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1. Aftermath by cleanwhiteroom

   Fandoms: Pacific Rim (Movies)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   01 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb
   • Newton Geiszler
   • Hermann Gottlieb
   • Caitlin Lightcap
   • Mako Mori
   • Raleigh Becket
   • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Epilepsy
   • Panic Attacks
   • Bureaucratic Trauma
   • Medical Trauma
   • Trope Subversion/Inversion
   • Gray-Asexuality
   • Queerplatonic Relationships
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • Experimental Style
   • Long
   • Slow Burn
   • The Drift (Pacific Rim)
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • What Happens to a Fraction of a Hive Mind?
   • Flashbacks Are Just Current Events at Remote Astronomical Distances
   • Underwater Forest Fires
   • Ghosts on the Radio
   • Snow Falls on the Open Sea
   • There's Glitter in Mako's Hands
   • Tears in Lightcap's Eyes
   • Newt Charms Academia
   • Hermann Thought-Sculpts Ways to Win a War That's Over
   • Memory Falls Out Like Radioactive Isotopes
   • Healing isn't linear
   • ...It Comes and Goes and Comes Again
   • Gather Round Kids
   • Let's Dream of Wars that End

   Summary

   Reminders, remainders. All that comes after. And, of course, the math.

   A nonlinear braid of trauma, memory, and healing. Dr. Gottlieb struggles to shed the war-forged identity that's holding him back; Dr. Geiszler kickflips (with difficulty) into glam-rock neuroscience; Dr. Lightcap is a ghost in the machine of the narrative; and Gottfried Leibniz gets his day.

   The sequel/prequel to Designations Congruent with Things, but readable on its own.

   Series

   • Part 2 of Designations Congruent with Things and Other Subsymbolic Networks

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   97,483

   Chapters:

   50/50

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