What's the worst Eva fanfic you've ever read?

[ChaddyManPrime]

There are bishops who have hid paedophile priests that are less wastes of oxygen than Modaetei. I hope he gets beaten to death by a gang of dildo-wielding radfems.

Good Sir, I wish this forum had things such as Rep and Thank you buttons.

[Doublegee]

So, about this seahorse king...

[ChaddyManPrime]

So, about this seahorse king...

Bro I'm telling you, you really don't want to read that stuff.

[Nuclear Lunchbox]

Minutes? Try longer than that, much longer.

Nuke-kun can't wait forever, you know. The longest he got knocked out of commission was for the month after I played Katawa Shoujo. So many feels in that game...

[Guy Nacks]

Nuke-kun can't wait forever, you know. The longest he got knocked out of commission was for the month after I played Katawa Shoujo. So many feels in that game...

Jesus Christ, man, a whole month? The last time I went close to that long was my freshman year of college and that was necessitated by figuring out when it would be more than certain my roommate wouldn't come back from wherever he was. Though I had some close calls after the fact.

[Nuclear Lunchbox]

How do you expect a man to after Emi's route, man?

[Guy Nacks]

How do you expect a man to after Emi's route, man?

Emi was my first and favorite route, meaning she's the waifu for me, but a whole month?
When your balls are blue, they need tenderness too.

[Monk Ed]

I find wishing actual death upon a mere author far more disturbing than the author's fictional material...

Most disturbing thing I've read in this topic.

[Bagheera]

I find wishing actual death upon a mere author far more disturbing than the author's fictional material...

Most disturbing thing I've read in this topic.

Yeah, gotta agree. Modaetei is definitelly disturbing, but get some perspective peeps.

[Rommel]

Actually, Shinji is a heroic, determined person whose first instinct is to put himself before others even when it hurts him. Some people miss the point of his character, which is that his self loathing is largely undeserved and many of his problems would go away and he would be much happier if he wasn't so focused on his own sadness and trying to please a man who's not worthy of his respect and love.

You have to dig deep to find the heroic stuff. Just look at how long it took me. Most people don't want that kind of commitment in their fanfiction (both readers and authors). And specially not in most of the stuff on this list.

As for a certain horse king from the sea ... see what you did people? You couldn't just be like the mob: you see nothing, hear nothing and, most importantly, you say nothing.

[Stillborn]

But we can be like mob in other aspects: We find him, we break his legs as a warning

[ChaddyManPrime]

But we can be like mob in other aspects: We find him, we break his legs as a warning

He'll be sleeping with the fishes and by fishes I mean other Sea horses.

[Bagheera]

You have to dig deep to find the heroic stuff. Just look at how long it took me. Most people don't want that kind of commitment in their fanfiction (both readers and authors). And specially not in most of the stuff on this list.

As for a certain horse king from the sea ... see what you did people? You couldn't just be like the mob: you see nothing, hear nothing and, most importantly, you say nothing.

The fault is mine and mine alone. I will learn, one of these days.

[Monk Ed]

Any other bad fics besides Father that try to be touching but wind up sucking?

[AngelNo13Bardiel]

How's this for a new twist on the topic: How about really really bad fics that are actually trying to be sweet and happy but completely fuck it up and make something that's just sappy and saccharine and bad? That's a great way to get away from all this talk of KoAS and Modaetai!

Ages ago, there was this fic I read called Nephilim...

Alright, alright, I get it already! Sheesh, beat on a dead horse some more, why dontcha?
Trust me, I'll be the first to join you in saying that it's crap and should probably be redone from the ground up...but I haven't the heart anymore for such a project, a shrug of ambivalence. I have moved on from it.

As with everything, it's all in the execution. When I read that summary I thought "That sounds hilarious". People often make fun of fics (or works generally) by summarizing them in a way that makes them sound ridiculous, offensive, boring, or whatever it is that the fun-maker wants to portray, but really, you can do that with just about anything.

But everything I've heard about Father is that said execution is bad.

This. It had such good intentions...then fucked them up royally by going just a little too far into "super-happy-happy-land-of-WAFF-and-sunshine".

If you read it purely for amusement value, however (much like was done with the FFS), it's a laugh-and-a-half. Just so many bad and overdone tropes...I want to chuckle just remembering it.

[Monk Ed]

Alright, alright, I get it already! Sheesh, beat on a dead horse some more, why dontcha?

When was the last time I even mentioned it? I don't even remember the last time I mentioned it on EGF.

Trust me, I'll be the first to join you in saying that it's crap and should probably be redone from the ground up...but I haven't the heart anymore for such a project, a shrug of ambivalence. I have moved on from it.

It doesn't need to be redone. The fact that it even exists is testament to a kind of courage and perseverance I envy, because I have yet to finish a single personal project I have ever set out to do. And you know what keeps holding me back? supreme laziness but also The fear of failure -- the fear of making something that's crap that someone will say is crap and might even get made fun of. The same way I can't accept anything less than an A for a grade, I can't stand to produce anything I think won't get the highest of praise from at least the kind of crowd whose opinions I'd care about. And so I keep revising and revising, and keeping my ear to the ground, and losing heart when it seems like any part of the thing I'm writing sounds like anything anyone else has said anything bad about, and coming back each spring-summer to the same thing again with renewed vigor and "fuck what they'll say"-itude only to repeat the cycle, never able to just go and finish the damn thing no matter what the latest opinions were that I read in the Fanfiction subforum about whether this or that or whatever is overdone or terrible or a sign of a terrible writer even though ten months or even ten minutes later somebody else whose opinion I respect just as much will probably rebut the other person's entire thesis and I'll smile and feel relieved but then maybe at some other time they'll say something else that sets me on the whole cycle again and it just, never, ends!

So yeah, far as I'm concerned, it's perfect.

[amitakartok]

I feel the exact same way and the reason why I didn't finish any of my works.

[AngelNo13Bardiel]

When was the last time I even mentioned it? I don't even remember the last time I mentioned it on EGF.

No, but you've mentioned your...dislike of it a few times elsewhere (that one forum SSD ran a few years back, for instance). It was a comment meant in jest, that's all.

It doesn't need to be redone. The fact that it even exists is testament to a kind of courage and perseverance I envy, because I have yet to finish a single personal project I have ever set out to do. And you know what keeps holding me back? supreme laziness but also The fear of failure -- the fear of making something that's crap that someone will say is crap and might even get made fun of. The same way I can't accept anything less than an A for a grade, I can't stand to produce anything I think won't get the highest of praise from at least the kind of crowd whose opinions I'd care about. And so I keep revising and revising, and keeping my ear to the ground, and losing heart when it seems like any part of the thing I'm writing sounds like anything anyone else has said anything bad about, and coming back each spring-summer to the same thing again with renewed vigor and "fuck what they'll say"-itude only to repeat the cycle, never able to just go and finish the damn thing no matter what the latest opinions were that I read in the Fanfiction subforum about whether this or that or whatever is overdone or terrible or a sign of a terrible writer even though ten months or even ten minutes later somebody else whose opinion I respect just as much will probably rebut the other person's entire thesis and I'll smile and feel relieved but then maybe at some other time they'll say something else that sets me on the whole cycle again and it just, never, ends!

So yeah, far as I'm concerned, it's perfect.

...wow.

I never expected anything I did would ever engender such a reaction. I always thought I was just another fanatic shouting in a vacuum, a voice among many yet still voiceless in larger matters.

I think the real thing is that I never wrote for anyone else's benefit, just mine. If I had been doing this trying to get good reviews? Yeah, I'd never get a frickin' thing done (yes, even less than my semi-hibernating status seems to imply).

Thanks, Ed. You've given me something to think on this day.

[Executive Washington]

I'm going to have to say "Genesis and Requiem", which has been recently published on March 18th. It has been two chapters in, and it only receives one favorite and two follows, which means that its bad. The reason why I don't like this fanfic is primarily the formatting.

The formatting is fucking awful. Every sentence seems to be indented or in a paragraph. Also, the author's note, if it should really be called one advertises for a petition to stop SOPA. I think the SOPA bullshit has passed...

Anyway, go take a look at this fanfic and see what you think. Its a self insert as well, while the genre itself may not be necessary bad, there's so many bad fanfics in this genre that its reputation seems to be tainted.

[url]https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10198182/1/Genesis-and-Requiem[/url]

[Shinoyami65]

^I read as far as 'reborn into the world of Evangelion', a few fragments after that, and that was enough to drive me away. It's not the worst writing I've seen but I didn't like the way the author tries to self-insert by claiming they've been 'reborn' rather than just placing themselves in the role of a character. I'm not sure if they actually believe that or if it's just meant to add a new twist to it, but it just felt contrived and a bit creepy.

And then there was the rather unnecessary description of how she died, which I found was rather vivid considering that she can't remember her original name. The formatting is weird, although at least it's better than throwing it all into a huge block paragraph.