[EVA] Eva Manga Stage 84

[Gwern Branwen]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Anuraag Agrawal <anuraaga at gmail.com> wrote:
> First page again, wow.
>
> Stage 84: Agreement
>
> Intro: Asuka, counterattack.
>
> Scene: Outside, in the midst of battle
> Asuka: Grrraah!
> *Asuka stabs an Eva dead with a progressive knife*
> Asuka: That's 4.  Next!
>
> Scene: Inside Nerv headquarters
> *Soldiers walk in on Misato.  Misato has a grenade pin in her mouth and
> shows the shocked soldiers the grenade.  It explodes*
> Misato (dead): Kaji, this was the right thing to do, right?

Is that Ghost Misato saying so, narration over her corpse, or her
dying thoughts?

> Scene: Cage
> Shinji: No way, this can't be happening.  I made a promise with Misato to go
> and save Asuka.  I made a promise yet I can't move Eva...that's no good.
> Move.  Mother, move.  Move, mother!!!
> *Eva-01 activates, breaking out of the bakalite and crushing some nearby
> soldiers*
> Shinji: Mother...
>
> Outro: Eva awakens!  Shinji and Asuka's destiny is...
>
> Guess next month will be a pretty big month for seeing how this is going to
> play out with respect to instrumentality.
>
> --AA

Let's not be overoptimistic. An entire stage could be eaten up with
Asuka defeating the harpies and them suddenly reviving. 'Outro: Mass
Production Series reborn! Asuka's plan...?' And certainly then another
stage could be eaten up with Shinji freaking out and some ancillary
material from other POVs.

(That said, I'm a little torn about Misato's death. On the one hand,
I'm bothered by the echoes of WWII: grenade suicide, especially on
Okinawa, was one of the standard methods. On the other hand, it's a
more active and badass death than simply being fatally wounded,
bleeding out on the floor, and then being blown up by the JSSDF. On
the gripping hand, is a heroic death really appropriate to NGE?)

-- 
gwern