Allies of the Superwomen of EVA #3: The Vision
"During the final stage of the Angel War in which SEELE launched an assault on NERV HQ, their initial cyberattack and its countering by NERV chief scientist Ritsuko Akagi (secretly the superhero Spider-Woman) inadvertently triggered a contingency sub-program embedded in the MAGI by its creator, Ritsuko's mother Naoko Akagi. That sub-program secretly removed the copied personality engrams Naoko Akagi made of herself and, in a hidden area of Terminal Dogma (the most top secret level of NERV HQ), implanted them into what had been dubbed by the late scientist "Project: Jocasta". Following what had been dubbed the 'Final Battle of Tokyo-3', the automated project was carried out in secret, right under the noses of everyone involved in the decommissioning of NERV HQ, until finally, on the day of the decommissioning effort's completion, the result of that project awoke and burst onto the scene, terrorizing all present in the Geofront. The result in question was Alkhema: a powerful, cold, and genocidal gynoid whose personality matrix amplified the worst traits of Naoko Akagi, with the goal of eliminating all human life and making machines dominant over the planet Earth. Ritsuko, as Spider-Woman, and her other superpowered friends and colleagues were barely able to beat Alkhema in their first encounter, though they were sure that, in spite of the destroyed chassis they stood over, their new foe would be back.
The superwomen, now banded together as a team called the Avengers, encountered Alkhema next when she had amassed a small army of robot acolytes under the banner of the Opus Futurae, with herself as their 'Mother Prophet'. She then unveiled her primary vassal, built on a frame based on the plans and research of an early American roboticist named Phineas T. Horton. Said vassal was dubbed her Vision, and demonstrated its powers in battle with the Avengers, including superhuman strength, flight, powerful beam attacks from the solar cell on its forehead, holographic manipulation, and density manipulation. Like Alkhema, Vision's personality matrix was copied from a human's-and being a twisted take on Naoko Akagi, the human that Vision's engrams turned out to be based on was Spider-Woman/Ritsuko, giving Alkhema a 'daughter' of her own.
In the midst of the battle between the Avengers and the Opus Futurae, the Vision, while studying the former, took notice of the camaraderie, trust, and friendship that bolstered their team dynamic and enabled them to be effective against their robotic foes (as well as the concern they gave for the civilians in the area). Concluding that they in truth are good people while Alkhema was in the wrong, the Vision turned on her creator and aided the Avengers against her, destroying her second body in the process. Inspired by her actions and seeing how she is arguably a living being because of her capacity to think more than just on the basis of logic, along with her Pandora-like curiosity, the Avengers decided to bring her into their care to help her acclimate to human society.
After purging any suspected sleeper programs Alkhema may have embedded within her, members of the team tried to educate her on how to go about human life. After taking in some of the basics they provided, the Vision decided to travel the world in multiple guises in order to gain a better understanding of who she herself truly is. After doing this for nearly a year, the Vision returned to Tokyo-3 and the Avengers, now having adopted the human identity of Antoinette Sakakibara.
During an incident where the time-traveling despot known as Kang the Conqueror temporarily trapped the Avengers in a temporal void, the Vision was one of many superpowered allies of the team brought together via their 'New Avengers' protocols to defeat Kang and bring the team out of the void. Vision and the others were then given reserve Avenger status by the team's leaders for their efforts."
*Author's Note(s)*
For today's subject, we have here a hypothetical SWOE take on the fan-favorite classic android Avenger, the Vision. (OrionPax09 only riffed on the Vision as being one of the options Rei Ayanami could've become in one of the omakes for his story "Lilith's Herald".) Unlike the comics version, I opted not to have her join the team right away, and took a page from the second Vision (the one who hung out with the Young Avengers) in terms of their journey of self-discovery. Instead of Ultron, I instead went with a tweaked take on his second 'bride' from the comics to serve as the primary robotic enemy of the SWOE Avengers.
As for the visual basis (Deviation) for a SWOE Vision, once again Kaiserbeamz's Kyoto Video provided inspiration-specifically, his review of the 1986 'so-bad-it's-kind-of-funny' OVA The Humanoid. The title gynoid Antoinette's design proved to be the perfect model for this take on the Vision you see here, with only a few color changes and the addition of the forehead gem to seal the deal. (Unfortunately, couldn't find a way to pull off the signature cape.) Since Evangelion came out in the mid-90s, for the Deviation I made, I decided to use the logo for the Vision's 1994 miniseries designed by legendary letterer Todd Klein. Vision's human identity is a portmanteau of Antoinette's name and the surname of the character's Japanese VA from the OVA.