009 | Video

[second_first]

[Rei is sitting on her bed with her knees drawn up and her arms wrapped around her legs. The room is dimly lit except for light coming through a thin crack in her curtains. Her face is turned away from the camera as she looks out through the space in the curtains. The bandages she had been sporting as she moved through people's dreams are absent in reality, though there is mottled bruising on her forearms.]

So that is dreaming.

[She's silent and unmoving for several long moments.]

A waste of time.

[She goes back to staring out the window. The feed times out.]

Comments

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Eva?

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Evangelion prototype unit 00.

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Is that a machine?

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It looks like one.

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But it isn't?

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No. Eva is Eva.

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That doesn't explain much.

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[She's quiet for a moment.]

Eva units are organic, living beings.

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Biotechnology?

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They are made from Adam.

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Adam?

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The first angel.

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An Angel, like a machine?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

No. The angels are non-human, living, organic beings.

Like Eva.

["Like me."]

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I see. [Taking mental notes]

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Do you understand?

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I don't know entirely, but I have some vague notion now.

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Evas are god created by man.

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Literally, or are you just saying their very powerful?

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Does it make a difference?

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A god implies a moral authority.

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No. Just a being more powerful than man.

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That makes it a powerful being, it doesn't imply a god.

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Did god come first or did man?

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Who knows?