One Truth
I did not, am not, and will never own anything that is related to Evangelion.
Don't know what episode the story is starting on, but its the one where Shinji and Misato learn all the truths about NERV from Ritsuko. Hopefully I didn't get it wrong, but I think at this time Asuka was in coma already and Rei II was dead. If not, then lets just say the story changed.
An empty street, rain falling, brought the closing to another day. Why did it rain, it has never happened here before? The world is healing was the answer. What is rain? Water condensing and dropping through the atmosphere. What does it signify? Nothing. Emptiness means a lack of something. Is the street empty? There are buildings, trees. lamps, yet it is empty. The something is life. If there was life, but no street, would it be empty? No longer. What do you long for, life? Yes. Do the animals, the plants satisfy the longing? No. What life? The life of your kind. Why? Interaction. Then life is not what you want, it is interaction. What is interaction? Touching, seeing, smelling, hearing, and tasting. Why do you wish that? . . ! . . . without it, there is no reason for living. Will interaction with any of your kind fulfill you? No! Does it fulfill you now? . . . no . . Then why do you live? Because there is no reason to die, therefore I live.
At first white, it slowly became grey, drop by drop until it was all the same. Ikari stood stooped over the railing of the balcony, watching the water flow through the streets, down the walls and windows; flowing to the drains, disappearing. Why! WHY! would someone do all that his father did? What is the goal, the meaning. Does a lunatic need meaning or a goal? No. Was his father a lunatic? Maybe. The answer was the same as the one Shinji came up with hours before. But, it did not make sense to him, there must be something deeper. The purpose to his life? Interaction with those he wishes. The purpose to his father's life? . . . He continued to watch the water flow through the city down the drains, to . . . the ocean. The creation of Rei, the Evas, the abandoning of his son, the head of NERV, and the crucified angel lead to, to . . . WHAT! Angry, befuddled, and, and crying. He watched the tears drip onto the dry railings, drop by drop, the white turned to grey.
Angry and befuddled by his father. Crying for self pity and he thought as two names flashed through his mind; Asuka and Rei. One in coma, the other lost in a way impossible to be described. It finally clicked, the puzzle fit together, everything perfectly melded. Would you do anything to gain the love of someone you love? Yes, Shinji thought. Everything for Yui's love, including the loss of his son, the destruction of the world and anything else.
Bedraggled and tired, Misato made her way home. Still haunted by Kaji's death and paperwork, she thought of the solution. BEER! The door slid open to reveal a Shinji with his arms crossed, staring into the rain. Expecting a gloomy face as Shinji turned around, she was shocked, stumped. There was Shinji smiling at her, with a slight hint of mania. As he turned back toward the balcony, Misato thought 'shit he snapped' her fears turned for the worse, when Shinji stretched his arms onto the railing, leaning over 'FUCK hes gonna jump!' Misato sprung into action lunging for the wiry boy outside. Before she reached him, he started chuckling, then laughing out loud into the rain and the empty city.
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