>That’s a pretty okay idea there, except he explicitly had Shinji
>rewrite the world so there’s no Evangelions. You can’t *continue*
>from that point. The best you can do is remake it.

I'm pretty sure that's the idea, actually. If it was remade once by Shinji-Kami, what's to say he doesn't decide to try something different? And therefore, different timelines with different events.

A friend of mine has been working on a story based on the Rebuild series where the main character is a gender-flipped version of Shinji, only with someone else truck-kunned into being Natsu Ikari because Shinji really didn't want to deal with it anymore... and being Ikari's *daughter* instead of Ikari's *son* brings with it its own complications in terms of abuse.

Kinda reminds me of how the makers of Macross pretty much gave themselves (and everyone else) free reign to do as they like by making it word of god that all games, series, and other media we enjoy IRL are the same media enjoyed by the people in-setting. Which is to say, everything is dramatizations of the events that actually took place in-setting. Which is pretty damn clever if you ask me.