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tfw Ur estranged workaholic father asks you to accompany him for a fun bonding trip to antarctica & you say yes because u've never seen penguins before, meanwhile the apocalypse is being plotted unbeknownst to you, with ur father nothing more than an unwitting pawn in their games
everything is normal and fine. ritsuko is having an overreaction and from her highly disturbed expression we are definitely not supposed to derive any untoward conclusions about this normal everyday exchange, given everything that we know about ritsuko and gendo's affair. sure.