Evangelion [Evangelion] Miscellaneous ideas topic.
- Thread starter GenocideHeart
- Start date
I managed to grind out something resembling an outline.
Premise:
Gendo Ikari is a brilliant scientist who takes his son, Shinji, on crazy adventures.
Characters:
Gendo Ikari:
Gendo Ikari (nee Rokubungi) is a brilliant, if unorthodox scientist. He’s created many weird and wonderful devices, any number of which are capable of changing the world for the better.
He’s also completely amoral and thinks nothing of interrupting his son’s schooling to further his agenda.
Unfortunately for everyone, it is an agenda that is as fluid as liquid helium and as mysterious as dark matter.
Yui Ikari:
Yui Ikari, the late wife of Gendo and mother of Shinji. A woman of great beauty and sufficient intelligence to attract a terrible human being like Gendo Rokubungi. Yui Ikari was attracted to the idea of a glorious future courtesy of Gendo’s gadgets, with her looking to market some of his less troublesome ideas.
Unfortunately for the Ikari family unit, Yui was starting to get bored with Gendo and his apparent inability to create a functional, marketable product and she divorced him and took Shinji away.
After Yui’s death, Gendo is forced to look after Shinji, though he doesn’t seem to mind too much after a few discoveries during the intervening years.
Shinji Ikari:
Shinji Ikari, the only child of Gendo and Yui Ikari. A regular 14 year old boy living in Tokyo-3. He’s not the brightest, bravest, most athletic or even most cunning. Average is the word.
Compared to his father, Shinji Ikari is a bit dull-witted. But then, Gendo is possibly the smartest man on the planet.
But Shinji is a good, kind-hearted young man, whose quick thinking has saved him and his father on numerous occasions.
Naoko Akagi:
Naoko Akagi is the brilliant, but somewhat unhinged, rival of Gendo Ikari. She, and her associates, managed to cause the Second Impact, an apocalyptic event that changed the world forever.
The super-science community had chided her for incompetence, but Gendo had shrugged it off as an accident with a comment about “eggs and omelettes,†albeit in a tone that came across as sarcastic.
After a few years of trying to fix things, Naoko decided that Gendo’s slightly sarcastic comment was right and she refocused her efforts onto the goals of the SEELE Committee.
Gendo always seemed to get in the way and cause trouble for them, but it was not always through malice or general unpleasant behaviour. There were occasions when their agendas coincided and he would help them out.
Usually, this involved Shinji Ikari, and when it became clear that such a thing wasn’t a coincidence, a plan was formulated. A plan that Gendo himself would be proud of: use of a family member.
Ritsuko Akagi:
Ritsuko Akagi was a few years older than Shinji Ikari, but she still had a rebellious streak in her. She was bright, attractive, but resented her mother for her absence as a parental figure.
Ritsuko had often wondered if she was an unwanted child, especially since her father had long since fled the scene. Her grandparents had always treated her with respect and love, even if her mother had been a little resentful for the career interruption the pregnancy caused.
Still, it was weird having your mother try to push you towards a young man for the sake of unclear scientific goals.
Asuka Langley Sohryu:
Asuka Langley Sohryu is a classmate of Shinji’s. She’s also something of a school idol. She’s rich, smart, beautiful, but something of a bitch to people who annoy her.
Unfortunately, a number of people annoy her, including her mother. For reasons that no-one can adequately explain, Asuka’s mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu keeps trying to get her to get close to Shinji Ikari.
Asuka barely recognised Shinji at first, but certainly became aware of some of the weird things that seemed to happen around him. Things like a man claiming to be his father dragging him out of class for some vaguely described task.
But she did also acknowledge that Shinji Ikari was not as dull-witted as some of his classmates.
Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu:
Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu is Asuka’s mother and a brilliant scientist, one that could rival Naoko Akagi in a purely academic contest, though she is less ruthless than her boss.
Kyoko works for Naoko at SEELE and is one of the head researchers, though something of an absentee mother, leaving her filthy rich but mentally inferior (Naoko’s words, not Kyoko’s) husband to raise Asuka.
Kyoko would love to make one of the breakthroughs that Gendo seems to make during one of his bathroom breaks, so she agrees to Naoko’s plan to get Asuka and Shinji together for the possibility that he might give her something valuable.
Premise:
Gendo Ikari is a brilliant scientist who takes his son, Shinji, on crazy adventures.
Characters:
Gendo Ikari:
Gendo Ikari (nee Rokubungi) is a brilliant, if unorthodox scientist. He’s created many weird and wonderful devices, any number of which are capable of changing the world for the better.
He’s also completely amoral and thinks nothing of interrupting his son’s schooling to further his agenda.
Unfortunately for everyone, it is an agenda that is as fluid as liquid helium and as mysterious as dark matter.
Yui Ikari:
Yui Ikari, the late wife of Gendo and mother of Shinji. A woman of great beauty and sufficient intelligence to attract a terrible human being like Gendo Rokubungi. Yui Ikari was attracted to the idea of a glorious future courtesy of Gendo’s gadgets, with her looking to market some of his less troublesome ideas.
Unfortunately for the Ikari family unit, Yui was starting to get bored with Gendo and his apparent inability to create a functional, marketable product and she divorced him and took Shinji away.
After Yui’s death, Gendo is forced to look after Shinji, though he doesn’t seem to mind too much after a few discoveries during the intervening years.
Shinji Ikari:
Shinji Ikari, the only child of Gendo and Yui Ikari. A regular 14 year old boy living in Tokyo-3. He’s not the brightest, bravest, most athletic or even most cunning. Average is the word.
Compared to his father, Shinji Ikari is a bit dull-witted. But then, Gendo is possibly the smartest man on the planet.
But Shinji is a good, kind-hearted young man, whose quick thinking has saved him and his father on numerous occasions.
Naoko Akagi:
Naoko Akagi is the brilliant, but somewhat unhinged, rival of Gendo Ikari. She, and her associates, managed to cause the Second Impact, an apocalyptic event that changed the world forever.
The super-science community had chided her for incompetence, but Gendo had shrugged it off as an accident with a comment about “eggs and omelettes,†albeit in a tone that came across as sarcastic.
After a few years of trying to fix things, Naoko decided that Gendo’s slightly sarcastic comment was right and she refocused her efforts onto the goals of the SEELE Committee.
Gendo always seemed to get in the way and cause trouble for them, but it was not always through malice or general unpleasant behaviour. There were occasions when their agendas coincided and he would help them out.
Usually, this involved Shinji Ikari, and when it became clear that such a thing wasn’t a coincidence, a plan was formulated. A plan that Gendo himself would be proud of: use of a family member.
Ritsuko Akagi:
Ritsuko Akagi was a few years older than Shinji Ikari, but she still had a rebellious streak in her. She was bright, attractive, but resented her mother for her absence as a parental figure.
Ritsuko had often wondered if she was an unwanted child, especially since her father had long since fled the scene. Her grandparents had always treated her with respect and love, even if her mother had been a little resentful for the career interruption the pregnancy caused.
Still, it was weird having your mother try to push you towards a young man for the sake of unclear scientific goals.
Asuka Langley Sohryu:
Asuka Langley Sohryu is a classmate of Shinji’s. She’s also something of a school idol. She’s rich, smart, beautiful, but something of a bitch to people who annoy her.
Unfortunately, a number of people annoy her, including her mother. For reasons that no-one can adequately explain, Asuka’s mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu keeps trying to get her to get close to Shinji Ikari.
Asuka barely recognised Shinji at first, but certainly became aware of some of the weird things that seemed to happen around him. Things like a man claiming to be his father dragging him out of class for some vaguely described task.
But she did also acknowledge that Shinji Ikari was not as dull-witted as some of his classmates.
Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu:
Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu is Asuka’s mother and a brilliant scientist, one that could rival Naoko Akagi in a purely academic contest, though she is less ruthless than her boss.
Kyoko works for Naoko at SEELE and is one of the head researchers, though something of an absentee mother, leaving her filthy rich but mentally inferior (Naoko’s words, not Kyoko’s) husband to raise Asuka.
Kyoko would love to make one of the breakthroughs that Gendo seems to make during one of his bathroom breaks, so she agrees to Naoko’s plan to get Asuka and Shinji together for the possibility that he might give her something valuable.
I'm still having trouble picturing Gendo as good, except in one shot parodies.
Heh...
I cannot say why specifically but those descriptions reminds me, very strongly, of a very old Ranma fan fiction from over 15 years ago... though without question it is not the same.
All these manipulative mothers... I can just picture them getting together at a card game to try to share the burdens of their children amongst themselves and scheme ways to 'fix' those lives...
The difference from that old Ranma fanfiction was here it was not Ranma's mom, Kodachi's mom, Ryoga's mom, Michiru's mom (sailor moon), etc... getting together. And Ranma knew well and good to stay clear when they all got together.
Heh...
I cannot say why specifically but those descriptions reminds me, very strongly, of a very old Ranma fan fiction from over 15 years ago... though without question it is not the same.
All these manipulative mothers... I can just picture them getting together at a card game to try to share the burdens of their children amongst themselves and scheme ways to 'fix' those lives...
The difference from that old Ranma fanfiction was here it was not Ranma's mom, Kodachi's mom, Ryoga's mom, Michiru's mom (sailor moon), etc... getting together. And Ranma knew well and good to stay clear when they all got together.
I've seen a few. I remember one fic where Shinji and Asuka meet at a school reunion and Asuka asks Shinji about his married life. They play it up... and then at the end it's revealed Shinji and Asuka were married the entire time, and Asuka was playing a prank that Shinji played along with.
Most post-Impact survivor stories I've read never really got off the ground, and certainly not as far as 20 years or so post-Impact.
Most post-Impact survivor stories I've read never really got off the ground, and certainly not as far as 20 years or so post-Impact.
I remember there being one from Adam Kadmon that might be similar in theme. It's after the (attempted) Third Impact and has many of the characters returned, but not all of them.
There's no Misato, but there's Hikari.
It's quite dark, as is much of Kadmon's stuff.
You can find it here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2918280/1/I-Knew-Him-When
There's no Misato, but there's Hikari.
It's quite dark, as is much of Kadmon's stuff.
You can find it here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2918280/1/I-Knew-Him-When
I've seen a few continuations, most of right after impact in the new world, or at most a few years... but a couple have gone the distance.
Mister Cynical wrote a pretty gritty 2 arc story called 'Detective Ikari'.
There was one where an adult Shinji went underground and became an assassin.
There was another where him and Asuka went underground and hid from the government, and had a kid... I think that one only took place some 6 years later though.
And another where Mistato survived being shot back at Nerv, but was taken by a Seelie doctor as Nerv was being invaded, and he hid and did experiments on her for years and broke her mind... Shinji got with Ritsuko/Maya for a number of years as lovers, then discovered her alive. He got there in time to save her jumping off the building.
Mister Cynical wrote a pretty gritty 2 arc story called 'Detective Ikari'.
There was one where an adult Shinji went underground and became an assassin.
There was another where him and Asuka went underground and hid from the government, and had a kid... I think that one only took place some 6 years later though.
And another where Mistato survived being shot back at Nerv, but was taken by a Seelie doctor as Nerv was being invaded, and he hid and did experiments on her for years and broke her mind... Shinji got with Ritsuko/Maya for a number of years as lovers, then discovered her alive. He got there in time to save her jumping off the building.
Same, I recall toying with the idea of making fun of fics that try to 'fix' characters by having Shinji awaken in a world where everyone's acting strangely. For example, Gendo walking up to him with a Mitt and a baseball wanting to go out and play catch with his son. Anyways the end involved the architect of these changes assuring Shinji that his protest against the alteration made to people's personality would go away...just as soon as said Architect finished fixing Shinji...
But yeah aside from one shots the only other thing I can think of is...well...
Anyways, as to the idea itself.....I'm getting a Rick and Morty vibe from it all.
But yeah aside from one shots the only other thing I can think of is...well...
Anyways, as to the idea itself.....I'm getting a Rick and Morty vibe from it all.
Can't say that I like the art style of Steven Universe. It's probably incredibly unfair for me to criticise the art, given that I can barely draw blood, but it's a bit crude.
Also, Tumblr has ruined the show with their incessant bullshit about genderqueer characters and how one scene is apparently transphobic.
But, hey, it's not like I haven't ruined anything before is it.
Also, Tumblr has ruined the show with their incessant bullshit about genderqueer characters and how one scene is apparently transphobic.
But, hey, it's not like I haven't ruined anything before is it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3q74bg/tumblr_sjws_almost_pushed_a_young_woman_into/
The Tumblr crazies went batshit insane with hatred for this girl because she dared to draw a Steven Universe character seemingly skinny (the fanart in question only showed off the character's arm as a little thinner than normal, you couldn't even see the rest of her body), driving her to attempted suicide. Attempted, because luckily she failed to kill herself.
The Tumblr crazies went batshit insane with hatred for this girl because she dared to draw a Steven Universe character seemingly skinny (the fanart in question only showed off the character's arm as a little thinner than normal, you couldn't even see the rest of her body), driving her to attempted suicide. Attempted, because luckily she failed to kill herself.
