That's true, but it isn't necessarily a good thing when your shared experiences are truamatic and more often than not divisive sore spots. "Hey Shinji, remember that times you showed my up at the one thing I dedicated my life to being good at, eventually causing my suicidal breakdown? ...

Speaking from (admittedly limited to myself and a few other people I know, but still) experience: a relationship in which one partner is notably more mentally stable than the other tends to destabilize the saner one while having no particular effect on the less sane. Asuka and Shinji are ne...

That has a lot to do with it, actually; and if one insists on pairing them with someone, let it be each with someone who's got their own shit together and can handle the task. Fair enough, but: First, in many fics they aren't all that fucked up (ISRP, Angelic Days, etc). Things also...

It's probably worth noting for context that NemZ and I are pretty much anti-shippers of this pairing. I know, and it's always struck me as somewhat irrational. I can get behind opposition to a Shinji/Rei pairing -- she's a clone of his mother, after all, and is a de facto sister more th...

But it's hope of a personal growth sort, not something that in any way hints at WAFF on the horizon. In EoTV Shinji doesn't give Asuka any sort of special consideration whatsoever, and now that their personal traumas have been addressed they have nothing at all in common. That's not tru...

Even that isn't a "Happy ever after" -- however you read it (as concurrent with EoE, or an awakening on the other side of Complementation), it's an ending that sets out a new beginning (as in, when the hikkikomori stumbles out into the Big Blue Room for the first time ...

>Evangelion >have a "happily ever after" ending. I think I see your problem. While you don't have to go full-on grimdark, melancholy to bittersweet seems a more fitting register to aim for. [points at EoTV] Not necessarily. :smirk: One thing I think might be worth mentioning is that S...

Well, you'll find most people around here have taken the red pill, so to speak. Personally I find that most of the heavy lifting in that relationship gets done by Shinji in the kitchen scene in EoE -- doing that two-hand lift at arms length is quite impressive! :devil: Tch. He only strangles be...

Er...what? You ARE an A-S shipper (Kudos!), and then you're NOT an A-S shipper (>:()? Well, most stories don't do the heavy lifting needed to sell the idea, so I'm not a fan of them. I'm a fan of the idea, in other words, but not the way it's generally put in...

Greetings all. I guess into posts are the thing to do here, so here goes. I've appreciated Eva for a loooooong time, but only crossed into real fandom territory relatively recently. Funny story, that; I went and read Nobody Dies, which got me watching Rebuild, which in turn got me watching the s...