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Ugh, okay I wasn't going to add to the flood of people talking about weird visions but there's this one bit of the one I saw that is really sticking with me.

The vision: A pair of dragons were fighting. They were WAY bigger than the ones you guys brought back. The smaller of the two was like the size of a bus. Then while I watch it all an evil tree spoke to me, saying something like "You aren't the only one who has a mascot!" Which, who knows what that means.

That's not the weird part.

The weird part is One of the dragons was using Liminal Portals.

[Private to *Hyun-ae]

Also being drunk is weird. Being hungover is terrible.

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Fuck no we don't have to fight them. We just have to deal with them. My plan if I see any dragons that big is to run away.

But... won't they hurt people?

Well...yeah. I've got a sword, though. I don't know what you want me to do about a dragon the size of Godzilla.

I guess... we don't have any N2 mines and we can't call in an airstrike...

Are you one of the new guys? What's an N2 mine?

I'm Shinji Ikari. I've been here, um, about a day and a half, I think? I don't really know how to tell time here yet...

An N2 mine is a conventional explosive warhead with a yield measured in the kiloton or megaton range. Um. They're replacements for old tactical nuclear weapons?

And you deal with that shit? Damn, Shinji.

No we don't have anything like that. Just each other. I'm Kohaku. Kohaku Yuhara.

I've never had to deal with one personally, I mean, they detonated one nearby when I first got to Tokyo-3, but I've never used one.

They're, um, usually my backup?

Hi.

[She reluctantly decides not to ask what happened to Tokyo-1 and Tokyo-2 right now.]

What do you do, that they'd turn to you before setting off a faux-nuke?

I guess if I'm in another world it doesn't really matter if it's classified?

Um. I was the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01. If your world doesn't have anything like it, Eva's a little hard to explain. It's a seventy-meter tall... um... bio-cybernetic weapons platform?

[despite communicating psychically, his voice still cracks when he hesitates]

A giant robot?

[She's watched anime. She knows what "cybernetic weapons platform" implies.]

[there's a hesitation that's long enough to be notable]

Kind of?

It's, um, kind of complicated. You can think of it like a giant robot, though!

That's so goddamn cool.

Unfortunately we don't have any robots. Well...no giant robots, at least.

[At least it wasn't the "aren't you a little young for that kind of thing" talk.]

You gonna be okay here? Shit's gonna get real weird.

As long as we don't actually have to fight the dragons, I think I'll be fine. Um. I really couldn't do anything like that, without Eva.

Did someone explain the jaunt thing to you yet?

I know we visit other worlds and we don't always remember who we are...

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OKAY BACK TO SHINJI

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I'm sorry, replacements for WHAT?

For nuclear weapons. It's pretty important not to do any more damage to the planet we have left.

I -

So your world's solution was "let's make totally not nukes we swear that don't poison all the things, just stomp a city flat."

...I don't know if this is just the worst idea or if I want three to drop on the next Nightmare I see once I get home.

I don't think they had a lot of choice. Anything less than an N2 Mine doesn't even slow an Angel down - and sometimes they don't even do that much.

And we try really hard not to do too much damage to the city.

...Please tell me that "Angel" is a code name like "Jotun-class" or "Tengu-class" or "Mara-class."

And not like. You know. Biblical angels.

Well... I haven't actually read the Bible, so I'm not sure. But in the Bible they probably weren't giants from outer space?

Yeah space giants aren't a thing in the Bible.

I think I'd prefer to believe that's a codename for something big and strange and possibly on fire and I'm going to until something proves it's not true.

Probably. It's not the kind of thing anyone talks to Pilots about, much.

They're awful, and they want to wipe humanity off the planet. We're just supposed to get in our Eva and stop them.

...same song, different words...

I signed up to fight the Nightmares. Figured out how to call up an ANIMa, and hit them hard where we could hurt them. In dreams. We couldn’t fight a like fifty-story monster. But in an ANIMa, we could dream hard enough to kill the Nightmare wearing that monster.