FGC:Episode 26 Scene 06

You are you

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Screenshots	Cut #	Description/Dialogue	Commentary
	182	SHINJI:“Me!”
	183	SHINJI:“It's the form of me that I show to others.”
	184	SHINJI:“It's the symbol that is me.”
	185	SHINJI:“So is this”
	186	SHINJI:“and this”
	187	TEXT:“Shinji Ikari” SHINJI:“and this!”
	188	SHINJI:“They're all just things that represent me.”
	189	SHINJI:“They're all merely what other people recognize as me.”	midoriyoh: “They're all just things that represent me.”, “They're all merely what other people recognize as me.” - ten episodes after Leliel talked with him about "selves in other's minds", then without much effect, Shinji finally gets it. Words like "just" and "merely" show a drastic change in Shinji's self-image, considering that a few scenes ago he was putting all his worth in the way he is seen by others.
	190	SHINJI:“Then, what am I?”
	191	TEXT:“"Where do I exist?"”
	192	SHINJI (OFF):“Is this me? The real me? The false me?”
	193	REI:“You are you.”
	194	REI:“The only thing is, there's a distinct difference between that and the actual scope of who you are.”
	195	SHINJI:“That's right.”
	196	SHINJI:“My clothes...”
	197	SHINJI:“My shoes...”
	198	SHINJI:“My room...”
	199	SHINJI:“These things are a part of me.”
	200	REI:“The things that are linked together through your consciousness.”
	201	SHINJI:“The thing that I feel to be me, is me. I am nothing more than myself then.”
	202	SHINJI:“But I don't understand me.”
	203	SHINJI:“Where do I exist?”
	204	SHINJI:“What am I?”
	205	SHINJI:“What am I?!”
	206	TEXT:“That is why I wish for my soul to be closed off”
	207	SHINJI:“No one understands anything about me!”
	208	ASUKA:“What are you, stupid?! Of course, no one understands!”
	209	ASUKA:“No one could possibly understand anything about you!” MISATO:“The only person who can sympathize with you and understand you”
	210	MISATO:“is you.”
	211	REI:“So, be good to yourself.”
	212A	SHINJI:“But there's no me!”
	212B	SHINJI:“I don't understand!”
	213	SHINJI:“There's no way I can be good to that!”
	214	TEXT:“"You're insecure"”
	215	REI:“In the end, you're insecure.”
	216	MISATO:“The way you are now...”
	217	ASUKA:“The people around you now...”
	218	REI:“The environment that surrounds you now...”
	219	MISATO:“None of these things will last forever.” ASUKA:“Time will keep passing for you.” REI:“Your world is made up of continual change. But above all, it's all up to your heart and mind. You can change the world at any time.”

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