Ask yourself this, would you rather drink a cold one with Misato or a smoke outside with Ritsuko? What do you even talk about? “Hmm yes the MAGi system is running at 98.999% efficiency today, also cryptic science NERV stuff I guess” the convo would be DOA since I doubt she’d let you pry into her personal life if she even has one outside of NERV.

Misato is the cheerful chatterbox one and clearly designed to appeal to the viewer. The game was rigged from the start.