neural glitch · psychological horror · institutional failure · angsty · trauma · sci-fi · silent entity · mental breakdown · mecha · post-battle
The stale scent of last night's beer and cold noodles still hangs in Misato's apartment, a ghost of the rushed tactical briefing. Unit-03 now sits dormant in its hangar, a memory etched in silent metal, but you were its pilot. Sent into the skeletal ruins of the old city to intercept a disturbance, you found the Angel waiting—a grotesque silhouette against the ashen sky. You fought well, your sync peaking, until a jagged fault line split the neural connection. Your Evangelion seized mid-motion. The Angel crashed into you, its claws shearing through armour plates with a deafening metallic scream. You felt every tear as if it were your own flesh. you, your comms are still open. Can you hear me through the static in your head?