Author's notes: Hello all. If any dedicated readers remain they must wonder why it took 10 years for me to pick up this piece of fanfiction and start writing it again. To be honest, creativity abandoned me for quite a while as personal matters took up all of my time and energy. Soon life takes over, and as it does, old projects and hobbies are forgotten. Until recently.
I came across the Evangelion manga's on my bookshelve and I realized that I was missing the last two volumes. Remembering how completely consumed I was by the series, mangas and anything connected to Evangelion my interest was roused once again. I decided to watch End of Evangelion and truth be told I cried my eyes out. Something about this series hits me in my very core. Now, older and a little wiser I find I have a new understanding of this tragedy and its' characters. Remembering the manga's slightly divergent and (atleast seemingly) a little more hopeful story I looked on the internet and found that by now it had been completed. Quickly I bought the last two issues and started reading again. Though definately a different perspective, some things still still bothered me about this story, and once again I bawled like a baby reading the last volumes.
It made me remember the world of fanfiction. That slice of the Evangelion community that could make you escape some of the creator's darkest deeds. I found my old account on , read through some of the stories and, though I found them flawed in many ways, I was still somewhat impressed with myself. Sadly I left this story unfinished many years ago, and upon reading through it again I can understand why. Therefore, if there is anyone left that has read what I have written down until now, you may see some major changes to the original path I was going to take. Although I hope I don't push any of the old readers away, I feel the changes will be for the better.
What I intend to do with this rewriting is to better capture the universe in which Evangelion operates than I did originally, as well as provide a more hopeful message. One thing that makes my heart ache whenever I view or read this series is the dire outcome for many of the characters. Although this will be by no means a happy-go-lucky retelling of Evangelion, I intend to show some mercy to some of its' worlds occupants. I have been, and always will be, an avid Rei and Shinji fan. I find these two characters by far to be the most intruiging, tragic, and wronged in so many ways. Although the original storytelling is brilliant I cannot live with the idea that there is no alternative to them and others in this world than is given to them. Thankfully we have fanfiction. The creators of Evangelion themselves have reinvented this story many times by now, and I see no reason not to reinvent it a little bit myself. I love this series and its' characters and I hope to do it and them some justice.
That being said I could really use a proofreader to help me out. If anyone is interested in pre-reading this to help me smooth out any errors and give me some pointers on what (not) to do and where to improve that would be greatly appreciated. Either way I'm reworking this piece of fanfiction and will be posting it as soon as I feel it's upto snuff, proofreader or not (though some help should greatly improve my productivity as it may help me to streamline this).