#shinsa

Shinsa / Cinnabar - Houseki no Kuni

phos would be shinji, of course. it fits in a sense too. both of them have never really had anything they were good at. the difference though is that phos had a passion to want to be in battle but shinji doesn’t. but through the course of their stories it turns into the opposite, shinji wants to be acknowledged by his father and protect the people he cares about and phos loses his longing for the battlefield. shinjis story in this AU though will be closer to phos. he never really had a purpose to anyone and wants to be of use to the other gems. so sensei (who would be yui ikari) tries to figure out what kind of job shinji could have. the job he will be given could be the phos encyclopedia job or something more EVA related. idk yet. I’ll go more in depth later. I’m also not sure what to substitute for phos’ journey of new limbs but… i also don’t need to stick to the story too hard.

rei would be cinnabar. similar to cinnabar, she would leak a dangerous chemical. in this case, LCL. she cannot come in contact with any other gems (for now) and is all alone. she is falsely told that night patrol is the only thing she can do without harming others. due to this forced solitude, she stays at the shore to watch for incoming angels at night. shinji would find her and promise to find her something only she can do, a purpose other than strictly following her orders to be on night patrol. another thought of for this is that when shinji comes down from the moon (the chapter phos massacres the gems), rei will confront shinji and tell him that he forgot their promise. But she was able to bond with the others in shinji’s absence.

angels would be the equivalent to the lunarians. they would attack only during the day because SEELE (in this AU, gendo is aechmea trying to get yui to return to the moon with him. i say SEELE because he kinda works with them in the anime i guess.) would send them only when yui would be awake. the angels would attempt to steal the gems for gendo to try to get yui to budge.

misato would be rutile. it felt like it fits. padparadscha would be kaji.

mari is alexandrite. devoted researcher looking to learn more about the angels and rei’s condition. in this au, mari would ask shinji about rei occasionally. we need more alexandrite appreciation actually

asuka is ghost/cairngorm. the outer layer, “ghost” is shikinami. a little kinder than the inner crystal “cairngorm” who is soryu. of course with this though, gendo and asuka do not have the same dynamic as aechmea and cairngorm. when asuka and shinji team up they don’t get along the first few times around. But they begin to get more comfortable with each other. I don’t have every detail carefully thought out but you get the gist.

kaworu is antarc. this is a given… i think. he wakes up in the winter and the restless shinji asks to team up during hibernation. so they do. at first kaworu doesn’t reveal much about himself, but he opens up over time and grows to care about shinji and helping him hone his skills. when walking along the shore one day, the angels come unexpectedly and antarc tells shinji to go get yui while he holds them off. shinji stays and wants to help kaworu… and you know the rest. He’s gonna have a hard time recovering from that.

Less prevalent characters (in hnk) next. There’s not rlly a lot of eva characters…

Ritsuko- Jade

Kensuke- Goshen

Toji- Morga

Bort- When i think about it bort could be asuka. But i like the cairngorm idea more. But for now this’ll be blank

Maya- Zircon

Aoba- Neputune

Hyuga- Obsidian

Hikari- Red Beryl