Quote:I disagree... Try watching the OMG movie. This will be fairly fllooded with spoilers from it.
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.
All the parts nessassary are in that. They have a disgrunteled 1st class god summon the 'cosmic super string' and summon something Eva style angel-like ginormus thing that physically cutting away at the thing with a scyth. This type of 'angel' will cover the giant killer things and resources for the genetics of Eva. Make the scyth wielder the anchor of the moon.
When I say 'anchor' what I mean is that The World Tree isn't really the thing holding the universe together... what it is is the combined power of all the worship powered supernatural enitities thrown together into one massive self-substaning reality controlling artifact that is held together by anchor concepts made 'flesh'. Old basic worshipped things like the sun and the moon, the sea, the sky, etc... are incarnate in avatars like the scyth wielder. By destroying an anchor the Yggdrasil losses a chunk of control over reality.
Eventually they run out of anchors and the Yggdrasil is open to corruption giving 'Gendo' the ability to complete the ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls, that these anchors and such are described in, to break the Overgod's connection to the Yggdrasil and allow someone else to take over as the core of the Tree. The overgod is the fused heads of the pantheons that made the Yggdrassil possible. This means that the Sun and/or Thunder will be the last as it is close to so many head god's aspects.
The children are half breed gods and demons... in the movie there was a gateway that all mortal/god couples had to go through to prove their love is good enough to last, if not they can never get close to or contact each other ever again. Only the gate is rigged it doesn't even bother to check, it just separates them... Half breeds counter that actions of the Overgod and it takes years to stop their defiance (mostly by killing them off or recruiting them and removing their mortal parts).
Shinji is Belldandy's and Kiechi's kid that the birth of was the trigger for their gate trek and should have happened midpregnacy, but a bug delayed the date for a few months. Asuka is a half demon, whoes mom 'killed' herself to screw Asuka enough to be ready for full demonhood... the corpse was a fake. The rest of the children are also half breeds which can pilot the Eva (human/avatar hybrid cyborgs).
Rei is a cloned shell of a mostly human hybrid with a modified angel egg that is switch betweem host bodies. Whether a trained blank or a previously different entity is your choice (Holy Bell, Belldandy's angel was once a demon).
Random cults started by those with access to Dead Sea Scroll are attempting manifest the avatars and sick them on the cosmic super string in an attempt to do something or other (varies by cult), random midlevel demons think they are the object of worship in the cults and grant the cultists powers... which see this as proof of their religion being real... only to have them try the final ritual and get themselves and the demons that think they are being worshiped get killed off in the summoning.
In the end Hell's forces are more or less innocent bystanders and The head of Nilfhelm is going to get booted as a side effect rather than an active target. You could also have some cults worshipping the godly avatars and half the deomic ones. The entities that are promoting the cults are too low level to know what they are getting into and the ones that actually know any of this are caught in rules and rituals that make it so they can't disappear.
If the avatars sever the CSS the Yggdrasil will have to be stopped or the whole system will collapse taking most of the entities involved above 3rd class down with it, including the Overgod. Once the avatars are stopped new ones can be created, but only once they are all gone... leaving a window to replace the Overgod and the Underlord with pilots. Evas and the production line can be used as new anchors that will grant a new Overgod statis and ice the old one.
Thus Gendo/Kiechi is still after his wife with the Eva program and the only casting change you need to do is Saoko Ritsuko and Misato Megumi... That way the dynamic can be the same mostly and Megumi is still not told what the hell is going on.
At least that is a rough outline of how this could work.