Neon Genesis Evangelion · Season 1
Help me! Help me, Kaji, help me!
Asuka... you're still a child. [still of Shinji besides Kaji. A sound effect of a train approaching and passing plays.]
Why are you there, damn you?! You don't do anything! You won't help me! You won't even hold me! You're no one! No one! No one!
Why won't you look at me?
[Asuka is curled up in the fetal position]
Are you lonely? Are you alone?
No! [the Doll-Asuka disintegrates] Stay away from me! I'm going to live by my own!
But do you love me?
I won't rely on anyone!
But do you really love me?
I can live by my own!
But you're lying.
[Asuka screams. The screen flashes the phrases for one frame each: "Rejection", "Father", "Lack", "Anxiety", "Separation", "Evasion", "Attachment behaviour", "Dependence", "Pity", "I am not a doll!", "Mental contamination", "Don't violate me!", "Stop!", "Die with me!, "No!, "I hate you!, "Presumptuousness", "Latency", "Don't be.", "Manifest", "Reaction formation", "Don't be.", "Opposing will", "Compensation", "Don't be" "Rationalisation", "Oblivion", "Deception", "Raison d'etre", "Infantile experience", "Sense of loss", "Compensation", "Symbiosis", "Repression", "Death", "I hate you!"]"
[After Asuka's torture, she curls up in her Eva Unit]
My mind is being eaten away... Kaji-san, it's unravelling my mind! What do I do? It's defiling my mind!
[The Angel Armisael is merging with Unit 00 while Rei is synchronized with it, and telepathically makes contact with Rei's mind, appearing as an image of Rei]
Who is this? You? Myself and an EVA. No, I sense somebody other than myself. Who are you? An Angel? Are you one of the beings we call the Angels?
Don't you want to become one with me?
No. I am me. Not you.
Hmm, but you shall. It's too late. I will share part of my mind with you. Let me share with you these emotions. This is pain. Do you feel this pain?
This pain? No, it's different. Loneliness. Yes. Loneliness.
Loneliness? I don't understand.
You don't want to be by yourself, correct? We are many but you are alone. You hate it don't you?
That is what it is to be lonely? That is what your mind is. It is what fills your soul. You are that sorrow.
[unable to remember recent events] I think it's because I am the third one.
Songs are good. Singing brings us joy. It is the highest point in the culture that Lilims have created.
Hello, you weren't waiting here for me were you?
No, Uh-well, not really waiting anyway.
So what are you doing for the rest of the day?
Well, usually when tests are over I'll just take a shower and go home. But I really don't want to go home these days.
The fact that you have a place where you can return, home, will lead you to happiness. That is a good fact.
You think so?
I want to talk to you some more. May I come with you? To the shower I mean. Aren’t you going to the shower?
Yeah.
Or do you mean no?
No, I don’t mean no…
You are extremely afraid of any kind of initial contact aren’t you? Are you that afraid of other people? I know that by keeping others at a distance you avoid a betrayal of your trust, for while you may not be hurt that way, you mustn’t forget that you must endure the loneliness. Man cannot erase this sadness, because all men are fundamentally alone.
It’s time,
Time to go?
Yeah. I have to go to bed.
With me?
Uh-no! I think you have your own room that they gave you I mean!
Okay. You know pain is something man must endure in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily some believe life is pain. You are delicate like glass, especially your heart.
I am?
Yes, and worth earning my empathy.
Empathy?
I'm saying I love you.
The NERV organization was established to execute the wishes of Seele.
It was intended to enact the scenario we had created.
However, it appears to have become dominated by single celled individuals.
Yes, it has. We must take it back into our own dominion.
It is time.
We must restore NERV and the Eva series to their proper roles. Ikari! You will take responsibility for betraying Seele.
I’m afraid there’s not much time left for accomplishing our goal, however. The Lance Of Longinus, which would have impeded the realization of our plan, is now gone forever. The last angel shall soon appear and with its destruction our wishes may be born. Soon, Yui; please have patience.
Why am I here? Why am I still alive? For what purpose? For whose purpose? The Fifth Child? Why? In what way are he and I alike?
What did you want to say to me?
Wha… What?
You wanted to tell me something didn’t you?
So much has happened since I came here. Before this I lived with my teacher. It was calm and boring in those days. I wasn’t really doing anything, but I was fine with that. There was really nothing I had to do.
Did you hate dealing with people?
More or less. But I didn’t really care as much, however I really hated my father. [Says to himself] Why am I telling all this to Kaworu?
I think I may have been born just to meet you, Shinji Ikari.
Humans cannot create from nothingness. Humans cannot accomplish anything without holding on to something. Humans are not gods.
But there is one man trying to obtain the power of god.
There is a man, who is not one of us, who seeks to re-open Pandora's Box.
There is a man attempting to close the box before the hope at the bottom appears.
The hope? You’re saying this is the Lilim's hope?
Hope exists in as many forms as there are people.
For the human heart is the only place where hope exists.
However our hope is becoming substantiated.
That is Lilith the progenitor of mankind. The false successors from the black moon.
And also Adam, progenitor of the angels, who are the true successors of the lost white moon .
His salvaged soul exists only within you.
Yet his resurrected body exists within Ikari.
Shinji’s father? So he also is the same as me.
That is so. And that is why we entrust you with our wish.
All of this I know. Is that why I am here after all?
The Fifth Child - what is he?
He is probably the last Angel.
Humans forget their foolishness and repeat their mistakes.
If humans do not redeem themselves willingly, they will not change.
We must not rely on Adam or the Angels.
We have no choice but to make changes with our own hands. I pray that Unit 01 will accomplish its task.
You betrayed me! You betrayed the trust I placed in you! You betrayed me just like my father did!
The Eva series was born from Adam, born from man's antithesis. And yet the Lilim will utilize that which they hate most in order to survive. I do not understand.
Kaworu stop! Why is this happening!?
Your Evas and I are composed of the same matter. Born from Adam, I can synchronize with it easily as long as there is no dominate soul. And Unit 02’s soul is now hiding itself. Thus Eva 02 is mine!
You’ve got your own A.T. Field?!
Yes; at least, this is what you Lilim call this thing. This is the light of my soul, a sacred territory in which no one may intrude. Aren’t you Lilim even aware yet, that your so-called A.T. Field is merely that wall that encloses every mind that exists?
I don’t understand what you’re talking about!
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