>>2538894desu it sounds like you might wanna rewatch the last 1/3rd or 1/4th of the series & eoe again. but also you should just focus on the thematics, the stuff that happens in-universe is subservient to the themes and emotions of the sequences. getting down deep into all the pointless fluff from the ps2 game and all that isn't really going to answer any fundamental questions, especially ones like 'why did shinji destroy the world'. eva is a story about the emotions of its characters, and all the rest of it is just there to facilitate that. it's best not to get too bogged down in trying to pick apart the sci fi or the minutiae of the plot, it's not the primary element