- Location
- Canada
I think Gendo's kind of given up. He seems... tired, at this point. I mean, he's willing to talk to Shinji about his mother.
Ignis Aurum Probat [Neon Genesis Evangelion]
- Thread starter shadenight123
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Science
If you're reading this, omae wa mo shindeiru.
- Location
- Killeen, TX
Maybe he grew up? It's been a long enough time that Gendo might have had some moments of introspection, all the rest of the cast has matured or changed.
- Location
- Canada
I mean he had a kid with and got married to Ritsuko. If nothing else, he's gotten over Yui enough to do that. Who knows, maybe "The Scenario" has been abandoned. Of course, this assumes That Units 02 through 04 (not including Mari's one) have been gathering dust.
MarshalGraves
Warrior of Light
- Location
- Eorzea
Well, I mean, you gotta consider that he's -had a child with Ritsuko-.
If he gets Yui back after -that-, he'll either lose her all over again, or -worse-, he'll have -two- women to keep up with, and he's already in his fifties! It ain't gonna be kept up with a little blue pill much longer!
If he gets Yui back after -that-, he'll either lose her all over again, or -worse-, he'll have -two- women to keep up with, and he's already in his fifties! It ain't gonna be kept up with a little blue pill much longer!
Science
If you're reading this, omae wa mo shindeiru.
- Location
- Killeen, TX
All he has to do is get in an Eva, boom!
Kensuke is not attractive enough for that. Misato isn't obliged to sleep with anyone she doesn't find sexy. Sorry, but Kensuke is friendzoned.
- Location
- Australia, mate
I really hope things work out in the end for Asuka and Shinji. Just so that Asuka can freaking relax a little.
Timerider
That guy who really should get out more.
- Location
- The End of the World.
I just realized something. Kowaru is going to RUIN EVERYTHING!
Shinji might even be desperate enough at that point to use the guy as a shield against the girls.
Rei and Asuka will go ballistic. Then get creative. They might even, gulp... cooperate.
Shinji might even be desperate enough at that point to use the guy as a shield against the girls.
Rei and Asuka will go ballistic. Then get creative. They might even, gulp... cooperate.
MarshalGraves
Warrior of Light
- Location
- Eorzea
So, what you're saying is Kaworu will alone be responsible for the apocalypse? Not much new, there. Though I foresee Rei's Instrumentality going a weeee bit differently.
Timerider
That guy who really should get out more.
- Location
- The End of the World.
Well by everything I mostly meant Rei and Asuka's plans to nail Shinji.
If the shipping wars continue to escalate, Shinji could easily appreciate the " I'm sorry, I'm gay" defense just to get some personal space. Even if it's a total lie that nobody believes.
Mizu
Software Developer
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
food, or prepared sandwiches.
Most awkward shopping trip ever. The rivalry for Shinji's love continues.
MarshalGraves
Warrior of Light
- Location
- Eorzea
Oh, you misunderstand. If Kaworu is responsible for Rei and Asuka combining forces, then he will be - directly- responsible for the apocalypse.
After all, Reis and Asukas working together, mass hysteria!
Iuvenal
Desperanda tibi salua concordia socru
- Location
- Terrace IV
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
Rei continues to be best girl.
Timerider
That guy who really should get out more.
- Location
- The End of the World.
You do realized you just triggered half the internet right?
- Location
- Canada
.....It's heavily implied to be 'not natural' for lilin to gain biological immortality the same way EVA pilots have.
The Core of EVA/Angel is what allows a soul to take on any form the soul desires.
By abandoning your flesh and blood body that is alive, you can acquire a body that is neither alive nor dead thus no longer bound by mortality, designed completely from your own personal image of yourself or your ideal self and molded from nothing but LCL, forged from the Light of Your Soul.
In other words.....a body of being that ordinary humans can only call 'god'.
You are not meant to leave the Core unless you want to revert back to a flesh and blood body or you get kicked out of the Core by another soul fusing with your Core and rejecting you.
EVA pilots cheat the system by not fully abandoning their flesh and blood body, thus pay the price of using an immortals body.
One does not simply use a gods power and get away with it.
Chapter Thirty-Eight: "a caelo usque ad centrum"
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Chapter Thirty-Eight: "a caelo usque ad centrum"
It wasn't that Shinji had never shared an apartment with someone. He had gone to University after all, and shared the rooms offered to the students with other classmates, and more than once found something horrible going on in the kitchen sink that pleaded death, more so with his biology classmates than not. He had memories of fungi, fungi growing where no fungi should ever grow, but since they were fungi, they didn't care about the common perception that no, the dish rag was not the appropriate place for them to grow.
He had seen sponges return to their animal-like carnivorous selves worthy of a prehistoric environment, and had battled the dirt and the grime that could infest only the corners of rooms that had never seen the light of a cleaning for a whole year. He had survived. He had grown strong. He had written more than a couple of thesis on new species of fungi.
Even so, sharing an apartment with a trio of females wasn't doing wonders for his sanity.
He'd survive though, even if finding a moment for himself was starting to get harder and harder with each passing day. The next Angel attack hadn't yet been detected by the Magi, and thus the days followed one after the other in a routine made of training, acknowledging of limits and hard-fought battles against empty beer bottles and penguins.
Pen-Pen squawked indignantly as he flapped his penguin wings, gazing up at Shinji. The professor of biology looked down at him, and then sighed. "What happened, Pen-Pen?" why was he talking to the penguin? Ah, yes, because the penguin was one of the few people in Shinji's life that made some sort of sense out of everyone around him.
Pen-Pen pointed his wing at the fridge, and opened it up to reveal the absence of any form of canned sardines. Shinji sighed, and brought out his bloc notes. "I'll add them to the shopping list." Pen-Pen nodded, happily warking as he hopped off with a beer held by his two penguin arms while Shinji scribbled down the rest of the stuff he had to buy.
"You'd be a fine house-husband," Rei said offhandedly, arms crossed in front of her chest as her back was against the kitchen's wall.
"I'd be a horrible house-husband," Shinji replied. "About..." he said nervously, "My father and I, we had a talk and...I don't know. I think you're your own person, Rei," he said in the end. "That's...not really the big speech I had planned on self-determination and finding out one's true self but..." he awkwardly coughed, "I just wanted you to know that nothing has to change between us."
Rei raised an eyebrow. "So the fact that my face is a perfect replica of your mother would not impede the realization of every single Oedipus-suffering man's dream of sleeping with their mother?"
Shinji choked on his spit, "That's—I don't plan on sleeping with you! N—Not that you're not someone I wouldn't sleep with if I wanted to, but I don't want to, because—well, regulations! I'm sure there are regulations about it." He gasped for air, his face red and his hands grasping at invisible straws in front of him.
"Yes, of course," Rei said. "Perhaps you should have a night out at a bar," she continued. "I would have to be present, but I am sure you could find a one night stand if you applied yourself."
Shinji did not immediately answer, and in the end, decided not to answer to begin with. As he pocketed his shopping list and made to leave, his cellphone and that of Rei both rang as the door of their apartment opened up to reveal section two agents ready to escort them down to the high speed train that would lead them directly into Nerv's hangar bays. Shinji had barely the time to flip his phone open and push his ear against it before he was roughly escorted out, the voice over the phone that of Misato explaining the situation.
"We have a problem," she spoke through the phone as Shinji ended up sitting on one of the train's seats, two pairs of belts crossed over his chest. He had an inkling that he wouldn't like the speed at which the train was going, nor Misato's next words, but he didn't need to ponder about it for long.
The train accelerated at a speed more similar to a rail-gun firing a bullet than a train actually increasing in speed, and just as quickly as it had begun, it abruptly ended in turn. His cellphone flew in the air, his grip on it slipping, and shattered against the floor in a hundred pieces. He belatedly managed to pry himself out of the seat belts and stumble through the open doors, Rei following him quickly and silently.
"The Magi are detecting a fast-descending object that pings the pattern Blue," Misato spoke from the train platform, giving a curt nod to two agents by her side. "We have two minutes."
"Wait. Two minutes for—" Shinji didn't even get to finish his sentence, because he was hastily stripped -more like, his clothes were ripped out from him as he was slammed on a trolley and pushed up the ramp to the Evangelion's entrance cockpit. "W—Wait!" he shrieked. "What is going on!? What—What's happening!?" his screams weren't met with answers, but as he was literally dunked into the entry plug, he gasped at the LCL already half-filling the seats. By the time he actually understood what was going on, his Evangelion had been hastily ejected out of the ramp and onto the still chaotic streets of Tokyo Three. Even though the buildings had begun to collapse, it was clear that the casualties would be high, even without an Angel's appearance.
Shinji could see the tiny shapes of humans running away, and while he couldn't hear their screams, he was sure that this sudden, abrupt ejection of the Evangelion had crashed a couple of buildings along the way. Whatever was going on, they were pressed for time.
"One minute and fifteen seconds! Rush North-West on the double, forget the battery life and everything on your path!" Misato yelled, "Hurry, or we're all going to die!" to that order, it wasn't like Shinji could stop and think, and so he rushed forward. He nimbly jumped, trying his hardest to keep himself from crushing the people down below, some too scared to even move.
There was no time, but even he had no idea what they were running up against. "Misato-there's nothing in that direction!" Shinji yelled as he ended up by the outskirts of the city, his eyes wide. "There's nothing around us!"
"Major, there is nothing here," Rei said too, Shinji's eyes doing their hardest not to look at her image in the video feed. While it cut off before reaching any unsavory bit, it was still a bit too much to look at, especially when they were currently busy trying to understand what was going on.
"It should be there!" Misato snapped, "The Magi are showing us—send them the satellite video feed, Ibuki!"
"Yes ma'am," Maya said crisply through the audio feed, and suddenly a bird view of the world appeared in front of Shinji's screen, revealing a descending mass of light and brilliant orange colors and flames, twisting as hexagon-shaped AT-Fields seemed to encompass its being, increasing its speed.
"You need to find that Angel and stop him using your combined AT-Field! And you need to be quick about it, because it's coming down—"
"But there's nothing out here," Shinji stressed, looking around. "An object at that speed-"
"Thirty seconds to impact!" Misato barked, "Find it, now!"
His eyes moved to the ground, and then around it. His eyes widened. "It's not North West! It's South East!" he yelled as he suddenly lunged in that direction, the clouds having parted away abruptly, even though nothing appeared in Shinji's visor. "The feeds are all wrong!" he roared, "They're all wrong!"
"What? Shinji—" the Major began to say, only for Rei's voice to cut in.
"Shinji is right, I'm looking at the Angel right now," she added, her appearance in the video feed of her entry plug empty.
"Rei, get back into your entry plug!" Misato's voice didn't reach Shinji's ears as he pumped everything he had into his legs, screaming hoarsely as he suddenly slid against the ground and thrust his arms upwards, a shrill scream leaving his lips as what felt like a miniature sun, with all of its mass and not just its heat, abruptly materialized over his crackling video sensors. The giant eye of the Angel stared deep into Shinji's own crying ones. The LCL evaporated as the impact shattered and pulverized Shinji's—the Eva's arms, the AT-Field collapsing like a castle of folded cards, the pressure so great it sent the Eva to plummet down below.
Twin robotic feet slammed home into the side of the miniature sun just at the right time. A second too late, and the Angel would have continued down its path, shattering the Evangelion's core and the entry plug. Instead it diverted its course just that tiny amount that it took away the lower body of the Eva, making Shinji's body convulse from the sudden sensation of having his lower legs ripped out from him by what fell like a road roller.
Waves of heat vaporized the grass, the landscape turning into a molten mixture of slag and glass which shattered thoroughly as the Angel abruptly flapped its twin-eyed wings of flesh and twisted into non-Euclidean geometries, reappearing as if by magic a few hundred kilometers over their heads.
"It..." Rei whispered, "It folded space."
"The Magi are not responding—" Misato said, only for static to take over her video feed, static which was soon replaced by a strange creature without a head, in shape similar to a human torso with dark red blotches over its skin and wires emerging from both its upper and lower parts.
"No..." Rei said, her eyes wide as her breathing hitched. She grabbed on to Shinji's half-torn Evangelion, hoisting the Eva up with her arms. There were two Angels, not one, and one had managed to infiltrate deep within the Geofront to the point of interfacing with the Magi system. One was high in the sky, the other deep below ground and-and she had to deal with them, because if she didn't, then...
Then Shinji would die.
In the right corner of her video feed, the clock of her battery life kept ticking.
Only, abruptly, rather than tick down from one minute to fifty-nine seconds...
...it began to tick upwards.
It wasn't that Shinji had never shared an apartment with someone. He had gone to University after all, and shared the rooms offered to the students with other classmates, and more than once found something horrible going on in the kitchen sink that pleaded death, more so with his biology classmates than not. He had memories of fungi, fungi growing where no fungi should ever grow, but since they were fungi, they didn't care about the common perception that no, the dish rag was not the appropriate place for them to grow.
He had seen sponges return to their animal-like carnivorous selves worthy of a prehistoric environment, and had battled the dirt and the grime that could infest only the corners of rooms that had never seen the light of a cleaning for a whole year. He had survived. He had grown strong. He had written more than a couple of thesis on new species of fungi.
Even so, sharing an apartment with a trio of females wasn't doing wonders for his sanity.
He'd survive though, even if finding a moment for himself was starting to get harder and harder with each passing day. The next Angel attack hadn't yet been detected by the Magi, and thus the days followed one after the other in a routine made of training, acknowledging of limits and hard-fought battles against empty beer bottles and penguins.
Pen-Pen squawked indignantly as he flapped his penguin wings, gazing up at Shinji. The professor of biology looked down at him, and then sighed. "What happened, Pen-Pen?" why was he talking to the penguin? Ah, yes, because the penguin was one of the few people in Shinji's life that made some sort of sense out of everyone around him.
Pen-Pen pointed his wing at the fridge, and opened it up to reveal the absence of any form of canned sardines. Shinji sighed, and brought out his bloc notes. "I'll add them to the shopping list." Pen-Pen nodded, happily warking as he hopped off with a beer held by his two penguin arms while Shinji scribbled down the rest of the stuff he had to buy.
"You'd be a fine house-husband," Rei said offhandedly, arms crossed in front of her chest as her back was against the kitchen's wall.
"I'd be a horrible house-husband," Shinji replied. "About..." he said nervously, "My father and I, we had a talk and...I don't know. I think you're your own person, Rei," he said in the end. "That's...not really the big speech I had planned on self-determination and finding out one's true self but..." he awkwardly coughed, "I just wanted you to know that nothing has to change between us."
Rei raised an eyebrow. "So the fact that my face is a perfect replica of your mother would not impede the realization of every single Oedipus-suffering man's dream of sleeping with their mother?"
Shinji choked on his spit, "That's—I don't plan on sleeping with you! N—Not that you're not someone I wouldn't sleep with if I wanted to, but I don't want to, because—well, regulations! I'm sure there are regulations about it." He gasped for air, his face red and his hands grasping at invisible straws in front of him.
"Yes, of course," Rei said. "Perhaps you should have a night out at a bar," she continued. "I would have to be present, but I am sure you could find a one night stand if you applied yourself."
Shinji did not immediately answer, and in the end, decided not to answer to begin with. As he pocketed his shopping list and made to leave, his cellphone and that of Rei both rang as the door of their apartment opened up to reveal section two agents ready to escort them down to the high speed train that would lead them directly into Nerv's hangar bays. Shinji had barely the time to flip his phone open and push his ear against it before he was roughly escorted out, the voice over the phone that of Misato explaining the situation.
"We have a problem," she spoke through the phone as Shinji ended up sitting on one of the train's seats, two pairs of belts crossed over his chest. He had an inkling that he wouldn't like the speed at which the train was going, nor Misato's next words, but he didn't need to ponder about it for long.
The train accelerated at a speed more similar to a rail-gun firing a bullet than a train actually increasing in speed, and just as quickly as it had begun, it abruptly ended in turn. His cellphone flew in the air, his grip on it slipping, and shattered against the floor in a hundred pieces. He belatedly managed to pry himself out of the seat belts and stumble through the open doors, Rei following him quickly and silently.
"The Magi are detecting a fast-descending object that pings the pattern Blue," Misato spoke from the train platform, giving a curt nod to two agents by her side. "We have two minutes."
"Wait. Two minutes for—" Shinji didn't even get to finish his sentence, because he was hastily stripped -more like, his clothes were ripped out from him as he was slammed on a trolley and pushed up the ramp to the Evangelion's entrance cockpit. "W—Wait!" he shrieked. "What is going on!? What—What's happening!?" his screams weren't met with answers, but as he was literally dunked into the entry plug, he gasped at the LCL already half-filling the seats. By the time he actually understood what was going on, his Evangelion had been hastily ejected out of the ramp and onto the still chaotic streets of Tokyo Three. Even though the buildings had begun to collapse, it was clear that the casualties would be high, even without an Angel's appearance.
Shinji could see the tiny shapes of humans running away, and while he couldn't hear their screams, he was sure that this sudden, abrupt ejection of the Evangelion had crashed a couple of buildings along the way. Whatever was going on, they were pressed for time.
"One minute and fifteen seconds! Rush North-West on the double, forget the battery life and everything on your path!" Misato yelled, "Hurry, or we're all going to die!" to that order, it wasn't like Shinji could stop and think, and so he rushed forward. He nimbly jumped, trying his hardest to keep himself from crushing the people down below, some too scared to even move.
There was no time, but even he had no idea what they were running up against. "Misato-there's nothing in that direction!" Shinji yelled as he ended up by the outskirts of the city, his eyes wide. "There's nothing around us!"
"Major, there is nothing here," Rei said too, Shinji's eyes doing their hardest not to look at her image in the video feed. While it cut off before reaching any unsavory bit, it was still a bit too much to look at, especially when they were currently busy trying to understand what was going on.
"It should be there!" Misato snapped, "The Magi are showing us—send them the satellite video feed, Ibuki!"
"Yes ma'am," Maya said crisply through the audio feed, and suddenly a bird view of the world appeared in front of Shinji's screen, revealing a descending mass of light and brilliant orange colors and flames, twisting as hexagon-shaped AT-Fields seemed to encompass its being, increasing its speed.
"You need to find that Angel and stop him using your combined AT-Field! And you need to be quick about it, because it's coming down—"
"But there's nothing out here," Shinji stressed, looking around. "An object at that speed-"
"Thirty seconds to impact!" Misato barked, "Find it, now!"
His eyes moved to the ground, and then around it. His eyes widened. "It's not North West! It's South East!" he yelled as he suddenly lunged in that direction, the clouds having parted away abruptly, even though nothing appeared in Shinji's visor. "The feeds are all wrong!" he roared, "They're all wrong!"
"What? Shinji—" the Major began to say, only for Rei's voice to cut in.
"Shinji is right, I'm looking at the Angel right now," she added, her appearance in the video feed of her entry plug empty.
"Rei, get back into your entry plug!" Misato's voice didn't reach Shinji's ears as he pumped everything he had into his legs, screaming hoarsely as he suddenly slid against the ground and thrust his arms upwards, a shrill scream leaving his lips as what felt like a miniature sun, with all of its mass and not just its heat, abruptly materialized over his crackling video sensors. The giant eye of the Angel stared deep into Shinji's own crying ones. The LCL evaporated as the impact shattered and pulverized Shinji's—the Eva's arms, the AT-Field collapsing like a castle of folded cards, the pressure so great it sent the Eva to plummet down below.
Twin robotic feet slammed home into the side of the miniature sun just at the right time. A second too late, and the Angel would have continued down its path, shattering the Evangelion's core and the entry plug. Instead it diverted its course just that tiny amount that it took away the lower body of the Eva, making Shinji's body convulse from the sudden sensation of having his lower legs ripped out from him by what fell like a road roller.
Waves of heat vaporized the grass, the landscape turning into a molten mixture of slag and glass which shattered thoroughly as the Angel abruptly flapped its twin-eyed wings of flesh and twisted into non-Euclidean geometries, reappearing as if by magic a few hundred kilometers over their heads.
"It..." Rei whispered, "It folded space."
"The Magi are not responding—" Misato said, only for static to take over her video feed, static which was soon replaced by a strange creature without a head, in shape similar to a human torso with dark red blotches over its skin and wires emerging from both its upper and lower parts.
"No..." Rei said, her eyes wide as her breathing hitched. She grabbed on to Shinji's half-torn Evangelion, hoisting the Eva up with her arms. There were two Angels, not one, and one had managed to infiltrate deep within the Geofront to the point of interfacing with the Magi system. One was high in the sky, the other deep below ground and-and she had to deal with them, because if she didn't, then...
Then Shinji would die.
In the right corner of her video feed, the clock of her battery life kept ticking.
Only, abruptly, rather than tick down from one minute to fifty-nine seconds...
...it began to tick upwards.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
'from Heaven all the way to the center of the Earth'
AKA: You own land, you own that spot of land all the way up into the sky and all the way down.
Pft. I've been in rooms where you could hear the scuttling of the roach hordes in the dark.
Damn it Rei.
Asuka: "You know you're giving me the perfect opportunity, right?"
rofl:Sahaquiel... teleported to continue ramming itself into the Evas. So there's that upgrade.
Two upgraded Angels at once? What's next, Zeruel tears Shinji's Eva apart while Arael does the same to his mind and Kaworu steals Unit-02 to go kill Gendo?
Aaaand Rei goes Berserk.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
"Conversations like this are not helping, and really making Asuka look like the sane and rational option, Rei."
And damn skippy she'll take it. ...if he's sober. I think Asuka's smart enough to realize if she only gets Shinji to bed with her by getting him drunk, it will backfire badly in the morning. So oddly, I think Shinji's 'virtue' is safe that way. Asuka wants him to truly choose her, not be tricked into it.
And I'm not sure the Angel is teleporting, I think it's wildly messing with their perceptions: Making Misato think it's heading somewhere else, fooling the video feeds, messing with what they're seeing...
SV5195R
C-Weapon
- Location
- Russian Federation
You know you live in a madhouse when you find yourself talking to an enhanced penguin just because he's the only sane
Three words: Imaginary Number Catapult.
Quantum Mechanics allow you to do some really crazy crap at the high end, like teleportation/movement via altering the bits/qbits that make up the atoms in your body.
In other words, with enough math, you can tell the universe you exist somewhere else.
It does require a crazy amount to do it though.
- Location
- Canada
Science, BITCH!
It's all a question of knowing what calculations to perform and having enough computation power to process it.
But as there is a finite amount of computation power you can get (roughtly an entire universe), there are some that can never be performed.
However, considering that warping 3D spacetime into a 2D pane is a basic, defensive function....
It seems Angels and EVAs both get a discount on not just the amount of power needed, but also how complex it is to do it.
Or it could have hooked itself up to every instance of itself in the multiverse and borrowed what brain power they had....it's not like they were using it for anything.
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LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
That sounds like more of a Leliel thing.