charleihunnam:

acceptable reasons for raleigh becket being absent from pacific rim uprising:

• raleigh becket is at home taking care of the kids while his wife and mother of his children mako mori is busy taking care of business

• raleigh becket is still working on building that house in the canadian wilderness with his bare hands for mako and is so far off the grid he doesn’t even know what’s going on
• raleigh becket is grabbing a coffee and maybe a slice of chocolate cake with his formerly estranged younger sister jazmine
• raleigh becket has been knitting a nice sweater for mako and just lost track of time
• raleigh becket is at some other shatterdome training recruits but he and mako are still having mind-blowing phone sex about three times a week
• raleigh becket has retired from the ppdc because he’s a little burnt out (literally) from piloting solo twice and having his jaeger limbs torn off all the time
• raleigh becket is on a beach in australia with herc hansen, sipping margaritas
• raleigh becket had an early mid-life crisis and decided to move to northern california to join a motorcycle club

not acceptable reasons for raleigh becket being absent from pacific rim uprising:

• raleigh becket died off screen in between movies