Yue's Lady: No, not a real chapter. I just want to say something. This is a long Author's Note. Read carefully points 1-4. The paragraphs after that are your choice whether to read on or not. Review responses are at the bottom of the page.

As mentioned in Author's Notes Chapter 3 or 4 and 5, I despise Asuka. Please read the following points:

1. I am sincerely trying to produce a non-biased fanfiction. While that does not happen right now, you may flame away.

2. Asuka fans will a) stay away from the Sixth Child or b) DO NOT TRY TO CONVERT ME TO ASUKA FAN STATUS. I despise listening to pro-Asuka testimonies (mainly because Asuka's main defense is her past [wow I'm so amazed]), but you can rave about her elsewhere, so you can put down your 'freedom of speech' flags now. Yes I'm referring to certain people.

3. If you don't like the plotline, hooray for you. Press the back button.

4. If you don't get why Xiao Lan is a lovely shallow little girl, god praise you, you noticed she has no evident personality. Have you thought about why she has no personality though? I thought so.

5. Before you excellent flamers out there cheer in victory, I'd like to inform the other readers of the Sixth Child that this fic WILL NOT BE UPDATED. I have a life filled with stress, sleepless nights, exams, and shitloads of homework. I have little inspiration for the Sixth Child anymore, and NGE is very faded in my mind, because I don't own the episodes and I am still looking for a place to buy the series. I still love NGE though. I will improve and write another fanfic one day, just to spite you Asuka fans. Kidding really. I write for my own twisted amusement actually, though you readers heavily influence it.

Now my fanfic flamers may cheer and dance.

As a closing statement, which will most probably finally infuriate most Asuka fans, I will finally (after a long time of repressed comebacks to your lovely defense of the bitchy redhead) say what I think. If you are an extreme Asuka fan, I suggest that you read the following anti-Asuka speech with a strictly neutral point of view, or you might pop a vein in anger.

Asuka's childhood, in my opinion, most certainly does NOT excuse her from being the most extremely annoying girl that walks the NGE universe. She is NOT an ideal girlfriend for Shinji, because if it was written in true IC, Shinji would be gravely injured in the hospital due to Asuka's, oh shall we say, 'short-temper'. I have seen many fics that depict Asuka as growing meek and humbled, or Shinji becoming male Asuka so as to be able to pair them up without Shinji ending up with broken ribs somewhere within their written works. However, I do say that some exceptionally well-written works of this type is a pleasure to read. I have run across about three of them.

As I usually repeat myself to those who try fan conversion, I know very well that Asuka has a traumatic childhood. This will have affected her personality. But unfortunately, her treatment of Shinji and various other characters in NGE quickly killed all my sympathy and empathy for her. And I mean REALLY quickly.

Even in the episode in which we first meet the redhead, she displays truly annoying and abusive qualities that made me wish the Angel would squash her every single time she appeared on the TV screen. I'm sure she didn't mean to flash her underwear or perhaps lack of underneath her lovely yellow dress at them on the ship.

Asuka doesn't ALWAYS yell and scream. But she does A LOT. Maybe in a few chance episodes she acts quite civilized, but my very vivid memory of her is mainly of her shouting and being overall, abusive to Shinji. She could almost be traumatic to Shinji.

All of this could be excused for just being a brash, loud, extremely confident and sassy girl. But deliberately putting down Shinji, demanding he make her meals and other abusive things is, to me, extremely intolerable. Shinji has enough self-esteem problems without being continually put down by Asuka.

And even without the issue of Shinji, I find her friendship with Hikari not exactly friendly. More like, Asuka dominates Hikari. I remember two distinct moments from NGE episodes. The first is when Hikari more or less lets Asuka know who she has a crush on. Asuka more or less completely disses her 'best friend's' choice of male. How rude can you get? Asuka could have tried not implying that her best friend had bad taste.

The second incident I remember is a short scene where Asuka is at Hikari's house, after Asuka was 'mind-raped' I believe, and Asuka is completely ignoring Hikari while she plays her video games. How RUDE! Even if she is so depressed and traumatized, her attitude to Hikari, who is offering her a place to stay and companionship, is simply disgusting. Hikari's feelings can be hurt too, and friendship is a two-way thing.

Oh dear, my rant is starting to ramble on. Anyway, so basically my point is, that I just can't see anything that would excuse Asuka's actions or make me like her, not even remotely. She simply annoys the hell out of me, and using her childhood as blame for her actions just isn't good enough. People who experience trauma should actually, in general, be a lot more empathetic and understanding to other people. I don't think I see that in Asuka.

Of course you can prove me wrong. But you could show/refer me evidence instead, such as an episode in NGE. Anyway, so I conclude, and of course, await the many leaping flames. In fact, please flame me personally at if you wish. I wish for my review area to become a place for comments and suggestions for improvement of my fiction. Flames on my opinions about Asuka can reach me personally instead.

(takes a breather)

Now, time to respond to the reviewers who read Chapter 7 (Chapter 8 including the 'chapter' where I was threatening to kill the fic) I love you all, even the really critical ones.

D14852001- well, Gendo hasn't got much of a motive to be the one tampering with the LCL. And yes, Xiao Lan is lonely. 'Sue' being subjective opinion only, I won't say anything further on that. Thanks for the review.

shadow penguin- WOW O.O your dad's brother works for Gainax? Heh, if I had permission to write these it'd be nice of course. Anyway, thanks for stopping by.

Ghost140- I can't blame you for forgetting. Hehe, I forget lots of fics sometimes as well. Thanks for reading and reviewing anyway.

Steve VADER- It doesn't seem like Asuka's way of doing things I know, point taken. About the time that the chapter will take : very long.

jennyjennai- thanks a lot. I decided to stop writing this fic becauseI really have a writer's block with it. But thanks for reading and reviewing.

Lady Laran- I always had the impression that Asuka was vindictive, heh. Thanks for the review.

nicknack- thank you, but as I have explained in a long winded way: it's not going to live. Thanks again .

Veronica Avalon- some of the semi-OOC-ness may be attributed to the distance I have had from NGE episodes (craves NGE). But thanks for the comments.

lilxseeker- thanks for the comments.

King Alar- OK, I won't beat around the bush. I did reply to your review but anyway, you know what I want to say already. The only thing I wish to add to all of the above is that even though you did explain your onslaught of anger in your second review, is that you refrain from directly insulting other authors on FFN, and some of whom, I know you have much respect for.

I'm not sure if he still writes (I need to check again) anymore, but I have a deep respect for one of the popular EVA fanfic writers, who also critiqued my fanfic in its earlier stages, and as a very talented writer, he must have seen the many flaws in my evidently lacking piece of writing. I'm sure he himself did not hate Asuka, yet he never had to smack me over the head with a digital board to tell me that my writing, in plain words, sucked. He provided true helpful hints and read my fanfic from a completely neutral point of view. He also noticed my bias towards Asuka and chastised me for it, so he's also being fair to your favorite redhead.

But all in all, I thank you for your reviews slash heavy criticism. I would've perhaps been less fired up if you had not spent half your review in a pro-Asuka speech. The repetitiveness is very correct and yes, it does get boring and uninteresting. The Asuka mind-rape; I am not deliberately ignoring it. It has been a long time since I have seen the series, and therefore, some things I do admit I have forgotten. I cannot write about Asuka's mind rape if I cannot even remember it and its effects well enough. Does that make sense to you? And I cannot get the series on loan because it's too expensive, and I cannot download because I have not the disk space. Some people are not rich.

Since this fanfiction will not be continued, I will explain very briefly what Xiao Lan's character is. She has no evident personality. Yes that is very true. She is on a mission, and her only objective is to see Shinji safe and to enable him to regain his past self so he can concentrate on bigger and more dangerous things (I was planning on another final Angel that Shinji needs to defeat). Xiao Lan's role isn't that big. Her disease was just a part of her character design. And as I have said before, her personality has been suppressed by her objectives. Because she, had I written my fanfiction to the end, would have died, period. Not a Mary Sue death, just a death. She would have died without the tears or sympathy of any characters or readers. I might have mentioned a Shinji/Rei pairing somewhere. Her voices remain a secret with me.

So yes, Xiao is a nice shallow person.

Eek. Such a long response. Anyway, I shall not waste your time any longer, if you even plan on reading this.

Drake Pendragon- thanks, but unfortunately there'll be no Shinji/Xiao pairing. I'm very happy you actually wanted such a pairing.

Grey Wolf4- big thanks to you. You stuck by me as a main reader of my fanfic, and I'm just plain grateful.

VIICell- uh. Okay.

unknown- no offense, but your review makes no sense.

sward- thanks, but like I said, the fic is officially discontinued.

Rusty Knights Productions- thanks, I guess? Yes, things are rarely black and white, but why do Asuka fans (I know that you may not be) always ignore Asuka's vicious putdowns towards Shinji? There's a nice gray area. But thanks for the helpful criticism .

Whispers of Death- thank you for a very calm and objective review. Points taken. Thanks again but I won't be continuing.

And there we go.

The Sixth Child, by Yue's Lady, created on the 5th of September 2003, has officially been discontinued on the 31st of August 2004. It consists of 7 chapters and has seen approximately 360 days of life. It has 83 reviews, consisting of controversial opinions.

The author sincerely thanks every single reviewer, compliment-er and flamer alike for reading and reviewing and/or flaming.

Owari [End]