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|comment=Yes, it's for good reason that "Yui is a high-functioning sociopath" theory has gone everywhere from heated EGF discussions to ''Shinji and Warhammer 40K'' where Bhepin turned it into dramedy in his usual absurdly over-the-top style. A lot of Yui's actions, such as "showing Shinji the bright future" while disappearing inside Eva-01 and traumatizing the poor kid (and turning her husband into an obsessive wreck) really come off as the work of a sociopath, especially since we don't have any information about why she thinks doing what she did was a remotely good idea. Even talking to the single, lonely Fuyutsuki about marrying the right person could be interpreted as a callous attempt at manipulating Fuyutsuki's feelings. Given just how much of an upward battle women have against sexism, especially in Japan, I really don't see someone in Yui's position willingly giving up a promising research career for cozy domesticity - it's so blood-boilingly anti-feminist and misogynist that it invites suspicion on the woman voicing such an opinion. | |comment=Yes, it's for good reason that "Yui is a high-functioning sociopath" theory has gone everywhere from heated EGF discussions to ''Shinji and Warhammer 40K'' where Bhepin turned it into dramedy in his usual absurdly over-the-top style. A lot of Yui's actions, such as "showing Shinji the bright future" while disappearing inside Eva-01 and traumatizing the poor kid (and turning her husband into an obsessive wreck) really come off as the work of a sociopath, especially since we don't have any information about why she thinks doing what she did was a remotely good idea. Even talking to the single, lonely Fuyutsuki about marrying the right person could be interpreted as a callous attempt at manipulating Fuyutsuki's feelings. Given just how much of an upward battle women have against sexism, especially in Japan, I really don't see someone in Yui's position willingly giving up a promising research career for cozy domesticity - it's so blood-boilingly anti-feminist and misogynist that it invites suspicion on the woman voicing such an opinion. | ||
On the balance, I'd say Yui benefits from a lack of backstory in exactly the same way as Seele. By being a cipher it really is hard to pin down her motivations, good or bad, and it leaves it to the viewer to try to piece something together from the scraps that we are given, utterly unlike the deep dives we get with Shinji, Misato, Asuka and Rei. | I vaguely remember an ancient (and crazy) theory that Yui's ahead of the old geezers because her time in Eva-01 allowed her, Dr. Manhattan-style, to live her life in a nonlinear fashion and that this extended to her Lilin existence, and she can "go with the flow" because she already knows how that'll work out. | ||
On the balance, I'd say Yui benefits from a lack of backstory in exactly the same way as Seele. By being a cipher it really is hard to pin down her motivations, good or bad, and it leaves it to the viewer to try to piece something together from the scraps that we are given, utterly unlike the deep dives we get with Shinji, Misato, Asuka and Rei. We get moments where her behavior seems bizarre and even sociopathic, but on the other side we have powerfully maternal moments that seem to throw any such notion out of the window. We have no choice but to accept Yui as the strange constellation of contradictions that her actions present, rather than get to truly know her. | |||
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