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More soul stuff Rei may or may not find concerning because I actually have always been curious what she would think of them since, well, she started getting mad about it in Chronicles.

I can't help but wonder what she'd think of Soma Cruz/Kurusu (yes i could probably say actual castlevania dracula but the sorrow games are the only ones i've really played okay?! :V) considering his main power is absorbing and controlling souls.

Though in this case there's the caveat of having only absorbed and used souls of monsters...and that Soma doesn't really care for having this power and only really used it because of the situation he found himself in.

So yeah depends on whether Rei doesn't mind too much that Soma absorbed monster souls and if his motives (first game, wanting to get himself and Mina out of Dracula's Castle, second game, trying to save Mina from "cultists" who wanted to reawaken his darkness) are enough of an excuse for her that when he just wants to live out a peaceful life, she won't stay mad at him. :V

and there is also the fact that soma may or may not be a (spoilers for the castlevania sorrow games) reincarnation of dracula and thus getting a second chance with his also possibly reincarnated love and rei might relate to that considering her and kaworu's situation and/or lllith and adam's in a&t/chornicles so i'd like to think she'd be fine...for the most part. :V
 
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...pretty sure the stuff from 1:38 thru 2:14 is a violation of the site's Terms of Service.
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Removed the video, just in case. I am pretty sure it violates YT TOS as well, but allinall is crazy enough that he got away with it somehow.

Also, lots of excerpts from Morrowind/TES ingame text/dialogue/plotpoints probably also violate both the TOS and the Geneva convention. Once again, I strongly advise against doing 36 lessons of Vivec chronicles. Or morrowind chronicles in general.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t5aQ2mTx-4
For the Argonian fans out there.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ix0_W-ouI
Pelinal music video.

View: https://youtu.be/Z7dA-DRkfgM
Content warning at 1:34 to 2:14 for those who are less triggered by genocide than by sexual content.

The concept of Soul Gems in The Elder Scrolls might concern her a little :V
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The entire setting is something that Rei should never be exposed to.
 
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There's also the fun theory about the multigenerational plan the Thalmor have been running to end the world so that they are the only beings that still exist, and thus far, the plan has been working.


DragonUnitOmega said:
Though in this case there's the caveat of having only absorbed and used souls of monsters
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Yeah, I think this would be like White Souls in TES: the souls of creatures, not sapient beings.

And IIRC, Soma's power of dominance is explicitly established to NOT extend to human souls. (Which is why the Dmitri bullshit surprised him)
 
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TheDarkFreak said:
There's also the fun theory about the multigenerational plan the Thalmor have been running to end the world so that they are the only beings that still exist, and thus far, the plan has been working.
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They are the ultra-radical ultra-nationalist wing of a race which has its entire religion be predicated on the worlds existence being a curse put on them separating them from divine existence by the dreadful Lorkhan, whose followers are men(and also Dunmer and Khajiit). Its not really a theory - more so something that has to happen in some capacity in some way, be it with some niche fraction in the Thalmor, be it the secret cabal within it pulling the strings or whatever else may it be. If Bethesda decides to not do this in the next TES game, they are blatantly just stupid.
 
For a future chronicles, I suggest Metroid Fusion and Metroid Dread. I think it would be interesting how they handle the setting of those games. Also for Dread, this particular detail.

The X infected chozo soldiers when mutated remind me of the MP Evas from End of Evangelion.
 
-through gritted teeth- Don't. Tempt me. To make. More. Suggestions. For Chronicles.

I've had like several suggestions in mind (including but not limited to: tonikaku kawaii, spy x family, kara no kyoukai films, centaurworld) since my last "set" but like the list is long enough as is...

...okay it's just a personal rule from stopping myself from constantly giving suggestions for chronicles but eeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh i keep wanting to suggest things but again i know it's long so aaahhh i don't wanna bloat something that's bloated but also really wanna keep making suggestions and they are just suggestions so there's no real harm but aagggh
 
DragonUnitOmega said:
I've had like several suggestions in mind (including but not limited to: tonikaku kawaii, spy x family, kara no kyoukai films, centaurworld) since my last "set" but like the list is long enough as is...
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Added them anyway but don't expect them to be polled anytime soon, just saying :V
Oh right I had the poll running... I should probably check that sometime.

Okay okay I've left it long enough. Here's part 1 of part 1!
Yes after all this time I still only have half of the first chapter done up, things are going a bit slow at the moment don't @ me :p

"Bloody analog tape… what if I just-" As she started tearing it apart.

Meanwhile in the bedroom, Kaworu was busy packing. "…What do I even pack."

"Clothing is a good start."

"Y'know if they give you a s-spending card you can just get whatever you want in the States." Mari figured. "Plus your wardrobe is p-pretty one note anyway, no offence."

"I encourage him to wear different things." Prodded Rei. "Perhaps you will do the same?"

"Oh I'm taking control as soon as he steps i-into a GAP."

The boy thought for a brief moment. "Hey, I wonder…"

Opening the closet, he found a dusty camera on the top shelf.

Rei sighed in relief. "I thought you were going for the box."

"You still have that up there?" As he went back to the shelf.

"Please don't show Mari the box."

"What's in the box?"

"Nothing you don't see on a nightly basis."

"Oh that kind of stuff." She realised. "I mean, y-you did see me exposed today."

"So did you with me. Admittedly it was more tamer than yours."

Mari raised her eyebrow.

"The answer is still no."

"Aww, no fun."

As Kaworu cycled through the tape. "Still have a few photos left on the tape."

"What did you guys use that c-camera for?"

An aside glance from Rei.

"I should've figured from the box." Prodded Mari, tossing the camera to Rei. "Well I guess that's out of the q-question then."

"Quite." As she was going to rifle through a drawer. "I do not think we have more film, unfortunately. I usually only buy them as we need it. What were you wanting to photograph, Kaworu?"

"Well, I was hoping to take a photo while I was doing this-" He moved quickly, stealing a kiss from Rei.

"Mmmfp!"

The duo fell onto their bed, Rei completely falling into him, and for a brief moment in time they were all there was in the world.

At least until a camera shutter went off, Rei snapping out of it.

"Heh. Couldn't help myself."

An unamused look, as Kaworu moved beside her, head leaning on her shoulder, taking a few self portraits.

Good for Kaworu, her expression softened through the photos, and by the last one on the roll she had pecked him on the cheek. "Fine, as long as you develop it yourself."

"We have a darkroom, so it wouldn't surprise me if Massachusetts had it as well."

Rei bonked Kaworu on the head with the camera, causing its door to open. The film was soon given to him. "At least that had a use for something."

"Happy to help."

A quiet moment, as they shared each other's warmth.

"…Hey, Rei?"

"Yes?"

"You will be fine by yourself, right?" Softly querying, a hand of his slowly running up and down her arm. "I know we have that link, but… I know how much you appreciate the touch."

An airy sigh. "I'll be fine. I could say the same for you, you realise."

He gave a slightly downwards glance.

"Heh… maybe you can figure out a way of projecting Mari into the physical world."

Mari cocked her head. "Like… making a b-body for me out of the AT-Field or something like that?"

"Something like that." She smirked. "Kensuke would probably call it a Stand, but it may allow you to share some sort of physicality. Mari."

"O-Oh…"

"In lieu of me." Her smirk grew into a rather dangerous grin. "You bet i'll be watching and encouraging you from afar."

"R-Rei!"

"It's a good thing Eliza got out of that head of yours."

"She'll find someone eventually and learn it is a good thing, Kaworu… Though speaking of, they are still in the living room, no?"

"I'm guessing you t-two would've boned there and then if it weren't for that."

"Wouldn't have been the worst time we've done it."

Rei responded with a headbutt. "I was going to ask how far along she was in engineering Shinji's SDAT. I am not always perverted."

"You sure, blue?"

"Just because I am the avatar of Lilith who loves everything to do with love and sex and general child making… where was I going with that…"

"Proving her point, perhaps."

"Okay, maybe I am a bit perverted by most standards. But only with those I love and appreciate, which include the both of you."

"…Certainly appreciate t-that."

Another smile, and a peck on the lips. "That was for you Mari."

Kaworu's face flushed.

"Anything else you would like to pack?" Rei finally got back on track. "No you cannot pack me, and no you cannot pack yourself into me."

"Not while you have g-guests."

"Nice one, Maria." With wry smile. "You are in good hands, Kaworu."

To which he simply nodded.

Rei pushed him off with some force, the boy impacting the door. "We will check if they are complete. Then we will see if we can find a place for ourselves."

To which he simply nodded.
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Shinji and Asuka were currently walking home from the train station, Misato's laptop in hand. "Hey is that Sayaka and-"

"Nope!" Asuka grabbed a hold of Shinji's hand and bolted. "Not facing him until we have to!"

"Ah! Asuka!" He yelped.

Quicker than they were going to, they made their way back to the apartments, running into Rei and Kaworu who were a few floors down from where they were. "Ah, fancy seeing you guys here!"

"Hi Asuka." Rei smiled. "We were looking for a private spot."

"Pfft, your apartment not private enough?"

"Not with a couple dinosaurs and a c-computer banging your SDAT against the table, doggy."

To which he shrugged. "The iPod's better anyway."

"Well, I think Misato has a few keys to the apartments stashed around for storage, might be able to grab a tatami and go ham there if you want…" Her mind wandering down to the laptop. "Or, you could watch a new show Ritsuko found on the iPod the other day."

"Oh?"

"Ah! So that's what gets sex off your mind!" Scruffing her hair with her free hand. "Lil' pervert. Wanna watch with us?"

"…Yes please." To her blush.

"May as well invite the others as well." Kaworu suggested. "Though I'm not sure how much we could watch before we have to head out. Don't want to rush you guys through it."

"Eh, maybe it'll be shit." Mari shrugged off. "It's gonna take something special t-to top the last one."

"I think a porno would top the last one, at least it's upfront about it." Snarked Asuka, as they made their way back upstairs.

And to the apartment of Rei and Kaworu, in the middle of seeing Eliza buried in a mound of tape of what used to be an AC/DC cassette, after the modified SDAT had its way with it.

Hiro was sympathetic to her plight, not Zero Two who was laughing like mad.

"Agh. Damn these obsolete formats!"

"Even the SDAT is outdated at this point." Rei flatly remarked. "Anyway, we have another pressing matter."

"New Rift material!" As she paraded the Powerbook around. "Misato can pretty much work from her phone so she gave us this to watch a bit of what they found!"

"It's not an anime with us, is it?" Hiro dreaded.

"Or you guys?"

"As far as they know, it's completely original." With an aside glance. "Though Misato in particular said I'd like the opening, so I'm already not looking forward to it."

"No time like the present."

"Got that right!" As she rested the laptop on the table. "C'mon get cozy!"

Soon enough, the video started.
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Character Key:
Shinji (S) Asuka (A)
Rei (R) Kaworu (K)
Eliza (E) Mari (M)
Zero Two (Z) Hiro (H)

Gee I wonder what this is an analogy for… (00:00)
We start with a lesson on how the Nazis came to power. "Fuck off!"
Z: "Good start. They're bad?"
M: "Understating it."
Either way, it was a rather boring lesson, the teacher prattling away as half the class was asleep.
E: "I think the bob cut girl will be an important character."
S: "I'm guessing the different uniform keyed you in."
All of a sudden the door was bashed down, wrecking havoc in the classroom. "…Oh okay." Asuka immediately perked up. "Didn't expect that."
And immediately stepping in was a very big man and his cronies, the teacher immediately keeling over at the sight of Ira Gamagoori.
K: "I'm not sure about you guys, but I'm sensing an analogy here."
A: "Great so they're under the thumb of stormtroopers."
R: "With powers. I would not assume they could beat down a door like that normally. They may as well be Nephilim."
M: "Oh great, Nephilim Nazis. S-Splendid."
A: "They did get up to some wacky shit, so it wouldn't surprise me if they tried doing that."
S: "And that girl's sleeping all throughout it."
H: "She knows her priorities."
Next to her, however, was a nervous boy, who immediately dropped a smoke bomb.
Z: "So how does that kid get screwed today?"
A: "Probably similar to how an ant might get destroyed by a Saiyan."
The boy ran like mad downstairs, however Ira was hot on his tail, from a certain point of view.
E: "Pfft, show off."
M: "They're obviously confident they can keep h-him in line. Hey maybe we can try that o-over in America, Ash!"
K: "Heh, we'll see what opportunities present themselves."
Opening the door to the outside the boy was immediately confronted with Ira, who threw him sixteen miles downrange.
S: "So far this is very reminiscent of Gurren Lagaan. Kinda wonder who made it."
Z: "Certainly not similar to our show. Unless you wanted me to do that to you, darling."
H: "I half expected it, from what piloting with you seemed to be like."
The delinquent revealed what he had stolen, a one-star Goku Uniform. "Oh of course it's named a-after that…"
A: "Ain't gonna say it's wise for him to put it on, but I think his death warrant was already signed for at this point."
Putting it on, he immediately transformed from a pork bellied delinquent into a fit and fresh person imbued with power.
K: "So it is the uniform that gives the power…" Pondering. "How does that work?"
R: "It is clear they have a method to imbue the power to the uniform, instead of the person. That is interesting…"
E: "Do you know if mama watched this yet?"
Asuka shook her head. "Wouldn't surprise me but I don't know for sure."
E: "Cause this would give her an aneurysm."
Unfortunately, he tried going up against a three star Goku Uniform, immediately no-sold.
H: "He'll be lucky to get away with just an aneurysm at this point."
And he was immediately bashed around.
Z: "Shit he's gonna end up worse off than most of my pilots."
A: "I'm guessing that chick runs this whole show? Just based on the fact she's standing up there looking all menacing like."
M: "You don't usually see the g-good guys brooding high above places with weaponry. And yeah even just b-based on how she looks."
The uniform was forced off him, the boy left naked and the uniform back in Ira's hand, freshly folded.
S: "At least they had the decency to censor that."
A: "They're better than Khara."
Z: "Was it as bad as Trigger was with our show?"
A: "I know you were naked a few times but at least they didn't constantly show everyones asses during serious moments. From what I remember."
E: "Wait they're a student council?"
M: "Is it that much of a t-thing in anime where they're all powerful or some shit?"
A: "In my experience, most of them just get it so they can go on a power trip. Not that it matters to me."
S: "Helps you have everyone on side, Evangelion pilots and all that."
A: "Yeah and the fact that i've made it very clear if they annoy me and try that with me, they'll end up in the bin."
K: "You aren't calling them -sama anytime soon, I assume."
A: "He tries asking for that, I'll get him to meet bin-sama."
H: "Good to hear your school isn't oppressive…"
M: "How does this e-even happen? Like, is it just the uniforms sending them on power trips and shit?"
R: "Thing is, with such power, they could easily take over the world. Why do they settle for this school?"
S: "I get the impression they already control most of their surrounds."

Nek Minnit (03:50)
A new day dawned, the camera zooming out to see the literally spiralling city.
K: "So it is quite literally on top of everything… I think you may be correct, Shinji."
R: "I did not know there was a city on Mount Fuji."
Z: "She picked a good time to transfer."
A: "Ooh I like her look!" As they had a first glimpse of the (presumedly) main character, Ryuko Matoi.
E: "She looks as delinquent as Satsuki."
H: "So all that is the academy?"
S: "I get some schools are awful, but not many have literal slums outside their doorstep."
And with that, the titles appeared.
Z: "I get the feeling I'm gonna like this one."
A: "Seems up your alley. And mine too."
R: "Can never really go wrong with a girl beating the loving hell out of the enemy."
M: "Wonder if that's what t-they think."
S: "Yeah."
Ryuko garnered suspicious stares as she strolled through the slums, eating a lemon as a snack.
A: "If I saw someone just chow down a lemon like that i'd be suspicious of them too!"
R: "They are not that bad."
A kid attempted to pickpocket her, unfortunately all she picked was the lemon.
M: "Pfft, that's what you g-get."
Z: "I mean if they were really downtrodden, it's still shit but it's understandable."
E: "She looks similar."
Ryuko took it as an opportunity for a lesson.
R: "Love is not that bad."
A: "I think Ryuko got stood up sometime."
On the kid's command, her other cronies came out of the shadows.
H: "Now usually I would not consider roving gangs of children a sign of a prosperous city."
Z: "Is that a chainsaw?"
S: "How do they pay for the petrol for that?"
A: "I don't think they pay for anything, Shinji."
M: "She's keeping a l-level head with it, at least."
R: "She believes she has it sorted, and I believe that too."
It was probably like two seconds of actual fighting, the children immediately falling flat on the ground, the gang conceding shortly thereafter.
A: "hA!" She guffawed. "Little shits!"
K: "Most people are weak against stronger people, it seems."
E: "Fighting children wasn't going to be too difficult, surely."
Z: "At least she can turn a blind eye to it."
R: "A rare quality in people."

Sisters (06:00)
Someone who wouldn't turn a blind eye was her sister, immediately hitting them upside the head with her school bag.
M: "At least someone values h-her education."
A: "Bet that's just what siblings do, though."
H: "Probably a bit less violently?"
M: "Nah they can still be p-pretty violent in my experience."
Not that it mattered, the twerp fleeing as soon as her sis released them.
E: "She's sweet, at least."
Z: "I get the feeling that's just a taste of how weird this place is."
S: "Who could've thought a city ran by an extremist student council with magic powers would be strange?"
E: "You two aren't taking over Tokyo-3 anytime soon, right?"
R: "Not yet."
We swoos back up to the academy, the naked delinquent hanging crucified at the entrance as a warning.
K: "Very medieval."
A: "I'm sure it keeps most in line."
Z: "Not her, i'd think."
R: "Her attitude so far has made that clear."
S: "Looking for leads, she says. Like, investigating something?"
E: "Maybe she was sent over by the government to investigate the fact a student council had taken over a city with their magic powers?"
A: "Hope she has magic powers to counter that, or she's joining that delinquent."
The girl was introduced to the class, the other girl who saved her waking up and pointing her to a free desk next door.
K: "It's good to see this class is just as interested in education as our class is."
R: "Brave of them to slack off, considering punishments include public execution."
S: "Least she seems to care about Ryuko."
M: "Maybe she pushed Suzuki to do w-what he did so she could get a free desk."
Z: "He must've been awful as a student."
E: "She's awfully energetic."
R: "A proper genki girl." She noted, as Mako introduced herself. "I do not recall anyone of the sort in our classroom."
A: "Tanaka can be a chatterbox sometimes it feels."
S: "Well that's a good start for Mako."
A: "Eh I'm sure she'll be better. Not like Ryuko has a boyfriend to try stealing."
H: "And i'm sure she has the capability to fight back."
A: "Oh yeah."
K: "I imagine you need that capability in that society."
Mako scoffed down her bento and immediately fell back to sleep, as teach began droning on about the Nazi's once more.
S: "Is that better or worse than the Second Impact drone?"
A: "Always makes me uncomfortable hearing about that honestly. Give me Second Impact any day of the week."

Dodge (07:50)
The 'bell' (read: klaxon) sounded to signal next period, Ryuko dodging an attempted glomp by Mako.
A: "Gotta get to know her better before you get those privileges."
H: "She's really attached herself to Ryuko, hasn't she?"
Z: "You've seen Suzuki, right?"
E: "Maybe that's part of a coping mechanism she has. Considering she didn't even bat an eye when her desk mate was executed."
R: "Makes our school seem comparatively lax."
S: "You think that, but the students still slack off. Half of them look dead, and Mako just sleeps though class. Even though she says to her sister education is important."
K: "Perhaps the student council seeks only to maintain their power. They couldn't give a damn if the students actually get educated, they just want the power of ruling over a group with an iron fist."
M: "I mean we had p-prefects and shit in high school, but everyone knew you didn't have any actual p-power. It was just a lesson in d-democracy at the end of the day."
A: "And why would the teachers give power to their students? They'd probably just cancel school if they could."
The entire school bowed down at once, Ira making his way downtown.
R: "Or they would turn it into a society to make the Nazi's blush."
A: "Bit more of a coin flip than I thought. At least Mako knows about all this."
E: "Love a bit of exposition."
R: "So it really is in the uniform… I wonder how it may work."
K: "Imbued with a soul, somehow. Maybe you can run core material or a soul through a spinning wheel."
S: "Bet they just shoved a random student in an industrial spinning wheel of some sort."
Z: "Wouldn't be beyond them."
Ryuko stood out in front of Satsuki.
E: "Oh boy ten minutes in and our main character is already dead. How many episodes have we got?"
Asuka quickly looked. "Twenty four."
Her question fell on deaf ears as the one stars went to attack, at least until she bought out a sword to deal with the grunts.
A: "Ooh hello girl!"
S: "It's a scissors. Scissor?"
M: "Bit useless as a s-singular."
Z: "Ah! She's going for my strategy!"
H: "Throwing wrenches in things?"
Z: "In this case throwing giant scissor things in things."
E: "She's got confidence, at least."

Box (10:10)
Unfortunately she was going up against superhumans, and got her ass kicked, several one stars falling over like bowling pins.
R: "I really could not see this going any other way."
K: "Seems there can be a variety of powers one can have…" Observing the boxing club captain, Takaharu Fukuroda. "Wonder how many stars they are?"
E: "I'd hazard two. Unless they can half half stars, in which case two and a half."
Z: "Hey how would you guys go against them?"
K: "It'd be a good fight, that's certain."
A: "An Evangelion would still squish them."
M: "Eh I wouldn't b-be too sure. Ash did well against my o-one, apparently."
K: "The Lance helped, admittedly."
Some more expositing from the captain, the gloves and trunks giving him his power.
H: "They really like those red characters, don't they?"
M: "I get pretty big T-Tarantino-esque vibes from that."
E: "Ah so no half stars then…"
R: "Goes to show how flexible this power is. It does not have to be clothing."
Despite her confidence, Ryuko still got ganked.
Z: "Also shows those students don't stand any chance in hell of ever going against them."
K: "The student council would most likely kill everyone there if there was ever an uprising."
S: "There might've even been some uprisings in the pasts. Of course they were probably all brutally killed."
A: "And I thought our school was shit."
On the threat of the scissor being confiscated, she ran away, hijacking a delivery scooter to aide her.
H: "We know that's important to what she's doing, at least."
R: "…Part of me wonders what that teacher knows."
The rain continued coming down, as Fukuroda was being beaten over the head for letting her get away.
M: "Jeez she even has a b-butler. Why the hell have they not taken over the w-world at this point?"
S: "I'd say that was a good thing they've stuck to their city."
Z: "At least Sanageyama is letting Fukuroda know he screwed up damn these names are long!"
Uzu Sanageyama, the athletic committee chair, spun it back to Gamagori, blaming him for allowing Satsuki to be mocked by such a lowlife.
E: "Houka Inumuta sure looks the part of his role."
K: "I'm sure information and strategy comes in handy when oppressing a society like they are doing."
R: "All of them are three stars. I wonder if these are the elite four."
Another three star was basking in a sea of plush toys.
H: "I'd call those two related, but I wouldn't think pink hair happened normally."
Z: "Maybe they were cloned or something." She shrugged, the non-athletic committee chair Nonon Jakuzure querying the nature of the scissor.
S: "Ah so that's why they wanted it."
R: "And she knows. They both know."
K: "Thus sets up the arc for this series."

House Burn Down (13:50)
Ryuko meanwhile was at her old house.
Now a husk.
S: "They have so much bad blood going on, don't they?"
A: "Bet they deliberately burnt down that house and killed her family."
The flashback showed as much.
Z: "Nothing like the prospect of revenge to drive someone."
E: "That leaves the question on why he was targeted."
She was taken into a trap door, triggered by the teacher.
H: "Well if that doesn't prove he knows a lot more than he leads on."
M: "He's not gonna t-turn out to be her father, right? Just working undercover?"
Z: "Well if it is, you just picked apart a 24 episode series in its first episode."
M: "Yeah that's why I don't w-want it."
She eventually landed on a pile of clothing, her blood pouring down onto the pile.
A: "Ah that's wonderful." It wasn't. "At least we have LCL to help stem any blood flow in Evangelion."
K: "Most injuries are non-physical in the Evangelion anyway. Of course you feel the pain."
R: "And the higher you get over 100% sync, the higher chance an Evangelion's injuries will transfer to you."
She was going to find a way out, if not for an etherial voice baying for more blood.
E: "So that's why they made her bleed."
Out of the shadows came a living seifuku, which pinned her to the wall and begged to be put on.
A: "Out of all the things you see in hentai I never would've thought a uniform could do that."
R: "He is being a bit forceful. I am sure if they sat down and discussed, she would be happy to wear that uniform."
Z: "That was just an excuse to see her bra, wasn't it."
R: "Probably."
K: "There hasn't been that much fanservice actually, now I think about it."
H: "Not counting Suzuki?"
A: "That's like anti-fanservice."
In what shaped out to be rather questionable, the uniform forced itself on her.
At the very least, she was rewarded with immense power.
M: "Yeeeeah they could've made it not d-disturbing and rapey."
S: "Talk about anti-fanservice. I wonder who made this?"
E: "So far it's very Gurren Lagaan like, just without the mecha. Wouldn't think Gainax would make another show like that."
A: "How many Gainax shows have we had anyway? Like, this is pretty much FLCL and Gurren Lagaan mashed up so far."
H: "Who else could it be then?"
K: "For all we know it could be someone new. We'll just have to wait for the credits to know for sure."

Ring (16:00)
The twilight sun bathed the academy, Fukuroda and Sanageyama standing in a boxing ring, cajoling Ryuko into facing them.
A: "The principal doesn't have control of them."
Z: "I don't think anyone controls them."
M: "They're about t-to execute one of their pupils again and the teachers are just s-standing by."
S: "Man adults really are useless in that world."
K: "Ah and that's why they have so much power. Nepotism."
S: "Most things boil down to that, Kaworu."
E: "Man they don't even give a shit she's wearing a skirt and shirt."
A: "I bet that's why they put her upside down like that. Humiliating her before killing her."
H: "They really are no better than animals, are they?"
K: "You'd be amazed how power can corrupt a human."
A: "Oh and that's why she's concerned. Yeah if I knew I was gonna be hung upside down waiting to be executed i'd for sure wear my black ones."
M: "Girl has her p-priorities, I can respect that."
The boiler was bought out, and demonstrated.
Z: "I think the fact it's burning oil is a bit more important than the fact it'd make her uniform see-through."
H: "Wouldn't the batter just cover it up anyway?"
Z: "I mean probably."
Out of the shadows, Ryuko.
Who promptly freed Mako. "Yas girl!" Mari yelled out. "Save your friend!"
The one stars attempted to catch the girl, only to fall into the burning oil.
A: "They ended up pretty well off honestly. For falling in burning oil."

Mortal Combat (18:15)
Mako promptly placed down to the side, Ryuko began facing off with Fukuroda.
E: "I guess you could call it dinner and a show."
Z: "They the oil for frying, at least."
M: "Has he noticed none of his h-hits have done anything?"
S: "Talk about Gurren Lagaan." As his fist corkscrewed.
And as she blocked. "Oh hoh!" Asuka exclaimed. "Now you're gonna show him!"
R: "Shame the uniform is a bit… exposing."
M: "Maybe it's video game logic, the less a-armor a girl has, the more protected she is."
H: "How does that work?"
K: "It's good fanservice."
Kaworu slapped himself on the head.
R: "Thank you Mari. At least she does not want to wear this. She is clearly embarrassed exposing herself this way."
E: "I get the feeling that uniform will become common."
R: "A shame."
Fukuroda started stripping off himself, as in stripping off his limiters, turning the boxing gloves into boxing spikes. "Oh come on that's a d-damn paragraph on screen!"
S: "Not that she cares."
A: "I think she cares more about her exposure."
H: "That poor announcer girl though…"
Z: "I don't think respect women is on top of his mind. Or even respecting anyone really."
The glove impacted against her, and shattered.
R: "Such is the power of her uniform."
Z: "Hey look at that, she even has my horns!"
H: "Go figure."
She scruffed her darling's hair. "Giving me a run for my money, isn't she?"
The punches weren't felt at all, the two star desperately trying to land a hit.
E: "Don't think she knows how to box, but I like Mako's energy."
A: "Oh I bet that view is awesome, kid."

Don't Lose Your Way (20:50)
Ryuko had enough, her uniform and horns glowing, she began her counterattack.
K: "Oh what a backing track!"
A: "It really does have Gurren Lagaan energy, doesn't it?"
M: "She's fucking awesome, that's what!"
It only took four hits to nullify the boy's power, completely destroying the uniform.
E: "Fuck yeah!" Eliza exclaimed.
R: "That would be concerning to the council."
H: "Does she absorb the power of the uniform too?"
Z: "We can think about that later, lets watch this boy get destroyed!"
Fukuroda's naked body was flung up to meet Satsuki, and despite all the one and three stars in the way, she still had a small smatter of blood land on her.
K: "No one is invincible."
A: "Oh you bet she's not gonna let up until they're all as dead as the captain there!"
M: "Do you think Satsuki's gonna t-tell her?"
A: "Not a chance, bet she killed him."

The credits rolled. "Oh it's Trigger?!" Zero Two exclaimed. "Oh Gods why didn't they make me that badass?!"

"I though you were badass enough…"

"Good start, I think." Glowed Asuka. "Lots of action, not too much fanservice. At least to start. I might actually like this."

"We know how Franxx ended." Rei thought. "Whose to say it will not be another strange ending like that."

"Yeah it was pretty insane." The klaxosaur shrugged. "I get the feeling we aren't gonna get those quiet moments we had, at least."

"Even Gurren Lagaan had its quiet moments. It too started pretty quickly."

"Perhaps this is their take on a story like Gurren Lagaan." Kaworu speculated.

"Either way, I really would like to know about how that power uniform works."

"We see the power emerge as a wisp. Perhaps it is a soul that had been spun into a thread."

"How would you e-even do that?"

"A metaphysical spinning wheel, maybe." Prodded Asuka.

The preview played out.

"Never liked tennis myself." Mused Mari. "Always t-thought the scoring was weird."

"I read it was because they used clocks as a score card, but I dunno if that's true or not." Asuka shrugged.

And the next episode started.
~~~
3 Miles Per Gallon (00:00)
We start this episode exactly where we left off, Ryuko staring down Satsuki.
M: "So what's gonna stop this e-explanation from happening?"
Z: "Does that thing still run off blood? Or is it only to get it running?"
R: "If it does continuously run off one's blood, then she needs to be careful. There is only a finite amount of blood present in someone."
A: "With that getup of hers, she just needs to show off and harvest the nosebleeds of the entire student body."
H: "Satsuki knows who her father is, obviously."
E: "Satsuki totally killed him."
Ryuko keeled over, her uniform pointing out she's bleeding.
S: "Oh maybe that's why she seems flushed?"
Z: "You'd think she'd be paler."
A: "Unless a lot of blood was being pumped just about everywhere to compensate."
With only around five minutes before falling unconscious, Ryuko cut her losses and fled the academy.
K: "She's not wrong she will be back."
M: "It's clear she's the one Ryuko has b-beef with."
Z: "And anyone who gets in her way. Also a bit like me."
S: "At least your drive wasn't about getting revenge."
Z: "Does it count if it's getting revenge on those that hurt my darling?"
R: "That could count as caring for Hiro. Which is what most of your show was about."
H: "Maybe after this they wanted to calm it down a bit."
Z: "Or maybe Trigger thought, hey since we made things crazy at the end of Franxx, why not make an entire show that's crazy?"
Satsuki instead retired to her office.
A: "At least Gendo never installed a chandelier in his office."
S: "That butler does look like Fuyutsuki from this angle, though."
R: "Seems there is a distinction between the Goku uniform and this Kamui."
K: "Maybe the fact her uniform draws blood."
The OP played out.
H: "Talk about the red string of fate…"
Z: "Ain't that a funny coincidence. Trigger must like it."
K: "Considering even the wisps appear as strands. It has quite a significant meaning to it."
A: "You see those strings a lot, especially in Japanese media."
R: "It was originally to signify the bond between a couple to be married. Of course, in this instance, the red thread of fate ties the two together as lovers not mortal enemies."
M: "Hey maybe Satsuki and Ryuko w-work things out and become lovers."
S: "I couldn't think of a worse ending for this show at the moment."
The OP gave them a closer look at how the Kamui functioned.
E: "We won't have to resort to that to power up such uniform, right?"
R: "It would allow you to weigh up when to use it, at least. Instead of just having the raw power always available."
K: "I get the feeling if we do develop uniform like that, the focus will be on the Goku instead of the Kamui."
R: "At least with blood, you can regenerate it. I would prefer exchanging that than exchanging my soul for power."

Mankanshoku (02:55)
Ryuko collapsed off the tram, immediately accosted by a bunch of boys. "Perverts!"
Later she woke up with a man heavily breathing over her. "Ah that's not a good look."
A: "Pervert!"
M: "Who ya callin' pinhead." She referenced.
Needless to say, the man was promptly punched into the ceiling.
Z: "And who could blame her?"
E: "Here's hoping it's just a misunderstanding. Cause I think I recognise them from the opening titles."
Mako helpfully passed the scissor to her. "Wait why's she there?"
Before addressing the man as her father.
K: "Heh. Talk about awkward introductions."
S: "It really wasn't a good look."
H: "Maybe quirky runs in the family."
Either way, Ryuko apologised profusely for the misunderstanding. "Oh why are you apologising, he was the one hyperventilating over you!"
E: "Maybe he has a health issue of some sort."
Z: "He sure looks the part."
The man was Barazo Mankanshoku, Mako's father.
A: "Either way I completely understand why Mako's like that."
M: "Their entire family seems i-insane. I'd hate to see the mom." As Ryuko hit Mataro (Mako's sister) upside the head.
S: "Ryuko'll fit in, at least."
The mother came out, encouraging Ryuko to beat the shit out of anyone she wants in her family.
A: "Pfft ha! She's funny!"
K: "I wonder if it's wise to advertise yourself that vividly as a back alley doctor."
M: "Ah they'll never g-guess it."
E: "That little cartoon on the sign doesn't fill me with hope."
Z: "I mean Ryuko seems to have all her limbs. And hey he's a doctor and still looks like that?"
R: "He has killed more than he has saved." In a mutter. "I would not call him a doctor."
S: "Amazing Ryuko didn't have her head put on back to front."
A: "Good thing the dead don't sue."
H: "Their family is completely insane! Even the mother!"
Z: "Jeez I think I prefer the rations…" At the 'unidentifiable stuff' croquettes.
S: "At least she uses the non-poisonous ingredients."
R: "I will just have the rice thanks."
A: "It's probably not even rice, it's probably rat droppings in talcum powder."
The dog was thrown out the window, the whole spectacle just breaking the group into uncontrollable giggling. "How are they functional?"
Z: "Thing is they have an entire cooked chicken in the trash bin over there!"
Guts the dog flung himself back into the house, chowing down as Mako started forcing food into Ryuko's gob.
R: "They are probably more functional than most families living here. In a few ways they are lucky; they have plenty of food they enjoy, undesirable to us it may be. Roof over their heads, electricity and other comforts. Rather baffling they are so well off, honestly."

The Human Instrumentality Liberation Project (05:10)
Satsuki began explaining her plans for the world.
A: "Yes, we know, she's female Hitler, don't have to rub it in."
K: "At least he appeared to care about Germany, in his twisted way. She doesn't even hide her contempt for everyone, and her desire for power."
Z: "Think she has the same perspective I did. Y'know, they're so much below me that they're nothing more than bugs in the dirt."
R: "I think this is the concern with Nephilim. You see how tightly controlled we were in Bond's work, so much so we were treated as commodity. They feared we would do this."
E: "It only takes one person who wants that kind of power."
M: "And we know it's very easy for power to corrupt. Once someone l-like that gets a taste of power, they will never want to give it up. And they only w-want more of it."
A glimpse of their manufacturing processes.
R: "Look at those strands just floating there…"
A: "Gee I wonder what this sounds like…"
H: "I get the feeling our uniforms were somewhat military based too."
Z: "At least your regular wear. Wouldn't call the pilot suits military spec."
M: "So they're making these students into t-their soldiers? Are they imbued with something as well?"
R: "That sphere must have something to do with it…" Pondering.
A: "The Human Conquest and Liberation Project, hmm?!"
S: "What's with these worlds and trying to destroy humanity in some way?"
K: "I'd hazard a guess that's why they end up here."
E: "We're not gonna have to deal with this universe as well, are we?"
A: "Just throw it on the pile of universes that could fuck us up, I guess."
Alongside the sewing club representative was the tennis club representative, Captain Omiko Hakodate.
Z: "Ah so they are planning on world conquest then."
H: "So are they aliens or something?" He asked. "Cause she's got spiky teeth and a single eyeglass."
Z: "It wouldn't surprise me darling. It's always aliens when it comes to Trigger."
R: "You had one show from them end with aliens responsible."
Z: "And it was our show."
E: "I don't know what's worse, if that was just a single eyeglass or the fact it's a telescope embedded in her skull."
H: "Worse than what I thought."
A: "Fuyutsuki has a point, why doesn't she wear a uniform?"
R: "Perhaps her explanation has some truth to it. The power comes from her sword. Or even from her iron will."
S: "I'd say it was obvious tennis girl was the villain of the day, but the preview kinda spoilt it."

Quiet Night (07:15)
The Mankanshoku family were sleeping as one, including Ryuko. "Oh that's a great eye mask." Muttered Mari. "That ain't g-gonna scare the shit out of anymore."
A: "Man even the dog sleeps with them."
Z: "Jeez girl what's she dreaming about? She's drooling more than the dog!"
R: "Whatever it is, she must enjoy it."
Ryuko reminisced about earlier that day, as she became acquainted with Senketsu.
S: "She's named it already."
M: "I'm sure if you had a magic u-uniform come onto you, you'd give it several names."
H: "All of them offensive in some way, i'm sure."
K: "It still boggles the mind how such a skimpy outfit gives her such power."
R: "The amount of material in a gown does not necessarily mean it has more or less power, then."
A: "So we could become superhuman through some magic pasties of some sort?"
E: "What's stopping her from wearing clothing underneath? Like, I understand it sucks on her blood and all that, but surely some modesty won't affect its operation."
Z: "Isn't it in the arms and all that? She could easily cover up her belly."
A: "Eh, at least it has some utility." In a reluctant shrug. "Not like some of the things i've been caught wearing…"
R: "Would you prefer exchanging something like blood for power?"
A: "I mean, with all the shit we've been through, and whatever the hell Rits puts in our pills, we're probably not eligible to give blood anyway."
S: "If anything we have plenty of blood stored away, in case we need it."
E: "…Hey, what's stopping from just hooking Senketsu up to a blood bag?"
K: "I would ponder if it needs to be fresh blood. What stops a vampire from robbing a blood bank in lieu of going for someone's neck?"
M: "Neither of those options a-are particularly good…"
Z: "So her dad made that, why did he make it so skimpy?"
H: "Not curious how he made it?"
Z: "Eh we'll find out."
A: "Girl you should know by now, ragged old men like that are always perverts! Even if they're related."
R: "I would call that an apt name for Senketsu. And perhaps that is also the explanation for why you cannot use a blood bag."
S: "Can't imagine they even have the means to use blood bags in that city… And going to Mankanshoku doesn't count."
A: "Their idea of a blood bag would literally be a plastic shopping bag full of animal blood." In flat mutter. "Oh I say don't look a gift horse in the mouth, oh look at that he's dropped dead for some reason!" Close to shouting, in a mimic. "Oh well!"

Not So Quiet Day (09:10)
Asuka was rather close on the mark, waking up to Mako flipping out in two dimensions on how she's late.
E: "She could just wake up earlier- oh come on!" At the cats rather eagerly going at it. "Why did they put that there?!"
H: "That would've ruined the mood of our show."
Z: "I'd find that hilarious if they stuck that in our show somewhere!"
A: "Well that's totally not unfair at all." At the comparison between the slums of the plebeians compared to the veritable luxury of the bourgeoisie.
S: "Jeez that's an incentive to get good grades."
R: "Or to move."
K: "It must be equivalent to Oxford if the students were willing to tough it out in such conditions."
E: "Maybe they think they can achieve such power."
M: "Ah so like the A-American dream that anyone can pick themselves up and get rich."
A: "Is that even possible since Second Impact?"
M: "My old man would say it w-wasn't possible since Reagan."
R: "Whether the American dream is a lie or not, the Honnouji dream is similar in effect. They are willing to go through this strife in order to achieve greatness."
M: "You never hear about the 99% of p-people that fail achieving the dreaming."
Mako proved her stoic nature by continuing to speak, even as she was pelted with a ton of tennis balls.
E: "Didn't know you could absorb them like that."
A: "Ah great it's tennis bitch."
Z: "I like that skirt. Very tennis bally."
R: "I do not think that racket will be very effective in hitting a tennis ball. Considering there are holes at least twice the size."
S: "I think Mako had other priorities yesterday."
A: "Well maybe she should've rescheduled her execution to make it!"
K: "Oh so she needed to obtain permission to be kidnapped. That sounds like an incredibly NERV-ian process."
E: "Just because we have a form named 'Authority to Kidnap'…"
Ryuko defended Mako on her way to class.
M: "I get the feeling e-expulsion and execution are synonyms in this world."
Senketsu chose this time to not respond to her call.
H: "Well, she's gonna be experiencing one of those things if she can't get that going."
Z: "Does she still need to bleed on it to wake it up?"
Ryuko was bombarded with at least twelve trillion tennis balls, knocking her into a sewage tunnel where she was promptly rescued by one of the school teachers.
S: "Well, could've gone worse. She's still alive, I think."
A: "That's about best you can ask for in that world."

I Already Made The Obvious Joke Damnit (11:50)
It was late in the night when Ryuko finally came to. And no I'm not making that joke again!
R: "He has already done more for her than our homeroom teacher has done for us."
A: "Then again, I'm sure we can save ourselves."
M: "Or we can save y-yourselves."
A: "Yeah more likely. Unless you make us Nephilim somehow."
E: "Can imagine that going well…"
S: "You seem to be going alright as a Nephilim, Eliza."
K: "I would question why everyone seems to be undressing her, but I'm sure he had good intentions."
His reply was rather perverse, as he paralysed her with a few pins.
R: "Never knew acupuncture could be so effective."
K: "Okay, perhaps he is a bit perverse."
M: "Who isn't in that t-town?"
Drawing some blood, he explained why Senketsu didn't activate earlier.
Z: "Oh I was right!" In a beam. "Wait, so how do you activate it then?"
A: "It's pretty easy to make yourself bleed, though it'd be a lot more convenient if you didn't have to hurt yourself."
H: "I get the feeling you can't get away with not hurting yourself. It's drawing your blood, after all."
S: "Going for a bit of a bishonen angle with him, aren't they?"
A: "At least he's a hot pervert!"
They went further with the bishonen angle. "Is this still fanservice?"
K: "Female fanservice, yes."
S: "Impossible standards much." In a mutter. "Look at those abs!"
A: "Oh I'm looking alright."
M: "I'd call that a g-green light to go look at as many tits as ya want, Shinji!" Prodding Asuka. "It's clear she likes the fanservice, so she can't judge!"
A: "Hmpf, fine, I'll look away your highness." Now her focus was on Mari, pouting right at her.
R: "I wonder if he even finds women interesting."
Z: "If anything, he spent more time posing than actually gawking at her. I can respect that, treat yourself."
H: "There's treating yourself and then there's showing off."
Unfortunately classes were starting soon, the posing and all that coming to an end as Mikisugi quickly explained the red gauntlet and its utility in drawing blood.
E: "That would've been good to know earlier."
S: "What did you think of the fanservice, Eliza?"
E: "I think I prefer the women."

Tennis Court (14:00)
Ryuko expressed her desire to kill Praxi- I mean Omiko, as we cut to the tennis club.
K: "Never knew you could weaponise such a sport."
Z: "Wouldn't have put much stock in those rackets being effective weapons."
H: "What was that sport they had down under?"
Z: "Cricket? Oh yeah that'd do you in good if someone hit you with that."
M: "Never really understood c-cricket."
A: "And I never understood baseball so here we are."
Omiko hit the bullseye.
E: "How about that racket?"
Z: "Okay that racket might be a decent weapon."
S: "Even if the netting makes it seemingly not effective as a racket."
K: "Perhaps they've sewn an AT-Field in it."
A: "Would that even be possible? Like to make an AT-Field racket like that?"
K: "As possible as making any other weapon out of an AT-Field. Though a tennis racket would not be my first choice."
A: "I had more a metal frame of some sort with an AT-Field replacing the netting."
K: "Ah." As he had to really think. "That may be a bit more complicated. Perhaps if you imbue it with a soul."
R: "And I would rather not use weaponry imbued with souls."
A: "Veto on that then, okay."
Meanwhile Mako was undergoing her second capital punishment of the week.
Z: "Man they're really trying to kill her, what's she ever do?"
M: "Make friends with Ryuko."
Good for her, Ryuko arrived to defend her honour (and teeth).
H: "I guess that's a way of transforming."
First up was the 110 million serve, with 110 million tennis balls sent Ryuko's way (and quickly dispatched with a slice).
Unfortunately, that disqualified her. "I wonder if there's rules a-against slicing the ball in half during a match."
E: "Maybe it's a house rule. The fact they had to make that rule up in the first place…"
A: "Why are they even fighting over this?" In a ponder. "She could just slice them all up and be done with it!"
K: "Well that's especially not in the rules of tennis."
Mako went to vouch for her, at least. "Oh she could just get out anytime, great."
H: "Maybe she likes that kinda thing?"
S: "She's right about winning friendship, at least."
R: "Perhaps a lot more than friendship, too."
Z: "So friendship is the true goal of tennis?"
A: "If friendship can get them out of this, then it can do anything."
M: "I mean, from everything I h-hear regarding you lot, it sounds like friendship got this world out of the shit."
K: "They say friendship is magic. Perhaps there's truth to that."
What Mako essentially did was put Ryuko into a tennis match against Omiko.
A: "Jeez, who could say no to someone like that?"

Match (16:55)
We cut to the tennis arena, surrounded in very sharp spikes.
S: "You'd want to be paying attention if you were one of those ball collectors."
H: "She's gonna suck at this, isn't she?"
A: "Has she ever played tennis?"
R: "Do we even know how to play tennis?"
Z: "We had games like badminton in the birdcage, that's kinda similar."
E: "They didn't involve spikes on the walls, I'm guessing."
Z: "Nah, I already killed enough people as was."
Ryuko was first to serve, going through a single rally before the tennis ball broke through her bat.
M: "Well that's a bit s-shitty." 0-15.
Next serve went worse, the ball skirting off Ryuko's racket and causing her to pinwheel in the air, making the score 0-30 and causing all the boys in the audience to violently exsanguinate out of their noses.
R: "She is going up against an expert, mind you."
M: "Omiko would give Federer a r-run for his money."
A: "Man she really need to get something less exposing."
Z: "Heh, Mako doesn't seem to mind."
Next serve, she double faulted, as her tennis racket shattered as she tried to pull a special move.
Much to everyone's amusement. "Man she's really not going well."
E: "I wonder if they're deliberately putting her 40 up to add some tension."
M: "Eliza we know she's gonna win this. How m-many episodes are left on there?"
E: "A few."
S: "I think she needs something better than a simple tennis racket."
A: "She can't use the scissor unless she wants to cut it." As she blinked. "Actually…"
Ryuko must've read her mind, as she improvised a tennis racket out of the scissor blade. "…Yeah. That, actually."
K: "Bit of a light weave."
They were about to fault her again, but it was a good thing Satsuki allowed it. And you don't ever go against Satsuki.
E: "Rewriting the rules actually worked in our favour for once."
M: "Wonder if she's just m-more interested in the show."
A: "Oh she's definitely interested in her."
K: "She knows what that Kamui is, too. Wonder if she has vested interest in her."
Z: "I'd say it was healthy to have an interest in someone who actively wishes to kill you. She doesn't even hide it!"

Advantage (20:15)
Next serve was well and truly in Ryuko's favour, Omiko ending up going through her own racket and exploding into the wall, before bouncing back into Ryuko's ready scissor, the Two-Star uniform sliced into small pieces (which was unfortunate for any modesty Omiko was going for).
S: "…What the fuck?"
E: "Isn't she still 15-40?"
M: "Maybe that's another house r-rule. If you somehow destroy your opponent's clothing you win instantly."
R: "Ah so strip tennis."
M: "Yeah!"
A: "Well at least the boys get a show." With an eye-roll. "I mean she did expose Ryuko like that, but it's still perverted of… well, everyone."
Sanageyama was going to protect his patron's honour, but Satsuki awarded the match to Ryuko.
Z: "Watch as she runs out of blood again."
R: "That is the main issue with relying on such a limited resource pool. In all other counts it may as well be a Solenoid."
K: "It may be closer to a Solenoid than we think. A Solenoid's source of power is the Dirac, this power source is just blood."
A: "What's even in blood that could turn it into such potent power?"
E: "Maybe it's less the content of the blood and more the person. Whatever power that their soul naturally imbues into their own body, that Senketsu concentrates."
R: "…That is an interesting point." She thought, as Satsuki began fighting Ryuko, but she was more interested in how this whole blood thing worked. "It makes sense there is some essence of the soul within someone's body. It'd be interesting to see how much you could get out of it."
M: "You ain't gonna s-start getting into blood magic, are you?"
Rei shrugged. "If I do, it will only be on myself or those who volunteer."
H: "I get the feeling the doctor won't like that."
R: "If I spin it as a way of fighting the evils of the world, I am sure she could let it slide. For science."
A: "Misato on the other hand would go off her nut if she found out we were literally using blood magic to power ourselves up. Like that's some proper Wiccan shit right there."

While they were debating, Ryuko had run away with Mako, Omiko was dishonourably demoted to 0 star, and the Sumo club was instead slated for Hokkaido instead of the Tennis club.

Oh yeah, and the episode ended. "It's a strange closing sequence, similar to Franxx's I feel." Quietly thought Kaworu.

"Almost like it was more normal?"

"Yeah, kinda."

"You guys were concentrating too much on the blood magic." In deadpan. "Does usage of such resource like that hold a bad connotation?"

"Oh for sure!" Asuka spoke up. "Like it's associated with witches and satan and all that, it's demonises to hell and back. And it kinda makes sense, because it is blood. I know I prefer my blood inside my body, thank you very much."

"Even if it had use in acquiring power?"

"Just get it with a needle or something. I ain't cutting my hand open and smearing it on a stone for a bit of power."

"Never said it would be to that extent."

"Ignoring all the blood," Zero Two began, "I quite liked that episode. Action always goes well with me, I think."

"It's a lot more than we had."

"Well it's more like our action had a few gaps in-between, y'know to calm down and catch a breath. This has just been non-stop so far darling!"

"More from the Gurren Lagaan school of thought than the Evangelion."

"This has been similar to Gurren Lagaan, in certain aspects." Rei thought aloud. "I wonder if Trigger just have a tendency to do that."

"With how infinite the universes are, maybe Trigger is an alternate form of Gainax, telling similarly themed stories."

"Go figure we all end up together, then." Mused Zero Two. "So what, that makes you guys our counterparts then?"

"We even kinda pointed that out while we were watching your show." Shinji prodded. "Though then again there's enough differences between all of us that we're still distinct."

Zero Two poked her horns.

The next episode was soon to start. "Wait she owns a Kamui too?!"
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Still alive :p

Few things, 1. I got a pre-owned Nintendo Switch (one that can be modified for shenanagans :p) and Breath of the Wild is a really great game that i've been spending like 12 hours a day playing :V but hey that means I should be able to reasonably record any games for Switch that get rolled (so Goose Game and Astral Chain so far, though I guess I could chuck an emulator on it if an older game comes up :p)

2. FIFO work! If you couldn't tell by some oddly specific knowledge on Australian mining that I've sprinkled into the story, that's the industry I work in, and I was on site for a week (and got another short stint coming up), so that cuts into spare time too.

Oh well, at least I got some story inspiration. If ever a plot line comes up where Misato's car gets in a prang, is stuck in the shop for weeks on end as they fail to fix it, and she's stuck with a crappy little Kei car her insurance put her up with, rest assured that happened to me :V

In regards to the story so far, when you think about it, analogue tape is a rather dead simple technology. You'd also think the SDAT would be compatible with analogue tape straight up, but obviously that isn't the case :V
I mean I could've easily written the SDAT format to include backwards compatibility with analogue tape, but where's the fun in that? :V

Rei seems rather cool so far with Kaworu's upcoming stint in America (go figure, they do have that little soulbond thingy that was set up 20 stories ago :V), and hey she has plenty of company on the home front anyway.
It'd be a change for both of them. It's less the distance of the separation and more the length of time they'll probably be separated for (of course I'm sure NERV has the budget to fly him back every couple weeks, maybe he does 8 on 6 off or something). Depends how important they think Kaworu's presence will be other there, which is probably very important, considering what's going on over there.

Ah well, we'll get there when we get there. I have a few overarching ideas for the Massachusetts arc, it'll probably take a wile to get to them all. I'll try not to keep you guys waiting for it :)
Also this laptop I write on is really starting to annoy me, temps pegged at 100 degrees and fans at full blast no matter how I clean it, and the SV editor's favourite food is CPU time with a side of RAM so that doesn't help matters with an i5 and 8gb RAM. Doesn't help the keyboard gets stuck on occasion.
But hey, I bought that newfangled Macbook Pro pretty much a few days after it was announced, 3600 Aussie dollarydoos was a bit yikes but I'm hoping to run it for a good while (also all that FIFO work comes with a nice bonus so that's where that went to :p). The previous MBP I ran was my main machine for around 9 years so I expect a lot of life out of it :V

Edit: changed 47 instances of Ryoko to Ryuko (and there were 5 instances of Ryuko to start with), you'd think I'd catch that but even in my notes I misspelt her name so :p
 
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Man, it's not even been that long since I've seen it, but I still feel I forgot quite a bit from it (maybe didn't help that I was sick at the time :V).

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"What's in the box?"
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"Nothing you don't see on a nightly basis."

"Oh that kind of stuff." She realised.
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"The first time you sprouted tentacles was odd, but I kinda got used to it."

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K: "There hasn't been that much fanservice actually, now I think about it."
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Maybe spoken just a little bit too soon...? :V

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R: "It was originally to signify the bond between a couple to be married. Of course, in this instance, the red thread of fate ties the two together as lovers not mortal enemies."
M: "Hey maybe Satsuki and Ryoko w-work things out and become lovers."
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... well, I guess it's somewhere out there on the internet. There's probably a sub-paragraph of rule 34 for that...
 
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Added them anyway but don't expect them to be polled anytime soon, just saying :V
Oh right I had the poll running... I should probably check that sometime.
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Horse: Oh it's fine. It's probably a good thing you're taking a while considering...-glances at her world and centaur world-...my show.

Anya Forger: A talking horse!?

Yor Forger (Thorn Princess): Where are we...?

Loid Forger (Twilight): I'm not sure...

Tsukasa Yuzaki: It's called a comedy omake.

Shiki Ryougi: Or a canival moment. Take your pick.

Anya: A carnival?! I've never been to a carnival!

Yor: Oh we should try it then, Anya. Carnival's are fun. I like the dart games the most.

Loid: Where did you come from?! Is this some sort of attempt of sabotage from Ostania? But what if it isn't? If it isn't, I need to act as amy normal person would and be shocked while I analyze everyone and see what info I get and figure out how to get my fake (real) wife and fake (real) daughter out of here...

Anya: -deadpan look at Loid- Papa's still bad at having fun...

Yor: Come on, Loid. These seem like nice people...and a horse. Can't we have some fun?

Horse: Actually never mind...they're all weird like centaur world...

Tsukasa: Speak for yourself.

Shiki Ryougi: I'm not the one who's hundreds of years old.

Tsukasa: I'M NOT HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD. I'VE JUST BEEN SIXTEEN YEARS OLD HUNDREDS OF TIMES. AND NO SPOILERS!

Horse: Why am I always the normal one in the group...?

...excuse me. That got away from me.

Oh hey! A Chronicles yes!

Oh wait. I still didn't review the lrevious ones. Um. Uh. Ah. Eh...

Screw it. I read it in a random order. I don't care.

...ok I do care but I'mma still do kiru no kuru first but for now the tldr version (that i may end up leaving it at that...):

One: I hope Kaworu gets to see a good chunk of KlK.
Two: Aww. That was sweet with the camera thing.
Three: I prefer calling it either Persona or astral projection. :V
Four: I hope someone remembers them saying the lovers thing to rub it in later for the series. :V
Five: Wow. I forgot how "long" the beginning was. Aka I thought Senketsu would talk sooner after the first ep. Unless I'm misremembering again but oh well.
Six: I can't wait until they reach the end of the series and realize the significance symbolism of the ED. :V
 
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E: "Do you know if mama watched this yet?"
Asuka shook her head. "Wouldn't surprise me but I don't know for sure."
E: "Cause this would give her an aneurysm."
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I think Ryuko returns it, if I recall correctly. Its a very minor detail, though, so I could be accidentally making it up. :p

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K: "There hasn't been that much fanservice actually, now I think about it."
H: "Not counting Suzuki?"
A: "That's like anti-fanservice."
In what shaped out to be rather questionable, the uniform forced itself on her.
At the very least, she was rewarded with immense power.
M: "Yeeeeah they could've made it not d-disturbing and rapey."
S: "Talk about anti-fanservice. I wonder who made this?"
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A bunch of creators riffing on societal norms and simultaneously playing fanservice somehow both monumentally straight and entirely ironically. :p

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A: "Then again, I'm sure we can save ourselves."
M: "Or we can save y-yourselves."
A: "Yeah more likely. Unless you make us Nephilim somehow."
E: "Can imagine that going well…"
S: "You seem to be going alright as a Nephilim, Eliza."
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Added them anyway but don't expect them to be polled anytime soon, just saying :V
Oh right I had the poll running... I should probably check that sometime.

Okay okay I've left it long enough. Here's part 1 of part 1!
Yes after all this time I still only have half of the first chapter done up, things are going a bit slow at the moment don't @ me :p

"Bloody analog tape… what if I just-" As she started tearing it apart.

Meanwhile in the bedroom, Kaworu was busy packing. "…What do I even pack."

"Clothing is a good start."

"Y'know if they give you a s-spending card you can just get whatever you want in the States." Mari figured. "Plus your wardrobe is p-pretty one note anyway, no offence."

"I encourage him to wear different things." Prodded Rei. "Perhaps you will do the same?"

"Oh I'm taking control as soon as he steps i-into a GAP."

The boy thought for a brief moment. "Hey, I wonder…"

Opening the closet, he found a dusty camera on the top shelf.

Rei sighed in relief. "I thought you were going for the box."

"You still have that up there?" As he went back to the shelf.

"Please don't show Mari the box."

"What's in the box?"

"Nothing you don't see on a nightly basis."

"Oh that kind of stuff." She realised. "I mean, y-you did see me exposed today."

"So did you with me. Admittedly it was more tamer than yours."

Mari raised her eyebrow.

"The answer is still no."

"Aww, no fun."

As Kaworu cycled through the tape. "Still have a few photos left on the tape."

"What did you guys use that c-camera for?"

An aside glance from Rei.

"I should've figured from the box." Prodded Mari, tossing the camera to Rei. "Well I guess that's out of the q-question then."

"Quite." As she was going to rifle through a drawer. "I do not think we have more film, unfortunately. I usually only buy them as we need it. What were you wanting to photograph, Kaworu?"

"Well, I was hoping to take a photo while I was doing this-" He moved quickly, stealing a kiss from Rei.

"Mmmfp!"

The duo fell onto their bed, Rei completely falling into him, and for a brief moment in time they were all there was in the world.

At least until a camera shutter went off, Rei snapping out of it.

"Heh. Couldn't help myself."

An unamused look, as Kaworu moved beside her, head leaning on her shoulder, taking a few self portraits.

Good for Kaworu, her expression softened through the photos, and by the last one on the roll she had pecked him on the cheek. "Fine, as long as you develop it yourself."

"We have a darkroom, so it wouldn't surprise me if Massachusetts had it as well."

Rei bonked Kaworu on the head with the camera, causing its door to open. The film was soon given to him. "At least that had a use for something."

"Happy to help."

A quiet moment, as they shared each other's warmth.

"…Hey, Rei?"

"Yes?"

"You will be fine by yourself, right?" Softly querying, a hand of his slowly running up and down her arm. "I know we have that link, but… I know how much you appreciate the touch."

An airy sigh. "I'll be fine. I could say the same for you, you realise."

He gave a slightly downwards glance.

"Heh… maybe you can figure out a way of projecting Mari into the physical world."

Mari cocked her head. "Like… making a b-body for me out of the AT-Field or something like that?"

"Something like that." She smirked. "Kensuke would probably call it a Stand, but it may allow you to share some sort of physicality. Mari."

"O-Oh…"

"In lieu of me." Her smirk grew into a rather dangerous grin. "You bet i'll be watching and encouraging you from afar."

"R-Rei!"

"It's a good thing Eliza got out of that head of yours."

"She'll find someone eventually and learn it is a good thing, Kaworu… Though speaking of, they are still in the living room, no?"

"I'm guessing you t-two would've boned there and then if it weren't for that."

"Wouldn't have been the worst time we've done it."

Rei responded with a headbutt. "I was going to ask how far along she was in engineering Shinji's SDAT. I am not always perverted."

"You sure, blue?"

"Just because I am the avatar of Lilith who loves everything to do with love and sex and general child making… where was I going with that…"

"Proving her point, perhaps."

"Okay, maybe I am a bit perverted by most standards. But only with those I love and appreciate, which include the both of you."

"…Certainly appreciate t-that."

Another smile, and a peck on the lips. "That was for you Mari."

Kaworu's face flushed.

"Anything else you would like to pack?" Rei finally got back on track. "No you cannot pack me, and no you cannot pack yourself into me."

"Not while you have g-guests."

"Nice one, Maria." With wry smile. "You are in good hands, Kaworu."

To which he simply nodded.

Rei pushed him off with some force, the boy impacting the door. "We will check if they are complete. Then we will see if we can find a place for ourselves."

To which he simply nodded.
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Shinji and Asuka were currently walking home from the train station, Misato's laptop in hand. "Hey is that Sayaka and-"

"Nope!" Asuka grabbed a hold of Shinji's hand and bolted. "Not facing him until we have to!"

"Ah! Asuka!" He yelped.

Quicker than they were going to, they made their way back to the apartments, running into Rei and Kaworu who were a few floors down from where they were. "Ah, fancy seeing you guys here!"

"Hi Asuka." Rei smiled. "We were looking for a private spot."

"Pfft, your apartment not private enough?"

"Not with a couple dinosaurs and a c-computer banging your SDAT against the table, doggy."

To which he shrugged. "The iPod's better anyway."

"Well, I think Misato has a few keys to the apartments stashed around for storage, might be able to grab a tatami and go ham there if you want…" Her mind wandering down to the laptop. "Or, you could watch a new show Ritsuko found on the iPod the other day."

"Oh?"

"Ah! So that's what gets sex off your mind!" Scruffing her hair with her free hand. "Lil' pervert. Wanna watch with us?"

"…Yes please." To her blush.

"May as well invite the others as well." Kaworu suggested. "Though I'm not sure how much we could watch before we have to head out. Don't want to rush you guys through it."

"Eh, maybe it'll be shit." Mari shrugged off. "It's gonna take something special t-to top the last one."

"I think a porno would top the last one, at least it's upfront about it." Snarked Asuka, as they made their way back upstairs.

And to the apartment of Rei and Kaworu, in the middle of seeing Eliza buried in a mound of tape of what used to be an AC/DC cassette, after the modified SDAT had its way with it.

Hiro was sympathetic to her plight, not Zero Two who was laughing like mad.

"Agh. Damn these obsolete formats!"

"Even the SDAT is outdated at this point." Rei flatly remarked. "Anyway, we have another pressing matter."

"New Rift material!" As she paraded the Powerbook around. "Misato can pretty much work from her phone so she gave us this to watch a bit of what they found!"

"It's not an anime with us, is it?" Hiro dreaded.

"Or you guys?"

"As far as they know, it's completely original." With an aside glance. "Though Misato in particular said I'd like the opening, so I'm already not looking forward to it."

"No time like the present."

"Got that right!" As she rested the laptop on the table. "C'mon get cozy!"

Soon enough, the video started.
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Character Key:
Shinji (S) Asuka (A)
Rei (R) Kaworu (K)
Eliza (E) Mari (M)
Zero Two (Z) Hiro (H)

Gee I wonder what this is an analogy for… (00:00)
We start with a lesson on how the Nazis came to power. "Fuck off!"
Z: "Good start. They're bad?"
M: "Understating it."
Either way, it was a rather boring lesson, the teacher prattling away as half the class was asleep.
E: "I think the bob cut girl will be an important character."
S: "I'm guessing the different uniform keyed you in."
All of a sudden the door was bashed down, wrecking havoc in the classroom. "…Oh okay." Asuka immediately perked up. "Didn't expect that."
And immediately stepping in was a very big man and his cronies, the teacher immediately keeling over at the sight of Ira Gamagoori.
K: "I'm not sure about you guys, but I'm sensing an analogy here."
A: "Great so they're under the thumb of stormtroopers."
R: "With powers. I would not assume they could beat down a door like that normally. They may as well be Nephilim."
M: "Oh great, Nephilim Nazis. S-Splendid."
A: "They did get up to some wacky shit, so it wouldn't surprise me if they tried doing that."
S: "And that girl's sleeping all throughout it."
H: "She knows her priorities."
Next to her, however, was a nervous boy, who immediately dropped a smoke bomb.
Z: "So how does that kid get screwed today?"
A: "Probably similar to how an ant might get destroyed by a Saiyan."
The boy ran like mad downstairs, however Ira was hot on his tail, from a certain point of view.
E: "Pfft, show off."
M: "They're obviously confident they can keep h-him in line. Hey maybe we can try that o-over in America, Ash!"
K: "Heh, we'll see what opportunities present themselves."
Opening the door to the outside the boy was immediately confronted with Ira, who threw him sixteen miles downrange.
S: "So far this is very reminiscent of Gurren Lagaan. Kinda wonder who made it."
Z: "Certainly not similar to our show. Unless you wanted me to do that to you, darling."
H: "I half expected it, from what piloting with you seemed to be like."
The delinquent revealed what he had stolen, a one-star Goku Uniform. "Oh of course it's named a-after that…"
A: "Ain't gonna say it's wise for him to put it on, but I think his death warrant was already signed for at this point."
Putting it on, he immediately transformed from a pork bellied delinquent into a fit and fresh person imbued with power.
K: "So it is the uniform that gives the power…" Pondering. "How does that work?"
R: "It is clear they have a method to imbue the power to the uniform, instead of the person. That is interesting…"
E: "Do you know if mama watched this yet?"
Asuka shook her head. "Wouldn't surprise me but I don't know for sure."
E: "Cause this would give her an aneurysm."
Unfortunately, he tried going up against a three star Goku Uniform, immediately no-sold.
H: "He'll be lucky to get away with just an aneurysm at this point."
And he was immediately bashed around.
Z: "Shit he's gonna end up worse off than most of my pilots."
A: "I'm guessing that chick runs this whole show? Just based on the fact she's standing up there looking all menacing like."
M: "You don't usually see the g-good guys brooding high above places with weaponry. And yeah even just b-based on how she looks."
The uniform was forced off him, the boy left naked and the uniform back in Ira's hand, freshly folded.
S: "At least they had the decency to censor that."
A: "They're better than Khara."
Z: "Was it as bad as Trigger was with our show?"
A: "I know you were naked a few times but at least they didn't constantly show everyones asses during serious moments. From what I remember."
E: "Wait they're a student council?"
M: "Is it that much of a t-thing in anime where they're all powerful or some shit?"
A: "In my experience, most of them just get it so they can go on a power trip. Not that it matters to me."
S: "Helps you have everyone on side, Evangelion pilots and all that."
A: "Yeah and the fact that i've made it very clear if they annoy me and try that with me, they'll end up in the bin."
K: "You aren't calling them -sama anytime soon, I assume."
A: "He tries asking for that, I'll get him to meet bin-sama."
H: "Good to hear your school isn't oppressive…"
M: "How does this e-even happen? Like, is it just the uniforms sending them on power trips and shit?"
R: "Thing is, with such power, they could easily take over the world. Why do they settle for this school?"
S: "I get the impression they already control most of their surrounds."

Nek Minnit (03:50)
A new day dawned, the camera zooming out to see the literally spiralling city.
K: "So it is quite literally on top of everything… I think you may be correct, Shinji."
R: "I did not know there was a city on Mount Fuji."
Z: "She picked a good time to transfer."
A: "Ooh I like her look!" As they had a first glimpse of the (presumedly) main character, Ryuko Matoi.
E: "She looks as delinquent as Satsuki."
H: "So all that is the academy?"
S: "I get some schools are awful, but not many have literal slums outside their doorstep."
And with that, the titles appeared.
Z: "I get the feeling I'm gonna like this one."
A: "Seems up your alley. And mine too."
R: "Can never really go wrong with a girl beating the loving hell out of the enemy."
M: "Wonder if that's what t-they think."
S: "Yeah."
Ryoko garnered suspicious stares as she strolled through the slums, eating a lemon as a snack.
A: "If I saw someone just chow down a lemon like that i'd be suspicious of them too!"
R: "They are not that bad."
A kid attempted to pickpocket her, unfortunately all she picked was the lemon.
M: "Pfft, that's what you g-get."
Z: "I mean if they were really downtrodden, it's still shit but it's understandable."
E: "She looks similar."
Ryoko took it as an opportunity for a lesson.
R: "Love is not that bad."
A: "I think Ryoko got stood up sometime."
On the kid's command, her other cronies came out of the shadows.
H: "Now usually I would not consider roving gangs of children a sign of a prosperous city."
Z: "Is that a chainsaw?"
S: "How do they pay for the petrol for that?"
A: "I don't think they pay for anything, Shinji."
M: "She's keeping a l-level head with it, at least."
R: "She believes she has it sorted, and I believe that too."
It was probably like two seconds of actual fighting, the children immediately falling flat on the ground, the gang conceding shortly thereafter.
A: "hA!" She guffawed. "Little shits!"
K: "Most people are weak against stronger people, it seems."
E: "Fighting children wasn't going to be too difficult, surely."
Z: "At least she can turn a blind eye to it."
R: "A rare quality in people."

Sisters (06:00)
Someone who wouldn't turn a blind eye was her sister, immediately hitting them upside the head with her school bag.
M: "At least someone values h-her education."
A: "Bet that's just what siblings do, though."
H: "Probably a bit less violently?"
M: "Nah they can still be p-pretty violent in my experience."
Not that it mattered, the twerp fleeing as soon as her sis released them.
E: "She's sweet, at least."
Z: "I get the feeling that's just a taste of how weird this place is."
S: "Who could've thought a city ran by an extremist student council with magic powers would be strange?"
E: "You two aren't taking over Tokyo-3 anytime soon, right?"
R: "Not yet."
We swoos back up to the academy, the naked delinquent hanging crucified at the entrance as a warning.
K: "Very medieval."
A: "I'm sure it keeps most in line."
Z: "Not her, i'd think."
R: "Her attitude so far has made that clear."
S: "Looking for leads, she says. Like, investigating something?"
E: "Maybe she was sent over by the government to investigate the fact a student council had taken over a city with their magic powers?"
A: "Hope she has magic powers to counter that, or she's joining that delinquent."
The girl was introduced to the class, the other girl who saved her waking up and pointing her to a free desk next door.
K: "It's good to see this class is just as interested in education as our class is."
R: "Brave of them to slack off, considering punishments include public execution."
S: "Least she seems to care about Ryoko."
M: "Maybe she pushed Suzuki to do w-what he did so she could get a free desk."
Z: "He must've been awful as a student."
E: "She's awfully energetic."
R: "A proper genki girl." She noted, as Mako introduced herself. "I do not recall anyone of the sort in our classroom."
A: "Tanaka can be a chatterbox sometimes it feels."
S: "Well that's a good start for Mako."
A: "Eh I'm sure she'll be better. Not like Ryoko has a boyfriend to try stealing."
H: "And i'm sure she has the capability to fight back."
A: "Oh yeah."
K: "I imagine you need that capability in that society."
Mako scoffed down her bento and immediately fell back to sleep, as teach began droning on about the Nazi's once more.
S: "Is that better or worse than the Second Impact drone?"
A: "Always makes me uncomfortable hearing about that honestly. Give me Second Impact any day of the week."

Dodge (07:50)
The 'bell' (read: klaxon) sounded to signal next period, Ryoko dodging an attempted glomp by Mako.
A: "Gotta get to know her better before you get those privileges."
H: "She's really attached herself to Ryoko, hasn't she?"
Z: "You've seen Suzuki, right?"
E: "Maybe that's part of a coping mechanism she has. Considering she didn't even bat an eye when her desk mate was executed."
R: "Makes our school seem comparatively lax."
S: "You think that, but the students still slack off. Half of them look dead, and Mako just sleeps though class. Even though she says to her sister education is important."
K: "Perhaps the student council seeks only to maintain their power. They couldn't give a damn if the students actually get educated, they just want the power of ruling over a group with an iron fist."
M: "I mean we had p-prefects and shit in high school, but everyone knew you didn't have any actual p-power. It was just a lesson in d-democracy at the end of the day."
A: "And why would the teachers give power to their students? They'd probably just cancel school if they could."
The entire school bowed down at once, Ira making his way downtown.
R: "Or they would turn it into a society to make the Nazi's blush."
A: "Bit more of a coin flip than I thought. At least Mako knows about all this."
E: "Love a bit of exposition."
R: "So it really is in the uniform… I wonder how it may work."
K: "Imbued with a soul, somehow. Maybe you can run core material or a soul through a spinning wheel."
S: "Bet they just shoved a random student in an industrial spinning wheel of some sort."
Z: "Wouldn't be beyond them."
Ryoko stood out in front of Satsuki.
E: "Oh boy ten minutes in and our main character is already dead. How many episodes have we got?"
Asuka quickly looked. "Twenty four."
Her question fell on deaf ears as the one stars went to attack, at least until she bought out a sword to deal with the grunts.
A: "Ooh hello girl!"
S: "It's a scissors. Scissor?"
M: "Bit useless as a s-singular."
Z: "Ah! She's going for my strategy!"
H: "Throwing wrenches in things?"
Z: "In this case throwing giant scissor things in things."
E: "She's got confidence, at least."

Box (10:10)
Unfortunately she was going up against superhumans, and got her ass kicked, several one stars falling over like bowling pins.
R: "I really could not see this going any other way."
K: "Seems there can be a variety of powers one can have…" Observing the boxing club captain, Takaharu Fukuroda. "Wonder how many stars they are?"
E: "I'd hazard two. Unless they can half half stars, in which case two and a half."
Z: "Hey how would you guys go against them?"
K: "It'd be a good fight, that's certain."
A: "An Evangelion would still squish them."
M: "Eh I wouldn't b-be too sure. Ash did well against my o-one, apparently."
K: "The Lance helped, admittedly."
Some more expositing from the captain, the gloves and trunks giving him his power.
H: "They really like those red characters, don't they?"
M: "I get pretty big T-Tarantino-esque vibes from that."
E: "Ah so no half stars then…"
R: "Goes to show how flexible this power is. It does not have to be clothing."
Despite her confidence, Ryoko still got ganked.
Z: "Also shows those students don't stand any chance in hell of ever going against them."
K: "The student council would most likely kill everyone there if there was ever an uprising."
S: "There might've even been some uprisings in the pasts. Of course they were probably all brutally killed."
A: "And I thought our school was shit."
On the threat of the scissor being confiscated, she ran away, hijacking a delivery scooter to aide her.
H: "We know that's important to what she's doing, at least."
R: "…Part of me wonders what that teacher knows."
The rain continued coming down, as Fukuroda was being beaten over the head for letting her get away.
M: "Jeez she even has a b-butler. Why the hell have they not taken over the w-world at this point?"
S: "I'd say that was a good thing they've stuck to their city."
Z: "At least Sanageyama is letting Fukuroda know he screwed up damn these names are long!"
Uzu Sanageyama, the athletic committee chair, spun it back to Gamagori, blaming him for allowing Satsuki to be mocked by such a lowlife.
E: "Houka Inumuta sure looks the part of his role."
K: "I'm sure information and strategy comes in handy when oppressing a society like they are doing."
R: "All of them are three stars. I wonder if these are the elite four."
Another three star was basking in a sea of plush toys.
H: "I'd call those two related, but I wouldn't think pink hair happened normally."
Z: "Maybe they were cloned or something." She shrugged, the non-athletic committee chair Nonon Jakuzure querying the nature of the scissor.
S: "Ah so that's why they wanted it."
R: "And she knows. They both know."
K: "Thus sets up the arc for this series."

House Burn Down (13:50)
Ryoko meanwhile was at her old house.
Now a husk.
S: "They have so much bad blood going on, don't they?"
A: "Bet they deliberately burnt down that house and killed her family."
The flashback showed as much.
Z: "Nothing like the prospect of revenge to drive someone."
E: "That leaves the question on why he was targeted."
She was taken into a trap door, triggered by the teacher.
H: "Well if that doesn't prove he knows a lot more than he leads on."
M: "He's not gonna t-turn out to be her father, right? Just working undercover?"
Z: "Well if it is, you just picked apart a 24 episode series in its first episode."
M: "Yeah that's why I don't w-want it."
She eventually landed on a pile of clothing, her blood pouring down onto the pile.
A: "Ah that's wonderful." It wasn't. "At least we have LCL to help stem any blood flow in Evangelion."
K: "Most injuries are non-physical in the Evangelion anyway. Of course you feel the pain."
R: "And the higher you get over 100% sync, the higher chance an Evangelion's injuries will transfer to you."
She was going to find a way out, if not for an etherial voice baying for more blood.
E: "So that's why they made her bleed."
Out of the shadows came a living seifuku, which pinned her to the wall and begged to be put on.
A: "Out of all the things you see in hentai I never would've thought a uniform could do that."
R: "He is being a bit forceful. I am sure if they sat down and discussed, she would be happy to wear that uniform."
Z: "That was just an excuse to see her bra, wasn't it."
R: "Probably."
K: "There hasn't been that much fanservice actually, now I think about it."
H: "Not counting Suzuki?"
A: "That's like anti-fanservice."
In what shaped out to be rather questionable, the uniform forced itself on her.
At the very least, she was rewarded with immense power.
M: "Yeeeeah they could've made it not d-disturbing and rapey."
S: "Talk about anti-fanservice. I wonder who made this?"
E: "So far it's very Gurren Lagaan like, just without the mecha. Wouldn't think Gainax would make another show like that."
A: "How many Gainax shows have we had anyway? Like, this is pretty much FLCL and Gurren Lagaan mashed up so far."
H: "Who else could it be then?"
K: "For all we know it could be someone new. We'll just have to wait for the credits to know for sure."

Ring (16:00)
The twilight sun bathed the academy, Fukuroda and Sanageyama standing in a boxing ring, cajoling Ryoko into facing them.
A: "The principal doesn't have control of them."
Z: "I don't think anyone controls them."
M: "They're about t-to execute one of their pupils again and the teachers are just s-standing by."
S: "Man adults really are useless in that world."
K: "Ah and that's why they have so much power. Nepotism."
S: "Most things boil down to that, Kaworu."
E: "Man they don't even give a shit she's wearing a skirt and shirt."
A: "I bet that's why they put her upside down like that. Humiliating her before killing her."
H: "They really are no better than animals, are they?"
K: "You'd be amazed how power can corrupt a human."
A: "Oh and that's why she's concerned. Yeah if I knew I was gonna be hung upside down waiting to be executed i'd for sure wear my black ones."
M: "Girl has her p-priorities, I can respect that."
The boiler was bought out, and demonstrated.
Z: "I think the fact it's burning oil is a bit more important than the fact it'd make her uniform see-through."
H: "Wouldn't the batter just cover it up anyway?"
Z: "I mean probably."
Out of the shadows, Ryoko.
Who promptly freed Mako. "Yas girl!" Mari yelled out. "Save your friend!"
The one stars attempted to catch the girl, only to fall into the burning oil.
A: "They ended up pretty well off honestly. For falling in burning oil."

Mortal Combat (18:15)
Mako promptly placed down to the side, Ryoko began facing off with Fukuroda.
E: "I guess you could call it dinner and a show."
Z: "They the oil for frying, at least."
M: "Has he noticed none of his h-hits have done anything?"
S: "Talk about Gurren Lagaan." As his fist corkscrewed.
And as she blocked. "Oh hoh!" Asuka exclaimed. "Now you're gonna show him!"
R: "Shame the uniform is a bit… exposing."
M: "Maybe it's video game logic, the less a-armor a girl has, the more protected she is."
H: "How does that work?"
K: "It's good fanservice."
Kaworu slapped himself on the head.
R: "Thank you Mari. At least she does not want to wear this. She is clearly embarrassed exposing herself this way."
E: "I get the feeling that uniform will become common."
R: "A shame."
Fukuroda started stripping off himself, as in stripping off his limiters, turning the boxing gloves into boxing spikes. "Oh come on that's a d-damn paragraph on screen!"
S: "Not that she cares."
A: "I think she cares more about her exposure."
H: "That poor announcer girl though…"
Z: "I don't think respect women is on top of his mind. Or even respecting anyone really."
The glove impacted against her, and shattered.
R: "Such is the power of her uniform."
Z: "Hey look at that, she even has my horns!"
H: "Go figure."
She scruffed her darling's hair. "Giving me a run for my money, isn't she?"
The punches weren't felt at all, the two star desperately trying to land a hit.
E: "Don't think she knows how to box, but I like Mako's energy."
A: "Oh I bet that view is awesome, kid."

Don't Lose Your Way (20:50)
Ryoko had enough, her uniform and horns glowing, she began her counterattack.
K: "Oh what a backing track!"
A: "It really does have Gurren Lagaan energy, doesn't it?"
M: "She's fucking awesome, that's what!"
It only took four hits to nullify the boy's power, completely destroying the uniform.
E: "Fuck yeah!" Eliza exclaimed.
R: "That would be concerning to the council."
H: "Does she absorb the power of the uniform too?"
Z: "We can think about that later, lets watch this boy get destroyed!"
Fukuroda's naked body was flung up to meet Satsuki, and despite all the one and three stars in the way, she still had a small smatter of blood land on her.
K: "No one is invincible."
A: "Oh you bet she's not gonna let up until they're all as dead as the captain there!"
M: "Do you think Satsuki's gonna t-tell her?"
A: "Not a chance, bet she killed him."

The credits rolled. "Oh it's Trigger?!" Zero Two exclaimed. "Oh Gods why didn't they make me that badass?!"

"I though you were badass enough…"

"Good start, I think." Glowed Asuka. "Lots of action, not too much fanservice. At least to start. I might actually like this."

"We know how Franxx ended." Rei thought. "Whose to say it will not be another strange ending like that."

"Yeah it was pretty insane." The klaxosaur shrugged. "I get the feeling we aren't gonna get those quiet moments we had, at least."

"Even Gurren Lagaan had its quiet moments. It too started pretty quickly."

"Perhaps this is their take on a story like Gurren Lagaan." Kaworu speculated.

"Either way, I really would like to know about how that power uniform works."

"We see the power emerge as a wisp. Perhaps it is a soul that had been spun into a thread."

"How would you e-even do that?"

"A metaphysical spinning wheel, maybe." Prodded Asuka.

The preview played out.

"Never liked tennis myself." Mused Mari. "Always t-thought the scoring was weird."

"I read it was because they used clocks as a score card, but I dunno if that's true or not." Asuka shrugged.

And the next episode started.
~~~
3 Miles Per Gallon (00:00)
We start this episode exactly where we left off, Ryoko staring down Satsuki.
M: "So what's gonna stop this e-explanation from happening?"
Z: "Does that thing still run off blood? Or is it only to get it running?"
R: "If it does continuously run off one's blood, then she needs to be careful. There is only a finite amount of blood present in someone."
A: "With that getup of hers, she just needs to show off and harvest the nosebleeds of the entire student body."
H: "Satsuki knows who her father is, obviously."
E: "Satsuki totally killed him."
Ryoko keeled over, her uniform pointing out she's bleeding.
S: "Oh maybe that's why she seems flushed?"
Z: "You'd think she'd be paler."
A: "Unless a lot of blood was being pumped just about everywhere to compensate."
With only around five minutes before falling unconscious, Ryoko cut her losses and fled the academy.
K: "She's not wrong she will be back."
M: "It's clear she's the one Ryoko has b-beef with."
Z: "And anyone who gets in her way. Also a bit like me."
S: "At least your drive wasn't about getting revenge."
Z: "Does it count if it's getting revenge on those that hurt my darling?"
R: "That could count as caring for Hiro. Which is what most of your show was about."
H: "Maybe after this they wanted to calm it down a bit."
Z: "Or maybe Trigger thought, hey since we made things crazy at the end of Franxx, why not make an entire show that's crazy?"
Satsuki instead retired to her office.
A: "At least Gendo never installed a chandelier in his office."
S: "That butler does look like Fuyutsuki from this angle, though."
R: "Seems there is a distinction between the Goku uniform and this Kamui."
K: "Maybe the fact her uniform draws blood."
The OP played out.
H: "Talk about the red string of fate…"
Z: "Ain't that a funny coincidence. Trigger must like it."
K: "Considering even the wisps appear as strands. It has quite a significant meaning to it."
A: "You see those strings a lot, especially in Japanese media."
R: "It was originally to signify the bond between a couple to be married. Of course, in this instance, the red thread of fate ties the two together as lovers not mortal enemies."
M: "Hey maybe Satsuki and Ryoko w-work things out and become lovers."
S: "I couldn't think of a worse ending for this show at the moment."
The OP gave them a closer look at how the Kamui functioned.
E: "We won't have to resort to that to power up such uniform, right?"
R: "It would allow you to weigh up when to use it, at least. Instead of just having the raw power always available."
K: "I get the feeling if we do develop uniform like that, the focus will be on the Goku instead of the Kamui."
R: "At least with blood, you can regenerate it. I would prefer exchanging that than exchanging my soul for power."

Mankanshoku (02:55)
Ryoko collapsed off the tram, immediately accosted by a bunch of boys. "Perverts!"
Later she woke up with a man heavily breathing over her. "Ah that's not a good look."
A: "Pervert!"
M: "Who ya callin' pinhead." She referenced.
Needless to say, the man was promptly punched into the ceiling.
Z: "And who could blame her?"
E: "Here's hoping it's just a misunderstanding. Cause I think I recognise them from the opening titles."
Mako helpfully passed the scissor to her. "Wait why's she there?"
Before addressing the man as her father.
K: "Heh. Talk about awkward introductions."
S: "It really wasn't a good look."
H: "Maybe quirky runs in the family."
Either way, Ryoko apologised profusely for the misunderstanding. "Oh why are you apologising, he was the one hyperventilating over you!"
E: "Maybe he has a health issue of some sort."
Z: "He sure looks the part."
The man was Barazo Mankanshoku, Mako's father.
A: "Either way I completely understand why Mako's like that."
M: "Their entire family seems i-insane. I'd hate to see the mom." As Ryoko hit Mataro (Mako's sister) upside the head.
S: "Ryoko'll fit in, at least."
The mother came out, encouraging Ryoko to beat the shit out of anyone she wants in her family.
A: "Pfft ha! She's funny!"
K: "I wonder if it's wise to advertise yourself that vividly as a back alley doctor."
M: "Ah they'll never g-guess it."
E: "That little cartoon on the sign doesn't fill me with hope."
Z: "I mean Ryoko seems to have all her limbs. And hey he's a doctor and still looks like that?"
R: "He has killed more than he has saved." In a mutter. "I would not call him a doctor."
S: "Amazing Ryoko didn't have her head put on back to front."
A: "Good thing the dead don't sue."
H: "Their family is completely insane! Even the mother!"
Z: "Jeez I think I prefer the rations…" At the 'unidentifiable stuff' croquettes.
S: "At least she uses the non-poisonous ingredients."
R: "I will just have the rice thanks."
A: "It's probably not even rice, it's probably rat droppings in talcum powder."
The dog was thrown out the window, the whole spectacle just breaking the group into uncontrollable giggling. "How are they functional?"
Z: "Thing is they have an entire cooked chicken in the trash bin over there!"
Guts the dog flung himself back into the house, chowing down as Mako started forcing food into Ryoko's gob.
R: "They are probably more functional than most families living here. In a few ways they are lucky; they have plenty of food they enjoy, undesirable to us it may be. Roof over their heads, electricity and other comforts. Rather baffling they are so well off, honestly."

The Human Instrumentality Liberation Project (05:10)
Satsuki began explaining her plans for the world.
A: "Yes, we know, she's female Hitler, don't have to rub it in."
K: "At least he appeared to care about Germany, in his twisted way. She doesn't even hide her contempt for everyone, and her desire for power."
Z: "Think she has the same perspective I did. Y'know, they're so much below me that they're nothing more than bugs in the dirt."
R: "I think this is the concern with Nephilim. You see how tightly controlled we were in Bond's work, so much so we were treated as commodity. They feared we would do this."
E: "It only takes one person who wants that kind of power."
M: "And we know it's very easy for power to corrupt. Once someone l-like that gets a taste of power, they will never want to give it up. And they only w-want more of it."
A glimpse of their manufacturing processes.
R: "Look at those strands just floating there…"
A: "Gee I wonder what this sounds like…"
H: "I get the feeling our uniforms were somewhat military based too."
Z: "At least your regular wear. Wouldn't call the pilot suits military spec."
M: "So they're making these students into t-their soldiers? Are they imbued with something as well?"
R: "That sphere must have something to do with it…" Pondering.
A: "The Human Conquest and Liberation Project, hmm?!"
S: "What's with these worlds and trying to destroy humanity in some way?"
K: "I'd hazard a guess that's why they end up here."
E: "We're not gonna have to deal with this universe as well, are we?"
A: "Just throw it on the pile of universes that could fuck us up, I guess."
Alongside the sewing club representative was the tennis club representative, Captain Omiko Hakodate.
Z: "Ah so they are planning on world conquest then."
H: "So are they aliens or something?" He asked. "Cause she's got spiky teeth and a single eyeglass."
Z: "It wouldn't surprise me darling. It's always aliens when it comes to Trigger."
R: "You had one show from them end with aliens responsible."
Z: "And it was our show."
E: "I don't know what's worse, if that was just a single eyeglass or the fact it's a telescope embedded in her skull."
H: "Worse than what I thought."
A: "Fuyutsuki has a point, why doesn't she wear a uniform?"
R: "Perhaps her explanation has some truth to it. The power comes from her sword. Or even from her iron will."
S: "I'd say it was obvious tennis girl was the villain of the day, but the preview kinda spoilt it."

Quiet Night (07:15)
The Mankanshoku family were sleeping as one, including Ryoko. "Oh that's a great eye mask." Muttered Mari. "That ain't g-gonna scare the shit out of anymore."
A: "Man even the dog sleeps with them."
Z: "Jeez girl what's she dreaming about? She's drooling more than the dog!"
R: "Whatever it is, she must enjoy it."
Ryoko reminisced about earlier that day, as she became acquainted with Senketsu.
S: "She's named it already."
M: "I'm sure if you had a magic u-uniform come onto you, you'd give it several names."
H: "All of them offensive in some way, i'm sure."
K: "It still boggles the mind how such a skimpy outfit gives her such power."
R: "The amount of material in a gown does not necessarily mean it has more or less power, then."
A: "So we could become superhuman through some magic pasties of some sort?"
E: "What's stopping her from wearing clothing underneath? Like, I understand it sucks on her blood and all that, but surely some modesty won't affect its operation."
Z: "Isn't it in the arms and all that? She could easily cover up her belly."
A: "Eh, at least it has some utility." In a reluctant shrug. "Not like some of the things i've been caught wearing…"
R: "Would you prefer exchanging something like blood for power?"
A: "I mean, with all the shit we've been through, and whatever the hell Rits puts in our pills, we're probably not eligible to give blood anyway."
S: "If anything we have plenty of blood stored away, in case we need it."
E: "…Hey, what's stopping from just hooking Senketsu up to a blood bag?"
K: "I would ponder if it needs to be fresh blood. What stops a vampire from robbing a blood bank in lieu of going for someone's neck?"
M: "Neither of those options a-are particularly good…"
Z: "So her dad made that, why did he make it so skimpy?"
H: "Not curious how he made it?"
Z: "Eh we'll find out."
A: "Girl you should know by now, ragged old men like that are always perverts! Even if they're related."
R: "I would call that an apt name for Senketsu. And perhaps that is also the explanation for why you cannot use a blood bag."
S: "Can't imagine they even have the means to use blood bags in that city… And going to Mankanshoku doesn't count."
A: "Their idea of a blood bag would literally be a plastic shopping bag full of animal blood." In flat mutter. "Oh I say don't look a gift horse in the mouth, oh look at that he's dropped dead for some reason!" Close to shouting, in a mimic. "Oh well!"

Not So Quiet Day (09:10)
Asuka was rather close on the mark, waking up to Mako flipping out in two dimensions on how she's late.
E: "She could just wake up earlier- oh come on!" At the cats rather eagerly going at it. "Why did they put that there?!"
H: "That would've ruined the mood of our show."
Z: "I'd find that hilarious if they stuck that in our show somewhere!"
A: "Well that's totally not unfair at all." At the comparison between the slums of the plebeians compared to the veritable luxury of the bourgeoisie.
S: "Jeez that's an incentive to get good grades."
R: "Or to move."
K: "It must be equivalent to Oxford if the students were willing to tough it out in such conditions."
E: "Maybe they think they can achieve such power."
M: "Ah so like the A-American dream that anyone can pick themselves up and get rich."
A: "Is that even possible since Second Impact?"
M: "My old man would say it w-wasn't possible since Reagan."
R: "Whether the American dream is a lie or not, the Honnouji dream is similar in effect. They are willing to go through this strife in order to achieve greatness."
M: "You never hear about the 99% of p-people that fail achieving the dreaming."
Mako proved her stoic nature by continuing to speak, even as she was pelted with a ton of tennis balls.
E: "Didn't know you could absorb them like that."
A: "Ah great it's tennis bitch."
Z: "I like that skirt. Very tennis bally."
R: "I do not think that racket will be very effective in hitting a tennis ball. Considering there are holes at least twice the size."
S: "I think Mako had other priorities yesterday."
A: "Well maybe she should've rescheduled her execution to make it!"
K: "Oh so she needed to obtain permission to be kidnapped. That sounds like an incredibly NERV-ian process."
E: "Just because we have a form named 'Authority to Kidnap'…"
Ryoko defended Mako on her way to class.
M: "I get the feeling e-expulsion and execution are synonyms in this world."
Senketsu chose this time to not respond to her call.
H: "Well, she's gonna be experiencing one of those things if she can't get that going."
Z: "Does she still need to bleed on it to wake it up?"
Ryoko was bombarded with at least twelve trillion tennis balls, knocking her into a sewage tunnel where she was promptly rescued by one of the school teachers.
S: "Well, could've gone worse. She's still alive, I think."
A: "That's about best you can ask for in that world."

I Already Made The Obvious Joke Damnit (11:50)
It was late in the night when Ryuko finally came to. And no I'm not making that joke again!
R: "He has already done more for her than our homeroom teacher has done for us."
A: "Then again, I'm sure we can save ourselves."
M: "Or we can save y-yourselves."
A: "Yeah more likely. Unless you make us Nephilim somehow."
E: "Can imagine that going well…"
S: "You seem to be going alright as a Nephilim, Eliza."
K: "I would question why everyone seems to be undressing her, but I'm sure he had good intentions."
His reply was rather perverse, as he paralysed her with a few pins.
R: "Never knew acupuncture could be so effective."
K: "Okay, perhaps he is a bit perverse."
M: "Who isn't in that t-town?"
Drawing some blood, he explained why Senketsu didn't activate earlier.
Z: "Oh I was right!" In a beam. "Wait, so how do you activate it then?"
A: "It's pretty easy to make yourself bleed, though it'd be a lot more convenient if you didn't have to hurt yourself."
H: "I get the feeling you can't get away with not hurting yourself. It's drawing your blood, after all."
S: "Going for a bit of a bishonen angle with him, aren't they?"
A: "At least he's a hot pervert!"
They went further with the bishonen angle. "Is this still fanservice?"
K: "Female fanservice, yes."
S: "Impossible standards much." In a mutter. "Look at those abs!"
A: "Oh I'm looking alright."
M: "I'd call that a g-green light to go look at as many tits as ya want, Shinji!" Prodding Asuka. "It's clear she likes the fanservice, so she can't judge!"
A: "Hmpf, fine, I'll look away your highness." Now her focus was on Mari, pouting right at her.
R: "I wonder if he even finds women interesting."
Z: "If anything, he spent more time posing than actually gawking at her. I can respect that, treat yourself."
H: "There's treating yourself and then there's showing off."
Unfortunately classes were starting soon, the posing and all that coming to an end as Mikisugi quickly explained the red gauntlet and its utility in drawing blood.
E: "That would've been good to know earlier."
S: "What did you think of the fanservice, Eliza?"
E: "I think I prefer the women."

Tennis Court (14:00)
Ryoko expressed her desire to kill Praxi- I mean Omiko, as we cut to the tennis club.
K: "Never knew you could weaponise such a sport."
Z: "Wouldn't have put much stock in those rackets being effective weapons."
H: "What was that sport they had down under?"
Z: "Cricket? Oh yeah that'd do you in good if someone hit you with that."
M: "Never really understood c-cricket."
A: "And I never understood baseball so here we are."
Omiko hit the bullseye.
E: "How about that racket?"
Z: "Okay that racket might be a decent weapon."
S: "Even if the netting makes it seemingly not effective as a racket."
K: "Perhaps they've sewn an AT-Field in it."
A: "Would that even be possible? Like to make an AT-Field racket like that?"
K: "As possible as making any other weapon out of an AT-Field. Though a tennis racket would not be my first choice."
A: "I had more a metal frame of some sort with an AT-Field replacing the netting."
K: "Ah." As he had to really think. "That may be a bit more complicated. Perhaps if you imbue it with a soul."
R: "And I would rather not use weaponry imbued with souls."
A: "Veto on that then, okay."
Meanwhile Mako was undergoing her second capital punishment of the week.
Z: "Man they're really trying to kill her, what's she ever do?"
M: "Make friends with Ryoko."
Good for her, Ryoko arrived to defend her honour (and teeth).
H: "I guess that's a way of transforming."
First up was the 110 million serve, with 110 million tennis balls sent Ryoko's way (and quickly dispatched with a slice).
Unfortunately, that disqualified her. "I wonder if there's rules a-against slicing the ball in half during a match."
E: "Maybe it's a house rule. The fact they had to make that rule up in the first place…"
A: "Why are they even fighting over this?" In a ponder. "She could just slice them all up and be done with it!"
K: "Well that's especially not in the rules of tennis."
Mako went to vouch for her, at least. "Oh she could just get out anytime, great."
H: "Maybe she likes that kinda thing?"
S: "She's right about winning friendship, at least."
R: "Perhaps a lot more than friendship, too."
Z: "So friendship is the true goal of tennis?"
A: "If friendship can get them out of this, then it can do anything."
M: "I mean, from everything I h-hear regarding you lot, it sounds like friendship got this world out of the shit."
K: "They say friendship is magic. Perhaps there's truth to that."
What Mako essentially did was put Ryoko into a tennis match against Omiko.
A: "Jeez, who could say no to someone like that?"

Match (16:55)
We cut to the tennis arena, surrounded in very sharp spikes.
S: "You'd want to be paying attention if you were one of those ball collectors."
H: "She's gonna suck at this, isn't she?"
A: "Has she ever played tennis?"
R: "Do we even know how to play tennis?"
Z: "We had games like badminton in the birdcage, that's kinda similar."
E: "They didn't involve spikes on the walls, I'm guessing."
Z: "Nah, I already killed enough people as was."
Ryoko was first to serve, going through a single rally before the tennis ball broke through her bat.
M: "Well that's a bit s-shitty." 0-15.
Next serve went worse, the ball skirting off Ryoko's racket and causing her to pinwheel in the air, making the score 0-30 and causing all the boys in the audience to violently exsanguinate out of their noses.
R: "She is going up against an expert, mind you."
M: "Omiko would give Federer a r-run for his money."
A: "Man she really need to get something less exposing."
Z: "Heh, Mako doesn't seem to mind."
Next serve, she double faulted, as her tennis racket shattered as she tried to pull a special move.
Much to everyone's amusement. "Man she's really not going well."
E: "I wonder if they're deliberately putting her 40 up to add some tension."
M: "Eliza we know she's gonna win this. How m-many episodes are left on there?"
E: "A few."
S: "I think she needs something better than a simple tennis racket."
A: "She can't use the scissor unless she wants to cut it." As she blinked. "Actually…"
Ryoko must've read her mind, as she improvised a tennis racket out of the scissor blade. "…Yeah. That, actually."
K: "Bit of a light weave."
They were about to fault her again, but it was a good thing Satsuki allowed it. And you don't ever go against Satsuki.
E: "Rewriting the rules actually worked in our favour for once."
M: "Wonder if she's just m-more interested in the show."
A: "Oh she's definitely interested in her."
K: "She knows what that Kamui is, too. Wonder if she has vested interest in her."
Z: "I'd say it was healthy to have an interest in someone who actively wishes to kill you. She doesn't even hide it!"

Advantage (20:15)
Next serve was well and truly in Ryoko's favour, Omiko ending up going through her own racket and exploding into the wall, before bouncing back into Ryoko's ready scissor, the Two-Star uniform sliced into small pieces (which was unfortunate for any modesty Omiko was going for).
S: "…What the fuck?"
E: "Isn't she still 15-40?"
M: "Maybe that's another house r-rule. If you somehow destroy your opponent's clothing you win instantly."
R: "Ah so strip tennis."
M: "Yeah!"
A: "Well at least the boys get a show." With an eye-roll. "I mean she did expose Ryoko like that, but it's still perverted of… well, everyone."
Sanageyama was going to protect his patron's honour, but Satsuki awarded the match to Ryoko.
Z: "Watch as she runs out of blood again."
R: "That is the main issue with relying on such a limited resource pool. In all other counts it may as well be a Solenoid."
K: "It may be closer to a Solenoid than we think. A Solenoid's source of power is the Dirac, this power source is just blood."
A: "What's even in blood that could turn it into such potent power?"
E: "Maybe it's less the content of the blood and more the person. Whatever power that their soul naturally imbues into their own body, that Senketsu concentrates."
R: "…That is an interesting point." She thought, as Satsuki began fighting Ryoko, but she was more interested in how this whole blood thing worked. "It makes sense there is some essence of the soul within someone's body. It'd be interesting to see how much you could get out of it."
M: "You ain't gonna s-start getting into blood magic, are you?"
Rei shrugged. "If I do, it will only be on myself or those who volunteer."
H: "I get the feeling the doctor won't like that."
R: "If I spin it as a way of fighting the evils of the world, I am sure she could let it slide. For science."
A: "Misato on the other hand would go off her nut if she found out we were literally using blood magic to power ourselves up. Like that's some proper Wiccan shit right there."

While they were debating, Ryoko had run away with Mako, Omiko was dishonourably demoted to 0 star, and the Sumo club was instead slated for Hokkaido instead of the Tennis club.

Oh yeah, and the episode ended. "It's a strange closing sequence, similar to Franxx's I feel." Quietly thought Kaworu.

"Almost like it was more normal?"

"Yeah, kinda."

"You guys were concentrating too much on the blood magic." In deadpan. "Does usage of such resource like that hold a bad connotation?"

"Oh for sure!" Asuka spoke up. "Like it's associated with witches and satan and all that, it's demonises to hell and back. And it kinda makes sense, because it is blood. I know I prefer my blood inside my body, thank you very much."

"Even if it had use in acquiring power?"

"Just get it with a needle or something. I ain't cutting my hand open and smearing it on a stone for a bit of power."

"Never said it would be to that extent."

"Ignoring all the blood," Zero Two began, "I quite liked that episode. Action always goes well with me, I think."

"It's a lot more than we had."

"Well it's more like our action had a few gaps in-between, y'know to calm down and catch a breath. This has just been non-stop so far darling!"

"More from the Gurren Lagaan school of thought than the Evangelion."

"This has been similar to Gurren Lagaan, in certain aspects." Rei thought aloud. "I wonder if Trigger just have a tendency to do that."

"With how infinite the universes are, maybe Trigger is an alternate form of Gainax, telling similarly themed stories."

"Go figure we all end up together, then." Mused Zero Two. "So what, that makes you guys our counterparts then?"

"We even kinda pointed that out while we were watching your show." Shinji prodded. "Though then again there's enough differences between all of us that we're still distinct."

Zero Two poked her horns.

The next episode was soon to start. "Wait she owns a Kamui too?!"
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Still alive :p

Few things, 1. I got a pre-owned Nintendo Switch (one that can be modified for shenanagans :p) and Breath of the Wild is a really great game that i've been spending like 12 hours a day playing :V but hey that means I should be able to reasonably record any games for Switch that get rolled (so Goose Game and Astral Chain so far, though I guess I could chuck an emulator on it if an older game comes up :p)

2. FIFO work! If you couldn't tell by some oddly specific knowledge on Australian mining that I've sprinkled into the story, that's the industry I work in, and I was on site for a week (and got another short stint coming up), so that cuts into spare time too.

Oh well, at least I got some story inspiration. If ever a plot line comes up where Misato's car gets in a prang, is stuck in the shop for weeks on end as they fail to fix it, and she's stuck with a crappy little Kei car her insurance put her up with, rest assured that happened to me :V

In regards to the story so far, when you think about it, analogue tape is a rather dead simple technology. You'd also think the SDAT would be compatible with analogue tape straight up, but obviously that isn't the case :V
I mean I could've easily written the SDAT format to include backwards compatibility with analogue tape, but where's the fun in that? :V

Rei seems rather cool so far with Kaworu's upcoming stint in America (go figure, they do have that little soulbond thingy that was set up 20 stories ago :V), and hey she has plenty of company on the home front anyway.
It'd be a change for both of them. It's less the distance of the separation and more the length of time they'll probably be separated for (of course I'm sure NERV has the budget to fly him back every couple weeks, maybe he does 8 on 6 off or something). Depends how important they think Kaworu's presence will be other there, which is probably very important, considering what's going on over there.

Ah well, we'll get there when we get there. I have a few overarching ideas for the Massachusetts arc, it'll probably take a wile to get to them all. I'll try not to keep you guys waiting for it :)
Also this laptop I write on is really starting to annoy me, temps pegged at 100 degrees and fans at full blast no matter how I clean it, and the SV editor's favourite food is CPU time with a side of RAM so that doesn't help matters with an i5 and 8gb RAM. Doesn't help the keyboard gets stuck on occasion.
But hey, I bought that newfangled Macbook Pro pretty much a few days after it was announced, 3600 Aussie dollarydoos was a bit yikes but I'm hoping to run it for a good while (also all that FIFO work comes with a nice bonus so that's where that went to :p). The previous MBP I ran was my main machine for around 9 years so I expect a lot of life out of it :V
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Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a few more Chronicles between Aki's Life and this? I mean, i know Rebellion was a thing, but it's not on the Apoc list.
 
Fate/Online said:
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a few more Chronicles between Aki's Life and this? I mean, i know Rebellion was a thing, but it's not on the Apoc list.
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Just one. The Chronicles for 3.0+1.0. Just look at BG's sig for a link to it if ya wanna read it, and all the Chronicles not yet in the Apocrypha threadmarks.
 
khfan21 said:
I also kinda noticed that almost the whole time Ryuko was being misspelled as Ryoko.
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Thing is I caught myself doing that while writing :V my mind just went straight to Ryoko for some reason. Looks like some slipped through the cracks so I'll get them corrected after work :)
There's a few other errors I made while writing that have been pointed out, see if you can find them! It's just like an Easter egg hunt! :p

DragonUnitOmega said:
Wait full list for the Apocrypha threadmarks or BG's own masterlist...?
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The Apocrypha threadmarks are kinda outdated at this point, which is one of the reasons we made the index.
Also so I could actually keep track of the myriad omake I've made for the thread. Go have a look! :D
 
Fate/Online said:
But wait, would that mean only Velocity members can find your series easily?
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It's easy to find on AO3.

Chronicles - BG_Character_592 - Bee Movie (2007), Daft Punk, DARLING In The FRANXX (Anime), David Bowie (Musician), Elfen Lied, FLCL, Half-Life (Video Games), Kill la Kill (Anime & Manga), Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Megas

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
 
grommile said:
It's easy to find on AO3.

Chronicles - BG_Character_592 - Bee Movie (2007), Daft Punk, DARLING In The FRANXX (Anime), David Bowie (Musician), Elfen Lied, FLCL, Half-Life (Video Games), Kill la Kill (Anime & Manga), Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Megas

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archiveofourown.org
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And is that fact easy for the Chronicles fans to learn? I mean they can find Chronicles(and any of the other series based on A&T) here cause it's literally listed clearly. But is being on AO3 listed they can easily find no matter what page here they are on, or on A&T tvtropes page?
 
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And is that fact easy for the Chronicles fans to learn? I mean they can find Chronicles(and any of the other series based on A&T) here cause it's literally listed clearly. But is being on AO3 listed they can easily find no matter what page here they are on, or on A&T tvtropes page?
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@BG_Character_592 does have their AO3 page in their signature, as well as mentioning they're the author of Chronicles.
 
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