[Anime, Trauma, RP] okay, so I watched a video essay last night and I realized three things:

- I have never watched Evangelion more than once in entirety
- I need to watch Rebuild
-.... I think I did not have A Reaction to a specific character when I saw Eva as a teenager bc I was still being actively terrified/traumatized

Understanding Asuka's Breakdown in Evangelion's Dark...

This was the video essay

And I watched it and went Uh-oh

yeah rebuild ending is basically the answer to sort of the unspoken and unanswered question in the original, I especially feel in the last two episodes with that metaphoric nature.

"Okay, I'm traumatized. I need/want to heal.

Now what?"

oh yeah i love this essay its v good

rebuild as a whole i think is pretty disappointing but the last film has some top tier sections that make it feel like the whole thing actually does work

I need to finish rebuild