Does Asuka Hate Shinji In Q? [Split] - An Evangelion Fan Community

Postby ElMariachi » Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:32 pm

^You're talking about the Q!Asuka of that Alternate Universe where after finding Shinji in his entry plug proceed to break his kneecap and gouge out his eye before torturing him to death with a sadistic glee right?'Cause that's absolutely not the Asuka I saw in Q : the one in here is not downright hateful toward Shinji, she's exasperated and very frustrated because he's the exact same teenager than 14 years ago with the exact same personal problems(which are trivial now in front of this new harsh world and he should learn to get over them quickly) that lead him to being so easily manipulated by his father, which in the end course only made the situation more complicated for WILLE.And the worst is that deep down she knows that it's not totally his fault, because his father mercilessly molded him into the boy he become since age four to make him the perfect manipulable pawn for his plans, and that thanks to said plans he ended trapped on hibernation for the past 14 years, before being snatched away again by the bastard Gendo mere hours after they brought him back in the world of the living.And that's why she ran to his entry plug to check on him, and finally came back to grab him out of the entry plug after lecturing him and starting to leave.As for the kicking someone in a catatonic state, the problem is that she don't know he's in a catatonic state! Barely hours before she was talking to him through their respective Evas's loudspeaker, and he looked perfectly responsive. And she know that he really wanted to save the world with the spears, he told it to her, so she knows that he wasn't willingly working for SEELE to bring forth HIP and was actually manipulated(through not by who she thought), but in the end he didn't listened, had gone to the spears, and WILLE had to clean the mess behind him.Well okay, bad shit happened because he didn't wanted to listen to her, and in the end the event proved that he was wrong and she was right, so at least she could expect him to be the bigger man, act like a grown-up and go look for her and profusely apologize for being a moron and brat! Which also parallels Mari's rousing speech to Shinji : "Everything's settled! Get a hold of yourself, Puppy Boy! Stop being such a baby! Help out the Princess, at least! You're a man, aren't you?!", which could translate as "Okay you were manipulated and screwed up, but we fixed the situation, so act like a man a go check for Asuka and while you're at it excuse yourself(with paroles and also acts : "go help her" as in "give her an hand for the upcoming long trip to the desert"), if you show good will we'll be able to sort out something advantageous for you, or at least not too harsh!"But then no signs of Shinji, so Asuka wonders what could have happened to him : did he get lost in the ruins, did the entry plug landed badly and he's blocked or wounded, did that asshole Gendo put a mechanism that killed him when he ejected, did Shinji simply abandoned her?So she gets out and search for his entry plug, and after sometime finally find it, safely landed in the ruins but with all the emergency exits still closed, so it's possible that he's really dead inside it. So she runs to the entry plug, activate the emergency explosive bolts, take a look inside... and see him sulking in the corner of the entry plug, without any intention of getting out.From Asuka's point of view, Shinji screwed-up hard, got again completely manipulated by the enemy, almost triggered the complete obliteration of mankind, and she finds him sulking like a fucking brat inside his entry plug!Cue her rant that he didn't come to help her, that he only thought of himself(i.e. that he preferred stay comfortably in his entry plug to pout instead of thinking that maybe Asuka who had to eject in catastrophe right in the middle of fucking Fourth Impact may need some help and that he should at least look for her as a way to begin to apologize for what he has done!), that he thinks that by staying in a corner and not saying anything he will get away from everything, like a brat who think that by not saying anything after doing a bad thing the parents will never notice it.So now, at the peak of her anger and frustration, she decides that if he wants that much ot sulk in a corner like a brat, then she'll let him sulk all the way he want, and started to leave... before cooling off a little and realizing that even with his stupid and childish behavior, he's still someone unwillingly thrown in the middle of this madness and who genuinely wanted to help(although in a brash and ultimately counter-productive way), and more seriously that if she leave him here he will really die!So she comes back to pick him... but since she still have a lot of frustration to vent off, manhandle him to vent-off and maybe to make him snap out of his childish behavior!Well, of course, that's Asuka's point of view, when they mutually barked at one each other in Lilith's Chamber, there weren't a tactical notification in her entry plug saying that "Warning : the pilot has been all but mentally tortured by Gendo during his stay in neo-NERV, spent the last three days without sleeping and his on the verge of insanity, handle with caution"That's why, when she found him curled into a ball and refusing to talk, she assumed that he was sulking(made worse by the fact that he flinched when she talked to him, so maybe he was aware that she was talking to him!), but again, there wasn't a label in his front saying : I've been mentally tortured to insanity by my father and have seen the last person who could have helped me find a way to atone get his head explode in front of him because of my stubbornness, I've lost all sanity and the will to live, please kill me!"Yeah, he did have some nasty dark circles under the eyes, and did have gaunt cheeks, but there could be other reasons than "he was destroyed mentally and didn't slept in days", like that the food at neo-NERV was horrible, or that he was so confused with what was happening that he couldn't stop thinking about it and that prevented him to have a good night of sleep(and that's what kind of happened before Toji's shirt : the moment he stop playing piano, or practicing piano in his room, or searching for English books for Rei, he start to have what everyone around him told him repeating in his head, maybe that's why he asked Kaowru to repair his SDAT and asked him to see the stars with him when it was clear that it would take him part of the night to repair it : as long as he's doing something or is with someone, the voices don't assault his mind), maybe the events of the day tired him a lot(after all, he only got one fight against another Eva in his whole carrier, and isn't used to the intensity of Asuka's fighting style. On top of that, he was synchronized with an Eva that Awoke, that could be an extremely intense experience for the pilot which took a physical toll on him).Or even simpler : she's so pissed that she simply doesn't see the obvious signs right under her nose! After all, Shinji can't have the exclusivity of not noticing people's feelings around him when he's very pissed off(like when he resigned after Bardiel).It's perfectly possible that if the desert trip lasts several days and Shinji still doesn't react at all, to anything she says or do to him, staying like a walking dead with an unnatural detachment to everything around him, she will start to wonder if neo-NERV didn't do something to him and if his "sulking" may not be something far more grave. But in any case it looks like they're in for a very long trip, and sooner or later they will have to rest, eat and drink, so Asuka will have to make Shinji snap out of his funky state so he could nourish himself, and probably realize that there is something very worn and very grave going on with him.Well at least, that's my interpretation of Asuka and the events of Q. It's as possible as yours don't you think?Finally, for the saving eyebeams during operation US, remember that she is the one who called him for help!Sure she was desperate, but it doesn't change the fact that even after 14 years, she still felt enough faith and hope toward him to call for his help... and tell you what? I worked! Shinji awoke EVA-01 and saved her!And as it has been discussed on many other occasions, there are many hints that Shinji's N3I is not what wrecked the world, so we shouldn't be so categorical in putting that in his list of sins. Last edited by ElMariachi on Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:41 pm, edited 3 times in total. Avatar: THE HIGHEST OF ALL HIGHS WE AAAAAAAAAARE!!!Kensuke is a military otaku who, at one point, is shown creepily taking pictures of girls to sell. He would clearly fit right in as an animator at Studio Gainax. -- Compiling_AutumnEoTV is a therapist, EoE is a drill instructor. -- ChuckmanSeriously, that is the most fananked theory I've ever heard, more than Mari being Marty McFly travelling through time to keep her parents (Asushin) together. -- Jäeger