You could always have Ritsuko realize that despite appearances, Gendo doesn't care about Rei any more on a personal level than he does about Ritsuko. All he cares about is Rei fulfilling her purpose and Rei doesn't care about anything other than that either, making Rei just as much of a victim and a...

Having thought over this last night, I'm certain that one thing I'd do is explain that the reason why Asuka and Misato are so grouchy towards Shinji is because they already gave up on ever seeing him again years ago. They've made peace with the thought of him being gone and gotten closure. Then he s...

No.

I'd be happy to have more animated Evangelion, but no live action. Frak that excrement.

What in the world... is that some kind of early MP Eva model or something?

Reichu#896199 wrote:it does help to check and make sure that a name actually exists before using it

Which is why, when I need a name for an OC, I hit up a list of common Japanese given names.

And when people insist that FemKaworu should be Kaoruko instead of Kaori.

By the way, you should change Shinji to Shinjiko for this fic :wink: I don't name-change characters when genderbending them. In fact, for one of my stories I even came up with an excuse for why the character in question has a gender-inappropriate name. This is a very interesting idea. The image of ...

From what I remember, the premise is that Mari is an adult who is made the legal guardian of Shinji after Yui's death, and introduces the boy to Asuka and her family, so presumably he spends much of his remaining childhood years in Germany. ...are we talking about the same story? Because from what ...

That's Shinji/Mari, not Shinji/Asuka.

Didn't you mean You Should (Not) Sign Weird Contracts? AKA the fic where Shinji and Asuka are childhood penpals and he accidentally sells his soul to her for some chocolate?

He's doing it on purpose. One time, he wrote a sappy and WAFFy AsuShin romance oneshot - and an omake epilogue where Shinji wakes up in the kitchen to the sight of Misato lying in a pool of her own blood and Asuka in the middle of tying a noose around his neck with a cheery grin in preparation for a...

YMMV. Back in the day, many considered his works to be dark, sure, but still quality material. This one, though, feels to me more like bashing Ritsuko's character, which nowadays is one of the fastest ways to destroy all my respect for an author.

It's not just a matter of her doing pleasant things. It's a matter of her consciously engaging in emotional manipulation to make Shinji do degrading things while reveling in the fact that she's too indispensable to NERV's continued operations to be punished.

It is, but mostly for the backstory and worldbuilding. In the here and now, it's still very much an Evangelion story with the same characters and eventual tone. It's just that this time around, the core formative reason for Asuka's personality wasn't Kyoko's suicide, but Kyoko getting gunned down wh...

The closest I ever came to this in my ongoing fic is an Asuka who focuses more on pursuing an explicitly military career path, rather than academic success. As such, she's not any further ahead academically than her peers but is an exceptionally skilled junior pilot even in non-Eva mechas (in fact, ...

That's still up for grabs, although I feel at least some level of seriousness would work best. Not completely serious, though; Shinji and Asuka mutually pushing each other to perform better and better (and possibly even the Angels upping their game in response) will inevitably result in NERV just co...

...had a silly mental image today when my mind remembered Shinji and WH40k from years past: take the same idea (Shinji finding fictional material at a young age that profoundly alters his personality) but genderflip it and replace WH40k with Gunbuster. Thus the tentative title: Shinji Aims For The T...

A brief look back at his prior posts shows that he does that all the time.

I don't think any further commentary is needed, he'll get himself permabanned eventually.

What, you don't like AsuShin?

If you ever get around to writing it yourself, feel free to; just keep in mind that it might not attract much traffic. With how much time has gone by since Q, interest in Eva is nowhere near as high as it was ten years ago. A few months ago, one of my reviewers pretty much chewed me out for asking f...

Chaddy, at this point pretty much everything canon-compliant is hackneyed. People just don't dare write anything else because of the stigma around AUs.

And judging from the success of A&T, people can never have enough Asushin.