>>3631866>Animeworu: If you don't get close to others, you'll never be betrayed and you'll never hurt each other. But you'll also never be able to forget your loneliness.Shinji in NGE: I'm like father, Kaworu was like me
Shinji in Rebuild: I'm like father, Kaworu is like father
Kaworu in Rebuild: You and I are the same Shinji
>>3631875>His friendship with Kaji is proof that he could get close to others despite his roleYes but that's the thing. His only goal was to make Shinji happy because him being forced to loop forever made him think that was his only chance at happiness. Kaji was a spy and got to meet Kaworu because of that. Kaworu says he plays the same role over and over so why waste time trying to form a bond with someone else like ReiQ, when he doesn't even know if he'll succeed or die again this time?
Maybe it's this
>>3631890 what makes me think that Kaworu in Q at first has a panic attack, because he cared about Kaji (him looking at where the watermelons used to be, him lookin like that at the destroyed helipocter Kaji used to stop 3I), and besides of this being a failed mission and he'll die again, he understands a bit of how Shinji always feels after he dies.