> Respectfully, I say 'bullpucky'.
>
> The problem is NOT Rei's personality,. it's Shinji's.  ("Bad
> Shinji," he says, following an idea from an earlier thread
> and swatting him in the nose with a rolled up newspaper.)
> Rei - or at least, Rei III - has a strong enough will, and
> all the Rei's have a subtle sense of humor.  Shinji just
> doesn't appreciate her enough - being overwhelmed by Asuka's
> personality, and experiments in thermodynamics - to realize
> that with Rei he'd be safe from the Hedgehog Principle.
>
> Bad Shinji (swats him again)
>
> Although, given Rei's mix of genes (Yui and Lilith), you
> do have to wonder about what sort of children she and
> Shinji might have...

[Snip bad rendition of mini-fic]

Don't become a writer okay? I don't wanna read the rest of that! :P

Your idea is good, apart from the fact that many Asuka/Shinji fics seem to
manage the characters romance without going OOC. so that kind of destorys
your theory I guess.
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