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@ae2501maeth if you think about it, they're all associated with the very things emblematic of their death scenes!
my cursed brain can't stop noticing asuka/ritsuko parallels. another one: in ep23, gendo sends asuka in place of rei to serve as a “decoy” in the fight against armisael. later in the same episode, gendo sends ritsuko in place of rei to serve as an interrogation subject for SEELE.