Another DW-Eva teaser

[Bob Schroeck]

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"remember, Shinji, when you see the mutilated corpses of your comrades that you're in a love-hate relationship with, don't freak out.
"don't freak out?"
"don't freak out."

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Damn. Gotta change that scene now.
Josh and Nathan have already done a great job trying to get across what I'm going to have Doug do. Doug doesn't really do any "fixing" himself -- in fact, in a passage I have written already, he despairs of being able to help, because he recognizes that they're all walking wounded but he knows he doesn't have the training to do the job. (Two professional therapists among the Warriors -- he knows enough to know that he doesn't know enough.) What he manages to do is give Misato and the children the tools -- and the determination -- to fix themselves. I'm going to tell you, they're still dysfunctional at the end of the story, but nowhere near what they end up as in canon. It comes out as a kind of functional dysfunctionality, if that makes any sense.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.