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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]

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.

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[17th_angel]

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

[extradite]

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

[17th_angel]

That's true. She is, in a way like no other save me. But you are as well, Shinji-kun.

[extradite]

Don't tell me that sort of thing.

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[17th_angel]

You don't believe it... or it simply does not make you happy?

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[17th_angel]

Do you have such a poor opinion of yourself, Shinji-kun?

[extradite]

It's nothing someone like you should be telling someone like me. That's all there is to it.

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[17th_angel]

It is the truth.

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[17th_angel]

But if it came from someone else, it would fine then?

[extradite]

Someone else wouldn't - right after, someone else wouldn't go and get - someone else is fine!

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[17th_angel]

[The pain of choice. The burden of free will. I thought it only a gift, but I did not understand that--]

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[17th_angel]

I'm sorry, Shinji-kun. But it could not be any other way. Not if you and the other lilim were to continue living.