Souls, Weddings, and Crossed Transmat Streams…oh, and Caster

Yin

”Excue me . . .what?” both Sarah Conner AND I asks, interrupting any further explanations sister Rei would have given the Senior Officer from a sister military organization affiliated with the United Nation charged with protection of the Earth; a sister organization I have never heard of until now I should add.

. . .

Maybe this UNIT never existed in my reality.

Maybe UNIT had existed prior to Second Impact only to have been dissolved before NERV came into being.

Maybe in the scheme of things it does not matter much at all beyond the needs my sisters and companions now have . . .

Still, I have to ask my sister here about Yui Ikari.

She . . .I . . .

I am the First Child, Rei Ay . . .

Uh, no. That is no longer correct. I am now Yin. Yin Quatermain and I do NOT miss being the First Child. But before I was the First Child, I know now I was called . . .Yui Ikari.

. . .

Was I a monster in my former incarnation?! Is me becoming a Champion something beyond a chance to become something else and . . .

Sarah Connercan expand on my . . . confusion over what this stuff about this Yui Ikari (a head scientist that was both brilliant and had died in getting the Evangelions working in this anime world where actual giant bloody bedamned robots fought alien invaders from outer space). Where did this fantasy stuff come into what I thought had been

“Yui Ikari was a monster?” the youngest sisters of these albino angel . . . .people whispers softly in an heart wrenchingly sad voice, making me want nothing more to take her in my arms and hug her and whisper it’s all right and all that.

I think that from once long ago back when I was (again) trying to get John to concentrate more on his “destiny” and less on goofing off and reading those strange Japanese “manga” things, that I’d gotten side tracked by some such (a term I’d thought was Japanese but wasn’t familiar with): moe. It had been referring to a rather soulful looking girl from the comic book John had been reading.

To this day I still cannot get an exact translation of what “moe” means but being that the case it seems to somehow FIT the situation at hand with Yuki: a young, distraught girl that demands to be given a hug and her feelings comforted. Something that the Brigadier (and I) attempt to do but are cut off from it by Rei getting there first!

Geeze, she’s fast with those wings of her’s! Wind from them almost bowled me over there for a brief second.

“Mine was . . .at least before getting a bit of an attitude adjustment with her soul being stuck within,” Rei says, patting Yuki’s back (wings and all) and hugging her slightly again. “Hey, it’s not like she was like you . . .before coming back as the First.”

…

”Uh wait,” I mutter, now totally confused here (again). “I thought you said that with originally being before a human being she’d been some kind of human simulation or some such that got downloaded into an empty clone body. I mean this Neon Genesis Evangelion is some kind of scifi robot show. Scifi settings usually don’t really . . . Welll, don’t deal with souls and metaphysical things like that. That’s more of a fantasy thing, right?”

Yes, I know about the rather obvious things already about Evangelion. What with the invader aliens being named “angels” of all things. Find it kind of . . .in bad taste but I don’t believe that the Japanese haven’t the right to not do that. I remember some Eastern things some of my friends went and totally . . .

Sigh, sometimes….

I hadn’t thought that a scifi show would have gone and used a gnostic theme--escape from the mortal limits through secrete knowledge and rituals—and redid it in scifi trappings but it’s an interesting twist, I should admit.

Gnostic. Man, that one guy I shacked up that one time was REALLY into that stuff and I sure am glad I moved ON before he finally did something . . . weird. Not saying anything against that brand of belief (life and let live), but MAN that guy was a lunatic. Barely was worth the effort to learn survivalist skills I had been looking into at the time…

As for the other thing?

Oh please, don’t look surprised at me not having a real problem with AIs and machine intelligences. Machines need love too, you know.

I should know, one’s stolen my son out from under . . .

Uh, anyway . . . I only have trouble with AIs (like the Terminator). Hate the ones which want to go and KILL all humans and that stuff.

…

Anyway, didn’t all this magic and metaphysical stuff happen (like those wings) happen AFTER she and her sisters got dragged into the shadows of fantasy and all that?

”Actually . . .the short of it is that there were some decidedly metaphysical matters in that show,” the Brigadier answers after a short pause as if deciding the best way to describe it. “One of them being the soul.”

O…okay.

Man, Japanese anime can be really weird.

You know, you’d think I shouldn’t be as calm about all this after everything but maybe . . . it might because I’m not . . .exactly human anymore? How calm by nature are Star People of Narnia anyway and . . .?

Rei

”The thing is that in I and my sisters cases the question of ‘souls’ comes up a lot with our fans online I’ve noticed,” I continue, nodding my thanks to the Brigadier (who’s obviously been doing his research on me I see). Odd that, but given the business we’ve had in the past I suppose it is to be expected. “In my and some of my sisters case, most weren’t even close . . .”

”But Lilith’s soul just happens to actually BE the soul of Lilith the Angel like current theory predicted,” the Brigadier says, looking over at my white haired sister. “But in this case with

”Yeah, anime’s definitely weird,” Sarah mutters to herself, looking a bit befuddled.

”Yes,” Aslan adds drolly. “And let us not say anything about Lilith having been something of the Mother of Humanity for her reality, eh?”

THAT had been something hard for Sarah to swallow when we’d gotten to that part of the basic overview of NGE, I do happen to rather recall clearly. Glad we didn’t ever mention the First Angel: Adam. That’s for later, after wedding and all that.

And as it turns out it will be something of a short, but full fledged wedding, priest provided by the White Witch of Ainran.

Heh, guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. She had hinted at pretty much her religious beliefs were more in line with Aslan’s belief….and we pretty much know by now what Aslan believes in, religiously speaking….

But still, all said this needs doing.

Something had to be done to FINISH binding John and Yuki together here, officially, or else they’d be constantly distracted whenever one saw (or thought) of the other. And being distracted and thinking pretty thoughts about the other whilst on a Quest, in danger?

I speak from experience. When I finally gave myself to Fred and soul bonded with him, I wasn’t able to really concentrate too greatly and too long on anything but . . . er . . .

. . . .

Sigh, okay. I wanted him. Wanted him in a VERY sexual manner and leave that at that level of details. Won’t go into what WE did on our wedding night.

So instead of having a quick Civil Ceremony as originally planned (and a more formal wedding later back on Terra Prime), we have a short wedding.

Oh, at least on the bride’s side of things we had things covered. See, the nice thing about the dresses I and my sisters wear? Mage cloth is what they’re made of, you know. It’s a special material that can be useful in manner ways like for protection and magical wardings. Even acts as a light armor of sorts. However, in this case our dresses can change styles as you may have noticed from various pictures you’ve might have seen of us from time to time? Saves a TON of time going clothes shopping, as odd as it may sound.

. . .

Never really felt a need to shop for a LOT of clothing as the First Child before, and that still is the case now. Pretty much the same story for all of my sisters as well, as it turns out. Odd.

Hm, but that said one of the things Yuki’s dress can do? Well, while we’d have liked a WHITE Western style wedding dress, the Gothic Lolita style one we manage did not look half bad on her!

Heh, John on the other hand? Well, he’s quiet the contrast in the same army jacket and Public Enemy t-shirt there, but it works.

At least the husband price (the nearest translation available to the Amazonian Custom Yuki had started down upon when proposing to John instead of the more . . .normal fashion), was nice.

A bunch of arms and weapons that Aslan had been nice enough to mystically whisk away from forgotten weapon catches for a war against the Terminators that will never be? Well, it’s odd but being his and our backgrounds being somewhat similar (training with various military weaponry and such)? Really nice.

Doesn’t stop Mum from snorting in amusement, but Mum’s just being Mum. At least she was nice enough and saying that John “will do” as for being good enough for Yuki. Mum’s very picky with her daughter’s happiness, I’m afraid….

Eh, the rings I provided them for the wedding? Well, I've got enough of those things for making various magic items and such (useful thing, rings, for magic). Just wish that the batch I'd been stuck with here had more . . .character. Too dull in some ways, I guess. Still it works and they'd like it they'd said.

. . .

Ah.

Sigh.

And now for the curveball.

Later…

Fred looks around like the others and then coughs slightly, trying NOT to just stare at the men in front of him before answering for his group.

Rather hard when EVERYTHING around here (people included) just happen to look. . . .rather anime like. A purple haired young woman at least now has STOPPED crying inconsolably over that one SOB who’d actually OBJECTED over what they’d stopped from happening. She now blinks and looks rather confused as to be waking from a dream…

”Wha?” she blinks intelligently, looking up into her younger brother’s concerned features. He’s scratching at where he’d been nicked just moments earlier.

Feh, some “hero” that jerk had been… Glad Jason wasn’t too much of a fight for them. But it would have been nice to not have those palace guards here with their weapons. Woudn’t be an issue of overpowering and breaking away, but a peaceful resolution would be RATHER nice.

WHY did the transmit back have to be interrupted in transit to THIS place?!

1. “Well your majesty, about that business where we’d had with stopping Medea with Absyrtus.”

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