- Location
- Colorado
Another suggestion for Kaworu's playlist:
Advice and Trust [NGE]
- Location
- Canada
The voices said "Empty", "Hollow" and "Thud".Why do I get the sense that all of this WAFF is just the lull before a very sharp fall with a very loud "thud" at the bottom?
Now I'm wondering how different that movie must be in-universe, what with smart phones being a plot point.
She probably should tell him. Otherwise he'll ask Shinji for help again.
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- Location
- in the trash
"We get paid?"
"Of course, baka. We're risking our lives to protect the world, the least NERV can do is to provide monetary compensation."
"... I don't even know what I'm supposed to do with that much money."
"Well, Christmas is coming up. I'm sure you'll think of something."
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
And, obviously, he did. And not just Asuka's new bed.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Speculatively, while Shinji doesn't know the real reason Kaworu lacks "Lilim creativity," he may be on some level aware that Kaworu has a mental block with creativity as a whole (maybe they've worked on schoolwork together, it'd show up there too). Cooking is a good way to ease into that, I would think, because there ARE recipes to follow, but there are also an infinite array of possible variations on those recipes that you can create by making one or two straightforward decisions.
akrasiel23
A wraith no more
- Location
- Peru
Kaji is going to be so jealous of the wedding ring Shinji is going to get for his lovely redhead.
MarshalGraves
Warrior of Light
- Location
- Eorzea
Good to be back. Sorry I've been lurking so much, I've had pretty much the year from hell, lately.
Long story short, there have been very, very bad developments in my personal and family life, lately, and I've only just started to mentally recover from all of that. It's been a couple of months since everything levelled off, and I still have nights where I'm terrified of waking up.
This chapter helps, Strype. Thanks, man, for keeping on keeping on, and thanks for the WAFF and good feelings. You have a rare talent, one that isn't recognized enough. But...thank you. Sincerely, thank you.
On to more pleasant things.
My contribution to the Playlist of Dreams.
Long story short, there have been very, very bad developments in my personal and family life, lately, and I've only just started to mentally recover from all of that. It's been a couple of months since everything levelled off, and I still have nights where I'm terrified of waking up.
This chapter helps, Strype. Thanks, man, for keeping on keeping on, and thanks for the WAFF and good feelings. You have a rare talent, one that isn't recognized enough. But...thank you. Sincerely, thank you.
On to more pleasant things.
My contribution to the Playlist of Dreams.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
"Hey, Armisael, the Director wants you on set in 30. Get into makeup."Why do I get the sense that all of this WAFF is just the lull before a very sharp fall with a very loud "thud" at the bottom?
Gendo: ~poses~ "All according to the Scenario."
You get a Death Flag, and you get a Death Flag, and you get a Death Flag... Everyone gets one!
A facet of both of them still dealing with their abysmal self-worth is that both of them have a strong current of 'I'm not worth as much as the ones I love, so it's very important to me they are happy, which will make me happy'. So Rei's happiness is important to both of them a great deal. Now that they're satisfied that Kaworu is serious and 'good enough for their Rei', they're going to encourage them, and cheer them on.
Note the title of the last chapter.
- Location
- RWBY Wiki
Actorsael: I know it's not their fault, but if I ever find the guy who made those string alien prosthetics, I'm gonna beat the shit out of them...
- Location
- Canada
Hell, half of my cooking (admittedly barbecue) is "follow your nose".
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Needs a comma after "your", since the "um" is always an interjection.
Okay
okay
No capital after a colon, unless it's a proper noun or name (or acronym).
Okay
Those dashes should be em-dashes. Or just two dashes in a row if you're feeling lazy.
okay
The comma after "Shinji" should be a semi-colon.
The "She" should not be capitalized.
The dash should be an em-dash.
The "I" should be capitalized.
The "A" should be undercase.
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Apostrophe at the start must go.
This part seems somewhat awkward, with no description of Shinji going from shock/surprise to calmly handing Rei her present.
Maybe say 'just so lost' to emphasize this statement.
What he said. Assuming it was a mistake on the writer's part, and not Kaworu's.
That's just the pronunciation for 'ok', though.
Not really; a colon is a sentence-ending punctuation mark, like the period/full stop and question/exclamation mark. Therefore, the 'A' should stay capitalized.
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
- Pronouns
- He/Him
No, that's the spelling for "okay". "ok" isn't a word--it literally follows none of the pronunciation rules of the language. In no other word does "k" by itself get pronounced as "kay". And no, acronyms and slang don't count.
I mean, it's the equivalent is saying "u" instead of "you".
Er, no? It's not a sentence-ending punctuation mark, since it isn't a period, exclamation point, or a question mark (or even an ellipses or em-dash when used in dialog). A colon not just a semi-colon with a capitalized word following it, either.
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Death_Sheep
Cat Owned
- Location
- Wisconsin
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If you really want to be pedantic, "okay" is just the most common way today of writing what used to be written, "O.K.", but I've seen "OK", "ok", and in early 20th Century works, "okeh". Expecting consistent relationships between English spelling and pronunciation is a bit like expecting a cat to do what you tell it to.
You're absolutely right about colons not being sentence-ending punctuation marks in English.
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Lord Sovereign
The Emperor of shitty fanfic
- Location
- England
SeaSirocco
Formerly 'Sanae Aran' / Aspiring Artist
- Location
- The Seaside
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Here are some of my suggestions for the playlist.
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
If it leads into an explanation, as Strypgia's sentence did, it is: Punctuation: Colon | Punctuation Rules
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Death_Sheep
Cat Owned
- Location
- Wisconsin
- Pronouns
- He/Him
No, it's not. The only reason that the first word after the colon is capitalized in the example on the page you linked is that it's part of a direct quotation. The case that SaltyWaffles pointed out isn't, and should not be capitalized.
- Location
- in the trash
Matt R
Giant Robot Pilot
- Location
- North Dakota
Great, now this line has me trying to picture the whole thing rendered as a Kabuki play or some such...
"Oh, give it a rest, Gendo. We all know you're a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Oryou Sonozaki School of 'Looking-Way-More-In-Control-Than-You-Actually-Are.'"
On a more sober note, Armisael will be tricky, given how it was defeated in canon. Rei or Kaworu sacrificing themselves to save the others remains a distinct possibility; Dr. Akagi hinted that in a pinch she might be able to salvage a Rei clone (by stitching one together from what's left of the Reiquarium? Holy Franken Fran, Ritsuko!
), while SEELE might have reason to resurrect Kaworu from their own facilities (although I'm not sure what that reason might be, if they really sent him to NERV primarily to die). Main problem there is that Rei's on a pretty old backup (pre-Kaworu, if I remember right), while it's unlikely that Kaworu has any memory backups of his time in Tokyo-3, either. So one or the other would be trying to rebuild the relationship almost from scratch afterwards.IMHO more likely is that Kaworu, Rei, or both ends up 'breaking cover' to defeat Armisael, throwing whatever plans they were making on how to control the release of that information out the window. Hopefully Kaworu's got a backup plan on what to say if he does end up outing himself. Maybe wave a flag of truce, introduce himself as the Angels' ambassador, apologize abjectly both for what his more thickheaded brethren have done and for not being able to do more to stop them until now, and offer to help dispose of a certain highly dangerous object before the wrong parties use it again and wipe out the other half of humanity...
EDIT: Or, to make things really squirrelly, Armisael attacks in the middle of the round-robin dual-synchronization experiment, and the Children get sortied like that...
EDIT EDIT: Wait, was that strictly a cross-synch test, or a multi-synch dual pilot test?
Oh bloody hell... Kaworu sorties in Unit-00 vs Armisael, sacrifices himself and Unit-00, the freed Rei I soul fragment recombines with Rei II, Kaworu's soul gets dragged along, and now Kaworu's sharing headspace with Rei III until she can figure out how to get enough LCL in one place to put him back in a body of his own without Gendo noticing...
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Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Given that in canon, Armisael seems to react to AT Fields, hypothetically, Rei and Kaworu could play a kind o AT Field ping pong, keeping the Angel busy until a solution (or sufficient overkill) can be found.On a more sober note, Armisael will be tricky, given how it was defeated in canon. Rei or Kaworu sacrificing themselves to save the others remains a distinct possibility; Dr. Akagi hinted that in a pinch she might be able to salvage a Rei clone (by stitching one together from what's left of the Reiquarium? Holy Franken Fran, Ritsuko!
IMHO more likely is that Kaworu, Rei, or both ends up 'breaking cover' to defeat Armisael, throwing whatever plans they were making on how to control the release of that information out the window. Hopefully Kaworu's got a backup plan on what to say if he does end up outing himself. Maybe wave a flag of truce, introduce himself as the Angels' ambassador, apologize abjectly both for what his more thickheaded brethren have done and for not being able to do more to stop them until now, and offer to help dispose of a certain highly dangerous object before the wrong parties use it again and wipe out the other half of humanity...
Practically though....
Matt R
Giant Robot Pilot
- Location
- North Dakota
Given that in canon, Armisael seems to react to AT Fields, hypothetically, Rei and Kaworu could play a kind o AT Field ping pong, keeping the Angel busy until a solution (or sufficient overkill) can be found.
Practically though....
I also had a notion of how the Armisael scenario plays out where Rei, with a much stronger sense of self now, instead of simply blowing up her EVA, instead engages Armisael in a mental battle, where she tries to destroy its ego borderline (and hopefully its AT-field) by attacking its own sense of self through logic and rhetoric. Failing this, she cranks up her synch ratio as high as she can to maximize feedback, then stabs her own EVA in the leg with its progressive knife, trusting that living with constant pain for her entire existence has given her a higher tolerance for it than the Angel. Once the 'doppelganger' in their shared mental space is pretty much unresponsive, she crawls over and strangles it.
JennyDracos
Eccentric Hugging Lady
- Location
- Chicago
Or there's the really horrifying thought that's been whispering to me: Armisael might be the 17th Angel. If this cross-synch test goes spectacularly wrong, and Kaworu loses his ability to resist the Call?
Please, don't, Strypgia, please!
Please, don't, Strypgia, please!