LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-13 AT 06:02 PM (EST)
 
>It's a sequel. About Shinji trying to use instrumentality to
>redo the events over and over again to try to get things right
>-- that is, the original Shinji, who is not present in the
>series as Shinji, but as Gendou. Some specifics: Gendou's face
>is slightly different, more round, and his eyes are different, too,
>from the design in the original series. If it were any other
>production company? I wouldn't ascribe much to it. But between Anno's
>obsession with detail -- up there with Kubrick -- and another
>change (instead of Gendou changing his surname to Ikari, it's now his
>family name, and Yui changed her name instead... from Ayanami),
>not to mention all the things that have been added to what the Evas
>are and what an Impact (in the Second/Third/etc. sense)... I'm
>inclined to agree.
>

I think there's a fanfic that did that. IIRC, it came right out of nowhere, and might have been an omake, but they did it. Having trouble recalling the author (might or might not have been bluepencil) or title, though, but I think it was on TFF.

"They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on."
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington