Possibly because those would most often be WAFF stories, and everyone wants to see the Ultra-WAFF of Shinji wrapped completely around his little girl's finger. :)
Oh, like Eva and DNA have ever been anywhere like how it really works. :p
Yeah, but Asuka and Shinji are human (as far as we know), so their genetics should work normally.

Anyway, about their kids. I've seen fics with them having a boy, but I think only as the second younger child. Also art with both girls and boys. But really, how can anyone resist a little red-headed Asuka clone in a cute little yellow sundress?

Are there suburbias packed with Cleaver families? Not any more. Are there a lot of good people who would take an orphan into their home? Probably. I'm not talking about finding a Walton family or the Camdens or Huxtables. I'm talking about placing Shinji with a person who would do more than ensure he was fed, and clothed.
I may be remembering wrong, but aren't the Japanese not too big on adoption?

Besides, a Shiji raised in a healthy home environment--or any home environment--wouldn't be the tangled ball of neuroses that makes us tear our hairs out. :confused:

I'm picking up a lot of fear in that picture. In their body language, their faces, they way Shinji asked if she's "really okay." The placement is a bit ambiguous but both of them either have sweat or tears on their faces. All that has me trying to rewind the story in the picture. What happened 30 seconds ago? The elipsis in Asuka's answer tell me that she is unsure. She is ASUKA FREAKING LANGLY! The Second Child. The warrior that Spartans(your choice which ones) and Klingons salute! And she's not sure about holding a baby? This isn't the scene in a happy home. Or at least it is a happy home, but this is a bad night.
For some reason, the vibe I get is it's shortly after she's given birth (she looks rather bedraggled) and she hasn't had a chance to hold him yet. Maybe she had to be knocked out or the delivery was particularly difficult. She's still weak, tho standing, and Shinji is worried about her and about her ability to hold the baby safely.

This may not fit that well. For one thing, she shouldn't be standing, but this is Asuka--if she wants to stand up, she'll stand up. It's just that parents soon become comfortable with holding their child, so it shouldn't be very long after birth.

Being not sure about holding a baby isn't at all rare, although it turns out that it's really easy. Just remember to cradle the head and hold it against your chest. Shinji isn't holding him correctly, nor even correctly handing him off; poor kid is about to fall through dad's arms.
 
Rei: "You know too much."

BLAM
*gulps nervously*

How do you figure? As far as I understood, all she knows is that the medication didn't work the way she thought it did ("I always feel. I usually just didn't care")
Going back over Chapter 9.15, Ritsuko knew enough that she realized that she would have to use one of Rei's old blood tests ("We'll… I'll use an old blood test of yours, and fix the results. I won't change your medication level, we'll just tell him I did.").

Also, one of the main purposes of Rei's medication was to keep her pliant and obedient, and Ritsuko has no further reason to keep Rei on the medications if they aren't doing that (also, Ritsuko doesn't want Rei pliant and obedient any more).



"All according to plan... apart from that damn trout!"
Actually, as soon as I posted that analysis, I remembered this image of Liara from Mass Effect:
 
There is a case to be made for Nurgle-Rei, especially in conjunction with shipping. Rei is the "safe" option, the option that accepts Shinji as he is... but that means at the same the option that doesn't challenge Shinji to become better. Which sounds just like Papa Nurgle, no?
 
I thought of more:

Gendo:



Nurgle.



Kaworu:



Slaanesh.



Akagi:


Hashut. From Warhammer FB - Who here remembers him?
 
We really need an Ominous rating on this damn website.
Damn skippy!

Btw, what's the maximum image number for a post? I can't recall.
You're going to find out the hard way, aren't you?

If they're higher-dimensional fuckery or something, then six separate points in 3d can be completely connected in the higher-dimensional fuckery manner.
I must be slipping if I didn't think of that one.

I may be remembering wrong, but aren't the Japanese not too big on adoption?
Gendo is mid-upper level member of a vast, powerful cult and a high ranked officer in an obscenely well funded international organization. Find a family in another country.

Besides, a Shiji raised in a healthy home environment--or any home environment--wouldn't be the tangled ball of neuroses that makes us tear our hairs out. :confused:
True, but a tangled ball of neuroses leads to compelling stories and plots... and I think I may be going about this backwards.
 
if that was the case, Asuka wouldn't be standing. Just trust me on that. No, it being Asuka's not an excuse.
Plus, junior looks too big and the hair looks too full. I say he is about 3 months to 1 year old.

Also, is it odd that I did not mind Thousand Shinji? I'm not gonna say I love it and its in my top 10 eva fics. But I just didn't think it was that bad.
 
And another 3!

Ryoji:

Tzeentch.



Misato:


Slaanesh.



Yui:
I'm actually torn between:


Hashut.



And Nurgle. Both work very well.
 
Yeah okay, Misato and Kaji are both spot on of course. But just who is Hashut? Daemonic Prince of Mad Science or what?
 
There is a case to be made for Nurgle-Rei, especially in conjunction with shipping. Rei is the "safe" option, the option that accepts Shinji as he is... but that means at the same the option that doesn't challenge Shinji to become better. Which sounds just like Papa Nurgle, no?
I did consider Nurgle for Rei, especially because of how the GNR starts decaying at the end of EOE. But eventually settled on Tzeentch because that plotting pose.

Yeah okay, Misato and Kaji are both spot on of course. But just who is Hashut? Daemonic Prince of Mad Science or what?
Hashut is a retired Chaos God from Warhammer Fantasy; patron of the also-retired Chaos Dwarves. Hashut imbibes their artillery and machines with daemonic souls (e.g. the Hellcannon), amongst other things. i.e. Hashut is pretty much the God of Evangelions and those who would build them. Also associated with fire, tyranny, hatred, greed etc.

As far as I know, Hashut was never in WH40K - which kind of surprised me, since who doesn't want daemonic tanks and spaceships?

 
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As far as I know, Hashut was never in WH40K - which kind of surprised me, since who doesn't want daemonic tanks and spaceships?
Because there are already Daemonships and all sorts of blasphemous war machines, including Daemontanks.

Also Kaji is a much better fit for Malal. Come to think of it, just about everybody in Evangelion qualifies for Malal, because Malal is the Chaos God of hating chaos and self-destruction.
 
He's probably a minor Chaos god/entity of technology, but given the technological stagnation of most of the galaxy's species with souls that are worth a damn, has little power. Also, the four main Gods can just put their own daemons in machines anyways.
In WHFB, he was a major Chaos God along with the others, because none of them could make daemonic machines and didn't cover some of his attributes. He didn't turn up much outside of the Chaos Dwarfs because he favoured them for some reason.

I guess technological stagnation would heavily kneecap him in the 40K setting.

But enough digression; back to Eva!
 
Hmmm. Using it as a way to dehumanise Rei is an angle I hadn't previously considered; maybe it has merit beyond a vaguely irritating fandom cliche to subvert, like all those fanfics that assume Gendo must be going down to the cages to monologue at Unit-01.
After I thought about it, "dehumanize" isn't the word I was looking for in the first example. "Dehumanize" works in the stories where the author is emphasizing her otherness. But "dominate" works better in the first example. Taking away her control of her body and maiming her in a profound and symbolic way so as to further his own ends, all without her informed consent.
 
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