There's something eerie about Asuka. She's...quiet. She isn't yelling or screaming or grabbing him by his collar. She isn't threatening to punch him in the face. The details he'd ignored until now start to be picked at by his mind. Eye patch - something happened here. Her hair is longer, even though she'd probably berate him for noticing such a fact. Her suit too is different in parts. It's not the same. Maybe it's a spare?
Things aren't adding up. It's starting to make him nervous.
If there's one thing Asuka can't deny it's that the way Shinji presents himself right now, the way he still manages to stand despite wanting to curl away, the fact he still, despite his own self loathing, is still standing and living and still very much facing her head on that is unmistakably different from the boy she dragged out of the entry plug and through a desert.
This boy still has a will, despite how fractured and damaged it may be. He hasn't fallen over the edge just yet.]
...Blame me for whatever you want, call me a coward or any awful names you can come up with...but don't blame me for causing something that hasn't even happened yet.
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There's something eerie about Asuka. She's...quiet. She isn't yelling or screaming or grabbing him by his collar. She isn't threatening to punch him in the face. The details he'd ignored until now start to be picked at by his mind. Eye patch - something happened here. Her hair is longer, even though she'd probably berate him for noticing such a fact. Her suit too is different in parts. It's not the same. Maybe it's a spare?
Things aren't adding up. It's starting to make him nervous.
If there's one thing Asuka can't deny it's that the way Shinji presents himself right now, the way he still manages to stand despite wanting to curl away, the fact he still, despite his own self loathing, is still standing and living and still very much facing her head on that is unmistakably different from the boy she dragged out of the entry plug and through a desert.
This boy still has a will, despite how fractured and damaged it may be. He hasn't fallen over the edge just yet.]
...Blame me for whatever you want, call me a coward or any awful names you can come up with...but don't blame me for causing something that hasn't even happened yet.