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[17th_angel]

No journey can be started without that initial step. And so it's fine... I'm more than glad to venture out to establish the Evangelion tag.

I was once the First after all.

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[extradite]

[ How can you say you're well, you - ]

I'm not telling you that.

[17th_angel]

I see, if that is your wish. But can you tell me why not?

[extradite]

You either respect my wish, or you question it like that, don't you?

[17th_angel]

I'm trying to understand. I have lost your trust-- I can hazard a guess why. Yet the last time we parted, you were happy to see me...

[After my attack, but before Instrumentality. I know nothing of this time period. Is that enough for this difference--?]

But I won't press this matter if it upsets you.

[extradite]

- you're impossible. You say one thing, but in the end, you're just - you're only questioning me more, aren't you? There's nothing fair about that.

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[17th_angel]

The circumstances of the world are not fair, not in the choices it gives nor in the answers that may be found.

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[17th_angel]

But enough of that. I spoke the truth when I said I wished to see you again. What else would you like to speak of instead?

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[extradite]

Don't talk like that.

[extradite]

Music. Talk about... music. The music you were humming. Right. I don't... I don't know what it was. Just talk about it.

1/2

[17th_angel]

[You are in pain. The same as always, yet still--]

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[17th_angel]

Very well. That was a piece from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony -- the Ode to Joy. A pinnacle of emotion found within lilim culture. That it's composer was deaf makes it an even greater achievement.

My voice is not the best, so it would have been better if I could have played it for you on the violin.

[extradite]

Beethoven. Right. That's...

[ Of course he knew. He plays himself - somewhat. Just keep talking. ]

You can't have. The violin, that is. It takes... training. And years. Years to play something well. You can't just wake up and do it.

[17th_angel]

I did not bring it with me to NERV.

[There was no need for it. He would not be allowed to tarry long there.]

But everyone needs their hobbies. There is the piano as well, but the violin is more my instrument. Perhaps if we meet again under better circumstances we can play together.

[extradite]

I'm telling you, you won't be able to play unless you have good training and regular practice.

1/2

[17th_angel]

You seem rather set on that for someone who has yet to hear me play. I didn't spring out of nothingness, Shinji-kun.

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[17th_angel]

It shouldn't be too hard to find a violin in a place like this. I wouldn't wish to have to carry a piano around.

[extradite]

You have to be good at everything, don't you...



[ Yes; yes, Kaworu does. Mass destruction included. ]

[17th_angel]

Not everything, simply this and that.


[That includes mass destruction]

[extradite]

Name me one thing you can't do well. Just one. Go ahead.

[17th_angel]

...Sing? I'm certain you're better than me at technology as well. It isn't quite the same if I have to use telekinesis on it.

[extradite]

Tele... kine...

[ So very difficult pretending this person is just another human being. ]

Just use your hands.

[17th_angel]

Sometimes they don't work as well. Sometimes not at all, for what I need to do.

[extradite]

No one said to do it because it's easier on you.

[17th_angel]

Then why should the harder path be taken?

[extradite]

Because it's how everyone does it. The more you stand out, the weirder it will seem.