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“rei or asuka?” really baffles me because they’re presented as inverse contrasts in the show, and you can’t really derive any concrete analysis or understanding of their characters by taking them in separately. you have to examine them together through a comparative lens – their backstories, how they view themselves, their respective methods of coping/internalizing neglect and validation (or lack thereof). this goes for literally every single character in evangelion, but rei and asuka are most prolific for the grossest and most nauseating reasons.

when people say they like asuka more than rei for “x” reasons or visa versa, to me that’s just another gauge of how badly they missed the point. 

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more thoughts on this. i don’t believe in the idea “if you like asuka more you like rei less”. it’s interesting how both rei and asuka suffer disproportional amounts of bodily harm in the show but the emotional focus/concern rests solely on shinji (both in-show and fandom). 

asuka and rei’s dynamism plays out in how they interpret and react to their their “maternalness” and “materialness”: rei, contemplating on never becoming a mother (which is complicated by her connection with yui and lilith) - and then asuka, who hates menstruation, hates the idea of having children (complicated by her forcible rejection from her mother; rei is removed from motherhood in the bodily sense but closer “spiritually”, while asuka is the inverse)

then there’s rei and materialness (corporeality) vs the soul, how rei can’t retain memories after each resurrection (memories being connected bodily, stored in the brain), but she possesses base latent comprehension of emotions and relationships (as these are stored in the soul) – how rei morphs through bodily trauma and repeated physical resurrection, and then transcends corporeality completely, because rei is rei without a body. this is in contrast to asuka, who marrys her entire identity to her body, tries to find validation in the body, presentations of the body. when asuka’s body and her ability to use her body crumbles, asuka crumbles. rei grows/transcends with each instance of bodily trauma while asuka regresses/ebbs with each instance of bodily trauma.

asuka and rei compliment each other so beautifully in their characters and i love them both so much.

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100 “Epic” Adventure Ideas…

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Here are one hundred adventure seeds you can use to generate ideas for your adventures and campaigns.

  1. A ancient and evil balor sorcerer imprisons old friends of the player characters, holding them hostage in return for a service. 
  2. A band of several death slaadi rogues and sorcerers begins to waylay all planar travelers who chance through their recently claimed turf on the Astral Plane.
  3. A ranger hero recognized around the world begins to organize a group of explorers for reasons unknown…
  4. A bardic college develops a style of music that charms and dominates any that listen to it too long.
  5. A beholder cluster, made up of many beholders driven mad, begins to war with lesser beholder communities, apparently all seeking a beholder artifact. 
  6. A prominent deity grows sick and will die if the cause of its divine ill is not discovered. 
  7. A beloved prophecy long accepted as true fails to occur because of the characters’ meddling, and the world turns against them…
  8. A blinding, yellow haze seeps down from the sky, covering the world…
  9. A celestial tree hundreds of miles long reaches its roots down and begins to grow on the world’s surface. Creatures from other worlds live in the heights of the tree. 
  10. A child is born who prophecy indicates will one day ascend to godhood. 
  11. A black disease blights the forest, killing all vegetation as it continues to expand without limit at an ever-accelerating rate. 
  12. A clan of psionic militants breaks away from the kingdom — literally. A huge chunk of land hundreds of acres wide floats up and away (taking with it many terrified non-psionic people). 
  13. A conjunction of parallel planes somehow energizes a lowly peasant to the power of a greater deity — but only until the conjunction ends. 
  14. A cross-time catastrophe has cut off the Material Plane from all others. 
  15. A dragon kills the ruler of the largest nation and takes over, calling itself the Dragon King.
  16. A flaw in a true resurrection spell leaves one player character undead by night and alive by day. 
  17. A floating city arrives from across the sea, apparently fleeing the depredations of the Warlord, a barbarian of an epic caliber.
  18. A flock of angelic avengers and celestials is ravaging across the continent. 
  19. A meeting is called by a storm giant blackguard. Powerful giants from around the world (and other worlds) begin to congregate. Though no one knows the meaning of this calling…
  20. A glorious gemstone in which the first light of creation still lingers is purportedly languishing in an ancient, crumbling demi-plane. 
  21. A great chase ensues through endless parallel dimensions as wizard researchers follow the faint trail of the long-vanished elder elves. 
  22. A group of gargoyle paragons claims the Cathedral of Pelor as its own new home. 
  23. A hero of renown (a quasi-deity, really) is to be wed to an elven prince, but the prince’s royal family claims the prince is under a spell. 
  24. A hole is gouged in the veil separating life and death. As the tide of life pours out into the void, all creatures everywhere begin to die as they accumulate negative levels. The hole must be mended. 
  25. A red dragon and two of its siblings emerge from a red-lit cavern in the earth. 
  26. A lesser deity declares the PCs as its mortal enemies, enjoining all its worshipers and allies to find and slay them. 
  27. A longstanding illusion is pierced, revealing that the king is nowhere to be found, and that all dictates of the kingdom have been actually flowing from the thieves’ guild. 
  28. A new deity decides to leave the Outer Planes to set up its palace on the face of the Material Plane. Once it arrives, it demands worshipers and servitors. 
  29. A mad chronomancer with a mastery of time, has determined how to destroy the past (and therefore the present). Unless it can be stopped, time itself will unravel. 
  30. A planar conjunction will soon come to pass, allowing the legions of hell (or worse) direct access to a selected part of the Material Plane for 24 hours. It can’t be stopped, but some famous characters may attempt to defend key cities or strongholds from the onslaught. 
  31. A player character’s heart is stolen and replaced with a magical gem or a strange alchemical creation. Who knows how long the replacement will last? 
  32. A powerful wizards’ guild enters all-out war with the dominant religious order of the world. 
  33. A quasi-deity wants an escort as it ventures into the Abyss to release a companion quasi-deity from bondage. 
  34. A rogue moon threatens to crash down upon the world, ending all life. 
  35. A sentient spell-virus is raging out of control among spellcasters. All who fall victim to it become part of one unified mind controlled by a malign intelligence. 
  36. A species of “fish” introduced from another plane has provided good eating and relief from famine over the last year. Now, thousands (possibly millions?) of the fish-like creatures begin a sudden growth spurt, transforming en masse into terribly powerful and bloodthirsty predators. 
  37. A splinter community of humans evolves into a sub-race sporting strange and variant powers. 
  38. A syndicate of assassins dramatically expands its membership by introducing a mind-control potion into a city’s water supply. 
  39. A team of nightmares draws a chariot driven by a powerful fighter into the city. 
  40. A titan seeks those brave enough to release it from its age-long bondage; its rescuers may face the wrath of higher deities. 
  41. A vampire scion from another plane begins to conquer world after world with the help of a reforged artifact of legend, Midnight’s Heart. 
  42. A volcano erupts. In the aftermath, a portal to the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire remains open permanently.
  43. A well-known wizards’ guild’s magical dumping ground of failed experiments and stale spell components becomes sentient.
  44. A wizard attempting to summon a powerful devil slips up and somehow summons an abomination instead: an infernal lord of the hells. 
  45. A wizard claims to have developed an epic spell ritual that, if cast, will slay a deity.
  46. All magic items crafted from a particular city begin to bestow negative effects on their owners with each use. 
  47. All who fall asleep on a selected world cannot be awakened and eventually die in their sleep. Exhaustion is beginning to take a hold on even the greatest heroes of its realm…
  48. An adventuring party stumbles upon the tomb prison of an long dead half-god and releases it. 
  49. An anti-magic plague is released by an unknown agency, causing sickness and eventually death to any who prepare or cast arcane spells. 
  50. An artifact belonging to one of the characters must be destroyed, lest some great catastrophe, which has secretly been gathering, come to pass. 
  51. An artifact capable of forever dominating all red dragons everywhere is discovered.
  52. An enclave of gnomes customizes an iron colossus into a walking war platform.
  53. A group of NPCs known for good deeds suddenly embarks on a death spree, murdering merchants and their envoys…
  54. A group of NPCs decides to destroy the PC adventurers, for reasons that are initially obscure. 
  55. A sentient, free roaming, self-casting disintegrate spell breaks loose from a wizard’s laboratory. 
  56. A legendary paladin leads a crusade to hell. 
  57. An inter-dimensional caravan must float on the River Styx through the dangers of several lower planes. 
  58. Spirits begin to manifest from machines as complicated as simple steam-powered wheels — is it a warning from the gods of the forge to desist? 
  59. Angry druids raise the beasts, animals, and dire animals of the wild, intent on beginning a new world order in which nature comes first. 
  60. As the world ages, frequent earthquakes threaten to plunge the major nations under the sea. 
  61. Blue-skinned merchants begin to sell enormously popular items composed of dreamstuff — “mined from the very dreams of a deity,” claim the merchants.
  62. Deeper than the Underdark, the world is discovered to be hollow. Hanging in that vast opening is an unknown, uncharted inner world of strangeness.
  63. Dwarf miners follow a vein of adamantine to a hinged valve sealed with divine magic of an age older than any of the current deities. 
  64. A group of seemingly amateur rogues steal the magical scepter of the Dragon King. 
  65. Evil opportunists slay the Guardian of the Flame of Destiny, hoping to remold the Law of Reality to their own liking. 
  66. Ghosts of every sort begin to rise again, and they won’t recognize their own undead state. 
  67. Mind flayers successfully gain control of a surface nation, plunging the region into permanent darkness. 
  68. Jade pyramids of prodigious size rise from the earth. Sounds unlike any heard before echo faintly from within their stony cores. 
  69. Construct-like creatures of insane complexity called “machines” move across the land, preparing the way for a larger invasion of automated entities. 
  70. Magic begins to fail, supposedly because it is being “used up” faster than it naturally regenerates. 
  71. Mercenary half-dragons who ride chromatic dragons as steeds sell their swords (and spells) to an evil empire. 
  72. Newborns begin to be born without souls.
  73. Off-plane raiders begin to steal people away for use as slaves and food. 
  74. Once every ten years a small cave provides access into a magical, underground world where all living beings give off colorful light, ruled by mysterious fey lords with mysterious agendas. 
  75. One of the player characters learns about his or her real mother or father — in fact, that parent was a demon, and that demon has come calling. 
  76. Planetars and solars bring heaven’s war to the Material Plane, slaying any and all they deem evil or immoral. 
  77. Chromatic dragons decide that their “species” is the only true draconic race, and they begin a campaign of genocide against all other dragon types. 
  78. Several well-known cities and all their inhabitants suddenly disappear without a trace. More could follow…
  79. Someone is breaking the Seven Seals that maintain the integrity of the multiverse…
  80. The ancient Great Library has secret vaults where the Words Once Spoken are supposedly inscribed in the Book of Sleep. To speak them again would remake the universe. 
  81. The Clock that Rules the Universe is under attack by insane gnome alchemists, who are raiding it for parts. 
  82. The End Times threaten to begin. 
  83. The gods of Law put all humanoid races on trial for their excesses.
  84. The Lord High Priest of Pelor denounces her deity and faith. 
  85. The most feared and reviled weapon of legend, an artifact sword that drains life energy with a touch, is lost by its owner. 
  86. The Mother of Spiders emerges from her Cocoon of a Million Years to find a mate for her next spawning. 
  87. A vast necropolis undergoes a mystical transformation. Now, each coffin, sarcophagus, and mausoleum leads to separate cemetery dimensions and realms of death. 
  88. The PCs’ stronghold mysteriously gains new extra-dimensional halls and rooms of unknown origin, content, and extent.
  89. The populace decides that they want one of the PCs as their new ruler, which doesn’t please the current ruler. 
  90. The secret texts of a prominent religion, recently discovered, call into question the church’s real goal, its actual origin, and the agenda of its god. 
  91. The souls of a good queen and her family are drawn into the Abyss by an unknown demonic agency. 
  92. The spirits of the dead begin to possess the bodies of the living at an ever-accelerating rate. 
  93. The sun is infested with moon-sized parasites, and may soon fail like so many other stars have fallen to this celestial infestation. 
  94. The winter, which was overly cold, lasts too long — the goddess of winter, Auril, is suspected to be the cause…
  95. The woods begin to grow without bound, invading field, plain, and city. 
  96. The yuan-ti attempt to awaken the Slumbering Serpent, a little-known abomination born of their own race and a god of serpents.
  97. Twenty percent of all astral travelers begin to disappear in mid-trip. Mid-travel diversion spells are suspected. 
  98. Two parallel planes move too close to each other, and denizens and objects of one constantly slip onto the other, and vice versa. 
  99. Unless stopped, an ancient demi-lich will inject itself onto the Negative Energy Plane, where it can possess any undead anywhere in the multiverse. 
  100. When a friend or a respected associate is resurrected, the soul returned to the body has different memories from the original. Whence does this soul come? 
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In defense of Shinji Ikari and the Rebuild series

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I recently got into NGE from watching the rebuilds, and I really enjoyed them, so I checked out the original series and read a lot of metas and stuff online. 

And idk, I felt a little disturbed at the common trains of thought that seem to permeate the fandom. Like recently I read this one meta that was like, “Shinji doesn’t care for others that’s why he’s so self-absorbed”, “Shinji doesn’t love himself, that’s why he’ll never change. If he loved himself but hated his life he would make an effort to change but he doesn’t”, which ended with the “lovely” message of “if you don’t change, your life will always be shit.”

And it just got me thinking about the common views held in modern western society – this obsession with the idea of “loving yourself”. I don’t even know where it came from or what if even really means, only that everyone seems always be going on about it. “Just love yourself, and you won’t be sad anymore.” This idea of placing the onus of everything on the individual, and eliminating outside factors. The person who wrote the meta placing on the blame on Shinji himself, ignoring his crappy circumstances that led him to be that way. 

It’s just that, for a while, even before I got into eva, I’ve been annoyed by people that the only thing depressed people need to do to stop being depressed is to “learn to love themselves.” The idea brought up by the op of the meta that if Shinji was simply “less selfish” he would spend all his time caring for other people and not focusing on his self-hatred. But I feel like that’s the thing - when you’re depressed, it’s very hard to care about anything or anyone outside yourself.

And is Shinji even selfish anyway? People act like he’s the most awful person just because he’s not happy and stable all the time, but he regularly saves the world and everyone in it?? And how could he possibly change when he’s operating in circumstances beyond his control - namely, being forced to pilot the eva. I don’t think that being unhappy with your situation and yourself is a crime???

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Kaworu is really admirable to me because of his complete fearlessness that stays consistent between the versions.

Kaworu’s huge AT power and tranquility is *because* he doesn’t care what happens to himself. If he isn’t particularly invested in a certain outcome/want anything personally, what is there to fear? And without fear, he has absolute freedom - hence why he is the Angel of Free Will.

But then, if he wasn’t personally invested, why would he be spending so much time and effort trying to help Shinji, isn’t that kind of the definition? Unless there actually is something that he wants but knows it is pointless to act on…

That aside, I was wondering what it would take for a real human to be like that, but I think it would be impossible…because at the root of fear is self-preservation, is it not? As long as we desire to live, we are not free, right?

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Except Kaworu does have fear. He’s not fearless.

“He’s (Kaworu) suffering from a crippling loneliness. Thanks to Seele in the game, he’s so afraid to be the only being left alive, he prefers to die than live forever.“

^^^ this is from NGE2 classified files which Anno wrote saying that if anyone had questions about the series they would be answered here (i think)

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Ohhh awesome! I didn’t know about those files! There’s just so much content it’s hard to find that stuff!

That makes an interesting bit of sense and answers the other question I couldn’t quite figure out - because if he’s gonna be involved at all, certainly there *is* something he should care about. Like. You can’t involve as much effort as he does and still want for nothing and/or be 100% altruistic. That’s actually exactly what I was confused about! Thanks for that.

Also it makes sense because if it’s only one fear, that’s still a hell of a lot less than any human would ever have and still accounts for the fact why the AT Field is so strong. Very cool.

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no problem!! yh there’s lots of extra info & stuff but you have to look rly hard haha

you didn’t ask for this but here’s my 2 cents on kaworu’s motivation lol,, in response to the first post you made too

, remember that pretty much everyone was suspicious of him when they first saw him in nge, and in rebuild they even built a choker to kill him bc they were afraid of him, but both times the only person to actually treat him like a person and be nice to him was Shinji. Knowing that he probs grew up w/o any kind of friendship or love it makes sense that he would become so attached, just as Shinji became attached to him. 

idk why a strong AT field would mean being fearless/having few fears. unless they said that in the show & i missed something? bc didn’t kaworu say that what humans call an AT field is just “that wall that encloses every mind that exists?“ doesn’t it represent the walls that ppl put up against each other? so in that sense, doesn’t a strong AT field indicate a more isolated/closed-off mind, in other words, more fears or a very strong fear? It’s shown that the loneliness and the pain that Angels feel is very powerful and what motivates them to merge with Adam. & i’m sure kaworu has other fears like shinji getting hurt, for example.  or, you know, the reason his AT field is so strong is just cuz he’s Adam lol

Kaworu has the same problems in a way that Shinji does - loneliness and the feeling of being used/having no agency. In the classified files, he’s also called a “manipulated child.” The irony of Kaworu is that despite being the angel of free will he actually has very little free will and maybe he knows that and is frustrated by it. His fixation with ending his own life may stem from this frustration, because he sees dying as the only way to exert his free will. In the drafts of ep. 24 it even implied that he was suicidal from the scars on his wrists.

 Kaworu was to Shinji like Arael and Armisael were to Asuka and Rei  In that he saw that Shinji was lonely like him and wanted to understand him. But since he had a human form, he was able to properly communicate with Shinji unlike the Arael who ended up violating Asuka’s mind. before he dies, he tells Shinji that he made his life meaningful - seeing as before he literally had no meaning in his life other than to cause third impact, I think this actually makes a lot of sense. That he would prefer to live for someone else instead of himself bc his life is literally meaningless otherwise.  

I think the problem is the assumption he doesn’t feel all these emotions or human weaknesses like everyone else . imo kaworu is meant to show that angels and humans are really alike, if that wasn’t already made clear with  Armisael. they’re both yearning for contact with another being, but w/ the consequences of getting hurt (in the angels’ case it’s more extreme hurt like literally everyone dying). But humans can never see that bc they just can’t communicate with Angels. Until Kaworu comes along and is able to communicate with Shinji. How else does he know all that shit about “man feels pain in his heart” if he hasn’t experienced it himself? And Shinji even says “he was like me.” So the theme of communication and stuff..


If you watch this video from NGE2, it gives an interesting insight?view? of Kaworu and Shinji’s relationship. It shows if Shinji tried to prevent Kaworu’s death wish by convincing him that he’s important to him &that he has other reasons to exist rather than just fulfilling his angelic destiny.. At one point Kaworu even says (bitterly?) “do my feelings even matter to you Lilin?”  & when Shinji asks if he’s happy to be alive, he can’t even answer. He actually does care about what others think of him. He thinks he should die bc everyone sees him as an enemy so there’s no point in him living bc he’s isolated/disliked.

It also shows that he isn’t truly free bc he keeps going on about his destiny and fate and how he /has/ to do these things, even tho he doesn’t want to.

When Shinji tells Kaworu to live, Kaworu says that if he does, he’ll be alone, so Shinji says that Kaworu will never be alone bc they’ll always be together. ;_;   

yh he’s an ambiguous character in the actual show. but if you read/watch the official supplementary materials and shit it can all start to make sense. bUT that’s just my interpretation .. ppl can interpret him in lots of other ways TvT

sorry for the long ass reply omg,, it actually scares me how much i wrote about this ./////. i got a little carried away lmao

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