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[Evangelion] Doing It Right This Time

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Dark Machine said:
Something I've always noticed in fanfics is that Kensuke tends to get de-macho'd a lot. Like he's nerdy sure, but he's also a survival expert and his main interests are guns, outdoor life and photography.
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You'll be pleased to hear that I don't plan to "de-macho" him in this story. For one thing, he's going to turn out to be pretty damn good at piloting an Eva.
 
Jake said:
You'll be pleased to hear that I don't plan to "de-macho" him in this story. For one thing, he's going to turn out to be pretty damn good at piloting an Eva.
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does he get to meet his Core mama or is one of his friends mothers going to den mother for him??

personally I sort of see him going into a fugue state in combat, rattling off check lists and theoretical sops Misato wrote down before she had real pilots, basically his obsession lets him run the drill by rote
 
I find it more likely that his obsession means he doesn't have the mental hang-ups the others do when it comes to combat. It's not about being the best. It's not done out of obligation. It's not done out of having no other purpose. Or because it's the only way to help his family. He just finds his groove in combat, his skills synching together with his eye for detail from photography, his knowledge of weapons and different styles of basic combat, and his survival capabilities meaning he knows how to effectively use terrain all gelling into someone who fights like he's the second coming of Solid Snake.
 
Rabe said:
does he get to meet his Core mama or is one of his friends mothers going to den mother for him??
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If I remember correctly, according to Jake in some of his early draft,
All the kids in Tokyo-3, or at least in Shinji's class, are EVA pilot candidates and had their mother either tagged for 'quick insertin' or got into 'accident'.
 
RBomber said:
If I remember correctly, according to Jake in some of his early draft,
All the kids in Tokyo-3, or at least in Shinji's class, are EVA pilot candidates and had their mother either tagged for 'quick insertin' or got into 'accident'.
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IIRC, it was 'one parent' of each kid, not necessarily their mother.
 
RBomber said:
If I remember correctly, according to Jake in some of his early draft,
All the kids in Tokyo-3, or at least in Shinji's class, are EVA pilot candidates and had their mother either tagged for 'quick insertin' or got into 'accident'.
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That's not Jake's headcanon, that's word-of-god/actual canon. It's the entire reason for his class being composed of the kids it's composed of: if need be, NERV just recruits/drafts another one. Which, of course, would look very weird if it happened more than once in canon. If you, somehow, have a dozen operational EVAs and need pilots for them and it just so happens that all those pilots come from the exact same class - not even the same year, but the same class - people are going to ask questions. Granted, the powers that be can just make them stop asking 'or else'.
 
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Interlude: Mari and the Literature Club, Part 1
  • Sidestory
    • Asuka: TIL the Over The Rainbow has a cell tower. How's Tokyo-3?
    Shinji: TIL you remember my phone number. And we're getting along. Mari has finally met the rest of the Do-Over Club.
    Asuka: Oh yeah? How'd that go?

    Shinji glanced over to the other end of Mari's living room, where she and Kensuke were in the middle of an animated discussion about the theory and practice of photography. Kensuke had blown right past any initial awkwardness when he'd realised that he was not just in the presence of a pretty girl but one who shared his enthusiasm for one of his hobbies for a change, and clearly couldn't quite believe his luck.

    Shinji: Well, we have confirmation that Kensuke is not exclusively interested in 2D girls.
    Asuka: LOL. And I mean that literally.
    Asuka: Oh, yeah. Ask him if Robert Rankin did make more sense in English.
    Shinji: No idea who that is, but okay.
    Shinji: He says, "Hell no. That guy did way too many drugs in college." And apparently Mari really likes his books too.
    Asuka: Huh. So, am I missing anything other than all the hot nerd-on-nerd action?
    Shinji: Mari says... something in Angry Scouse that even Kensuke didn't understand a word of, but I don't think she appreciated that.
    Shinji: And don't blame me, she grabbed my phone because she wanted to know what I was laughing about.
    Asuka: LOL. Again, literally.

    "She'll be laffin ed de uvver side o' 'er blewdy kite whun she gets round 'ouse and finds tabasco sauce ed 'er tampons!" Mari retorted, drawing a slightly worried look from Kensuke.
    "Okay, that I sort of understood a little bit. You don't think that's maybe a little excessive?" he said warily. "I mean, it's not like she called you... I dunno what the ethnic slur is for people from Liverpool."
    "I don't think there is one," Mari replied. "But seriously, I really don't appreciate being called a nerd like that. It's not the word itself as such, it's the context."
    "So Asuka doesn't have N-word privilges?" Kensuke quipped.
    "Something like that."
    "Fair." He was silent for a moment, screwing up his courage. "So, uh... The creative writing club I'm part of is doing afterschool meetings now, so... Would you like to come along?"
    Mari thought about it for just long enough to make him nervous. "Sure, why not? When's the next one?"
    "Uh... Tomorrow, at four," Kenuke replied, trying and failing to look less flustered than he was.
    "Cool. Meet me outside the school?"

    "Well, that happened," Shinji said to himself.
    "Indeed," agreed Rei. "Do you think she was serious about sabotaging Asuka's feminine hygeine products with hot sauce? Because if so I should probably buy my own."
    "I have no idea and I'm not going to ask."

    (So, yeah. That one-off joke is going become a full-on sidestory, inspired by watching someone I'm close to stream DDLC+ and all the sidestories. Now I just need to pick a name for the MC Sayori and Monika are bickering over...)
     
  • Sidestory
    • Jake said:
    "So, uh... The creative writing club I'm part of is doing afterschool meetings now, so... Would you like to come along?"
    Mari thought about it for just long enough to make him nervous. "Sure, why not? When's the next one?"
    "Uh... Tomorrow, at four," Kenuke replied, trying and failing to look less flustered than he was.
    "Cool. Meet me outside the school?"
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    "I don't know how, or why, but I felt like Yuria in the middle of three-way between Kenshiro, Raoh, and Souther."
    "...I think that's my line."
    "...What is Souther?"
     
    epimetheus said:
    So. I think I've run across a fitting theme for SEELE. Any comments?
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    I would've gone with the Neo-Atlantis theme from Nadia and the Secret of Blue Water, but that works too.

    marcoasalazarm said:
    Oh, so Mari is Liverpudlian in this story?
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    Yep. Seeing as she'd had so little screentime that it was hard to discern anything about her personality when I started work on this story I decided to fill in the blanks myself, and anime doesn't have very many Northerners so I thought it'd make a nice change of pace.
     
    'kinell an update! Boss tha! 😁

    More Scouse Mari is always welcome. Really looking forward to the side story even though I know nothing about DDLC.
     
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