Subject: [FFML] Re: [C&C] Assorted Comments
From: Sparky Clarkson
Date: 11/25/1999, 12:21 AM
To: Jerico Mele <jmele@brandeis.edu>, fanfic mailing list <ffml@fanfic.com>

Hey Jerico, thanks for the comments. And now, allow me to explain
myself.. I guess...

Characterization is a little flakey, but the central premise
is really interesting. The synchronization scene was awfully
graphic, but the Proteus system seems like a real piece of
work.

Thanks (about the premise, at least). Everyone is going to be at least
marginally OOC in this story (alteverse aspect rears its ugly head).
Sorry about the initial synch scene, but I wanted to drive home
exactly how much the process sucks. The dehumanizing aspect is pretty
important to me as a point both of plot and theme.

The Proteus machines themselves are, as you may have guessed, a
conscious attempt to invert some popular anime premises. I'm hoping to
have a lot of fun with the battle scenes.

A couple of problems I had, mostly just stylistically: I'd
start the series off with some sort of action, just to provide
Shinji with more of a reason to climb into the sphere. As you
remember from Episode 1 of the TV series, it took a beaten and
battered Rei to get Shinji in the Eva.

I considered it, but the situation is totally different without the
attack. In the first episode of the series, Shinji is being asked to
fight an immense, apparently invincible giant. In this, he's only
being asked to get into the machine--he has no idea what it will be
like or why he has to do it. Also, this Shinji is somewhat different
from the series one. He's not a badass or anything, but his
motivations have been tweaked a little. Alteverse again...

Those of you who like violence and action, fear not: you shall have
more than your fill as the series progresses.

Second: are you going to be using Angels as the bad guys? It
doesn't seem that way, and I personally feel that's for the
best, since Eva and Angel are so interconnected in the series.

Well... that's a secret. Suffice it to say that the angels as they
appear in the series will not appear in this story. That doesn't mean
that there will be no angels, nor does it mean that the Kabbalistic
mythos is gone from the tale. A little has been taken away. But other
mythoses will be fused in, particularly some Northern European sagas.
As for the Evas... well, they'll appear too, but... well, that's a
secret, too. Essentially, I'm weird, and many aspects of this story
will reflect that oddity.

Recommended for Eva fans

Thanks again!

Sparky

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