Chapter 2797 Prejudice
When loving yourself more than others is called selfishness. So if you love another person more than everyone else, even yourself, is this considered selfishness?
Religious beliefs are full of thoughts that love God more than everything, even more than yourself. Ikari Gendō's god is not God, but his wife. For the sake of his goal, he betrayed Seele, usurped the Human Completion Plan, pitted his son, and used everyone as a pawn. He became an enemy of everyone for his own goal.
Of course, the deputy commander also regarded Ikari Yui as God. He had been helping Ikari Gendō, but later he also realized something. At the end of the theatrical version of the plot, he chose to defect and assist Makiba, providing an opportunity for Ikari Shinji and Ikari Gendō to play against each other. The deputy commander betrayed Ikari Gendō, but not Ikari Yui, because both father and son were important to her, so sending her son to her mother was originally a small job that the deputy commander could do.
Compared with the two, what the deputy commander did was really in line with the awareness of a spare tire. He sacrificed everything and got nothing in the end. At least Ikari Gendō can reunite with his wife, while the deputy commander is completely considering Ikari Yui, which is really a spirit of selfless dedication to others.
Ikari Gendō and the deputy commander are still partners now. Now their idea is to extract Ikari Yui's soul from Unit-01.
The cloned body is ready. The genes of Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari are extracted, and a body is created using unknown technology. Now all that is missing is the soul.
When Unit-01 was started, Ikari Yui disappeared in it. Now to extract it, the shell of Unit-01 must be completely destroyed, but this requires breaking the AT force field. Although their combat effectiveness has increased a lot after absorbing the demon soul, they still cannot defeat Unit-01.
"Haha, Ikari Gendō doesn't really love his wife, he's just trying to impress himself. Even Vice Commander Fuyutsuki knows how important Ikari Shinji is to Ikari Yui, but Ikari Gendō only thinks he's important to his wife, and never considered his wife's position." "Besides, does the fact that his wife's soul is in Unit-01 prevent them from dating? Does it stop them from showing off their affection? No, true love knows no race." Duran has a different opinion.
In "Knights of Sidonia", the protagonist falls in love with a cosmic creature with a human soul, and in "Saya no Uta", the male protagonist falls in love with the monster heroine. In "Last Weapon: The Girl", the male protagonist falls in love with the heroine who was transformed into a weapon. Of course, there are many furry lovers who like furry things...
There are many love stories that transcend species and enemies. Does the fact that his wife becomes Unit-01 prevent Ikari Gendō from loving her? Does the fact that his wife becomes a 100-meter-high combat weapon prevent the two from being together?
Obviously not, it's just that Ikari Gendō pursues a pure, unadulterated love that is completely under his control and imagination. In this love, his own sons are opponents and impurities.
Simply put, Ikari Gendō has a definition and requirements for his love, that is, he hopes that after he gives, he can enjoy a share of love alone. Seemingly selfless, but actually selfish.
True selfless love is to love each other no matter what the wife becomes.
The deputy commander is truly selfless. He does not expect to be rewarded. He is a qualified spare tire. He does not need anything. He just needs the goddess to be happy. She is happy and he is happy.
In fact, although Ikari Yui is in Unit-01, she also has her own ideas. From her behavior of protecting her son and opposing her husband, she has also made a choice. She does not support her husband's approach of coming to see her after fusion, because she actually has doubts about Seele's plan. It can be said that the previous restarts were more or less caused by Ikari Yui protecting her son.
Because Ikari Yui protected her son, Ikari Shinji had the opportunity to restart the timeline. Yui Ikari doesn't think that fusion is necessarily good, nor does she think that she is happy with her husband. The real happiness is the happiness of all mankind, not her own happiness. In this regard, her awareness is higher than her husband. And Shinji Ikari restarted again and again, in fact, he also hopes to achieve happiness, but he is not very successful. In the end, in the movie, he grew up and realized that happiness is compromise and bearing.
Growing up means understanding the price, understanding that you must lose something to get something, and understanding that losing something is not equal to getting something. Happiness is not an absolute thing, and no one can really get the ultimate satisfaction.
It is impossible for Ikari Gendō to get the love she expects in her heart, because Ikari Yui is not a toy, she also has her own ideals. Ikari Yui's mind is much bigger than these useless men. It can even be said that she successfully educated her son in the restarts.
Duran disagrees with Ikari Gendō's idea, so he appeared and destroyed Ikari Yui's clone.
Ikari Gendō and Commander Fuyutsuki were both stunned, because they spent a lot of resources to secretly complete the clone, and now it was directly destroyed by Duran. How could this be tolerated?
"You bastard, what do you want to do?" Ikari Gendō was finally enraged.
"I should ask you this question. The war is imminent, what are you doing secretly? Are you dissatisfied with your wife's current appearance? Can't accept her current state? Why do you want to clone her? What's your intention?"
"???" Faced with Duran's series of questions, Ikari Gendō was stunned. What the hell? What's wrong with wanting to save his wife? Why did so many strange questions pop up?
"Can't answer? It seems that you don't love your wife enough. You can't break through the barrier of appearance. If you love someone, you won't care about the other person's appearance. Let alone a 100-meter-tall humanoid combat weapon against the apostles, even if it grows into a pile of meat paste, it can't stop true love. You are disliking the appearance of Unit-01 and trying to restore Ikari Yui to human form. Your behavior is selfish and you love too little. You don't love your wife at all, you just love yourself. You only want to maintain the love in your heart, and the love in your heart is narrow, limited, and defined by your refined conditions." Duran said righteously and seriously. These words can be said to be no problem in other worlds. But for Ikari Gendo, it is a little unacceptable. After all, there is not enough time for development in the EVA world, and love beyond human form has not yet developed. After all, before the Second Impact, humans were still very normal and had not encountered such exaggerated problems.
More than a decade after the Second Impact, although there were apostles and EVA, the aesthetic definition of humans and the definition of the opposite sex had not surpassed the previous constraints, and they had not yet completed the transcendence in one breath. They also believe that the object of human love should at least be a person.
But as long as there is a human soul, what does the appearance have to do with it? Duran said that true love will not be stopped by appearance. Ikari Gendō's love is too narrow and too petty.
Ikari Gendō continued to be confused. But Fuyutsuki felt that what Duran said made a lot of sense. Although Ikari Yui is now Unit-01, her soul is still the same as before. So if you love Ikari Yui, you must love Unit-01, no matter what appearance she becomes, you must love her boldly.
Duran's words were too advanced, but Fuyutsuki, a man who had nothing to ask for, could understand it very well. Anyway, he believed that the spirit was higher than the body, and the spiritual fit was more meaningful than the reunion of the body. After accepting Duran's words, he couldn't help but look at Ikari Gendō, hoping that he could go a step further, put aside the prejudice of appearance, and accept Unit-01.