[EVA] Yui's Predicament

[Rachel K. Clark]

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


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rachel K. Clark" <rachel.k.clark at comcast.net>
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> Subject: [EVA] Yui's Predicament (was: The EoE Situation)
>
>
> : 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
>
> That is my interpetation as well, that scene in the DC episode says
> more that SEELE is evil than most others (though their forcing other
> nations into impoverishment & starvation to get funds is a good equal
> IMO).
>


RJN wrote:


>From what both Yui & Fuyutuski said, not only they themselves, but
> also their families were liable to be eradicated if SEELE was refused.

Why do you say that? Also, what do you mean, "if SEELE was refused"?

> Yui was protecting Shinji certainly - would Gendou have been
> endangered as well?

Keel seemed rather fond of his little sycophant at that point. Gendo was 
still useful, whereas Yui -- having gotten Project E in full swing -- was 
disposable.

>And was Kyoko also made an offer she couldn't
> refuse?

I always had these weird ideas about Langley (if the Gendo of Third Branch) 
cheering Kyoko on to become the test subject -- knowing full well that 
"something bad" would happen -- and Kyoko (if Asuka takes after her at all) 
taking on the challenge, since she and her team couldn't possibly botch 
things up like their HQ counterparts... Blatant Speculation, natch, since 
there is so little to work with.


Gwern wrote:

>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.

"Issues" wasn't the best word. This is more Blatant Speculation, but he 
might have been deterred from looking out for Shinji because (A) Fuyutsuki 
doesn't seem very fond of children (see his reaction to Shinji at Yui's CE), 
and (B) Shinji stands as a rather in-your-face reminder that he wasn't the 
man to get Yui.


-Reichu