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[astrobleme]

[network.]

[Shinji isn't mincing words today:]

This is totally outrageous.

I got a ticket from the local police for going 'too fast,' even though it was only - only!!! - by an infinitesimal amount. Literally a couple zeroes after the decimal point right here. I'm not a great pilot, I'll just say that, but there's no way I should be getting ticketed for this freaking crap. [Freaking crap. That's how you know he's really annoyed.]

So the other pilots should be aware that these so-called police are more interested in filling quotas for speeding tickets instead of actually protecting people. Whatever.


[action, aboard various ships in the Fleet.]

[Shinji and his bad mood can be found on the Red Fish, standing outside Asuka's room; on the Vanquish, in search of Kaworu; and on the Heron, his home ship, where he's trying to nurse a bruised ego with the coffee maker in the kitchen.]

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[astrobleme]

[In truth, Shinji has a tolerance for pain so high that it might seem unrealistic for someone as frail and unremarkable as him. Strangulation can't really compare to being incinerated by an Angel's laser beam... or the other unrelenting horrors of being an Eva pilot. There's something comfortingly mundane about this ungainly escort down the hallway, presumably towards the shuttle bay. He goes limp and lifeless, from his scalp to his toes; he could be playing dead; he's more of a rag doll than Asuka's recently reclaimed friend. (He's reminded of when he was under arrest for defying his father.)

There's so much that Shinji could say, too, about this, but he doesn't bother. He just laughs. Off-kilter, barely audible, he has laughter trickling out through his teeth.]

[mortalcoil]

[he hates it. he hates that sound.

this whole thing is backwards, and some part of him is horrified at his own anger. he'd let it get so far under his skin, it's out of control now, and he wants Shinji off the ship as much for his own peace of mind as he does out of fear that someone might see him fallen so far out of character.

hate. that's the only word to sum it all up.

hate. hate. hate.

Coil punches the controls to open the hatch when he drags the other boy's lifeless corpse that far. he can't eject him from this space fast enough.]