Mr. Tines wrote:Not sure I'll ever get around to this one...
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View Original PostMr. Tines wrote:
So EVA-03 and EVA-04 make it safely to Tokyo-3; pilots Suzuhara and Horaki are inducted. Something in the initial tests makes Touji come over all protective in a "a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do" sort of way. Hikari thinks she's finally gotten through to him but he's still oblivious; and we have another disconnected couple.
Meanwhile Bardiel manifests, and hiI'm afraid it's Asuka who looks most disposable at this point. EVA-02 goes amok. Hikari and Shinji won't fight; Rei is ineffective, Touji tries but hesitates at a critical moment, and then - well things get a bit like in NME. Asuka spends the rest of the series in Room 303.
Hikari tries to comfort Shinji, but he can't face human contact, and quits.
Zeruel arrives and it's up to Touji and then Rei to try and hold it back. When EVA-03 falls, it's Hikari who then oversynchs in EVA-04 while Shinji is talking gardening and philosophy with Kaji.
Rei takes the lead against Arael as planned; retreats promptly, and then employs the Lance
Armisael vs Shinji, Rei and Touji (Hikari is held back for the same reason that canonically Shinji was) - this one could go in any of a number of different ways; but rather than saying that 3 Evas are enough to defeat it, say that Touji has to sacrifice himself. Ritsuko and Shinji still play out their parts for the rest of that episode.
Cue Tabris, and a brief Hikari/Kaworu pairing (Has anyone ever done that pairing before???)
End-game: Gendo's scenario is having to be revised on the fly as Yui-sama doesn't have an S2; SEELE are probably happy enough to employ EVA-04 as the medium for their plan. Shinji is probably useless, but would be stuffed into the entry-plug and EVA-01 dropped to the bottom of the lake while Hikari, operating without Asuka's limits, is able to eventually take down the harpies.
Instrumentality proceeds as GNR erupts - but who guides the process? Ikari-kun who is calling from the bottom of the lake, or Hikari in the spiritually active EVA-04?
I actually like this one quite a bit. Imagine Unit 04's S2 installation was a smashing success much to the disdain of one of the "deceptive factions:" SEELE, NERV, or Kaji...
One of these was at least expecting the event that occurs in ep. 17. It'd be funny to see them suddenly scrambling in a different way.
As for the end game, I'd say that the Kaworu vs. Hikari+ No Reiquarium/Rei II is still alive, etc.
is very important to consider. Also, where is Shinji (and extension Kensuke) in all of this.
Anyway, I'd say that Shinji is bored by proving useless on the same day as 3I/NERV is attacked. He FINALLY visits Asuka in the hospital after she was predominately ghosted throughout the series over on. That moment plays out the same as EoE.
Meanwhile, Hikari beats down the MPEs all by herself with Shinji and Asuka stowed away in the lake. She forcefully pulls up Unit 01 is pinned and paralyze via a total loss of autonomy (poor Yui!) at this point.
She imitates a summoning of Rei II in Unit 00. She over powers it causing it to explode. In doing so, she destroys HQ and Central dogma taking Gendo/Adam and Lilith with her. Then, Yui, Lilith, Adam, Kaworu, and the Reis come together and do their thing to break down Hikari.
Beach scene: Hikari washes up with Shinji, whom she also accidently summoned as Eva 04 floats to the Heavens with Asuka's soul kept within (her way of throwing her a bone after having her part cut so short).
What do you think???
