Don't be so sure.
BRB, changing ACoS so Asuka has triplet boys.
Advice and Trust [NGE]
Don't be so sure.
- Location
- Canada
I just had a (horribly offensive yet oddly humorous) thought. If both Shinji and Asuka have blue eyes, he has light skin tone and she is very much white, would that result in their children being.. I can't finish it. I've made horrible puns before. I've laughed at jokes involving vivisection and prop comedy with the victim's organs. I consider Blazing Saddles to be one of the pinnacles of comedy and satire.
But this is just bad. Like, I'm actually upset at myself for thinking it and finding it funny.
But this is just bad. Like, I'm actually upset at myself for thinking it and finding it funny.
- Location
- RWBY Wiki
@Morose: Mostly white? I'd imagine so. Asuka's 75% white though to Shinji's 100% Japanese Asian, so don't know how it'd fit exactly.
Unrelated, but if you cross the street and 7 seconds later there's a collision in the intersection and you're almost totally nonplussed, is there something wrong?
Unrelated, but if you cross the street and 7 seconds later there's a collision in the intersection and you're almost totally nonplussed, is there something wrong?
Last edited:
- Location
- Canada
Evil M. Lurker
What Lurks at Midnight
- Location
- The City, USA
This was done specifically to mock TV Nihon fansubs, who are entirely deserving of mockery.
- Location
- RWBY Wiki
List me their crimes so I may lay down God's judgement...
Evil M. Lurker
What Lurks at Midnight
- Location
- The City, USA
Broadly speaking, they believe in translating as little as they possibly can, retaining Japanese words that most of their audience won't know and insisting that they do this because there is no good English equivalent. I'm okay with leaving suffixes in, but when they leave entire catchphrases untranslated (most infamously "Ore sanjou!" from Kamen Rider Den-Oh) or, going further back, trying to leave pronouns intact ("You little yatsu!" from Zeta Gundam)... well, that just grates. And they're firmly convinced that this is How It Should Be Done and that other fansubbers and even the pros are Doing It Wrong.
- Location
- Canada
Evil M. Lurker
What Lurks at Midnight
- Location
- The City, USA
That, plus they don't always bother with the explanations.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
The derail will stop now. Update tonight if so. Update much later after I've gotten out my Rod of Smiting if not.
Lone Courier 6
Devilish Fool
- Location
- United States of Quests
...I wonder how much smaller this thread would be if we deleted all the derail comments and shipping wars?
- Location
- Canada
It would likely drop it back down below the 1000 page mark.
Seihai-kun
[Unverified Wish Granting Device]
- Location
- Brasil
At least half the thread would be gone. And I know for a fact the shipping war at least doubled after the Trout appeared.
*Defiantly waves the OT3 flag*
Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
There are other stories for that
Lone Courier 6
Devilish Fool
- Location
- United States of Quests
Yeaah, but I think the one that comes to mind first has gone cold?*Coughs*DIRTT*Coughs*There are other stories for that
- Location
- Really? This field is required?
Pretty sure @Jake has been busy with a bunch of IRL stuff which has kept him from writing lately.
I get the feeling that if Asuka had three sons they'd be the stooges (but only when she was angry with them.)
"Gah, why are they so loud and boisterous? You were never that way."
"Well they do take after their..."
"Finish that sentence and you'll be sleeping on the couch."
"And you'll be joining me in the middle of the night."
octobersanctuary
Self-appointed Master of Ceremonies
- Location
- New Zealand
- Location
- Greater Space City
We'll be patient. On note I finished up a sketch based on some ideas in this thread from last year. Something about Asuka in UPS uniform and Rei in a tank hat.
- Location
- Canada
Shinji's gonna learn what brown can do for him.We'll be patient. On note I finished up a sketch based on some ideas in this thread from last year. Something about Asuka in UPS uniform and Rei in a tank hat.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Asuka: Get in loser, we're going shipping.
Chapter 10.8
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
I think the time has come for an update! 2300 words of Gendo plotting, confused fish, and grumpy Rei!
@www807, @Saint Zac, @MHJoker, This one's for you. @octobersanctuary, you're next.
Art? You betcha.
Chapter 10.8
Choices And Sacrifices
+++
Commander Ikari's cavernous office was always rather cool, even at the best of times. With all the damage the Geofront and the surface reflectors had taken over the last few weeks, it felt more shadowy and cool than usual, even for an early morning meeting.
"Inspector."
Years of practice at keeping up a sloppy, cheerful façade kept Kaji from flinching in surprise when Commander Ikari finally broke the silence after staring at him for a long minute, but it was still a minor effort. The man was just that creepy.
"Commander. You summoned me? I thought I was barred from the Geofront for good, due to my… side job," Kaji said carefully, only a mild amount of lazy amusement in his tone.
"Your skills in that job are of use to me. Therefore, you are permitted to return, to fulfill that use," Commander Ikari said coldly. "SEELE has other agents in NERV, in the city, and in the Geofront. They are searching for secrets I do not want known. You are familiar with their methods and aims. I want you to find them and stop them."
"You had me banned from the Geofront because I wasn't spying for you. What has changed that you think I'm going to help you with this? Not that I am not interested in doing so, but what is different?"
The Commander's utterly calm stare over his tented hands as he sat as his desk did not change a bit, but Kaji was suddenly glad for the huge distance between them. The cold gleam of the Commander's glasses somehow got colder. "Because you have not let that ban stop your own attempts at digging into NERV's secrets for your masters, and you have gotten in further than is safe already. Haven't you, Inspector?"
"I don't think my little snooping has really-"
"You and Major Katsuragi."
Kaji stopped cold. He could feel the hair on the back of his neck stand up.
"As long as you are both working for NERV's goals, there is no need to disrupt things. Is there, Inspector?" There was no change in the Commander's tone.
"Major Katsuragi is not involved in any part of my 'side job'. We avoid work talk entirely. We're just… seeing each other again," Kaji said carefully.
"Then you have nothing to worry about. Nothing but finding SEELE's other agents and identifying them for Section 2 to neutralize."
Kaji stared back at him, considering.
"SEELE is likely aware by now of who was involved in the removal of Adam from their vaults, Inspector. You will be better off with NERV's resources at hand to help prevent them from," he smiled thinly, "expressing their displeasure with you about it," Commander Ikari added. "Or her."
"I see. I will get to work, then," Kaji finally said. "I'll report to you when I have anything."
"Good," Commander Ikari said. "See Doctor Akagi about the log files for activity we've observed recently. Dismissed."
Kaji turned on his heel and walked out. Not for the first time, the heavy thump of the Supreme Commander of NERV's office door closing behind him sounded altogether too much like the door slamming shut on a tomb.
+++
"Hello, Pilot Soryu." Rei's voice was soft as always, but today it was even more than usually so, to Asuka's ear.
"Hey, Rei," Asuka said warmly. "Checking on you at lunch, as promised. Shinji's right next to me. How are you feeling?"
"I am grateful for the painkillers Doctor Akagi provided me with. I am resting as much as possible." There was a pause. "I will expect you and Pilot Ikari to deliver my schoolwork later?"
Asuka smiled. She could hear the hopeful note in Rei's voice, and the things they both weren't saying over a line NERV was assuredly monitoring. "Of course, Rei. You want to talk to the baka for a minute?"
"Yes."
Asuka handed over the phone. Her mouth quirked in a half smile as she watched some shade of worry fade from her boyfriend's face as he got to hear Rei's voice for himself.
He was smiling a little more when he hung up after a moment of quiet conversation. "She wants vegetable stir-fry for dinner. I couldn't say no."
Asuka nodded. "Anything our Rei wants."
+++
The momentary smile hearing from her loves had granted slowly faded as Rei put down the phone and pulled the blanket Asuka had given her closer around her. Her apartment wasn't all that cold, but she still felt chills. Even with the building she was in all but empty during the day, and at this remove from the rest of the neighborhood, the few other AT-Fields in the area still rasped against her own painfully.
All of them save one.
His light was below her, near the base of the building. He was still now, but the same occasional spikes and flares to his AT-Field would pop up at irregular intervals. She couldn't tell what they were, but his mood brightened for a while after each one. But even through all that, he kept shaping his field to buffer hers as much as he could. His AT-Field was not brushing roughly against hers at all. Quite the contrary, in fact.
"Stupid fish…" she muttered. She put thoughts of the Fifth Child aside and wearily rose from her futon to go make another pot of the tea Shinji had left her.
+++
'The Lilim are amazing,' Kaworu thought to himself as he toweled the last of the chilly water off his body, trying fiercely to keep his mind away from where it had spent much of the morning. 'The amount of ingenuity that goes into turning silicon, petroleum, chemistry, and mathematics into a camera, film, and paper to capture images permanently is utterly astounding. And then the incredible effect that a handful of pictures, a letter, and a…a… a small…' He swallowed, starting to feel warm and flushed again despite the very cold shower he'd just finished. 'A small piece of… lace and fabric can have on my state of mind is… small piece of fabric… small… Baseball! Baseball, baseball, Miss Soryu said to think about baseball! I just got out of the shower! Again!'
He looked towards his bedroom. He'd buried the box deep in one of his closets, both for safekeeping and because he realized after the very long night and morning that if he left it out where he could lay eyes on it, he'd keep repeatedly succumbing to the temptation to open it again and feast his eyes on the contents.
'Just a few pictures, a letter, and… that thing, and I am… the Call is... all but absent. All I can think about is… that smile.'
The letter explained that the pictures had been meant as a gift for Shinji-kun and Miss Soryu, not for him. That they were given to him as a means to help him fight the call, and as a gesture of trust that he would not reveal them to anyone. So the shy, teasing smile in the pictures was not truly meant for him.
But oh, did he wish it had been. Even more than the rest of the pictures, it was that smile that kept flashing in his mind. And that she had given him the box, and the things they'd said in the last few days…
He felt his heart start to race again. After the last few days, even in the face of the nightmares Arael had blasted his mind and hers with, it no longer felt quite so hopelessly impossible to dream, to imagine, to fantasize that Rei might one day… smile at him like that.
It was stupid. They were fundamental rivals, opposed on the most basic level. There were a thousand reasons why it was a bad idea, basest lunacy to even think they might be… more. But for the first time in his life, Kaworu could hold onto enough of it to believe it might not be impossible. That Free Will could in truth defeat fate and nature.
Rei had been right. The box contained hope.
'Baseball, baseball, baseball, the glory of the full mo-DAMMIT!'
Hope could have a very strange appearance at times…
+++
"This… does sound like a good idea."
"Of course it is. I came up with it. And I'm the genius." Asuka tossed her hair with a smirk.
Shinji rolled his eyes a little as Asuka pressed the doorbell button outside Kaworu's door. His girlfriend was many things, but 'modest' was not usually among them.
Kaworu opened the door after only a second. "Hello, my friends."
Asuka blinked a bit. "Wow, were you lurking by the door waiting for us, Rainbow Trout?"
The ashen-haired boy smiled. "I heard you coming. Have you come to check on me? I am er… slightly less tense than this morning. Your recommendation that I think about baseball was helpful. As were several cold showers." His smile was slightly embarrassed at the reminder.
"Check on you, yes. And drag you to a therapeutic jam session," Asuka said. She observed his still damp hair with a wry smile.
"A... what?"
"Just grab your instrument and hang on tight."
+++
Rei could see them coming, drawing closer, rising with the elevator that was bringing them up to their floor: That most glorious and heartwarming blaze that made her day better just being around. Two of the only souls that being around didn't hurt right now. Her loves. She didn't bother to contain the smile that burst across her face. She rose from her futon and headed for the door, barely pausing to pull on a light blue silk robe that Asuka had given her.
Her eager steps quickly slowed as she noted that her loves were not alone. His Light was also rising, leaving the floor below her where he'd been all day. She would not be alone with her loves, then. She frowned. She did not mind at all if her loves saw her in a robe, or even less. The pictures in the box she had given Kaworu had originally been meant as a present for them, after all.
But although she'd given the box and its contents to him, she was unsure that he should be granted the same level of intimacy just yet. She was still assimilating the concepts of when and how revealing her body to others was fitting, and what doing so signaled. Discussions with Asuka on the topic had been enlightening, though increasingly awkward as Rei gained understanding of just what the urges she had meant. Discussions with Shinji were even more awkward. Memories of the naked Synch test or sharing a changing room with Asuka were given… interesting new aspects now. But Kaworu… It was not like he was unpleasant to look on. Quite the contrary, really. And he was a friend now, someone important to Rei that she did not wish to see harmed. Plus he had now seen the pictures in the box, read the letter… he knew what she looked like. That was the point of giving him the box, to let those images distract him from the deadly siren effect of the Call. But to allow him into her house when she was dressed like this… Did she want him to see her like this? Did she…
She turned around, walked back to her bedroom, and took off the robe. She reached for one of stylish casual outfits Asuka had helped her select on one of their shopping trips, a white sweater and grey leggings combo. She was not ready to allow him such. He was… She growled to herself. "Stupid fish… why do you make everything so difficult?"
She finished dressing just as the doorbell chimed. She schooled her expression to calm blankness. As happy as she was to see her loves, she was uncertain how to react to Kaworu right now, even if his ability to shape his AT-Field made him just as comforting to be around in one sense. She opened the door.
The smile immediately returned to her face on seeing her loves. "Hello, Shinji, Asuka. And you too, Nagisa."
"Hello, Rei! Ich hoffe dir geht's besser? Du schaust jedenfalls besser aus als der da!" ["I hope you are feeling better. You look more rested than that one, at least!"]" She tossed her head in Kaworu's direction.
Rei's smile grew slightly. Now that she knew Rei spoke German, Asuka seemed to delight in speaking to her in that language daily, and coaching her on improving her accent. Rei was happy to reply in the same, since it made Asuka happy. "Es geht mir besser. Umso mehr, da Ihr beide..."[I am improving. I feel better now that you both…"] She let her eyes sweep in the Fifth Child as well. "...Ihr drei nun hier seid," ["That all three of you are here,"] she amended. She cocked her head, noticing the violin case Asuka was holding, and Shinji's cello case behind her. "Music time?"
"You seemed to enjoy it a lot the last time we played for you, and this is a nice, low-impact way for all of us to help you and the Rainbow Trout convalesce," Asuka confirmed. "A little Beethoven will make everything better."
As Rei stepped aside to let Asuka and Shinji enter, her eyes almost accidentally met Kaworu's. He was as frozen as a deer in headlights, staring at her like she was a Gorgon. "Hello, Nagisa. You may come in."
"Box!" he squeaked. "Moon! Gleep! Beautiful! You! Meeble!" he elaborated.
Rei darted a look over her shoulder. Shinji and Asuka were around the corner into the kitchen-dining area already. She pulled Nagisa inside and let the door close. Once they were safely hidden from outside eyes, she smacked the back of his head. "Shhhh! Stupid fish! Restart your brain and stop talking about it!" she whispered urgently. Rei fidgeted, looking at her hands before forcing her eyes back up. "So… you opened it."
He nodded dumbly.
"And it worked?"
He nodded even more dumbly.
"I am… glad. But do not say anything about it," she said as quietly as she could. "Come. The time has come for us to play together."
"Meep," Kaworu nodded sagely.
+++
Thank you!
@www807, @Saint Zac, @MHJoker, This one's for you. @octobersanctuary, you're next.
Art? You betcha.
Chapter 10.8
Choices And Sacrifices
+++
Commander Ikari's cavernous office was always rather cool, even at the best of times. With all the damage the Geofront and the surface reflectors had taken over the last few weeks, it felt more shadowy and cool than usual, even for an early morning meeting.
"Inspector."
Years of practice at keeping up a sloppy, cheerful façade kept Kaji from flinching in surprise when Commander Ikari finally broke the silence after staring at him for a long minute, but it was still a minor effort. The man was just that creepy.
"Commander. You summoned me? I thought I was barred from the Geofront for good, due to my… side job," Kaji said carefully, only a mild amount of lazy amusement in his tone.
"Your skills in that job are of use to me. Therefore, you are permitted to return, to fulfill that use," Commander Ikari said coldly. "SEELE has other agents in NERV, in the city, and in the Geofront. They are searching for secrets I do not want known. You are familiar with their methods and aims. I want you to find them and stop them."
"You had me banned from the Geofront because I wasn't spying for you. What has changed that you think I'm going to help you with this? Not that I am not interested in doing so, but what is different?"
The Commander's utterly calm stare over his tented hands as he sat as his desk did not change a bit, but Kaji was suddenly glad for the huge distance between them. The cold gleam of the Commander's glasses somehow got colder. "Because you have not let that ban stop your own attempts at digging into NERV's secrets for your masters, and you have gotten in further than is safe already. Haven't you, Inspector?"
"I don't think my little snooping has really-"
"You and Major Katsuragi."
Kaji stopped cold. He could feel the hair on the back of his neck stand up.
"As long as you are both working for NERV's goals, there is no need to disrupt things. Is there, Inspector?" There was no change in the Commander's tone.
"Major Katsuragi is not involved in any part of my 'side job'. We avoid work talk entirely. We're just… seeing each other again," Kaji said carefully.
"Then you have nothing to worry about. Nothing but finding SEELE's other agents and identifying them for Section 2 to neutralize."
Kaji stared back at him, considering.
"SEELE is likely aware by now of who was involved in the removal of Adam from their vaults, Inspector. You will be better off with NERV's resources at hand to help prevent them from," he smiled thinly, "expressing their displeasure with you about it," Commander Ikari added. "Or her."
"I see. I will get to work, then," Kaji finally said. "I'll report to you when I have anything."
"Good," Commander Ikari said. "See Doctor Akagi about the log files for activity we've observed recently. Dismissed."
Kaji turned on his heel and walked out. Not for the first time, the heavy thump of the Supreme Commander of NERV's office door closing behind him sounded altogether too much like the door slamming shut on a tomb.
+++
"Hello, Pilot Soryu." Rei's voice was soft as always, but today it was even more than usually so, to Asuka's ear.
"Hey, Rei," Asuka said warmly. "Checking on you at lunch, as promised. Shinji's right next to me. How are you feeling?"
"I am grateful for the painkillers Doctor Akagi provided me with. I am resting as much as possible." There was a pause. "I will expect you and Pilot Ikari to deliver my schoolwork later?"
Asuka smiled. She could hear the hopeful note in Rei's voice, and the things they both weren't saying over a line NERV was assuredly monitoring. "Of course, Rei. You want to talk to the baka for a minute?"
"Yes."
Asuka handed over the phone. Her mouth quirked in a half smile as she watched some shade of worry fade from her boyfriend's face as he got to hear Rei's voice for himself.
He was smiling a little more when he hung up after a moment of quiet conversation. "She wants vegetable stir-fry for dinner. I couldn't say no."
Asuka nodded. "Anything our Rei wants."
+++
The momentary smile hearing from her loves had granted slowly faded as Rei put down the phone and pulled the blanket Asuka had given her closer around her. Her apartment wasn't all that cold, but she still felt chills. Even with the building she was in all but empty during the day, and at this remove from the rest of the neighborhood, the few other AT-Fields in the area still rasped against her own painfully.
All of them save one.
His light was below her, near the base of the building. He was still now, but the same occasional spikes and flares to his AT-Field would pop up at irregular intervals. She couldn't tell what they were, but his mood brightened for a while after each one. But even through all that, he kept shaping his field to buffer hers as much as he could. His AT-Field was not brushing roughly against hers at all. Quite the contrary, in fact.
"Stupid fish…" she muttered. She put thoughts of the Fifth Child aside and wearily rose from her futon to go make another pot of the tea Shinji had left her.
+++
'The Lilim are amazing,' Kaworu thought to himself as he toweled the last of the chilly water off his body, trying fiercely to keep his mind away from where it had spent much of the morning. 'The amount of ingenuity that goes into turning silicon, petroleum, chemistry, and mathematics into a camera, film, and paper to capture images permanently is utterly astounding. And then the incredible effect that a handful of pictures, a letter, and a…a… a small…' He swallowed, starting to feel warm and flushed again despite the very cold shower he'd just finished. 'A small piece of… lace and fabric can have on my state of mind is… small piece of fabric… small… Baseball! Baseball, baseball, Miss Soryu said to think about baseball! I just got out of the shower! Again!'
He looked towards his bedroom. He'd buried the box deep in one of his closets, both for safekeeping and because he realized after the very long night and morning that if he left it out where he could lay eyes on it, he'd keep repeatedly succumbing to the temptation to open it again and feast his eyes on the contents.
'Just a few pictures, a letter, and… that thing, and I am… the Call is... all but absent. All I can think about is… that smile.'
The letter explained that the pictures had been meant as a gift for Shinji-kun and Miss Soryu, not for him. That they were given to him as a means to help him fight the call, and as a gesture of trust that he would not reveal them to anyone. So the shy, teasing smile in the pictures was not truly meant for him.
But oh, did he wish it had been. Even more than the rest of the pictures, it was that smile that kept flashing in his mind. And that she had given him the box, and the things they'd said in the last few days…
He felt his heart start to race again. After the last few days, even in the face of the nightmares Arael had blasted his mind and hers with, it no longer felt quite so hopelessly impossible to dream, to imagine, to fantasize that Rei might one day… smile at him like that.
It was stupid. They were fundamental rivals, opposed on the most basic level. There were a thousand reasons why it was a bad idea, basest lunacy to even think they might be… more. But for the first time in his life, Kaworu could hold onto enough of it to believe it might not be impossible. That Free Will could in truth defeat fate and nature.
Rei had been right. The box contained hope.
'Baseball, baseball, baseball, the glory of the full mo-DAMMIT!'
Hope could have a very strange appearance at times…
+++
"This… does sound like a good idea."
"Of course it is. I came up with it. And I'm the genius." Asuka tossed her hair with a smirk.
Shinji rolled his eyes a little as Asuka pressed the doorbell button outside Kaworu's door. His girlfriend was many things, but 'modest' was not usually among them.
Kaworu opened the door after only a second. "Hello, my friends."
Asuka blinked a bit. "Wow, were you lurking by the door waiting for us, Rainbow Trout?"
The ashen-haired boy smiled. "I heard you coming. Have you come to check on me? I am er… slightly less tense than this morning. Your recommendation that I think about baseball was helpful. As were several cold showers." His smile was slightly embarrassed at the reminder.
"Check on you, yes. And drag you to a therapeutic jam session," Asuka said. She observed his still damp hair with a wry smile.
"A... what?"
"Just grab your instrument and hang on tight."
+++
Rei could see them coming, drawing closer, rising with the elevator that was bringing them up to their floor: That most glorious and heartwarming blaze that made her day better just being around. Two of the only souls that being around didn't hurt right now. Her loves. She didn't bother to contain the smile that burst across her face. She rose from her futon and headed for the door, barely pausing to pull on a light blue silk robe that Asuka had given her.
Her eager steps quickly slowed as she noted that her loves were not alone. His Light was also rising, leaving the floor below her where he'd been all day. She would not be alone with her loves, then. She frowned. She did not mind at all if her loves saw her in a robe, or even less. The pictures in the box she had given Kaworu had originally been meant as a present for them, after all.
But although she'd given the box and its contents to him, she was unsure that he should be granted the same level of intimacy just yet. She was still assimilating the concepts of when and how revealing her body to others was fitting, and what doing so signaled. Discussions with Asuka on the topic had been enlightening, though increasingly awkward as Rei gained understanding of just what the urges she had meant. Discussions with Shinji were even more awkward. Memories of the naked Synch test or sharing a changing room with Asuka were given… interesting new aspects now. But Kaworu… It was not like he was unpleasant to look on. Quite the contrary, really. And he was a friend now, someone important to Rei that she did not wish to see harmed. Plus he had now seen the pictures in the box, read the letter… he knew what she looked like. That was the point of giving him the box, to let those images distract him from the deadly siren effect of the Call. But to allow him into her house when she was dressed like this… Did she want him to see her like this? Did she…
She turned around, walked back to her bedroom, and took off the robe. She reached for one of stylish casual outfits Asuka had helped her select on one of their shopping trips, a white sweater and grey leggings combo. She was not ready to allow him such. He was… She growled to herself. "Stupid fish… why do you make everything so difficult?"
She finished dressing just as the doorbell chimed. She schooled her expression to calm blankness. As happy as she was to see her loves, she was uncertain how to react to Kaworu right now, even if his ability to shape his AT-Field made him just as comforting to be around in one sense. She opened the door.
The smile immediately returned to her face on seeing her loves. "Hello, Shinji, Asuka. And you too, Nagisa."
"Hello, Rei! Ich hoffe dir geht's besser? Du schaust jedenfalls besser aus als der da!" ["I hope you are feeling better. You look more rested than that one, at least!"]" She tossed her head in Kaworu's direction.
Rei's smile grew slightly. Now that she knew Rei spoke German, Asuka seemed to delight in speaking to her in that language daily, and coaching her on improving her accent. Rei was happy to reply in the same, since it made Asuka happy. "Es geht mir besser. Umso mehr, da Ihr beide..."[I am improving. I feel better now that you both…"] She let her eyes sweep in the Fifth Child as well. "...Ihr drei nun hier seid," ["That all three of you are here,"] she amended. She cocked her head, noticing the violin case Asuka was holding, and Shinji's cello case behind her. "Music time?"
"You seemed to enjoy it a lot the last time we played for you, and this is a nice, low-impact way for all of us to help you and the Rainbow Trout convalesce," Asuka confirmed. "A little Beethoven will make everything better."
As Rei stepped aside to let Asuka and Shinji enter, her eyes almost accidentally met Kaworu's. He was as frozen as a deer in headlights, staring at her like she was a Gorgon. "Hello, Nagisa. You may come in."
"Box!" he squeaked. "Moon! Gleep! Beautiful! You! Meeble!" he elaborated.
Rei darted a look over her shoulder. Shinji and Asuka were around the corner into the kitchen-dining area already. She pulled Nagisa inside and let the door close. Once they were safely hidden from outside eyes, she smacked the back of his head. "Shhhh! Stupid fish! Restart your brain and stop talking about it!" she whispered urgently. Rei fidgeted, looking at her hands before forcing her eyes back up. "So… you opened it."
He nodded dumbly.
"And it worked?"
He nodded even more dumbly.
"I am… glad. But do not say anything about it," she said as quietly as she could. "Come. The time has come for us to play together."
"Meep," Kaworu nodded sagely.
+++
Last edited:
Ultra Sonic 007
Trying to keep things simple~
- Location
- Colorado
Canon's final boss, ladies and gentleman.