[EVA] character of Misato

[Drew Lewis]

On 8/20/07, RJN <rjn at beeb.net> wrote:
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> >> Is that the "we'll self-destruct NERV" scenario you are referring
> to?  If
> >> so
> >> its not thinking, so much as feeling IMO.  All is lost, time for
> >> kamikaze,
> >> maybe, plus a desire to wipe out all the badness in one act.
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> > No, that's the "let's hit on a grieving teenager" episode.
> > But for the next one with the self destruct, I agree that's probably
> > what's
> > going on.
> > --
> Not her hard talk at the end?  Bad, but also showed how burnt out she was
> feeling at that point.
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> After losing Kaji, something died inside Misato IMO.  She was still caring
> of others but became de-sensitised about herself & less tolerant or
> understanding of Shinji's weakness of character.
>
> Its important IMO that Misato before & after Kaji is shown to be
> different.
> Hopefully Rebuild will keep her more like TV Misato until that time.
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The talk at the end is indicative too, I'll agree, but not nearly so much I
think.  I actually agreed with her after all, whatever that says about me.

I'm not sure that there's such a disconnect before and after Kaji's death in
this specific instance.  Misato was always pretty hardcore, climbing into a
melting down nuclear reactor in the Jet Alone incident comes to mind.

I suppose what I'm getting at is I think that her aggressiveness was always
there, the pressure and her adaptations to it, good and bad, didn't really
bear on it.