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Somehow, I imagine Fuyutsuki as liking something more... traditional than that (whether Western or Japanese).
 
By any chance does anyone know how long Shinji n Asuka have been together in universe?
 
Oh wow I messed up my wording :oops: I meant to say how long have Shinji and Asuka's been together, like how many months so far in the story
Thanks for the info though, I was really just wondering how long it would take the two of them to get out of the honeymoon phase cuz I feel like their still going through it. Idk though, maybe they will never leave the honeymoon phase
 
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Dion said:
Oh wow I messed up my wording :oops: I meant to say how long have Shinji and Asuka's been together, like how many months so far in the story
Thanks for the info though, I was really just wondering how long it would take the two of them to get out of the honeymoon phase cuz I feel like their still going through it. Idk though, maybe they will never leave the honeymoon phase
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It's been at least several months, somewhere around half a year. I remember @Strypgia saying that in the canon, Shinji was trapped in Unit 01 for several months, during which Asuka had her birthday. (And was completely ignored) Here he intentionally had everyone celebrate her birthday during the downtime between Zeruel and Arael. So I would guess at least three months have passed, with a few months for the period after the kiss but before Zeruel.

Of course, this story is also intentionally taking longer than the canon, so it could be a few more months beyond that. Asuka celebrated her 15th birthday, not her 14th, although the story also could have started a year later. I prefer that explanation to stretching out the time between their first kiss and Asuka's birthday.
 
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There was the month Shinji stayed in LCL in canon, but before that it's probably just a month or two (if we assume an angel roughly every two weeks, and there Leliel, Bardiel and Zeruel between the kiss and the 'LCL' month), and maybe a week or two between the canon LCL month and Arael's attack. So at most they've been together three and a half months, at minimum a bit more than two months. Not that long, come to think of it.
 
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I picture Maya prancing along to some of the particularly lively (read, "annoying") idols. Much to Ritsuko's embarrassment.
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For fun? It's the other way around. Ritsuko was born in 1985, so she grew up during Peak Idol and Peak Boysband.

She's secretly a huge Spice Girls / BSB fan. Much to her eternal shame if anyone but Maya ever found out. :p (which is why that security footage must never be released)
 
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Re: Music, I think everyone ironically loves Tavares' Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel.
 
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    • Dion said:
    By any chance does anyone know how long Shinji n Asuka have been together in universe?
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    Susano said:
    There was the month Shinji stayed in LCL in canon, but before that it's probably just a month or two (if we assume an angel roughly every two weeks, and there Leliel, Bardiel and Zeruel between the kiss and the 'LCL' month), and maybe a week or two between the canon LCL month and Arael's attack. So at most they've been together three and a half months, at minimum a bit more than two months. Not that long, come to think of it.
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    Shinji was stuck in Unit-01 for 31 days, which overlapped Asuka's birthday.

    As mentioned way back near the beginning of the thread, the timeline is nuts, with Asuka arriving in early September and all the Angels between Sandalphon and Tabris arriving between 24SEP15 and 31DEC15, a span of just 99 days, which has to include 31 days of Shinji's LCL-period. So that's 10 Angels in 99 days, only 68 of which are open. Additionally, 7 of them happen before that 31 day break, meaning those 7 Angels all arrived between 24SEP15 and approximately 20NOV15, just 57 days. That's an Angel every 8 days, which is both crazy and incompatible with the spacing between them as stated in other places on-screen.

    Sooooo, tl;dr, I felt little guilt in spacing things out. Shinji fights Sachiel earlier in spring, Asuka arrives earlier, etc. It was really needed to make things work, since I had Asuka say in the prologue that they'd 'been carrying on for the last two months'. That's two months since the Kiss, which took place just before Leliel. At this point our two lovers are still successfully concealing their relationship from everyone. It is in the aftermath of Leliel when Ritsuko orders Rei to spend all her time with Shinji and Asuka, starting that off. They visit Rei's apartment, and Asuka sees how the First Child is forced to live. Over the next two months, Rei figures out Shinji and Asuka are together, but says nothing, and is slowly weaned off the drugs she'd been taking, at Asuka's suggestion.

    They've been together at least 3 months by the time Hikari is chosen as the Fourth Child, they go public at school, and Kaworu shows up. Asuka states later 'it's been 5 months since I left NERV-Berlin', but that includes a month at sea, and some weeks before she and Shinji got together after her arrival. By the time of her birthday party, Asuka tells Rei 'Six months ago I hated you'.

    So by 'now', late December 2015, Shinji and Asuka have been a couple for about 5-6 months, concealing it from most people they know for at least half that time.

    Ok, housekeeping note: The Christmas Special or Update, whichever I finish first, will go out on Page 1000. If I have to lock this to keep that, I will. In the meantime, let's hope this spurs me on.

    For a hint on the Christmas Special, try to figure out what Kaji, Misato, Asuka, and Kyoko all have in common.
     
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    ust 57 days. That's an Angel every 6 days,
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    57/7=ca 8, not 6 :p

    And an angel every week is something that could happen, actually. Of course, that makes the angel-less month of tang Shinji a bit jarring then.

    They've been together at least 3 months by the time Hikari is chosen as the Fourth Child, they go public at school, and Kaworu shows up. Asuka states later 'it's been 5 months since I left NERV-Berlin', but that includes a month at sea, and some weeks before she and Shinji got together after her arrival. By the time of her birthday party, Asuka tells Rei 'Six months ago I hated you'.
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    Don't you run into the same time problems before the kiss then? If there are really only "some weeks" between Asuka's arrival and the kiss... about six (a month and a half) by your calculation... then you would have to fit in Gaghiel (I mean, they were nearly at Japan already at that point), Israfel, Sandalphon, Matarael, Sahasquael and Iruel into that. So you have an even higher angel frequency then, about an angel every week, so every 7 days...

    Also, that means Shinji and Asuka have been together about four times as long as they have, well, not. And yet if we go by angels, one would think the former time is longer - 6 angels vs 4 angels plus the canon LCL time... I also feel this kinda runs counter to the whole idea that Asuka and Shinji just couldn't find to each other until they had the big breakthrough. With a chronology like that, their "will they or won't they time" becomes basically just a footnote and actually they get together crazily fast.

    For a hint on the Christmas Special, try to figure out what Kaji, Misato, Asuka, and Kyoko all have in common.
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    As I've said on IRC, it doesn't work like that ;)
     
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