That Quin did that was news to me, too. Every once in a while a character that I write for will be like, "Guess what?" And I'll be like, "What?" And they'll be like, "I'm a felon", or a sodomite, or something, and all of a sudden shit just starts getting weird.

I suppose I should've expected it out of Quin. So far as I can tell, he doesn't really have anything better to do than wandering around drunk causing property damage. This is, of course, so far as I can tell. It'll probably turn out that he's Captain Awesome, defender of the city, and that he and his sidekick the Cowabunga Kid (Elise) go out at night and fight crime while wearing their underwear on the outside. Which would be kind of adorable in Elise's case, because she might just still be in a training bra. I don't know yet, though. Our depravity has yet to snare Elise in its tightening coils, and there's no telling when it will. She might elude it forever. She's just cute enough to manage it.

I'm gonna go ahead and say that I'm not fan fiction's biggest...fan. Some of it amuses me, what with its lack of grammar, syntax, and proper spelling mixed in with a generous dosage of Mary Sue-ism. Others horrify me (because really, I don't need to know about the dom/sub sex Team Rocket has on their own time while Meowth watches). And 99.99% of all the rest manage to elicit a resounding "meh" from me.

I tell you all this so that I can emphasize how fucking rare it is for me to get completely and utterly caught up in a piece of fan fiction, especially the kind that stretches past short story length and starts knocking on novella's door. But the wholly improbable has happened, and I am a currently a good way into the run of "Shinji and Warhammer 40k". It's pretty much right what it says on the tin. Specifically, it asks the question, "What if Shinji Ikari (of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame) discovered a set of Warhammer 40k rulebooks and figurines when he was a kid and, as a consequence, developed into a singularly awesome individual instead of the spineless wuss who simps his way through the anime?" ...Maybe not the most obvious question in the world, but (as has been proven to me) a worthy one.

Now, I'll go ahead and say that it's not polished. It has its share of clunky sentences and typos (as most fanwork does), but I have managed to look past them to peer into the awesome beneath. Because any Neon Genesis Evangelion fic that manages to seamlessly transform Shinji "I HAVE DADDY ISSUES" Ikari into a badass while making references to both G Gundam AND Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann should be awarded some kind of Goddamn medal.