Stellar Springtime
"Sodachi, if you won't look at people then you can't hope of them looking back at you. Abyss isn't the eyes looking at you, but the eyes that won't give them the chance to look."
Mothers know best: Fumio Ayanami has said her interesting take on social ventures, and convinced the spectator from their kitchen that her intention was foolproof. She was chopping onions when she said so, and her unabashed daughter Sodachi listened carefully. She didn't rebel. Adolescent at all means by the age of thirteen, I was rather baffled when she didn't play into the stereotype. Given it was your daily youthful princess, they'd bar their parents not to come to the concert with them─because it's a place for their vulnerable and young minds.
Sodachi has a different issue, but you get the gist.