Disclaimer: All successive chapters are based on the ideas of Gainax's "Neon Genesis: Evangelion." I didn't write the original scripts, I don't own rights to them…nothin', and don't claim to. Further more I don't own a microwave.
Author's Notes: Chapter 2: Of Pride and Hope
…Geez. Sorry about the delay. This chapter was more or less "finished" some months ago. I've just been without a computer sometime shortly after I completed the content due to a faulty motherboard.
Anyway, I had planned on writing several chapters by this time period, but things never seem to work like I intend, so I'll just post up what I can when I can. My most sincere apologies.
I'm fairly content with this chapter, though I'll admit I probably could have done better. Of course, I can always do better.
One thing to keep in mind as you read…watch most anything and everything, and I can promise you that if you think you're over-analyzing, you're not. At some points I spent grueling hours talking with my favorite cohort, Xanatose, picking out individual words that would convey meaning…have the proper poise I wanted. All events are relevant and tied into the over all central plot, plus there's more than a little symbolism thrown in here and there, though I tried to make it as light-reading as possible for those of you that are just in for a decent read.
There's also several themes in each chapter. Each chapter has sort of a different lesson in it to keep in mind, and each theme ties into the overall theme of the story itself. IT'S ALL SIGNIFICANT. Everything. Even some of the stupid things.
Despite all that, I hope it's still enjoyable. Again, I put a considerable amount of time into making certain it was light-reading, but also deep enough for those of you that like to analyze things.
--Formerly Avarice
P.S. I appreciate all you out there that read my work…but I would ask that those of you that don't have anything constructive—or deconstructive as the case may be—to refrain from reviewing. If you like it, tell me what and WHY, and if you don't, do the same. Please.
Author's notes: Chapter 1: L'Espirit D'Escalier
Well~ it seems I owe you folks an apology. I obviously didn't comply with the deadline I set for myself (I missed it by about a month) but hopefully the wait will have been worth it. I'm not going to offer an excuse, or even a valid reason for why it took so long, so I hope you weren't expecting one.
Anyway, bringing myself back to the point, I put a lot of time and thought (snicker) into this chapter…
No, wait…come back. Right, don't go away yet! I'll be serious…promise.
A lot of time was put into this chapter, and effort not entirely of my own production. Xanatose and DBigDMT played an exceptionally large role, and especially in the last third of the chapter where, to be quite honest, I was having some difficulty with. These guys stayed with me long hours into several nights while I bombarded them with paragraphs, bantering them constantly and demanding them to find flaws so that I could rewrite, and re-rewrite sentences, play with the diction and syntax, and all that fun and hunky-dorey stuff.
There's a lot I want to say about this chapter, but I don't want to get too long winded (I have an awful bad habit of doing that) so I'll make it brief—this is merely an extension of the exposition I began to paint in the prologue, so there's not a whole lot of action as there is just continuing to add color and props to the stage. On another note, you may not notice it now, but I took a whole lot of time and consideration to certain phrases and words I used in a lot of the dialogue. I hope like hell I make this one worth the time you spend reading and waiting, and if you guys find something you feel I should touch up on at a later time, you've got quite awhile to lemme know, as it's gonna be a long time before you see the next chapter.
Not because it's gonna take me long to write the one, but because I'm going to be writing several chapters of about the same length before I post the second chapter. This is mostly due to the circumstances involving a certain, specific element in the fic. Anyway, I'm not going to set a deadline for when the next one is posted, but I'll be sure to try and pump it out as quickly as I can without sacrificing too much integrity.
Okie dokie…for those of you that read all this, I've managed to waste a considerable amount of your reading time, so just go ahead and flip the page.
--Avarice
Author's notes: Prologue
All right, here's the deal. After serious (not really) consideration, I recently (not hardly) decided my previous fics were basically crap. Does that surprise you? That I think something I wrote is total garbage and that I wasn't happy with it? Well, either way, such is the case, so I decided to do something about it.
This fic is more or less what I'm gonna call a "rewrite." Problem is, it's deviated so much from the original that it's not really even that so much as it is a whole new fic that was built off the foundation of it's predecessor (Asuka's Smile [Project 1 as I call it]).
You'll notice the perspective was shifted from first person to third omniscient (a painful thing for me, I'll add) and that a great deal is going to be blatantly different from the original (which I made the mistake of taking down… # sheepish grin # But if anyone wants a copy I'll be happy to send one…sorry) ranging from not only characterization, but plot development, character interaction/involvement, and I've even put some thought into the angel—something that hasn't been done so far as I know. Everything that was basically spontaneous the first go-round will be progressively developed throughout the work. I'm going to work extra hard and extra carefully this time to try and get it right so that it's enjoyable and hopefully half-way believable. I'll not give away any "spoilers" but with any luck you'll all be pleased with what I have planned.
I'm also using a rather excellent, well-rounded group of pre-readers that I can't thank enough for their help. They were very fast and responsive and gave excellent suggestions as well as correcting a load of goof-ups on my part here and there.
Keep in mind while reading the Prologue that it's precisely that; a prologue. I'm using it to do nothing but introduce the "major" characters that will be primarily involved in almost all of the character interaction. All I'm trying to accomplish in this first segment is to get you to see the characters as I want to present them and their relationships with other characters—'trying them on for size', so to speak.
At any rate, I'm done with my rambles, and I'm gonna name the pre-readers partially responsible for what you'll be reading per fic.
Look here for my preface to each chapter, as I'll be placing all my forewords here.
--Avarice
