[quote=@Techspert] *Clasps your hands* Shinji, you're here. Right now. With me. All of that is gone. Your past doesn't define you—you get to decide for yourself what makes you the one you are. Healing will be slow; I won't lie to you. It will hurt. You just have to open those wounds and give yourself permission. If nobody else is judging you here, why do you judge yourself? [/quote] Shinji: its my self assigned job and duty to uphold and protect my people. I have done nothing but fail at every aspect of it.....