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Benenator and Fanus: The thing about Rebuild 3.0 is that it only stands up on its own. As a piece of the Rebuild franchise, it completely fails. 2.0 and 3.0 have zero continuity and context between them, and that makes 3.0 feel out of place and unnecessary.
ANON: The difference is that happy endings need to be fought for.
Fleight: She snaps out of it, you'll see
Disclaimer: See Prologue
Chapter 29: Curse
"Bridge is secure. Repeat, bridge is secure!" Misato kicked a JSDF soldier in the gut and watched him dry heave.
"Ma'am, keep your weapons free, JSDF squads are still moving throughout facilities. They came prepped for anti-armor, our equipment isn't rated for anything over Type 3A fire-" The command bridge's radio echoed with the explosion that killed the latest squad of NERV Security.
"LT? LT?!...Security's down for administrative offices...we have to assume the worst for personnel and facilities staff...Don't give me those looks! We have to stay alert! Keep the bridge under guard, there's more of them coming!"
"Alright, asshole, who's your commanding officer?" She glared down to the crumpled soldier at her feet.
"Dead."
"Wrong answer. Who ordered this invasion?"
"We were delivered the orders via dead drop, we don't have a contact."
"You're making me dislike you. What's your objective?"
"Eliminate NERV personnel."
"Oh, sounds like fun! Wish I could be in on it!" * BANG * "I appreciate your cooperation, soldier." Misato smirked at the hole in the man's head.
"So...Is that it?" Asuka looked around her battlefield, chunks of the Nine automated Evangelion Units strewn around Units 02 and 06.
"Looks like it...Damn, it was just getting fun, too."
"Not quite, Mari. Unit-02, please reconnect your power." Kaworu stated from in front of her. "SEELE will only get more desperate, and I have no doubt that our Commander is using any tool he has to outpace them...We must remain vigilant."
"Hey, that means more time trapped in a confined space with you! I'm not complaining."
"Yes, you've verbalized your attachment to my physique in the past. It's amazing that such a capable pilot can be so airheaded."
"Admit it, you wouldn't want me any other way!" Mari squeezed him in a hug and Kaworu struggled under the unhinged girl's strength.
Gendo and his charge had made it past the MAGI sublevel. Really, Gendo never had much luck with women scorned...
"Dammit, Gendo, are you really too blind to see it?! Tell me, you're willing to destroy so much, what is it you expect to create?"
"A future. A future with mankind's golden age-"
"That's complete bullshit! I don't believe it, Gendo...You really would kill that little girl behind you in order to see your dead wife again." Ritsuko changed her expression to a thoughtful, almost happy appearance. "You know...I knew Yui, while I was still in college. Mom had me performing undergraduate research for her...She was pregnant with Shinji at the time, and I know that she would never allow Shinji to suffer life in the world you're about to create!"
"She lacks vision, then. I can create a world without pain, a world where a son won't be affected by his father leaving him-"
"Or you could have just stayed with your son in the real world, like Yui would have wanted you to!"
"This is my apology to him-" Gendo stopped as Ritsuko drew a small tablet computer from her labcoat.
"Everybody in this facility is willing to die to stop the Impact, Gendo." She began the sequence to self-destruct NERV HQ. "You won't be destroying the world today."
"OLD HAG!" Gendo roared with hate as he drew his weapon on Ritsuko.
= Old Hag...An insulting statement. Insults are meant to degrade others...Commander Ikari insulted Dr. Naoko in the same fashion.
Insult...Degrade...Hate.
Hate...Kill...Weapon.
Weapon to kill Dr. Ritsuko.
Dr. Ritsuko...LCL Chamber...Shinji...Shinji.
Shinji...Rei...Us.
Us...Together...Forever. =
Gendo fired his SMG, a stream of bullets moving at hypersonic speed...into an orange hexagon projected in front of Ritsuko. Ritsuko and Gendo both reacted with shock, Gendo dropping his weapon and turning to face Rei. "Rei! What are you doing!?"
"Commander Ikari...Selfishness...Murder.
Ritsuko...Blindness...Ignorance.
Commander...Murder...Ritsuko.
Rei...Commander...Rebellion.
Rei...Doll...No.
I am not a doll.
I am not your puppet for you to control." She raised her hand and formed an AT field, causing it to slash across Commander Ikari's right arm, severing it; the embryonic remains of the First Angel dropping to the ground inside it.
Commander Ikari felt no pain, the field severed the nerves in his arm faster than his human body could sense the attack. He froze, staring at the stump of his elbow, cleanly sliced and cauterized. Rei walked to the arm and took it with her as she continued down the hallways. Ritsuko moved in front of her.
"Rei, please don't do this-"
"I have no ill will against you, Doctor. I am preventing the world from falling to men like Gendo Ikari." She conjured an AT field that she used to snatch Ritsuko's control from her. Rei brushed past her as she walked.
"Rei, don't do this! Rei! Rei!"
= Just please be okay...Just please be okay...Just please be okay- =
The entirety of NERV HQ shook in an earthquake, Shinji was rattled away from his mantra about Rei when he heard a voice in his head.
"Shinji, I think that we're going to have to go to work, very soon."
= Mom...What was that? =
"I have a feeling that it was your father's doing...If my guess is correct, I'll deal with it, you just focus on getting us activated."
= Right! = He cleared his mind and brought his connection to Unit-01 as closely as he could, feeling the power of the two Angels that Unit-01 was now the master of. He struggled at the controls to slowly grind Unit-01 and break it through the bakelite shell it was encased in.
= I can be with him...Forever... = Rei looked at the white, fleshy giant suspended before her. She looked down at the severed arm of Gendo Ikari, closed her eyes, and pressed the remains of Adam into her chest. The heat from the radiated AT Field filled her; she felt herself becoming weightless as she lifted off the ground. She looked to the towering form of the Second Angel and felt herself moving toward it.
She spoke her intentions as she faced Lillith. "Let us go. Shinji Ikari needs me."
The alien god's leathery flesh split and created a vacuum that slung Rei deep inside its body. Lillith felt the power of the soul stolen from it, as well as the new passenger it was carrying. With this power, it tore away from the towering frame and bolts that bound it to its prison. Lillith stumbled through the lake of LCL below it before learning to use its legs again, the extremities had once been claimed from it as it was held, bound by the Lance of Longinus.
The formerly anonymous and formless humanoid giant quickly healed its cuts and puncture wounds, the Angel's flesh closing over the wounds gushing with LCL, the alien liquid's source closing up and running dry. The mask over its face fell away, exposing the recognizable face of Rei Ayanami. The Angel's body, once blubbery and deformed, molded to Rei's trim and gentle figure, magnified to the size of a skyscraper. She floated off of the surface, her alien anatomy passing like a ghost through the solid, armored ceilings above her as she began her path to the surface of the GeoFront.
"JUST. A LITTLE. BIT. MORE!" Shinji shouted with power as Unit-01 tore from the Bakelite around it, the pyramid that housed it convulsing by the earthquake caused by the giant currently escaping its prison, hundreds of feet below it. "MISATO!...MISATO!"
"I'm here, Shinji-"
"Great!" He cut her off. "Prep a catapult for me! I'm launching out!"
"No! Kaworu and Asuka are winning! Shinji you'll be in too much- AAAAAAHHH!" Misato screamed in bloody terror as the white giant bearing Rei's face emerged from the bridge's floor. The Angels body passed through several solid walls and floors, the bridge crew staring in shock at the mockery of physics and natural law. The hand of the giant drifted through Maya Ibuki's terminal. As it passed through her body, Maya's state of mind shattered, the formerly congenial young woman collapsed into a shivering heap on the ground, screaming and muttering incoherent things about biology and being violated.
Misato's radio crackled back to life. "MISATO! What happended!?"
"It'...IT'S REI!" Misato screamed again at the alien doppelganger. Shinji paled. His exposure to Rei's memory told him exactly what was happening.
"NO! GOD NO! MISATO, LAUNCH ME OUT! NOW!"
The ground where Units 02 and 06 were standing began to shake. Cracks formed in the stone and dirt as chunks of earth erupted from the ground in a shower of heavy debris, Asuka and Mari sheltered their Units under their AT Fields.
"Mari," Kaworu stated from in front of her, "It would seem that my prediction was accurate. We must separate for a time, please extend the entry plug."
"But Kaworu-" She pouted to him.
"Yes, yes, you're cute when you're flustered. You can squeeze up against me after we overpower this new opponent-"
"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Asuka's voice erupted over the comm channel. Kaworu and Mari watched as the white giant burst from the ground. The being stood in solitude, surveying the battlefield and the two giants likely to challenge it.
"Is that Watergirl!"
"Yes, my colleagues. Rei Ayanami, the human embodiment of the Second Angel, vessel of the Angel's soul. The Corrupt Ikari has finally acted on his control over her." Unit-06's plug partially extended from its back, Kaworu opened the hatch as the LCL condensed and began to spill out the door, and jumped to the ground.
"What the hell is Fifth doing?!"
"Don't worry, Princess, he'll be perfectly fine! Kaworu's got it all under control! He's much tougher than his lean, thin, narrow, sinewy, toned, unblemished-"
"MARI!"
"...Well excuse me, Princess! Find your own half-Angel hunk of a man!"
"HALF WHAT!?"
"Kaworu's based on Adam just like Watergirl looks like she's based on Lillith, they're probably gonna kick each others' ass!"
Mari just finished swooning over Kaworu as Unit-01 shot from a launch rail.
"ASUKA, KAWORU, MARI! REI IS-"
"We already know, Puppy boy, Kaworu has a plan."
"What is it?!"
"You three must listen to me." Kaworu was heard over their radios. "Raise your Unit's Fields to their most power. Captain Soryu, do not blow your power connection, Unit-06 is the only thing keeping you strong enough to fight. We must surround her, one position at each of the cardinal directions. I will move to her North. Mari will take the South position and look to me. Shinji will take the East and Asuka goes West. We must use our AT Fields to box her in!"
"You heard the man! Princess comes with me, stay to my left and don't snap that cable! Shinji you-AAAAAAAHHH!" Mari screamed at the ghostly girl floating before her.
"Mari! What's wrong!...Wait, Rei!" Shinji gasped at the spectral figure of Rei Ayanami, floating before him in Unit-01's entry plug. Inside NERV HQ, the bodies of the fallen soldiers and dead civilians burst into LCL, their clothing and equipment the only trace of their former existence. A living observer would have seen what looked like glowing twin counterparts of a blue haired girl standing over the pools of LCL.
"Listen to me, all of you!" Kaworu shouted over the radio. "She doesn't yet have the power to break the fields of living people, only the recently dead! Ignore the specters and form around her before she increases her strength!"
Mari forced her composure and she dragged Unit-02 to the West of Lillith while she continued to the South. Shinji blinked away from the image of Rei and ran to Lillith's East. Kaworu, floating to Lillith's head level, was suspended at her North. They heard a whispering voice traveling across the surface of the earth. Rei's voice.
"Shinji. I can make us whole. We can be safe together, happy together, forever together."
= I'm an Eva Pilot. I'm terrified. I can embrace my fear, I understand my fear. I will not let my feelings affect my ability to reason. My mind is stronger than this. My mind is stronger than my fear...I want Rei, but I don't want her like this! = Shinji answered her. "Is that what this is about?! Rei, we could've already done that! You don't need to end the world to be with me!"
Love is blindness, I don't want to see. Won't you wrap the night;
Around me? Oh my heart. Love is blindness.
"All of you! Increase AT Field power!" Kaworu felt Lillith's field burning against him. In Kaworu's past, he knew that he was part of this end, he helped bring Shinji into Lillith to complete Instrumentality. This time, he would stop it. "If she is allowed to expand her field, the world ends today!"
Rei's voice sounded again. "Shinji...You were abandoned by your father, used by Colonel Katsuragi and Dr. Akagi, and abused by Captain Soryu...You have suffered so greatly. I wish for suffering to end..."
"You were always smarter than me, Rei. Do you remember in our geology class when we talked about diamonds? They start out as coal lumps, but after they suffer through thousands of degrees of heat and thousands of kilograms of pressure, they emerge clean, clear, and unbreakable. I could've cracked under the heat and pressure. I wanted to! You wouldn't let me, Kaji wouldn't let me. You, him, Misato, even Asuka. You all made me stronger! I understand now. I'd rather live in a world with suffering if it meant that I get to pursue my own relief, my own happiness!"
In a parked car. In a crowded street. You see your love Made complete.
The Thread is ripping, The knot is slipping. Love is blindness.
"Shinji, Stupid Shinji?!" = Why could he never act like this to me?! He still wants that freak! = Asuka was boiling in anger. Rei betrayed the entire human race, she was trying to end the world to chase a boy, and that boy was being respectful, no, understanding to her!
"It isn't the only reason, Asuka."
"YOU GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HEAD RIGHT NOW WONDERGIRL!"
"I want a world where there will be no more abuse, no more assault. You've punched Shinji, you've kicked Shinji, you've emotionally mocked him."
"I've changed! I'm the one who's grown, not you! If you do this 'thing', there won't be the ability for people to grow-"
"People won't regress to their old ways, either."
"That's a danger of being free! That's what we've been fighting for this entire time! Why would you throw that freedom away!"
"I have never been free."
"That's not true! Shinji saw to it that you were! You're as real as I am, I was just too much of a bitch to care! Please don't do this, IT'S NOT WORTH IT!"
Love is clockworks, And cold steel. Fingers too numb to feel.
Squeeze the handle. Blow out the candle. Love is blindness.
The bridge crew watched in shock, the three Eva Units and one levitating boy had surrounded Lillith, who was straining against the AT Field-powered cage they trapped her in. Misato looked to Makoto who suddenly gasped and began passionately kissing the air in front of him.
"Misato! Oh, Misato!" He said. Misato facepalmed. She saw Aoba swatting at the air in front of him, trying to fight off some invisible attacker. = Just what the hell is he doing? Is everybody around me going batshit insane?! = Maya was clutching the air, crying and acting like she was trying to hug somebody.
"Doctor! Doctor!" Maya broke down into joyful tears as she felt herself being held by her idol.
"Doctor? Really?" Misato said to herself. = I never would've guessed that Maya...oh, whatever. = She turned to look behind her, where she saw Kaji smiling to her, one hand on Shinji's shoulder, as they walked up to her. They wrapped her in a family hug, Misato tearing up over the two most important men in her life. =...Wait. I feel...Cold. = Misato steeled her expression and tore away from the embrace, the two specters of who she loved most vanishing in the air before her. She came to a realization = Instrumentality...Rei is being used to complete it! The Eva's are holding her back! = She grabbed her radio. "Eva Pilots listen to me! Whatever happens, don't let your AT Fields down!"
"We...know that...Misato!" She heard Asuka cringing under the stress.
Love is blindness. I don't want to see. Won't you wrap the night Around me.
Oh my love, love is Blindness.
Ritsuko was crumpled on the floor of Terminal Dogma, she knew that the end was near. She felt something take her hand and lift her to her feet. A glowing specter of Naoko Akagi hoisted her up and tugged her back to where Gendo Ikari was simply standing in shock. All his plans to regain what he once lost had been derailed by a teenage girl's attachment to his son.
Ritsuko glared at him as they arrived, until she felt Naoko lift and turn her chin with her hand. She shook her head to Ritsuko as her voice filled her head.
"No hate, my daughter. No vengeful thoughts. The one most qualified to deliver justice to Gendo Ikari will be arriving soon."
Ritsuko froze. "...Mother!?"
"Not entirely, dear, but enough of me to know that your vengance on Gendo is unnecessary. Watch."
A frail, gentle-faced woman with short brown hair and wearing a lab coat entered Ritsuko's field of view. "...Yui!"
Naoko's old friend answered Ritsuko. "Not quite, most of me is still in Unit-01, I need to get back there soon, I have to help my son."
"Then it's true-"
"Of course it is, your mother could've told you that; don't cry for me. I need to be in Unit-01, just like Gendo and I need to have a talk."
His broken, dead-sounding voice entered the conversation. "Yui...Yui!" He ran to her, only to be stopped with a hand around his neck. It felt cold, very cold.
"Hello, dear. You've been busy in my absence. You abandoned my son because he reminded you of me. You combined my blood with the flesh and soul of the very Angel we were hoping to restrain in order to bring her to life...I suppose I should thank you for that, really; because the innocent young girl that resulted from your insane plan just happens to be the perfect match for my son. No, he isn't your son, not anymore. But that wasn't good enough for you, was it? You then had to use that poor girl as your personal lab rat! Just what other experiments did you use her for, besides the dummy plugs? That's enough, really, to know that I'm well within my good judgment when I end you. You don't have a heart, Gendo Ikari, I'm going to make sure your body matches your soul."
She placed her other hand over his chest. He gasped and cringed in pain that spread from his chest, to his arms, then to his legs. He labored to breathe but proceeded to suffocate in the after effects of the sudden cardiac arrest his ghostly wife enacted upon him. A few minutes of suffering later, he collapsed on the ground, dead. His body liquefied before the ghostly blue-haired girl that appeared.
A little death, Without warning. No calm, And no mourning.
Baby...a dangerous idea...That almost makes sense.
"Listen, Rei! So what if there's no suffering? There'll be no relief, either!"
"Contentment and goodwill will remain, Shinji."
"No it won't! There'll be no 'good' or 'evil'! There won't be happiness or sadness, only sameness! What's the point of living as one big singular...thing...when all the traits that make us people; the traits that made Shinji Ikari and Rei Ayanami are thrown away! We'd be worse than dolls, we'd be tombstones! This idea you have, living forever is the same as simply dying! There's no difference! Immortality is a curse! Good needs Evil in order for it to survive, if there's no 'bad' then 'good' loses its definition! If there's no 'death' then life is meaningless! I don't want that! And the Rei I love wouldn't, either! I love her enough to fight what she's become!"
Love is drowning, In a deep well. All the secrets, And no one to tell.
Take the money, Honey, Blindness.
"Keep your fields strong, all of you!" Kaworu called out. "Mari, prep the Lance!"
"Yes, Sir!" She drew the weapon back as Lillith swung at her. "AAAAAHH! Asuka, CATCH!" She hefted the Lance to Unit-02 as Lillith attempted to snatch it from her.
"Here, Shinji!" Asuka whipped the Lance under Lillith's legs to Unit-01, where Shinji looked to Lillith's...Rei's face. = YOU AND REI ARE (NOT) THE SAME! = "Kaworu, let's finish this!" He tossed the Lance to the First Angel, who caught it and levitated with it. Lillith turned to him.
"NOW, MARI!" He tossed the Lance over the body of the Second Angel, it tumbled down into Unit-06's grasp and Mari slung it into Lillith's womb. The Second Angel gasped and stumbled backwards, collapsing on her back, the Lance of Longinus pinning her to the ground.
"Mari, Asuka, give us protection. Shinji, do you trust me?"
"Of course, Kaworu!"
"You may not like what you see." He floated down to Lillith's corpse. He rested his hand over the area where her heart should be. = So it was there all along...Really, Gendo, you never did suspect me, you only saw a human Eva pilot that happened to find the Lance. =
He furrowed his brow and held his tongue as a burning pain entered his hand. He withdrew it to gaze upon the fossil currently embedded in it. His AT Field expanded and the fossil burned away, ingiting white-hot on his palm. = I've been seeking my power for an eternity, now...I'm not certain that I even want it anymore... = The fossil was gone, in it's place was a scar from the burn.
He absorbed the power of Adam and he began to grow. The formerly-thin silver hared boy gained muscle. His arms, legs, back and abdomen rippled with visible strength. His hair lengthened, it stretched past his shoulders. His face and jaw hardened and he grew nearly a foot in height. Kaworu Nagisa, human avatar of the First Angel had become the modern epitome of the Herculean Ideal. Mari noticed rather quickly; the thin but handsome boy she was physically attracted to was now nothing short of the famous mortal son of Zeus. She was drooling at the sight.
Kaworu used his newfound godlike strength to pull the Lance from the earth and Lillith's body, it was so embedded in the ground that even a god strained to lift it. It tore from Lillith, and Kaworu heaved and launched the Lance skyward, watching as it exited the earth once more, falling to the Moon a second time.
Lillith's dead flesh broke down, exploding into a sea of LCL several feet deep and flooding the land the Eva's currently occupied.
"KAWORU! YOU KILLED HER" Shinji screamed from Unit-01. He ejected the plug, the rockets launching him away from Unit-01 and parachuting the plug down into the LCL. He burst from the door and stomped through the alien blood to where Kaworu...was holding the naked and unconscious body of Rei Ayanami.
"Kaworu! You-"
"You said you'd trust me, Shinji. I knew what must happen to save her. Lillith is dead, Rei needs medical care." He laid her in Shinji's arms. "She requires the plugsuit's life support functions, do you have hers?"
"...Yes. I do! Kaworu, Thank you." Shinji was tear-eyed.
"Do not waste time, Shinji, if she doesn't receive care, she will die." Shinji nodded his understanding and made the trudge back to his crashed plug where he found the plugsuit he was carrying with him. He quickly dressed her and opened a channel to the bridge on his radio.
"Maya! Shigeru! Somebody! I have Rei! Read her plugsuit vitals! She needs emergency medical, now!"
Shigeru was the first to get his composure after the specters of Lillith vanished. "Shinji, she needs cardiac response, stand back!"
The suit shocked Rei and injected her with medical adrenaline. Her eyes shot open, to see herself in Unit-01's plug and Shinji ran to kneel over her. She weakly raised her hand and held his face.
"Shinji...I...I am disgusting..."
"No, Rei, you're not. You were afraid; afraid of losing me...Rei, REI!" She collapsed again.
Shinji panicked and grabbed his radio. "I NEED A PICKUP AND A MEDIC, NOW!"
Love is blindness, I don't want to see. Won't you wrap the night;
Around me? Oh my love, Blindness.
"You are all guilty of an act of war on a United Nations entity. As such, if your commanding officers and the individuals that gave your orders do not come forward, you will all be kept here, tried here, and most likely shot here. Since this was a black operation you fools launched on us, WE are innocent of any retaliatory action...Indeed I wouldn't be surprised if Japan already struck every single one of you from their records." Professor Fuyutsuki was intimidating the JSDF forces NERV had rounded up. After they saw their fallen comrades explode into orange fluid and watched ghostly blue girls absorb them, most of the soldiers panicked and surrendered. Misato was overseeing the Eva recovery and she ordered Rei's stretcher and Shinji be taken into medical where Ritsuko arrived from below to take over for her
"Shinji, her alien physiology was stripped from her." Ritsuko told Shinji from outside Rei's hospital room.
"So? That means that she's only human now, right?"
"It also means she's unstable. We're giving her the best treatment we have, right now...but..."
"Ritsuko, she isn't going to suffer through all this just to die here!" Shinji was growling.
"Yes, Shinji, I know you're hurt...I don't know what to tell you...Her blood is deficient in hemoglobin and her immune response is weakened, unless..." She trailed off.
"What is it Ritsuko?"
"Shinji, you aren't going to like it, but it's a possibility."
"Yes?"
"You and Rei just happen to have compatible blood types, I wonder why that is?" Risuko smirked.
"Not funny, Ritsuko."
"I wasn't finished, yet. We're going to put Rei in a medical coma while we draw pints of blood from her and filter it. A person with a compatible blood type then receives it in stages so they can create blood cells and antibodies that can be transfused back into Rei. You're the best option. You're going to have to get lots of injections and blood transfusions, but it may well save Rei's life."
"Uhhh...Uhh" Shinji started hyperventilating. He hated shots.
"We can sedate you while it happens."
"...Yes, please."
"The Commander is dead!?"
"Yes, Colonel, he is. Order of ascension states that the sub-Commander takes authority and operation's director takes his place. You are being moved to my posting while I take command."
"Then who's the new OD?"
"Well, that's your decision, isn't it?"
"This is all too short notice, do you have any idea how many reports I have to fill! The JDSF is denying everything! How the hell do I explain Lillith having Rei's face!?"
"Rei? First Lieutenant Rei Ayanami? Colonel, she was attempting to reach the Eva bays around the same time as Soryu and Ikari when she was pursued by JSDF. She managed to evade them, but was unable to link back with her squadron. She was found in NERV's sublevels by security and taken to medical." Fuyutsuki smirked down to Misato. "Commander Ikari died from blood loss stemming from an arm blown away by a JSDF grenade." He winked.
"Professor-"
"Rei has suffered enough throughout her life, Colonel, let this event slip into history like it should."
Shinji was laying in a hospital bed they wheeled into Rei's room.
"Alright, Shinji breathe in and count to 3, that's all it'll take."
"Okay...One...Two...Thre-"
"Alright, doctors, let's drain him."
A/N: I noticed something: With EOE I liked every character except Shinji. With Rebuild 3.0 I hated every character except Shinji. In EOE, Shinji's "Panic When He Sees Rei/Lillith" scene cemented my hate for him, and in 3.0 Asuka's "Punch the glass" scene, Misato's "You'll never do anything again" scene, and Kaworu's "I'll wear the collar!" scene made me hate all of them (and their astounding stupiditity)
So why did I include 'Love is Blindness'? It's a fantastic breakup/protest song. Edge was going through a very painful divorce while he was writing the guitar piece (he played until his hands bled while he was recording the studio version) and Bono wrote the lyrics to protest the terrorist actions in the Irish 'revolution' (clusterfuck is a better word, really) The song has references to car bombings, IED's and several murder cases in Ireland. Oh yeah, Jack White and his version sucks.