"Get away from him, four-eyes!"
You forgot the Rei in the background trying to talk Asuka into taking her as a second wife, Kaworu trying to cover her mouth to stop the fire from burning more, Gendo setting up more of his "Dr. Feelgood" medicine to get Asuka to calm down, and everyone else laughing their asses off.
Okay, in my defense, it's all apart of the Royal "Let-Shinji-Be-Happy" fleet. Every ship is part of it. Yes, even that one.
But i thought it was the "Let everyone be happy" fleet?
Well. Some of us would settle for Asuka/Mari as a compromise (been there, wrote that), I guess, but let's admit, Asuka/Mari/Shinji would be more interesting story-wise.
A/M/S would be interesting story-wise. Though i personally think Asuka/Rei before Rei...well got off her drugs or otherwise acted with more emotions would be even better.
 
Dagnamit. @Strypgia find a way to remix the parachute drop scene between Mari and Shinji. There must be a spontaneous kiss!
... While I'm still 100% aboard the HMS Shinji/Asuka, I can support the lifeboat being named the Mari/Shinji
"Get away from him, four-eyes!"
Gotta stand with Ranma-sensei, here. Mari is just... too much a blank. After three movies she has no backstory, no motivation, not even much of a personality beyond 'Anime fetish fuel version of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl'. She doesn't have the backstory to match and understand Shinji like Asuka, or even Rei does. It is telling that Mari has more character and depth in fanfic than in Rebuild canon, sad to say.

Hell, even Anno thinks she's just kind of there to shake things up:
— I heard that you had a very hard time with the creation of Mari's character.

Anno: Right. It was extremely difficult. Ever since I started the new films I had decided on this "one trick" where I would increase the count of female pilots by one with a new character. I felt that there was a danger where, if I didn't do this, I would end up repeating the same story, and be unable to significantly change things. I felt that, even if I had to force it, if I didn't throw a new Eva pilot as an extreme, foreign element into the films, then Eva would not significantly change. At the start, I feel like I forcibly thrust her into the story. The early drafts were so erratic that, being unrelated to the story, Mari's very existence seemed to have no basis. Outside of the pre-title sequence, she practically did not appear at all.

Maybe I'm being mean to Mari. I dunno. She just feels like a fanfic OC, and doesn't seem have a place in things.
 
She doesn't have the backstory to match and understand Shinji like Asuka, or even Rei does.

Well as Anno was quoted saying, there was risk of repeating the tv series in cinematic form if they didn't change the pilot roster somehow. Mari was thrown in during late 2010, right when Lucasfilm was coming up with Rei Rey for Force Awakens. Whether or not these characters meet the trope of 'Mary Sue', it was just a testament to the level of creative writing that was deemed permissible in that fiscal quarter.

As for developing this character, the rest of the time spent producing Rebuild 3.33 was choppy, so I'm sure much of the significant moments with Mari were edited out for the sake of deadline. Evangelion has always been plagued with issues regarding production turnaround time. I watched End of Evangelion from the perspective that a Japanese studio was on the same brink as the makers of Final Fantasy (it was literally their last work before shutting down, but then exploded commercially). The Rebuild films are honestly like Advent Children to that effect.

But going back to how Mari could be treated canonically, was she in the manga or at least Girlfriend of Steel?
 
But going back to how Mari could be treated canonically, was she in the manga or at least Girlfriend of Steel?
There is no character called Mari Makinami in either Girlfriend of Steel game.

There is a character called Mari Makinami who appears briefly in a flashback in the final volume of the manga; she is Yui Ikari's classmate at university, and does not appear to share any traits beyond a name with the manic pixie nightmare girl of the Rebuild movies.
 
So in the chronicle time line, USA is divide?

Australia. Thanks to Second Impact it disintegrated into at least three distinct nations: Australian Bendigo (think eastern states with the capital in the country city of Bendigo Victoria, Kaji was forced to spend 6 months here as an 'envoy' for the United Nations but at least he got a car out of it :V), the Swan Confederacy (Western Australia and parts of South Australia, Spencer is spending time in the port city of New Albany) and Arnhem Land (north Northern Territory, pretty much terra incognita to most people nowadays).

Of course, there's always more nations that could spring up. Maybe the Hutt River Provence is a significant player nowadays :V
They're actually a legit micronation in Australia, or at least as legit as a micronation can be :V

BG, could it be a podcast?

"Sound like an internet radio show." Asuka mused in interest.

"You sound surprised the internet is used for something other than porn."

"You could use the podcast format for such thing." Rei suggested.

To which Asuka rolled her eyes. "Of course you suggest that, Rei."

A small smirk in reply.

Mari is just... too much a blank. After three movies she has no backstory, no motivation, not even much of a personality beyond 'Anime fetish fuel version of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl'. She doesn't have the backstory to match and understand Shinji like Asuka, or even Rei does. It is telling that Mari has more character and depth in fanfic than in Rebuild canon, sad to say.

That's one of the good things about blank slates, as you suggested. A writer can pretty much go anywhere with her. As you did with Backstage, as I did with Chronicles, as many other writers do.

Of course, if you're not a writer or an avid reader of Evangelion fanfiction, then yeah the blank slate can be a bit of an issue. Hasn't stopped her popularity, at least. Though I do hope the next rebuild will flesh her out a bit more, however unrealistic that may be.
 
The reason I asked is because of you mentioned the confederacy as a separate nation. That sounds very American.
 
during late 2010, right when Lucasfilm was coming up with Rei Rey for Force Awakens.
You're about 3-4 years too early, I think. Disney purchase happened in 2013 and I don't recall there being any plans for sequel films before then barring Lucas's perpetually shelved notes that Disney ignored.
 
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Good part overall, BG. Glad the cast are enjoying Megas as much as some of us (myself included) probably are watching through it with them.
Just occurred to me that all these quotes are from the first episode watched today. :p

R: "Certainly an interesting concept. I wonder how the gravity of such a world would work."
A: "Doubt Cartoon Network would explain it much anyway."
K: "Perhaps this halo was created by an advanced forerunner species."
A: "Ancient alien tech shit, got it."
A: "Why do I get the feeling this was ripped off from somewhere?"
K: "If it was, it's not from a piece of fiction we know of."
R: "So we are seeing the parody of whatever this is parodying, with no knowledge on what the original work was."
K: "Perhaps."
S: "This whole show has been a bit of a parody so far, so it wouldn't surprise me."
"So we know this was meant to be a parody of something."

"But not what the original is, indeed." Thought Kaworu. "Rather strange to think about."

"It makes sense if such work existed in their world. Then again, we can only speculate ourselves."

"Hell, they might've actually made something original." Shrugged Asuka. "I certainly never heard anything about a ringworld library."
Well, Megas began airing just over a year after Red vs. Blue starting being made, so maybe parodying Halo was just the low-key "in thing" back then. :p
Is RvB really that long running now? Damn.

S: "You can have other kinds of life?"
K: "Most life is indeed carbon based. But as Kiva suggested, you can theoretically swap out the carbon with another similar chemical, silicon in this case."
Well, it seemed to work for that one race from Star Trek, so why not here too?

S: "Now would be a bad time for him to develop arachnophobia, won't it?"
A: "Isn't that just for spiders?"
S: "What's the term for insects, then?"
Entomophobia is a fear of one or more classes of insects, speaking generally.

Wouldn't have known that if I hadn't looked it up, though, so I get the feeling more specific terms are used more often.

M: "We c-could use an Evangelion sized baseball b-bat."
S: "Good luck trying to convince Ritsuko."
At the very least it would work as a simulation weapon, but given the lack of equivalent to use out in the field (short of ripping a comm mast out of the ground and using that), good luck convincing Rits of that either.

R: "He could have used those earlier."
M: "Man he thought of e-everything with that control panel, didn't he?"
K: "That or Cartoon Network give him what he needs."
A: "It'd be pretty cool to just have buttons come up for what you need, eh?"
Haven't got that far yet, but from the screenshots i've seen... Hoo boy. They're in for a fun time. :D
 
You're about 3-4 years too early, I think. Disney purchase happened in 2013 and I don't recall there being any plans for sequel films before then barring Lucas's perpetually shelved notes that Disney ignored.

It's not that I have inside knowledge, but these things began development around 2008. Right when Bad Robot was doing the first Star Trek reboot. Take a look at where Kathleen Kennedy was working before the big transfer to Disney.
 
After three movies she has no backstory, no motivation, not even much of a personality beyond 'Anime fetish fuel version of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl'.

It's pretty obvious that she was just meant as 'Merchandising Girl No.3, Now With Glasses!' from the beginning. Very likely the reason why so many of the older fans hated her guts at first (me included), even if that opinion has shifted into acceptance by now, although not for anything the movies have done. It's just such a waste of a perfectly valid shake-up to the established story. :(

It is telling that Mari has more character and depth in fanfic than in Rebuild canon

You say fanfics, but I've read doujins that give her more development, and that's just sad. Hell, my best received take on Mari is heavily based on one I read back in the day, rather than anything that Khara gave us! :confused:
 
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It's not that I have inside knowledge, but these things began development around 2008. Right when Bad Robot was doing the first Star Trek reboot. Take a look at where Kathleen Kennedy was working before the big transfer to Disney.
I seriously doubt the sequel films had that amount of planning behind them - they'd have started synergising the EU with it back then if they were. Maybe there were vague ideas, but I don't think they were anything more than that, and certainly not serious plans - Lucas was at first very much hoping they'd use his notes, which Rey wasn't in.
 
Welp, alerts not working again + plenty going on atm = almost missing new Chronicles. :/
K: "What a tragedy, world peace was achieved."
But Simpsons taught me that would be when there's no lawyers? 🤔
A: "Do you think Cartoon Network really thought about how a TV satellite works?"
Given they're a TV Network, you'd hope so. :p
Coop's mum called for him.
A: "…Hang on a minute, how old is he?"
R: "Young enough to be still living with at least one parent."
I mean, that's not saying much these days. I lived with my folks till 27 and I wanted to get my own place as soon as possible...
Been a hot minute, hasn't it?
Yeah don't expect a consistent schedule anymore; now I know Stryp's feeling with not having the time to write :V
Welp, welcome to the club (unfortunately)... :V
 
Welp, welcome to the club (unfortunately)... :V
Oh dear... now I have this sudden urge to write a completely WAFF bit along the lines of 'A&T!Shinji and Asuka meet Aki'. Someone would probably BSOD. Or explode.

While I'm thinking about it, anyone remember the utterly mad Adeptus Evangelion RPG campaign I mentioned a while ago? The lunatic who GM'ed that, Arkalest, has two new quests starting on SV, and you might enjoy a look, especially this one: Carona, Of Rivers And Revels. [Anthro Management Quest V2.0] Original - Fantasy

Here's the other, just begun: Steel Ronins & Cyber-Copters: Joint Japanese-American Self Defense Quest. [Mech/Management.] Original

They always do terrific, vivid worldbuilding, and participation keeps the muses going, so give them a look.
 
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Evangelion: The Hangover pt 10 - Technicalities and Temptations
Oh, and as something to tide you all over, a few random jokes about Kaworu's chiseled buns in a Discord server tonight led to a sudden, slightly lewd-ish Hangover bit:

Evangelion: The Hangover pt 10 -
Technicalities and Temptations


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The large half-moon couch in the apartment living room was playing host to two reclining women, half a bowl of popcorn, and one argument. About sex.

"Rei, you may be a near-goddess both metaphorically to us and literally to physics, but even if Doctor Akagi cracks the code on you having children, you still won't be a 'virgin mother'. That's just silly."

Rei gave one of her tiny, smug little smiles. "I will have you know, Asuka, that I am still a virgin."

Asuka stared at her wife. "....ok, what? Rei, I know you are not a virgin, by very direct observation. Multiply not-a-virgin. In every possible way. By boy or girl."

"Simple, I still have my virginity." She paused. "Well, a virginity."

"You're going to need to explain that one, or I won't spank you for it."

Rei pretended to swoon. "So cruel! Well, if you insist, my beloved wife. Like this: You and Shinji know very well that Kaworu and I first had sex not long after we defeated SEELE, yes?"

"Very yes. You both walked around grinning like idiots for days. Which was really weird to see on your face back then."

"Well, considering Kaworu's own desires and interests, and the fact we were each other's only sexual partner back then, after he took my virginity... I took it back." Rei winked slyly.

Asuka's jaw dropped open for a moment. "Rei, did you... you... I mean, you-"

"She pegged me like a pinochle board," Kaworu said cheerily as he breezed through the room on his way to sneak a snack and a kiss from Shinji in the kitchen. "I was very interested, we were both horny, and so my darling avatar of Lilith put on a nice big strap-on, bent me over the bed, and pounded me like a bent nail. And oh gods, I saw stars. Unf! So we traded off back and forth for the rest of the night. Weekend. Whatever."

Rei smiled at him and continued. "So yes, he took my virginity, I took one back, ergo, I am still a virgin. QED."

"Rei, that is not how that works," Asuka complained, facepalming.

"Would you like to take my virginity, Asuka?" Rei said impishly. She stood up, turned around, and gave a tiny shimmy of her rear at her wife. She looked over her shoulder with a faint Rei-grin.

"Unfgrmblg..." Asuka said thoughtfully, biting her lip hard. Rei's ass was a work of art, and watching her husbands make it shake and bounce as they pounded Rei most nights had made her sometimes picture what doing that herself might be like...

Rei noticed Asuka's sudden wrestling match with temptation and growing depths of her Rei-sexuality. "I still have that same strap-on, so you can even do so with the same implement that took Kaworu's, thereby making you a double-virgin by the transitive property of banging," she offered teasingly.

"Rei, what you just said made less than zero sense. That's not even close to math. Or physics. Or-" Asuka suddenly stopped and gave Rei a calculating look. "And this was all one of your elaborate schemes to wind me up, drive me nuts with horniness, and get me to take you into the bedroom and make enthusiastic love to you in a way we haven't tried out yet?"

"Is it working?" Rei sat down in Asuka's lap and wiggled. "You are the only one of my spouses who has not yet done that, and I think it's only fair that youYEEEEK!"

Asuka had abruptly wrapped her arms around Rei's midsection, lifted Rei up off her lap, and somehow slung Rei over her shoulder as she stood up. "Shinji, Kaworu, Rei and I will be back in a bit! This bloody minx we married is doing it again!"

"Dinner's not for an hour or so. Have fun!" Shinji's voice replied from the kitchen, not even sticking his head in to look. "Kaworu's got no pants on again, might be two hours!"

"Help. Help. Oh noes," Rei deadpanned as she was carried off.
 
I have no words...
but I have emojis! o_O:lol:o_O:lol::rofl::lol:o_O:lol:o_O:lol::confused::rofl:o_O:lol::rofl::confused:
Also, specific reactions under the cut:
Rei smiled at him and continued. "So yes, he took my virginity, I took one back, ergo, I am still a virgin. QED."
But many things about sex are not conserved. For example, sex does not conserve angular momentum, which you can determine by rotating a sex act about a horizontal axis and seeing that the sex is not invariant.
"And this was all one of your elaborate schemes to wind me up, drive me nuts with horniness, and get me to take you into the bedroom and make enthusiastic love to you in a way we haven't tried out yet?"
So how long until they get into the more -
"You're going to need to explain that one, or I won't spank you for it."
In the past. Okay then.
"Kaworu's got no pants on again
So, an ordinary Tuesday in the Soryu-Ayanami household?
 
Having watched Rebuild (now several times for writing background), I cannot shake the impression how accurate that is. She seems to have some issues she... compensates for in the fic. Like having friends who endure her attitude.
Goddamnit not her too
Yes very funny until the thought occurs that Mari might be Anno's insert of his own wife and as such might be the girl Shinji (Anno's own self-insert) goes home with in the 4th movie.
I thought Shinji was just supposed to be audience surrogate not Anno's as well. Or is this just the Rebuilds being trippy again
Also what the fuck? If that shit happens Anno might actually start getting death threats again. Although that is probably the only thing that can unite diehard Shinsuka and Reishin supporters
She doesn't have the backstory to match and understand Shinji like Asuka, or even Rei does.
If we're talking Rebuilds then neither does Asuka for some godforsaken reason
Oh, and as something to tide you all over, a few random jokes about Kaworu's chiseled buns in a Discord server tonight led to a sudden, slightly lewd-ish Hangover bit:

Evangelion: The Hangover pt 10 -
Technicalities and Temptations


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The large half-moon couch in the apartment living room was playing host to two reclining women, half a bowl of popcorn, and one argument. About sex.

"Rei, you may be a near-goddess both metaphorically to us and literally to physics, but even if Doctor Akagi cracks the code on you having children, you still won't be a 'virgin mother'. That's just silly."

Rei gave one of her tiny, smug little smiles. "I will have you know, Asuka, that I am still a virgin."

Asuka stared at her wife. "....ok, what? Rei, I know you are not a virgin, by very direct observation. Multiply not-a-virgin. In every possible way. By boy or girl."

"Simple, I still have my virginity." She paused. "Well, a virginity."

"You're going to need to explain that one, or I won't spank you for it."

Rei pretended to swoon. "So cruel! Well, if you insist, my beloved wife. Like this: You and Shinji know very well that Kaworu and I first had sex not long after we defeated SEELE, yes?"

"Very yes. You both walked around grinning like idiots for days. Which was really weird to see on your face back then."

"Well, considering Kaworu's own desires and interests, and the fact we were each other's only sexual partner back then, after he took my virginity... I took it back." Rei winked slyly.

Asuka's jaw dropped open for a moment. "Rei, did you... you... I mean, you-"

"She pegged me like a pinochle board," Kaworu said cheerily as he breezed through the room on his way to sneak a snack and a kiss from Shinji in the kitchen. "I was very interested, we were both horny, and so my darling avatar of Lilith put on a nice big strap-on, bent me over the bed, and pounded me like a bent nail. And oh gods, I saw stars. Unf! So we traded off back and forth for the rest of the night. Weekend. Whatever."

Rei smiled at him and continued. "So yes, he took my virginity, I took one back, ergo, I am still a virgin. QED."

"Rei, that is not how that works," Asuka complained, facepalming.

"Would you like to take my virginity, Asuka?" Rei said impishly. She stood up, turned around, and gave a tiny shimmy of her rear at her wife. She looked over her shoulder with a faint Rei-grin.

"Unfgrmblg..." Asuka said thoughtfully, biting her lip hard. Rei's ass was a work of art, and watching her husbands make it shake and bounce as they pounded Rei most nights had made her sometimes picture what doing that herself might be like...

Rei noticed Asuka's sudden wrestling match with temptation and growing depths of her Rei-sexuality. "I still have that same strap-on, so you can even do so with the same implement that took Kaworu's, thereby making you a double-virgin by the transitive property of banging," she offered teasingly.

"Rei, what you just said made less than zero sense. That's not even close to math. Or physics. Or-" Asuka suddenly stopped and gave Rei a calculating look. "And this was all one of your elaborate schemes to wind me up, drive me nuts with horniness, and get me to take you into the bedroom and make enthusiastic love to you in a way we haven't tried out yet?"

"Is it working?" Rei sat down in Asuka's lap and wiggled. "You are the only one of my spouses who has not yet done that, and I think it's only fair that youYEEEEK!"

Asuka had abruptly wrapped her arms around Rei's midsection, lifted Rei up off her lap, and somehow slung Rei over her shoulder as she stood up. "Shinji, Kaworu, Rei and I will be back in a bit! This bloody minx we married is doing it again!"

"Dinner's not for an hour or so. Have fun!" Shinji's voice replied from the kitchen, not even sticking his head in to look. "Kaworu's got no pants on again, might be two hours!"

"Help. Help. Oh noes," Rei deadpanned as she was carried off.
Jesus the SQUEEEEEEEEEEE
 
Yeah putting the reaction in a spoiler seems like a good idea I should repeat :p

Rei gave one of her tiny, smug little smiles. "I will have you know, Asuka, that I am still a virgin."

My first thought about that was 'Well that's an interesting quirk of being Nephilim', so maybe I'm just as perverted as Rei :V

She pegged me like a pinochle board

But that also works :p

So yes, he took my virginity, I took one back, ergo, I am still a virgin. QED."

I wonder if it stacks. Potentially double or even triple virginity :V

so you can even do so with the same implement that took Kaworu's, thereby making you a double-virgin by the transitive property of banging," she offered teasingly.

Oh it does stack :V

I wonder if there's a mathematical formula for calculating how to revert everyone back to this virginal state, like what the writers of Futurama made up for an episode one time. At the very least, I'm sure such a formula will appeal to Ritsuko :V
 
My only complaint is that those toys need to be sterilized real damn good, because holy shit do you not want to see what happens if you have a bad gut fauna interaction, or a gut fauna/vaginal fauna interaction. Those generally turn into infections, and ain't nobody happy when they get green pus discharges.
 
slightly lewd-ish Hangover bit
"Slightly", sure :D

<dives in>
"Simple, I still have my virginity." She paused. "Well, a virginity."
R: "It's used, a little bit banged up."
A: "'Banged' and 'virginity' rarely go hand in hand."
R: "Hands were in limited use."
"You're going to need to explain that one, or I won't spank you for it."
An effective and elegant threat. Also, a promise.
"So yes, he took my virginity, I took one back, ergo, I am still a virgin. QED."
This is an impressive display logic. Also, impressively wrong display of logic (intentionally skipping the nature of the discussed object? tsk tsk). But it leads to interesting conclusions and positive results. I wonder, is there a separate FAR logic that Rei and Kaworu inherited in their past memories?
"Unfgrmblg..." Asuka said thoughtfully, biting her lip hard.
A rare example of Asuka being gagged by a non-physical object.
"Kaworu's got no pants on again, might be two hours!"
R: "I told you this kilt was a good gift idea."
"Help. Help. Oh noes," Rei deadpanned as she was carried off.
R: "Oh. I am being ravished. Help. Help."
A: "You're at my mercy! They're not coming, my dear!"
R: "Oh, they are. Just not here."
Thank you! This was a welcome laugh and WAFF in a cold morning :)
 
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