>>10637Misato I've struggled with for a number of reasons.
One of them is somewhat sentimental, I must confess. I think Misato represents a kind of healthy path forward for Shinji. I always have, as long as I've been an Eva fan. Maybe somewhat romantically but not even necessarily so; rather, just as someone who cared for Shinji and rooted for him to succeed. Obviously their relationship is a lot more complicated than that, and Misato's no perfect person. But she represents a positive force in Shinji's life, I feel.
This makes her a bit out of place in this scenario, because under Kaworu's spell Shinji's life has taken a turn for the worse under the themes of Eva. As I've mentioned, Shinji's life as Kaworu's fat, gay pet is a rejection of the themes Neon Genesis Evangelion tries to assert. Eva says that you have to learn to reach out and connect with people even when you risk rejection and getting hurt. Shinji has retreated into the risk-free, effortless affection Kaworu gives him, and has been molded into a creature of pure appetites and fully released inhibitions. The Shinji of these stories is a failure from the perspective of what Eva as a show is trying to say.
So Misato, who's integral in Shinji's journey to becoming the kind of person who can breach the Hedgehog's Dilemma, is out of place in a setting where Shinji has rejected the Dilemma entirely. At best, I can see her appearing like Rei appears in the story where she does: appearing to be stunned and dismayed at what's become of Shinji. But Misato wouldn't agree to leave Shinji in Kaworu's clutches like Rei ultimately does. She'd fight. So in the interest of writing simply easy fetish stories, she's more complicated than I'd prefer to tackle in stories like these.
Also, you mention she'd be corrupt like Ritsuko, but I don't think so. Misato has a core of purity to her that Ritsuko is revealed to lack. Ritsuko is easy to corrupt into going along with Shinji's ruined state. So is Asuka, because of the disdain for Shinji that she always has in her back pocket. Rei can't be corrupted like that, and neither can Misato. So, at best, Misato would be a one-off appearance, I feel.
The third major reason I haven't thrown Misato in here is because of the "lore" around these stories that I've half-heartedly committed to. By taking Shinji away from NERV, Kaworu has upended both NERV and SEELE's plans. Without Shinji, Unit-01 doesn't work, and so Instrumentality can't happen. This has probably caused a kind of collapse of both NERV and SEELE, and the characters we're familiar with have scattered to the winds as a result. I've had a half-baked idea that some unfortunate fate befell Misato as a result of the collapse of SEELE and NERV. That's another reason she hasn't shown up yet.
Honestly, there's part of me now that wants to write some separate weight gain stories with Misato as the star, set in this same continuity. Maybe with the collapse of the world she's used to, as a result of Shinji's abduction, she'd get rather fat and slobby herself.