#11: Misato/Shinji -- Misato gets pulled through time during the Second Impact, reappearing around the Angel attacks. She doesn't exist as an adult in the present day and is thought to have been killed alongside the rest of the Katsuragi Expedition. Shinji finds an injured Misato at the train station in Episode 1. After several days, Misato disappears Brigadoon-style. Each time Misato returns to a freezing snowfield, but only for a few minutes. They continue a friendship throughout the Angel War, with Misato's reappearances happy events that foretell an imminent Angel attack, with Misato grieving over her dead father. Eventually, as Misato recovers physically and emotionally, Shinji becomes more fragile from the Angel fights. Finally, in the eleventh hour, it's revealed that Misato is actually a lifeline thrown through time by ADAM in an instant before the Second Impact as a means to escape (but it failed for ADAM, accidentally allowing Misato alone to travel through time, drawn to ADAM's children at the zenith of their might). With Tabris dead and the JSSDF storming the Geo-Front, a vengeful Ritsuko and Kaji (who here heads the Operations Division) put Misato into Unit-01's entry plug alongside Shinji while Asuka, in Unit-02, buys them precious seconds by holding back the MP Series. Through technobable, Shinji and Unit-01 travel back in time with Misato. Shinji fights ADAM and manages to avert the Second Impact.
We close out with Misato and Shinji in the entry plug, standing in the middle of Antarctica, realizing that SEELE is still out there in the year 2000. But of course they have one small advantage... a two hundred meter tall unbeatable war machine with an unlimited power supply. And Misato has a few ideas about how to apply its military potential.
#12: Usagi/Rei -- Hrm... well, let's just plain make Usagi in love with Rei. Make the whole fic about screwing destiny/fate/whatever. She loved Mamoru in her past life? Great! That was her past life. Here, now, she's in love with her best friend. They're not princesses anymore. They're themselves. Go Team Free Will! (Okay, less elaborate then the first two, but 2/3 isn't bad, right?)
Forgive any typos or sentence errors. It's late here. [2/2]
#11: Misato/Shinji -- Misato gets pulled through time during the Second Impact, reappearing around the Angel attacks. She doesn't exist as an adult in the present day and is thought to have been killed alongside the rest of the Katsuragi Expedition. Shinji finds an injured Misato at the train station in Episode 1. After several days, Misato disappears Brigadoon-style. Each time Misato returns to a freezing snowfield, but only for a few minutes. They continue a friendship throughout the Angel War, with Misato's reappearances happy events that foretell an imminent Angel attack, with Misato grieving over her dead father. Eventually, as Misato recovers physically and emotionally, Shinji becomes more fragile from the Angel fights. Finally, in the eleventh hour, it's revealed that Misato is actually a lifeline thrown through time by ADAM in an instant before the Second Impact as a means to escape (but it failed for ADAM, accidentally allowing Misato alone to travel through time, drawn to ADAM's children at the zenith of their might). With Tabris dead and the JSSDF storming the Geo-Front, a vengeful Ritsuko and Kaji (who here heads the Operations Division) put Misato into Unit-01's entry plug alongside Shinji while Asuka, in Unit-02, buys them precious seconds by holding back the MP Series. Through technobable, Shinji and Unit-01 travel back in time with Misato. Shinji fights ADAM and manages to avert the Second Impact.
We close out with Misato and Shinji in the entry plug, standing in the middle of Antarctica, realizing that SEELE is still out there in the year 2000. But of course they have one small advantage... a two hundred meter tall unbeatable war machine with an unlimited power supply. And Misato has a few ideas about how to apply its military potential.
#12: Usagi/Rei -- Hrm... well, let's just plain make Usagi in love with Rei. Make the whole fic about screwing destiny/fate/whatever. She loved Mamoru in her past life? Great! That was her past life. Here, now, she's in love with her best friend. They're not princesses anymore. They're themselves. Go Team Free Will! (Okay, less elaborate then the first two, but 2/3 isn't bad, right?)