[ Lydia pauses and considers Allison's argument about kaijus. ] Good point. [ She grimaces a little. ] Very well. Let them stay hideous! We need all the reasons to be rid of them.

[ She was reading a paragraph on kaiju categories when Allison mentions the movie title. ] I am very proud to say that I have neither heard of that movie before, nor have I watched it. Obviously, I have never been a fan of such monsters. Was it even remotely entertaining?

[ Lydia loathes the things. Ugliness notwithstanding, their arrival brought chaos to the world. She had a good life before this, a good plan for the future, but for the first kaiju to set foot in California, of all places, meant Lydia's life was changed forever, whether she liked it or not.

But now she's here in the academy, and she's going to be the best goddamned jaeger engineer the world has ever seen. She promised herself that she's going to be part of the team that gets rid of these monsters once and for all. ]