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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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[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.

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[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.

[17th_angel]

Would it truly be better for me to pretend to be something that I am not?

[extradite]

That's... what's wrong with being normal? Everyone wants that!

[17th_angel]

There's nothing wrong with being normal. There's nothing wrong with not being normal as well.

[extradite]

If there were nothing wrong with not being it, people wouldn't all want to be normal.

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[17th_angel]

Lilim tend to fear the unknown, what they cannot understand, and there is nothing more unknown than the "other".

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[17th_angel]

But even so, are your minds so truly in synch, that every one of you would seek this "normality" as their goal?

[extradite]

It's something most people do naturally.

[17th_angel]

Hmm... is that so? Yet it would seem that some eschew what is natural and seek the exceptional instead. Otherwise the Evangelion program would never have existed.

[extradite]

Eva's... exceptional?

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[17th_angel]

Yes, to strive beyond all normal limitations and glimpse that which exists beyond one's sight-- that was a motive, if hidden from others, from the very beginning. Although some were not content with merely that.