They are - or at least, Gipsy is - simply wasting time now, but Gipsy is of the mind that Raleigh is not able to do this nearly enough and he has been gone for far too long and they have some much needed catching up to do.

I will show you what it is like when Jaegers have too much idle time.

Instead of the interior of the conn-pod being in front of him now, there's a flash of white and now he's standing by a lake with water that shimmers with rainbow perfection and a sky so blue that it hurts to look at. The sun is high above and it shines down and sends playful, glittering patterns dancing across the top of the water.

Large rocks - perfect for sitting, really - occasionally dot the surrounding areas of the lake and in front of one stands a raven haired avatar who is skipping rocks across the water.

We take images from countless memories and recreate what we think of as perfection, she says, though some of us take less creative license than others. I would not ask to see Cherno paradise, for example.

It's mostly snow and bright blue kaiju blood. Cherno Alpha is hard as nails in different ways than Gipsy herself.

Not all of us choose to create avatars, but some do. Do you remember Romeo Blue? He had one.