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I found this cute image on an old Japanese website, I don't know what the name of the original author is but here's the source:

http://ohmusubino2.web.fc2.com/blogsoko.htm

https://x.com/mewiyev/status/684111910560641029/photo/1

This is perhaps one of the rarest ships that exists in the Eva fandom. I found it really cute and if you think about it, it makes sense how she ended up dating a young man in the Rebuilds, as Hideaki Anno said in the 30th anniversary event.

You see, if you play as Maya, you can follow her scenario and in it we can know more about her as a character, in a nutshell, she is a self-loathing, depressed girl who is desperate for affection and that also drowns her despair with either work or food (which is very implied she suffers bulimia...)

Maya is broken.

This doesn't change unless we follow Maya's scenario in the game, where we start to interact more with Aoba. He starts to tell her to smile more and stuff on how people change when they fall in love, he also gives her his number in case she wants to call him anytime.

I'm not going to describe the entire scenario but basically as she interacts more with him, she starts to fall in love with Aoba and finds a side of herself that she never knew, she stops having the urge to eat and then puking her food, and basically accepts herself.

Then she talks with Ritsuko and explains to her why she was so obsessive with her job, she wanted to be praised and loved as a person and be recognized by that, that's why she chased after her so much, she was so desperate that she created this toxic dynamic with her sempai in a hopeless attempt for getting affection. But she recognizes she wasn't praised by being herself but by her work alone, and simply tells her she no longer needs that.

She'll keep working for her but with a normal boss/employee dynamic, which Ritsuko totally accepts.

In the end she goes on a date with him to the beach, she confesses her feelings while they are in his car, the dumbass didn't listen to it, but it's not that much of a problem to her anyway. Though he tells her about how he noticed her change, and that she's more beautiful and cute.

They didn't say more words. They cheered and laughed as they crossed a tunnel to the beach, she started to reflect on her feelings and the new possibilities that could come. And it is represented by the light at the end of the tunnel and the smell of the ocean.

So, what do you think? I was sincerely surprised at how much depth the developers of this game gave to Maya, and how beautiful the story is in general.

Now I can see how Maya might have fallen in love with a man, lol.

(Also, here are links to the videos with Maya's scenario on YouTube. Sadly one of the videos doesn't have generated English subtitles, so I recommend you take screenshots and translate them to know what they are talking about.)

https://youtu.be/HwqpFmMu0WY?si=OwjZ2rUM1E4jv2Dd

https://youtu.be/u7oi2gxnCzY?si=qmQcXIrHO--Wb8dL

https://www.phixiv.net/en/artworks/64322349

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/72772757

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Credits to lrk.

Site where I found this:

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/144952?q=lrk

Original source:

http://lrk.client.jp/comic/krc-newyear.jpg