Shinji Ikari One Shot
Conclusions Part One
This was getting ridiculous.
He had a hell of a time getting to sleep, and when he did, there were those weird fucking dreams. Didn't matter what he ate, what he listened to, read, watched, whatever before bed. Even beating off didn't help. Sleep or not, he woke up exhausted.
It took three times asking before Misato got him a damn appointment to see someone. He thought he was going to see a sleep specialist, but now he was sitting on a padded leather couch in an office that looked like it belonged to a lawyer.
Great, a shrink.
"Ikari Shinji?"
Shinji looked to the door where the voice had come from. Who he assumed to be the doctor was an older white man, tall and skinny with salt and pepper hair and thick plastic glasses.
"Y-yeah."
"Dr. John Marsh, nice to meet you." Dr. Marsh said and held out his hand. They shook and the doctor took a seat across from the young man.
"So, your guardian says you are having trouble sleeping."
"I guess. I can get to sleep most night but when I do I have these dreams and I wake up just as tired."
The shrink clicked his pen open and opened to a fresh page on his notepad. "What kind of dreams do you have? Anything fun?"
"Um, I guess some of it could be fun, except its all just reliving my own life, just… different."
"Is it the same dream, like you are watching episodes of a show, or are they different?"
"Its different every night. The first night, I was like a warrior or something and I could use magic and do this weird thing with my voice, and I…. um am I allowed to talk to you about… you know?"
"Yes Shinji, NERV hired me and informed me of what you have been through. It is all covered under patient privilege of course."
"Okay, so uh, I killed the angel with magic and a sword."
"So you were a giant?"
"Oh no, like it was still big, but I was still normal size."
"Interesting, go on."
"Then the second night, I thought it was the same thing at first, but instead I was from another planet and I got in the eva this time but I had weapons and after I killed it I was chanting at the sky, and there was a party, and I got Rei as payment for killing the angel."
"Rei Ayanami, the first child?"
"Yeah."
"Do you have feelings for Rei? Perhaps you are thinking you need to earn the right to express those feelings."
"Uuuuh, well…" Shinji said, shifting in his seat.
"Its okay, I can see it makes you uncomfortable, we can talk about it some other time if you like. So what happened after that?"
"Well the next night, I was a vampire, and instead of the angels, after second impact there was an invasion of vampires."
"So you saw things from the other side of the conflict?"
"No, I was like, a vampire fighting with humans against the other vampires. But I was around before them."
"Fantasizing about vampirism can say a lot about personal feelings. I imagine in your work, you face the prospect of death a lot, and it is normal to fear that. Vampires represent power and immortality, at the expense of others. Do you want to talk about that?"
"Um, maybe some other time, can we talk about more of the dreams?"
"Certainly, you have quite the library."
"So, um, the next one I think it was just a movie I watched and I imagined those characters in my life."
"What movie?"
"Iron Man."
"Those were fun, which one?"
"All of them… in one night."
"Okay, certainly a possibility, want to talk about it or move on?"
"Lets keep going."
"At your leisure."
"Well the last one, I think I actually know what is going on with that one."
"Do tell."
"Well sometimes the eva goes berserk and acts on its own. So in the dream, I was the one who goes berserk."
"And what do you think that means?"
"I think its like… I am connected with the eva, and I understand the emotions when it gets like that, like its so angry at something it can't be controlled anymore."
"That is very perceptive. So, I think it would be healthy to talk about these more, because I think they represent feelings you may not want to confront. I have to ask what do you want out of this though?"
"I want them to be over so I can sleep."
"Well, I could proscribe you a sleep aid, a pill you take before bed. I would rather you try something for me first though."
"What?"
"Well, these dreams are stories, follow them through till they end. Once the show is over, maybe there won't be any more to say and it will go away."
"Okay doctor, I will try that."
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The Shinji Ikari One Shots
Conclusions Part One
Angelborn
The dragon of light circled over the blood red sea under the blood red sky. Below it were the ruins of the hubris of man. It was greater than all the animals of the earth. Its length was measured in leagues, the surface of its wings in acres. He was ADAM, and this world was his, and his alone.
However this was a matter of opinion. One took exception to his view.
JOOR ZAH FRUL
The magic keeping the giant aloft crumbled and ADAM fell into the sea. The earth rumbled and sent waves as tall as a man through red sea as his enemy approached the fallen beast.
The evangelion was covered in black armor that glowed with crimson menace. In its right hand was progressive sword, dark as night and shining under the dim light like it was washed in blood. In its left hand was a ball of fire the size of a city block, tongues of flame dancing over its arm.
Shinji never knew from where the music came. He sometimes thought it didn't come from anywhere, it simply was.
(cue Sovngarde from the Skyrim sound track.)
As the dragon raised its head from the sea, the evangelion hurled a fireball like a star and caught it across the face. The dragon thrashed its mighty jaws to take the flame from its eyes, but did not see the vicious kick coming from the left. The dragon screamed as the Deadric Magorax carved flesh from its neck through its left wing.
"Are you happy Dovah?!" Shinji screamed and brought a holocaust of fire down on dragon. "Everyone else is dead because of you!"
The dark sword swung again and again, taking chunks of shining flesh from the dragon that disintegrated into ash.
"So now it is just you and me! Two dov with a whole planet between us, and here we are, fighting for dominance."
The great jaws sprung open and lunged to take the eva's entire torso in between them. Another swing of the sword, and a blast of hellfire, and the dragon's lower jaw was gone.
"Hundreds of dovah, untold mortals, a vampire lord, an emperor, champions of the gods, and the most vile deadra of oblivion! All of them have fallen before me! I took our brothers' souls for my own, and cast the rest into my weapons and armor just so I could kill more dragons!"
The evangelion grabbed the dragon by its snout and pulled the head down to thrust his sword through its throat. With a twist, he turned the edge of the blade from the dragon's body towards it's head.
"And now I take yours!"
The evangelion let go of the dragon's head and twisted its entire body around to pull the blade all the way through the flesh and bone of its head. The light of the body dimmed as the dragon of light died, leaving only a lump of flesh with two halves of a head to turn to ash.
Shinji stabbed the gigantic sword into the earth and raised the evangelion's arms to the sky as the soul of beast came into him.
In that moment he was no longer inside the evangelion, on the earth, in the Sol system or even in the milky way. His presence was outside all of it, looking at the universe like a jewel in his palm. He did not learn the things that entered his suddenly infinite mind, he just knew them.
The fate of billions of souls, and of the planet for which he had fought, his true home, was his to decide.
The dragonborn wanted the world to have what he had. If they so chose, they could have the fullness of life that fighting for your happiness brought. To give them that choice, that was his choice.
What follows would an Angelic Days style story of Shinji and Asuka, living together in their homestead outside Falkreath, with their adopted child Rei, who finally gets to have a childhood (a major point in this story being that she didn't) and is like 4 or 5. The rest of the cast showing up at various points in a short tale, with Misato and Kaji running a shop together, as they make their way to Solitude to celebrate the anniversary of the stormcloak's defeat of the empire.
Story would have included plenty of jokes from the fact that Shinji works on skyrim rules. Example: He can carry infinite weight, just slowly, and build a house with nothing but an axe and a pick.
And yes, that is deadric armor and a deadric prog sword. They made it by quenching it in LCL.
A pilot from a counter earth
"I hate you." The blue haired girl said to the red haired one walking beside her. They were not companions by choice.
"I hate you worse."
"I hate you most."
"I hate you so bad the fucking nazi's would have told me I needed help with my anger."
"I hate you more than Master hated that angel who got in his head."
"I hate you more than that angel was afraid of what it found."
"Oh yeah, well I-" The blue haired girl started then quickly shut her mouth when the stern brunette wearing the purple veils turned her head to look at them.
"Both of you quiet down or I will come down and see to you myself… both of you." She said and both girls ducked their heads and looked down at the ground.
"Yes Mistress…" They both said quietly.
Misato shook her head and settled back against her companion in the saddle of the tharalarion. She had hiked up her garments a little to sit across the saddle with him. She had been a little afraid of the bipedal lizard at first, but Shinji had assured her it was tame and the saddle had some kind of hydraulics that kept the ride comfortable.
"Are you sure you wouldn't rather just sell them?" She said, only half joking.
"And leave you to toil to keep my palace clean? I should think not."
"Palace huh?" She said and nuzzled the back of her head against chest.
"Well that is an awful lot of gold back there." Shinji said, reaching back to pat the saddlebags.
"And what if I get jealous of them? Perhaps I would rather you have ugly girls so your attention stays on me." She said and leaned back to wrap her arms around his neck.
"Ah but that is just the thing my love. Besides, if you ever wish to compare yourself to them, you can just all go up on the platform together and let impartial judges decide."
"I thought you said only slave girls went up on the platform?"
"Well there is that little formality…"
"Try it mister, see what happens."
Tarl was going to be so upset with him. From the first day he took an interest in women, teacher had always said to stick to slaves; free women are too much hassle. Oh well, easy to correct mistake.
"What are you smirking about?"
"Oh nothing my love."
Gendo screws over SEELE to end their control over the UN and so the world. He sacrifices himself to control third impact to keep the people of the world alive while renewing the planet. Turns out Gendo grew up on Gor and met Yui there, following her back to earth when she found a way home. He went native, much preferring Earth. Shinji gets his pay in gold and a transport back to Gor, and goes on to found a city he names after his father.
Clarification, Asuka and Rei both end up in collar and Shinji takes Misato as a free companion.
No-Life King of Tokyo-3 has gotten enough interest it will be a future project. Hellsing/Evangelion. Misato as heir to Integra, Shinji as the result of an occult experiment to bring Alucard back, and Asuka… well you will just have to wait and find out.
NERV Of Iron
Shinji Ikari, heir to the Iron Man name and the world, laid on the warm sand of a private beach. On one side was the great Asuka Langely Soryu, wearing a delightfully small bottom of a bikini, the top undone beneath her. On the other side was a blue haired girl, whose mind was recently transferred from a mechanical body to a fully organic cloned one. She was enjoying the feel of the warm sun and sand al fresco.
Life was good.
I really doubt I could have done this story justice, I am not a big enough marvel fan to give both Evangelion and Iron Man proper due. Rei has some similarities to MCU Vision, and Asuka has a very War Machine feel to her. I think it would ha e been hard for the armored evangelions to not seem too close to Pacific Rim, which I realized setting that first battle out in the ocean really did.
And of course, a Shinji mentored by Tony Stark would end up a playboy.
Hammer Of The Gods
Shinji dragged his father by the rope around his neck to the dais. All around, torchlight lit hundreds of painted faces, chanting and singing.
"You little fucking psycho!" The naked man yelled. Shinji turned and dropped him to the ground with hammer blow to the stomach.
"Be silent and take your due like a man. You may have lived a traitor, but you can at least die with honor." Shinji barked and yanked him to his feet.
The blood eagle is a horrible, prolonged, way to die. It is reserved for the worst offenses, and none are worse than treason. And no treason is worse than a ruler betraying his people. The crowd screamed for it, and cheered every step. They were the betrayed and they demanded satisfaction.
When it was complete, the white tunic Shinji wore was soaked in blood. He stepped over the hunched corpse, hanging from its wrists on the posts that held it up through the procedure.
"The traitor king is dead!" He said and lifted a fist to the sky. The hundreds gathered did the same. "With his death, we honor the Aesir and the Vanir. Eat, and drink, and love without end tonight, for tomorrow we make ready for the battle that will set us free!"
The crowd lost it and music started, drinks of all kinds were passed and the celebration began in earnest.
As Shinji stepped onto the packed earth of the geofront from the wooden platform, his love, his valkyrie, pushed a drinking horn into his hands. She was beautiful, clad only in her fire red hair and a white shift that was nearly sheer. He took a long drought and as he lowered the horn from his lips, she snatched it from his hands and drained the rest. Emptied, she tossed it over her shoulder into the crowd and wrapped her arms around his neck and shoulders.
"So, Chosen of Odin, how do you plan to spend the night?"
"Oh, wherever the night takes me, valkyrie."
"Well valkyries know a thing about taking the chosen." She said and licked her lips. "So you are coming with me, like, now. Right now."
She grabbed him by the wrist and lead him through the crowd and into the woods. When there was barely any light from the greater party, Shinji saw a little spot of light deeper in the woods. Asuka kept leading him along, until they came to a little clearing with candles in lanterns set out in a circle. Blankets were laid out on the ground and a tray held cups and the very first bottle of mead they had managed to brew.
Asuka let go of him and threw herself down to the blankets with a giggle.
"Well, well, what is all this beautiful?"
"Yours, all of it. Now and forever."
Okay so not really an ending. This is more that moment of peace before the climax. With Trishula, I am really trying to not go overboard into the gods taking over culturally until much later. If this story went forward, this would be more in that vein of the Norse culture taking over and the final acts being through that lense.
End
So there are probably more of these to come, but I wanted to get the existing ones tied up before proceeding. As I said, No-Life King will go forward as a full fic at some point, probably once I am done with Trishula, or if I decide to take a break.
Now if, given a little more information, anybody likes another of these fics, please say so. I may not write more, but it is really helpful for me to know what people like and don't like.
Do I have a favorite? Yeah, but it is a complicated question.
Favorite beginning to write?
Pilot From a counter-earth. Gor is guilty pleasure
Favorite ending?
Or in this case not an ending, Hammer Of The Gods
Favorite to write dialogue for?
No-Life King, though about half of what I wrote actually got published. The interplay between ShinjiCard and Misato. Also the whole duality of child/parent that Shinji and Misato have and the vampire relationship of lovers.
Do you guys have a favorite of the five, given both the beginnings and the ends? Let me know.