>>3588525I don't know how, or if I should be responding to this verbal diarrhea, so I'll keep it to a minimum.
>Mari rising from the waters like the little mermaid after restoring color to his worldYou are trying to draw parallels with Gendo in a scene where the context is completely different. It's not just colors, it's everything falling apart because the world is in the process of being remade.
>Rubbing her breasts on his back while whispering in his ear?She does that with Asuka too, so that's Mari being Mari.
>Smelling him? Smelling the LCL, smelling the change in him. It just shows her eccentric personality.
>Hand-holding? Shinji and Misato walked hand in hand from outside of Nerv to Lilith's chamber. Shinji also holds hands with every other main character at least once.
>Promising to him that she'll always find him no matter where he goes or what happens to him?We have just established that this is for his parents.
>Falling from the literal sky like some silly romcom heroine?Fanservice in a movie that crammed in unwarranted fanservice every two minutes. Also the movie where Rei sacrificed her life for Shinji, and where Shinji hugged her naked body so tight the world almost ended- But somehow some girl parachuting from the sky is a bigger romantic signifier?
You are waving tales of budding romance, Mari taking Shinji home and being the only one there for him, of everyone moving on from him to others when we don't even know what Neon Genesis' deal is. This is not in the movie. This is your headcanon getting out of hand. Get a grip.
>Call me a pessimist or a coward, but I think I'm just attaining clarity of mind here.More than anything you sound depressed.
