Jimbob wrote:I think it has to with Rei honestly.
Still being jealous about some crush from your childhood makes just as little, if not less sense than still clinging to the childhood crush itself;
I doubt Asuka would really mind that he didn't
wreck the fucking planet for her; She's an adult now, she's able to see it as such, and wouldn't see anything
worth being jealous of about it, after all, she's a victim of this catastrophe.
Half her lines are "This world has no time for such bullshit".
If she had such feelings, she would have taken a jab at Rei when Shinji asked about her.
Not to mention that he did a rather similar God Mode thing for
her during Operation US - She was
shocked, and there's no sighn that she saw it as something worth being grateful for anywhere in the movie. (see my above post for demonstratory screenshot of her terror, even if it's only half effective without the moving eye sparkles)
I never thought I would ever say this, but
you're really giving Asuka far too little credit here. She is a "professional soldier or mercenary" now. The instruction comes from the boss guy himself. She's no longer obsessed with a lot of things she used to be obsessed with (In case it wasn't damn obvious already), has become someone concerned with serious business, and heck,
wasn't she on the way of making peace with Rei back in 2.0? I think she was very much aware that she
isn't an unfeeling doll ever since the elevator scene.
If she still had a complex about Rei, she wouldn't talk to ReiQ the way she did (as a generic enemy she was personally meh about - She didn't even make a snarky comment about taking her with her, even if she's technically a prisoner. )
It probably helped that, while she no longer disliked Rei, she also didn't worship the ground she walked on and didn't know her as well as Shinji/ didn't owe her life to her and have mysterious connections with some "past self" her like Mari. That probably enabled her to be the one to finally set ReiQ into motion.
This has the potential to become an interesting relationship, really, with Asuka being some nonchalant, but "meh, why not?" kind of Mentor for ReiQ.
We don't get suffiecient material on Asuka in that respect, but at least Misato seems to view the "initial" Rei with less callousness than the occassional clone WILLE will destroy like a piece of equiptment - Rei still merits an usual deah euphemist like "She is gone", as well as being referred to by a proper name, she says that ReiQ "is not her", so far, what little we get is that the defected NERV personel seem to consider her a fallen comerade, or at least differentiate between her and the other clones.
That Shinji wouldn't come help her when her mind was being violated, but he would run off to save Rei from the Angel trying to merge with her.
She was talking about
Gendo cancelling the cryostasis order.
Shinji was
very much willing to engage Arael, even as he saw how it made Asuka scream her lungs out - Gendo told him to stay, and he did have a point there; A psychic attack would have Shinji on his knees very fast, and do you really want to give the angel access to an EVA with a history of getting out of control and no more power cable?
It
was really the worst possible enemy for Shinji and Unit one.
There is, of course, also the factor that unlike Rei, Asuka is just a disposable goon in the shemes of Gendo and SEELE; This line goes way deeper than simple jealousy, I don't think she even cared about that anymore at that point. Asuka's plot was basically that of a naive girl shattering upon the harsh and unfair rocks of reality; She worked hard, (eventually to the point of burnout) but outside factors, unfair factors rendered it all moot - She told herself she was this super special elite person, but at least in the sheme of EVAs Angels and SoLs, she was ultimately just a goon who had been exploited
I don't 100% agree with Bagheera's presentation here, but he's got one thing right: NERV works their tools untill they break. They even have goddamn replacements.
Her Q incarnation is nothing like that - She knows about the plots now ("Dirty Seele tactics!") and is actively trying to thwart them, she's refusing to be their chess piece. (Hence, "WILLE". )In some ways, she has embraced her true nature. Not the elite she wants to be, but boy, she IS a warrior.
Sure, her actions are still "according to Keikaku", but whose aren't? The fact that they didn't suceed doesn't make her (or Shinji's) struggles and feelings meaningless or devoid of value.
(At least, that's what I tell myself so I can recover from and find beauty in this impossibly bleak movie) Not that her series!self could help basically being a teenager whom nobody told anything, not much unlike Shinji (either version) or... basically all pilots except Mari.
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Again, ppl, where in 2.0 does this unbreakable, all-withstanding bond supposedly form there?
The timeskip is most of Asuka's life now;
When do you start remembering things? Three? Five?
She's been a mercenary fighter in a hopeless War against SEELE in an apocalyptic Wasteland longer than she has been anything else; Take a good look at pre!timeskip Misato and Kaji, and how Second Impact affected, even defined their lives - Asuka was their age when NTI struck.
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