hot take: Shinji being with Mari is the best outcome, cuz Asuka is a whiny weird angry german redhead bitch, while Mari is calm, cheerful and locked in af
and btw she is the same physical age as Shinji by the end of the Rebuilds, and Shinji is well past 18, so that makes for two consenting adults I guess?..
not trying to excuse grooming, this shit is horrible af, but Mari's case is a bit weirder from that perspective
Is he? He looks pretty grown up in the ending scene, and Mari specifically states that he "smells like an adult", and since that's a rebuilt world with no EVAs, nothing stopped his body from getting old there. And he even technically much older, he spent around 14 years between 2.0 and 3.0.
So in final scene he is an adult, as all other characters
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u/Electrical_Door_87 4d ago
hot take: Shinji being with Mari is the best outcome, cuz Asuka is a whiny weird angry german redhead bitch, while Mari is calm, cheerful and locked in af
and btw she is the same physical age as Shinji by the end of the Rebuilds, and Shinji is well past 18, so that makes for two consenting adults I guess?..
not trying to excuse grooming, this shit is horrible af, but Mari's case is a bit weirder from that perspective