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Advice and Trust [NGE]

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Strypgia said:
I give up. I tried to fight 'Ritsuko and Maya flirting over the MAGI', but the scene wouldn't go away. At least I managed to tone it down from solid yuri WAFF into something at least a little character and plot helping. 900 words already down. Update by Friday, though it may be sooner if I can get the other scenes that have to go with it done. That means at least a couple: Asuka's side of things & the reaction in the control booth.

Preview? Don't mind if I do!


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'This is not going to be easy, now or later' Ritsuko thought to herself.

She made herself look up at the monitor above the observation window into the Test Cage. If she looked down, she'd have to peer over Maya's shoulder like she used to, and that would make it all but impossible to avoid a smile threatening to break out on her face.

The last few days had been equal measures exhilarating and terrifying. She and Maya had managed to 'have dinner' every night. Ritsuko had taken to carrying around the slightly bulky hand terminal she sometimes used for MAGI access because that meant she and Maya could constantly talk privately through the coding logs.

And talk they did. She'd tried to slow things down, tried to remind herself she was still rebounding from Gendo's mistreatment, her own emotional crash, and near suicide. It had crumbled before Maya's argument that they'd known each other for almost two years, that Ritsuko had known about Maya's crush on her for most of that, and that the two of them starting whatever they were starting was merely a small change of status.

Ritsuko fought down another strong urge to grin. This was intoxicating. For all the years she'd spent throwing herself at Gendo, and all the times she had honestly moaned in lustful physical pleasure under him, for he did hit a lot of her buttons, she knew perfectly well she'd never felt even a scrap of emotional involvement from him that she hadn't imagined up out of nothing. But with Maya… She couldn't even look at her without smiling, and know she'd find the younger woman smiling right back. She knew, knew Maya liked to see her and wanted to be around her. She'd spent the last few nights staying up way too late, messaging back and forth with Maya until neither of them could stay awake.
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This seems like an optimal time for Maya to go splat in terms of gut-wrenchingness...
 
I could get used to these WAFFles.

The Englanderish said:
This seems like an optimal time for Maya to go splat in terms of gut-wrenchingness...
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I will not say what first came to mind, but... kindly go fondle a cactus.:mob:
landcollector said:
And what would be the point of that except being needlessly dark?
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54th law of fanfiction: anything, and I do mean everything, must be painted not just dark, but blacker than a black hole. Any positive feelings should be only temporary, and the resulting negative feelings must be greater than any and all positive feelings heretofore shown.:anger:

Thankfully, it seems that Strypgia is not an adherent of this law (and I pray to Odin that I am right).
 
Strypgia said:
Ritsuko is painfully aware of what might happen if she suddenly wasn't 'available' anymore.
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Gendo is so hyper-focused on his scenario that he doesn't even notice that his pieces aren't listening to him anymore. And even if he did, he lost months ago. Him finding out that his mistress has found someone else would change absolutely nothing. Plus, Ritsuko isn't exactly expendable at this point.
 
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rdmcmains said:
That doesn't do Maya much good, now does it? And anything happening to Maya could be used by Gendo as a blunt object lesson for Ritsuko.
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Getting rid of Maya would cost Gendo time since someone new would have to be brought in an trained to work with the MAGI system. Gendo and Ritsuko are both smart enough to know that. Really, the closest thing to a bargaining chip he has would be Ritsuko's cat.
 
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GotGame said:
Getting rid of Maya would cost Gendo time since someone new would have to be brought in an trained to work with the MAGI system. Gendo and Ritsuko are both smart enough to know that. Really, the closest thing to a bargaining chip he has would be Ritsuko's cat.
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Ritsuko's cat can't blow the conspiracy wide open or help subvert it from within. I'd expect Gendo to consider everyone and everything but Rei, Unit-01, Lilith and the Adam embryo expendable if it minimizes the chances of the Scenario going awry.
 
Turing Decidable said:
Ritsuko's cat can't blow the conspiracy wide open or help subvert it from within. I'd expect Gendo to consider everyone and everything but Rei, Unit-01, Lilith and the Adam embryo expendable if it minimizes the chances of the Scenario going awry.
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That would be consistent with his behaviour in the series, yes. But you shouldn't underestimate the covert ops expertise of the average house cat. Or their ability to act as a spanner in the works.
 
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