oh god, i hope you’re ready for what is definitely going to be a long and passionate rhapsody on this topic – and you’re absolutely right, there are a lot of people out there who think q!misato “completely destroyed misato”, etc. obviously as someone who loves both nge!misato and q!misato – and someone who sees the very natural nexus between the two – i couldn’t disagree more. to keep it short and succinct, the reason why i find q!misato so fascinating is that she’s all but given up on her original goal to be a mother, and became a father instead. 

misato is the only character in evangelion that we’ve seen go through most of lifes’ stages – we’ve seen her as a little kid no older than 5, we’ve seen her as a 14 year old, we’ve seen her as a college student, we’ve seen her as an adult on the cusp of her 30s, and now we’re seeing her as a 43 year old woman. that’s her father’s age – she’s no longer so much the ‘victim’ of her father’s trauma but an actor implicit in her father’s trauma. misato’s at the age where she is reenacting what are now solidified internalizations about how the world should work upon the younger generation, namely shinji.

like i said, this got long. more under the cut.

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i don’t care for the curse of eva. i don’t care for khara’s transparent, half-assed attempts at maintaining the children’s youthfulness while simultaneously giving everyone a superficial excuse to sexualize them with some fancy guilt-free clauses attached. the “well, they’re technically 28” argument is fallacious as all hell — people aren’t sexualizing their “grown” “adult” “minds”, but their bodies, which have oh so conveniently stayed the same.

i can’t believe this simple concept has to be posited even further simply because i’m referring to fictionalized characters here

this is not a matter of preference or personal squick. this is an objective fact — asuka, rei, kaworu, and shinji are all 13-15 yrs old, middle-schoolers, juveniles, whatever term you want to use that makes it easier for you to conceptualize. placing them in sexual situations is repulsive. 

if you’re referring to them as “girlfriend/boyfriend/etc” and you’re over the age of 15, you’re repulsive. i include kaworu and shinji because tumblr suffers from this awful case of cognitive dissonance wherein they think it’s okay to spout “protect asuka/rei from gross neckbeards!!” out their ass then turn around and reblog nsfw/18+ kawoshin doujins constantly.

around 00:01:40~ into the beginning of end of evangelion, the morning after shinji has his talk with misato by the lake.

granted, it’s never stated outright, but little in evangelion is, and the above cuts stand on their own merits. this wordless scene is pretty indicative of an huge shift re: shinji’s character development (albeit a negative one) since anno has always described shinji as someone who has “convinced himself that he is a completely unnecessary person, so much so that he cannot even commit suicide.”

some of anno’s most important cuts are brief, ambiguous, and very easy to miss. personally, this is one of my favorite ones.