@AbusePuppy: I mean, Shinji is extremely sympathetic when you actually get into the bits of his backstory where he's been gaslit for over a decade by an insane old man to specifically fuck his life up, and read shit from people like Shirou who note he's recently taken a turn for the extremely worse, and also look into things like Hollow Ataraxia where he's not nearly as bad because the negative influences on his life aren't as big of a thing.