Ah, more Rebuild LDC! Always a great read while waiting for A&T updates
"We may not have a degree in Metaphysical Biology, but we know innately about the mechanics of the soul, due to our nature." Kaworu gave his two cents. "A wandering soul, a soul with no AT-Field, can be for however long their constitution dictates, but eventually they are called to rebirth. It's one of the many natural process of this world, such as the water cycle or the Lunar phases."
"Which is how life goes on, despite death." Ritsuko recalled her education. "It still doesn't explain how he found a way into Unit-01 though. And in this supposedly weakened state."
"I know better than anyone how the wandering soul works." Spoke Rei. "A core can capture a soul. We know this empirically. A core could store multiple souls. We also know this empirically. You have devices to find and salvage wandering souls. And I know that the wandering soul has some autonomy. It tries to seek out somewhere, something, seemingly significant to it. Eventually it would be drawn to rebirth, one way or another. Either by finding a new shell, as I did, or a new life."
"Can they resist that process?"
"It weakens the constitution, but yes, they could resist. It's ultimately a futile endeavour however; eventually they will become so weak that they cannot resist rebirth. I believe his soul was resistive, unaccepting of his death. Hence his weaker light."
Ritsuko snuffed out the cigarette and rummaged through a cupboard. "...can you see them? Wanderers, I mean?" She bought out a machine, appearing like a waist worn oscilloscope attached via a thick cable to a PDA with wide antenna. "You already know of the Recovery Device. It's what we used when we salvaged your soul."
"I can sense them. If I concentrate, I can visualise them." She closed her eyes. There weren't any wandering souls in the vicinity of the Geofront, only the light of others. Ritsuko's machine would've backed this fact up, had it been powered.
"Seeing the light of living beings is trivial for me, as they have the AT-Field. Wandering souls don't have this. Instead of appearing normally to me, they appear to me like a ball of iridescent light, floating around seemingly aimlessly. I'd liken it to a firefly."
Ah, interesting idea! Pretty neat to come up wi-
"...That sounds like something in a book I've read. She see pyreflies."
"...pyreflies?"
She nodded her bandaged head. "Sparkling light that represents life energy. In this story, when someone dies, they simply don't just do whatever the hell the soul does in our world. Their spirit has to be guided to its final rest, especially if they don't want to go. You can tell they pretty much mixed Met Bio and folklore, least what I know of the two."
-aaaah, it's a book reference. Still, neat, and fits with what we know about soul rebirth and the Chamber of Guf in canon. What book is that from?
Re: "Your thinking is linear, Shinji and Asuka. We don't know if this is from the same Earth as the Laserdiscs."
Kaw: "And considering the differences between the two so far.
A: "...oh shit, you're right. This could've come from another world than the Laserdiscs."
Ooooor, though Asuka would find it hard to believe, maybe somehow the series was actually popular and got a reboot?
Maya became a strawberry.
Proceeding to read the rest of this with Maya as a one-inch talking berry.
Re: "Though having someone of the opposite sex is quite a nice thing, I'd think."
Kaw: "Ritsuko and Ibuki are doing quite alright for themselves, don't you think?"
Heh. I was thinking the same sort of thing just before reading Kaworu's line.
He was left alone, the morning sun shining down on a framed photograph. A girl, wearing glasses, in a pink plugsuit. The last light in his world, snuffed out over a year ago.
Nooo Mari why ;-; you may not have had much backstory but I don't want to hear you got killed offscreen
The pyrefly drifted into his hand and rested. He could feel a warmth as it made its presence known. Emotion flooded in, emotion that was not his own.
"...Ramiel."
query pensive kin brother Tabris "b-brother. i am ashamed y-you had to f-f-f-find me in such a st-state."
Uh oh. Incoming feels.
"If it's any consolation, you were the second most powerful of the Angels. It took the whole capabilities of our nation to bring you low."
Was Ramiel or Armisael stronger? Ramiel's beam was certainly powerful, but Armisael was more haxx on top of being pretty strong...
Kaworu's anguish could be heard from a mile away.
I'm too feelsed by that line to make an acoustics/AT field joke ;-;
Ri: "Good, cause it's not changing. Not over my dead body. I'm far too used to it, it'll interrupt our workflow."
Mi: "Every change to the systems I propose breaks your workflow." She deadpanned.
Reference found: xkcd!
Possible reference found: Futurama! (Maya's EvAbridged line would have worked too.)
Re: "You know, you were the first boy to make it that far with me, Shinji. You could've at least bought me dinner first."
Reference found: EvAbridged! (Sadly, they probably are not going to see the video or related ones, so we probably are not going to see Asuka's response to "I'M PERMANENTLY MENSTRUATING!"
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A good read as always! Thank you BG Character for your time and effort making these
Meanwhile, in a certain dimension outside of space and time.
Shub-Niggurath: [Laughing uncontrolably] "Omigoshthelookonhisface!"
Yog-Sothoth: "I KNOW, RIGHT? MAN, LENDING MY POWERS TO THAT LELIEL AND THOSE SEELE PEOPLE IN EXCHANGE FOR THEIR SOULS WAS THE BEST DEAL I EVER MADE. AND THAT INCLUDES THAT ONE WITH THE LADY IN DUNWICH." Yoggy tossed some souls in one of his many seven-dimensional mouths, swallowing them like popcorn. "I WONDER HOW THOSE KIDS ARE DOING?"
Shubby: "Mine are fine. I think yours with that woman got sort of murdered."
Yoggy: "AH WELL. NEVER LIKED WILBUR ANYWAY. NOW, MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDSON GENDO- HE'S COOL."
(Slice of life Lovecraft/Eva world is wonderful
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That's definitely plausible, though considering it was the S2 engine which caused the Nevada Incident in the first place, odds are it's not operating correctly to provide such power. Not like she'd have that much sanity left after spending that much time in the entry plug, though who knows. Maybe whoever was the resident soul bought her into the core right before the life support gave out, and now they're in some suspended animation, lost forever drifting endlessly in the Dirac Sea. Mari in a Mark.x Unit is tempting though...
