Okay, I can say this without looking stupid and/or forgetting supernatural tidbits from a series I get forgetful about. I think the "martinet" version of Misato comes from misunderstanding her Jekyll and Hyde transformations in canon from "bottle fairy" to tactical genius.
She drinks and whoops and hollers because she's trying not to stress out about all the things she has to deal with on a regular basis as the highest-ranking "pure military" officer in NERV. The fact that she holds such an important position at her age and, bluntly, being a woman in Japan, indicates either SCARY competence, Gendo's smokescreen, and/or both.
That said, I almost want to plot an ISOT Evangelion fic.
clarification: ISOT = Island in the Sea of Time, referring to a genre of alternate history/time travel fiction, based on books of the same name, and including Weber's 1632 series, the Zipang anime, and The High Tech Knight novels.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
She drinks and whoops and hollers because she's trying not to stress out about all the things she has to deal with on a regular basis as the highest-ranking "pure military" officer in NERV. The fact that she holds such an important position at her age and, bluntly, being a woman in Japan, indicates either SCARY competence, Gendo's smokescreen, and/or both.
That said, I almost want to plot an ISOT Evangelion fic.
clarification: ISOT = Island in the Sea of Time, referring to a genre of alternate history/time travel fiction, based on books of the same name, and including Weber's 1632 series, the Zipang anime, and The High Tech Knight novels.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll