Be honest with yourself, if you went through all of the traumas he went through, how long would you last in his shoes?

answer the fucking question.

Shinji did nothing wrong.
It’s not like piloting an Eva is a good thing. He’s doing the dirty work for a crypto-fascist breakaway state, and is constantly belittled and manipulated by his handler and his dad into getting into the WMD psycho-vehicle.
None of the kids should be getting into the robot, and Shinji did nothing wrong by refusing

Same route but accept getting turned into fanta, seems good.

NGE only has kne bad guy.

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>implying both gendo and Misato don’t simply use the kids’ mental weakness and traumas to increase their performance and get them climbing into that machine again and again
Misato especially. Whenever she’s acting like a kind, comforting mother, that’s when she’s indoctrinating Shinji to the utmost in order to make him perform better. The more praise and attention she gives him, the more he is willing to sacrifice.
She might look like she has two sides to her: professional and motherly.
But it’s just two sides of the same coin. Both exert pressure over Shinji, prevents him from leaving and makes him focus on the mission of serving NERV.
Gendo gets critique but I haven’t seen much about Misato

this, everyone but especially misato are very emotonally manipulative. Misato can pull it off because she's hot. If her character was a man he would be the most diabolical character in the show.

its hard to tell, yeah it was awful but at the same time he really didnt have anywhere else to go, i think that in his shoes i would adopt the mentality of "ill just do what im told" that he has at the start

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That's because people forget that "get in the fucking robot, Shinji" was never his problem, it was "do I have any worth at all outside of being a soldier", his sense of self-worth depended entirely on pleasing his commanding officers.

Maybe a month.

yeah dude im sure youre such an omegachad that you wouldnt have any issues facing death. fact is that every 14 year old (and many people far older) would act like he did

i'd probably kill myself after the first angel.

I'm not a retard that needs love or a fucking family in my life to fill a hole that only braindead idiots have.
It wouldn't be trauma, I wouldn't care, there's other stuff to be worried about, especially in a setting where humanity went through such drastic changes.
Even then, I'd still have enough balls to not take shit from Asuka, and definitely would take the opportunity to take advantage of Rei and Misato.

Imagine misato and shinji genderswapped. It would be the most hilariously abusive, sexually charged and inappropriate shit you could think of.

t. reads Nietzsche once

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Have some faith in yourself, you might not kill yourself immediately if you got amnesia like Shinji did after that fight. I believe in you user, you'd make it to the second angel.

Id try to become God if I was an eva pilot desu

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user brings up a good point, which is the first angel to seriously harm shinjis while he is awake the whole time, thats the one id kill myself after

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At his age as I was then, just like him. In my current mental state, I'd ace it probably, and I'd fuck Misato hard too.

i would punch asuka in the mouth whenever she spoke

Bruh. You're afraid to talk to girls and have issues asking for more ketchup packets at McDonalds.

Shinji has to fight monsters he doesn't understand in a robot he has BARELY any training in and zero understanding of how it works that just so happens to make him feel the pain of the damage inflicted on it.

All for a parental figure that doesn't love you, a caretaker whose only method of control involves sex, and the only people who have the closest thing to a similar situation are just as fucked up emotionally as Shinji is.

it would make for a compelling story but peoples would get hurt and it wouldnt air. even though those are fairly common relationships in reality.

>tfw Zig Forums is so starved for affection they can't fathom people with other wants and needs exist
>tfw it makes sense most otakutards are waifufags simping for their favourite grill of the season to make up for their loneliness
not everyone is the same, anons, or crippled by fear and rejection like you are, stop projecting
and I'm still going to call anyone who is like this a retard and a beta cuck

> stop projecting
ironic

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Kaji + asuka had a bit of that abusive feeling. Now if kaji would just ramp up the pressure about 100x, alternate between berating and praising asuka, do inappropriate sexual remarks and so on