DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
At least her reason for hating him is 'he can destroy the WORLD' which makes it pretty reasonable.
Advice and Trust [NGE]
At least her reason for hating him is 'he can destroy the WORLD' which makes it pretty reasonable.
BadRoad
a thousand miles
Asuka is fine. Everything's fine. Nothing bad ever happened. Ever.
As I've said, I'm on graveyard shift for another day or so... I know I have two more shifts left in this rotation. "Days" stop being meaningful when you wake up, go to work and a half hour later its tomorrow.As The Englanderish quoted, it was a stupid pun on your comment about how the MP units 'voiced their objection' to Asuka's continued heroics.
since 'voicing their objection' == 'turning 02 into a giant pincushion', 'numerous points'.
And now my explaining the joke ruined it.
Anyway, didn't even remember making that joke.
Under the right circumstances, a mild breeze will suffice.
Did she entertain the thought because she thinks Rei is attractive, or is it more because there is physical and emotional intimacy between the three of them? And Rei's hot.
Maybe and yes.
Once both parties have succumbed to gravity and the requisite regulations of the Interpersonal Shipping Association, does it really matter who fell first?Didn't you fall head over heels for him first?
Dittorofl:'Dissolved into embarrassed goo'. I gotta remember that.
HIC'll?
Oh, Human Instrumentality Comittee, acronymed and abreviated with "will." Nevermind.
That's very insightful, and now I officially feel sad for Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout doesn't answer to SEELE
- Rei wants to be honest with Shinji & Asuka, but fears that SEELE will kill them for knowing the truth, as per Rainbow Trout's warning.
- Rainbow Trout needs to earn some brownie points with Rei.
I just created a bookmark folder for memes and that's the first one to go in!My rebuttal:
That must be odd for Shinji... being the emotionally secure and experienced person in the conversation.
FTFY
There have to be times when the result is either status quo or improvement. Otherwise it's not gambling.
This is emotion! Why do you have to be a killjoy and drag "reason" into our perfectly good WAFF?
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Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
The solution is simple, go smite SEELE, so Rei can tell Shinji and Asuka the truth. And maybe he'll have to threaten Gendo in some terrifying way, just in case but I'm okay with that.
- Rainbow Trout doesn't answer to SEELE
- Rei wants to be honest with Shinji & Asuka, but fears that SEELE will kill them for knowing the truth, as per Rainbow Trout's warning.
- Rainbow Trout needs to earn some brownie points with Rei.
Ignore the magically necrosed plant, your plan will absolutely work!
rofl:You must be pretty new to the 'net. Everyone knows the most convenient way to store internet images is with an imgur account and albums./kidding
I saw what you did there.
I believe the term you're looking for is "adorifying"
Ignore the magically necrosed plant, your plan will absolutely work!
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Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
... MiCollisi is a supremely clever bastard, who now I owe a drink, for adapting a '88 VP debate reference to Warhammer 40k.
- Location
- in the trash
It's strange to see how Asuka has gone all soft and fluffy while Rei has embraced her inner tsundere. Did they do a personality swap at some point?
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
... I could make a virus joke out of that, throw out some lines of Misato, Maya, and Gendo being tsundere, but it's 2 in the morning and I'm out of coffee. My brain just can't.It's strange to see how Asuka has gone all soft and fluffy while Rei has embraced her inner tsundere. Did they do a personality swap at some point?
Cae Lumis
Chief Director of Shinra Archaeology Department
- Location
- Southern New Jersey
It's strange to see how Asuka has gone all soft and fluffy while Rei has embraced her inner tsundere. Did they do a personality swap at some point?
Nah, Asuka just had a Tsundere Polar-Shift, turning from a Type-A "Tsun-Tsun" into a Type-B "Dere-Dere"... she just hasn't had a reason to switch her fire back on yet (partly because it was bravado, and partly because nothing has legitimately earned her ire yet). Rei just picked up Asuka's bad habits back when Asuka was a Type-A... that or it's her inner Yui waking up (Remember, Yui Ikari could scare Gendo AND keep him check!)
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Turing Decidable
𝕘𝕒𝕣𝕗
- Location
- Belgium
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Rei looked at Asuka.It's strange to see how Asuka has gone all soft and fluffy while Rei has embraced her inner tsundere. Did they do a personality swap at some point?
Rei: "It's been a few months now. I grow tired of this."
Asuka: "So do I."
Shinji: "...what's going on?"
Asuka: "We have something to tell you..."
Rei: "Pay close attention..."
Both girls reached for their hair.
They pulled off their wigs.
Red became blue; blue became red.
Asuka/Rei: "Gotcha!"
Shinji: "WHAT?!"
Misato: "WHAT?!"
Kyoko: "WHAT?!"
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Not exactly. Keep in mind, Rei's role model for 'how to be a normal teenage girl' is Asuka. So when a new behavior or situation comes up, guess how she's going to model things?It's strange to see how Asuka has gone all soft and fluffy while Rei has embraced her inner tsundere. Did they do a personality swap at some point?
- Location
- Too Deep in the Midnight Sea
- Location
- Spain
Then you can start sharpening those knives, I'm afraid.
GoukaRyuu
Shadow Cabal Made Man
- Location
- New Jersey
Have fun in the Middle East!
- Location
- Too Deep in the Midnight Sea
I will the minute I find Strypgia.
Turing Decidable
𝕘𝕒𝕣𝕗
- Location
- Belgium
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Well, I suppose she wasn't there to see how Asuka's tactics to coax a reaction from Shinji succeeded only because of an accident.Not exactly. Keep in mind, Rei's role model for 'how to be a normal teenage girl' is Asuka. So when a new behavior or situation comes up, guess how she's going to model things?
- Location
- Out and About
Um, his name is David Xanatos
Did Shinji and Asuka ever tell her how they got together?
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Not exactly. Keep in mind, Rei's role model for 'how to be a normal teenage girl' is Asuka. So when a new behavior or situation comes up, guess how she's going to model things?
So if by some chance accident Kawouru manages to make a common bond between the two of them no power between this earth and heaven will stop her from protecting it?
GoukaRyuu
Shadow Cabal Made Man
- Location
- New Jersey
I think the term came later but the character archetype already existed. NGE is important in this way because it looked at common anime character archetypes and showed why these people would be acting in this way, and usually because of horrible stuff in their history.
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- Location
- United States
It's strange to see how Asuka has gone all soft and fluffy while Rei has embraced her inner tsundere. Did they do a personality swap at some point?
Also, let's not forget that Asuka has been mostly interacting with people she loves at this point in the story. When it comes to interaction with strangers, she'll probably be more polite than before, but most likely still with an air of superiority. Though I don't think she'll be a straight up jerk ass to anyone anymore, unless she hates them, of course. I'm looking at you Tanaka, Ritsuko, and Gendo.
- Location
- Volksstaat Hessen, Deutsches Reich
Okay. I must admit something. It's kinda awkward, but... well, you know, better some awkwardness than diminishing enjoyment of the story. How exactly is Kaworu responsible for Rei not being able to tell Shinji and Asuka about stuff? It feels like I have completely missed something. I mean, just because he is there doesn't mean the general "security situation" isn't changed. SEELE is near-all-powerful with or without Kaworu in Japan...
And what an emotional whiplash chapter. First part: All the feels. And really, all the feels. And then, second part, all the laughter.
Now, after having just read both A&T up to this point and ACoS to nearly up to date, details get a bit blury about what is used when, but you are really overusing this metaphor: "He'd seen Asuka without her clothes a lot over the last few months, but never this naked." Oh, and Rei does seem a bit... very human. I suppose it could in fact be because she's modeling her behaviour on Asuka, but... that change is still rather quick, all things considered. Not that seeing such a Rei when all things are said and done wouldn't be lovely, but within a span of, what, some weeks after she got off her drugs and started social interaction? It doesn't really disturb by suspension of disbelief, and of course it generates funny, but still, yeah...
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Now, as for the comments. Oh man. I definitely should have joined that thread earlier. Your people are all genius....
Oh, hey, I know! An OT4 that goes on a tour of seeking revenge!
And what an emotional whiplash chapter. First part: All the feels. And really, all the feels. And then, second part, all the laughter.
Now, after having just read both A&T up to this point and ACoS to nearly up to date, details get a bit blury about what is used when, but you are really overusing this metaphor: "He'd seen Asuka without her clothes a lot over the last few months, but never this naked." Oh, and Rei does seem a bit... very human. I suppose it could in fact be because she's modeling her behaviour on Asuka, but... that change is still rather quick, all things considered. Not that seeing such a Rei when all things are said and done wouldn't be lovely, but within a span of, what, some weeks after she got off her drugs and started social interaction? It doesn't really disturb by suspension of disbelief, and of course it generates funny, but still, yeah...
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Now, as for the comments. Oh man. I definitely should have joined that thread earlier. Your people are all genius....
EVA-02 twitched one hand a bit. I'd rate that as one tenth of a Berserk run, at best. So okay, EVA-02 has 0.1 berserk runs, maybe.
Shinji, of all people, would understand this very well I think
True, but even though Rei III may have been the most... complete of all Reis (Ree?), she still would not have thought in such terms.
Ah, my poor, poor opponent.
Oh, hey, I know! An OT4 that goes on a tour of seeking revenge!
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
The character archetype had been around for quite a while in anime (and still is today), but this is Eva: Anno wanted to deconstruct all the standard Giant Robot Show tropes, and show you how they could be really ugly if taken straight. So he took the standard 'tsundere girl who is mean to a boy she likes because she can't just say what she really feels' and said 'Ok, why would someone act like that? That's a pretty messed up way to deal with your emotions, so you'd have to be pretty messed up to make that how you live.' And therefore, we got Asuka and her deeply traumatic past, and terrified isolation of her heart.
It's actually been a few months at this point. Asuka and Shinji talked her into going off the drugs within a few weeks of them getting together, and Rei de-toxed the first time in the late first and second month of their relationship. It's been longer than you think.
And yes, Rei is being somewhat irrational in blaming Kaworu for having to stay silent, but he's the target she can reach right now. Sadly, there's practically no one else she can talk to about it, too: Shinji, Asuka, and Misato are out due to the threat from SEELE, Doctor Akagi since Rei hasn't revealed just how far off script she's run, and... well, she doesn't have many other people she might talk to but the Fifth Child.
- Location
- Volksstaat Hessen, Deutsches Reich
So, she should probably thank Kaworu?
"Without you arriving, I wouldn't even have remembered SEELE's reach and might have endangered Shinji and Asuka!"
"Without you arriving, I wouldn't even have remembered SEELE's reach and might have endangered Shinji and Asuka!"