It’s a great deal of fun, but it was written by an Awesomeness Maximiser (or at least an initiate of the Awesome Conspiracy), not a rationalist. What the fic shares with MoR is not a lack of the Idiot Ball, but a sense of… embiggening, as if walls around the canon were suddenly removed. I don’t know how better to put it.
Actually, a good comparison of 40K!Shinji and MoR!Harry would be illuminating, but I’d have to reread it before trying. There are parallels, although the former’s mental uberness is more along Paul Atreides lines—the details aren’t quite there.
I imagine it also depends on how much you know/like the two settings, because that conjunction magnifies the effect (for me at least). 40K is a setting composed entirely of insane heroism in the face of death. NGE is a setting where the whole world desperately yearns for awesome, but the flawed hero’s inability to deliver awesome brings everything crashing down. To some extent, every NGE fanfic is a Fix Fic, because the canon just hurts so much.
Using 40K as the patch happens to work really, really well. Canon!Shinji would be incapable of casting the True Patronus. 40K!Shinji pretty much IS one.
It’s a great deal of fun, but it was written by an Awesomeness Maximiser (or at least an initiate of the Awesome Conspiracy), not a rationalist. What the fic shares with MoR is not a lack of the Idiot Ball, but a sense of… embiggening, as if walls around the canon were suddenly removed. I don’t know how better to put it.
Actually, a good comparison of 40K!Shinji and MoR!Harry would be illuminating, but I’d have to reread it before trying. There are parallels, although the former’s mental uberness is more along Paul Atreides lines—the details aren’t quite there.
I imagine it also depends on how much you know/like the two settings, because that conjunction magnifies the effect (for me at least). 40K is a setting composed entirely of insane heroism in the face of death. NGE is a setting where the whole world desperately yearns for awesome, but the flawed hero’s inability to deliver awesome brings everything crashing down. To some extent, every NGE fanfic is a Fix Fic, because the canon just hurts so much.
Using 40K as the patch happens to work really, really well. Canon!Shinji would be incapable of casting the True Patronus. 40K!Shinji pretty much IS one.