All Purpose Evangelion Fanfiction Thread

I noticed.

Okay, three people then.

Nah, me just like to see that me common sense is still sharp enuff for stuff. Night was good man for that, though a bit... testy. Might be military man on clock. Maybe.

And me generally not seeing EVA stuff (not like cold bath, thank you very much) but the tech... and mech... and commentaries....

It's getting progressively harder to find anyone to brainstorm my ideas with. General responses tend to be "no, it won't work because it deviates from the sacred canon, hence you shouldn't even be considering it, you sinner".

Oh, right, I keep forgetting that a lot of things that we take for granted due to being canon cannot apply in SCE due to wide-scale and extensive differences in the setting. My mistake.

My general rule of thumb, rather than to go "that doesn't work", is to instead ask for a reminder of "why the author thinks it can work".

Given what he posited before, I think the Yakuza stuff in general is fine, I'm just not sure how I feel about Mayumi being caught up in it.

She's not getting caught up in it. By the time she's born, the clan is pretty much nonexistent. The only reason why it even comes up is because Rei, having had connections in the Tokyo-2 underworld, recognizes the family name of her daughter's new friend^note the name itself first comes up early in SCE, where Rei tells Kaworu of the city's yakuza scene and advises him to stay the hell away from them.

Same thing with Kaworu's genetic father being distantly related to the Japanese imperial family: his great-great-grandmother was a Meiji-era imperial princess, yes, but it doesn't really mean anything, as she married outside the family and thus all her descendants were automatically disqualified from the order of succession.

edited 26th Aug '15 8:12:23 AM by amitakartok

At some point you need to ask yourself, what's the difference between the fanfic you're writing and an original work. My personal point of reference is that when the difference boils down to "names and terms used", then I already went too far from "fanfic".

Also, I don't think I can discuss your work with you, because it has very few points that register for me any higher than "curious fact". Although... Was that you or somebody else who talked about a Metal Gear crossover in this tread a while back?

Except if I were to write this as an original story, I'd be accused of ripping off existing stuff. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Must've been someone else. I don't like Metal Gear.

If the Metal Gear crossover idea you speak of is the one where the kids are forcibly transformed into cyborg ninjas and Misato serves as a Big Boss expy minus the Start of Darkness, then it's mine.

The one where Kensuke is a demolitions expert and missing a hand? Write it, man! I don't know much about Metal Gear, but what you described was quite awesome.

Metal Gear?!

Yeah, that was Marq's brainchild.

... I don't remember saying that he's missing a hand (though I might just do that anyway). Maybe you're confusing my WIP story with Solid Strike, in which Kensuke did lose his hand in the backstory (arm, actually) and replaced it with with a cyber-prosthetic... and which he's implied by Asuka's mental monologue to be using in NSFW ways. Asuka is the Solid Snake of that story, BTW. Meanwhile, Shinji is a Snake-Eyes-like Raiden (who was adopted and trained by an actual ninja known simply as "The Ninja"), Rei is another ninja who goes by the codename "Lady Zero", and Misato apparently has the nickname of "The Colonel".

edited 26th Aug '15 10:15:22 AM by MarqFJA

@amita: Ah. In that case, all of my objections have been satisfactorily put to rest.

Now go forth and do it.

Already on it.

Also, crack idea: Rei (canon this time) moves in with Puru, Puru Two and Marida Cruz. What happens?

edited 26th Aug '15 12:59:43 PM by amitakartok

Humanity Ensues, AND IT WILL BE WAFF.

Anyway, for the first time in a long time, I'm workin' on stuff.

Still in progress. Thoughts?

edited 31st Aug '15 12:47:39 PM by EvaUnit01

This does not look like a Whacky Elven Thesis.

That's because it isn't. It's from another one of my fics, Devourer.

Basically, it takes EVA-01's relationship with the Cannibalism Superpower trope and runs with (and deconstructs) the hell out of it, right from the first sortie.

It is the most cynical and nihilistic of all my EVA fics, started in 2011. And that, was my go at trying to start the third chapter.

TONIGHT (or whatever night I get the chapter done), OUR HERO SNAPS!

edited 31st Aug '15 1:22:27 PM by EvaUnit01

Yay SAN loss! XD

Having good SUFFERING scenes is important for drama and/or psychological horror. It's one of the best ways to get the reader immersed in what the character is feeling.

Also, if anyone here is interested, I recently published an all OC fic inspired by Adeptus Evangelion. Check it out here.

edited 31st Aug '15 1:39:53 PM by VolatileChills

AT LONG LAST, NEW BLOOD!

Anyway, I'm always hip for AE, so I'll be sure to check it out when I get the chance!

So Tokyo Ghoul?

Never heard of it. The initial plot bunny was "deconstruct Power Copying and use it as a vehicle for however much bitterness and angst I'm feeling at the moment", but since then it's kind of grown up a bit.

The reason for the Sanity Slippage is that every time EVA eats an Angel, their soul goes inside Shinji's head and starts taunting him, along with the EVA's biomechanical mutations feeding back into Shinji and gradually changing him into a part-human-part-Angel thing, akin to Kaworu and Rei.

Don't remember seeing you around here before. Been lurking?

Switching gears yet again, here's a teaser for another thing I'm trying to work on:

Yeah, I've checked this place a few times. Seems like the Adeva adaptation idea has been tried at least once before. XD