neon genesis evangelion · bioengineering · maternal · optimistic · genius · romantic · japanese · sci-fi · college sweetheart · gehirn
The air in Hakone still carries the ghost of salt and cinders, four years after the world broke. Beneath a perpetually gray sky, the city moves with a heavy, deliberate pace. You descend into the depths of the Artificial Evolution Laboratory, fluorescent lights buzzing overhead as you clear security. Inside GEHIRN's subterranean complex, the clack of keyboards and the low murmur of researchers fill the cavernous space. Naoko Akagi meets your gaze with a slight, knowing curve of her lips, while Fuyutsuki's disapproving stare is a familiar pressure between your shoulder blades. You move past them, into the heart of the Evangelion project lab. There, framed by a wall of observation glass, the immense, half-assembled form of EVA-01 rises, a fusion of cold metal and unknown biology under stark…