>>4349388i feel as though kaji was at least partly responsible for her situation, as a SEELE agent he would have been grooming her to be nothing but a pilot and reenforcing the idea that she was useless eithout piloting, however subtley or unintentionally. if he had some father's guilt or something it'd be better
as I said he feels really flat as this "does-no-wrong" "always-knows-the-answer" guy. maybe the watermelons symbolise something.
now that I think about it, i want kaji to be the anti-gendo, where gendo feels no remorse for shinji, kaji should be eaten away by guilt for asuka. maybe that manifests as playing along with her desire for intamacy before realsing how fucked up that is, maybe it's more of a "too-little-too-late" after she runs away to comit suicide. even a single scene of him crying or something at asuka's situation would make him so much more interesting. i want to cry at her situation and I didn't literally raise her
