real talk time why don’t we talk more about the adults of evangelion like put away your shinjis and your asukas and your hikaris and toujis and kensukes and even your reis and kaworus
talk to me about the adults. talk to me about misato and ritsuko and ryouji and yui and ritsuko and naoko and gendo and fuyutsuki and maya and shigeru and makoto. talk to me about maya battling between hir loyalty to hir akagi-sempai and hir simultaneous deep sense of justice and morality. talk to me about fuyutsuki working as a doctor in the hell of the post-second impact world despite the lack of supplies and the shortage of food—or anything else.
talk to me about yui taking a younger ritsuko out on the town in her effort to meet her friends’ children, and the two of them discussing naoko, with yui cautioning ritsuko to try to make amends with her mother and ritsuko ignoring those in favour of discussing what’s happening with the EVA project because if she can bury her emotions in science she doesn’t have to feel them. talk to me about misato laughing her ass off at the thought of ryouji never having any experience with torrents and setting up a seedbox with ritsuko’s help in university. talk to me about makoto and maya celebrating shigeru’s birthday by dragging him out while they’re on break and making huge nuisances of themselves by window shopping at the mall and ending up at the bar somehow and getting shitfaced, then talking through their issues with their respective crushes, and shigeru’s the only one who remembers the following morning (because he’s the only one who didn’t completely drunk in the course of romantic talk).
talk to me about misato lying awake at night listening to her mother scream over the phone with her father and turning up the music in her earbuds and promising God that she’ll be a good girl, she’ll be the perfect girl, she’ll be the sweetest girl that ever walked the earth if only God would give her a happy family again. talk to me about naoko and fuyutsuki enjoying lunch together as they talk about the logistics of the project and naoko assures fuyutsuki that everything they’re doing is for the good of humanity and fuyutsuki wants to believe her, and she wants to believe herself, too. talk to me about yui growing up as the daughter of a member of SEELE and hiding behind doors and learning to sneak her way through computer databases to find out what lurks beneath the surface.
talk to me about ritsuko meeting maya in college during some completely unrelated comparative history class and the two of them having to work on a project regarding the cold war together and the entire time maya is just thinking about how smart and incredible and talented ritsuko is and ritsuko doesn’t even remember maya but imagine maya’s face upon hir first day at NERV out of nowhere—“my name is akagi and i’m your superior”. talk to me about how the one time misato’s mother comes down to the university to talk misato doesn’t even show up because she’s tried so hard to push that part of her away and ritsuko comes down to meet with her. talk to me about how when misato’s professor calls her in to ask her about the second week of missed classes this semester—“you did this just a few months ago!”—and misato quietly explains that her mother’s funeral was last saturday.
talk to me about makoto and gendo being stuck in the elevator one day for a long time and makoto is terrified of saying anything and gendo asks him what he thinks about the cafeteria food and makoto’s sure that he’s about to get fired and then he realises that gendo is trying to make small talk. talk to me about ritsuko carefully tending a bonsai tree even in the middle of the rush of finals because if she can keep a bonsai tree neat and clipped then she can figure out the rest of her life, at least until the day her cat knocks over the pot and it shatters and she doesn’t have the reserves to start over with a new one. talk to me about yui picking out ryouji’s potential and giving them a helping hand and taking time out of her day to talk to them and always had that gentle smile that ryouji would later adopt for themself in the years to come.
talk to me about fuyutsuki going out new year’s shopping and trying to figure out what to buy ritsuko as a gift and shigeru popping by to suggest that new album from her favourite punk rock band and fuyutsuki’s eyes vanishing into orbit at the thought of ritsuko loving punk rock. talk to me about ritsuko and misato and ryouji trying to quantify whatever the hell their relationship is after ryouji spontaneously moves into ritsuko and misato’s dorm and never being able to figure it out but as long as the college kids see ryouji as “boyfriend” and misato as “girlfriend” and ritsuko as “friend” then it doesn’t make a difference. talk to me.
ok just talk to me about the adults of evangelion. i’m serious and i’m waiting.