Boyfriend of Steel

Currently the second story is in beta reading phase, with one reader complete and two ongoing. I anticipate receiving all of the beta feedback by end of June and then will work on the final edits in July, with a target publish date of August 9.  Like with the last story, I will roll it out chapter by chapter on the major fanfiction sites like FFO and Darkscribes.

There are two major hurdles to overcome still at this stage. One is the name. I named this story Redemption several months ago but when going to Darkscribes recently I saw another EVA story named "Redemption" and know that will cause a conflict. Therefore I'm searching for a new title.  This is not an unsurmountable obstacle as the first story's title came after two previous name changes.

The second hurdle is a decision to either roll the story as a proper sequel, or append it to the original as a "Part II."  The main reason for doing so is to ensure that there's context to newer readers, as if you haven't read Blue Rose you're not going to know what the hell is going on.

Also once the final draft is prepared I will begin to revise the website to post the second story. I anticipate that at least on this site the stories will be distincly different entities, which is the way I'd prefer it.

At some point I'm going to go and do an essay on EVA and why I write these things. I may do that as part of the "Writer's Notes" on Part II.  I actually had done a lot of thinking on that issue in general so I'd expect to run that out this Summer after the final draft. Once I have feedback on the story from the major sites then I'll outline and start work on story #3.

As of yesterday the rough draft of Redemption, the Blue Rose sequel, is completed. The text-only version finally clocked in at 200 pages, with 100,000 words. That's about 60% larger than Blue Rose. The rough is now sent to the beta readers for their work and hopefully I'll be working on a final draft by next month, and still on schedule to finish completely by July.

Compared to Blue Rose the new story is much more epic in scale, as it takes place during the events of End of Evangelion (and you don't get more epic than that!). While there have been innumberable sequels to EVA, there have been only a few to take on EoE in a major way, and this story will follow the major players plus a new group that's being introduced that has it out for both NERV and SEELE. My goal was to give EoE a very different ending and I do believe that's happened!

Hopefully I will have a finished version by July and then I will alter the website to allow access to both stories. There are still plans for a third and final story, but one thing at a time!

Currently I'm working on a sequel to Blue Rose, named Redemption.  Originally i wrote the story that became Blue Rose as a one-shot. However I thought writing a sequel to it would present a very interesting challenge and after a lot of effort managed to work up what I think is a good story that continues from the situations presented in Blue Rose and carries them through to End of Evangelion.

While I don't want to give a whole lot away, I can say for certain that a certain American EVA pilot will be back. He won't be alone either, as he'll be joined by another familiar face to EVA fans of late...

Currently the outline is complete and I'm working on story, with a goal of having a Beta ready by March of 2010 and the final done by July.  Will keep posting as things progress..

Funamation will release Rebuild of Evangelion 1.01 in the USA on DVD in early November, with a Blu-Ray release (1.11) in the Spring. No word on if Funamation's gone ahead and purchased the rights to EVA 2.0.

If you go to Writer's Notes, there's another new image that goes along with the story, something that shows a possible future. I won't post it here but you can link there and scroll to the bottom.  Enjoy!