As for his father, what a difference there was. Gendo Ikari had a neatly trimmed beard, and as neatly trimmed moustache. The only flaw in it was a scar that had apparently gone deep enough that the hair didn't grow there. The same scar was visible as a faintly darker line that ended just below one eye.
Short, that was one immediate impression from Shinji. He was now taller, so everyone was shorter than he remembered - but his father was much shorter now. A cane under one hand, wearing some rumpled military uniform, with his hair a shaggy and unmanageable looking halo. Dark sunglasses half-concealing his eyes that gleamed in the overhead lighting. In some ways he resembled the old captain of the Yamato crossed with a couple of other similarly dated commander-types.
"HAH! My boy! You're looking well," said Gendo, putting a pipe in his mouth.
"Captain! No smoking in headquarters!" said one of the bridge bunnies.
Gendo frowned slightly and in reply sent a large bubble up into the air.
"Oh, that's all right then," said the bridge bunny.
"Are you ready, my son? Ready to take up the mantle of Defender Of Earth? Ready to put your life on the line and your body into serious harm, even knowing that your very mind might be assaulted from the Forces Of EVIL?" asked Gendo.
"Uhm, well, I guess..." said Shinji, who was still a little confused and off balance.
"Of course he's ready," came another voice.
"Who?" Shinji looked to the side. "MOM?!"
"We're working, Shinji, you should address me as 'Doctor Ikari' or," the woman with the glasses and labcoat whipped off her glasses in a dramatic flourish, "Professor Ikari. Number one genius mad scientist of the Earth!"
"You're a mad scientist?" asked Shinji, a little alarmed. "Why are you wearing a swimsuit under a labcoat?"
"Well, 'slightly annoyed scientist' just doesn't have the right ring to it," admitted Yui Ikari. "Besides, having a reputation as a mad scientist cuts down on the spam and salespeople who annoy you. There's other perks as well. In any case, I'm glad you've met your fiancee!"
"Excuse me? Fiancee? ME?" asked Shinji. "Why do I have a fiancee?!"
"Oh to cut down on all the sexual tension," said Yui, waving it off. "Young teenage studboy like you needs to get those hormones abated every so often."
"But a FIANCEE?!" asked Shinji. The teenager twitched as he tried to figure out the obvious question. "You engaged me. To Who?"
"Why, I'd think that was obvious," said Yui Ikari with a smirk.
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