[Otto's an Alliance member, still in good standing, and he intends to stay that way. He arrives when he's called, before he even hears of the grave danger to the world.

After that - of course he sticks around. He can be seen all over the place during preparations: usually working on a jaeger while at least two of his actuators work on different parts of the jaeger. While it's best if he handles anything complicated himself, he trusts them to handle simple tasks on their own. This isn't too far distant from their function as designed, after all.

Occasionally, when there's a task that the scaffolding isn't quite suited for, he'll just scale the outside of one of the robots, tentacles gripping and coiling carefully to avoid causing damage. Don't worry about it!]

[During the fight itself, Otto joins one of the maintenance crews going out to the jaegers. He's not a healer; he's here strictly for emergency repairs to the robots and their combat systems. While technically, he's sure he could pilot just as well as anybody, his skills as an engineer are probably more useful right now.

Teleporting onto a robot, he's quick to jump into action, asking the first person he sees:]

What's the problem?

[Everything is completely hectic both here and on the ground; he didn't exactly get an error report before heading out here. Though, given how chaotic everything is, it's also possible that what you really need isn't tech support at all, but rather another combatant.]

[After everything is said and done - well, Otto barely did any combat himself. He's just fine. So it only makes sense that he go out to help with the clean-up efforts.

Given his reach, both for scooping people up out of the water and for breaking up any stray chunks of ice that might pose an issue, it also makes perfect sense that he go out on one of the big orange rescue rafts to help pick up lost or injured selkies!

So...yep, out he goes! His raft, at least, doesn't have to move around quite so much. Otto simply sits and lets the actuators spread out around them in a wide radius. When they find a selkie, they carefully pluck them up and return them to the boat; if there's no one around, Otto confirms this so they can all move on.

In spite of the fact that he's pretty much taken control of operations, at least on this particular boat, he seems tense, especially when the boat moves a little more than average.]

Please - don't rock the boat.

[He's got a life vest on, just like everyone else. He looks nervous regardless!]