[EVA] Yui's Predicament (was: The EoE Situation)

[Gwern Branwen]

On  0, "Rachel K. Clark" <rachel.k.clark at comcast.net> scribbled:
>  Carl wrote:
>
> > Whatever "mother of mankind" self-image Yui  has of herself, for example,
> > she's no better at being an actual  mother of an actual child than Gendo is
> > at being a father.
>
>  The Yui situation is a complicated one. Her conversation with Fuyutsuki at
>  the Ashinoko levee seems to imply (rather subtly) that Yui had been
>  blacklisted by Seele and liable to get shot in the back at any time. Hence
>  why she volunteers herself as a test subject and apparently pushes the
>  Contact Experiment forward with great haste (EVA-01 hadn't even been
>  separated from Lilith yet, and the core wasn't prepared for entry plug
>  accomodation until the day of). She would have been an absentee mother
>  either way, and made the best she could of a bad situation. If all this was
>  the case, I kinda wonder why Fuyutsuki didn't look out for Shinji when Gendo
>  flaked out, considering his worship of "Yui-kun". Then, maybe his own little
>  issues could account for that...
>
>  -Reichu

Pardon my cluelesslness, but what issues (aside from a hopeless love for Yui) did Fuyutsuki have? He always seemed to have his head screwed on pretty straight to me.

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