Original vs New

[not_good_not_wicked]

A simple meme. Post a comment describing a hypothetical meeting between the Save the Earth AU version of- hold on, this is a meme so we need a silly picture.




A simple meme. Post a comment describing a hypothetical meeting between the Save the Earth AU version of your character (IE the one in this game) and the original version (IE the one straight out of the TV show/book/game.) either with a description of their opinions or with an actually written out conversion.

Also, if you like, you can continue by way of tagging other people's posts, and threading out an encounter between your StE AU and their Original Flavor version. Or between your your Original Flavor and their StE AU.

Comments

[shouldertheburden]

New and Old Kaworu are both awkward and embarrassing in different ways! Old Kaworu in Rebuild isn't quite as awkward and embarrassing, though, since he'd been through god knows how many time loops and even in that particular loop is pushing 30. Still, he's a non-human trying to present himself as normal, and has a pretty distinct otherness to him, but he's also pretty level headed and calculating when he needs to be. New Kaworu obviously does not have that problem, but he's not as smooth and well spoken as his canon counterpart, regardless of what he thinks. He's booksmart, but eccentric and without a lot of common sense. He's weird but very much a normal teenage boy despite his interests, and not as emotionally mature as he'd like to believe.

Old Kaworu would probably find New Kaworu a little pathetic, but treat him like a younger sibling who needs some guidance. For instance, a little insight into How To Properly Handle the Shinji, and some gentle persuasion that a lot of his beliefs on spirituality are pretty much bullshit (the angel of free will probably wouldn't jive too well with New Kaworu's fate boner).

for old egg

[talkshitgetsis]

...Hello.

[Staring. Suspiciously.]

[shouldertheburden]

Oh, hello, First.

[He sort of expects the suspicious staring. It's what Reis tend to do. NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY HERE NOPE.]

[talkshitgetsis]

[Tilts her head. Still starin'.]

Is that my name?

[shouldertheburden]

Well, no, your name is Ayanami. But you're the First Child, so I addressed you based on that distinction.

[Okay this Rei is a little weird.]

[talkshitgetsis]

First at what?

. . .

And why are you obsessed with my brother?

[shouldertheburden]

[Okay, this is stranger than usual.]

I beg your pardon...? Your brother?

[talkshitgetsis]

Oh yeah.

[Crosses her arms.]

Shinji is my brother.

I'm a different Rei.

[shouldertheburden]

[She gets a look. A pretty surprised and doubtful one, that is.]

Shinji is your brother? But that can't be, he's never mentioned...

Hm. Wait, what kind of "different" are you, exactly?

[talkshitgetsis]

We don't have robots.

Or "angels".

The person you think I am is kind of like a past life to me.

[shouldertheburden]

Oh...that's fascinating. I would have never conceived of a world with you in it that--

[He cuts himself off and there's an obvious, sudden change in his expression, from surprise to concern.]

...You said Shinji is your brother. Is he happy?

[talkshitgetsis]

[Glad to know you have the same priorities, Cowroo.]

Yeah. Sort of. Sometimes.

He was worse off before you showed up. The new you. The one he's dating.
Before that, he'd mostly just play neopets all day.

the old rotten egg

[neopianangst]

...Kaworu?

[Someone's nervous...]