FGC:Episode 25 Cut 315

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	315	REI (OFF):“Your will to live...” ASUKA (OFF):“Your thoughts of wanting to die... They are all what you wished for.” SHINJI:“You're saying even this darkness and this world of half measures are all things I wished for?” ASUKA (OFF):“That's right.” KAJI (OFF):“You wished for a closed world, where you alone are comfortable.” HYUGA (OFF):“In order to protect the weakness of your heart.” AOBA (OFF):“In order to protect your pleasures in life.” IBUKI (OFF):“This is merely the result.” MISATO (OFF):“For people cannot live in a world that is yours alone. They cannot live in a space that is closed off.” ASUKA (OFF):“But you wished for the world, the world that surrounds you, to be closed off.” RITSUKO (OFF):“Your heart and mind eliminated everything you didn't like and wished for a world as solitary as possible.” REI (OFF):“And that has led to this little haven for your soul.”	midoriyoh: There could be no experience more intimate and interpersonal than Instrumentality, a breakdown of every barrier between human hearts. What it looks like in practice is a terrifyingly lonely "world where no one is saved". EoE spells out this paradox in the scene of Gendo's death: "Afraid of the shapeless, invisible barriers that separate people..." "You just closed your heart to others." He doesn't like the barriers that keep people separate, and his solution is to create a big barrier around himself? These two thoughts seem to directly contradict each other, but they are the same thing. Next episode will go deeper into the details of this.