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If my sig box wasn't full...
Ignis Aurum Probat [Neon Genesis Evangelion]
- Thread starter shadenight123
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Plus I feel not enough people focus on the "giant monster from beyond the stars" part of the equation.
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- National Capital Region, USA
She's still the origin of all life on Earth, so that sort of also makes her his Great-great-(500,000 repeats)-great-grandmother!
I actually view Rei as more of a reincarnation or avatar of Lillth.She's still the origin of all life on Earth, so that sort of also makes her his Great-great-(500,000 repeats)-great-grandmother!
TheRuisu
I think that I'm the Dragon
- Location
- Best Location, of course. Keijoverse
Japanese mans can fuck that, they don't know the limits of their own humanity!
Mizu
Software Developer
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
a dozen Angels closing
EU's opening fire
in the park to a very serious
Science
If you're reading this, omae wa mo shindeiru.
- Location
- Killeen, TX
Which includes their mothers and clones of their mothers.
TheRuisu
I think that I'm the Dragon
- Location
- Best Location, of course. Keijoverse
You can't apply your own silly logic to Japanese Men, their own crazyness can distort the blood relation as if it didn't exist
Science
If you're reading this, omae wa mo shindeiru.
- Location
- Killeen, TX
Their mothers are waifu material too. Is what I'm trying to say, it doesn't twist it away. They are both mother and waifu.
Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
First of all I've been catching up and this line is amazing.
Mari Makinami more than likely. Mana Kirishima is the canonical pilot of Jet Alone Prime.
Science
If you're reading this, omae wa mo shindeiru.
- Location
- Killeen, TX
*Looks at his sig* I agree.
- Location
- The Midlands.
And this is why I came up with what turned into a fairly important plot thread of my own venture into NGE fanfiction...
Anyway. This is one of the most genuinely original and entertaining Eva fics I've read in a long time. It's actually rather refreshing to see the characters as older, wiser and fairly functional adults who've learned to cope with the worst of their emotional baggage. And Shinji geeking out over the biology of Angels and Evangelions is both hilarious and oddly endearing.
Anyway. This is one of the most genuinely original and entertaining Eva fics I've read in a long time. It's actually rather refreshing to see the characters as older, wiser and fairly functional adults who've learned to cope with the worst of their emotional baggage. And Shinji geeking out over the biology of Angels and Evangelions is both hilarious and oddly endearing.
eternal-potato
He who vegetates
- Location
- Moscow
You just broke the universe.
Chapter Twenty-Nine: "Mulier est hominis confusio"
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- https://discord.gg/z9tBvbh
Chapter Twenty-Nine: "Mulier est hominis confusio"
He didn't have arms any more. His brain told him that, so it was the truth. Only, it wasn't real. He knew of the existence of phantom limbs, and how a man without arms would still feel them there sometimes, because the brain was so used to having them that he couldn't convince himself it wasn't true. On the other hand, he did have his arms. He could see them. He knew they were attached to his shoulders. He knew the nerves were connected. He knew they were his arms, his hands, his fingers-and yet, his brain was pretty much convinced those two lumps of flesh, muscle and bones weren't there.
It was a bizarre experience, one that didn't last more than a few minutes after he woke up, but which was long enough to make him want to call his psychiatrist-and yet he couldn't, because for those few minutes of terror, his mouth was paralyzed. He wanted to scream, but couldn't. His breathing hitched, the heart monitor by the side of the hospital bed began to beep like crazy, and a group of nurses rushed over faster than he could blink.
His terror was washed away with drugs. Perhaps it was morphine, perhaps it was valium in enough quantities to calm down an elephant, but whatever the reason, the drugs did the trick. Whoever said that drugs weren't useful for something had never felt the pure atrocity that a blown-out mental breakdown could be. Sometimes, he wondered if he'd still be there without the prescription medicines he had taken at the start of his healing process.
Now he was largely without, but...he still did have those marvelous pills in one of the pockets of his luggage.
Perhaps it was time to bring them out. Not now, no, now he was happily enjoying a conversation with mister Bunny, but at a later date-yes, at a later date, he'd bring them out and have a trip down nostalgia road.
"You have woken up," Rei's voice snapped him out of his reverie for the bunny in the corner of the room, which in truth was simply a stuffed doll that someone had left for him by his bedside. He turned to look at her, and smiled.
"Hello," he said. "Did you know that Morphine is an opiate that operates directly on the central nervous system? It can last for up to seven hours, and that's without considering long-term injections," he giggled. "That's-it's funny. Rabbit was just saying-"
"You fainted after losing both arms of your Evangelion," Rei said, calmly taking the seat and grabbing the rabbit doll with one hand, looking at it with a critically appraising glance. "Were you not taught to take proper care of your equipment?"
"So what you're saying is...that I need a hand?" Shinji said with a nice, happy hum.
"I did not say that," Rei spoke plainly. "I am asking if you-"
"Losing my limbs...must have cost an arm and a leg," Shinji giggled.
Rei's eyes narrowed, "Are you trying to be funny, professor Shinji Ikari?"
"Uh?" Shinji furrowed his brows, trying his hardest to concentrate. "Listen...Rei, why...why don't you give Rabbit back to me now?"
"This doll holds some emotional value to you?" Rei asked, moving the doll back and forth, but Shinji shook his head.
"N-No, just found him all alone by my side-lonely, so, so lonely," Shinji mumbled. "Like Asuka I guess-" he added as he extended a hand, "Can I get it back now, please?"
Rei exhaled, "The Germanian ex-pilot? Was she here before?" she moved to hand the rabbit back, "she is a troublesome individual. You would do well to stay away from her."
"Yeah mom," Shinji mumbled as he clutched the rabbit, his eyes dropping down, "I'll do that..."
Rei's breathing hitched briefly, "Pilot Ikari-" Shinji was already asleep, a grown-up man clutching the rabbit with both of his arms tightly around it, and as he slept, Rei's right hand twitched, her fingers somehow betraying her intentions as they moved to push away from his eyes the unruly hair that had begun to grow over them. He needed a haircut.
He really needed a haircut.
The door of the hospital room opened with a soft hiss, admitting the red-haired figure of Asuka, her bright everyday clothes freshly washed judging by the fragrance they emitted. "Yawhol," she said without even realizing Rei was in the room, "I have come bearing gifts-" she stopped as she realized what was going on. Rei's right hand was still on Shinji's head, amidst his hair and playing with a brown lock. Asuka was clutching on to a paper bag filled with pleasantly smelling bread, as if it had been freshly baked.
"Ayanami," Asuka said, "What are you doing?" her voice was tranquil, like a deep sea that hid beneath it the turmoil of a lurking Cthulhu.
"Ensuring pilot Ikari has a good rest, because he needs it," Rei replied flatly. "Performing his service in the name of mankind, restlessly training and fighting for the sake of humanity's future-" her eyes narrowed, "Some of us still have what it takes to fight for others."
"Is that so?" Asuka said dryly. "I wonder what's worse. Fighting and failing to save anyone, or being unable to fight. The second is liberating, the first...is damning enough, isn't it? I guess being a total failure even at something you're supposed to be good at is quite eye-opening?"
She took a seat on the opposite side of Shinji's bed, and smiled.
"I guess you must feel good knowing that since you don't have to try, then you won't be judged. What is this...the old man saying he could build a house better than the workers going at it?" Rei replied offhandedly. "I find it ironic, Langley, that you speak of my inability as a pilot when you aren't even allowed to try." She smiled. "At the very least, I try."
"Oh well," Asuka flipped her long hair behind her back, "At least I am something more than a doll now, I'm all free, with money, a stable life-what about you? Still following like a puppy that sickening mother-daughter lover?"
Rei's fists clenched from her side of the bed. "I am not. Still, you are disturbing Shinji's sleep." Her eyes narrowed. "Kindly stop your prattling."
"He's all mine, you know that?" Asuka whispered, her smile blossoming on her face. "I got to him first, and he's thinking about it." She smirked. "You weren't fast enough. Enjoy your eternity alone."
Rei, for her part, simply grabbed both of her breasts and squeezed them once. "Shinji remarked on how my mammary glands were full. I doubt he said the same to you."
Asuka's breathing caught itself in her throat, and then her eyes began to burn with fiery vengeance.
Shinji, for his part, peacefully slept and dreamed of running in a field of flowers with a rabbit friend rushing ahead of him. The rabbit had a clock in his mouth, a clock that rang and rang, repeating always the same words.
You're screwed! You're screwed! You're screwed!
He didn't have arms any more. His brain told him that, so it was the truth. Only, it wasn't real. He knew of the existence of phantom limbs, and how a man without arms would still feel them there sometimes, because the brain was so used to having them that he couldn't convince himself it wasn't true. On the other hand, he did have his arms. He could see them. He knew they were attached to his shoulders. He knew the nerves were connected. He knew they were his arms, his hands, his fingers-and yet, his brain was pretty much convinced those two lumps of flesh, muscle and bones weren't there.
It was a bizarre experience, one that didn't last more than a few minutes after he woke up, but which was long enough to make him want to call his psychiatrist-and yet he couldn't, because for those few minutes of terror, his mouth was paralyzed. He wanted to scream, but couldn't. His breathing hitched, the heart monitor by the side of the hospital bed began to beep like crazy, and a group of nurses rushed over faster than he could blink.
His terror was washed away with drugs. Perhaps it was morphine, perhaps it was valium in enough quantities to calm down an elephant, but whatever the reason, the drugs did the trick. Whoever said that drugs weren't useful for something had never felt the pure atrocity that a blown-out mental breakdown could be. Sometimes, he wondered if he'd still be there without the prescription medicines he had taken at the start of his healing process.
Now he was largely without, but...he still did have those marvelous pills in one of the pockets of his luggage.
Perhaps it was time to bring them out. Not now, no, now he was happily enjoying a conversation with mister Bunny, but at a later date-yes, at a later date, he'd bring them out and have a trip down nostalgia road.
"You have woken up," Rei's voice snapped him out of his reverie for the bunny in the corner of the room, which in truth was simply a stuffed doll that someone had left for him by his bedside. He turned to look at her, and smiled.
"Hello," he said. "Did you know that Morphine is an opiate that operates directly on the central nervous system? It can last for up to seven hours, and that's without considering long-term injections," he giggled. "That's-it's funny. Rabbit was just saying-"
"You fainted after losing both arms of your Evangelion," Rei said, calmly taking the seat and grabbing the rabbit doll with one hand, looking at it with a critically appraising glance. "Were you not taught to take proper care of your equipment?"
"So what you're saying is...that I need a hand?" Shinji said with a nice, happy hum.
"I did not say that," Rei spoke plainly. "I am asking if you-"
"Losing my limbs...must have cost an arm and a leg," Shinji giggled.
Rei's eyes narrowed, "Are you trying to be funny, professor Shinji Ikari?"
"Uh?" Shinji furrowed his brows, trying his hardest to concentrate. "Listen...Rei, why...why don't you give Rabbit back to me now?"
"This doll holds some emotional value to you?" Rei asked, moving the doll back and forth, but Shinji shook his head.
"N-No, just found him all alone by my side-lonely, so, so lonely," Shinji mumbled. "Like Asuka I guess-" he added as he extended a hand, "Can I get it back now, please?"
Rei exhaled, "The Germanian ex-pilot? Was she here before?" she moved to hand the rabbit back, "she is a troublesome individual. You would do well to stay away from her."
"Yeah mom," Shinji mumbled as he clutched the rabbit, his eyes dropping down, "I'll do that..."
Rei's breathing hitched briefly, "Pilot Ikari-" Shinji was already asleep, a grown-up man clutching the rabbit with both of his arms tightly around it, and as he slept, Rei's right hand twitched, her fingers somehow betraying her intentions as they moved to push away from his eyes the unruly hair that had begun to grow over them. He needed a haircut.
He really needed a haircut.
The door of the hospital room opened with a soft hiss, admitting the red-haired figure of Asuka, her bright everyday clothes freshly washed judging by the fragrance they emitted. "Yawhol," she said without even realizing Rei was in the room, "I have come bearing gifts-" she stopped as she realized what was going on. Rei's right hand was still on Shinji's head, amidst his hair and playing with a brown lock. Asuka was clutching on to a paper bag filled with pleasantly smelling bread, as if it had been freshly baked.
"Ayanami," Asuka said, "What are you doing?" her voice was tranquil, like a deep sea that hid beneath it the turmoil of a lurking Cthulhu.
"Ensuring pilot Ikari has a good rest, because he needs it," Rei replied flatly. "Performing his service in the name of mankind, restlessly training and fighting for the sake of humanity's future-" her eyes narrowed, "Some of us still have what it takes to fight for others."
"Is that so?" Asuka said dryly. "I wonder what's worse. Fighting and failing to save anyone, or being unable to fight. The second is liberating, the first...is damning enough, isn't it? I guess being a total failure even at something you're supposed to be good at is quite eye-opening?"
She took a seat on the opposite side of Shinji's bed, and smiled.
"I guess you must feel good knowing that since you don't have to try, then you won't be judged. What is this...the old man saying he could build a house better than the workers going at it?" Rei replied offhandedly. "I find it ironic, Langley, that you speak of my inability as a pilot when you aren't even allowed to try." She smiled. "At the very least, I try."
"Oh well," Asuka flipped her long hair behind her back, "At least I am something more than a doll now, I'm all free, with money, a stable life-what about you? Still following like a puppy that sickening mother-daughter lover?"
Rei's fists clenched from her side of the bed. "I am not. Still, you are disturbing Shinji's sleep." Her eyes narrowed. "Kindly stop your prattling."
"He's all mine, you know that?" Asuka whispered, her smile blossoming on her face. "I got to him first, and he's thinking about it." She smirked. "You weren't fast enough. Enjoy your eternity alone."
Rei, for her part, simply grabbed both of her breasts and squeezed them once. "Shinji remarked on how my mammary glands were full. I doubt he said the same to you."
Asuka's breathing caught itself in her throat, and then her eyes began to burn with fiery vengeance.
Shinji, for his part, peacefully slept and dreamed of running in a field of flowers with a rabbit friend rushing ahead of him. The rabbit had a clock in his mouth, a clock that rang and rang, repeating always the same words.
You're screwed! You're screwed! You're screwed!
- Location
- Attempting to cast animate object on a black hole.
That rabbit is wise beyond his years.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Sure will be if you don't wake up and listen soon, Shinji!
Germanian? And my my, hostile to her much, Rei?
Er? Shouldn't that be spelled 'Jawhol', and... are you sure that's the word you want? "Emphatic 'yes', in a military context 'yes, sir!'"?
Ouch. Low blow, Rei. You have to know how much Asuka hates feeling useless.
This is a very weird argument, and yet so in character for them. And... you're in this race too, Rei? Really? This... Shinji's going to need a helmet, isn't he?
That's one perceptive dream-hallucination, Shinji. And it's probably right, unless you get a grip on this situation and argument... that's going on right over your head while you sleep off the drugs.
Indeed.
- Location
- https://discord.gg/z9tBvbh
Nein, I was going for "Indeed" which is Yawhol. Or so online translators tell me
Draconite101
That Guy
- Location
- Unknown
I'm guessing these two were planning to get at Shinji for some time. That's... understandable but also kind of disturbing. The poor guy has it bad enough with all the giant robot bullshit. This is just adding more fuel to the fire.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
*pulls up google translate*
I think your translator might just be bad.
Edit: also unsure how "indeed" is contextually appropriate...
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Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
Woman is Man's ruin.
The quote's from The Canterbury Tales.
It's a sentiment that's more than a little sexist, but I know that's something from the era, not something you're using. And it does match with the whole Adam/Lilith thing Eva's got going on.
Shinji be high as a kite.
Rei's got one hell of a wierd way of looking at that.
'My tank was destroyed by an IED!'
'Don't you take care of your equipment?'
It's a pretty... out of touch with reality sentiment, IMO.
Yang Xiao Long has officially awoken as Shinji Ikari. We're saved.
Ah. I'm starting to see the title.
And Rei is showing maternal thoughts on all levels. She didn't just get an unspecified level of genetics from Yui, she inherited her feelings.
Which makes any sexual attraction she has to Shinji supremely disturbing and awkward.
.... wow, those two are utter bitches.
Rei calls Asuka selfish, I think, by not fighting in an Eva. Or it's an 'I can drive an Eva, you can't, neener neener neener!'
Asuka replies that she's become more mentally aware of herself since her entire life's purpose was taken from her, and Rei's due a similar grounding since she's not a capable pilot.
Rei says that since Asuka can't pilot, she has no right to judge. I'm call it more a civilian criticizing how a the military conducts operations. Which while having some merit, doesn't make Rei right. Vietnam, Iraq, you get the idea.
And it's still another 'I can drive an Eva, you can't, neener neener neener!'
Asuka makes another claim for maturity, which should ring hollow to us readers immediately. Asuka is not free. She's stuck in a teenage body, she does not have a stable life, she's only gotten her place in life only by bulldozing anyone and anything in her way.
And she insults Gendo. Probably because she knows that gets to Rei.
Two woman fighting over the sole man who shares their frame of reference, understands what being an Eva pilot does to you, so they're not alone.
Hoo boy.
'I have bigger tits, so he'll date me'.
Oh for fucks sake, IT'S HIGH SCHOOL ALL OVER AGAIN.
Seriously, Rei and Asuka are acting like hormonal teens rather than mature adults.
Ten bucks says he wakes up to the two of them fighting over him. Literally.
Well, this was an ominous as hell chapter. Mind if I ask how accurate my attempts as analysis were?
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
A curse indeed.
Where'd I put that 'BRB, Gensokyo' image?
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Or unless a resolution is achieved: A clear and permanent winner via decision by Shinji, a mutual agreement to share/face immortality together, or... someone dies in battle. I don't like that last one.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
trob030490
Professor Kokonoe
- Pronouns
- she/her
Seems pretty par for the course for any age group, honestly, and unfortunately...
Tits, dicks, muscles, whatever. "Mine is bigger therefore relationship/sex yes?" shows up in highschools and nursing homes alike.
Anyways, I assume somewhere Misato just shot up straight with wide eyes, followed by a wide grin, having felt the disturbance in the shipping grid?
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