[text] your blue walls get in the way of these facts

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Who: Asuka Shikinami Langley
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Handholding planet, if you want it.
When: 7/27

[It's not like her to post much, and it's not like her to post with text at all, unless it's as a response to someone else. But if there's one thing Asuka's confident in, it's that people tend to own up to a hell of a lot more on the network than they ever do in person, especially when they're typing it up. Something about the distance. Even Katsuragi always sounded far more imposing over email than in person, except for the last couple years.]

[Plus, she's curious. All those pilgrimages that it seemed as if the whole Fleet had made had to have earned some useful tidbits. Asuka's poor at cloaking her motivations in the best of times, so she barely bothers.]

If we stay here much longer, I'm learning to swim.

What did you get from the tree? Even if it's something crappy like the promo stuff we get sometimes, I still want to know.

Comments

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Not when you fall off a pier.

[astrobleme]

You fell off a pier? Seriously?

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No, idiot, I jumped in. What do you think?

[astrobleme]

That can be prevented by not going too close to the edge...

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I know. I just got excited.

[astrobleme]

[... oh no...

That's cute.]

I told you the ocean is awesome. Did you see a fish or something?

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I saw a lot of them. Everybody else was taking them for granted.

You didn't tell me what you got.

[astrobleme]

I know what you mean. I freaked out over those baby sea turtles, but most people couldn't be bothered. I told you about them, right? They were so small and cute.

[... not answering the other part, at least not yet.]

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You're not answering me.

[astrobleme]

[Ugh.]

You'd have to see it to believe it. Did you get something?

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I didn't try.

Did you get your tape player back?

[astrobleme]

Why not? I don't know if it works twice but I could go with you if you want?

Not my tape player.

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I'd probably get something stupid.

[Like her doll.]

I don't remember anything else you had.

[astrobleme]

Maybe you'd get something you're not expecting.

Like Pen-Pen! Wouldn't that be great? People have been getting animals, so...

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He'd just wander into the bathtub on me again!

[astrobleme]

I guess it is pretty embarrassing that you got bossed around by a penguin.

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You did, too!

[astrobleme]

We're not talking about me, we're talking about you.

[...]

What would you want the tree to give you?

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My other plugsuit.

[astrobleme]

Oh.

[Shinji feels sick just looking at his Unit-13 plugsuit, but he can't convince himself to throw it out. 01's would be even worse...]

For the sentimental value?

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I just like it better than the one I have.

[The new one doesn't really have any signs of battle. No patched-up places, no tears. It's symmetrical, streamlined, and aggressively dull.]

I'll probably get my stupid hat, though.

[astrobleme]

I think the one you have now looks nice. [Of course, he's always going to prefer seeing Asuka in normal clothes. The fewer reminders of Eva, the better.]

Hats aren't stupid, though. They're a reasonable accessory. Useful, too.

[This is fine. He'd rather talk about fashion than spears of destiny.]

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Sun protection isn't that useful when you're mostly on a spaceship.

[astrobleme]

Hey, if you don't want it, I'll take it.

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You liked it that much?