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from how i see it, kaworu's goal from the beginning was to usurp humanity. i can't quite figure out why he was working with seele, i'm assuming he was using them and what he was planning on doing did not align with what they were doing. but then he met shinji, who piqued his interest, and gave him a different perspective on humanity. ultimately, he still attempted to go through with his plan, but in the end he left the decision up to humanity to decide their fate because of the respect he gained for humanity as a result of hanging out with shinji (shinji being the representative of humanity to kaworu. both in that situation and the end of evangelion, he had the fate of humanity put solely into his hands. people who say shinji is a bitch don't understand the kind of situtation that shinji was brought into. as a confused, depressed, repressed 14 year old going through puberty who is tasked with almost single-handedly protecting humanity, nonetheless by his estranged father who abandoned him, his behavior is pretty understandable. i've had friends say they couldn't watch evangelion or didn't enjoy it because shinji was too annoying. to each their own, but clearly they weren't looking deep enough into it to understand the gravity of the situation which i feel is essential to appreciating the series regardless of how they feel about shinji in the end).

i don't believe kaworu's feelings for shinji were romantic in the slightest. it was more of an alien looking in from the outside at a creature that fascinates them and that they recognize there is some things in common with them and comes to understand them in a different way than before, and he saw shinji as a great opportunity for that.

the big thing on the cross was lilith's original body. from what i understand, rei was a facet of that original body that was taken out and given a human form (probably not unlike kaworu). where my confusion comes from is how kaworu/adam is integrated with that body. in end of evangelion, rei switches with kaworu to soothe shinji to break his ego as kaworu was the only one who shinji felt truly "saw" him, and despite his prior betrayal, was not scared of him like he was the girls (i don't believe shinji felt true romantic feelings towards kaworu either. he could have misconstrued his feelings as such, especially because he was too scared of everyone else and kaworu was the only one he was willing to let in, but that doesn't mean they were actually rooted in genuine romantic interest), and in shinji's mind you can see rei and kaworu next to each other talking and giving their views/advice to shinji implying that both of their "spirits" are there and that it wasn't just rei taking the form of kaworu. it could be that the original adam was integrated to become a part of lilith's original body, or that adam and lilith are the same, but i don't know i haven't really thought too hard about it.
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