"This character is definitely a god in human form, and if you don't agree you probably just watched it wrong". Well ... good thing that I didn't say "If you don't agree then you watched it wrong", then, and neither made any claims of absolute truth. :shrug: Characters being huma...

Rebuild has a continuous theme of what makes someone human [...] Gendo gradually lost his humanity I think we need to clarify terms at this point. What does "Gendo losing his humanity" actually mean when we see that, in the end, he's still reacting like a scared human bound by the hedgeho...

I think Gandalf was one of the characters who showed his humanity a lot. He was in no way alien or strange; excentric, maybe, but not on some different, incomprehensible level of existence. His emotions were very human. His fear of carrying the ring himself was the same fear Galadriel had; another &...

I don't like the implications for the narrative if Asuka is somehow less human than everyone else How would her being an Adams make her less human, though? Gandalf wasn't "less human" because he was was an ancient godlike being taking the mantle of the old, grey wizard. NGE already spelle...

The only time I saw this done was in Adam Kadmon's old Witness (the version on MediaMiner). Be warned though, it's a Kadmon story. So it's dark and strange and pretty brutal. (I found it waffy in the end, but I'm weird anyway.)

Congratulations from me as well! With Freaky, I know the team has made the right choice! On slightly sadder news: I will have to announce my leave from active moderation. As regulars to the forum might have noticed, I wasn't really active in the past few months. So, while my interest in Eva still re...

Yeah, I was just arguing against the "It's due to time constraints" point, and took that scene as an example that you can do different things in the same amount of time without changing any motivations that are already there, but can in fact add new ones. No need to cut anything. That make...

My point is that I don't think NGE spends less time with Shinji than the movies. I think the movies just spend less time with everyone else, and I honestly think it's a time problem. It's really not. Let me give you an example of a scene which would work just as well in the same amount of time with...

I mean ... they are about to take off into space. Yet Mari has a school uniform on hand. Asuka, who had no reason at all to bring two plugsuits has an old one she never intended to use before Mari planted that idea in her head. She kept that around for 14 years just for this occasion. It isn't even ...

And again, the seven days are over! Thank you to everybody who participated!

But yeah, having this small story about how Asuka is still strongly feeling for Shinji after all this time weeks after the movie it advertises sank that ship (or at best relegate it to the realm of a very distant possibility) is... an odd choice. If you want to be cynical about it, you could suspec...

Until Then ... A man sits in his cabin. He holds a photograph in one hand, a glass in the other. The picture shows a boy, fourteen years old; the glass contains Whiskey. Some of the good stuff. Vintage. Almost impossible to get your hands on nowadays, but just right for the occasion. A small sip fil...

Really great post, Kendrix!

I hope to add more in the future, but right now, I want to say that Shinji seeing Rei when he was 10 is very unlikely, as he has no recollection of her at all when he arrives in Tokio 3. If she was the reason his meeting with his father went sour, he'd remember her.

(Thanks for the scenarios, dzzthink! I've added them to my list of ideas!) @Kendrix: Very nice to see the first entry so early! And it was a really good one, too. Just my kind of ... hm, bittersweet, I guess? Shinji berating himself for still being a child and having entirely understandable human em...

God damn, I'm late! I almost didn't make it, but here it is: the latest small writing prompt. As you probably gathered from the title, it's Shinji's birthday today, and that's the also the only limitation storywise for this challenge: it must contain the sentence "Happy Birthday, Shinji." ...

Don't worry, the project stalling had nothing to do with you at all, or the level of participation in general. I was simply out of time and energy.

Then please refrain from being smug about your own abilities and being generally abrasive, and please abstain from the grandiose lectures about moral imperatives, implying everybody besides yourself is a bumbling baffoon, who feels no need to get things right and doesnt understand things like "...

You can't just rely on what a dictionary or thesaurus tells you without being able to seek out further collocations or being familiar with instances of the word used in translation. And nobody on here did this, or argued that that's the right way to do things. Stop strawmanning people. I added that...

Because she's looked after him in loco parentis for a time. I guess I should have been less absolute in my statements. Asuka changed a lot during NTE, but the ending doesn't turn her into her polar opposite; it harkens back to something she did all along, namely, playing videogames to escape from r...

Yeah, or much older. She's called Maria of Iscariot, so ... dunno, she could be ancient.

Edit: @Axx°N N.: I'd argue that Asuka hasn't changed at all, though.