On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Adrian Forest wrote:
Yay! More CoaEG! Finally! I can't remember, did we wait longer for a new
Star Wars movie? Ah, whatever, this is far better than the Fandom Menace.
Yes, we waited a LOT longer :)
She frowned.
[That's a bad thing, right?]
Yes.
Part 18
Violator
[Tell me this is not a Spawn reference, please! ^_^]
Eh, Spawn, what?
The lounge singer had taken a break, and now a
recording of a lounge version of the Imperial March from
Star Wars was playing over the stereo system.
[Goddamn! Where does this bar get it's entertainment? I want the number of
that agency!]
Heh.
Shortly after Lyn, the lounge singer, finally
returned, launching into 'Fly me to the Moon', Maya said
hesitantly, "Are you saying we're all the result of a
genetic experiment?"
[...and I don't s'pose you can hire Lyn H Taparote for weddings, can you...?
^_^]
Sure, but the cost gets kinda high...
"There is a continuing project called DAGON.
[Boy did I cringe when I first read that acronym in an earlier chapter.
Might I suggest flashing letters for the HTML version? ^_^]
Heh.
[Another reader has pointed out the domain name and language things here,
but might point out that it should probably be NERVD, for NERV Deutschland.
Deutscher NERV or Deutsche NERV just doesn't sound right to me. And why the
first part of the domain name is Goethe is a mystery to me, unless you're
insinuating that Anna might play a somewhat Faustian role when she
arrives...]
That would be telling
but the great
lord of dreams is almost certainly either Cthulhu, who
haunted Father's dreams when I was little, or possibly one
of the major Elder Gods.
['Lord of dreams' = Hypnos. Plain and simple. Unless this is a reference to
the recent Dreamlands escapade...]
All shall be seen...:)
"'Lo, the trumpet sounds. The weaver's webs are rent, the
stars have fallen, the great beast is slain, no more to lap
up blood with many tongues, and even the great dreaming lord
of the deep has been cast down.
['dreaming lord of the deep', however, is a blatant reference to Cthulhu
himself.]
Yep.
"The constant exposure to LCL has heightened the
speed of their development," Ritsuko replied. She shifted
uncomfortably; Gendo had the only comfortable chair in the
office, though that wasn't the only reason for her
discomfort. "If it wasn't the only way to enable them to
control the ships, I'd recommend immediately ceasing any
contact with it."
[Ships? What ships? I don't think the EVAs really count as ships, so what is
this a reference to?]
It's my brain melting.
[Actually, all through this scene, Rei is incredibly obedient and
subservient. The faithful hound comparison fits disturbingly well...]
And it certainly wouldn't have anything to do with what recently happened
to her. Nope. :)
Shinji began drawing the Elder Sign on the door, after
borrowing the one Misato was wearing to use as a model.
[Doesn't the Elder sign require some form of spell or enchantment to be
effective? Wouldn't a drawn-on one be just so much chalk-dust? Or does the
very nature of the Children provide some form of enchantment by their
drawing it?]
Being a Child has its privileges :)
Touji fanned himself. "Is it hot in here or is it
just me?"
"Touji, why's your hand on fire?"
"It what? WHOA!"
A moment later, with no flaming appendages,
[Ah, the comedy never stops in the Mythos-ised world of Evangelion. Except
when the dark bits happen, of course. Then it just gets freaky.]
Yep :)
"The Burrower Beneath seems to have a good sense of
timing, anyway," Fuyutsuki said.
[So we'll be seeing Shudde M'ell next, then? Hopefully with some Cthonians
to help, and lots of bad 'Tremors' references too, I hope. ^_^]
Heh.
[Well, this kicked ass, as usual. The buildup to the full effects of
absorbing the Violator's powers was handled exceptionally well, so much that
at first I could almost believe the story was going to turn into a WAFFy
lemon. Kaji's death was... interesting. As in the canon, I imagine it will
affect the characters more over time than it does at first.
Hai!
One little thing: I'd like to know where you got the sexual aspect of
Y'golonac from, since in the original Campbell story, there was no obvious
sexual subtext at all. If you're aware of another source on Y'golonac, what
source is that?]
Mostly based on just looking at a picture of him and drawing my own
conclusions. And from a story my brain can't remember clearly. And a
rather horrific CoC RPG session. Shudder.
John Walter Biles : MA-History, ABD, Ph.D Candidate at U. Kansas
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu
rhea@tass.org http://www.tass.org/~rhea/falcon.html
rhea@maison-otaku.net http://www.maison-otaku.net/~rhea/
"The connection is so abstract, that we have people whose job
it is to make sure the paperwork doesn't get totally disconnected
from the world. Theoretically, I handle millions of dollars a day,
but it is less real than this e-mail. I have never seen our product.
I have never seen the sales people. I have never seen a customer."
--Robert Lane describes his work as an accountant.