[There was a tinge of difference, a flavor in the boy's voice he had never heard before. It is then that he finally begins to step back towards the boy, feet carrying the weight of years upon years of searching and plotting.. feet that had walked the hundreds or so miles of trepidation and hope in seeing the one thing that ever brought him joy or comfort. Here before him, his own flesh and blood, was now ironically opposing him just as he, a child of Adam, had been seeking to destroy the Father that he created him.]
You will stop me? And just how do you plan on doing so? Will you run away to the countryside here? Find a new Aunt and Uncle?
[Fingers pluck the glasses which cover his eyesight, the need to obstruct his vision no longer necessary as there's no reason to hide behind the curtain any longer.]
What can a boy hope to do? You are nothing but a petulant child that's forgotten himself.
[His eyes remain fixated on Shinji. Gendou doesn't blink, nor does he waver away or look to his peripherals, not while the one thing that could topple everything he's ever dreamed and worked for was vocally opposing him.]
I do not need the Evangelion units, nor do I need the comforts of NERV to accomplish things. Ask yourself; what are you without EVA Unit-01? Do you truly believe that you've some part in anything here? That this world will some day know change simply because Shinji Ikari now exists here?
There is more importance to the motes of dust which float in the morning air here than there is to you.
You are a child, without purpose, without placement. Do not waste your time thinking otherwise. You cannot stop the march of progress when the wheels have been turning for ages, long before you were even a thought.
[He stands a mere foot or so from him now, looking down upon the boy as verses from scripture pass through his thoughts.]
If you are to hold onto any memories of me, than let my final words with you sink in.. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."
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You will stop me? And just how do you plan on doing so? Will you run away to the countryside here? Find a new Aunt and Uncle?
[Fingers pluck the glasses which cover his eyesight, the need to obstruct his vision no longer necessary as there's no reason to hide behind the curtain any longer.]
What can a boy hope to do? You are nothing but a petulant child that's forgotten himself.
[His eyes remain fixated on Shinji. Gendou doesn't blink, nor does he waver away or look to his peripherals, not while the one thing that could topple everything he's ever dreamed and worked for was vocally opposing him.]
I do not need the Evangelion units, nor do I need the comforts of NERV to accomplish things. Ask yourself; what are you without EVA Unit-01? Do you truly believe that you've some part in anything here? That this world will some day know change simply because Shinji Ikari now exists here?
There is more importance to the motes of dust which float in the morning air here than there is to you.
You are a child, without purpose, without placement. Do not waste your time thinking otherwise. You cannot stop the march of progress when the wheels have been turning for ages, long before you were even a thought.
[He stands a mere foot or so from him now, looking down upon the boy as verses from scripture pass through his thoughts.]
If you are to hold onto any memories of me, than let my final words with you sink in.. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."