grommile
nasty-minded old cynic
- Location
- NERV-Mercia
- Pronouns
- Traditional/Animate
Backstage incarnation in "not like their role" shocker
Advice and Trust [NGE]
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Backstage!Touji is a thoroughly educated young man who dislikes sport, but keeps himself in top physical shape out of principle and careful thought about longevity. He is extensively trained as an actor, and holds Dr. Ikari in the highest esteem for both his long career as an actor, and his dedication to method acting.
Backstage!Hikari... Well, her respect for the rules could be described as 'meh'. She likes to party, and is a very indifferent student. (She and Backstage!Rei get along famously.) She is only serious on the set. That more serious approach to acting is what first drew her and Touji together.
And I am very glad that you had such a surreal day. More days like that are fun to look forward to.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Quite deliberately, I try to make each Backstage person as different as possible from their 'on screen' selves. So Rei is a social butterfly, Shinji quietly confident and gets along great with his parents, Touji an erudite scholar, Gendo a chill dad loved by all, and Pen Pen an Oxford-educated expert in multiple fields who can fly.
Astray Spiral
Potential Evil Incarnate
- Location
- C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Had to flip a coin to see if you get a like or a funny.Quite deliberately, I try to make each Backstage person as different as possible from their 'on screen' selves. So Rei is a social butterfly, Shinji quietly confident and gets along great with his parents, Touji an erudite scholar, Gendo a chill dad loved by all, and Pen Pen an Oxford-educated expert in multiple fields who can fly.
AOL: You got a like.
wyatt2996
Need me some WAFF
- Location
- Tidewater, VA
Stryp, you magnificent bastard! I am SOOOOOOOO glad i hadn't taken a drink when i read this line... i did, however, just take a drag off of my cigarette and then spent 10 minutes coughing my lungs out in laughter.
- Location
- Canada
Well done Stripgia. Well done. Here is another snipit of the A&T cast seeing another universe. This time, "The Child of Love".
S: Well this is awkward. Asuka and I making out got her pregnant.
A: Well we did not use protection in that universe.
Misa: This is why I was against you two doing it at first.
Kaji: It would certainly cause a lot of complications.
Rit: I can't believe how low Gendo sunk there.
Maya: Boosting her hormones to get her to have sex. That is very despicable.
A: I am just grateful she did it with the Shinji of that world.
Rei: Instead of Bardiel, they got a gravity Angel.
Kaworu: Instead of Zeruel, the got a winged humanoid that played magnifying glass and ant from orbit.
S: That would give you a world class hot foot.
A: Both are dangerous in their own way.
Rei: So this is your child in another time line. Teri Ikari.
Kaworu: She is very adorable.
S: We should have a child when we are old enough.
A: I am sure we will do better than some people we could name.
Rei: We will be with you when that day comes.
S: Well this is awkward. Asuka and I making out got her pregnant.
A: Well we did not use protection in that universe.
Misa: This is why I was against you two doing it at first.
Kaji: It would certainly cause a lot of complications.
Rit: I can't believe how low Gendo sunk there.
Maya: Boosting her hormones to get her to have sex. That is very despicable.
A: I am just grateful she did it with the Shinji of that world.
Rei: Instead of Bardiel, they got a gravity Angel.
Kaworu: Instead of Zeruel, the got a winged humanoid that played magnifying glass and ant from orbit.
S: That would give you a world class hot foot.
A: Both are dangerous in their own way.
Rei: So this is your child in another time line. Teri Ikari.
Kaworu: She is very adorable.
S: We should have a child when we are old enough.
A: I am sure we will do better than some people we could name.
Rei: We will be with you when that day comes.
- Location
- Online
If they think that's bad they haven't seen...that other Eva fic were Gendo did the same to Shinji that was mentioned here before but isn't supposed to be named.
I say this again Styp: I wouldn't mind seeing the Backstage series as it's own fic, and seeing as how this fic is almost over(...well i think it is?)...Quite deliberately, I try to make each Backstage person as different as possible from their 'on screen' selves. So Rei is a social butterfly, Shinji quietly confident and gets along great with his parents, Touji an erudite scholar, Gendo a chill dad loved by all, and Pen Pen an Oxford-educated expert in multiple fields who can fly.
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Heavy Fuel
Ask me for anything but time.
- Location
- 1123.6563.5321
Backstage!Touji is a thoroughly educated young man who dislikes sport, but keeps himself in top physical shape out of principle and careful thought about longevity. He is extensively trained as an actor, and holds Dr. Ikari in the highest esteem for both his long career as an actor, and his dedication to method acting.
Backstage!Hikari... Well, her respect for the rules could be described as 'meh'. She likes to party, and is a very indifferent student. (She and Backstage!Rei get along famously.) She is only serious on the set. That more serious approach to acting is what first drew her and Touji together.
And I am very glad that you had such a surreal day. More days like that are fun to look forward to.
So opposites attract and all that, huh? Backstage! Hikari reminds me of Jan-Micheal Vincent. Great actor, but couldn't put away the bottle.
- Location
- Canada
She'd have to reply with "mon cher" to finish the analogy though.They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're altogether ooky,
The Addams Family.
Great, now I can't unsee the image of Hikari as Morticia.
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Not backstage!Hikari, she's not.
It's more the general idea of her as the Addams' matriarch.
- Location
- Altamonte Springs, FL
Lemme guess: Shinji and Asuka, right? I've had my fill of those fics; particularly in one of the groups I mod, they kept pushing that fic in the group, knowing full well it was banned from being mentioned.
Comedy Omake #92 - Evangelium Puellae Magae 1
BG_Character_592
The Fisherman
- Location
- Australia
I see other people are getting in on the whole MST3K thing
Speaking of which, it's time for the 3rd of theLaserdisc Blu-Ray DVD Chronicles: Evangelium Puellae Magae! (Thanks @grommile for the title suggestion!)
Kensuke gets his dreams shattered, some interesting things are discovered, and they watch PMMM thinking it'll be like Sailor Moon! (It's not! I wish I knew that before episode 3!)
Speaking of which, it's time for the 3rd of the
Kensuke gets his dreams shattered, some interesting things are discovered, and they watch PMMM thinking it'll be like Sailor Moon! (It's not! I wish I knew that before episode 3!)
(Many thanks to @Keradon for the intro idea )
Usually an early day wouldn't be on the table for the pilots, unless they had NERV business.
But with how close the holidays were (and with the tendency people had to leave important things, like getting their special someone a gift, to the last minute), they thought it wise to do all their shopping on a Thursday.
Evidently, Ritsuko had taken the damage of the screen out of Asuka's account, so for once she had to be somewhat frugal when it came to her shopping. Or, at least frugal with her money. Partners can be so great sometimes.
Though, for what it was worth, she did buy Shinji's gift herself.
They were taking a break, enjoying a somewhat late breakfast in the food court, bags in tow, when they noticed a certain group, presumedly with the same intention as them.
"Oi, Ken!" Shinji flagged the trio down, waving in their general direction.
He noticed, and they immediately made a beeline for them. "Hey guys."
Rei took a gander at the three of them. "What burdens you, Kensuke, Miki and Sakura?"
Puellae eyes went wide at how easy Rei plucked their feelings. Kensuke simply chuckled. "That obvious eh?" He pulled up a chair and sat down at their table, putting down his bags. His partners followed suit. "You guys remember the discs we found?"
Nods between the four pilots.
"Lemme guess." Asuka deadpanned. "You found a way to view them and discovered they were cans of immense trauma."
"Y-yes actually." He seemed perplexed.
"How on Earth did you know that?" Kyoko asked, as perplexed at how nonchalant she was.
To a shrug. "Been there, done that."
"That's happened to you guys as well?"
Nods.
"Twice actually." Kaworu added on. "Shinji found material containing us as characters, Laserdiscs in a trash bag. He collected them, and we watched through our lives."
"At least we thought they were our lives." Rei stated, a hint of scorn coming through. "Somehow these two not getting together led to our demise." She pointed to Shinji and Asuka.
"...how?"
"Beats me." Shinji shrugged. "That was a similar story in a second set of material Ibuki found. Except they were on a weird sort of disc, alien to this world."
A curious noise came from Kensuke. "And we didn't know about this material potentially involving us why?"
Shinji shrugged. "It focused more on us, and on more classified materials. Honestly, you weren't even in them after a point." He pointed to the other girls. "And you two weren't in them at all."
"Count yourself lucky you weren't fucked over, like we were." Asuka deadpanned.
Kyoko pursed her lips.
"...you were fucked over." Asuka's head went for her hand. "Should I ask how?"
Collective thinking from the trio. "Honestly it's kinda hard to explain. The show is a bit of a mind melter." The other blue explained.
"We live in a mindfuck, Blue." Asuka deadpanned. "We pilot giant mindfucks and fight giant mindfucks. We can handle it."
"Honestly, it'll probably be easier if we just show you." Kyoko said, flippant.
~
Kaji looked out the window, the serenity of the Earth visible. Ahh, space travel was so easy when you didn't have to carry an Evangelion on your back.
Shame the stars weren't visible. But oh well, he had the company of his private security. And his briefcase.
All the documents a desperate father could want, in the fight against SEELE and against corruption.
But the red planet was millions of miles away. Who knows what on Earth was going on there.
He looked out the porthole, out into space.
~
A hymn of the faithful filled a hall.
There stood one, but the voice was legion.
A prophecy.
The words were firmly planted into her mind, a language few truly understood.
She could say the words, but she did not yet understand them.
She will eventually come to know the meaning of the words that escaped her.
For now, she would sing with the choir.
Samia dostia
Ari aditia
Tori adito Madora
~
Ritsuko and Maya were still sweeping up glass from Asuka's little stunt. At least she heard from Misato that she admonished her. Eventually.
The TV was still there, actually. Embedded in the floor, the crane having folded in on iteself during its attempt to lift it.
So now, it served as an eternal monument to Asuka's rage.
Meanwhile, the Sempai and Kohai, deciding that Unit-01 won't be going anywhere (hopefully), were working on other miscellaneous tasks. Specifically, brainstorming ideas that stemmed from the theatrical timeline (a name they settled on after a few minutes of confusion as to what to call it).
"So we've already ruled out implementing a dual plug with traditional designs, which counts out retrofitting the Old-Type Evangelion."
"Have we ruled out New-Type?"
Shaking of the head. "New-Type could work." Writing on the whiteboard. "I think a dual plug design would have to square the effectiveness in order to be worth its while."
"Oh for sure." Diagrams were being drawn, two brains and a pictograph of an Evangelion. "Synchronising would have to be modified as well. We could apply a drifting system, as you suggested, to sync both pilots and Eva."
"Issue with synchronising pilots in addition to the Eva, is they need to be compatible." Notes were being added and scratched as they went. This sort of brainstorming was immensely enjoyable for them, almost on par with sex. Just being able to come up with "new" ideas and that, it was damn satisfying. "They'd have to have some common ground, like a shared memory or something. This only really leaves siblings and partners, and the problem with the latter is that love is a fickle thing."
"So overall, it seems less intuitive than our current, single plug system."
"Yes." Spoke Dr Deadpan. "It would be cheaper, I suppose, doubling up pilots. But overall it seems more unwieldy compared to traditional designs."
"So we did this all for nothing."
"Oh Maya, it's the journey that matters!" A few laughs escaped her. "Plus, other NERV installations might find this useful."
A button was clicked, and a large implement slowly (and loudly) scanned the whiteboard. "There's other things Theatrical had, we could theorise about too."
Maya thought. "Cheap colour flatscreen?"
"...We could look into that. I'm sure the consumer wouldn't mind finally being able to move on from the electron box. Especially since we got the poor folks at R&D trying to reverse engineer those discs you found."
The board was wiped. "Liquid Crystal is still a pain in the ass though." Ritsuko chewed the marker like a cigarette.
Thinking.
"...what if we use diodes?"
~
After a bit more shopping, and once they put the slew of items away, the pilots made their way to the Aida residence.
"Come to experience the trauma?"
"That might as well be the selling point of these materials."
The pilots reacted to Rei's deadpan with a burst of laughter.
The trio weren't as amused. "I assume you three are used to it." Kyoko deadpanned.
Kensuke let them in, and showed them to his room.
"Damn Aida, I knew you were a geek." Asuka commented, whether in awe or in concern was known only to herself.
He shrugged, as they looked around, noticing the various military memorabilia and oddball computer and other electronic hardware scattered around his room. The naval ensign was proudly hung on the wall, but Asuka assumed it was due to his affinity for the JMSDF, not any imperialist tendencies. So, she could stop herself from punching his lights out.
"Fills the room out, doesn't it Asuka?" Kyoko prodded.
"It's much more... diverse than our bedroom, gotta say." Shinji was poking around, particularly drawn to the ship diorama.
"Not like we use it for much." Asuka commented, also poking and prodding.
"I say it makes it more homely." Sayaka said. "Though maybe I'm just used to it."
Kensuke shrugged it off. "It could use a bit of cleaning, but I don't think its too bad knick."
Rei curiously inspected a model Gundam, showing an equally curious fish. "RX-78-2."
"So where do you play those discs?"
Kensuke banged the top of an aquamarine, oddly shaped box, that took up a sizeable portion of the desk it sat upon. "This bad boy right here."
The pilots just looked oddly at the behemoth. "Is that a computer?"
"Yeah, Soryu." Kensuke was proud." Pretty neat, isn't it?"
"...doesn't look like any computer I've seen."
"He found it in a skip, and rebuilt it himself." Sayaka smiled at Ken's pride. "Apparently its better than most other computers a person could get their hands on."
"You guys have terminals right?"
Nods.
"How much memory do they have?"
"Why would I know that, Aida?" Was Asuka's simple response.
"128 megabytes." Kaworu answered for everyone.
"Over 4000 megabytes in this!"
Crickets.
Kensuke deflated. "You guys don't seem to be too interested in that."
Shrugging. "We work for NERV. We have the Magi, which I don't even know if you could say how much memory they have, being biocomputers and all."
"And its not like we're the traditional consumer." Shinji deadpanned.
"Heh, fair enough." He rubbed the back of his head. "So, wanna watch what we just went through?"
"On what?"
Kyoko pointed to a small monitor. "That. We managed it."
~
)Usually an early day wouldn't be on the table for the pilots, unless they had NERV business.
But with how close the holidays were (and with the tendency people had to leave important things, like getting their special someone a gift, to the last minute), they thought it wise to do all their shopping on a Thursday.
Evidently, Ritsuko had taken the damage of the screen out of Asuka's account, so for once she had to be somewhat frugal when it came to her shopping. Or, at least frugal with her money. Partners can be so great sometimes.
Though, for what it was worth, she did buy Shinji's gift herself.
They were taking a break, enjoying a somewhat late breakfast in the food court, bags in tow, when they noticed a certain group, presumedly with the same intention as them.
"Oi, Ken!" Shinji flagged the trio down, waving in their general direction.
He noticed, and they immediately made a beeline for them. "Hey guys."
Rei took a gander at the three of them. "What burdens you, Kensuke, Miki and Sakura?"
Puellae eyes went wide at how easy Rei plucked their feelings. Kensuke simply chuckled. "That obvious eh?" He pulled up a chair and sat down at their table, putting down his bags. His partners followed suit. "You guys remember the discs we found?"
Nods between the four pilots.
"Lemme guess." Asuka deadpanned. "You found a way to view them and discovered they were cans of immense trauma."
"Y-yes actually." He seemed perplexed.
"How on Earth did you know that?" Kyoko asked, as perplexed at how nonchalant she was.
To a shrug. "Been there, done that."
"That's happened to you guys as well?"
Nods.
"Twice actually." Kaworu added on. "Shinji found material containing us as characters, Laserdiscs in a trash bag. He collected them, and we watched through our lives."
"At least we thought they were our lives." Rei stated, a hint of scorn coming through. "Somehow these two not getting together led to our demise." She pointed to Shinji and Asuka.
"...how?"
"Beats me." Shinji shrugged. "That was a similar story in a second set of material Ibuki found. Except they were on a weird sort of disc, alien to this world."
A curious noise came from Kensuke. "And we didn't know about this material potentially involving us why?"
Shinji shrugged. "It focused more on us, and on more classified materials. Honestly, you weren't even in them after a point." He pointed to the other girls. "And you two weren't in them at all."
"Count yourself lucky you weren't fucked over, like we were." Asuka deadpanned.
Kyoko pursed her lips.
"...you were fucked over." Asuka's head went for her hand. "Should I ask how?"
Collective thinking from the trio. "Honestly it's kinda hard to explain. The show is a bit of a mind melter." The other blue explained.
"We live in a mindfuck, Blue." Asuka deadpanned. "We pilot giant mindfucks and fight giant mindfucks. We can handle it."
"Honestly, it'll probably be easier if we just show you." Kyoko said, flippant.
~
Kaji looked out the window, the serenity of the Earth visible. Ahh, space travel was so easy when you didn't have to carry an Evangelion on your back.
Shame the stars weren't visible. But oh well, he had the company of his private security. And his briefcase.
All the documents a desperate father could want, in the fight against SEELE and against corruption.
But the red planet was millions of miles away. Who knows what on Earth was going on there.
He looked out the porthole, out into space.
~
A hymn of the faithful filled a hall.
There stood one, but the voice was legion.
A prophecy.
The words were firmly planted into her mind, a language few truly understood.
She could say the words, but she did not yet understand them.
She will eventually come to know the meaning of the words that escaped her.
For now, she would sing with the choir.
Samia dostia
Ari aditia
Tori adito Madora
~
Ritsuko and Maya were still sweeping up glass from Asuka's little stunt. At least she heard from Misato that she admonished her. Eventually.
The TV was still there, actually. Embedded in the floor, the crane having folded in on iteself during its attempt to lift it.
So now, it served as an eternal monument to Asuka's rage.
Meanwhile, the Sempai and Kohai, deciding that Unit-01 won't be going anywhere (hopefully), were working on other miscellaneous tasks. Specifically, brainstorming ideas that stemmed from the theatrical timeline (a name they settled on after a few minutes of confusion as to what to call it).
"So we've already ruled out implementing a dual plug with traditional designs, which counts out retrofitting the Old-Type Evangelion."
"Have we ruled out New-Type?"
Shaking of the head. "New-Type could work." Writing on the whiteboard. "I think a dual plug design would have to square the effectiveness in order to be worth its while."
"Oh for sure." Diagrams were being drawn, two brains and a pictograph of an Evangelion. "Synchronising would have to be modified as well. We could apply a drifting system, as you suggested, to sync both pilots and Eva."
"Issue with synchronising pilots in addition to the Eva, is they need to be compatible." Notes were being added and scratched as they went. This sort of brainstorming was immensely enjoyable for them, almost on par with sex. Just being able to come up with "new" ideas and that, it was damn satisfying. "They'd have to have some common ground, like a shared memory or something. This only really leaves siblings and partners, and the problem with the latter is that love is a fickle thing."
"So overall, it seems less intuitive than our current, single plug system."
"Yes." Spoke Dr Deadpan. "It would be cheaper, I suppose, doubling up pilots. But overall it seems more unwieldy compared to traditional designs."
"So we did this all for nothing."
"Oh Maya, it's the journey that matters!" A few laughs escaped her. "Plus, other NERV installations might find this useful."
A button was clicked, and a large implement slowly (and loudly) scanned the whiteboard. "There's other things Theatrical had, we could theorise about too."
Maya thought. "Cheap colour flatscreen?"
"...We could look into that. I'm sure the consumer wouldn't mind finally being able to move on from the electron box. Especially since we got the poor folks at R&D trying to reverse engineer those discs you found."
The board was wiped. "Liquid Crystal is still a pain in the ass though." Ritsuko chewed the marker like a cigarette.
Thinking.
"...what if we use diodes?"
~
After a bit more shopping, and once they put the slew of items away, the pilots made their way to the Aida residence.
"Come to experience the trauma?"
"That might as well be the selling point of these materials."
The pilots reacted to Rei's deadpan with a burst of laughter.
The trio weren't as amused. "I assume you three are used to it." Kyoko deadpanned.
Kensuke let them in, and showed them to his room.
"Damn Aida, I knew you were a geek." Asuka commented, whether in awe or in concern was known only to herself.
He shrugged, as they looked around, noticing the various military memorabilia and oddball computer and other electronic hardware scattered around his room. The naval ensign was proudly hung on the wall, but Asuka assumed it was due to his affinity for the JMSDF, not any imperialist tendencies. So, she could stop herself from punching his lights out.
"Fills the room out, doesn't it Asuka?" Kyoko prodded.
"It's much more... diverse than our bedroom, gotta say." Shinji was poking around, particularly drawn to the ship diorama.
"Not like we use it for much." Asuka commented, also poking and prodding.
"I say it makes it more homely." Sayaka said. "Though maybe I'm just used to it."
Kensuke shrugged it off. "It could use a bit of cleaning, but I don't think its too bad knick."
Rei curiously inspected a model Gundam, showing an equally curious fish. "RX-78-2."
"So where do you play those discs?"
Kensuke banged the top of an aquamarine, oddly shaped box, that took up a sizeable portion of the desk it sat upon. "This bad boy right here."
The pilots just looked oddly at the behemoth. "Is that a computer?"
"Yeah, Soryu." Kensuke was proud." Pretty neat, isn't it?"
"...doesn't look like any computer I've seen."
"He found it in a skip, and rebuilt it himself." Sayaka smiled at Ken's pride. "Apparently its better than most other computers a person could get their hands on."
"You guys have terminals right?"
Nods.
"How much memory do they have?"
"Why would I know that, Aida?" Was Asuka's simple response.
"128 megabytes." Kaworu answered for everyone.
"Over 4000 megabytes in this!"
Crickets.
Kensuke deflated. "You guys don't seem to be too interested in that."
Shrugging. "We work for NERV. We have the Magi, which I don't even know if you could say how much memory they have, being biocomputers and all."
"And its not like we're the traditional consumer." Shinji deadpanned.
"Heh, fair enough." He rubbed the back of his head. "So, wanna watch what we just went through?"
"On what?"
Kyoko pointed to a small monitor. "That. We managed it."
~
Key:
Shinji (Sh) Asuka (A)
Rei (R) Kaworu (Ka)
Kensuke (Ke) Sayaka (Sa) Kyoko (Ky)
Shinji (Sh) Asuka (A)
Rei (R) Kaworu (Ka)
Kensuke (Ke) Sayaka (Sa) Kyoko (Ky)
Prologue in Heaven
A: "So we're don't even have a suggestion this show will stay within the real world."
Ky: "God knows how bad your show was then, cuz this was pretty wacky."
R: "Much like our show, I imagine this show was equally traumatising."
Ke: "You think? We're damn lucky this only had 12 episodes."
Ka: "We had 26 and a movie."
A: "Though half of it was in freeze frame since the studio didn't have any money, it seemed."
Sa: "I think this studio at least had some money."
A girl ran through the Lelielian setting.
Sh: "Do you know her?"
Kyoko nodded. "She's a friend of ours, back when we were living in Tokyo-2." A smile. "Never dyed her hair pink though."
Sh: "Well, that's gonna be a problem if these people go through similar trauma we did."
Sa: "It was."
Exit
R: "We don't even know where we are, do we?"
Ka: "The architecture looks alien. An Angel maybe?"
Ke: "Actually, the way this world works looks different than our world."
Rei thought. "Do you know anything about metaphysical biology?"
Shaking of the head.
Ka: "Much like going from traditional to quantum physics, ones understanding of the world breaks down when you picture it through the lens of such a thing."
Sa: "You two know about that?"
R: "We're quite knowledgable about it."
Ka: "You could say it's in our blood."
Snickers between the pilots.
A: "Even though we probably shouldn't talk much about it, considering it's probably classified."
Walpurgisnacht
A: "What the hell is that?"
Ke: "The show call them Witches, but if you wanted to compared it to our world."
Ka: "Angels then. Though we should consider the mechanisms will be different."
Ky: "These Witches are more 'not in this world'y compared to the Angels."
A shrug from Shinji. "We've had a few like that."
R: "Whatever that is, it's wrecking havoc on the city."
A: "I suppose they don't have any Evangelion or other giant mecha to help."
Sa: "This isn't a mecha show. It's a mahou shoujou."
A: "So flinging teenage girls at the problem until its solved." Her flat tone emphasised the apparent stupidity of it all.
Sh: "That's similar to our world I suppose, only we had giant mechs instead of magic."
A: "And you're not a girl, are ya Shinji?"
Kensuke folded his arms, muttering. "...It's always the girls that get these magic powers."
QB
Kensuke, Sayaka and Kyoko all glared at the screen when they saw a weird looking cat animal.
Ka: "What a weird looking cat."
R: "I doubt its a proper species. Might even be alien."
Ke: "Don't worry, you'll all come to hate it."
A: "It looks cute though! How on Earth could we hate it?"
Ky: "Just you wait."
Sh: "...obviously it has something to do with their powers."
A: "Why would it just give away powers like that though?"
Ka: "Obviously it's expecting something in return. Hence the 'contract'."
Laughter between the trio. "You don't know the half of it."
Destati
A: "Oh. It was a dream." She glared. "Well, a nightmare, I suppose."
R: "I imagine it will be prophetic in one form or another."
A: "We never really had any prophetic dreams though, don't we?"
Ka: "Prophecies aren't exactly uncommon in our world. They're usually on parchment though."
Ke: "More secret business?"
A: "I imagine you already know a few things about NERV, Aida."
R: "Considering your father is good at leaving his terminal unattended." A smirk.
He started sweating. "Y-you know that?"
His stressing was interrupted by the OP.
A: "I have a feeling pinkie's gonna be the main character."
Sa: "The focus on her in the opening didn't give you enough clue?"
Ka: "I would've thought one of you two would've been focused on."
Ky: "Oh it gets better, Nagisa."
~
Slice of Life
Sh: "Oh wow, she has an actual family!"
A: "One that really cares for her as well!"
Ky: "Damn guys, just what hell have ya been through?"
A: "We have a show about it, you should watch sometime." She dripped sarcasm. "And just how big is their house?"
Ka: "It's like a mansion."
A: "It's like my German house. Except more abstract."
Sa: "She did have a nice house, quite rare for nowadays. Even though it didn't look like that."
Ke: "It always surprises me just how much make up girls have."
Sh: "Asuka never has that much though."
A: "Then again, I don't really give too many shits about that. I like how I look and so does Shinji, and that's all I need."
R: "Madoka's mother has a point though."
A: "Oh yeah, society can be a bitch like that."
Sa: "Tell us about it." She intoned, flat.
Breakfast
A: "Her family life looks far too stable."
R: "I imagine that will all come tumbling down sometime this series."
Ke: "I'd say you were cynical."
Sh: "At the very least, she would have a taste of something resembling a stable and loving family. We kinda had to make our own."
Ka: "That didn't end up too badly though, did it?"
Ky: "Even just lookin at you lot, I can tell you're all close. Might as well give us the wedding invites now."
They all chuckled amongst themselves.
A: "We haven't made invitations yet."
Ky: "...wait, you're serious?"
School Days
Asuka dodged the question. "Of course she runs with a piece of toast."
R: "Not even I was immune to that trope, you realise."
Sa: "You know, it was really odd to see me depicted in this show. Especially since it's my voice."
Sh: "Join the club. You get used to it." He was flippant. "Not really. Especially when it seems the director was out to get you."
R: "I always wondered how you were able to get away with having dyed hair at school."
Sa: "I may have used you as an example of naturally occurring blue hair, and they allowed me. Oh yeah, thanks for that Ayanami!"
Rei had a confused look. "You're welcome?"
A: "The other girl a friend too?"
Nodding from Sayaka. "Hitomi. We did have a falling out one time over a boy, but we made up before I left for Tokyo-3."
A chuckle from Asuka. "I imagine it was Sakura who helped you with that?"
A smile in reply. "In more ways than one."
~
Sunny Side Up
Sh: "...what the hell is that building?"
A shrug from one of the puella in reply.
R: "Artistic license. A building like that would be impractical in real life."
A: "Find a rich person with money to burn, and they can build some pretty stupid things."
Sh: "I must say though, this teacher is much more interesting than the one we got stuck with."
Ky: "You'd be surprised to hear that this is pretty much what she did, eh Sayaka?"
She snorted. "Sunny side was her, what, 6th? 7th? Of that year?"
Ky: "Might've had more since we left, I gotta ask Madoka about that next time I call."
Ke: "Not all of us are lucky to find someone as easily as we did."
Akemi
A: "What about her?"
Sa: "Yep, Homura's one of our friends as well." She became wistful. "Though... she was never like that."
Ky: "...man, if she knew what she went through in this show, she wouldn't let go of Madoka for a week."
Sh: "They're an item too?"
Sa: "Kinda like us, yeah."
Sh: "...I'm guessing something pretty bad happens to Akemi in this show then."
Ke: "...happened."
Kaworu looked on at Homura with curiosity. "...there's something... odd. About her."
R: "Kaworu?"
Ka: "...I think the term is déjà vu?"
Ky: "You recognise her?"
Ka: "...yes? It's odd though... because I know for a fact we've never met in this world."
'echo.'
'timeline?'
'like I?'
Sa: "Maybe you met her in a previous life."
Kyoko snorted. "You know that sorta stuff is impossible."
Ke: "Considering we live in a world where Eva and Angels exist, we can never be too sure."
The Nephilim continued their mental conversation, eventually coming to the conclusion to discuss at a later time.
~
Enigma
A: "Akemi seems to know a lot more than she lets on."
Sh: "If they're people in our world, then this might be accurate."
A: "In some aspects."
Ky: "I guess your show didn't diverge as much as this did?"
A: "Not for a good while, right up until we got complacent." She glared. "Then the director completely shat on us."
Sa: "That bad, huh." She was flat.
Ka: "I assume it will be the same for you then."
Ke: "Just you wait. A lot of this sounds weird now, but they don't really explain a lot until later."
R: "It's better than our show. They never really explained anything."
Weltstadt
Sh: "Well that boggles the mind."
Asuka shrugged. "Seems easy enough. Find the solution to the quadratic, then divide it by 14."
Sh: "You had to hold my hand through quadratics." He deadpanned.
Ka: "She appears even more mysterious."
R: "I'm sure the music doesn't help. Though it's quite nice."
Ky: "The music in this show was actually pretty great."
A: "Wait a minute, that's the damn Weltstadthaus!"
Ka: "...indeed, what is that doing in Japan?"
Ke: "Where's it usually?"
A: "Germany."
Ke: "...what is it doing here then?"
Nutcase
Sa: "Homura's not like this in our world, you should know."
Ky: "She's much more quiet, and timid. At least when she's not around friends. Or Madoka."
A chuckle. "She completely changes around her. It's pretty obvious."
A: "Much like you two?"
Ky: "We can be subtle about it. Though it helps Madoka she has more... understanding folks."
Asuka cringed. "No wonder you want to keep hush hush about it."
Sa: "At least until we're older."
Ka: "...Maybe Hitomi is correct. About Akemi."
Pursuit
A: "Who's chasing the ferret?"
Ky: "Once you realise what it's done, you'd want to chase it down and rip it to shreds."
Sh: "...Akemi's a magical girl?"
R: "Sure looks like it." She thought. "Maybe the concept of a magical girl could use similar concepts to our world."
Ka: "It's possible they're Nephilim."
Ke: "...that a NERV thing?"
Nodding. "It's quite a bit classified however, so I recommend not talking about it to the civilians, Nagisa." Rei glared, to raised hands and an apologetic fish.
Ke: "We can always pretend to not hear it."
A: "You do know NERV probably bugs this house? Considering your track record."
Kensuke pulled out a phone sized device from his desk. "Not in this room, at least."
Asuka's eyes changed focus between the device and Kensuke, several times. "...y'know, most people would say your paranoid, but considering it's NERV."
He shrugged, haphazardly tossing it on a shelf. "Knowing NERV, they probably know I know they bug this house. So they probably spy on me in another way, but I know that."
Sh: "And yet you didn't know they automatically monitor the phone lines."
Ke: "Ah, but its empirical testing like that that allows me to know."
Rescue
A: "I assume Akemi has a good reason to want to murder that ferret."
Ke: "You'll want to murder it in short time as well, don't worry about that."
A: "Yes Aida, Sakura made that point already."
Sh: "It can't be that-"
The scenery went weird.
A: "Okay, what the hell is that?"
Ka: "Abstract situation, not knowing what the hell is going on? It's an Angel. Well, a Witch in this show."
R: "What is a Witch anyway?"
Ke: "Patience, young padawans. All will be explained in time."
Asuka groaned. "We can wait. We'll be waiting forever for an explanation for our show."
Sa: "Do any of you know what those runes are? We noticed them popping up in this show but none of us recognised it."
Kaworu inspected. "I don't recognise the characters. It could be anything from a simple cipher to a full blown language, but we don't have anything to translate it with."
A: "So lets just assume its there to emphasise how fucked up this whole thing is."
Tomoe
Sh: "She also-"
Sa: "...Yeah. Mami Tomoe. We didn't know her that well, she was senior to us. But we were still friends."
Ky: "...last we heard, she was involved in an accident of some kind."
Asuka became sensitive to this. "...was she...?"
Sa: "...we don't know. Madoka would know more about it, they were a bit closer. But... she doesn't talk much about it. At least over the phone."
Contemplative silence.
Ka: "...we shall hope she fares better in this then."
The trio looked nervously amongst themselves.
Credens Justitiam
A: "Oh boy, it's time for the generic magical girl transformation scene." She snarked.
She looked on, in mild impression.
Kaworu meanwhile listened in on the song that played. Specifically the lyrics.
Asuka's impression of Mami Tomoe grew when she witnessed her take down what she would liken to an Angel, with several thousand muskets. "Alright, credit where credit's due, that was pretty neat."
Ke: "This isn't your regular magical girl anime, you realise."
A: "Other than a few flashy scenes, it sure appears like that at first glance. She didn't even defeat the Ang- er, Witch."
Sh: "...I imagine those two are gonna get into more conflict later on."
Ky: "...That would've been preferable."
~
"So Kyubey's entire schtick is to entice girls into becoming magical?" Asuka incredulously questioned. "I mean, I'd probably take him up on that offer, depending on how many strings were attached."
"There are many, believe me." Kyoko deadpanned. "Do you know how incredibly hard it is not to spoil all this for you lot?"
"Oh hoh, it's probably chewing away at all your minds, ain't it?" She teased. "Shouldn't be too much of an issue I'd hope. Only 12 episodes, we're already one twelfth of the way through!"
"I wonder how much you'd be able to fit in a series that small." Shinji pondered as the credits rolled. "Our series had 26 episodes and a movie, and that was already quite a bit abridged."
"Of course, it didn't really matter too much once everything changed." Asuka spoke in contempt of those frisbee's from hell. "And the other materials involving us were four movies, one of which doesn't even exist."
"At least this show is, from what we can tell, completely separate from this world." Sayaka spoke with relief. "Thank the Gods."
"It's always possible something like that could exist." Rei pondered equally. "Our world is quite a bit odd. Isn't it Kaworu?"
He was still thinking, subvocalising the lyrics to the song he just heard.
'query?'
'song. recognise.'
'how?'
'scrolls.'
Rei's eyes went wide. 'discuss later.'
'ACK'
A chuckle to mask shock as she nudged Kaworu, prompting him to answer her vocal question with a "Quite. However, there are many severe departures from our own reality. I would expect that world to work differently from our own."
Their little conversation remained completely hidden from everyone else. The next episode started in short time.
"Why does this dead standard perform better with video than those damned Laserdiscs?"
~
A: "So we're don't even have a suggestion this show will stay within the real world."
Ky: "God knows how bad your show was then, cuz this was pretty wacky."
R: "Much like our show, I imagine this show was equally traumatising."
Ke: "You think? We're damn lucky this only had 12 episodes."
Ka: "We had 26 and a movie."
A: "Though half of it was in freeze frame since the studio didn't have any money, it seemed."
Sa: "I think this studio at least had some money."
A girl ran through the Lelielian setting.
Sh: "Do you know her?"
Kyoko nodded. "She's a friend of ours, back when we were living in Tokyo-2." A smile. "Never dyed her hair pink though."
Sh: "Well, that's gonna be a problem if these people go through similar trauma we did."
Sa: "It was."
Exit
R: "We don't even know where we are, do we?"
Ka: "The architecture looks alien. An Angel maybe?"
Ke: "Actually, the way this world works looks different than our world."
Rei thought. "Do you know anything about metaphysical biology?"
Shaking of the head.
Ka: "Much like going from traditional to quantum physics, ones understanding of the world breaks down when you picture it through the lens of such a thing."
Sa: "You two know about that?"
R: "We're quite knowledgable about it."
Ka: "You could say it's in our blood."
Snickers between the pilots.
A: "Even though we probably shouldn't talk much about it, considering it's probably classified."
Walpurgisnacht
A: "What the hell is that?"
Ke: "The show call them Witches, but if you wanted to compared it to our world."
Ka: "Angels then. Though we should consider the mechanisms will be different."
Ky: "These Witches are more 'not in this world'y compared to the Angels."
A shrug from Shinji. "We've had a few like that."
R: "Whatever that is, it's wrecking havoc on the city."
A: "I suppose they don't have any Evangelion or other giant mecha to help."
Sa: "This isn't a mecha show. It's a mahou shoujou."
A: "So flinging teenage girls at the problem until its solved." Her flat tone emphasised the apparent stupidity of it all.
Sh: "That's similar to our world I suppose, only we had giant mechs instead of magic."
A: "And you're not a girl, are ya Shinji?"
Kensuke folded his arms, muttering. "...It's always the girls that get these magic powers."
QB
Kensuke, Sayaka and Kyoko all glared at the screen when they saw a weird looking cat animal.
Ka: "What a weird looking cat."
R: "I doubt its a proper species. Might even be alien."
Ke: "Don't worry, you'll all come to hate it."
A: "It looks cute though! How on Earth could we hate it?"
Ky: "Just you wait."
Sh: "...obviously it has something to do with their powers."
A: "Why would it just give away powers like that though?"
Ka: "Obviously it's expecting something in return. Hence the 'contract'."
Laughter between the trio. "You don't know the half of it."
Destati
A: "Oh. It was a dream." She glared. "Well, a nightmare, I suppose."
R: "I imagine it will be prophetic in one form or another."
A: "We never really had any prophetic dreams though, don't we?"
Ka: "Prophecies aren't exactly uncommon in our world. They're usually on parchment though."
Ke: "More secret business?"
A: "I imagine you already know a few things about NERV, Aida."
R: "Considering your father is good at leaving his terminal unattended." A smirk.
He started sweating. "Y-you know that?"
His stressing was interrupted by the OP.
A: "I have a feeling pinkie's gonna be the main character."
Sa: "The focus on her in the opening didn't give you enough clue?"
Ka: "I would've thought one of you two would've been focused on."
Ky: "Oh it gets better, Nagisa."
~
Slice of Life
Sh: "Oh wow, she has an actual family!"
A: "One that really cares for her as well!"
Ky: "Damn guys, just what hell have ya been through?"
A: "We have a show about it, you should watch sometime." She dripped sarcasm. "And just how big is their house?"
Ka: "It's like a mansion."
A: "It's like my German house. Except more abstract."
Sa: "She did have a nice house, quite rare for nowadays. Even though it didn't look like that."
Ke: "It always surprises me just how much make up girls have."
Sh: "Asuka never has that much though."
A: "Then again, I don't really give too many shits about that. I like how I look and so does Shinji, and that's all I need."
R: "Madoka's mother has a point though."
A: "Oh yeah, society can be a bitch like that."
Sa: "Tell us about it." She intoned, flat.
Breakfast
A: "Her family life looks far too stable."
R: "I imagine that will all come tumbling down sometime this series."
Ke: "I'd say you were cynical."
Sh: "At the very least, she would have a taste of something resembling a stable and loving family. We kinda had to make our own."
Ka: "That didn't end up too badly though, did it?"
Ky: "Even just lookin at you lot, I can tell you're all close. Might as well give us the wedding invites now."
They all chuckled amongst themselves.
A: "We haven't made invitations yet."
Ky: "...wait, you're serious?"
School Days
Asuka dodged the question. "Of course she runs with a piece of toast."
R: "Not even I was immune to that trope, you realise."
Sa: "You know, it was really odd to see me depicted in this show. Especially since it's my voice."
Sh: "Join the club. You get used to it." He was flippant. "Not really. Especially when it seems the director was out to get you."
R: "I always wondered how you were able to get away with having dyed hair at school."
Sa: "I may have used you as an example of naturally occurring blue hair, and they allowed me. Oh yeah, thanks for that Ayanami!"
Rei had a confused look. "You're welcome?"
A: "The other girl a friend too?"
Nodding from Sayaka. "Hitomi. We did have a falling out one time over a boy, but we made up before I left for Tokyo-3."
A chuckle from Asuka. "I imagine it was Sakura who helped you with that?"
A smile in reply. "In more ways than one."
~
Sunny Side Up
Sh: "...what the hell is that building?"
A shrug from one of the puella in reply.
R: "Artistic license. A building like that would be impractical in real life."
A: "Find a rich person with money to burn, and they can build some pretty stupid things."
Sh: "I must say though, this teacher is much more interesting than the one we got stuck with."
Ky: "You'd be surprised to hear that this is pretty much what she did, eh Sayaka?"
She snorted. "Sunny side was her, what, 6th? 7th? Of that year?"
Ky: "Might've had more since we left, I gotta ask Madoka about that next time I call."
Ke: "Not all of us are lucky to find someone as easily as we did."
Akemi
A: "What about her?"
Sa: "Yep, Homura's one of our friends as well." She became wistful. "Though... she was never like that."
Ky: "...man, if she knew what she went through in this show, she wouldn't let go of Madoka for a week."
Sh: "They're an item too?"
Sa: "Kinda like us, yeah."
Sh: "...I'm guessing something pretty bad happens to Akemi in this show then."
Ke: "...happened."
Kaworu looked on at Homura with curiosity. "...there's something... odd. About her."
R: "Kaworu?"
Ka: "...I think the term is déjà vu?"
Ky: "You recognise her?"
Ka: "...yes? It's odd though... because I know for a fact we've never met in this world."
'echo.'
'timeline?'
'like I?'
Sa: "Maybe you met her in a previous life."
Kyoko snorted. "You know that sorta stuff is impossible."
Ke: "Considering we live in a world where Eva and Angels exist, we can never be too sure."
The Nephilim continued their mental conversation, eventually coming to the conclusion to discuss at a later time.
~
Enigma
A: "Akemi seems to know a lot more than she lets on."
Sh: "If they're people in our world, then this might be accurate."
A: "In some aspects."
Ky: "I guess your show didn't diverge as much as this did?"
A: "Not for a good while, right up until we got complacent." She glared. "Then the director completely shat on us."
Sa: "That bad, huh." She was flat.
Ka: "I assume it will be the same for you then."
Ke: "Just you wait. A lot of this sounds weird now, but they don't really explain a lot until later."
R: "It's better than our show. They never really explained anything."
Weltstadt
Sh: "Well that boggles the mind."
Asuka shrugged. "Seems easy enough. Find the solution to the quadratic, then divide it by 14."
Sh: "You had to hold my hand through quadratics." He deadpanned.
Ka: "She appears even more mysterious."
R: "I'm sure the music doesn't help. Though it's quite nice."
Ky: "The music in this show was actually pretty great."
A: "Wait a minute, that's the damn Weltstadthaus!"
Ka: "...indeed, what is that doing in Japan?"
Ke: "Where's it usually?"
A: "Germany."
Ke: "...what is it doing here then?"
Nutcase
Sa: "Homura's not like this in our world, you should know."
Ky: "She's much more quiet, and timid. At least when she's not around friends. Or Madoka."
A chuckle. "She completely changes around her. It's pretty obvious."
A: "Much like you two?"
Ky: "We can be subtle about it. Though it helps Madoka she has more... understanding folks."
Asuka cringed. "No wonder you want to keep hush hush about it."
Sa: "At least until we're older."
Ka: "...Maybe Hitomi is correct. About Akemi."
Pursuit
A: "Who's chasing the ferret?"
Ky: "Once you realise what it's done, you'd want to chase it down and rip it to shreds."
Sh: "...Akemi's a magical girl?"
R: "Sure looks like it." She thought. "Maybe the concept of a magical girl could use similar concepts to our world."
Ka: "It's possible they're Nephilim."
Ke: "...that a NERV thing?"
Nodding. "It's quite a bit classified however, so I recommend not talking about it to the civilians, Nagisa." Rei glared, to raised hands and an apologetic fish.
Ke: "We can always pretend to not hear it."
A: "You do know NERV probably bugs this house? Considering your track record."
Kensuke pulled out a phone sized device from his desk. "Not in this room, at least."
Asuka's eyes changed focus between the device and Kensuke, several times. "...y'know, most people would say your paranoid, but considering it's NERV."
He shrugged, haphazardly tossing it on a shelf. "Knowing NERV, they probably know I know they bug this house. So they probably spy on me in another way, but I know that."
Sh: "And yet you didn't know they automatically monitor the phone lines."
Ke: "Ah, but its empirical testing like that that allows me to know."
Rescue
A: "I assume Akemi has a good reason to want to murder that ferret."
Ke: "You'll want to murder it in short time as well, don't worry about that."
A: "Yes Aida, Sakura made that point already."
Sh: "It can't be that-"
The scenery went weird.
A: "Okay, what the hell is that?"
Ka: "Abstract situation, not knowing what the hell is going on? It's an Angel. Well, a Witch in this show."
R: "What is a Witch anyway?"
Ke: "Patience, young padawans. All will be explained in time."
Asuka groaned. "We can wait. We'll be waiting forever for an explanation for our show."
Sa: "Do any of you know what those runes are? We noticed them popping up in this show but none of us recognised it."
Kaworu inspected. "I don't recognise the characters. It could be anything from a simple cipher to a full blown language, but we don't have anything to translate it with."
A: "So lets just assume its there to emphasise how fucked up this whole thing is."
Tomoe
Sh: "She also-"
Sa: "...Yeah. Mami Tomoe. We didn't know her that well, she was senior to us. But we were still friends."
Ky: "...last we heard, she was involved in an accident of some kind."
Asuka became sensitive to this. "...was she...?"
Sa: "...we don't know. Madoka would know more about it, they were a bit closer. But... she doesn't talk much about it. At least over the phone."
Contemplative silence.
Ka: "...we shall hope she fares better in this then."
The trio looked nervously amongst themselves.
Credens Justitiam
A: "Oh boy, it's time for the generic magical girl transformation scene." She snarked.
She looked on, in mild impression.
Kaworu meanwhile listened in on the song that played. Specifically the lyrics.
Asuka's impression of Mami Tomoe grew when she witnessed her take down what she would liken to an Angel, with several thousand muskets. "Alright, credit where credit's due, that was pretty neat."
Ke: "This isn't your regular magical girl anime, you realise."
A: "Other than a few flashy scenes, it sure appears like that at first glance. She didn't even defeat the Ang- er, Witch."
Sh: "...I imagine those two are gonna get into more conflict later on."
Ky: "...That would've been preferable."
~
"So Kyubey's entire schtick is to entice girls into becoming magical?" Asuka incredulously questioned. "I mean, I'd probably take him up on that offer, depending on how many strings were attached."
"There are many, believe me." Kyoko deadpanned. "Do you know how incredibly hard it is not to spoil all this for you lot?"
"Oh hoh, it's probably chewing away at all your minds, ain't it?" She teased. "Shouldn't be too much of an issue I'd hope. Only 12 episodes, we're already one twelfth of the way through!"
"I wonder how much you'd be able to fit in a series that small." Shinji pondered as the credits rolled. "Our series had 26 episodes and a movie, and that was already quite a bit abridged."
"Of course, it didn't really matter too much once everything changed." Asuka spoke in contempt of those frisbee's from hell. "And the other materials involving us were four movies, one of which doesn't even exist."
"At least this show is, from what we can tell, completely separate from this world." Sayaka spoke with relief. "Thank the Gods."
"It's always possible something like that could exist." Rei pondered equally. "Our world is quite a bit odd. Isn't it Kaworu?"
He was still thinking, subvocalising the lyrics to the song he just heard.
'query?'
'song. recognise.'
'how?'
'scrolls.'
Rei's eyes went wide. 'discuss later.'
'ACK'
A chuckle to mask shock as she nudged Kaworu, prompting him to answer her vocal question with a "Quite. However, there are many severe departures from our own reality. I would expect that world to work differently from our own."
Their little conversation remained completely hidden from everyone else. The next episode started in short time.
"Why does this dead standard perform better with video than those damned Laserdiscs?"
~
A: "Good to see this show isn't immune to reusing footage from the previous episode." She snarked.
Bath
Sh: "How could anything like that be evil? He's adorable."
Ke: "That's how he gets ya." He spoke flatly.
Ky: "If you do happen to find something like that, please kill him at your earliest convenience."
R: "As you say, this will be explained later on, right?"
Ky: "Yeah, forgive us if our immense dislike of Kyubey comes across."
Asuka snorted. "We spoke all the time during our watch parties, it's all fine. I think we actually missed a few key details due to it."
Ka: "Tomoe has a better apartment than what NERV gives us."
A: "Of course she would. It's not a NERV apartment."
R: "Considering what my apartment was, before the current Commander caught wind of my living conditions."
Ke: "Was it really that bad?"
R: "You know that block of abandoned apartments that were demolished a few months ago? I used to live there."
He bug eyed. "Jeez it really was that bad."
Soul Gem
Ka: "Do you know how ominous a name like Soul Gem is?"
Ky: "Well, exposit your theory on it, and I'll tell you if it's right or not."
Ka: "It's a core. It holds a soul. Her soul."
The trio looked among themselves.
R: "It seems your theory is correct, Kaworu."
A: "Man, they do not know what to wish for."
Sh: "What would you wish for, Asuka?"
A: "Well, I already got all I could want," She smiled at Shinji. "but, you'd wish for something that would be completely impossible in our world. Something like time travel."
Ka: "You do know that's not outside the realm of possibility in our world?"
R: "Plus, one would have to account for the cost of such a wish. Fighting these Angelic beings. Without the aide of anyone else but your fellow magical girl, without anything like an Evangelion."
A: "Knowing how the Angels were like, that probably puts a great deal of stress on these poor girls."
Sh: "And at least we were somewhat trained to deal with the immense stresses of piloting and fighting. These poor girls don't have anything like that."
R: "...do you think Kyubey wants it like that?"
Sayaka thought to herself. "Holy shit, how are these people so good at knowing what happens."
Samina Dostia
Kyubey explained the lore of Witches and Magi.
A: "Well, that explains it then."
Sh: "So the Witches cause all the woe in that world?"
Ke: "I likened it to invisible Angels, yes."
Ky: "It'd be nice if there was such an easy explanation for all the woe in the world."
R: "It's nice to have some explanation on how the world works. For once."
A: "Yeah, normally we just have to work things out as we go. It's nice being told how something works for once."
Rei paid some mind to the song. And then to Kaworu, who was quiet.
'Not Scroll.'
'Not?'
'...Different.'
Sa: "At least you guys aren't the only teens that have to go through fighting horrible monsters."
Chuckles between the pilots. "We can relate with that, at least." Spoke Asuka. "Not the whole Sailor Moon bullshit, but some parts, I suppose."
Telepathy
Sa: "That would be useful though."
Ky: "Telepathy? Of course it'd be useful, being able to communicate with each other without having to actually speak."
A: "Maybe we should get a magical ferret to do something like that."
Chuckles.
'Telepathy great, no?'
'Yes.'
The Nephilim giggled. "Of course, the problem with saying everything in the mind, is the people left stuck in the physical world doesn't know what you talk about."
R: "Which could be useful. If you're talking about sensitive subjects."
Sa: "But then you get Hitomi thinking Madoka and I were doing it." She was flat.
Schooling
A: "Long distance as well. Bet you two wish you had that during Crucifix, eh?"
The Nephilim looked at one another and blushed. "It would've been nice. But we managed."
Ke: "Oh yeah, that was so cool! Flying one of those giant mechs into space, and then landing the rocket it was sent up on? That was better than anything I could think of!"
He continued going on. "Does he do this a lot?" Queried Asuka.
Ky: "Yep." She smiled at him.
~
Rewards
A: "You don't want defeating the enemy to turn into a contest."
Sh: "Cause then you get what happened in our show."
Ky: "Not good?"
A: "Lets just say it ended with me catatonic." Her attempt as masking contempt failed.
Sayaka cringed. "That bad eh?"
A: "Yeah. Does it get that bad with your show?"
Sa: "...that would be spoiling, wouldn't it?"
Rooftop
Ka: "They seem a bit eager to get into a life risking situation with some alien cat."
Sa: "At least I was a bit tentative towards such a proposal."
A: "I mean, you never know if such a thing will fuck you over. As I'm sure it will do, since I'm almost certain this cute bastard has an agenda."
R: "I find it concerning that most girls of that age would answer immediately."
Ky: "Maybe that's why Kyubey goes for teenage girls instead of adults, or boys."
Ke: "I always noticed that with these sorts of anime. Always the girls."
A: "Considering the audience is more often than not otaku, you can see why." She scorned. "Plus, imagine seeing you or Shinji in a magical girl outfit."
Asuka gave a sinister look to Shinji, which was shared by the other girls.
Ka: "Oh Christ. I think they've had a collective idea."
Homura
R: "It's obvious she knows the catch when it comes to becoming a magical girl."
Ky: "Hence why she's so desperate to stop her."
A: "Must be a pretty damn huge catch then."
Sh: "I might as well be used to them by now." He deadpanned.
Sa: "And she still thinks Madoka and I are an item."
Ky: "She wouldn't guess we were an item."
A: "You didn't tell her?"
Ky: "You see how she reacted in the anime, she would've reacted the same way in our world as well."
Prep
Ke: "It was great to see you would've been well prepared to face these abstract monstrosities."
Sayaka shrugged. "It's no Evangelion, but it's better than your fists. Even though I'm still a wet noodle when it comes to that sort of stuff."
Ka: "Some martial arts could come in handy in this situation. At least against non Witch targets."
A: "Or a gun. Several thousand guns, like what Tomoe has."
Sh: "I don't think I've seen a magical girl anime where they have guns."
A: "What magical girl anime have you seen, Shinji?"
Sh: "Sailor Moon, "
Asuka just raised her eyebrow. "Not exactly a wide pool of data."
Ka: "Ah but Asuka, having more than one data point is dangerous. What if you had to change your hypothesis?"
They laughed.
A: "I wish college worked like that." She grumbled.
Light of the Soul
Rei whispered to Kaworu. "That reminds me of how you use your light, Kaworu."
"To search for one of my own?"
A nod in reply.
"...it does have some similarities, doesn't it?"
A: "...that's goddamn Faust."
Ky: "That a German story?"
Nods from Asuka and Kaworu. "He was an alchemist who traded his soul to Satan, for unlimited knowledge."
A: "And worldly pleasures. Which I wouldn't think was worth an eternity in hell."
Ka: "He was an odd man."
Sh: "I doubt a folk tale would explain why a women strolled into an abandoned building like that."
Sa: "Witch's curse."
A: "...don't tell me she's gonna-"
Desolate
A: "...fucks sake, she is..."
Ke: "Witches can be pretty horrible like that."
A: "...it would've been a better explanation than what usually happens."
She grew quiet. The trio realised they had stumbled on a nerve, as Shinji went for her hand.
Gertrud
Sa: "I'd probably put a bat like that up on a mantle before using it as a weapon."
Ka: "Then again, only the greatest of weapons get placed on the mantle."
Sh: "Man, Tomoe really knows how to use a gun."
A: "...I don't think they're even proper guns."
R: "Imagine if, whenever we had to defeat Angels, we had to traverse through an abstract maze every time."
A: "Knowing this world, it would've sapped at our sanity until we were babbling in a padded cell."
The pilots eyes went wide as they saw the Witch.
Ka: "At the very least, the Angels were actually present in this plane of existence."
A: "...All this hidden Witch business kinda reminds me of how Leliel worked. Though Leliel was much more boring than this."
Ka: "...Gertrud. What an odd name for an Angel. Or a Witch in this case."
Sh: "They actually subtitled those runes."
Ka: "...so they did. We have a few pieces of that puzzle now."
Tiro Finale
They looked on as the magical gunslinger completely destroyed the Ange- Witch.
With a positively massive gun, that wouldn't look out of place being handled by an Evangelion.
A: "...holy shit, she's pretty awesome."
A sad little smile from Sayaka. "She was always a bit like that."
Ka: "I assume the Grief Seed is the soul of the Witch."
R: "It's in a similar form to the Soul Gem, so I would-" She stopped dead in her tracks, and thought. "Why is the Grief Seed similar to a Soul Gem?"
Sa: 'Holy shit, how does she do that?'
Ka: "An odd thing, isn't it? If Witches and magical girls embody similar concepts, then it would make sense their "vessels" were similar."
R: "I suppose, but I suspect there's something odd going on."
Sh: "Only two episodes in, and your alarms are already going off?"
Bad Dream
A: "At least Tomoe seems to enjoy doing that."
Sh: "Kinda reminds me of Makinami."
A: "Which Makinami?"
Sh: "Judging by the reports, either." He deadpanned.
Ky: "She a pilot too?"
Solemn nods. "Ken, you know of the Nevada incident, don't you?"
Ke: "Ye- Oh. Oh shit..."
Ka: "...You must realise, Aida, that piloting the Evangelion is inherently fraught with risk."
A: "Each sortie could be our last, even if we played all our cards right. Sometimes that's just how it is."
Sh: "...even when you don't go into battle, you could still end up dead. Like my mother."
Kensuke went pale. He could relate.
"But that's how war is like." Rei added on. "War is hell, as they say."
Kensuke quietly thought to himself. "...I know war is hell. I out of most people my age, I should know that."
"And yet you fetishise piloting an Evangelion like its some great thing." Asuka firmed. "Don't you?"
"...yeah." He was starting to get a few things. "But you must realise that the way you're framed, like you're Gods or something."
"None of us are Gods. We're human." Spoke Kaworu, of all people. "The way Evangelion works, everything they experience we experience."
"...which includes pain."
"Yes." He turned inward. "The Angel named Arael was my first sortie against such... beasts. I was rendered inoperable as it... invaded my mind. And showed me so many things I did not want to see. I..."
"...It happened to me as well." Spoke Rei, holding Kaworu. "It was only through Shinji disobeying the commander, and Asuka finally defeating it, that the attack stopped." She held the fish's hand tight. "If not for those two. Then I imagine our minds would've been torn to shreds."
That made him quiet.
"Did you not know before, Aida?" Kaworu spoke gently.
Shaking.
"...now you do."
"...I'll have to rethink a few things." He admitted. "...for now, lets watch the next couple episodes."
"...wait, just how many episodes can you fit on one of those things?"
"Four."
Asuka gave an incredulous look. "How on Earth did Laserdisc survive but that didn't."
~
Bath
Sh: "How could anything like that be evil? He's adorable."
Ke: "That's how he gets ya." He spoke flatly.
Ky: "If you do happen to find something like that, please kill him at your earliest convenience."
R: "As you say, this will be explained later on, right?"
Ky: "Yeah, forgive us if our immense dislike of Kyubey comes across."
Asuka snorted. "We spoke all the time during our watch parties, it's all fine. I think we actually missed a few key details due to it."
Ka: "Tomoe has a better apartment than what NERV gives us."
A: "Of course she would. It's not a NERV apartment."
R: "Considering what my apartment was, before the current Commander caught wind of my living conditions."
Ke: "Was it really that bad?"
R: "You know that block of abandoned apartments that were demolished a few months ago? I used to live there."
He bug eyed. "Jeez it really was that bad."
Soul Gem
Ka: "Do you know how ominous a name like Soul Gem is?"
Ky: "Well, exposit your theory on it, and I'll tell you if it's right or not."
Ka: "It's a core. It holds a soul. Her soul."
The trio looked among themselves.
R: "It seems your theory is correct, Kaworu."
A: "Man, they do not know what to wish for."
Sh: "What would you wish for, Asuka?"
A: "Well, I already got all I could want," She smiled at Shinji. "but, you'd wish for something that would be completely impossible in our world. Something like time travel."
Ka: "You do know that's not outside the realm of possibility in our world?"
R: "Plus, one would have to account for the cost of such a wish. Fighting these Angelic beings. Without the aide of anyone else but your fellow magical girl, without anything like an Evangelion."
A: "Knowing how the Angels were like, that probably puts a great deal of stress on these poor girls."
Sh: "And at least we were somewhat trained to deal with the immense stresses of piloting and fighting. These poor girls don't have anything like that."
R: "...do you think Kyubey wants it like that?"
Sayaka thought to herself. "Holy shit, how are these people so good at knowing what happens."
Samina Dostia
Kyubey explained the lore of Witches and Magi.
A: "Well, that explains it then."
Sh: "So the Witches cause all the woe in that world?"
Ke: "I likened it to invisible Angels, yes."
Ky: "It'd be nice if there was such an easy explanation for all the woe in the world."
R: "It's nice to have some explanation on how the world works. For once."
A: "Yeah, normally we just have to work things out as we go. It's nice being told how something works for once."
Rei paid some mind to the song. And then to Kaworu, who was quiet.
'Not Scroll.'
'Not?'
'...Different.'
Sa: "At least you guys aren't the only teens that have to go through fighting horrible monsters."
Chuckles between the pilots. "We can relate with that, at least." Spoke Asuka. "Not the whole Sailor Moon bullshit, but some parts, I suppose."
Telepathy
Sa: "That would be useful though."
Ky: "Telepathy? Of course it'd be useful, being able to communicate with each other without having to actually speak."
A: "Maybe we should get a magical ferret to do something like that."
Chuckles.
'Telepathy great, no?'
'Yes.'
The Nephilim giggled. "Of course, the problem with saying everything in the mind, is the people left stuck in the physical world doesn't know what you talk about."
R: "Which could be useful. If you're talking about sensitive subjects."
Sa: "But then you get Hitomi thinking Madoka and I were doing it." She was flat.
Schooling
A: "Long distance as well. Bet you two wish you had that during Crucifix, eh?"
The Nephilim looked at one another and blushed. "It would've been nice. But we managed."
Ke: "Oh yeah, that was so cool! Flying one of those giant mechs into space, and then landing the rocket it was sent up on? That was better than anything I could think of!"
He continued going on. "Does he do this a lot?" Queried Asuka.
Ky: "Yep." She smiled at him.
~
Rewards
A: "You don't want defeating the enemy to turn into a contest."
Sh: "Cause then you get what happened in our show."
Ky: "Not good?"
A: "Lets just say it ended with me catatonic." Her attempt as masking contempt failed.
Sayaka cringed. "That bad eh?"
A: "Yeah. Does it get that bad with your show?"
Sa: "...that would be spoiling, wouldn't it?"
Rooftop
Ka: "They seem a bit eager to get into a life risking situation with some alien cat."
Sa: "At least I was a bit tentative towards such a proposal."
A: "I mean, you never know if such a thing will fuck you over. As I'm sure it will do, since I'm almost certain this cute bastard has an agenda."
R: "I find it concerning that most girls of that age would answer immediately."
Ky: "Maybe that's why Kyubey goes for teenage girls instead of adults, or boys."
Ke: "I always noticed that with these sorts of anime. Always the girls."
A: "Considering the audience is more often than not otaku, you can see why." She scorned. "Plus, imagine seeing you or Shinji in a magical girl outfit."
Asuka gave a sinister look to Shinji, which was shared by the other girls.
Ka: "Oh Christ. I think they've had a collective idea."
Homura
R: "It's obvious she knows the catch when it comes to becoming a magical girl."
Ky: "Hence why she's so desperate to stop her."
A: "Must be a pretty damn huge catch then."
Sh: "I might as well be used to them by now." He deadpanned.
Sa: "And she still thinks Madoka and I are an item."
Ky: "She wouldn't guess we were an item."
A: "You didn't tell her?"
Ky: "You see how she reacted in the anime, she would've reacted the same way in our world as well."
Prep
Ke: "It was great to see you would've been well prepared to face these abstract monstrosities."
Sayaka shrugged. "It's no Evangelion, but it's better than your fists. Even though I'm still a wet noodle when it comes to that sort of stuff."
Ka: "Some martial arts could come in handy in this situation. At least against non Witch targets."
A: "Or a gun. Several thousand guns, like what Tomoe has."
Sh: "I don't think I've seen a magical girl anime where they have guns."
A: "What magical girl anime have you seen, Shinji?"
Sh: "Sailor Moon, "
Asuka just raised her eyebrow. "Not exactly a wide pool of data."
Ka: "Ah but Asuka, having more than one data point is dangerous. What if you had to change your hypothesis?"
They laughed.
A: "I wish college worked like that." She grumbled.
Light of the Soul
Rei whispered to Kaworu. "That reminds me of how you use your light, Kaworu."
"To search for one of my own?"
A nod in reply.
"...it does have some similarities, doesn't it?"
A: "...that's goddamn Faust."
Ky: "That a German story?"
Nods from Asuka and Kaworu. "He was an alchemist who traded his soul to Satan, for unlimited knowledge."
A: "And worldly pleasures. Which I wouldn't think was worth an eternity in hell."
Ka: "He was an odd man."
Sh: "I doubt a folk tale would explain why a women strolled into an abandoned building like that."
Sa: "Witch's curse."
A: "...don't tell me she's gonna-"
Desolate
A: "...fucks sake, she is..."
Ke: "Witches can be pretty horrible like that."
A: "...it would've been a better explanation than what usually happens."
She grew quiet. The trio realised they had stumbled on a nerve, as Shinji went for her hand.
Gertrud
Sa: "I'd probably put a bat like that up on a mantle before using it as a weapon."
Ka: "Then again, only the greatest of weapons get placed on the mantle."
Sh: "Man, Tomoe really knows how to use a gun."
A: "...I don't think they're even proper guns."
R: "Imagine if, whenever we had to defeat Angels, we had to traverse through an abstract maze every time."
A: "Knowing this world, it would've sapped at our sanity until we were babbling in a padded cell."
The pilots eyes went wide as they saw the Witch.
Ka: "At the very least, the Angels were actually present in this plane of existence."
A: "...All this hidden Witch business kinda reminds me of how Leliel worked. Though Leliel was much more boring than this."
Ka: "...Gertrud. What an odd name for an Angel. Or a Witch in this case."
Sh: "They actually subtitled those runes."
Ka: "...so they did. We have a few pieces of that puzzle now."
Tiro Finale
They looked on as the magical gunslinger completely destroyed the Ange- Witch.
With a positively massive gun, that wouldn't look out of place being handled by an Evangelion.
A: "...holy shit, she's pretty awesome."
A sad little smile from Sayaka. "She was always a bit like that."
Ka: "I assume the Grief Seed is the soul of the Witch."
R: "It's in a similar form to the Soul Gem, so I would-" She stopped dead in her tracks, and thought. "Why is the Grief Seed similar to a Soul Gem?"
Sa: 'Holy shit, how does she do that?'
Ka: "An odd thing, isn't it? If Witches and magical girls embody similar concepts, then it would make sense their "vessels" were similar."
R: "I suppose, but I suspect there's something odd going on."
Sh: "Only two episodes in, and your alarms are already going off?"
Bad Dream
A: "At least Tomoe seems to enjoy doing that."
Sh: "Kinda reminds me of Makinami."
A: "Which Makinami?"
Sh: "Judging by the reports, either." He deadpanned.
Ky: "She a pilot too?"
Solemn nods. "Ken, you know of the Nevada incident, don't you?"
Ke: "Ye- Oh. Oh shit..."
Ka: "...You must realise, Aida, that piloting the Evangelion is inherently fraught with risk."
A: "Each sortie could be our last, even if we played all our cards right. Sometimes that's just how it is."
Sh: "...even when you don't go into battle, you could still end up dead. Like my mother."
Kensuke went pale. He could relate.
"But that's how war is like." Rei added on. "War is hell, as they say."
Kensuke quietly thought to himself. "...I know war is hell. I out of most people my age, I should know that."
"And yet you fetishise piloting an Evangelion like its some great thing." Asuka firmed. "Don't you?"
"...yeah." He was starting to get a few things. "But you must realise that the way you're framed, like you're Gods or something."
"None of us are Gods. We're human." Spoke Kaworu, of all people. "The way Evangelion works, everything they experience we experience."
"...which includes pain."
"Yes." He turned inward. "The Angel named Arael was my first sortie against such... beasts. I was rendered inoperable as it... invaded my mind. And showed me so many things I did not want to see. I..."
"...It happened to me as well." Spoke Rei, holding Kaworu. "It was only through Shinji disobeying the commander, and Asuka finally defeating it, that the attack stopped." She held the fish's hand tight. "If not for those two. Then I imagine our minds would've been torn to shreds."
That made him quiet.
"Did you not know before, Aida?" Kaworu spoke gently.
Shaking.
"...now you do."
"...I'll have to rethink a few things." He admitted. "...for now, lets watch the next couple episodes."
"...wait, just how many episodes can you fit on one of those things?"
"Four."
Asuka gave an incredulous look. "How on Earth did Laserdisc survive but that didn't."
~
The Boy
Sa: "That's him."
Ky: "He wasn't in a hospital or anything though." She thought. "Least, we don't think he ended up in a hospital. That kind of injury would've devastated him."
Ke: "Might be a good idea to head down to Tokyo-2 to catch up then."
R: "How long has it been since you last met up with your friends there?"
Kyoko thought. "A fair bit. Should probably make the trek down there sometime soon."
Sh: "Well, there's still a few weeks or so left for the break."
Dangerous Work
Ka: "So they have familiars too."
A: "That's a bit bullshit. All that work and you don't get anything."
Ke: "You get the satisfaction of people not dying."
A: "But I already get that satisfaction when I sortie in my Eva."
Sh: "Maybe becoming a magical girl isn't for you then."
A: "Probably not. If I had a choice between Eva or becoming a magical girl, I'd pick the Eva."
Ky: "Least with an Eva you have some protection against the Angels."
Accident
Ka: "...was this a similar scenario to what happened with Tomoe? If you don't mind me asking."
Sa: "...yeah."
Ky: "...as we said, Madoka doesn't talk much about it."
Grim thoughts crossed the pilot's minds.
Ke: "...it wasn't really online as well, so snooping around didn't help much."
Asuka felt melancholy. "Poor girl. I don't even have high hopes for her show self, honestly."
R: "...we were quite shafted in our show."
Sh: "Hopefully not though. I like Tomoe, she seems like a nice friend."
A sad smile from Sayaka. "She is. Maybe you could come with us to Tokyo-2 some day, we could all meet each other."
A: "Good luck getting NERV to allow that many pilots a few days vacation." She derided. "Also, does Kyubey specifically target the people who don't really have much choice on becoming a magical girl?"
R: "Obviously he wants them to become a magical girl. Hence why he targets a demographic known to make hasty decisions."
Power
A: "So that's why Kyubey's pushing for Madoka."
Ka: "I imagine it knows her potential. Though its odd her out of all people would have that immense power."
Sh: "Well, she is the protagonist of this story." He frowned. "Why wasn't I lucky enough to not get traumatised."
Laughter between the pilots, but the trio kinda gawked at this, as it wasn't the first example of their darker sense of humour. "Your collective sense of humour seems rather warped." Deadpanned Kensuke.
R: "Piloting Eva does that to you."
Shinji chuckled. "Madoka's mother kinda reminds me of Misato."
Asuka snickered in reply. "Only I don't recall her ever being this drunk before coming home. Her father also kinda reminds me of you, Shin-chan." She messed his hair.
Confrontation
Ka: "I wonder why Akemi is pushing so hard to not want Madoka to become a magical girl."
R: "She knows something. I don't yet know what that something would be, but I imagine it's important."
Ke: "You're not too far off, but that would be spoiling the show."
A: "Oh look, they find a Witch before it becomes a problem. Just like we did."
Sh: "Sandalphon in our case would've been a problem anyway. Just like this Witch."
A: "Though that is rather kind of Kyubey to do that for you, Miki."
Sa: "I definitely thought that at the time."
Collage
Ka: "And now we return to the abstract."
Ky: "I found it weird all the Witches seemed to exist in their own realm, yet they could still effect change in the real world."
Ka: "When you compare Angels to Witches, it is indeed somewhat odd. However odd the Angels were, they were at least in our physical world."
A: "Would've made our jobs many times harder if they could hide themselves in another universe. Though Leliel was kinda like that, I suppose."
Sh: "Y'know, I think Tomoe and Akegi's failure to communicate will factor in to upcoming events."
R: "Like failing to communicate factored into our own show."
A: "Except that was a major clusterfuck of failure that resulted in the world ending."
Ky: "Wait, your show ended with the world ending? What the hell did ya do?!"
R: "To be fair, it wasn't our fault. Mostly."
Ka: "Powers well beyond our control. We were but pawns."
A: "Might tell you guys about it sometime."
Ke: "It probably had something to do with those alien Eva, right?"
A: "...Somewhat."
Ari Aditia
Sh: "Madoka kinda sounds a bit like me. Not knowing what to do or who to be."
A: "Except she has had a relatively sheltered life. No big tragedy that changes everything."
Sa: "I thought it quite selfless of her, wanting to become a magical girl not for ones advantage but to help others."
Ky: "Kinda fits with how she's like, isn't it?"
Sa: "...though I hope Mami wasn't like this."
A: "...i can actually relate with her, in that regard at least. It was lonely, being a pilot."
Ke: "Until you found Shinji."
A: "...Yeah, until I found Shinji." She smiled at him. "Him, and my other friends too. At least Tomoe was able to realise she had someone."
Sh: "Though its almost like the directors are trying to make Madoka and Tomoe an item."
Ky: "It sure looked like that. Mami would be horrified."
Chuckles between the puella. "Plus, I'm sure Homura wouldn't like that."
Ky: "Oh for sure. But Mami knows anyway, doesn't she?"
Believing in Justice
A: "Man, she actually looks happy to do this now."
R: "I'd liken it to how you were like in the show, when you truly realised you weren't alone."
A: "Rei, that was literally minutes before I was torn to shreds." She deadpanned. "This show is a bit darker than Sailor Moon, I admit, but I doubt that will happen to a major character."
Ka: "It's good when you can finally let go on all your baggage. I'm sure we all appreciate having friends and lovers to be with."
Nods between everyone.
Sh: "Especially with our jobs. We pretty much need hugs, or other types of business, after each sortie."
Ky: "I can guess what that business is." She deadpanned.
A: "I know for a fact you two get up to that sort of stuff too. Aida's a lucky bastard."
Kensuke started spluttering as everyone laughed.
Charlotte
A: "Aww, look at how adorable that little monstrosity is." She put on her best 'dripping with diabetes' voice.
Ka: "Yet more letters we could add to the cipher." He took a mental note.
Sh: "If the Angels looked like that, we'd probably coddle it to death or something like that."
The trio kept quiet, a collective decision was made to not tell them about anything.
Demise
The pilots just looked on in shock, the trio looking on in wistful melancholy. Asuka was first to speak. "...jesus fucking christ."
Sh: "...that's way too brutal for a magical girl anime."
Ke: "...this ain't a typical magical girl anime."
A: "But that's fucked. Our show was brutal, but that was to be expected. And even then, none of us got decapitated." Her anger was evident.
R: "...she didn't even do anything. She had a good few seconds to react. I think she was blinded by finally having someone to call a friend. Too hasty."
Ka: "...i wouldn't expect that to blind someone to a danger like that though."
Shinji sighed in resignation. "...gods damn it, I liked her too."
"...do you think she was meant to be the sacrificial lamb? To show us that yes, the dangers of being a magical girl are real." Kaworu spoke solemnly.
"...did you have people die in your show too?" Sayaka spoke. Even thought that was her second time witnessing that, she still found it hard to keep composure.
"...not this early." Shinji was quiet. "...they only really started towards the tail end of the show."
"...This is only 12 episodes long." Spoke Kensuke. "They would have to fit a lot more in a shorter timeframe."
"...which means more traumatising moments for these poor kids." Asuka realised. "How much more trauma could they fit in 9 episodes?"
"We should know." Rei was quiet. "They made a whole movie about our trauma."
"...at least with your giant robots, you have some protection." Kyoko was quiet.
The next episode started in short order.
~
Sa: "That's him."
Ky: "He wasn't in a hospital or anything though." She thought. "Least, we don't think he ended up in a hospital. That kind of injury would've devastated him."
Ke: "Might be a good idea to head down to Tokyo-2 to catch up then."
R: "How long has it been since you last met up with your friends there?"
Kyoko thought. "A fair bit. Should probably make the trek down there sometime soon."
Sh: "Well, there's still a few weeks or so left for the break."
Dangerous Work
Ka: "So they have familiars too."
A: "That's a bit bullshit. All that work and you don't get anything."
Ke: "You get the satisfaction of people not dying."
A: "But I already get that satisfaction when I sortie in my Eva."
Sh: "Maybe becoming a magical girl isn't for you then."
A: "Probably not. If I had a choice between Eva or becoming a magical girl, I'd pick the Eva."
Ky: "Least with an Eva you have some protection against the Angels."
Accident
Ka: "...was this a similar scenario to what happened with Tomoe? If you don't mind me asking."
Sa: "...yeah."
Ky: "...as we said, Madoka doesn't talk much about it."
Grim thoughts crossed the pilot's minds.
Ke: "...it wasn't really online as well, so snooping around didn't help much."
Asuka felt melancholy. "Poor girl. I don't even have high hopes for her show self, honestly."
R: "...we were quite shafted in our show."
Sh: "Hopefully not though. I like Tomoe, she seems like a nice friend."
A sad smile from Sayaka. "She is. Maybe you could come with us to Tokyo-2 some day, we could all meet each other."
A: "Good luck getting NERV to allow that many pilots a few days vacation." She derided. "Also, does Kyubey specifically target the people who don't really have much choice on becoming a magical girl?"
R: "Obviously he wants them to become a magical girl. Hence why he targets a demographic known to make hasty decisions."
Power
A: "So that's why Kyubey's pushing for Madoka."
Ka: "I imagine it knows her potential. Though its odd her out of all people would have that immense power."
Sh: "Well, she is the protagonist of this story." He frowned. "Why wasn't I lucky enough to not get traumatised."
Laughter between the pilots, but the trio kinda gawked at this, as it wasn't the first example of their darker sense of humour. "Your collective sense of humour seems rather warped." Deadpanned Kensuke.
R: "Piloting Eva does that to you."
Shinji chuckled. "Madoka's mother kinda reminds me of Misato."
Asuka snickered in reply. "Only I don't recall her ever being this drunk before coming home. Her father also kinda reminds me of you, Shin-chan." She messed his hair.
Confrontation
Ka: "I wonder why Akemi is pushing so hard to not want Madoka to become a magical girl."
R: "She knows something. I don't yet know what that something would be, but I imagine it's important."
Ke: "You're not too far off, but that would be spoiling the show."
A: "Oh look, they find a Witch before it becomes a problem. Just like we did."
Sh: "Sandalphon in our case would've been a problem anyway. Just like this Witch."
A: "Though that is rather kind of Kyubey to do that for you, Miki."
Sa: "I definitely thought that at the time."
Collage
Ka: "And now we return to the abstract."
Ky: "I found it weird all the Witches seemed to exist in their own realm, yet they could still effect change in the real world."
Ka: "When you compare Angels to Witches, it is indeed somewhat odd. However odd the Angels were, they were at least in our physical world."
A: "Would've made our jobs many times harder if they could hide themselves in another universe. Though Leliel was kinda like that, I suppose."
Sh: "Y'know, I think Tomoe and Akegi's failure to communicate will factor in to upcoming events."
R: "Like failing to communicate factored into our own show."
A: "Except that was a major clusterfuck of failure that resulted in the world ending."
Ky: "Wait, your show ended with the world ending? What the hell did ya do?!"
R: "To be fair, it wasn't our fault. Mostly."
Ka: "Powers well beyond our control. We were but pawns."
A: "Might tell you guys about it sometime."
Ke: "It probably had something to do with those alien Eva, right?"
A: "...Somewhat."
Ari Aditia
Sh: "Madoka kinda sounds a bit like me. Not knowing what to do or who to be."
A: "Except she has had a relatively sheltered life. No big tragedy that changes everything."
Sa: "I thought it quite selfless of her, wanting to become a magical girl not for ones advantage but to help others."
Ky: "Kinda fits with how she's like, isn't it?"
Sa: "...though I hope Mami wasn't like this."
A: "...i can actually relate with her, in that regard at least. It was lonely, being a pilot."
Ke: "Until you found Shinji."
A: "...Yeah, until I found Shinji." She smiled at him. "Him, and my other friends too. At least Tomoe was able to realise she had someone."
Sh: "Though its almost like the directors are trying to make Madoka and Tomoe an item."
Ky: "It sure looked like that. Mami would be horrified."
Chuckles between the puella. "Plus, I'm sure Homura wouldn't like that."
Ky: "Oh for sure. But Mami knows anyway, doesn't she?"
Believing in Justice
A: "Man, she actually looks happy to do this now."
R: "I'd liken it to how you were like in the show, when you truly realised you weren't alone."
A: "Rei, that was literally minutes before I was torn to shreds." She deadpanned. "This show is a bit darker than Sailor Moon, I admit, but I doubt that will happen to a major character."
Ka: "It's good when you can finally let go on all your baggage. I'm sure we all appreciate having friends and lovers to be with."
Nods between everyone.
Sh: "Especially with our jobs. We pretty much need hugs, or other types of business, after each sortie."
Ky: "I can guess what that business is." She deadpanned.
A: "I know for a fact you two get up to that sort of stuff too. Aida's a lucky bastard."
Kensuke started spluttering as everyone laughed.
Charlotte
A: "Aww, look at how adorable that little monstrosity is." She put on her best 'dripping with diabetes' voice.
Ka: "Yet more letters we could add to the cipher." He took a mental note.
Sh: "If the Angels looked like that, we'd probably coddle it to death or something like that."
The trio kept quiet, a collective decision was made to not tell them about anything.
Demise
The pilots just looked on in shock, the trio looking on in wistful melancholy. Asuka was first to speak. "...jesus fucking christ."
Sh: "...that's way too brutal for a magical girl anime."
Ke: "...this ain't a typical magical girl anime."
A: "But that's fucked. Our show was brutal, but that was to be expected. And even then, none of us got decapitated." Her anger was evident.
R: "...she didn't even do anything. She had a good few seconds to react. I think she was blinded by finally having someone to call a friend. Too hasty."
Ka: "...i wouldn't expect that to blind someone to a danger like that though."
Shinji sighed in resignation. "...gods damn it, I liked her too."
"...do you think she was meant to be the sacrificial lamb? To show us that yes, the dangers of being a magical girl are real." Kaworu spoke solemnly.
"...did you have people die in your show too?" Sayaka spoke. Even thought that was her second time witnessing that, she still found it hard to keep composure.
"...not this early." Shinji was quiet. "...they only really started towards the tail end of the show."
"...This is only 12 episodes long." Spoke Kensuke. "They would have to fit a lot more in a shorter timeframe."
"...which means more traumatising moments for these poor kids." Asuka realised. "How much more trauma could they fit in 9 episodes?"
"We should know." Rei was quiet. "They made a whole movie about our trauma."
"...at least with your giant robots, you have some protection." Kyoko was quiet.
The next episode started in short order.
~
Hospital
Sa: "...I always wondered why this show decided Kyosuke be crippled."
R: "...It would probably give you an incentive to become a magical girl, you realise."
Sa: "...it is a pretty good incentive."
Ka: "...though I'm sure you realise that miracles like that have their costs."
Sa: "...oh I definitely realised that."
Ky: "It's definitely a decent incentive to become a magical girl. On paper."
A: "Most things are better on paper. Like 'Piloting a giant mech'."
Trauma
Sh: "...yeah, that looks pretty accurate to what I used to be like." He sighed. "You get used to the trauma though."
A: "Yeah... just gotta live through life." She looked on at Madoka, sympathetic. "Poor pinkie's probably got PTSD."
Ka: "...as you would, seeing a friend like that... die." He gave a meaningful look and feel to Rei.
Rei picked up on this emotion. "...and not having many people to talk about it too. We can all relate with that. It's how we used to live, after all."
Ky: "...jeez, it sounds like your lives were trash."
A: "...that's a pretty accurate assessment." Grim. "It got better though. Amazingly, we were able to break down our barriers and help each other get to where we are today. I.e., not dead."
Sh: "...I shudder to think where I'd be, had we not got together."
Sa: "...considering you mentioned the end of the world in your show."
School
Ky: "Yep. This was another rant I remembered."
Sa: "Sunny side came after this one though."
A: "Shinji's right. Listening to someone's disastrous love life is more interesting than listening to the same Second Impact story over and over again."
Ky: "Oh definitely." She said offhand.
Sh: "...this is pretty much how such trauma feels like. Like your life suddenly changes."
Ka: "Of course, it doesn't help that we might as well live a separate life from any other civilian. Like you three." A meaningful glance at the trio, a hand holding Rei's. "But we're lucky, in a way, to have so many friends to fall back on. You and Madoka, you only have one another. And I doubt you'd have the mental maturity to deal with such a thing."
A: "...considering almost all of us here trained for all our lives to be a pilot. Whereas you and pinkie here have only had at most a week dealing with this business."
R: "...it's no wonder they're struggling."
Sa: "...I would struggle in such a way too, if I had to deal with that. Even now."
Ke: "...is piloting really that-"
A: "Yes. Trust me on this Aida. I've been piloting my Eva for over a decade." A glance towards Shinji. "But it was only in the past one or two years that I've actually enjoyed my life."
Kensuke went quiet.
Sh: "...odds are, we won't be needing more pilots anyway. The UN restricted the maximum amount of active Evangelion to five per country, and we have four."
Ka: "...though knowing NERV, they might hire you anyway. You have other skills they could want."
Ke: "...that's true."
Sh: "...at least Kyubey's apologetic about it all."
No Reply
A: "...not that it helps pinkie. Poor girl..."
Ky: "...thing is, this is accurate for our Madoka too. She wouldn't know how to handle anything like this."
Sh: "...has she been particularly sheltered?"
Sa: "...she has decent folks. But realistically, none of us were sheltered after Second Impact."
Ky: "She still wouldn't talk about stuff like this though."
Sayaka nodded sadly. "I'm sure she's told Homura something. But..."
R: "...maybe she wants to wait until you're there with her."
Sa: "...yeah."
A: "...man, Tomoe didn't deserve that."
R: "No one truly deserves what happens to them. But that's what happens."
A: "...Not just death, but... no one even knowing you're gone. That's... thats one of my greatest fears."
Shinji scooted closer to her, to give her some comfort.
~
Break
Sa: "...man, I can be a chatterbox at the wrong times."
Ke: "...yeah. I doubt he wants to be reminded of that."
Sa: "...hence my wish."
A: "...yeah, you do seem quite naive here, Miki."
Sh: "...out of all the things you could wish for though. Wanting someone else to recover from injury is quite selfless of you."
Sa: "...i'm a bit of an idiot, am I?"
Ka: "I wouldn't call it idiotic. I'm sure every one of us would do something like that, if push came to shove."
Zombie
A: "Great, they got her friend."
R: "Maybe this is where she becomes a magical girl. Unless Akemi came to rescue her."
Ka: "Or another magical girl. Maybe even Miki, since it looks like she will form the contract."
Sh: "She really needs to remember to get their numbers."
Ky: "She can be a bit like that. Though its never this dire."
A: "...have we even seen you in this show yet, Sakura?"
A smirk. "Not yet."
A: "...well, hopefully someone's gonna stop this." She shuddered.
Sh: "What's with this show and suicide? This is the second one so far."
A: "...at least pinkie here was able to stop them. Though now they're going for her."
Ke: "...it's better than dying like that."
Kirsten
R: "Though now she will get trapped in a witch dimension."
Ka: "...Kirsten. This would be like a civilian getting trapped inside Leliel."
A: "...not good. Though... this isn't entirely like Leliel. That was nothing, this Witch's realm is like you're delving into their abstract mind."
Sh: "...either way, it's still tormenting Madoka with memories. Like... Arael."
The pilots shuddered at this remark.
Decretum
Ka: "It was you who rescues her."
A chuckle from Sayaka. "Someone's gotta do it. And since I made my decision, I might as well."
A: "...Damn Miki, you're pretty decent at that."
Ky: "I'm sure she would be, if Kyubey came to our world and hooked her into becoming a magical girl. But she won't do that, will you?"
Sa: "Oh hell no. Not after watching this shit."
A: "Speaking of magical girls, you're one too, Sakura?"
She rubbed the back of her head. "Can't let Sayaka have all the trauma in this show now, can we?"
Ka: "A shame you two appear to become adversaries."
She shrugged. "In a situation like that, of course we'd become enemies."
"It makes sense." Spoke Rei. "By the sounds of it, you have a limited amount of power. And a Grief Seed recovers that power."
"And to the victor goes the goods, after all." Asuka thought. "Though it sounds like a vicious cycle. Use your power to fight Witches and their familiars, all just to recover your own power. Eventually you'll just run out of energy, and God knows what'll happen there."
"...death, probably. If the Soul Gem is indeed a vessel for the soul." Kaworu was quiet. "That's the end of the first disc, right?"
"And not a moment too soon." Kensuke investigated some things on his computer. "You could cook an egg on this."
"...I already told you how Arael was like for me. But the Angel after that was somehow even worse for me. It... raped Rei and I."
"...eventually, I had to resort to detonating my Evangelion. But I survived. I had severe injury and amnesia but I survived." A bent truth.
"...i thought she died." He was quiet. "she anchored me, still does in fact. i would've ended myself had it not been for her." Another twisted truth.
Quiet.
"...think about that, next time you think about piloting an Evangelion. Will you be able to handle the stresses that come with it? Or would you succumb to despair, like Kaworu almost did."
"...i will, Rei." The disc was put away. "Same time tomorrow?"
"Eh?"
"We still have more episodes to watch, after all." Kensuke put on a brave face.
"...that sounds alright."
The trio said their goodbyes and led the pilots out of their abode. Once that was done, Aida simply dropped down on his bed, wistful.
"That Evangelion talk get to ya, Ken?" Kyoko sat down at the edge, Sayaka joining them in short order.
"...So that's how it feels like to have your dreams shattered."
"...you didn't realise that piloting those giant robots would be so traumatising, did you?" Sayaka went for a hand. "Thought it'd be like those shows you watch."
He thought. "...y'know? I didn't." A groan. "Gods, I'm such an idiot."
~
Sa: "...I always wondered why this show decided Kyosuke be crippled."
R: "...It would probably give you an incentive to become a magical girl, you realise."
Sa: "...it is a pretty good incentive."
Ka: "...though I'm sure you realise that miracles like that have their costs."
Sa: "...oh I definitely realised that."
Ky: "It's definitely a decent incentive to become a magical girl. On paper."
A: "Most things are better on paper. Like 'Piloting a giant mech'."
Trauma
Sh: "...yeah, that looks pretty accurate to what I used to be like." He sighed. "You get used to the trauma though."
A: "Yeah... just gotta live through life." She looked on at Madoka, sympathetic. "Poor pinkie's probably got PTSD."
Ka: "...as you would, seeing a friend like that... die." He gave a meaningful look and feel to Rei.
Rei picked up on this emotion. "...and not having many people to talk about it too. We can all relate with that. It's how we used to live, after all."
Ky: "...jeez, it sounds like your lives were trash."
A: "...that's a pretty accurate assessment." Grim. "It got better though. Amazingly, we were able to break down our barriers and help each other get to where we are today. I.e., not dead."
Sh: "...I shudder to think where I'd be, had we not got together."
Sa: "...considering you mentioned the end of the world in your show."
School
Ky: "Yep. This was another rant I remembered."
Sa: "Sunny side came after this one though."
A: "Shinji's right. Listening to someone's disastrous love life is more interesting than listening to the same Second Impact story over and over again."
Ky: "Oh definitely." She said offhand.
Sh: "...this is pretty much how such trauma feels like. Like your life suddenly changes."
Ka: "Of course, it doesn't help that we might as well live a separate life from any other civilian. Like you three." A meaningful glance at the trio, a hand holding Rei's. "But we're lucky, in a way, to have so many friends to fall back on. You and Madoka, you only have one another. And I doubt you'd have the mental maturity to deal with such a thing."
A: "...considering almost all of us here trained for all our lives to be a pilot. Whereas you and pinkie here have only had at most a week dealing with this business."
R: "...it's no wonder they're struggling."
Sa: "...I would struggle in such a way too, if I had to deal with that. Even now."
Ke: "...is piloting really that-"
A: "Yes. Trust me on this Aida. I've been piloting my Eva for over a decade." A glance towards Shinji. "But it was only in the past one or two years that I've actually enjoyed my life."
Kensuke went quiet.
Sh: "...odds are, we won't be needing more pilots anyway. The UN restricted the maximum amount of active Evangelion to five per country, and we have four."
Ka: "...though knowing NERV, they might hire you anyway. You have other skills they could want."
Ke: "...that's true."
Sh: "...at least Kyubey's apologetic about it all."
No Reply
A: "...not that it helps pinkie. Poor girl..."
Ky: "...thing is, this is accurate for our Madoka too. She wouldn't know how to handle anything like this."
Sh: "...has she been particularly sheltered?"
Sa: "...she has decent folks. But realistically, none of us were sheltered after Second Impact."
Ky: "She still wouldn't talk about stuff like this though."
Sayaka nodded sadly. "I'm sure she's told Homura something. But..."
R: "...maybe she wants to wait until you're there with her."
Sa: "...yeah."
A: "...man, Tomoe didn't deserve that."
R: "No one truly deserves what happens to them. But that's what happens."
A: "...Not just death, but... no one even knowing you're gone. That's... thats one of my greatest fears."
Shinji scooted closer to her, to give her some comfort.
~
Break
Sa: "...man, I can be a chatterbox at the wrong times."
Ke: "...yeah. I doubt he wants to be reminded of that."
Sa: "...hence my wish."
A: "...yeah, you do seem quite naive here, Miki."
Sh: "...out of all the things you could wish for though. Wanting someone else to recover from injury is quite selfless of you."
Sa: "...i'm a bit of an idiot, am I?"
Ka: "I wouldn't call it idiotic. I'm sure every one of us would do something like that, if push came to shove."
Zombie
A: "Great, they got her friend."
R: "Maybe this is where she becomes a magical girl. Unless Akemi came to rescue her."
Ka: "Or another magical girl. Maybe even Miki, since it looks like she will form the contract."
Sh: "She really needs to remember to get their numbers."
Ky: "She can be a bit like that. Though its never this dire."
A: "...have we even seen you in this show yet, Sakura?"
A smirk. "Not yet."
A: "...well, hopefully someone's gonna stop this." She shuddered.
Sh: "What's with this show and suicide? This is the second one so far."
A: "...at least pinkie here was able to stop them. Though now they're going for her."
Ke: "...it's better than dying like that."
Kirsten
R: "Though now she will get trapped in a witch dimension."
Ka: "...Kirsten. This would be like a civilian getting trapped inside Leliel."
A: "...not good. Though... this isn't entirely like Leliel. That was nothing, this Witch's realm is like you're delving into their abstract mind."
Sh: "...either way, it's still tormenting Madoka with memories. Like... Arael."
The pilots shuddered at this remark.
Decretum
Ka: "It was you who rescues her."
A chuckle from Sayaka. "Someone's gotta do it. And since I made my decision, I might as well."
A: "...Damn Miki, you're pretty decent at that."
Ky: "I'm sure she would be, if Kyubey came to our world and hooked her into becoming a magical girl. But she won't do that, will you?"
Sa: "Oh hell no. Not after watching this shit."
A: "Speaking of magical girls, you're one too, Sakura?"
She rubbed the back of her head. "Can't let Sayaka have all the trauma in this show now, can we?"
Ka: "A shame you two appear to become adversaries."
She shrugged. "In a situation like that, of course we'd become enemies."
"It makes sense." Spoke Rei. "By the sounds of it, you have a limited amount of power. And a Grief Seed recovers that power."
"And to the victor goes the goods, after all." Asuka thought. "Though it sounds like a vicious cycle. Use your power to fight Witches and their familiars, all just to recover your own power. Eventually you'll just run out of energy, and God knows what'll happen there."
"...death, probably. If the Soul Gem is indeed a vessel for the soul." Kaworu was quiet. "That's the end of the first disc, right?"
"And not a moment too soon." Kensuke investigated some things on his computer. "You could cook an egg on this."
"...I already told you how Arael was like for me. But the Angel after that was somehow even worse for me. It... raped Rei and I."
"...eventually, I had to resort to detonating my Evangelion. But I survived. I had severe injury and amnesia but I survived." A bent truth.
"...i thought she died." He was quiet. "she anchored me, still does in fact. i would've ended myself had it not been for her." Another twisted truth.
Quiet.
"...think about that, next time you think about piloting an Evangelion. Will you be able to handle the stresses that come with it? Or would you succumb to despair, like Kaworu almost did."
"...i will, Rei." The disc was put away. "Same time tomorrow?"
"Eh?"
"We still have more episodes to watch, after all." Kensuke put on a brave face.
"...that sounds alright."
The trio said their goodbyes and led the pilots out of their abode. Once that was done, Aida simply dropped down on his bed, wistful.
"That Evangelion talk get to ya, Ken?" Kyoko sat down at the edge, Sayaka joining them in short order.
"...So that's how it feels like to have your dreams shattered."
"...you didn't realise that piloting those giant robots would be so traumatising, did you?" Sayaka went for a hand. "Thought it'd be like those shows you watch."
He thought. "...y'know? I didn't." A groan. "Gods, I'm such an idiot."
~
"I gotta say though, as a show it's quite nice."
"Though much like how our show was like," Rei began, as they walked to the train station. "it completely subverted what you would expect of that genre."
"That's probably why I can tolerate it better." Asuka deadpanned. "Though, it's a bit different once you realise that all those characters are real."
"Yeah. It sounds like Miki and Sakura were pretty close with them all. Gods, that would've been hard on them seeing Tomoe's death for the first time."
"...they still don't know her status." Kaworu was quiet. "For all we know she could be gone."
"...I suppose we won't know of that." Shinji was sombre. "I hope for their sakes she's alright."
"...you know how this world's like, Shinji." She held his hand tighter. "Lets try moving away from that subject though. I noticed quite a few similarities to our world."
"Indeed, Asuka." Kaworu began the discussion on this new universe. "It appears that magical girls and Witches share a common core like structure."
"I imagine you could explain many of the things that happen as 'A unique application of the AT-Field'." Deadpanned Asuka. "You can do pretty much anything with that damned thing."
Laughter. "That would explain some things about the Witches. Although if the magical girls had AT-Fields like us Nephilim, that would've prevented what occurred."
"There's always a chance she couldn't get a 'field' up in time." Rei spoke. "Of course, we can't rule out the fact that the laws of the universe are different. Maybe in that world, the concept of an AT-Field is nonexistent."
"Yet another possibility. One of several dozen we could come up with." The fish chuckled. "The main problem with these other universes, it's pretty much impossible to actually know about these other universes, other than the foreign material that just so happens to come through a Dirac Rift."
"It's odd though. Everything that's come through so far has been of some significance to us and NERV. Even though it has Miki and Sakura in it, it's not exactly relevant to our universe, isn't it?" Shinji posed.
"It probably does have some significance." Asuka bumped him. "Maybe it's the universe trying to tell us what SEELE is up to."
"If they wanted to do that, they could've just sent us a book called 'How to stop SEELE'." The blue haired Nephilim dripped with deadpan. "Although, it seems to have at least some significance to you, Kaworu."
"Yeah, what was that about seeing Akemi?"
A chuckle from the fish. "It was an odd feeling. You guys know how I can sometimes see echoes of other timelines and universes, right?"
Nods between the group.
"In each and every one of them, I always notice this one figure. A girl, black of hair with violet eyes. We never met, but she was always there somewhere. Sometimes walking somewhere, sometimes not. There's been more than a few times where she just looked at me, like that apparition of Rei in the Laserdiscs."
Thinking as they stopped at the station, now waiting for the train. "Sounds like she served as a subconscious marker that you were in another universe." Asuka theorised.
"That's what I think. She's a common factor, in fact I use the sight of this girl to know for sure I am looking through the lens of time."
"It's odd that this girl looks exactly like Akemi then." Shinji spoke the obvious. "Could she be like you, maybe? From another universe or timeline, but doing the same thing you were."
Kaworu pondered. "It's certainly possible. Through the universes, the concept of time remains the same. At least for my purposes."
"You can't physically send yourself back in time. But you can project yourself, with immense skill and thought."
"Power too. I am able to do it, because I had the aide of an S2 organ." Now on the train, Kaworu was able to rest his head on Rei's shoulder.
"I attempted it once, after Kaworu showed me." She chuckled. "I used up my energy reserves in around 3 seconds, and shortly after that I slept 16 hours, and ate essentially nonstop for a few days afterwards."
The other two pilots chuckled at this. "Damn Rei, pushing yourself a bit there."
"Not to worry, Asuka." She smiled. "Draining that much power won't result in anything other than fatigue. That sort of power use is an exceptional case anyway, other applications of the AT-Field don't require such immense power on my part. Plus, I might be able to draw on Kaworu's power anyway." Her hand drifted down his arm. "Aren't partners grand, Asuka?"
"If I knew what I was missing out on, I would've found Shinji long ago."
"And I would've done the same with you too, Asuka." A kiss. "Hang on, shouldn't physical time travel be possible with an S2 Engine? Since it provides infinite power and that."
"Indefinite, not infinite." Corrected Kaworu. "The S2 organ can generate immense power, and it can store an absolutely absurd amount of power. But it's impossible to have a truly infinite power source." He thought. "Rei and I actually theorise things like that when we're bored."
Asuka was flat. "And when I assume you're not jackhammering through the walls."
"You'd be surprised, Asuka. Some men can multitask."
The other pair burst out laughing as Kaworu continued. "But yeah. To actually send yourself back in time, the power required would destroy the Earth in short order."
"So something you'd only do if the world was already destroyed."
"Pretty much, yeah. But as I said, not outside the realms of possibility."
A comfortable silence descended in the near empty carriage.
"That makes me wonder thought." Shinji cut the quiet. "We don't know if Akemi in the show has powers related to time."
"Well," Rei thought. "controlling time would explain her erratic movement against Charlotte."
~
"So," Asuka began, dinner mostly done and a soda in hand. "Aida and his partners invited us to see what was on those DVDs he found."
"Mhm?" Misato didn't bother swallowing her food. "Whawasonit?"
"It was indeed a Sailor Moon like anime, staring Miki and Sakura, plus their friends from their previous school."
"ShullIas-" She actually swallowed the food, washing it down with her canned water. "Should I ask how long it took to get to the immense trauma?"
"You don't have very high hopes, do you Misato?" Kaworu looked towards her.
"How long." In deadpan.
"Three episodes, with a major character getting their head chewed off by an Angel ripoff."
A fine mist of beer escaped from Misato. "You're joking? God damn you're not joking."
"Yeah, imagine how the others felt." Shinji deadpanned. "Especially since she was their friend."
"...And it sounded like she was in a serious accident. In our world."
Misato could tell they were growing wistful. "I could look her up, I suppose."
From under a pile of folders, she pulled out her busted up terminal. "Name?"
"Mami Tomoe."
A single chuckle. "That's a nice name." Typing on the keyboard. "Gonna need more info than a name."
"She was senior to Miki and Sakura, Tokyo-2, and she may or may not have had blonde hair with curls, it's kinda hard to tell."
"Danke." More typing. She turned the screen to the pilots. "This her?"
A girl, a dead ringer for the Mami of the show, was depicted. "Yeah, that's her."
Misato perused through her file. "Well, she's not dead. Though I don't really know much else than that."
A sigh of relief from Asuka. "It was more than what we knew about her before. Thanks Misato."
"No biggie." She gave a grin. "Did Miki and Sakura not know of her status?"
"They weren't really too expressive about it, for completely justified reasons." Rei began. "Either through not knowing what happened, or not wanting to tell us."
"Which is fair enough." Backed up Asuka. "I probably wouldn't want to tell many people if something like that happened. And considering how Madoka sounds like, she probably wouldn't say much about it, at least not over a phone."
"Madoka their friend as well?"
"In Tokyo-2, yeah." Kaworu spoke. "Miki and her are pretty close."
"Its good to see those girls still keep in touch with their old friends." A chuckle, as she drank. "God knows how many people I knew in secondary or college that I didn't keep in touch with."
"Sounds like life." Asuka spoke, continuing to eat. "Never know who you get to spend it with, and for how long."
~
Kaworu and Rei made it back to their abode in time.
Almost immediately, Kaworu went for a scratchpad and a pen, writing down what he could remember.
"Is this the song you mentioned?"
"Yeah." The first page complete, he went to work on the next, another song. "But the first one, 'Solti Ola I', is not what I'm concerned about."
She looked over the words and frowned. "I don't understand this."
"It's not a language spoken. It looks Romantic, but that's just how one would put it in the English alphabet. What if I told you that this was a language of God, and the song was a depiction of the Dead Sea Scrolls?"
Her eyes went wide, as they did when he mentally told her hours ago. "Were they written in such a language?"
"The language was more runic, but the pronunciation was similar. I remember because I was taught the words and their meaning." He continued writing. "What you heard in the song, was but a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls prophecy; specific key words being 'Promised Day', 'Instrumentality', and 'Station'." He pointed at various lines of the script. "Station in this case being stations of evolution."
"...Which makes sense, as that's what SEELE wanted." She boggled her mind at the thought of such secret information being in some Dirac Rift sourced, magical girl anime from another universe. "What about the second song? The more melancholic sounding one?"
"That's the issue." He finished writing and Rei looked. "The words are a part of that language. But this was not a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls."
"Not?" The lyrics were read. "Were there other prophecies?"
"No. Well, not that I know of."
"But the possibility is there."
"Yes. Which is what concerns me. What if this SEELE on Mars business was but a part of a grander scheme?"
Rei grew even more concerned. "Do you know what it says?"
"Only the word shared between the two pieces. Estia. Literally, it's 'time', but when you combine the previous two words, the meaning changes to 'Promised Day'."
"So we don't know then."
"Unfortunately not." He had a brainwave. "There is someone who might know, though."
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Kaji had put his satellite phone down, leaning back on the luxurious hotel bed. Misato was happy to hear his voice at least. He had to remember to get her something nice while he was in California.
She had been wanting a new terminal lately. What better place to get top of the line tech than what used to be Silicon Valley. The issue with valleys though, is that they tended to flood during Second Impact, so all the major (existing) tech companies moved to Massachusetts with NERV.
Still though. The United States are well known for pushing the boundaries. Maybe he'd get her one of those newfangled (and Gods damned expensive) keyboard phones a certain fruit named company recently introduced. Hell, those phones are probably better than the terminal she had now.
He chuckled to himself, as he went to set his body clock to PST.
The phone rang before he could do such thing though. "Kaji here."
"It's Nagisa. I think I have found something."
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"Though much like how our show was like," Rei began, as they walked to the train station. "it completely subverted what you would expect of that genre."
"That's probably why I can tolerate it better." Asuka deadpanned. "Though, it's a bit different once you realise that all those characters are real."
"Yeah. It sounds like Miki and Sakura were pretty close with them all. Gods, that would've been hard on them seeing Tomoe's death for the first time."
"...they still don't know her status." Kaworu was quiet. "For all we know she could be gone."
"...I suppose we won't know of that." Shinji was sombre. "I hope for their sakes she's alright."
"...you know how this world's like, Shinji." She held his hand tighter. "Lets try moving away from that subject though. I noticed quite a few similarities to our world."
"Indeed, Asuka." Kaworu began the discussion on this new universe. "It appears that magical girls and Witches share a common core like structure."
"I imagine you could explain many of the things that happen as 'A unique application of the AT-Field'." Deadpanned Asuka. "You can do pretty much anything with that damned thing."
Laughter. "That would explain some things about the Witches. Although if the magical girls had AT-Fields like us Nephilim, that would've prevented what occurred."
"There's always a chance she couldn't get a 'field' up in time." Rei spoke. "Of course, we can't rule out the fact that the laws of the universe are different. Maybe in that world, the concept of an AT-Field is nonexistent."
"Yet another possibility. One of several dozen we could come up with." The fish chuckled. "The main problem with these other universes, it's pretty much impossible to actually know about these other universes, other than the foreign material that just so happens to come through a Dirac Rift."
"It's odd though. Everything that's come through so far has been of some significance to us and NERV. Even though it has Miki and Sakura in it, it's not exactly relevant to our universe, isn't it?" Shinji posed.
"It probably does have some significance." Asuka bumped him. "Maybe it's the universe trying to tell us what SEELE is up to."
"If they wanted to do that, they could've just sent us a book called 'How to stop SEELE'." The blue haired Nephilim dripped with deadpan. "Although, it seems to have at least some significance to you, Kaworu."
"Yeah, what was that about seeing Akemi?"
A chuckle from the fish. "It was an odd feeling. You guys know how I can sometimes see echoes of other timelines and universes, right?"
Nods between the group.
"In each and every one of them, I always notice this one figure. A girl, black of hair with violet eyes. We never met, but she was always there somewhere. Sometimes walking somewhere, sometimes not. There's been more than a few times where she just looked at me, like that apparition of Rei in the Laserdiscs."
Thinking as they stopped at the station, now waiting for the train. "Sounds like she served as a subconscious marker that you were in another universe." Asuka theorised.
"That's what I think. She's a common factor, in fact I use the sight of this girl to know for sure I am looking through the lens of time."
"It's odd that this girl looks exactly like Akemi then." Shinji spoke the obvious. "Could she be like you, maybe? From another universe or timeline, but doing the same thing you were."
Kaworu pondered. "It's certainly possible. Through the universes, the concept of time remains the same. At least for my purposes."
"You can't physically send yourself back in time. But you can project yourself, with immense skill and thought."
"Power too. I am able to do it, because I had the aide of an S2 organ." Now on the train, Kaworu was able to rest his head on Rei's shoulder.
"I attempted it once, after Kaworu showed me." She chuckled. "I used up my energy reserves in around 3 seconds, and shortly after that I slept 16 hours, and ate essentially nonstop for a few days afterwards."
The other two pilots chuckled at this. "Damn Rei, pushing yourself a bit there."
"Not to worry, Asuka." She smiled. "Draining that much power won't result in anything other than fatigue. That sort of power use is an exceptional case anyway, other applications of the AT-Field don't require such immense power on my part. Plus, I might be able to draw on Kaworu's power anyway." Her hand drifted down his arm. "Aren't partners grand, Asuka?"
"If I knew what I was missing out on, I would've found Shinji long ago."
"And I would've done the same with you too, Asuka." A kiss. "Hang on, shouldn't physical time travel be possible with an S2 Engine? Since it provides infinite power and that."
"Indefinite, not infinite." Corrected Kaworu. "The S2 organ can generate immense power, and it can store an absolutely absurd amount of power. But it's impossible to have a truly infinite power source." He thought. "Rei and I actually theorise things like that when we're bored."
Asuka was flat. "And when I assume you're not jackhammering through the walls."
"You'd be surprised, Asuka. Some men can multitask."
The other pair burst out laughing as Kaworu continued. "But yeah. To actually send yourself back in time, the power required would destroy the Earth in short order."
"So something you'd only do if the world was already destroyed."
"Pretty much, yeah. But as I said, not outside the realms of possibility."
A comfortable silence descended in the near empty carriage.
"That makes me wonder thought." Shinji cut the quiet. "We don't know if Akemi in the show has powers related to time."
"Well," Rei thought. "controlling time would explain her erratic movement against Charlotte."
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"So," Asuka began, dinner mostly done and a soda in hand. "Aida and his partners invited us to see what was on those DVDs he found."
"Mhm?" Misato didn't bother swallowing her food. "Whawasonit?"
"It was indeed a Sailor Moon like anime, staring Miki and Sakura, plus their friends from their previous school."
"ShullIas-" She actually swallowed the food, washing it down with her canned water. "Should I ask how long it took to get to the immense trauma?"
"You don't have very high hopes, do you Misato?" Kaworu looked towards her.
"How long." In deadpan.
"Three episodes, with a major character getting their head chewed off by an Angel ripoff."
A fine mist of beer escaped from Misato. "You're joking? God damn you're not joking."
"Yeah, imagine how the others felt." Shinji deadpanned. "Especially since she was their friend."
"...And it sounded like she was in a serious accident. In our world."
Misato could tell they were growing wistful. "I could look her up, I suppose."
From under a pile of folders, she pulled out her busted up terminal. "Name?"
"Mami Tomoe."
A single chuckle. "That's a nice name." Typing on the keyboard. "Gonna need more info than a name."
"She was senior to Miki and Sakura, Tokyo-2, and she may or may not have had blonde hair with curls, it's kinda hard to tell."
"Danke." More typing. She turned the screen to the pilots. "This her?"
A girl, a dead ringer for the Mami of the show, was depicted. "Yeah, that's her."
Misato perused through her file. "Well, she's not dead. Though I don't really know much else than that."
A sigh of relief from Asuka. "It was more than what we knew about her before. Thanks Misato."
"No biggie." She gave a grin. "Did Miki and Sakura not know of her status?"
"They weren't really too expressive about it, for completely justified reasons." Rei began. "Either through not knowing what happened, or not wanting to tell us."
"Which is fair enough." Backed up Asuka. "I probably wouldn't want to tell many people if something like that happened. And considering how Madoka sounds like, she probably wouldn't say much about it, at least not over a phone."
"Madoka their friend as well?"
"In Tokyo-2, yeah." Kaworu spoke. "Miki and her are pretty close."
"Its good to see those girls still keep in touch with their old friends." A chuckle, as she drank. "God knows how many people I knew in secondary or college that I didn't keep in touch with."
"Sounds like life." Asuka spoke, continuing to eat. "Never know who you get to spend it with, and for how long."
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Kaworu and Rei made it back to their abode in time.
Almost immediately, Kaworu went for a scratchpad and a pen, writing down what he could remember.
"Is this the song you mentioned?"
"Yeah." The first page complete, he went to work on the next, another song. "But the first one, 'Solti Ola I', is not what I'm concerned about."
She looked over the words and frowned. "I don't understand this."
"It's not a language spoken. It looks Romantic, but that's just how one would put it in the English alphabet. What if I told you that this was a language of God, and the song was a depiction of the Dead Sea Scrolls?"
Her eyes went wide, as they did when he mentally told her hours ago. "Were they written in such a language?"
"The language was more runic, but the pronunciation was similar. I remember because I was taught the words and their meaning." He continued writing. "What you heard in the song, was but a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls prophecy; specific key words being 'Promised Day', 'Instrumentality', and 'Station'." He pointed at various lines of the script. "Station in this case being stations of evolution."
"...Which makes sense, as that's what SEELE wanted." She boggled her mind at the thought of such secret information being in some Dirac Rift sourced, magical girl anime from another universe. "What about the second song? The more melancholic sounding one?"
"That's the issue." He finished writing and Rei looked. "The words are a part of that language. But this was not a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls."
"Not?" The lyrics were read. "Were there other prophecies?"
"No. Well, not that I know of."
"But the possibility is there."
"Yes. Which is what concerns me. What if this SEELE on Mars business was but a part of a grander scheme?"
Rei grew even more concerned. "Do you know what it says?"
"Only the word shared between the two pieces. Estia. Literally, it's 'time', but when you combine the previous two words, the meaning changes to 'Promised Day'."
"So we don't know then."
"Unfortunately not." He had a brainwave. "There is someone who might know, though."
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Kaji had put his satellite phone down, leaning back on the luxurious hotel bed. Misato was happy to hear his voice at least. He had to remember to get her something nice while he was in California.
She had been wanting a new terminal lately. What better place to get top of the line tech than what used to be Silicon Valley. The issue with valleys though, is that they tended to flood during Second Impact, so all the major (existing) tech companies moved to Massachusetts with NERV.
Still though. The United States are well known for pushing the boundaries. Maybe he'd get her one of those newfangled (and Gods damned expensive) keyboard phones a certain fruit named company recently introduced. Hell, those phones are probably better than the terminal she had now.
He chuckled to himself, as he went to set his body clock to PST.
The phone rang before he could do such thing though. "Kaji here."
"It's Nagisa. I think I have found something."
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Told you I'd incorporate PMMM into this universe somehow How very convenient for everyone involved that the incomprehensible songs of PMMM just so happen to be prophecy. I might as well open a lampshade store at this rate
So Kensuke had his dreams shattered. Piloting Eva isn't as grand as he thinks it is. Its like glorifying war in a way (which he also does). But then again, it's not like he's had much perspective on how piloting an Evangelion was like. Though if Kyubey knew of this desire, maybe Kensuke would've been the first male magical girl.
Rewatching PMMM has given me some perspective at just how brutal it is. I remember first time I watched it, I thought 'pssh, this is just like Sailor Moon.' Then Mami died and I was so mad at the show I binged and enjoyed the rest of it.
But just imagine how Sayaka and Kyoko felt during their first run through this show. (Hopefully I got details of their past correct, as I just assumed they came from Tokyo-2) They would've gone into the show, expecting it to be just another magical girl show, staring their friends and themselves (with eerily similar personalities), then to watch their friends and themselves all die, brutally and several times over. No wonder why they're just snarking.
Though Rei and Kaworu seem to be picking up on a few things early.
Thanks once again to those who gave me ideas (and apologies to those who did but I forgot to credit).
How very convenient for everyone involved that the incomprehensible songs of PMMM just so happen to be prophecy. I might as well open a lampshade store at this rate So Kensuke had his dreams shattered. Piloting Eva isn't as grand as he thinks it is. Its like glorifying war in a way (which he also does). But then again, it's not like he's had much perspective on how piloting an Evangelion was like. Though if Kyubey knew of this desire, maybe Kensuke would've been the first male magical girl.
Rewatching PMMM has given me some perspective at just how brutal it is. I remember first time I watched it, I thought 'pssh, this is just like Sailor Moon.' Then Mami died and I was so mad at the show I binged and enjoyed the rest of it
.But just imagine how Sayaka and Kyoko felt during their first run through this show. (Hopefully I got details of their past correct, as I just assumed they came from Tokyo-2
) They would've gone into the show, expecting it to be just another magical girl show, staring their friends and themselves (with eerily similar personalities), then to watch their friends and themselves all die, brutally and several times over. No wonder why they're just snarking.Though Rei and Kaworu seem to be picking up on a few things early.
Thanks once again to those who gave me ideas (and apologies to those who did but I forgot to credit
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Now the Chronicles are getting into stuff I have no clue about, as I refuse to watch PMMM after hearing what it's like. Sorry, but I just don't feel up to another 'let's fuck the cast over' story.
I'll still read it though, although I'd mostly be interested in the overall story rather than the MST3King.
I'll still read it though, although I'd mostly be interested in the overall story rather than the MST3King.
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I say, I recognize that remark
Edit: Realized there's a better reaction.
Okabe Rintaro would object, and he'd do it in his mad scientist voice.
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That reminds me that I never got around to watching Stein's Gate Zero. Might have to remedy that at some point.
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Amen Brother. As well as the new trend of "deconstruction/Reality ensues" everything.
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There is a certain irony in calling that trend 'new' in a thread about a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic
(not only can that show drink legally, it's got its bachelors degree and is working on a PhD.)
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Ah, The PMMM Chronicles! One of the shows I can geek out over best!
I recognize this! I can play it on the piano
The checkerboard barrier-tree-thing does resemble Leliel, doesn't it? I wonder if Eva-Madoka had the same depression and self worth issues as PMMM-Madoka...
If an anime character has a whole and loving family, and this isn't a Lucky Star-type cutesty SOL show, everything is doomed Also, architecture in Mitakihara is strange. I've actually wondered if the abstract architecture, the occasional set of shots that don't match, and general dreamlike atmosphere means anything particular, but I have yet to draw a conclusion.
Every time I've seen a character running to school with toast (at least in their mouth) it's been a reference to Eva. I can't figure out if Rei actually invented that trope or not.
Ah, Mitakihara's architecture again? A lot of it is actually real: Mitakihara Town - Puella Magi Wiki
Reminds me of that one comic Strypgia posts occasionally...
Yeah, that's actually a pretty strong point in favour of PMMM's quality over Eva. PMMM makes sense, wraps everything up neatly, and generally is a lot...cleaner? Minimalistic? than Eva.
Ah, as I noted above
Hmm, Nephilim who create AT Field clothes and weapons, train in even more bullshit AT phenomena than AsukaQuest, and have to avoid succumbing to the Call and becoming Angels. Sounds about right, then.
Should I link the wiki again... sure. Deciphering the runes - Puella Magi Wiki
Poor Mami getting SHAFTed no matter what [Pun unintentional, at least until I noticed it ]
I bet if you hit an Angel with a few hundred pallet rifles simultaneously, you might even succeed in scratching it!
It's Kajiuran, unless that's a SEELE secret language (as suggested by the above) it is meaningless.
There really are a lot of Eva-Madoka similarities, aren't there? Quick universe combination idea: Magical girls are Nephilim, complete with cores, who place their cores in lobotomized, armoured Witches, and the corruption they gain when piloting the Witches fuels the Witch. Backlash, like berserking or pain, causes corruption contamination, which irreversibly darkens Core Gems until the Nephilim succumb to the Call and become Witches themselves. So someone could be piloting their best friend's corpse and not know it.
Hey, I actually LIKE those pictures! Don't know why everyone seems to think they're horrible mind scarring abominations
Ooh. Yeah, suicide is a sensitive spot for Asuka. Episode 10 is going to be....bad.
What version did you watch that included rune subtitles? Nothing I've ever seen had them.
Well, they're used to this kind of thing, being Nephilim and all. If anyone is going to figure out how fucked up your world is, it'd be them.
The Kaname Family is cute and good. Tomohisa is indeed quite like Shinji, though Junko and Misato was not a connection I had made earlier. Junko is not tease-happy enough
I, for one, am a MadoMami fan. It would actually be quite similar to AsuShin in my opinion, with each of them pretty much designed to help the other with their insecurities.
Oh please.
No indeed, though I seem to remember you getting MANGLED AND EATEN. I'd take quick decapitation over that.
To be fair, T4 Gretchen and the planet-eating Witch in Episode 12 are pretty apocalyptic as well.
Indeed, the real lesson of PMMM that people seem to miss is that doing something like that is ultimately good. While blind optimism and carelessness just leads to Mami incidents, the things that happen in Episode 12 show that ultimately it's far better to go with optimism anyway. While there is a lot of trauma caused by reckless optimism, carelessness, regret, and not admitting what you truly want, ultimately that trauma serves to make Madoka and Homura into stronger, better people more capable of helping others. Something I saw related to the show- "there is hope beyond despair." Taking the darkness and weaving it into light is what PMMM is about- not just trauma and depression like Eva. If Eva is a shredder, PMMM is a wringer. One is destructive, the other constructive. Also, apologies if that was a little ranty and philosophical. I just really love the optimism of Madoka in Episode 12 and what it means.
HN Elly, or Kirsten. "The box witch with a covetous nature. She is a staunchly reclusive witch. Anything she covets she locks away within glass. The thoughts of her prisoners are laid bare, but one can strike her without thought without problems." Seems pretty Arael-y.
Hmm... quantum Homuras? Sounds like something I should blame on Rebellion
Oh yay that's good
That's impressive that Kajiura apparently channeled the Dead Sea Scrolls when inventing Kajiuran In other worlds, Kaworu is having similar reactions to the Elvish in Lord of the Rings, and in that one it was Tolkien who channeled SEELE I suppose things in this thread have to be related to Eva somehow I guess...
You really ought to put the various Chronicles installments together in one fic with A&T on FF.net or something. Maybe it'd go with the possible "Collection Of Sidestories And Apocrypha" fic Stryp was considering once A&T was finished. At the very least the Chronicles are good enough to deserve more recognition than just people who visit SV
I recognize this! I can play it on the piano
The checkerboard barrier-tree-thing does resemble Leliel, doesn't it? I wonder if Eva-Madoka had the same depression and self worth issues as PMMM-Madoka...
If an anime character has a whole and loving family, and this isn't a Lucky Star-type cutesty SOL show, everything is doomed
Also, architecture in Mitakihara is strange. I've actually wondered if the abstract architecture, the occasional set of shots that don't match, and general dreamlike atmosphere means anything particular, but I have yet to draw a conclusion.Every time I've seen a character running to school with toast (at least in their mouth) it's been a reference to Eva. I can't figure out if Rei actually invented that trope or not.
Ah, Mitakihara's architecture again? A lot of it is actually real: Mitakihara Town - Puella Magi Wiki
Reminds me of that one comic Strypgia posts occasionally...
Yeah, that's actually a pretty strong point in favour of PMMM's quality over Eva. PMMM makes sense, wraps everything up neatly, and generally is a lot...cleaner? Minimalistic? than Eva.
Ah, as I noted above
Hmm, Nephilim who create AT Field clothes and weapons, train in even more bullshit AT phenomena than AsukaQuest, and have to avoid succumbing to the Call and becoming Angels. Sounds about right, then.
Should I link the wiki again... sure. Deciphering the runes - Puella Magi Wiki
Poor Mami getting SHAFTed no matter what
[Pun unintentional, at least until I noticed it ]I bet if you hit an Angel with a few hundred pallet rifles simultaneously, you might even succeed in scratching it!
It's Kajiuran, unless that's a SEELE secret language (as suggested by the above) it is meaningless.
There really are a lot of Eva-Madoka similarities, aren't there? Quick universe combination idea: Magical girls are Nephilim, complete with cores, who place their cores in lobotomized, armoured Witches, and the corruption they gain when piloting the Witches fuels the Witch. Backlash, like berserking or pain, causes corruption contamination, which irreversibly darkens Core Gems until the Nephilim succumb to the Call and become Witches themselves. So someone could be piloting their best friend's corpse and not know it.
Hey, I actually LIKE those pictures! Don't know why everyone seems to think they're horrible mind scarring abominations
Ooh. Yeah, suicide is a sensitive spot for Asuka. Episode 10 is going to be....bad.
What version did you watch that included rune subtitles? Nothing I've ever seen had them.
Well, they're used to this kind of thing, being Nephilim and all. If anyone is going to figure out how fucked up your world is, it'd be them.
The Kaname Family is cute and good. Tomohisa is indeed quite like Shinji, though Junko and Misato was not a connection I had made earlier. Junko is not tease-happy enough
I, for one, am a MadoMami fan. It would actually be quite similar to AsuShin in my opinion, with each of them pretty much designed to help the other with their insecurities.
Oh please.
No indeed, though I seem to remember you getting MANGLED AND EATEN. I'd take quick decapitation over that.
To be fair, T4 Gretchen and the planet-eating Witch in Episode 12 are pretty apocalyptic as well.
Indeed, the real lesson of PMMM that people seem to miss is that doing something like that is ultimately good. While blind optimism and carelessness just leads to Mami incidents, the things that happen in Episode 12 show that ultimately it's far better to go with optimism anyway. While there is a lot of trauma caused by reckless optimism, carelessness, regret, and not admitting what you truly want, ultimately that trauma serves to make Madoka and Homura into stronger, better people more capable of helping others. Something I saw related to the show- "there is hope beyond despair." Taking the darkness and weaving it into light is what PMMM is about- not just trauma and depression like Eva. If Eva is a shredder, PMMM is a wringer. One is destructive, the other constructive. Also, apologies if that was a little ranty and philosophical. I just really love the optimism of Madoka in Episode 12 and what it means.
HN Elly, or Kirsten. "The box witch with a covetous nature. She is a staunchly reclusive witch. Anything she covets she locks away within glass. The thoughts of her prisoners are laid bare, but one can strike her without thought without problems." Seems pretty Arael-y.
Hmm... quantum Homuras? Sounds like something I should blame on Rebellion
Oh yay that's good
That's impressive that Kajiura apparently channeled the Dead Sea Scrolls when inventing Kajiuran
In other worlds, Kaworu is having similar reactions to the Elvish in Lord of the Rings, and in that one it was Tolkien who channeled SEELE I suppose things in this thread have to be related to Eva somehow I guess...You really ought to put the various Chronicles installments together in one fic with A&T on FF.net or something. Maybe it'd go with the possible "Collection Of Sidestories And Apocrypha" fic Stryp was considering once A&T was finished. At the very least the Chronicles are good enough to deserve more recognition than just people who visit SV
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All good mate, though I have a feeling EPM is gonna be a bit of a smaller omake (at least when it comes to other story) compared to the previous two set in the Chronicles omakeverse.
Though I do have some early ideas for a fourth Chronicles (might even be the end of the Mars arc), focusing on a certain other mecha anime that I may or may not have alluded to in the past
The version my friend gave me on a USB stick when he bugged me to watch this show
Mind you I did buy the blu-ray afterwards, cause the show was actually pretty good and I wanted to support SHAFT (and I kinda felt guilty
), so I wasn't being a yarr harr fiddle de dee about it.You really ought to put the various Chronicles installments together in one fic with A&T on FF.net or something. Maybe it'd go with the possible "Collection Of Sidestories And Apocrypha" fic Stryp was considering once A&T was finished. At the very least the Chronicles are good enough to deserve more recognition than just people who visit SV
That might be a good idea, I actually compiled (and somewhat edited into a 'Directors Cut') The Laserdisc Chronicles into a word document, with afterwords too, which totalled around 243 pages and 85k words
I could do what Boreas Anemos did with his Hangover omake and put it up on AO3. Might ask Stryp about it first, since it's still his fic
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I have a question for you BG_Character_592. Do you plan to do the manga verson or any of the SRW games? I plan to do so if you won't.
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As a way to salute your impressive performance with the DVD chronicles, Here is a wild guess how a confrontation between Keel and the protagonists of Advice and Trust will go. Keep in mind this is speculation on my part.
Keel: So, you have come children
A: I know you. You are the boss of the comity. I'd recognize you voice anywhere.
Keel: So you remember me. I'm flattered.
S: Why are you doing this? What do you hope to accomplish?
Keel: We do this to achieve perfection and save humanity from itself.
A: The perfection part I could have guessed. Just how is forced fusion salvation?
Keel: Both world wars, The Vietnam war, the cold war, various past conflicts. It is human nature to destroy itself. They always find reasons to justify war. It will only be a matter of time before they fight their way to mutually assured destruction. Instrumentality is the only way to prevent that.
S: So you think that justifies destroying lives and sacrificing people? The way I see it, you people are just using this cause as an excuse to cheat death.
Keel: You know nothing child. I have witnessed first hand how corrupt human society is. It is far too sick to survive.
S: I don't care what your reasons are,you are no different from the people you despise.
Keel: How dare you!!!!
A: We dare it. You take it. End of story.
Rei: We won't allow you to succeed. There is far too much beauty in life to allow you and your allies to destroy individuality.
Kaworu: I agree. Seele is in the wrong. You will fall.
Keel: Even you have chosen to oppose us. So be it.
Keel: So, you have come children
A: I know you. You are the boss of the comity. I'd recognize you voice anywhere.
Keel: So you remember me. I'm flattered.
S: Why are you doing this? What do you hope to accomplish?
Keel: We do this to achieve perfection and save humanity from itself.
A: The perfection part I could have guessed. Just how is forced fusion salvation?
Keel: Both world wars, The Vietnam war, the cold war, various past conflicts. It is human nature to destroy itself. They always find reasons to justify war. It will only be a matter of time before they fight their way to mutually assured destruction. Instrumentality is the only way to prevent that.
S: So you think that justifies destroying lives and sacrificing people? The way I see it, you people are just using this cause as an excuse to cheat death.
Keel: You know nothing child. I have witnessed first hand how corrupt human society is. It is far too sick to survive.
S: I don't care what your reasons are,you are no different from the people you despise.
Keel: How dare you!!!!
A: We dare it. You take it. End of story.
Rei: We won't allow you to succeed. There is far too much beauty in life to allow you and your allies to destroy individuality.
Kaworu: I agree. Seele is in the wrong. You will fall.
Keel: Even you have chosen to oppose us. So be it.
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It is still well worth a watch, if for nothing else then there is a much greater note of Hope at the end compared to Evangelion. Skip the Rebellion movie, though.