[The mention of a clone of Ayanami triggers causes him to freeze up slightly. Reiquarium flashbacks aren't exactly a pretty thing to recall.]
Would you have, though? Explained it all? No one has ever explained anything to me straightforward and without bias my whole life. Never. Not my Father, not Misato-san, not Kaji-san or even Kaworu-kun. Everyone is always talking in what feels like riddles to me. Maybe I'm just stupid...but that's what it feels like.
I'm not...I'm not defending his choice. He made a terrible one. But if I woke up after fourteen years of being asleep and the last thing I remembered was trying to save Ayanami...or anyone for that matter...and I remembered people not hating me but I'm suddenly faced with hostile faces and tempers...I would believe the person who is most familiar to me and doesn't want to immediately strangle me, even if that person is just a copy of the original.
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triggerscauses him to freeze up slightly. Reiquarium flashbacks aren't exactly a pretty thing to recall.]Would you have, though? Explained it all? No one has ever explained anything to me straightforward and without bias my whole life. Never. Not my Father, not Misato-san, not Kaji-san or even Kaworu-kun. Everyone is always talking in what feels like riddles to me. Maybe I'm just stupid...but that's what it feels like.
I'm not...I'm not defending his choice. He made a terrible one. But if I woke up after fourteen years of being asleep and the last thing I remembered was trying to save Ayanami...or anyone for that matter...and I remembered people not hating me but I'm suddenly faced with hostile faces and tempers...I would believe the person who is most familiar to me and doesn't want to immediately strangle me, even if that person is just a copy of the original.
[He pauses slightly.]
If you can even call Ayanami 'original'...