>>2935678I can't say I am super familiar with every single detail of EoE, but isn't that line still pre-instrumentality?
>Pre-Instrumentality is underway as a barrage of "break-up" lines occur, various women-including Asuka-that Shinji know saying they hate him. The lines end with Asuka calling Shinji a wimp. Misato and Rei calmly tell Shinji that if he hates what's going on so much, he can stop it and run away. Misato asks Shinji if he wants to become one with her (indicating Instrumentality); Asuka adds that she'd rather die than for that to happen.Sounds to me it was still pre-instrumentality, if Shinji didn't fundamentally change as a person untill after instrumentality had occurred, and his subsequent rejection thereof, then why would Asuka have changed before it?
If she truly hated him
>why did she reject instrumentality?>why would she allow Shinji strangle her?>or why not just play dead so Shinji kills her and she doesn't have to deal with him?>why would she respond to his hostility with a gentle caress?