>particularly novel>.
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>You'd think they'd at least come up with something new after a decade. And you know what the particularly risible thing is?
These days, "Shinji grows a backbone" fanfics of every possible sort are so thick on the ground at FF.net and elsewhere that you can't throw a (digital) brick without hitting one - and most of them go easy on the a*n*g*s*t, too. (To be fair to them, some of them are really quite good.)
-Joe-