or: Three Pilots and a Horaki
or: The German, Her Wife, Their Househusband and His Alien.
The world is recovering from the Third Impact. Asuka, Hikari, Shinji and Rei are living together. They aren't always very good at it.
It's not Rei's fault. Except the penguins.
Sophia isn't running, regardless of how much you might think so. She just - needs a fresh start. A new city, a new life, a new person; she just needs the space to figure that out. Promise.
As if.
A broken marriage; a vengeful heroine; a city unaware of the monster in its depths. New faces, new places, new enemies - same old problems. New York is shit out of luck, if they're counting on Private Investigator Sophia Hess to solve their problems.
After all - she's nobody's hero.
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