I've been trying (without much success) to come up with something constructive, as opposed to just carping about how much the "you are one of mine" statements, especially directed toward Captain America, rouse intensely negative reactions in me. Even if she didn't mean it as claiming to own his soul, that's how it came across sounding (to me), and it raised my hackles something fierce. And she then Mind Rapes him into accepting her as benevolent. Perhaps if she'd said something more like, "And you are an exemplar of those closest to my soul," it might not have bothered me so much.
I also responded pretty badly to her giving out his name like that, arrogantly demonstrating "I know all this about you." Isn't he maintaining a secret identity? It reminded me, too, of the twin sorcerers Belkira and Beltira from The Belgariad, and how at their first introduction to Garion's companions, they announced, in chorus, the name by which the Prophecy designated each of those characters. I HATE Belkira and Beltira. I don't recall them doing anything else that rubbed me the wrong way so thoroughly, but they never did anything that I thought made amends for that, either.
I wonder just how accepting Doug's become of Celestials during his wanderings -- and what sort of reaction an eventual meeting with Ayanami Rei as she now is will produce. Just about everything I'd previously seen/heard about her had inclined me toward sympathy if not actual liking, but this, to my mind, is an Eldritch Abomination, albeit more visually appealing than Cthulhu. I would want absolutely as little to do with her as possible. Fortunately, I suppose, I don't have the kind of courage that would ever lead her to try claiming me as one of hers.
Edit: Cooled down a bit and removed one of the more inflammatory remarks.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
I also responded pretty badly to her giving out his name like that, arrogantly demonstrating "I know all this about you." Isn't he maintaining a secret identity? It reminded me, too, of the twin sorcerers Belkira and Beltira from The Belgariad, and how at their first introduction to Garion's companions, they announced, in chorus, the name by which the Prophecy designated each of those characters. I HATE Belkira and Beltira. I don't recall them doing anything else that rubbed me the wrong way so thoroughly, but they never did anything that I thought made amends for that, either.
I wonder just how accepting Doug's become of Celestials during his wanderings -- and what sort of reaction an eventual meeting with Ayanami Rei as she now is will produce. Just about everything I'd previously seen/heard about her had inclined me toward sympathy if not actual liking, but this, to my mind, is an Eldritch Abomination, albeit more visually appealing than Cthulhu. I would want absolutely as little to do with her as possible. Fortunately, I suppose, I don't have the kind of courage that would ever lead her to try claiming me as one of hers.
Edit: Cooled down a bit and removed one of the more inflammatory remarks.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.