At the center of the collapsing worlds, Shinji found the true Instrumentality: not the merger of souls, but the separation of timelines . Gendo had been holding them together with sheer will, terrified that if the two versions of his son met, one would forgive him and the other would hate him—and he couldn't bear either.
The white-haired Rei simply vanished, leaving behind a single pair of glasses that had never belonged to her. evangelion 1.0 3.0
"You blinked," Kaworu said, his smile gentle but his eyes old. "And the world ended twice without you." At the center of the collapsing worlds, Shinji
This was Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 —but not the one you knew. In this thread, the 1.0 (the pristine, blue-skied beginning) and the 3.0 (the broken, crimson ruin) were not sequels. They were simultaneous. "You blinked," Kaworu said, his smile gentle but