lot that probably didn't make a lot of sense. He picked up a yardstick and attempted to use it to extend his reach up the model. "Her core was located in the chest. That would have been what powered her, similar to a car's engine or the fire in a furnace. The cockpit would have been in the head compartment. It's detachable and lowered onto the body before the Jaeger is deployed into battle. Normally the Jaeger takes two pilots, though Beckett, Mako's co-pilot, famously solo-piloted the Jaeger very briefly to bring the damaged unit ashore--" Oh. Death of a brother. Probably not a good topic right now. But Newt had a good enough diversion. "Gipsy's first Kaiju kill was Yamarashi," Newt pointed to the monster tattooed on his left forearm. "Busted through Los Angeles only a few months after Gipsy was first launched. Also one of the first Kaiju I worked on while serving the PPDC. Very awesome badboy. ...Or girl. You know, we never really determined the sex of any of them."