Behind him, the Wunder was just a boat on the horizon. In front of him, Tokyo-3 was rebuilding—not as a fortress, but as a home.
"No," he said.
At the center of the collapsing worlds, Shinji found the true Instrumentality: not the merger of souls, but the separation of timelines . Gendo had been holding them together with sheer will, terrified that if the two versions of his son met, one would forgive him and the other would hate him—and he couldn't bear either. evangelion 1.0 3.0
"Both of me were wrong," Shinji said. "And both of me were trying. That's not a contradiction. That's just being alive." Behind him, the Wunder was just a boat on the horizon