[Shinji gradually goes pale as Aerith talks. He doesn't interrupt her, both because he's got decent manners and because he feels like he just swallowed a bucket of ice water. Way too much of that is familiar.]
[Even after she's done, he has to swallow twice to clear his throat before he can speak.]
Your-- they were doing experiments on your mom?
[His hands are shaking. He remembers photographs of Yui's body suspended in a tank, a tube down her throat and wires embedded in her skull. Flashes of images from the inside of the glass, fed directly into his mind by Unit 01, the way her scream became more human the longer he had her summoned--]
Mine too.
[Deep breaths, Shinji, you've talked about this more than once in the past few weeks.]
You don't... hear her in your persona, right? Fujioka-san says the ones you're using aren't artificial, but that's... how NERV made us our personas. It had to be an adult family member and a child. I think it might have only been mothers and their children but they-- they killed the person who was stealing the records, so I never found out for sure.
[Rest in pieces, Kaji, you admittedly useful piece of shit.]
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Date: 2021-06-12 09:27 pm (UTC)[Even after she's done, he has to swallow twice to clear his throat before he can speak.]
Your-- they were doing experiments on your mom?
[His hands are shaking. He remembers photographs of Yui's body suspended in a tank, a tube down her throat and wires embedded in her skull. Flashes of images from the inside of the glass, fed directly into his mind by Unit 01, the way her scream became more human the longer he had her summoned--]
Mine too.
[Deep breaths, Shinji, you've talked about this more than once in the past few weeks.]
You don't... hear her in your persona, right? Fujioka-san says the ones you're using aren't artificial, but that's... how NERV made us our personas. It had to be an adult family member and a child. I think it might have only been mothers and their children but they-- they killed the person who was stealing the records, so I never found out for sure.
[Rest in pieces, Kaji, you admittedly useful piece of shit.]