M Fnord Wrote:I'm going to suggest that if you want Noah to fade into the background, the best way to do it isn't to have the character self-destruct. That only brings him that much closer to the foreground - look at this shambling wreck of a man, who once flew so high yadda yadda. So, how do we do this? Well, instead of turning him into Charles Foster Kane just give him his happy ending; he fades into the background as CEO to spend more time with his family, Yayoi takes over as operating VP or however you want to handle it, roll credits.I'm good with that.
The company can still have problems, though they might not be as deeply personal if Noah isn't self-destructing. I've been considering walking back the stronger parts of the Soviet/Stellvian rift; it's an inevitability that friendship between a revolutionary socialist nation and a corporate state isn't a long-term thing, but to break it over the Catalog strikes me in retrospect as the height of hypocrisy.
The main reason for "self-destruction" rather than "slow retirement" was the Soviet/Stellvian rift, actually. If that doesn't happen, or it happens but is healed over within less than a couple-dozen months, then Noah won't be quite so angry with himself and the world all the time.
His email .sig by the late-2010s is "Proud parent, happy husband, and President of StellviaCorp. In that order." He's not going to push Helen and Leda away the way he did Natsuko and Agatha (or any other way) - family comes first, and elements of his career will just have to make way for the loves of his life. Noah and Leda's relationship will still have changed, but it'll be a maturing, not a falling apart - they're now close friends who love each other, not lovers who are friends with each other.
More later, including a revised timeline...
Dartz Wrote:Feb 2023: Shinji decides to depart Frigga and live on Stellvia. He works in the restaurant and as an occasional session musician. Weekly therapy sessions with Kat Avins. Visits to Rei on days off.I can't hep but think of a different character who was voiced by Spike Spencer in the English dub, who'd rather be a cook than a mecha pilot... (Akito Tenkawa from Nadesico, of course)
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October 2023: Shinji Ikari writes to Jet. He's transfered to Ultima crew and is doing well. Inside is a picture of him with Yuu. The seem happy.
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Projections 2024 onwards: ... Shinji is explicity dating Yuu Inagawa. Against all expectations they have carved out a relationship based on clear communication and mutual respect. Both are very cute together. They haven't gone that far, taking the time to trust each other first.
Ace Dreamer Wrote:Is anyone involved in the CHON shipping business, please?So far, that's been the domain of wildcatters who contract with the Mars Terraforming Project, but there's no reason why somebody couldn't grab that business. (Yes, that somebody could be CHOAM.)
HRogge Wrote:Lets have a look into my timetable... CI is a new group as they were founded in 2015... at the moment the timeline concentrates mostly on CI itself, because nearly no one else was writing stories in the 2015-2020 period. But I would like to change that so CI has some more interaction with other groups and factions in Fenspace.This is the thread for that interaction...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012