>>718123729
True, sorry, that is an important correction. Asuka is not the simplified tsundere she's often confused and imagined to be.
She is as reserved as Shinji just better at concealing it, the frustrations from that complicating his feelings with intimacy more than helping, until it results in the conclusion of EoE. Which is sadly the reality of how such a relation would go.
Still the few sweet moments between them before that are likely what made viewers feel vicarious hope and attachment for the pairing.