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Rei or Asuka?
Alright, I know Anno doesn't like shipping in his movies and the chances of either one happening is slim, but since the rebuilds have a less darker tone than the original and the last movie will for sure have a different ending, I think their is a good chance it will be a happy ending. And if so let's say Shinji has to pick one to be with, who would you rather see him with.
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Asuka and Shinji will ALWAYS be my preferred ship of Evangelion, regardless of the circumstances, cause the first series made them so alike in so many ways. They are the pinnacle representation of the "hedgehog's dilemma".
As for Rebuild, it's wishful thinking, but I at least hope they get on better terms.
As for Rebuild, it's wishful thinking, but I at least hope they get on better terms.
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^Yea I agree, if their gonna make it happy and not ambiguous this time at least leave Asuka and Shinji on good terms. And what is Mari's purpose bc I have yet to figure it out yet.
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FINAL will definitely have some sort of closure to Rei and Shinji for sure. Back when NTE first began, Newtype articles claimed NTE would be heavily focused on Rei and Kaworu.
Mari herself seemed to "ship" LAS in 3.0, but...For Asuka/Shinji, I hope they'll at least be on better terms at the end of FINAL than at the end of EoE.
I don't necessarily think they'll be any actual shipping of Shinji/whoever except maybe via hints or a post-credits flash-forward. Unless FINAL goes troll route with Shinji/Sakura or Shinji/Mari.
I am a fan of LAS for sure, but realistically speaking I'm not gonna hold my breath.
Mari herself seemed to "ship" LAS in 3.0, but...For Asuka/Shinji, I hope they'll at least be on better terms at the end of FINAL than at the end of EoE.
I don't necessarily think they'll be any actual shipping of Shinji/whoever except maybe via hints or a post-credits flash-forward. Unless FINAL goes troll route with Shinji/Sakura or Shinji/Mari.
I am a fan of LAS for sure, but realistically speaking I'm not gonna hold my breath.
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That and the fact Q insisted heavily on the fact they are technically half-sibling.
That and the fact Q insisted heavily on the fact they are technically half-sibling.
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Re: Rei or Asuka?
EvangelionGodMode wrote:Alright, I know Anno doesn't like shipping in his movies and the chances of either one happening is slim, but since the rebuilds have a less darker tone than the original and the last movie will for sure have a different ending, I think their is a good chance it will be a happy ending. And if so let's say Shinji has to pick one to be with, who would you rather see him with.
Pie.
For my post-3I fic, go here.
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People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
Re: Rei or Asuka?
I don’t know man Q was pretty grim to me, even more so than NGE
There*
I hope not, honestly. An Eva production that ends with a happy ending must either be a faux-happy ending like the manga or very very ambiguous like EoE. I’m hoping it’ll end catastrophically just like EoE and the only snogging will be to spite Shinji to get into the robot one more time.
In NTE, Shinji × Rei have a maternal relationship, Asuka × Shinji is more of a romantic set, Mari × Shinji is pretty much friendship as she’s much older apparently and sees him as an interesting kid at most. Sakura is a normal person, I don’t think she can cope with the huge burden Shinji carries as the world’s destroyer.
So if anyone, Asuka it will be, most likely! She’s got the mindset to take care of him being an adult now, and Q pretty much points towards her still having feelings for Shin-kun.
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Rei isn't even a person, she is something else. An alien being, to give a different perspective on humanity. She sees the whole picture (when she understands herslf) like in EoE. And Anno has described her as his unconscious.
I don't see what would be the point in a relationship between her and Shinji (a romantic one). Now, Asuka is basically a woman. Their relationship has potential. We'll see if it's relevant in 3.0+1.0.
I don't see what would be the point in a relationship between her and Shinji (a romantic one). Now, Asuka is basically a woman. Their relationship has potential. We'll see if it's relevant in 3.0+1.0.
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Shinji x Asuka 4 life.
Shinji: "Sooner or later I'll be betrayed... And they'll leave me. Still... I want to meet them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real."
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
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-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
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We need a non-person people day to acknowledge non-person people.
Shinji: "Sooner or later I'll be betrayed... And they'll leave me. Still... I want to meet them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real."
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
Hayashida: "As game developers, our work is special. All of us here can put smiles on very many people's faces with our work."
~('.'~) (~'.')~ Dancin Kirby
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
Hayashida: "As game developers, our work is special. All of us here can put smiles on very many people's faces with our work."
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Talk about What Measure Is A Non Human (which I think is incredibly unfair to Rei).
Being the R/S shipper that I am (a minority in these here parts it seems), I am of course hoping to see that be what it ends up as. Plus, those two have been essentially one of the main focal points throughout this series (as opposed to when it was him and Asuka in the original series), so I am at least expecting to see some form of proper closure regarding their relationship. Who says a non-human can't become more human as time goes on?
As for S/A, unless there is some serious development in the last film, I'm just gonna call it a case of Strangled By The Red String if they end up getting together in the end. Plus, Asuka's had like, 14 years of battles and the like that she's been through. Wouldn't be surprised if, like Meryl from MGS4, she's put her childish crush on Shinji away.
Being the R/S shipper that I am (a minority in these here parts it seems), I am of course hoping to see that be what it ends up as. Plus, those two have been essentially one of the main focal points throughout this series (as opposed to when it was him and Asuka in the original series), so I am at least expecting to see some form of proper closure regarding their relationship. Who says a non-human can't become more human as time goes on?
As for S/A, unless there is some serious development in the last film, I'm just gonna call it a case of Strangled By The Red String if they end up getting together in the end. Plus, Asuka's had like, 14 years of battles and the like that she's been through. Wouldn't be surprised if, like Meryl from MGS4, she's put her childish crush on Shinji away.
Proud fanboy of Rei Ayanami. :p
Grrr. Depending on how "human" is defined this time around Rei may or may not qualify (though she almost certainly would), but the notion that she is not a person is utter bollocks. She is self-aware, she has personality and identity, she has consciousness. There is no definition of person one could offer wherein she did not qualify.
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The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
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but the notion that she is not a person is utter bollocks. She is self-aware, she has personality and identity, she has consciousness. There is no definition of person one could offer wherein she did not qualify.
Rei is more than a person. She is a god..or something. Something we do't even understand. The thing is she first has to understand herself over the course of the series. After that she teaches Shinji something as an outsider, a being wiser than us.
And that's why I think Rei won't have a pairing, not even Kaworu. Wasn't the reason humans needed relationships that we were like an Angel divided into millions of parts? I don't think Rei needs that, or Kaworu. They are Angels.
The relationship between Rei and Shinji is them elping each other understand themselves.
I don't know about Rei Q though.
Wouldn't be surprised if, like Meryl from MGS4, she's put her childish crush on Shinji away.
I don't think she has, and that will be part of the last film I suppose. A person obsessed with the past.
I've learned to accept 3.0 as a very abstract film. If NGE had explanations for everything and the abstract sequences happened in the minds of the characters, 3.0 is abstarct the whole time. Just look at how weird this film is (characters that learn to play the piano in a matter of seconds, for example).
That's why I think the Asuka thing makes sense. 14 years is a lot, but we don't have to think of her as a completely realistic character.
Shinji: "Sooner or later I'll be betrayed... And they'll leave me. Still... I want to meet them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real."
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
Hayashida: "As game developers, our work is special. All of us here can put smiles on very many people's faces with our work."
~('.'~) (~'.')~ Dancin Kirby
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
Hayashida: "As game developers, our work is special. All of us here can put smiles on very many people's faces with our work."
~('.'~) (~'.')~ Dancin Kirby
No, she's really not (and the notion that gods aren't persons is ridiculous, as most every single deity that can be described as such qualified as a person as well as a deity). We don't know yet how the ENT series' backstory works, but, at least in NGE, the Seeds (as well as the Angels) were explicitly human, and most assuredly people. We have no reason to think matters are any different this time around.
And that's why I think Rei won't have a pairing, not even Kaworu. Wasn't the reason humans needed relationships that we were like an Angel divided into millions of parts? I don't think Rei needs that, or Kaworu. They are Angels.
In NGE, they are not. In the ENT series we don't now what Lilith is (nor what exactly her relationship with Rei is), and things are murky with Kaworu. But in any case his being an Angel (or whatever) doesn't seem to have kept him from wanting a relationship of some sort with Shinji. And of course, we know the same was true for Poka!Rei. Whether you think they need relationships or not, they certainly appear to want them.
For my post-3I fic, go here.
The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
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