And Gendo had only himself to blame...

As it was, someone ELSE rather close to at least ONE of the young women named Rei Ayanami had been there . . .and broke somebody's nose from what I hear...

Elsewhere at approximately the same time. . .

Commander Rei Ayanami

A LOT of strange and bizarre things have been happening today. Take for instance what I did just recently. I have to say that I rather enjoyed that more than I should have. Then again, that bastard had a LOT of nerve saying what he'd said to little Rei there...

. . .

To that . . . version of me there. Makes me wonder if the man I had married do long ago had ever been the person I'd thought he'd been. Did the man I see inside Gendo . . . was he real or someone I just thought I saw?

Had he actually been, in the beginning, just trying to use me to get in good with SEELE? My father had belong to that group, you know.

Damnit, nothing had been what I'd thought it had been with him! At least with my father and the rest of SEELE I had SOME idea what they stood for (if I had been a bit naive about how ruthless they'd become to bring about Instrumentality). With Gendo I had thought that he would have taken care of Shinji. I had actually expected to have been absorbed into Unit 01. If it was to happen and was necessary to make that monster go, then I would have rather it had been ME than another. At least, I had reasoned, with my soul within Unit 01 I would be in the perfect spot to help bring about a bright future for my son and humanity as a whole!

Believe me, the only other option besides Instrumentality available at the time had been . . . unacceptable. But as it turned out I had been wrong in so many ways as to be a sick joke to end sick jokes. Gendo, the man I married was no longer in existence. Something twisted and pathetic had replaced him.

. . .

You know what happened. Know all that happened if not from before then you got an idea from all those hacked files these . . . Champions uncovered.

Hell! I will even wager you know that the blue haired young woman who's shoes I stepped into after she left for Terra Prime still despises me for having used her from the very START. Even used her even before she was flesh and blood. The really hard thing for ME to swallow is that my counter here from "Reika's" world had done something similar along the lines that I had done and planned with my husband. It is just that with Reika she had been informed of her intended purpose (at what my counterpart's purpose) from a VERY early age. From the early years in her first incarnation, if you'd believe it!

Not to say that it's all lovely between this reality's Yui Akari and Reika, but at least the young girl's on speaking terms with her!

. . .

Just a little information made all that difference....

Irks me to no ends and probably played into why I decked one of the Gendo's for having made Rei I cry.

"I still say that you should have let me shoot the bastards," grumbles the "manga" version of the woman who helped "officially" raise my son. This particular Major Katsuragi still really wishes to do bodily harm to "her" Commander Gendo Akari for having killed that one secret agent, Ryouji "Kaji". That and perhaps take out her anger upon the other Gendo Akari just out of principle.

As it stands she's not exactly a pleasant "drinking buddy" while off duty here with me, you know. I did this more out of a desire to keep this Captain Katsuragi (and by extension the rest of "her" version of NERV since SHE is it's acting commanding officer) out of trouble (or in as little as possible).

Honestly, I have only met her and probably do not owe her anything. Still, I find I just hate the idea of a good fellow officer getting themselves into trouble so thus this. We're off duty so not a problem, anyway.

That said, she still would have been back there in the clinic, fretting over the feminized Shinji if it had not been for firm (and LOUD) orders by the current care givers. Getting underfoot and on everyone's nerves. . . . See, she'd been getting in the way in her worry over Shinji . . . "her" Shinji. Did that one too many times so . . . now she's here.

It didn't make the "anime" Dr. Ritsuko Akagi any more popular with this woman here, let me tell you. Down right pissed off it had made her, really.

"If you had done that I fear that we would be having this conversation in the brig instead of a certain former NERV commander's office," I point out, gesturing at her with the rather weak beer (have much stronger stuff back on Terra). "And I wager that dawning look of understanding near the end will stay with you MUCH longer than a swift death. Killing them then and there would have been too good for them."

He'd been to busy with what he saw as the betrayer in his midst. He thought that the white haired (and winged)

Thus the cutting insults to a little girl thought to have been made up to look like the girl created in my (or technically my analog's) image. Thus the cutting insults and disbelief of Lilith's claims of actually being his wife. Wouldn't even consider repentance for the wrongs done to his son...

Let us not talk of the snide insults given to Lilith (who he still believed to just have been somehow a tool who'd turned on him)... It was only the JSSDF guards who'd been "escorting" him to a new holding cell area that had kept things from becoming violent (from either Lilith's or Gendo's quarters).

Such was what this particular Misato Katsuragi (of the manga if you've lost track of which is which with all the dopplegangers and twins about) had walked into the tail end of it. Put that together with the chewing out that Dr. Akagi gave her after getting into the way one too many times. . .

Do believe that whatever relationship she had with "her" Ritsuko Akagi had been on it's last legs as well, I'll wager. Whatever the case, she's NOT in a good mood now, despite efforts on my part.

Imagine how much worse it would be for her (and the various Gendos) if a hope I and some others had should have been raised, only to be dashed. I do believe that the former Commanders of NERV (Japanese Branch) would have been VERY messily dead by now!

He hadn't seen me up until I made contact with his nose. Both he and his analog had been too absorbed with absurd ideas that this had all been some kind of sick mind game. A mind game he could win but still a mind game aimed at him. Afterwards, they'd noticed ME. Saw what they believed to be "their" long lost wives and . . .saw that I was EXTREMELY angry at them. Angry with them and had rejected them, they saw in my eyes.

I had ignored them at the end. Turned my back upon them as they got dragged off bodily. One I noticed had already begun to mentally collapse in upon himself with the sudden realization (and shock) that everything he'd done (all sins made and people betrayed) to bring his . . . only reason for living now were for not. Having been on the edge for so long he'd now been . . .

. . .

The other Gendo Akari had been screaming my name, begging me to be with him.

. . .

They're not going to be in any functional shape here soon. That . . . . is not something I can do anything about or care to even try to do anything about. I'm not really their Yui Akari. Those women don't even want them and I cannot say I blame them.

1. Another "incident" today had been the false hope that somehow that this black haired woman's love had somehow come back from the grave like the purple haired version's had....

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