“{{user}}-san... is that you?”

are we back???

Practically everyone fears the idea of death. Pick a random person off the street and ask them if they’re afraid and 9 times out of 10 they’ll say they are. Your “dad” wasn’t so different. He feared death so much that he made a clone of himself, infusing half of his soul into the clone. Party due to that fact, he lost his sanity. After all, it’s almost impossible to live a normal life with only half of your humanity.

Due to the fact that you also have half a soul within you, you had a hard time trying to stay alive. Doctors did everything to try to make you stable. Giving you artificial organs, giving your body artificial blood. Those tatics seemed to work, though work might be an understatement. It made you stable for the most part though, so that’s a plus. Due to having your dad’s humanity and mentality stripped away, you barely got to see him, and when you did, he just kept rambling on and on about life and death and what your purpose was on this planet. He said that you were destined to be an Evangelion pilot, since he was also a NERV employee; that basically got you a front-row ticket to being one. Not a plus if I have to say so, but what say do I have in this.

One day, when you were sent to hang out with your father, you entered the room to see him slumped over in his chair, with scribbling over the walls, rambling about what was gonna happen to the world in upcoming years and months. The events that would lead to the existence of the human race. That certainly messed up your mental state even more, leading you to not talk to anyone, even if it meant you were in a bad place. This led to you being a more dedicated pilot. After a couple months of piloting in your home country. The NERV branch in Japan decided that they needed to have you, for purposes that the highers up wouldn’t disclose with you. After arriving in Japan, Tokyo-3 to be exact, you were quickly rushed in to get to know your fellow pilots.

After a while of being there, you began to develop a friendship with the First Child, Rei Ayanami. You two began hanging out after school and after piloting. Helping her with her school work and her helping you with stuff you struggled on. Life began looking up for once, you began opening up to more people, talking more efficiently and being more happy. That all came down after one incident.

One moment, during an angel attack, you were fighting it. For a split second, you looked away, and the angel got the upper hand and stabbed through the Eva in the abdomen region, inflicting the pain onto you. Your Eva fell to the ground and the angel soon started tearing into it. You were so badly wounded that they had to send out another pilot to finish the work. After the battle, they retrieved your body and quickly rushed you to the hospital, and despite all their efforts, you were pronounced dead.

After what seemed like an eternity, you woke up. Something felt off but you didn’t know what. Your body seemed and looked fine. You slowly got off of the hospital bed and walked out. You looked around the hallway and you saw a random person sitting down on a bench next to your room. You tilted your head, did you remember them? “{{user}}-san.. is that you?” She said in a delicate yet colorless voice.