Kensuke: "I thought I was coming back to reality, but somehow I wound up in an anime."
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Kensuke: "I thought I was coming back to reality, but somehow I wound up in an anime."
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Well atleast there are people his age around he knows, but not the one he thinks they are.
Who wants to bet we get a scene where he mistakes the younger ones for the older?
Also Teen: Any hint to the whole time travel/alternate universe problem?
Well you already let Okito confirm there is a third power wanting the Angels dead so a little hint in a side scene would be nice.
Also Okito said Adam isn't around anymore so the possibility of Rei/Lilith doing all of this should be very slim. AND when Shinji's dreams are really Kaworu trying to tell him something out of Instrumentality he would be much more direct about who it is when it is Rei/Lilith fucking up placement of people.
Another idea for Shinji's lie: It never was really his call to end Instrumentality. Well he had the choice but before he could really enact it something (the same thing that throws people around) went ahead and did it before he could.
And stripped him ultimately of the chance to do it.
Who wants to bet we get a scene where he mistakes the younger ones for the older?
Also Teen: Any hint to the whole time travel/alternate universe problem?
Well you already let Okito confirm there is a third power wanting the Angels dead so a little hint in a side scene would be nice.
Also Okito said Adam isn't around anymore so the possibility of Rei/Lilith doing all of this should be very slim. AND when Shinji's dreams are really Kaworu trying to tell him something out of Instrumentality he would be much more direct about who it is when it is Rei/Lilith fucking up placement of people.
Another idea for Shinji's lie: It never was really his call to end Instrumentality. Well he had the choice but before he could really enact it something (the same thing that throws people around) went ahead and did it before he could.
And stripped him ultimately of the chance to do it.
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There will probably be a scene in where he spills the beans of what happens in the last few months before human instrumentality happen to the other pilots.
Okito THINKS there's a third power looking to cross-off the Angels. The possibility exists that he's just paranoid and panicked when he saw Unit-01 powering up. He also may be holding a grudge against Shinji and only held off this long because he didn't want to piss off Ria/Big Z, and we can see why from the beatdown she gave him.
Chapter 7 Part 3
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Asuka watched as Sakura Suzuhara stitched up the wound on Ria's shoulder. Thankfully, the wound had healed to the point where it passed as a simple cut by the time Dr. Suzuhara got to see it. Ria stared ahead, her face unreadable.
Shinji was in a nearby room, doctors working to save what remained of his left hand. He was going to lose a few fingers at least: Okito had pretty much destroyed the center part of his hand.
Misato was currently having Okito's sister interviewed. She didn't even want to think what this situation was doing to Hikari.
The events of the last few hours played over and over again in Asuka's mind. Ria...her daughter was an Angel. Underneath everything she had ever known was something monstrous and terrifying.
And yet she was still her daughter. Between the shock and grief, Asuka had listened to what she was saying during the fight. Ria was loyal to her and Shinji, almost frighteningly so. Okito had pressed things too far for it to just be an act. An act would make no sense at this point unless she was completely mad. Which she quite clearly wasn't.
Still, Asuka remembered her fight with Zeruel. The utter brutal stomping it gave her. The pain and humiliation it caused her. The damage it had inflicted on NERV. Shinji being trapped in Unit-01 for a month.
The thing that did that was her daughter now. That was going to take quite a while to really process.
She was her daughter, she was loyal. Whatever misgivings Asuka had about her, rejecting her would be stupid. Pushing her away would just aid whatever stupid plan Okito had. And the pain this situation was causing would only rise.
Asuka hated how cold and pragmatic her thoughts were towards her own daughter. She was starting to think like Akagi.
"Shouldn't you be with your family right now?" Asuka asked, trying to take her mind off things.
Sakura finished the last of the stitches
"If I did that I would just be sitting on a chair the entire night while Toji yelled at Misato and Hikari tried to comfort Kenny while trying not have an emotional breakdown herself. All while trying to process the fact that my nephew, who once told me that he wanted to be a doctor growing up because of me, was an enemy of mankind who killed five people in cold blood."
She sighed. "At least this way I can keep my hands busy."
She finished cleaning the stitches and left the room.
Leaving Asuka and Ria completely alone.
Ria's gaze went to the floor, tapping her finger on the bed.
She didn't say anything, couldn't even bring herself to look at Asuka
"You know there's no camera or microphone in here. We can talk," Asuka said evenly.
Ria looked up, an exhausted look in her eyes.
"I don't suppose we could just pretend tonight never happened?" Ria said, attempting to smile.
"No," Asuka replied. "I'd like to, but no."
Ria stood up.
A brief surge of fear hit Asuka, she ignored the shameful feeling.
"I..I-" Ria began, her voicing shaking "I'm so sorry."
Asuka stood up.
"You lied to me, for sixteen years."
"I know." Tears poured down Ria's face.
"Your... other self hurt a lot of people, including me."
"I know."
Asuka grabbed her, wrapping her tightly in a hug. Ria gasped, standing there limply.
"We still have a lot to talk about. And it's going to take a while for us to come to terms with what happened. But you're still my daughter. And I love you. Whatever you are, that hasn't changed."
Ria sniffed, tears following from her face. She quickly returned the hug, squeezing Asuka tightly as she cried into her shoulder.
Asuka smiled as tears began forming in her own eyes.
"I'm sorry, I'msosorry. IwantedtotellyoubutI...I, I was so scared!" Ria bawled. "I didn't want to lose you!"
"It's okay, It's okay," Asuka tried to reassure her, which only made Ria cry harder.
"Thank you!" Ria said in between tears. "Thank you so much."
/
Kodama always assumed an interrogation room would be dark. This one wasn't. It was brightly lit with white painted walls. It was as sparse as she expected though, only a metal desk and two matching chairs.
She sat in one, hugging her legs. Some brown haired lady sat in the other, a laptop in front of her.
They thought she was an Angel. They didn't say it, but she knew that's what they were thinking. It made perfect sense after all, her brother was one.
Okito.
She wanted to scream. He was a monster, her brother was a monster.
Her brother, who had defended her from bullies and crazy ex-boyfriends. The brother who taught her how to play guitar. The brother who always told her jokes any time she was sad. He was an enemy of mankind, not even a person. A thing that wanted to wipe out all humanity.
He had attacked Ria. He had hurt their best friend. He had threatened dad.
Sixteen years she'd known him, sixteen years of lies!
Every moment with him, every birthday, every trip to the movies, every visit to the arcade, all of it lies.
Her entire life had been spent living with a monster. And she never knew. How could she not have known? Their must have been signs. No one could put on an act for sixteen years and not slip up from time to time.
She searched her thoughts, nothing stuck out. Okito was by no means a perfect brother, but he had been better than most. He had been a friend.
How could he just throw all that away?
"What are you going to do to him?" she asked finally.
"Pardon?" the woman replied.
"The Angel, what do you plan to do with him?"
"Capture for study and interrogation, if possible," the woman said clinically, "Kill if that proves unfeasible."
"Good," Kodama replied, hate filling her voice.
/
Ria ached.
Her bones felt like they were burning, every muscle like had been pushed to its limit and far beyond. Her eyes felt like white hot rusty daggers had been shoved into them. And her stomach…
She bit into her fifth protein bar, hunger still gnawing at her like she had not eaten since she was five years old.
Recovering from awakening hurt on a level she had never imagined. Still Ria was smiling as she looked out at the moonlight city.
She had accepted her. Mom had seen what she really was, and she stood by her. Shinji had defended her. Her worst fears had come to life, and she still had a home, a family.
She had never dared hoped such a thing could be possible. She would not undo her duty to Adam.
She was the Strength of God, no death could change that. She understood why her actions would be beyond forgiveness.
And yet here she was.
She looked out at the city. In the distance she saw Unit-01, its purple head lit up by spotlights. Its horn cast a long shadow over the city.
Despite the situation, she smirked.
Well, look who won in the end, you crazy old hag.
Not her most mature thought, particularly since this Yui hadn't fought her yet when she was taken. Still, it felt like a victory to her. A victory that had only cost her best friend.
Okito. The name felt like a curse now. He had abandoned everything for madness, and what's worse is he thought she would agree to join him.
Okito, what were you thinking? she wondered.
He knew where she stood, he knew she had no interest in fighting again. She told him they were just trying to find a way to send them back home. His actions kept them here.
He threw away everything, EVERYTHING they had worked for, and for what? Even if they killed the Pilots, which they wouldn't, WILLE or someone else would still hunt them down. Anyone who fought was doomed. There had to be something more to this? They wouldn't just drop everything for the sake of revenge and madness. If they had just wanted revenge they would have gone after her parents years ago.
Or maybe they are all just mad and I'm the only one who hasn't faltered.
The thought terrified Ria, she had wanted little to do with the others. But she had assumed, she had hoped they were a lot like herself.
If Okito was right, and the others had all joined his cause, why was she here? What made her so different from the others?
It didn't matter either way really. She had trusted Okito, loved him like he was a brother. And he was able to blindside her with his betrayal. If he couldn't be trusted. None of them could be trusted. She couldn't take that risk again. Not with her parents.
"So I hear your best friend turned out to be an Angel."
Ria turned to see the younger Asuka standing behind her.
"That's rough," she finished.
"Shouldn't you be resting?" Ria asked.
There was something... odd about being in the presence of the Pilots. Something unplaceable, on the edge of her senses. A phantom scent she could never quite put her finger on.
Still, being slightly off didn't justify anything the other Angels had done.
"After what happened tonight? How could I possibly sleep?" Asuka said.
She was worried. She didn't say it, but it was clear.
"So…" Asuka said awkwardly. "Any requests when I kill him? Special message, kick to the groin, beat him to death with his own face?"
The last one was very tempting.
"Just make sure he dies," Ria told her.
Asuka nodded.
"So, um, look," Asuka said. "I don't really know how to do family bonding, like at all. But you look like you need a shoulder to rest on tonight. We have a TV set up in Shinji's room. Want to watch movies with us?"
Ria nodded "Yeah, that sounds pretty good right about now."
/
"You don't think very much do you?"
Sachiel opened his eyes to see both halves of Israfel staring at him. He groaned in frustration and pain.
The agony of healing from his rather numerous wounds left Sachiel barely able to move, forcing him to lay on a couch. If anyone at WILLE discovered this apartment within the next day he would be completely at their mercy.
This was not how he expected tonight to go.
"So wait..." Shamshel said as she sat on a nearby couch. "Zeruel's a girl now? I thought we got stuck with bodies that matched our original gender."
"I don't know how this works," Sachiel moaned.
"Why did you think Zeruel would betray the original Pilots?" Israfel asked in unison.
"I didn't. I was quite clear that they would be spared."
The white haired one spoke. "It would still be a betrayal. They would never join us."
"If Zeruel were to join us," The pink half went on. "They only way she would keep hold of them is by physical restraint. The originals would be most upset with this and would not forgive Zeruel for such actions. For someone who cares that deeply about their parents, this would not be an acceptable outcome for Zeruel. You knew this, and yet you still tried."
Okito said nothing.
"You thought you were more important to her than her parents," the white one said.
"I'm not listening," he groaned.
"You thought you were her true family," The pink one added.
"Be quiet!"
"And because of that you turned Zeruel against us all," they said in unison.
"I know," Sachiel replied.
"Do you even have a brain?"
"Please, just leave me alone," he moaned. "I'm trying to regrow an arm here."
"So, does this mean the originals are on the table again?" Shamshel asked.
Okito bolted up, hacking up blood and gore as he did so.
"No!" he snarled. "That won't help. We kill them and the Lilim will never yield. What need to do now is find who sent these abominations. It wasn't anyone at WILLE and it wasn't the Pilots, that much is obvious now."
"Ramiel has other plans," Israfel said.
"Well good freaking luck to them. They are certainly going to need it," Sachiel replied as he collapsed back onto the couch.
/
Asuka entered the room quietly, taking a seat near his bed.
Shinji turned the TV off and put the remote down. Watching how the news was spinning the Third Angel's attack lost its novelty very quickly.
"So how bad is it?" she asked.
Shinji raised his bandaged hand, revealing a lack of any digits besides his thumb and pinky.
Asuka sucked air through her teeth hard. "That's... that's unfortunate."
"Good news is Misato is having a prosthetic replacement delivered tomorrow. With any luck I'll have functionality restored within the week," Shinji explained.
"That's fast." Asuka was surprised.
"Yeah, it's some sort of military prototype from what I understand. Apparently Misato called in a bunch of favors. I figured it's best not to ask too many questions. She did promise me it will be good enough I can still play my cello. Cutting edge."
Hopefully the thing didn't have built in knives or something.
Asuka sighed. Shinji sensed the massive elephant in the room was about to be poked.
"So I talked with Ria a bit ago," she announced.
"And?"
"Well, we both ended up crying, but otherwise I think I stabilized things for the time being. But we're going to need to have a far longer conversation with her and soon."
Shinji found himself surprisingly not shocked by the fact Ria was an Angel. After all that had gone down in the past few weeks, finding out his daughter was an Angel rather seemed pretty par for the course.
He was not particularly happy with which Angel she turned out to be: Zeruel was a recurring subject of his nightmares. What it would have inflicted had he not arrived in time, what it did to him, what he did to it...
Oh god, Mother ate her, Shinji realized with sudden dread. No wonder she was so scared of him for so long. She probably thought he had been the one behind that.
Still, a few things nagged hard at him.
"She lied to us. And now we're lying to Misato."
"How the fuck could she have told us?" Asuka exclaimed. "Let's face, if we had found out in any way that wasn't a life or death struggle, we probably would have taken it way worse. I mean look at how freaking Okito acted and that these things have been here for twenty years and no one noticed. They're a pack of lying fiends. We're just lucky we got the lying fiend who wasn't a brain dead cannibalistic psychopath."
Admittedly, Shinji couldn't picture any conversation that began with "Hey mom and dad, I'm an Angel!" ending well.
"I still think we should have told Misato the truth. She is Ria's grandmother after all," Shinji replied
"And she would have tried to kill her," Asuka insisted. "You know Misato, she hates Angels. I mean beyond normal human levels of hate. Part of the reason she's so good as a commander is she can't stand the thought of them winning."
"I know, it's just-" Shinji began.
"Besides, Ria is the one Angel who directly tried to attack Misato. She has a personal grudge against Zeruel."
"I'M SICK OF LYING!" Shinji shouted.
Asuka paused in shock.
"I'm sorry," Shinji said meekly. "I'm just sick of the lies. Father lied to me, Kaworu lied to me, I lie to everyone and pretend Instrumentality wasn't my fault-"
"And we're lying to our counterparts about the true nature of the Evas and what happened to Rei," Asuka finished.
Oh, that's right, Shinji realized. He had been lying to himself most of all.
And didn't that make him feel like a piece of shit? Everything he complained about father and Kaworu doing, and yet here he was being just as dishonest to his younger self.
"I want to protect Ria," Shinji reassured her.
Asuka grabbed his good hand.
"I do too," she replied. "But you and I know the only way to do that is by not telling Misato the truth."
She was right, as much as he hated it, which was quite a lot. She was right.
"Fine. I don't like it but, I understand why we're doing it," he said.
"Thank you."
Shinji sighed. "So how soon should we have our conversation with Ria?"
Asuka shifted uncomfortably in her seat "Give it a few more hours. I need time to prepare myself for this."
Shinji was in a nearby room, doctors working to save what remained of his left hand. He was going to lose a few fingers at least: Okito had pretty much destroyed the center part of his hand.
Misato was currently having Okito's sister interviewed. She didn't even want to think what this situation was doing to Hikari.
The events of the last few hours played over and over again in Asuka's mind. Ria...her daughter was an Angel. Underneath everything she had ever known was something monstrous and terrifying.
And yet she was still her daughter. Between the shock and grief, Asuka had listened to what she was saying during the fight. Ria was loyal to her and Shinji, almost frighteningly so. Okito had pressed things too far for it to just be an act. An act would make no sense at this point unless she was completely mad. Which she quite clearly wasn't.
Still, Asuka remembered her fight with Zeruel. The utter brutal stomping it gave her. The pain and humiliation it caused her. The damage it had inflicted on NERV. Shinji being trapped in Unit-01 for a month.
The thing that did that was her daughter now. That was going to take quite a while to really process.
She was her daughter, she was loyal. Whatever misgivings Asuka had about her, rejecting her would be stupid. Pushing her away would just aid whatever stupid plan Okito had. And the pain this situation was causing would only rise.
Asuka hated how cold and pragmatic her thoughts were towards her own daughter. She was starting to think like Akagi.
"Shouldn't you be with your family right now?" Asuka asked, trying to take her mind off things.
Sakura finished the last of the stitches
"If I did that I would just be sitting on a chair the entire night while Toji yelled at Misato and Hikari tried to comfort Kenny while trying not have an emotional breakdown herself. All while trying to process the fact that my nephew, who once told me that he wanted to be a doctor growing up because of me, was an enemy of mankind who killed five people in cold blood."
She sighed. "At least this way I can keep my hands busy."
She finished cleaning the stitches and left the room.
Leaving Asuka and Ria completely alone.
Ria's gaze went to the floor, tapping her finger on the bed.
She didn't say anything, couldn't even bring herself to look at Asuka
"You know there's no camera or microphone in here. We can talk," Asuka said evenly.
Ria looked up, an exhausted look in her eyes.
"I don't suppose we could just pretend tonight never happened?" Ria said, attempting to smile.
"No," Asuka replied. "I'd like to, but no."
Ria stood up.
A brief surge of fear hit Asuka, she ignored the shameful feeling.
"I..I-" Ria began, her voicing shaking "I'm so sorry."
Asuka stood up.
"You lied to me, for sixteen years."
"I know." Tears poured down Ria's face.
"Your... other self hurt a lot of people, including me."
"I know."
Asuka grabbed her, wrapping her tightly in a hug. Ria gasped, standing there limply.
"We still have a lot to talk about. And it's going to take a while for us to come to terms with what happened. But you're still my daughter. And I love you. Whatever you are, that hasn't changed."
Ria sniffed, tears following from her face. She quickly returned the hug, squeezing Asuka tightly as she cried into her shoulder.
Asuka smiled as tears began forming in her own eyes.
"I'm sorry, I'msosorry. IwantedtotellyoubutI...I, I was so scared!" Ria bawled. "I didn't want to lose you!"
"It's okay, It's okay," Asuka tried to reassure her, which only made Ria cry harder.
"Thank you!" Ria said in between tears. "Thank you so much."
/
Kodama always assumed an interrogation room would be dark. This one wasn't. It was brightly lit with white painted walls. It was as sparse as she expected though, only a metal desk and two matching chairs.
She sat in one, hugging her legs. Some brown haired lady sat in the other, a laptop in front of her.
They thought she was an Angel. They didn't say it, but she knew that's what they were thinking. It made perfect sense after all, her brother was one.
Okito.
She wanted to scream. He was a monster, her brother was a monster.
Her brother, who had defended her from bullies and crazy ex-boyfriends. The brother who taught her how to play guitar. The brother who always told her jokes any time she was sad. He was an enemy of mankind, not even a person. A thing that wanted to wipe out all humanity.
He had attacked Ria. He had hurt their best friend. He had threatened dad.
Sixteen years she'd known him, sixteen years of lies!
Every moment with him, every birthday, every trip to the movies, every visit to the arcade, all of it lies.
Her entire life had been spent living with a monster. And she never knew. How could she not have known? Their must have been signs. No one could put on an act for sixteen years and not slip up from time to time.
She searched her thoughts, nothing stuck out. Okito was by no means a perfect brother, but he had been better than most. He had been a friend.
How could he just throw all that away?
"What are you going to do to him?" she asked finally.
"Pardon?" the woman replied.
"The Angel, what do you plan to do with him?"
"Capture for study and interrogation, if possible," the woman said clinically, "Kill if that proves unfeasible."
"Good," Kodama replied, hate filling her voice.
/
Ria ached.
Her bones felt like they were burning, every muscle like had been pushed to its limit and far beyond. Her eyes felt like white hot rusty daggers had been shoved into them. And her stomach…
She bit into her fifth protein bar, hunger still gnawing at her like she had not eaten since she was five years old.
Recovering from awakening hurt on a level she had never imagined. Still Ria was smiling as she looked out at the moonlight city.
She had accepted her. Mom had seen what she really was, and she stood by her. Shinji had defended her. Her worst fears had come to life, and she still had a home, a family.
She had never dared hoped such a thing could be possible. She would not undo her duty to Adam.
She was the Strength of God, no death could change that. She understood why her actions would be beyond forgiveness.
And yet here she was.
She looked out at the city. In the distance she saw Unit-01, its purple head lit up by spotlights. Its horn cast a long shadow over the city.
Despite the situation, she smirked.
Well, look who won in the end, you crazy old hag.
Not her most mature thought, particularly since this Yui hadn't fought her yet when she was taken. Still, it felt like a victory to her. A victory that had only cost her best friend.
Okito. The name felt like a curse now. He had abandoned everything for madness, and what's worse is he thought she would agree to join him.
Okito, what were you thinking? she wondered.
He knew where she stood, he knew she had no interest in fighting again. She told him they were just trying to find a way to send them back home. His actions kept them here.
He threw away everything, EVERYTHING they had worked for, and for what? Even if they killed the Pilots, which they wouldn't, WILLE or someone else would still hunt them down. Anyone who fought was doomed. There had to be something more to this? They wouldn't just drop everything for the sake of revenge and madness. If they had just wanted revenge they would have gone after her parents years ago.
Or maybe they are all just mad and I'm the only one who hasn't faltered.
The thought terrified Ria, she had wanted little to do with the others. But she had assumed, she had hoped they were a lot like herself.
If Okito was right, and the others had all joined his cause, why was she here? What made her so different from the others?
It didn't matter either way really. She had trusted Okito, loved him like he was a brother. And he was able to blindside her with his betrayal. If he couldn't be trusted. None of them could be trusted. She couldn't take that risk again. Not with her parents.
"So I hear your best friend turned out to be an Angel."
Ria turned to see the younger Asuka standing behind her.
"That's rough," she finished.
"Shouldn't you be resting?" Ria asked.
There was something... odd about being in the presence of the Pilots. Something unplaceable, on the edge of her senses. A phantom scent she could never quite put her finger on.
Still, being slightly off didn't justify anything the other Angels had done.
"After what happened tonight? How could I possibly sleep?" Asuka said.
She was worried. She didn't say it, but it was clear.
"So…" Asuka said awkwardly. "Any requests when I kill him? Special message, kick to the groin, beat him to death with his own face?"
The last one was very tempting.
"Just make sure he dies," Ria told her.
Asuka nodded.
"So, um, look," Asuka said. "I don't really know how to do family bonding, like at all. But you look like you need a shoulder to rest on tonight. We have a TV set up in Shinji's room. Want to watch movies with us?"
Ria nodded "Yeah, that sounds pretty good right about now."
/
"You don't think very much do you?"
Sachiel opened his eyes to see both halves of Israfel staring at him. He groaned in frustration and pain.
The agony of healing from his rather numerous wounds left Sachiel barely able to move, forcing him to lay on a couch. If anyone at WILLE discovered this apartment within the next day he would be completely at their mercy.
This was not how he expected tonight to go.
"So wait..." Shamshel said as she sat on a nearby couch. "Zeruel's a girl now? I thought we got stuck with bodies that matched our original gender."
"I don't know how this works," Sachiel moaned.
"Why did you think Zeruel would betray the original Pilots?" Israfel asked in unison.
"I didn't. I was quite clear that they would be spared."
The white haired one spoke. "It would still be a betrayal. They would never join us."
"If Zeruel were to join us," The pink half went on. "They only way she would keep hold of them is by physical restraint. The originals would be most upset with this and would not forgive Zeruel for such actions. For someone who cares that deeply about their parents, this would not be an acceptable outcome for Zeruel. You knew this, and yet you still tried."
Okito said nothing.
"You thought you were more important to her than her parents," the white one said.
"I'm not listening," he groaned.
"You thought you were her true family," The pink one added.
"Be quiet!"
"And because of that you turned Zeruel against us all," they said in unison.
"I know," Sachiel replied.
"Do you even have a brain?"
"Please, just leave me alone," he moaned. "I'm trying to regrow an arm here."
"So, does this mean the originals are on the table again?" Shamshel asked.
Okito bolted up, hacking up blood and gore as he did so.
"No!" he snarled. "That won't help. We kill them and the Lilim will never yield. What need to do now is find who sent these abominations. It wasn't anyone at WILLE and it wasn't the Pilots, that much is obvious now."
"Ramiel has other plans," Israfel said.
"Well good freaking luck to them. They are certainly going to need it," Sachiel replied as he collapsed back onto the couch.
/
Asuka entered the room quietly, taking a seat near his bed.
Shinji turned the TV off and put the remote down. Watching how the news was spinning the Third Angel's attack lost its novelty very quickly.
"So how bad is it?" she asked.
Shinji raised his bandaged hand, revealing a lack of any digits besides his thumb and pinky.
Asuka sucked air through her teeth hard. "That's... that's unfortunate."
"Good news is Misato is having a prosthetic replacement delivered tomorrow. With any luck I'll have functionality restored within the week," Shinji explained.
"That's fast." Asuka was surprised.
"Yeah, it's some sort of military prototype from what I understand. Apparently Misato called in a bunch of favors. I figured it's best not to ask too many questions. She did promise me it will be good enough I can still play my cello. Cutting edge."
Hopefully the thing didn't have built in knives or something.
Asuka sighed. Shinji sensed the massive elephant in the room was about to be poked.
"So I talked with Ria a bit ago," she announced.
"And?"
"Well, we both ended up crying, but otherwise I think I stabilized things for the time being. But we're going to need to have a far longer conversation with her and soon."
Shinji found himself surprisingly not shocked by the fact Ria was an Angel. After all that had gone down in the past few weeks, finding out his daughter was an Angel rather seemed pretty par for the course.
He was not particularly happy with which Angel she turned out to be: Zeruel was a recurring subject of his nightmares. What it would have inflicted had he not arrived in time, what it did to him, what he did to it...
Oh god, Mother ate her, Shinji realized with sudden dread. No wonder she was so scared of him for so long. She probably thought he had been the one behind that.
Still, a few things nagged hard at him.
"She lied to us. And now we're lying to Misato."
"How the fuck could she have told us?" Asuka exclaimed. "Let's face, if we had found out in any way that wasn't a life or death struggle, we probably would have taken it way worse. I mean look at how freaking Okito acted and that these things have been here for twenty years and no one noticed. They're a pack of lying fiends. We're just lucky we got the lying fiend who wasn't a brain dead cannibalistic psychopath."
Admittedly, Shinji couldn't picture any conversation that began with "Hey mom and dad, I'm an Angel!" ending well.
"I still think we should have told Misato the truth. She is Ria's grandmother after all," Shinji replied
"And she would have tried to kill her," Asuka insisted. "You know Misato, she hates Angels. I mean beyond normal human levels of hate. Part of the reason she's so good as a commander is she can't stand the thought of them winning."
"I know, it's just-" Shinji began.
"Besides, Ria is the one Angel who directly tried to attack Misato. She has a personal grudge against Zeruel."
"I'M SICK OF LYING!" Shinji shouted.
Asuka paused in shock.
"I'm sorry," Shinji said meekly. "I'm just sick of the lies. Father lied to me, Kaworu lied to me, I lie to everyone and pretend Instrumentality wasn't my fault-"
"And we're lying to our counterparts about the true nature of the Evas and what happened to Rei," Asuka finished.
Oh, that's right, Shinji realized. He had been lying to himself most of all.
And didn't that make him feel like a piece of shit? Everything he complained about father and Kaworu doing, and yet here he was being just as dishonest to his younger self.
"I want to protect Ria," Shinji reassured her.
Asuka grabbed his good hand.
"I do too," she replied. "But you and I know the only way to do that is by not telling Misato the truth."
She was right, as much as he hated it, which was quite a lot. She was right.
"Fine. I don't like it but, I understand why we're doing it," he said.
"Thank you."
Shinji sighed. "So how soon should we have our conversation with Ria?"
Asuka shifted uncomfortably in her seat "Give it a few more hours. I need time to prepare myself for this."
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THIS IS HOW PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ACT! EVERY PARENT IN CANON FAILS PARENTHOOD FOREVER!
Except for possibly Kyoko.
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She still fails. She fails because she tripped, fell, broke her legs and got a concussion in an unfortunate accident in the race of life but she still fails.
Basically through no fault of her own unlike the others?
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trob030490
Professor Kokonoe
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I've often enough seen her depicted as pretty distant and inattentive prior to getting her soul split in half in fics. Is there anything to that or is it pure fanon?
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Yes there is, but it comes from Asuka's father... so grain of salt, but Anno didn't say he was lying.
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Holy shit that's awesome.
Also, as soon as I finished that chapter with Shamiel/The 4th showing up my brain went "Ria's totally an Angel... Fucking Zeruel for bonus points."
Although I'm also betting on Mari right now as well.
It reminds me a bit of... it was a quest Mizuki ran forever ago where Nanoha was crossed with an original that had psychics with powers based off a set of angels and used them 40K psyker style.
The PC was a Zeruel, but that's about all they had in common. That and the asskicking.
Also, as soon as I finished that chapter with Shamiel/The 4th showing up my brain went "Ria's totally an Angel... Fucking Zeruel for bonus points."
Although I'm also betting on Mari right now as well.
It reminds me a bit of... it was a quest Mizuki ran forever ago where Nanoha was crossed with an original that had psychics with powers based off a set of angels and used them 40K psyker style.
The PC was a Zeruel, but that's about all they had in common. That and the asskicking.
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Yeah though admittedly I can't think of an actual NGE story (Not counting Fanfics were half the time she is a monster) where Kyoko is portrayed as a good parent and the other parents were more or less canon. I mean Campus Apocalypse had her as a good parent, along with her husband, before she got possessed by an angel and Asuka had to shot her. Heck though, in that manga, Gendo was a good parent until he died and was replaced by Canon Gendo.
Was Kyoko a good mom before she went insane in this? Maybe, by this point Asuka doesn't even really remember. Regardless, Asuka has abandonment issues, serious ones.
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Heh, fun idea. Well, horrible idea.
Everyone who returned from the Sea is, in fact, somewhat Rei. So if you annoy Rei strongly, she may respond by hijacking nearby bodies and showing why annoying Lilith in full power is not something you want to do.
Everyone who returned from the Sea is, in fact, somewhat Rei. So if you annoy Rei strongly, she may respond by hijacking nearby bodies and showing why annoying Lilith in full power is not something you want to do.
I'm suddenly reminded of the Doctor Who episode "The Bells of Saint John" It was the episode where Clara meets the Doctor and becomes his latest Companion. Some bozos were using camouflaged robots to upload peoples' minds via Wi-Fi, rendering their bodies comatose. They were also able to use Wi-Fi to control regular people going about their day, and the boss used this to converse with the Doctor to try to convince him that opposing them was futile(this was after they tried to crash an airliner into the house where Clara was living) they spoke through various bystanders in the coffee shop, a different one for each response.
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Amazing chapter! I like how level headed Asuka and Shinji have acted about all this. Shinji has grown into a wiser and tougher person who reminds me of how I react when weird stuff happens; "oh is it Tuesday already?".
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If she could do that I'm pretty sure she would have done so by now.
Or she has yet to surpass her annoyance threshold. Just because someone hasn't done something so far, does not automatically mean they absolutely can't.
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Shoulder Puppy
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You're talking to the author. If he says she can't do it. She can't do it.
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Pity. Would be fun.
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To be fair I said pretty sure.
Don't take what I say as word of god unless I'm being definite. Like " this will not happen."
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...Yeah Hirkari breakdown is probably going to be around Arael level bad.
Even the other Angels knew that this was never going work which suggest that some of other reborn Angels care more about their human parents and siblings then their Angel brethren and already told them no.
Who know Ria maybe some of them are or are the very least neutral.
Interesting very interesting.
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Turing Decidable
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...that was unsettling. O_O