Ask the Author: For want of a nail

[lavanya_six]

Ganked from askerian by way of suzukiblu by way of attackfish


Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change. Something tiny (e.g. "and then Gendo decided to play Eye of the Tiger instead of 99 Red Balloons") or big (e.g. "and then the Blue Spirit decided to try escaping from Mai rather than reveal he was Zuko") and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.

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[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Y'know, originally I had planned for Asuka's Competitor to be a trilogy of fics and one of them would be just that premise -- lesbian Asuka hot for straight Misato. (The third fic would be centered around a pre-Impact Yui and Fuyutsuki competing for Gendo's affection.) I ended up being pretty satisfied by just Asuka's Competitor so I never wrote the other two.

If I had to guess, I'd say some of the humor in such a story would have come from Shinji being shamefully aroused by Asuka blatantly flirting with Misato: wearing skimpy clothes around the apartment, being oblivious to Shinji's reactions. There'd also be Shinji having to constantly put up with Kensuke and Touji drooling over the idea of Asuka getting it on with Misato. Hikari might try to ask out Asuka through Shinji.

I once heard that humor comes from suffering, and Misato really wouldn't suffer too much in that kind of story. She'd be ragged on a little by Kaji and Ritsuko, but she'd endure Asuka the same way that Kaji did in canon. Now Shinji suffering would be funny, but for different reasons than Asuka in 'Competitor' -- he's not crushing on Misato like Asuka was on Kaji.

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

Interesting. What if they both were gay (or bi)

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

Not sure. After it became clear that Misato and Kaji hooked up, they'd probably steal some of Misato's beer and then proceed to get wasted together over the loss of their respective crushes.