I just had nearly the entire next scene with Rei and the Rainbow Trout hit me. Writing it down now before it fades any more. This may delay the update, but it will be worth it. Rei has an angry chat with him, and, in his most human moment yet, Kaworu manages to make it worse by being a teenage boy.
I know it can be hard to avoiding looking down a girls top when she is lifting you bodily off of the ground by the throat with one hand as her eyes burn with the fire of her soul and around reality warps under the enraged whims of mankind's Mother-God, but please try to avoid staring, it will only prolong your death.
 
I know it can be hard to avoiding looking down a girls top when she is lifting you bodily off of the ground by the throat with one hand as her eyes burn with the fire of her soul and around reality warps under the enraged whims of mankind's Mother-God, but please try to avoid staring, it will only prolong your death.

Kawouru:... You have lovely eyes.
Rei: *throws him through a wall*
Kawouru: Well now your not choking me at least.
 
That actually makes me wonder why Unit-02 didn't go berserk in canon. Not that it would help much, unless AT Field hax can be deployed in space.
IIRC, EVA-02 never berserks. Even in EoE... well, when the battery time is up, it's good-bye. That was no berserk run, I'd say that was "just" fantastically high synchronization.

EVA-00 and -01 are experimental models. 02 is the first "standard production" model. Maybe they have successfully driven out berserker runs from them.

Hm. I wonder is if an equivalent of "maternal rage berserk" could be done in EVA-00. This fic runs with the (reasonable) assumption Rei-I is stuck in there. Given the care Shinji and Asuka have shown towards, and received from, Rei... could EVA-00 also care? If, for some reason (story! :p ) Shinji or Asuka are in EVA-00 and get in danger?

Kaworu's Body: "AHAHAHAHA fuck you I do what I want! You're not the boss of me!"
So basically... KAWORU-00 goes berserk, acting without pilot input? :p
 
Update is up to 3000 words, and I'm only halfway through Rei and Kaworu's talk. This one's going to be a biggie. Tomorrow night, though, since I'm crashing here, and it's 2330.

Have another preview:

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Finding Nagisa was not difficult. Rei knew better than to do anything visible with her AT-Field when she was anywhere she could be seen, but unfurling it just enough to look around the city and sense where that stupid fish was hiding was simple, at least enough for a direction, and she could pinpoint him easily once closer. A convenient city taxi got her to within a few hundred meters of him in one of the city's more distant parks on the northeastern fringe.

'Isolated, as well. Good. He and I will be having words that I do not particularly want overheard.'

She quickly found him on one of the overlooks of the hillside park, staring down at the city coming to life in the sunset. She was quiet, but she was sure he could sense her approach just as easily as she could feel his presence getting closer.

His smile broadened a bit as she rapidly walked closer. "Hello, Ayanami-san. I sense this is not a chance encou-OW!"

She slapped him on the right cheek this time. The sense of balance was an extra bit of satisfaction.

Nagisa pulled himself off the fence rail he'd stumbled against. "What did I do this time?" he said with some surprise. "I have not even spoken to you since lunchtime."

"This is your fault, you… you… stupid Rainbow Trout!" Rei shouted at him.
 
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