How I'd want to play out a trans Shinji scenario in yes of other people's reactions besides Gendo:
- Misato: Incredibly cool and supportive about it apart from being embarassingly proud and motivated about Shinji getting out of her shell. Especially when drunk.
- Maya: Passes some useful resources one day.
- Ritsuko: Just getting the worst vibes here.
- Asuka: Still teasing and mocking Shinji but like, weirdly supportive about it? She still thinks Shinji's a loser and a creep, but she's not going to get her pronouns wrong or anything.
- Rei: Immediately goes into an internal monologue about the nature of the self and how it is shaped by societal expectations and yourself and everyone else just wonders why she's staring off into the middle distance.
- Futsuyuki: Tries to tell a story about how Yui attended pride and would be proud of Shinji, trails off when he realizes it would conclude with "and then your mom decided the best way to smash heteronormativity was to fuse all souls into one being". Everyone is even more confused by Yui and Gendo's relationship than before. Stutters awkwardly when Shinji asks what her parents planned on naming a daughter.
- Kaworu: Cannot Shut The Hell Up about how wonderful the Lillim ability to decide their own gender presentation is, comes off as a creep accidentally and gets punched by Asuka in defense of Shinji somehow kicking off Asuka/Shinji as a relationship.
At the very least, *anything* that gets any Shinji into a more stable headspace means End of Evangelion will be so much less of a tirefire.
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