[OOC][PLOT] The Seventh Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals

[robkelk]

Well, we do need to work with what we have, and James was along for the skating party.

What we have for Misato's attitude is this line from 2016-09-19 in-universe (wiki link):

“I cannot find anyone talking about the Angels,” she continued finally shutting off the TV. “There is also nothing on about the UN, that is with the exception of some kind of stupid global warming crap. Not even a word about Second Impact, it’s like it never even happened, like the last fifteen years we lived not only didn’t occur, but something else completely different happened."

I will admit that I read Rajvic's posted attitude into that... but I could be wrong. Maybe the "stupid global warming crap" was that somebody was denying it exists.

And that interpretation would support your idea above without needing to change anything that we already have posted - Misato found out how other people took her comment and is doing a deep-cover exercise. Only Kaji would know otherwise (since he's the only one other than Misato who saw the TV show that she commented on) - and he's no stranger to deep-cover exercises. For all we know, it might have been his idea to go deep-cover to begin with.

Then there's the line that I just added to the story for February 12. Everybody is reacting in a way that shows they want to help - except for the crew of the Black Lagoon and James. Rock and Revy and company have the excuse of being mercenaries - you don't pay them to do something, they (usually) don't do it. James... didn't even ask his residents. And when somebody asks Mal or Inara "why didn't you respond last Sunday?" and they get back the answer "respond to what?", then the I'm-just-a-landlord issue comes to the attention of somebody outside of Gulfside. And that leads to the whole "you're changing jobs and they're changing residences" subplot that was worked out.

(Which puts James in the Press Office just when Sean Spicer is talking about job numbers... and a month before the Nicknamer-in-Chief decides to be the first President in over a generation to snub the Correspondents Dinner.)

* If anyone knows what Misato majored in, please do tell. Otherwise... I'ma just gonna roll with "Physics" because that makes the most sense.

According to her character page on the Evangelion wikia: "Misato's job(s) before being employed at NERV are not specified, but in the manga, her last job involved genetic experimentation on animals, as Pen Pen was a result of one such experiment."

So, one of the "hands on" biological sciences.


EDIT: And I just realized that I didn't include Dublin on my list. Sorry, Dartz...