✝ 1ST [video];

[the12th]

[the device has been simple enough for Kaworu to figure out. he's laying on his back on a couch somewhere, his silver hair splayed messily, and he's smiling at the device that he's holding out straight ahead, both of his arms fully extended.]

This place is very strange.

It's amusing enough, but I wonder—are people's dreams here always broadcasted like that? It makes for an interesting first impression, to bare the psyche unwittingly like that. It's almost... intimate. Right? Isn't it? Does it feel violating, for someone having seen your dreams?

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video;

[the12th]

... I don't suppose I do.

[liking other boys is weird. he remembers that, even if he doesn't understand why.]

Anyway, my intention isn't to change your mind; I like it as it is.

[confusing. funny. flawed. human.]

video;

[antabaka]

Hah. At least you admit it.

[Better she doesn't know that, either. She'd hardly be the most progressive.]

I don't care if you like it, though you sure act funny about it if you do. And I can tell you right away I don't like yours at all.

video;

[the12th]

That's fine. Normal, even, for Lilim.

Besides, I don't know if I'd want a person like you to like my mind, so I guess our feelings are mostly mutual.

video;

[antabaka]

So you're saying you're weird to people in general, huh?

Whether or not you want me to is irrelevant, because I don't, and that's how it is. Good for you if you're fine with it, but I really don't care.

video;

[the12th]

It seems people are of that opinion, so I'd say so based on that.

But I think all the chosen Children are a little unusual, personally.

video;

[antabaka]

It would be hard to call us usual when we were the few chosen to help save mankind. The difference is whether what makes them unusual is a good thing.

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[the12th]

Hmm, well—that's something to consider...

I don't think our being unusual is a good or bad thing, but I wonder if it's necessary? Perhaps there's some common factor between each Child that somehow makes them most suited to piloting, and that's what makes them unusual.

video;

[antabaka]

I'd say it varies from Child to Child.

[Obviously, her unusualness has to be a good thing. But a common factor?]

Maybe, though it beats me to figure out what that is. I suppose that's why the Marduk Institute is necessary.

video;

[the12th]

I guess that's just something to think about. Something that unites the chosen. As just people, there are many inevitable links such as our age and biological constitution that ties us together, but it probably goes deeper than that.

So if that were true, Second, what do you think that would be?

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[antabaka]

I already said I don't know, didn't I? God, are you dense? If it takes a whole committee to figure it out, we're not going to discover it just by sitting around speculating.

video;

[the12th]

[Kaworu only laughs, finding her lack of ability to think abstractly as endearing as it is funny.]

video;

[antabaka]

[Asuka scowls.]

What are you laughing at?

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[the12th]

Your irritability is a little funny. You're very spirited.

video;

[antabaka]

If I'm irritable it's because you've been irritating me. It's not meant to be funny, stupid.

video;

[the12th]

Is it possible for you to not be irritated with people, or am I uniquely bothersome?

[i need these facts for science, asuka]

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[antabaka]

Of course it's possible! Who do you take me for?

[Hmph.]

Anyone would be irritated if someone was being stupid and rude to them.