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#Shinji describes how Kaworu makes him feel reminds Asuka of how Mari makes her feel and it makes her feel glimmer enough of hope to decide
butchford · 3 years
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#desperately wanna write a nge au that’s like a mix of the original series & the rebuilds that’s basically when Kaworu shows up since they’re#the last angel & it’s not rlly necessary for humans to be ‘protected’ from them given the fact that they don’t even want to start#instrumentality and working in a military base at age 14 isn’t good for anyone but Asuka & Rei aren’t fucked over beyond comprehension and#Mari’s there too but all the kids are just… broken down. they’re tired of fighting and they know that even now that everything’s supposed to#be over seele’s still going to come breaking down their door for reasons they don’t understand and there’s no easy way out of nerv. but all#of them kinda come together and go ‘you know what? fuck this actually. let’s just… leave. everything and everyone. let’s get out of here.’#and they weigh the choice for a while because they know there’s no going back and if they do leave they’ll probably never see Maya or#Ritsuko or Misato ever again given that they work for nerv and they probably won’t run into Toji or Kensuke ever again but they still think#to leave them their number but they still leave because there’s no happiness to be found in a cage no matter how large#and the five of them run off into the night and leave Tokyo 3 permanently & while Kaworu drives the car Mari hotwired Rei asks ‘I don’t feel#sad. should I?’ and Asuka just evenly says ‘fuck if I know. I don’t know how to feel about anything anymore’#and what gets all of them to choose to go is seeing that Kaworu makes Shinji. Shinji Ikari depression extraordinaire. happy. and the way#Shinji describes how Kaworu makes him feel reminds Asuka of how Mari makes her feel and it makes her feel glimmer enough of hope to decide#to leave. so all of them share a shitty apartment with a single bunk bed that Shinji & Kaworu take the top of and Mari & Asuka take the#bottom of and Rei sleeps on the couch for about a week before Mari drags them to sleep with her and Asuka. all of them work minimum wage#jobs but eventually asuka becomes manager of the store she works at at the mall and everyone pools their money together to buy her a nice#cake for celebration and Mari volunteers at the library so much they eventually give her a job#and she gets Rei a job there too. Kaworu works at McDonald’s and Shinji works at a gas station for about a year or so before Kaworu manages#to get a hold of an old piano that would’ve been thrown away otherwise and between the five of them they manage to repair the thing to a#pretty good degree and of course Kaworu teaches Shinji how to play in their free time and eventually they start teaching lessons but just.#they all scrape by and manage to avoid seele and nerv and heal and build a life together. god I’m fucking emo over this concept can u tell 💜#cath.png
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