Grand Exit:
An unfinished piece for Holy Shito!, intended as a follow-up to this one. Planning began in January 2002; the Photoshop composite was done in August; and then... nothing. Damned if I can remember what happened. School, maybe? School is always a perfectly reasonable distraction from the frivolous things.
The intent here was to launch the fic in a big way, with most of the gang rushing out of the theater -- following the Eden premiere of EoE -- in a mad frenzy. Judging from my earliest thumbnails, the title “Holy Shito!” would have been featured top and center in the final version. That certainly explains all the empty space. I assume the matter had temporarily slipped my mind when I put Arael’s layer where I did, and would have eventually corrected itself.
Most of the featured figures are self-explanatory to the seasoned NGE fan. I’ve attached solo drawings for the more straight-forward Angels to this post. Drawings for the Evas and the remaining Angels, along with my delightful rambling commentary, may be found here and here.
Note #1: All of the humongous Angels are made much, much smaller in HS! on purpose. Though, true to NGE scaling tradition, sizes continue to fluctuate dramatically depending on the scene...
Note #2: “Alephel” and “Bethel” are fabricated names for the Israfel twins. In Japanese, they’re only called Kou ( 甲 - the gold one) and Otsu ( 乙 - the silver one), which roughly mean “(Target) A” and “(Target) B”. To make those sound like Angel names, simply convert A to Aleph and B to Beth, and add the “-el” suffix (”of God”) to both.
Note #3: I have no idea why there is a doodle of an Eva on a bed on the Sahaq rough. There are some things (wo)man was not meant to know.
