Quote:He can probably make a fire without matches too.
"I've been training longer than you've been alive, Asuka. Fifteen years of intense training with experts in almost every known weapon, as part of my duty cycle, before I was ejected from my home world. I normally fight hand-to-hand or with my metagift, but if I have to I can pick up anything from a Daisy BB gun to a Bell and Howell L224 man-portable maser array and kill with it."
Quote:Who is this WE, white man?
"You're a snarky little bitch, Asuka, but we like you anyway," I said.
Rei looked predictably puzzled. "I do not understand," she said in her near-whisper. "What is 'sunaruki'?"
Quote:"It could be the Beansprout Liberation Army! Or ACROSS! British Library Special Forces! Knights Templar! Perhaps he's a Bane Sidhe agent! The Kolat! Autobot Intelligence! The RED Ribbon Army! The Four Sisters!"
Gendo watched impassively as Kaji frowned and ran a hand through his hair. "He's a pro," the agent said, shaking his head. "I saw it all in his eyes. He sized me up, specced me out and dismissed me as inconsequential. He knew I was carrying -- I saw his eyes tag *every* gun I had on me, and most of my knives. He was unarmed. I'm sure of it. And he *still* was certain he could take me down, and take me down *hard*. Dammit, who *is* he? Who is he working for?"
"Perhaps he's SAFE?"
"Now you're just being silly... Oh shit! Do you think he might be working for..."
"Us? Hmmmm. It's possible..."
Quote:Learning from example doesn't require a GOOD example after all.
"Look," I said. "Do trust your father?"
"No," he admitted softly.
"Do you understand how he thinks?"
Shinji hesitated, then nodded. "I think so. Some of the time."
I sat back. "Well, then. Look at the situation and decide what your father would do. Then do the exact moral and ethical opposite."
Quote:Gendo is many things, a giver of comprehensive briefings he is not. Why is this a cause for surprise?
"This is something Father did *not* brief me on."
Quote:A_a. How sweet.
"I have never had a family before, Shinji-kun, and I... I want more. I have never wanted anything for myself before, but I want this." She blushed and returned her gaze to the floor. "Will you let me call you... brother? Please?"
"Rei...?"
"Because you *are*," she whispered with a fierce intensity that stunned him as much as her words. "They showed me. I am half-Angel, Shinji, half a creature of the heavens... but the other half came from your... *our* mother. I am as much the child of Yui Ikari as you, and knowing this gives me such joy that I
cannot express it."
Quote:Where are they? Ceiphiro? (Sorry, watching MGR off and on for the last few weeks)
"Remember this! The fundamental force that gives shape to the universe is willpower. If your will is strong enough, the universe will do what you want. If that sounds like magic, that's only because it is."
Quote:Shades of Sign of the Unicorn here, where Bill asks Corwin if he's human. The reply goes: "I don't know. I-I like to think so. But I don't really - Of course I am! That's a silly... Oh hell! You really mean it, don't you? And I said I'd be honest... I don't think so."
"What *are* you, Doug?"
"I'm mortal, I'm human. I'm just not... local."
And then Bill comes back: "Neither do I. It doesn't make any real difference to me, but I thought it might to you - to know that someone knows you are different and doesn't care."
Quote:That was a bit of a slip wasn't it, on the part of Gendo.
She tilted her head head, and her eyes grew distant. "It is a curious paradox. In trying to control me, Gendo Ikari freed me. He called me 'Zero', to make me think I was nothing, but the rest of you put the lie to that and showed me that I was instead 'Spirit', beyond his ability to hold." She smiled as if at a private joke.
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.