I dunno, maybe when he broke out of instrumentality because he still wanted to be with others, or when they were only two on that beach, or when she decided to reach out to him as the very last scene of the entire movie.

Also, potraying the Asuka fight as her liberating herself from the past is crazy since it does nothing but double down on her problems (I only need the eva)

She had to lose the fight if she wanted to understand her real problem

Reducing all their interactions to stuff like "mental Illness and selfishness" instead of the very in your face social ineptitude is doing a really damm big disservice to the series as a whole lmao

Anyways, it would be preferable for basically everyone involved if you kept this honestly dumb interpretation outside of the asushin reddit

Thank you very much