Disclaimer: Evangelion and everything about it is owned pretty much by GAINAX and not me (the author of this fic). This is a parody, and only my artistic influences can be said to be by me. I don't make any money off this. Please don't sue!
I also don't claim to be good at writing in iambic pentameter – nor Shakespearean, for that matter.
Angel Attack
By William Wong
Prologue
The year two thousand fifteen doth commence
And the constant summer suns Tokyo-three.
The stillness of such an age mars the tense
Past from memories of war and debris.
And thus this story is thrust forth from so;
What starts as silence and cicada-hums
Cannot long seem: hush'd, pink chick hatch'd of crow
Is but a new-born genesis, ere comes
Black feathers to sprout in the new-form'd world.
Its fate, portend', will bring harrowing joy
To mankind's own, both twisted and twirled,
For all resteth on the soul of a boy.
Ready you to witness the frightful act
Of mankind against the angel attack.
This is an adaptation of the first episode of Neon Gensis Evangelion, Angel Attack, into an Elizabethian stage play - Shakespearean style. This is only experimental, and may be abandoned/removed at any stage.
I hope someone might enjoy this, though.
By the way, don't be afraid to skip entire passages (like next scene's) if they seem too long for you. After all, you'd already seen Evangelion, haven't you? Let long monologues deter you not!
Promotion:
Randman's current feature work, Guardian, is soon to resume. Go and take aread!
How does Rei react to being invited to a party with the whole school coming along? What is that voice inside her head, and what does it want? What things can it make Rei do? What lies beneath each of those masks that people hide behind? Comedy, drama, Christmas; it's something totally wild!