Enough complaining about typos in posts, please.
I
have a story outline, really I do. And I keep getting pulled waaaay off it. Chapter 8 was originally supposed to start with Misato figuring things out. Now, I've got two more scenes before I can even get to the comedy bits that were supposed to be the entirety of the chapter. And they are the kind of scene that are tough and slow to write. I think I've got the momentum to make sure it doesn't take as long as the last gap between updates, though.
"Oh sure, I'm creepy. But a blue haired waif with no shame or emotions whose only desire is to die for Commander bastard, that's A-Ok."
/Sparkles in outrage
I can neither confirm nor deny Kaworu will be played by Robert Pattinson in this fic.
More seriously, Kaworu is
supposed to be unsettling: he's literally inhuman, just pretending and trying to be one. And at the point he shows up, Shinji's falling apart. All the people in his life he might turn to are as bad off as he is or mired in their own problems: Askua's catatonic, Rei is frightening and uncanny as she adapts to her third clone body, and Misato is being consumed by her grief over losing Kaji.
Then this weird Fifth Child appears, and offers Shinji no-questions-asked affection. And Shinji is desperate enough for
any positive emotional attention he goes for it... and feels all the worse when he realizes Kaworu was lying to him and was going to betray him.
Being Shinji is suffering.
Needless to say, things are going to go differently here...