What are some of the most done to death NGE fanfic ideas?
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What are some of the most done to death NGE fanfic ideas?
I am an aspiring fanfic writer that wants to get my foot out the door, but I want to know something...
What are the most done to death NGE fanfic ideas ever?
I want to avoid or at least subvert cliches like the plague, so I need to know the most done to death or "dead horse" fanfic ideas.
What are the most done to death NGE fanfic ideas ever?
I want to avoid or at least subvert cliches like the plague, so I need to know the most done to death or "dead horse" fanfic ideas.
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There's a funny thing about cliches: They tend to get "overused" because they work. One man's cliche is another's favored style. NGE fandom is full of stories where Shinji or someone else gets to go back in time for another chance, for example, but lots of really popular fics are based on that idea and a whole lot of people don't really mind that it's been done thousands of times.
I don't read much fanfic though so I'm not the best person to be answering this question. But it's just something I've noticed from reading other people talk about fanfics.
I don't read much fanfic though so I'm not the best person to be answering this question. But it's just something I've noticed from reading other people talk about fanfics.
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TvTropes.org is always a good place to go to get an idea of what is done way too much (and you will spend way too much time there doing other things...).
Going with what Clover said, Peggy Sues are done in Eva a lot (travel back in time to right what's wrong). Mary Sues/Gary Stus are also present, though not as much as they used to be (introducing a new original character who begins to overshadow the canon characters).
As has the 'Shinji is a badass' story, or something along those lines (not so much a minor tweak, but a major personality revision).
With all that being said, write the story you want to write. Ask someone to beta-read it for you (for edits and critiques) before you post/publish it, and you will save yourself a significant amount of headache and heartache.
If you would like to go get some ideas to start with that are truly original, however, scrolls through the 'From Your Lips to the Authors Ears' post at the top. People are always kicking around story ideas, and some of them are very unique. Some of those ideas are open to whoever wants to grab them (being suggested by people who want a good story but don't have the time or ability to write themselves). If you see one that interests you there, contact the original poster and see if it's okay for you to give the concept a try.
I hope to see you posting stories soon!
Going with what Clover said, Peggy Sues are done in Eva a lot (travel back in time to right what's wrong). Mary Sues/Gary Stus are also present, though not as much as they used to be (introducing a new original character who begins to overshadow the canon characters).
As has the 'Shinji is a badass' story, or something along those lines (not so much a minor tweak, but a major personality revision).
With all that being said, write the story you want to write. Ask someone to beta-read it for you (for edits and critiques) before you post/publish it, and you will save yourself a significant amount of headache and heartache.
If you would like to go get some ideas to start with that are truly original, however, scrolls through the 'From Your Lips to the Authors Ears' post at the top. People are always kicking around story ideas, and some of them are very unique. Some of those ideas are open to whoever wants to grab them (being suggested by people who want a good story but don't have the time or ability to write themselves). If you see one that interests you there, contact the original poster and see if it's okay for you to give the concept a try.
I hope to see you posting stories soon!
Though, Gob still might look good in a cocktail dress.
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Most overdone ideas -- "let's make this story of apocalyptic engineering to fix the human condition into a teen romance, with Shinji/my favourite girl in the lead (optional Kensuke/reject girl to taste)".
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Off the top of my head, Shinji being transported back in time to the beginning/middle of the series following the events of EoE.
This one is so infuriatingly common, I don't even bother to read ones that have this plotline anymore.
This one is so infuriatingly common, I don't even bother to read ones that have this plotline anymore.
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The 'Shinji as a badass/confident person/not-a-sniveling-wreck' idea seems to recur a lot. For some reason it also seems to be in every bad fic I've read. Maybe there's just something too OOC about it, or just the way writers often try and force masculinity onto Shinji like a blanket of testosterone makes it difficult to reconcile the TV Shinji and Fanfic Shinji.
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I always thought I might be bad
Now I know that it's true
Because I think you're so good
And I'm nothing like you
I always thought I might be bad
Now I know that it's true
Because I think you're so good
And I'm nothing like you
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And this goes right back to "One man's cliche is another man's favored formula".
(Formula's not the right word. Genre? I think people know what I mean.)
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"To me watching anime is not just for killing time or entertainment, it is a life style, and a healthy one too." -- symbv
"That sounds like the kind of science that makes absolutely 0 sense when you stop and think about it... I LOVE IT." -- Rosenakahara
"NGE is like a perfectly improvised jazz piece. It builds on a standard and then plays off it from there, and its developments may occasionally recall what it's done before as a way of keeping the whole concatenated." -- Eva Yojimbo
"To me watching anime is not just for killing time or entertainment, it is a life style, and a healthy one too." -- symbv
"That sounds like the kind of science that makes absolutely 0 sense when you stop and think about it... I LOVE IT." -- Rosenakahara
Formula is correct.
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"The Second Try" is very good too IMO.
"The Second Try" is very good too IMO.
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Kensuke is a military otaku who, at one point, is shown creepily taking pictures of girls to sell. He would clearly fit right in as an animator at Studio Gainax. -- Compiling_Autumn
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