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“Heya! It’s everyone’s favorite reporter Milly Ashford of Ashford Academy and today I’ve got everyone’s favorite rivals Shinji Ikari and Simon Jiha. Let’s see what they think of each other.”
“Listen that Shinji kid isn’t really a rival. He has some potential but he really needs to man up. He’s gotta do better at protecting the girls and showing Erdrich monsters from space that there are no limits to what a man can do! You gotta do the impossible and break the unbreakable after all!” Simon shouted adjusting his shades.
“Yeah… uh… so… well… it’s just… there’s a limit to how much one person can do. I want to protect Ayanami and Asuka more than anything else really it’s the main reason I remain with NERV to begin with. I’d trade my life for either of theirs without thinking about it, but all in likelihood against an angel I’ll end up dying. I uh I don’t really know what Simon means by breaking the unbreakable. As I understand Unit 1 is capable of destroying AT fields but her use as a weapon is because those things aren’t really unbreakable for an Eva due to how they’ve been created. Also like didn’t Simon lose his own brother fighting against someone…? I uh I don’t wanna downplay how terrible that must have been but Ayanami and Asuka aren’t civilians they’re pilots and are trained to fight just like ether of us or Simon’s brother.” Shinji replied with a sigh.
“That kind of downer attitude isn’t fitting a man! If you want to get the guts to ask out a girl you gotta throw common sense to the wind and break through every barrier!” Simon continued to yell.
“I’m sorry if I’ve got this wrong… but didn’t you give up on your wife when she turned into dust? I mean she turned into dust and you refused to use that crazy power thing of yours to do anything about it… i uh… I mean Asuka and I… uh well… I mean during instrumentality we sort of… anyway… I remember that I used that power to wish for a world where we’d be together and happy and at least from what I understand that really did create a world where we were happy together as a couple… even if those aren’t the same versions of us who are still fighting as Eva pilots in this world… but uh I don’t think I’d ever give up on Asuka… even if she did end up getting killed again… I’d try to do whatever I could for her…” Shinji finished.
Simon was about to say something else only to get interrupted by Milly.
“Looks like I’ve got a good scoop here. It seems that despite being called ‘weak’ and a ‘crybaby’ by some of our viewers Shinji might actually be the more accomplished out of our two interviewees today! Anyway tune in to the next edition of pilot news with the beautiful Milly Ashford next time you’re in between missions.”
Chapter 2: Shinji answers some more questions.
Summary:
Shinji answers a couple of questions regarding Simon and his own love interests.
Notes:
Because I got some hate on the last chapter I felt the need to add on to this.
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Milly: So Shinji what exactly do you think of Simon?
Shinji: He’s uh loud I guess… he has a lot of faith in humanity and he’s pretty… uh vocal about it I guess… I don’t particularly care for humanity as like a species or anything… I know I’m charged with defending it… but mostly I just don’t want Ayanami or Asuka to die… Simon doesn’t seem that interested in actual people so much as everyone it seems weird.
Milly: There’s been a lot of talk about you and that fiery redhead from Germany. Can you confirm or deny the rumors?
Shinji: Uh yeah… uh Asuka and I are… it’s complicated I guess… apparently when the world ended millions of different versions of us exist and most of those seem to get together… but between myself and the Asuka whose here… we’re…. I can’t imagine life without her, but there are so many people here… it wouldn’t surprise me if she went with someone more accomplished.
Milly: So does that mean you’re leaning more towards the stoic Miss Rei?
Shinji: No… Ayanami and I aren’t like that. Ayanami is… more like an important person than someone I’d ever think about dating.
Milly: One last question do you think you could beat Simon in a fight if it turned out Rei was an anti spiral as well as being Lilith?
Shinji: No certainly not. That drill of his would probably kill me in an instant, but I’d still fight him if It meant protecting Ayanami… but maybe Unit 1’s AT field would hold long enough to let me get one strike in.
Chapter 3: Punch it
Notes:
You know the drill. This fic updates every time someone sends me hate over it.
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Milly: In my last interview with Simon he said his brother once punched him to snap him out of depression. You’re famously like depressed pilot care to comment?
Shinji: Wow thanks a lot… uh I mean that sounds pretty stupid… if someone punched me as a way to get me to fight I think I’d stay down. I guess if I had get someone to fight who didn’t want to I’d tell them that if they didn’t fight someone else will and that person might die because they refused to act. Misato didnt use those exact words to get me out of my head, but she told me I had something I needed to do and I could die after. If I was gonna die anyway I might as well fight…
Milly: You know for one of the younger pilots here you’re kinda a pessimist its not at all cute.
Shinji: Yeah I’ve been told that…
Chapter 4: Final confrontation
Notes:
I was originally gonna keeping posting another chapter for every hate comment I deleted, but it’s to depressing to keep writing a spitefic just to be petty. I said what I wanted to with this.
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Simon: You gotta man up! Fighting and persistence in fighting are a man’s duty! You’re too emotional kid.
Shinji: I feel like the one time I thought like that something bad happened… A man’s duty… my duty as a chosen child is to protect the human race… my duty is to kill angels… but doing so hurts a lot… fighting in an Eva means feeling everything… I don’t have anything like your magic drill to power Unit 1 all I have is the pain and the smell of blood from the lcl.
Simon: A man fights through the pain. You gotta think about those who believe in you. Even if your dad doesn’t somebody does use their spirit to man up!
Shinji: The people who believe in me? A lot of people are under the mistaken impression I’m an amazing prodigy, besides I might have gotten into this mess because of my father… but it’s not that I pilot for his praise or even Miss Misato’s it’s just when I saw Ayanami dying I thought I just maybe could keep her from dying… it was stupid… maybe none of us actually pilot for reasons that aren’t stupid somehow.
Simon: I pilot cause that’s what a man should do.
Shinji: *sighs* I mean it seems to be your driven to fight because you want your brother’s approval. That’s not really bad, but it’s not really duty.