#vantasticmess

nothing so awful! in NGE the pilot pods are flooded with a breathable liquid (LCL), which is used to neurally connect them to their EVA. In one episode, Shinji's pod is opened to find that he's disappeared, just like Shiro did in s2 - but b/c he disappears in the LCL, ppl joke about human soup/dissolving. he's gone for about a month before the EVA spits him back out, IIRC.

Ooooh!

Well, that’s not what I thought at all.

is there a Japanese version floating around? all I’ve seen is the Chinese copy and I could at least get the jist of the Japanese D:

It has to do with what drives the characters. 

Yu was driven by the “Hope” that the case can be solved, despite the fact that reality is subjective and truths can be wrapped. This was how Izanami tested the potential of “hope”.

Namatame was driven by the “Despair” of his situation, having lost everything he loved, and being put into a situation where he could only watch more people die like his love did. He acted simply because he knew no other way out and panicked, but also because he was desperately trying to give his life a meaning again. This was how Izanami tested the potential of people driven to “despair”. 

Then, we have Adachi. Adachi is a mess of a person: He feels life has given up on him, so he’s given up on himself. He lives day in and day out without caring about improving his situation or doing anything, his fridge is filled with beer and cheap cabbage because whatever, he barely even tries doing a good job at work because whatever, he doesn’t try to forge relationships with people because, whatever. Adachi’s given up on life, yet he’s not so desperate he’d be suicidal. He’s in a static state, unchanging, and just numb to whatever is going on around him, because he’s detached himself entirely from his own ambitions out of frustration. This is why he’s “Emptiness”: Nothing drives him. He doesn’t allow his ambitions, or connections, or anything to drive him… Which is why he actually *does* get a kick out of being so terrified when the case is happening: The terribleness of what he’s doing and the fear of being caught *force* him to care. It makes him feel extreme emotions. To someone who’s been cutting himself off from all caring like he did, that must have been one hell of an adrenaline kick, which was probably a big reason why he acted like he enjoyed the whole thing when the IT confronted him: He was terrified of being caught, but that fear itself actually filled the “void” he had created to cut himself off from his own frustration with life. It’s like how some people laugh like mad when they’re on a roller coaster, despite being actually afraid of heights: Being terrified is thrilling.

This entire adventure has single-handed li pushed me to stop thinking of moon crisis Sailor moon cosplay as a ‘lol no’ and more of a 'gosh probably’

Yes, of course! I don’t mind :D

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