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Who I Am and What I Do Here (Wookieepedia)

  Who I Am and What I Do Here: Note: This is a copy of an essay intended to be posted on my Wookieepedia userpage as a reflection of my time on the site as a celebration of the eight anniversary of my first edit on Wookieepedia. It is posted a day early here to record it for posterity. My username on this site is Fan26, because that is the username I created when I signed up for the wider Wikia platform (and yes, when I joined, we still called it Wikia). This username has since transferred over to a number of other platforms as a result of its usage here and I am known as “Fan” by a wide range of people with no connection to this site.  My first edit was in Autumn 2015-for context, that is before the release of The Force Awakens and is a time when the bulk of NuCanon-specific lore consisted of the first season-and-a-half of Rebels , Tarkin (which practically adapts Luceno’s earlier Legends works and the “Reconquest of the Rim” section of Warfare ), Lost Stars , and that Upr...

A funny Evangelion frame and what it says to me about Misato's character

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 This frame from the firsrt Rebuild, posted by one of the innumerable Evangelion screenshot accounts, popped up on my Twitter feed the other day. Initially I went "haha the way she bends down, that's adorable lmao" and didn't think much of it. But I keep coming back to thinking about it because of something-the way Misato bends down to talk to Shinji is exactly the way an adult would bend down to talk to a child. Because that's what he is-a child. It's not condescension, far from it. It's her recognizing that he's a confused child dragged into a situation far beyond his understanding. Contrast Misato with Ritsuko who, aloof as ever, just stands there looking at him and seems uncaring of the fact that they're conscripting a child to pilot a mech for them.  Of course Misato still pushes Shinji-at this moment in the first episode in the original show, which Rebuild 1 is adapting, Misato is trying to persuade Shinji to get in the Eva, but she goes abou...