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=== Gendo's Praise ===
=== Gendo's Praise ===
Nonetheless, Shinji still longs for words of praise from Gendo.<ref>[[Episode 12]]</ref>
Shinji still longs for words of praise from Gendo<ref>[[Episode 12]]</ref>, despite the times his father has abandoned him. It is a very vicious cycle; Shinji will yearn for praise and be continually disappointed until it is given, which lulls him into a false sense of security only for Gendo to swoop down and ruin it.
 


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 17:28, 7 April 2013

Gendo and Shinji have one of the most complicated, and central relationships in all of Evangelion. The relationship is ostensibly one of mutual distance, but underlying feelings -- positive and negative -- remain.

Summary

Abandonment

Gendo abandoned Shinji shortly Yui disapeared into Eva-01, sending him to live with his "sensei". Shinji resents Gendo for this, even though it was he who ran away the last time they met, three years before.[1]

Gendo's Letter

Torn-up letter from Gendo.

When Misato asks Shinji if his father sent him a Nerv ID card, he hands her the letter that his father sent him summoning him to Tokyo-3. All of the printed out words on the entire letter are censored and blacked out because it is classified information. The only actual information on it is a handwritten message from Gendo which reads: "COME -- Gendo Ikari". Shinji presumably tore up the paper out of frustration at his father, and then taped the pieces back together (Perhaps after getting a load of Misato's picture!).

Phone Call

Gendo's Praise

Shinji still longs for words of praise from Gendo[2], despite the times his father has abandoned him. It is a very vicious cycle; Shinji will yearn for praise and be continually disappointed until it is given, which lulls him into a false sense of security only for Gendo to swoop down and ruin it.

References

  1. The last time they visited Yui's grave, Shinji admits this in Episode 15.
  2. Episode 12