[ it could pass as an inside joke, the game of willful ignorance they place, if they were closer in age and more equally akin in life experiences. this is not the first time he's pretended her away, and this is not the first time she's pretended he simply hasn't noticed her yet. old habits, die never.
he lets her be seen because he has no other choice. there are many reasons their conversations have been few and far between as of late. they're covered in robes now, so she can't so easily exploit the visual expressions (and the validation it confers) in all his markers of adulthood and her fledgling adolescence. and she, of course, has bigger fish to fry - shinji, and misato, and her dead broodmate, and anyone else she deems to have failed her as they certainly have. ]
It's because you forgot about me. [ kaji makes no connection between the cherry red of the seas and the world he left prematurely. his voice is the cheery dispassion she is so used to. maybe she hates it by now. ] And you're just now realizing it, right? [ the freedom in letting him go. ]
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he lets her be seen because he has no other choice. there are many reasons their conversations have been few and far between as of late. they're covered in robes now, so she can't so easily exploit the visual expressions (and the validation it confers) in all his markers of adulthood and her fledgling adolescence. and she, of course, has bigger fish to fry - shinji,
and misato, and her dead broodmate, and anyone else she deems to have failed her as they certainly have. ]
It's because you forgot about me. [ kaji makes no connection between the cherry red of the seas and the world he left prematurely. his voice is the cheery dispassion she is so used to. maybe she hates it by now. ] And you're just now realizing it, right? [ the freedom in letting him go. ]