Small red crystalline sphere, about marble-sized.



Strictly temporary, and only a possibility -- I'd expect suddenly finding oneself with all the energy one's body could want might take a little getting used to.



Rei: "No, no, it's brand new! Do you think I'm the kind of girl who would give my loved ones a used S2?"
Not exactly something you hand out like smarties at Halloween!
 
Be absolutely hilarious if they were though

Too far down that road's what blew up in the FAR's face on a societal scale. For a few "trusted agents" (aka her closest friends and dearest loved ones in the entire world -- Shinji, Asuka, Misato, Kaji, Ritsuko, Maya, probably Hikari and Touji as well... Kensuke and the girls are probably too far away from the Scenario to be targets) in imminent risk of assassination, though... it could be tempting. It has to add some peace of mind if the people you're closest to in the entire world can no longer be reliably hurt by anything short of atomic weapons or an Evangelion...
 
Atomic Robo, who has a rant while he fights giant ants. His backup doesn't help him, they're busy arguing about How Giant Ants.

The joke comes back when he visits Tokyo and Biomega attacks, though to be fair Biomega kinda cheats, just like Eva and Angels. (Jet Alone, on the other hand...)
 
Not exactly something you hand out like smarties at Halloween!
Be absolutely hilarious if they were though

Ritsuko (fake-innocently): "Oops."
Gendo: "....why?"
Ritsuko: "One: I pulled my head out of my arse and realized how I was letting myself be used. Two: I asked myself, what's the biggest monkey wrench I can throw into your plans and SEELE's? Three: have you considered accepting Eris as your personal God(dess) of Chaos? Four: SCIENCE!"
Maya (sparkly hearts-eyes): "Sempai!"
Ritsuko: "Maya! Will be be my assistant and do the thing with me? Forever?"
Maya (fainting): "SEMPAIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!"
 
Too far down that road's what blew up in the FAR's face on a societal scale. For a few "trusted agents" (aka her closest friends and dearest loved ones in the entire world -- Shinji, Asuka, Misato, Kaji, Ritsuko, Maya, probably Hikari and Touji as well... Kensuke and the girls are probably too far away from the Scenario to be targets) in imminent risk of assassination, though... it could be tempting. It has to add some peace of mind if the people you're closest to in the entire world can no longer be reliably hurt by anything short of atomic weapons or an Evangelion...

Funnily enough, the idea of handing out wmds like Halloween candy came from a post on an old Civilization 2 usenet board from a player who used cheats to rush build a bunch of nukes and give them away to other civs to see if they would use them on each other.
 
Ritsuko (fake-innocently): "Oops."
Gendo: "....why?"
Ritsuko: "One: I pulled my head out of my arse and realized how I was letting myself be used. Two: I asked myself, what's the biggest monkey wrench I can throw into your plans and SEELE's? Three: have you considered accepting Eris as your personal God(dess) of Chaos? Four: SCIENCE!"
Maya (sparkly hearts-eyes): "Sempai!"
Ritsuko: "Maya! Will be be my assistant and do the thing with me? Forever?"
Maya (fainting): "SEMPAIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!"
Asuka: "I'm the queen of ALL SAIYANS!"
 
Ritsuko (fake-innocently): "Oops."
Gendo: "....why?"
Ritsuko: "One: I pulled my head out of my arse and realized how I was letting myself be used. Two: I asked myself, what's the biggest monkey wrench I can throw into your plans and SEELE's? Three: have you considered accepting Eris as your personal God(dess) of Chaos? Four: SCIENCE!"
Maya (sparkly hearts-eyes): "Sempai!"
Ritsuko: "Maya! Will be be my assistant and do the thing with me? Forever?"
Maya (fainting): "SEMPAIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!"

Keel - "Gendo! Do the thing!"

Gendo - "Ritsuko! Do the thing!"

Ritsuko - "Maya! Do the thing!"

Maya - "Minions! Do the thing!"

Aoba - "...We're what now?"
 
Status update: I've been moved to day shift for 2-3 weeks to cover a gap while the old unit swaps out with the incoming one. It's still 'just' 12 hours a shift, but I'm now monitoring active drone feeds pretty much constantly, so there's no time or computer to write on. I'll have only the couple of hours at the end of a day to write, catch up on SV, talk to people on Discord, etc. I'll try to get some work done on A&T in that space, but there's a substantial chance things are going to have to slow down a lot until I'm back on nights.

Sorry about this, everyone. To try and make up for it, here's the last scene I managed to jam out yesterday morning.

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"Is now 'later'?"

Rei found the energy to lightly scowl at the Fifth Child. "No, it is not, stupid fish. This is far too public."

Kaworu looked around at the public street they were walking down towards their apartment building. A street that was empty but for the four Children. "Ah. Public."

Rei glanced at Shinji and Asuka, walking a few meters ahead of them, holding hands. She looked back at Kaworu, her scowl deeper. "Oh, shut up. How many Section 2 or SEELE eyes are watching us right now?" she said, her voice low.

"There are three separate sniper teams watching us, in addition to the Section 2 distant perimeter. Well, watching me, at least. They are not aiming at you," Kaworu replied, his tone oddly light for the information.

"You should not sound so happy about that," Rei groused. "I do not want any of us to die, and that includes you, Rainbow Trout."

Kaworu shrugged. "I am happy they are not aiming at any of you. And I would not let them harm you or Shinji and Asuka in any case. Even if I had to… reveal myself."

Rei stared at him for a moment. "Do… do not do that if there is any other way, Kaworu. That would be difficult to explain away."

"I will if I have to. I know how much they mean to you. They are almost as much to me. I see and hear so much joy from them, from their bond… I will not let SEELE harm them." He looked at Rei. "Between them and you, I hope than I expected that we can find a way through this."

Rei nodded. "Good. We are all making it through this alive, Kaworu. You are my friend."

His smile widened a hair. "I'm glad."

"Oy, come on you two, not so much whispering sweet nothings to each other!" Asuka called back to them. The happy couple had pulled further ahead as Rei and Kaworu slowed a bit. "We've got music to play and homework to ignore!"

"Yes, Asuka," Rei gave a tiny smile as they caught up.

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On the plus side, you get to yell "YOUR OTHER LEFT!" to the translators telling the ISF where to shoot. On the minus side, you now have a front-row seat to watching the comedy of errors that is our "friends" fighting in Various Places.

Good luck, man.
 
On the plus side, you get to yell "YOUR OTHER LEFT!" to the translators telling the ISF where to shoot. On the minus side, you now have a front-row seat to watching the comedy of errors that is our "friends" fighting in Various Places.
Heh. Has anyone tried leaking footage to America's Funniest Home Videos yet?
 
Heh. Has anyone tried leaking footage to America's Funniest Home Videos yet?

Not to my knowledge, no. That said, considering the punchline is usually anything from SURPRISE ROCKET to SURPRISE SUICIDE TRUCK, it's not exactly going to get very far.

Now, if someone shared some of the footage from Desert Storm where the Iraqis are bombarding the everloving shit out of a point forty meters away from the American Firebase and failing to nudge the guns even a little, that would be worth putting on TV.
 
Small red crystalline sphere, about marble-sized.



Strictly temporary, and only a possibility -- I'd expect suddenly finding oneself with all the energy one's body could want might take a little getting used to.



Rei: "No, no, it's brand new! Do you think I'm the kind of girl who would give my loved ones a used S2?"

Heck, I'll give it a shot. I only ask that should I somehow Tang myself in the process that the container I'm stored in until Rei/Lilith/Ritsuko with SCIENCE!! can put me back into a human shape is clean.

Please no slightly used fish bowl, etc.
 
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