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Shinji sat leaning on a rock, clenching and unclenching his fist. There were people who seemed to vibrate with energy, possessing 'magnetic' personalities. Great leaders of men. He was not one of those people. Gendo Ikari even when he'd held the whole world by the balls, could never be such a leader. The boy felt like a spent battery. His father could inspire by direct interaction a few people - to obsessive levels, yes - but claiming them and draining them of their vitality.

He felt a strange urge to giggle. He just had a mental image of Gendo Ikari being some typical deadbeat dad without a job, sitting in front of the TV and drinking beer. Ironically, he would have been a better father with that anyway. Now with the man's goals all fulfilled (that, and being dead) Gendo had no reason to give anything but apathy. In some way, interacting with his son in his typical abrasive manner was to try and live up to his own fatherly obligations.

Points of Familiarity, Chapter 5

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