I didn't know this existed three days ago.
Now a manageable, reasonable amount of my happiness depends on this having a satisfying conclusion.
Not too much. That'd be weird.
But enough to mention. I have it friggin' downloaded on my phone.
So, yeah. Holy shit that opening . That's the most I've gotten hyped over a fan work in a while.
Now that I've caught up, the only thing I'd say as a critique is that Shinji and Asuka seem to be coming off a bit too well adjusted. Love can conquer all, but it needs to work harder for it in Eva. I hope the story goes into more negative consequences for their co-dependency. They are screwed up kids.
Heh. Glad to hear. To assuage your fears, I do have plans laid out for Chapters 8 to 12 and an epilogue. I fully intend to keep on going and finish. However, I was laid off in mid-March, and this totally threw off my writing routine and time. I have only few weeks of reserves left in which to find a job.
But I do intend to finish A&T. It's become too much fun for me not to, and I want to 'see' the end as much as anyone. I've read a lot of Eva fic, but I've never seen an end like what I've got in mind. Fix fic? I suppose so, but I've always thought what made Eva such a great tragedy was how close the characters came to finding a way to win and missing the chance. Everything started to fall apart after the kiss went wrong, faster and faster until the world itself went right along. This is just what might have happened if things
hadn't gone wrong. I firmly believe that victory is always possible. Note that even in canon, the worst didn't come until the characters themselves just
gave up.
As for our favorite couple being too well-adjusted? Well, there's a lot more mutual counseling and healing going on at nights that doesn't make it in as I worry that this story gets a bit wordy as it is. I try to make sure plot relevant ones get in. That's what is in store for the next piece, in fact: the out-of-sequence scene where Asuka triggers Shinji's memory of witnessing his mother vanish that Stargrave pointed out was missed.
In fact, congratulations,
@WordsWordsWords, you've jogged my own memory of what I wanted to do to get myself moving again. So here's the announcement:
Tomorrow we're doing it live.
I'm going to write and post that scene tomorrow. I'll be on the IRC as I do it if anyone wants to watch, comment, whatever. Updates may or may not be put up in here as we progress, but by the end of tomorrow, East Coast US time, we're going to have at least one new scene for Advice and Trust up, or my name's not Malcolm Reynolds!
Hint: it's not.
I suspect that if Arael tries to mindrape Asuka, she's gonna smash it in the beak with her planet-sized ego.
~giggles~ Oh, remember how certain things went in that fight, who's and why's.
Armisael's gonna be trickier, considering how it basically ignored all attempts to hurt it other than Rei blowing herself up.
~giggles harder~
~giggles
madly~
What's the title of the next chapter again?
