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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]

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.

2/2

[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.

1/2

[17th_angel]

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

2/2

[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?

1/2

[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.

2/2

[17th_angel]

Do you not think that you are an exceptional person, Shinji-kun?

[extradite]

That's... Ayanami's - exceptional.