"The Melancholy of Usagi Tsukino."
Picture it: the ENTIRE Silver Millenium mythos is a creation of Usagi's mind, as are the Senshi's powers, _and_ the various villains. Artemis and Luna were ordinary cats who got "uplifted" when Usagi's powers went online... or when she retroactively (re?)created the world, depending on whose theory you subscribe to. Just who knows how much, exactly, about the "reality" of the situation is open for authorial creativity....
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This is one I actually started writing once. You know the Hollywood "one-line pitch"? This fic _literally_ came to me as just such a one-liner: "Gendo Ikari is the embittered adult incarnation of Keiichi Morisato, and NERV is his weapon to take revenge on Heaven and Hell for taking Belldandy away from him."
Imagine NGE as a sort of revenge epic, styled a bit like In Nomine and/or NXE, where the entire idea is to maneuver both sides of the Celestial conflict into such a precarious balance that mere human intervention can send both sides toppling into oblivion...
The Magi=The Norns.
Gendo's office Tree? Yggdrasil.
Ristuko? Megumi (skip the sexual stuff, though).
Professor Fuyutski: Chihiro.
Misato... hm. Saoko?
I dropped the idea after about a week, once it sunk in that there just wasn't any plausible way to get from OMG to NGE.
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To steal one of my own 'sig lines from a few years back: "Agent Mulder? My name is Neo. Can we talk?"
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RGU/Patlabor: Wakaba writes a series of letters describing the increasing levels of weirdness around Otori Academy and her own growing fears to her mother, who decides to take some action of her own. The key point here being Wakaba's last name....
Wakaba's eyes were huge and brimming as she looked at her childhood playmate. "Oh, Alphonse! You look like a giant pincushion!"
Noa Shinohara's voice came over the PA speakers. "Don't worry, dear. It's all superficial damage -- Alphonse-kun has been through much worse."
Akio looked like someone had taken away his candy. "But-- but-- this is supposed to be a *shoujo* series with yuri overtones, not some, some, uncouth shonen-mecha comedy series!" He was actually _whining_.
Alphonse shrugged a bit, without his massive revolver losing the bead it was holding on the would-be pretender prince. "Shonen, Shoujo -- I'm the one with the gun."
Picture it: the ENTIRE Silver Millenium mythos is a creation of Usagi's mind, as are the Senshi's powers, _and_ the various villains. Artemis and Luna were ordinary cats who got "uplifted" when Usagi's powers went online... or when she retroactively (re?)created the world, depending on whose theory you subscribe to. Just who knows how much, exactly, about the "reality" of the situation is open for authorial creativity....
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This is one I actually started writing once. You know the Hollywood "one-line pitch"? This fic _literally_ came to me as just such a one-liner: "Gendo Ikari is the embittered adult incarnation of Keiichi Morisato, and NERV is his weapon to take revenge on Heaven and Hell for taking Belldandy away from him."
Imagine NGE as a sort of revenge epic, styled a bit like In Nomine and/or NXE, where the entire idea is to maneuver both sides of the Celestial conflict into such a precarious balance that mere human intervention can send both sides toppling into oblivion...
The Magi=The Norns.
Gendo's office Tree? Yggdrasil.
Ristuko? Megumi (skip the sexual stuff, though).
Professor Fuyutski: Chihiro.
Misato... hm. Saoko?
I dropped the idea after about a week, once it sunk in that there just wasn't any plausible way to get from OMG to NGE.
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To steal one of my own 'sig lines from a few years back: "Agent Mulder? My name is Neo. Can we talk?"
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RGU/Patlabor: Wakaba writes a series of letters describing the increasing levels of weirdness around Otori Academy and her own growing fears to her mother, who decides to take some action of her own. The key point here being Wakaba's last name....
Wakaba's eyes were huge and brimming as she looked at her childhood playmate. "Oh, Alphonse! You look like a giant pincushion!"
Noa Shinohara's voice came over the PA speakers. "Don't worry, dear. It's all superficial damage -- Alphonse-kun has been through much worse."
Akio looked like someone had taken away his candy. "But-- but-- this is supposed to be a *shoujo* series with yuri overtones, not some, some, uncouth shonen-mecha comedy series!" He was actually _whining_.
Alphonse shrugged a bit, without his massive revolver losing the bead it was holding on the would-be pretender prince. "Shonen, Shoujo -- I'm the one with the gun."