Nah, Aida isn't the only geek with a camera scoping out Tokyo-3. The place is probably Mecca for military otaku. Trust me, if anything happened to Shinji and Rei's friends, I'd let you know directly.
Rei Ayanami Raising Project
- Thread starter Sutekh
- Start date
Proposed Special Activity: Find out about Fuchs. There's something suspicious about him and you intend to find out.
Conversation
Select one of the following for each:
Talk to Rei about: The World
Talk to Shinji about: Romance
Activities
[ S] Combat training [Shinji only]
[ ] Synchronization training [Shinji only]
[ ] Physical training [Shinji only]
[ ] Study [Shinji only]
[R ] Arts program
[S, R ] Go out/free time
Special Activity
Try to cook something for Rei. Surely she will appreciate your care for her, and you'll definitely do a good job. Right? Shinji can help too!
Select one of the following for each:
Talk to Rei about: The World
Talk to Shinji about: Romance
Activities
[ S] Combat training [Shinji only]
[ ] Synchronization training [Shinji only]
[ ] Physical training [Shinji only]
[ ] Study [Shinji only]
[R ] Arts program
[S, R ] Go out/free time
Special Activity
Try to cook something for Rei. Surely she will appreciate your care for her, and you'll definitely do a good job. Right? Shinji can help too!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Go out/free time
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Yourself
I'm not sure now is the best time to talk to Shinji about Tokyo-3. The current biohazard state the city is in was caused during his first eva fight, so he might start to blame himself over it if we bring it up.
[X] Write-in: Misato joins the Arts program.
There isn't a lot of things Misato and Rei can do together while the latter is recovering. So why not join in one of the few activities herdaughter ward still can do? And it would be interesting to see how Rei reacts to being the more experienced of the two in something. How would she deal with trying to teach something to someone?
So, for the special activity, i decided to try to come up with something, since it's picked by QM choice rather than majority vote, but i'm manly hoping that GreatWyrmGold write-in is picked.
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Go out/free time
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Yourself
I'm not sure now is the best time to talk to Shinji about Tokyo-3. The current biohazard state the city is in was caused during his first eva fight, so he might start to blame himself over it if we bring it up.
[X] Write-in: Misato joins the Arts program.
There isn't a lot of things Misato and Rei can do together while the latter is recovering. So why not join in one of the few activities her
So, for the special activity, i decided to try to come up with something, since it's picked by QM choice rather than majority vote, but i'm manly hoping that GreatWyrmGold write-in is picked.
- Location
- United Kingdom
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts program
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Yourself
[X] Organise a deeper investigation into who the hell Fuchs is. Whilst Asuka apparently knows him, the fact that none of your foreign counterparts did is too concerning to ignore.
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts program
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Yourself
[X] Organise a deeper investigation into who the hell Fuchs is. Whilst Asuka apparently knows him, the fact that none of your foreign counterparts did is too concerning to ignore.
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Comrade Future
Man from Zeerust
- Location
- USSR
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
[X] Talk to Rei about: Yourself
[X] Talk to Shinji about: Yourself
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts program
[X] Write-in: Buy Rei a Penguin plush and have a calm talk about how to handle pets. I.E: Don't squeeze them.
[X] Talk to Shinji about: Yourself
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts program
[X] Write-in: Buy Rei a Penguin plush and have a calm talk about how to handle pets. I.E: Don't squeeze them.
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- Location
- United States
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Well-being,
It has been a long day(week?) and a lot has happened to the kids, lets check up on how they are both doing, maybe see about getting that Hikari girl to come visit Rei.
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts Program
[X] Write-in: Misato joins the Arts program.
While I am all for arranging some facetime with Asuka so the other pilots can get to know her in a controlled environment, it is probably best to wait until our Bluebird isn't suffering from a concession to do so.
[X] Shinji: Well-being,
It has been a long day(week?) and a lot has happened to the kids, lets check up on how they are both doing, maybe see about getting that Hikari girl to come visit Rei.
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts Program
[X] Write-in: Misato joins the Arts program.
While I am all for arranging some facetime with Asuka so the other pilots can get to know her in a controlled environment, it is probably best to wait until our Bluebird isn't suffering from a concession to do so.
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- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Well-being,
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts Program
[X] Write-in: Misato joins the Arts program.
[X] Shinji: Well-being,
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts Program
[X] Write-in: Misato joins the Arts program.
A vote is only counted by the vote tally program if the start of a line has the brackets [] with an X inside them, and no spaces. Otherwise, the vote tally will ignore that line. All of the votes I've quoted are not being picked up by the tally.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Tokyo-3
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Go out/free time
-[X] Let them decide if they want to spend their free time together or not
(Edited upon GWG's advice below)
[X] Write-in: Buy Rei a Penguin plush and have a calm talk about how to handle pets. I.E: Don't squeeze them.
Not sure this stands by itself, so it could be something done as an aside - but she does need to learn how to let the poor thing have boundaries.
[X] Shinji: Tokyo-3
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Go out/free time
-[X] Let them decide if they want to spend their free time together or not
(Edited upon GWG's advice below)
[X] Write-in: Buy Rei a Penguin plush and have a calm talk about how to handle pets. I.E: Don't squeeze them.
Not sure this stands by itself, so it could be something done as an aside - but she does need to learn how to let the poor thing have boundaries.
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- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Is the "Yourself" topic talking about "You, the player character" or "You, the person Misato is talking to"?
And this Quest is too big (and argument-prone) for manual vote-counting to be practical. Especially if Sutekh had to search for all oddball formats like this instead of just ctl-f'ing common components.
There's a reason everyone in every Quest inputs their responses in the exact same way.
Probably not, but you can probably include a note if you want to keep them separate. Something like:
[ ] Rei : Go out/free time
-[ ] Separate from Shinji
[ ] Shinji: Go out/free time
-[ ] Separate from Rei
I almost read this as the "Player".
"Shinji, Rei, I have a confession to make. I'm actually an avatar of a writer and a bunch of different people arguing over what decisions I should make regarding yourselves, the people around me, and NERV operations."
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Which is fun, but I feel like there's plenty of Quests exploring that at the moment.
- Pronouns
- He
..I mmmay be misinterpreting, but I always thought of the topics as (Self/Others/Enviro) 'Pilot/other people/enviroment'. Because if we wanted to talk to the Pilot in question about them, there's the first set of topics. Apologies if we've picked Yourself before and it just talked about Rei/Shinji.
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
We've never picked the Yourself topic. That's why the guy keeping a spreadsheet of what we've been doing has to ask that question.
It's a second person narrative, so anything using "You" pronouns in the paragraph text that aren't quotes, idioms, or other people talking can probably be assumed to be referring to Misato.
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts Program (Cello)
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Tokyo-3
[X] Write-in: Buy Rei a Penguin plush and have a calm talk about how to handle pets. I.E: Don't squeeze them.
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Arts Program (Cello)
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Tokyo-3
[X] Write-in: Buy Rei a Penguin plush and have a calm talk about how to handle pets. I.E: Don't squeeze them.
[X] Rei: Well-being
[X] Shinji: Tokyo-3
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Go out/free time
-[X] Let them decide if they want to spend their free time together or not
[X] Write-in: Misato joins the Arts program.
[X] Shinji: Tokyo-3
[X] Combat training [Shinji only]
[X] Rei : Go out/free time
[X] Rei : Arts program
[X] Shinji : Go out/free time
-[X] Let them decide if they want to spend their free time together or not
[X] Write-in: Misato joins the Arts program.
New Arrival III: Convalescence
[x] Talk to Rei about Well-being
Rei is doing fine. You pinch the bridge of your nose and reiterate the question with a bunch of subclauses to make sure it gets translated properly by Rei's peculiar (and bruised) brain. Rei admits that she's currently experiencing a severe migraine headache. She says this with impressive stoicism, though you notice she's squinting up at you. She feels a little bit better from the initial onset, but she feels kind of…kind of nauseous, actually. Excuse her. Rei hurries to the bathroom. You don't hear her throw up, and Rei returns a few minutes later, unperturbed. Anyway, her memory after she was pinned to the building is a bit of a blur. She thinks Shinji might have saved her life? But she's not sure. She…should she thank him?
Rei is feeling kind of…well, she feels…excuse Rei for a moment. Rei returns to the bathroom. Rei returns. Rei is feeling like an empty vase. Like dried-up watercolor paints. She cannot pilot Eva in this state. It feels bad. She is not sure what she should be doing with herself right now. She's been spending most of her time sitting at home staring into space or sleeping while you and Shinji are at work/school. Rei is no stranger to idleness, and she tells you that this is what she did before she moved in with you in her spare time.
You teasingly tell her that you recall Rei saying she was busy when you asked her about spending time with friends. Rei falls silent for a moment. She was…awaiting orders, so she had to be on standby. Rei frowns. Should she still be doing that? You encourage her to keep her hobbies up. Rei nods. Of course. You know best, Captain.
Rei says she's been spending more time with Shinji. Rei says she thinks she enjoys his company. She does not understand why he seems so nervous around her, though. She seems worried about this.
Over the course of the week Rei's condition gradually improves, though she seems a bit mixed-up sometimes. She briefly went back to not wearing clothes at home for an evening, to Shinji's mortification, until you reminded her about the conversation you had. Rei looks genuinely embarrassed (though probably more that she forgot than anything else). She also tries unsuccessfully to cook, having briefly forgotten that she's not supposed to. She burns the vegetarian dish she was making in the pan. Shinji helps bandage one of her fingers after she nicks it with a knife.
You wiggle your eyebrows at him as he flushes from holding Rei's hand. He glares at you. You love teasing this kid.
[x] Talk to Shinji about Tokyo-3
It's uh. Nice. Uh. Apart from all the toxic dust? Shinji seems to be trying extra hard to find something nice to say about the city, but you can tell he's kind of struggling. The mood in the city has been pretty shitty as of late, so that doesn't really surprise you. There's an ongoing emigration from the city by a decent chunk of the population. Apparently, Shinji, Aida and Suzuhara are the only boys left in their class now. A lot of people are walking around wearing masks. Most are sensible, but some are pretty elaborate. The cashier at your local convenience store wears a full WWI-era gas mask. It's awkward. You and him both commiserate on the unpleasant state of affairs.
You manage to finally convince Shinji that this particular problem wasn't his fault. You explain in detail that pretty much anything that either Rei or he did would have resulted in the Angel shedding a massive amount of toxic dust. Shinji seems a little less depressed about the situation when you're done.
Shinji excuses himself to go check on Rei, who is spacing out on the couch. You let them be.
[x] Combat training
You work on Shinji's melee abilities this week, which in previous training sessions have left a lot to be desired. He can't rely on Rei to do all the dirty work this time, so you put him up against simulation-Azazel and Sariel (Arakiel's program isn't done yet and is probably a bit too fresh in Shinji's mind) and let them beat the crap out of him.
The sessions are grueling, but eventually, Shinji starts fighting back, rather than flailing around ineffectually when overwhelmed. He's able to consistently finish off Azazel with only minimal damage to Unit-01 by the end of the week. Sariel's trickier. You think you might need to work on his physical coordination.
[x] Go out/free time
Rei and Shinji go for a long walk together, entirely on Shinji's own initiative. You're impressed. You fight the urge to embarrass him for it and let him have this moment. Shinji evidently had noticed Rei has slowly been merging with your living room couch and decided Rei needs to use her legs. The walk is eventually cut short when Rei's nausea acts up, but she seems genuinely appreciative over Shinji fussing over her.
[x] Arts program
Rei spends her afternoons working with clay. She's not really able to produce much as she's having trouble focusing. She makes a crude model of Pen2 and some odd pitted spherical objects that are her attempts at making a model of the moon. Rei can't quite remember what it looks like from memory. She switches back to charcoal after a few aborted attempts to make a model of her own head and doodles aimlessly, mostly drawing pictures of buildings and penguins. She doesn't seem as engaged as usual, but she doesn't seem unhappy.
[x] Special activity: Buy Rei a Penguin plush and have a calm talk about how to handle pets. I.E: Don't squeeze them.
You drive way out of your way to pick up a plush that's almost the same size as Pen2 and present it to Rei. Rei doesn't understand. Why would she prefer a simulacrum to the real thing? Humans always prefer real things to simulacra, right? You shrug. There are some artificial things you prefer to real things. Like the simulated Angels. And artificial banana flavor. And horror movies. Rei smiles at you briefly and accepts the penguin. You instruct her on better ways to interact with Pen2. You notice she's been kind of smothering him, and he's his own man. Rei has to let him exist independently from her. Rei thinks about this for longer than you expected her to, and then asks you why you think that.
What do you say?
[ ] Write-in
Rei is doing fine. You pinch the bridge of your nose and reiterate the question with a bunch of subclauses to make sure it gets translated properly by Rei's peculiar (and bruised) brain. Rei admits that she's currently experiencing a severe migraine headache. She says this with impressive stoicism, though you notice she's squinting up at you. She feels a little bit better from the initial onset, but she feels kind of…kind of nauseous, actually. Excuse her. Rei hurries to the bathroom. You don't hear her throw up, and Rei returns a few minutes later, unperturbed. Anyway, her memory after she was pinned to the building is a bit of a blur. She thinks Shinji might have saved her life? But she's not sure. She…should she thank him?
Rei is feeling kind of…well, she feels…excuse Rei for a moment. Rei returns to the bathroom. Rei returns. Rei is feeling like an empty vase. Like dried-up watercolor paints. She cannot pilot Eva in this state. It feels bad. She is not sure what she should be doing with herself right now. She's been spending most of her time sitting at home staring into space or sleeping while you and Shinji are at work/school. Rei is no stranger to idleness, and she tells you that this is what she did before she moved in with you in her spare time.
You teasingly tell her that you recall Rei saying she was busy when you asked her about spending time with friends. Rei falls silent for a moment. She was…awaiting orders, so she had to be on standby. Rei frowns. Should she still be doing that? You encourage her to keep her hobbies up. Rei nods. Of course. You know best, Captain.
Rei says she's been spending more time with Shinji. Rei says she thinks she enjoys his company. She does not understand why he seems so nervous around her, though. She seems worried about this.
Over the course of the week Rei's condition gradually improves, though she seems a bit mixed-up sometimes. She briefly went back to not wearing clothes at home for an evening, to Shinji's mortification, until you reminded her about the conversation you had. Rei looks genuinely embarrassed (though probably more that she forgot than anything else). She also tries unsuccessfully to cook, having briefly forgotten that she's not supposed to. She burns the vegetarian dish she was making in the pan. Shinji helps bandage one of her fingers after she nicks it with a knife.
You wiggle your eyebrows at him as he flushes from holding Rei's hand. He glares at you. You love teasing this kid.
[x] Talk to Shinji about Tokyo-3
It's uh. Nice. Uh. Apart from all the toxic dust? Shinji seems to be trying extra hard to find something nice to say about the city, but you can tell he's kind of struggling. The mood in the city has been pretty shitty as of late, so that doesn't really surprise you. There's an ongoing emigration from the city by a decent chunk of the population. Apparently, Shinji, Aida and Suzuhara are the only boys left in their class now. A lot of people are walking around wearing masks. Most are sensible, but some are pretty elaborate. The cashier at your local convenience store wears a full WWI-era gas mask. It's awkward. You and him both commiserate on the unpleasant state of affairs.
You manage to finally convince Shinji that this particular problem wasn't his fault. You explain in detail that pretty much anything that either Rei or he did would have resulted in the Angel shedding a massive amount of toxic dust. Shinji seems a little less depressed about the situation when you're done.
Shinji excuses himself to go check on Rei, who is spacing out on the couch. You let them be.
[x] Combat training
You work on Shinji's melee abilities this week, which in previous training sessions have left a lot to be desired. He can't rely on Rei to do all the dirty work this time, so you put him up against simulation-Azazel and Sariel (Arakiel's program isn't done yet and is probably a bit too fresh in Shinji's mind) and let them beat the crap out of him.
The sessions are grueling, but eventually, Shinji starts fighting back, rather than flailing around ineffectually when overwhelmed. He's able to consistently finish off Azazel with only minimal damage to Unit-01 by the end of the week. Sariel's trickier. You think you might need to work on his physical coordination.
[x] Go out/free time
Rei and Shinji go for a long walk together, entirely on Shinji's own initiative. You're impressed. You fight the urge to embarrass him for it and let him have this moment. Shinji evidently had noticed Rei has slowly been merging with your living room couch and decided Rei needs to use her legs. The walk is eventually cut short when Rei's nausea acts up, but she seems genuinely appreciative over Shinji fussing over her.
[x] Arts program
Rei spends her afternoons working with clay. She's not really able to produce much as she's having trouble focusing. She makes a crude model of Pen2 and some odd pitted spherical objects that are her attempts at making a model of the moon. Rei can't quite remember what it looks like from memory. She switches back to charcoal after a few aborted attempts to make a model of her own head and doodles aimlessly, mostly drawing pictures of buildings and penguins. She doesn't seem as engaged as usual, but she doesn't seem unhappy.
[x] Special activity: Buy Rei a Penguin plush and have a calm talk about how to handle pets. I.E: Don't squeeze them.
You drive way out of your way to pick up a plush that's almost the same size as Pen2 and present it to Rei. Rei doesn't understand. Why would she prefer a simulacrum to the real thing? Humans always prefer real things to simulacra, right? You shrug. There are some artificial things you prefer to real things. Like the simulated Angels. And artificial banana flavor. And horror movies. Rei smiles at you briefly and accepts the penguin. You instruct her on better ways to interact with Pen2. You notice she's been kind of smothering him, and he's his own man. Rei has to let him exist independently from her. Rei thinks about this for longer than you expected her to, and then asks you why you think that.
What do you say?
[ ] Write-in
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- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hey, we've accidentally got ourself into the most important conversation of the quest so far and probably for quite a while!
Amazing how these things work out.
Amazing how these things work out.
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Misato...really?
Anime!
You know what, that's pretty fair.
Not strictly true. If the Angel had exploded, the chemicals in the dust would have most likely oxidized, which would probably make them less toxic on average.
...that is a weird way to phrase that question. Even for Rei.
Either the concussion is still getting to her, or someone replaced Rei with a robot duplicate and its act is slipping.
I get the angels (I'd be concerned if Misato preferred the real ones), but who prefers artificial banana flavor to actual bananas?
"It's important to give people the freedom they need to—"
"No, I mean why do you think Pen2 is a man?"
Anyways, the question of "Why is it good to let this creature exist independently?" has obvious thematic significance. If we don't have an answer that applies to Rei, we should probably find some way to deflect the question.
[X] "Um...Pen2 needs his independence to stay healthy and be the best penguin he can be. If we hold on to him too tightly, he'll be stuck where he is and won't be able to stretch his...wings?" (Are penguin wings still called wings?)
(I figured that perfectly reciting a carefully-overthought answer would be a bit out of character for Misato.)
She's probably drunk more crème de banane than actually eaten bananas in her life at this point, cut her some slack.