(this is an AU lole i don't remember evangalion very well haha)
It had taken Shinji 7 long years, but he had finally mastered the EVA. When he arrived at NERV he had been a weak and cowardly boy, driven more by his depression and apathy than any real motivation. Thrust into the control of a man he barely knew as his father he had been lost. But no longer. With the eventual death of his father after the 9th impact, he was free. Free from NERV. Free from responsibility. He had left the wreckage of his home, dragging the bodies of his only friends and laying them in a shallow crater. He left it all behind, and went to start life somewhere else. Somewhere better. The absence of NERV was filled almost comically quickly, with multiple new organisations rising to take it's place seemingly while the fires at NERV base still burned. Some, like the Industrial Cartel, developed purely mechanical units that fought in a similar manner to the Eva of ages past. Other groups, like BioWall, built fully organic organisms and trained them for the day the Angels would return. Still more amassed the weaponry needed to fight, intending to sell them to the highest bidder when the time came. But Shinji didn't care. He was free to live how he chose, and he never chose to fight. A boring office job, a boring house. A safe job, a safe house. No monsters, no dead eyed clones. Nothing at all. An empty life. He would see flashes of the people who he fought for, fought with. Rei's hair on a girl at the bus stop. Misato's jacket on the train. Asuka's voice on the radio. He just couldn't leave them behind. Not after everything that had happened. Not after what they'd been through. At night he would dream of a world where they lived. Sometimes the dreams were of his life now - together in the city. Misato would have a job she was always at, Asuka would have a job she was never at. He and Rei would share a bed.
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