User blog comment:Sn1p3r187/What do you think happened after Third Impact?/@comment-4495599-20131218185540

My interpretation: after spending who knows how much time in the surreal soup of mixed minds, humanity emerges from the sea changed by the experience of being once united. Having realized the evils of miscommunication, they rebuild the world as a better place. Meanwhile, Shinji and Asuka were eventually honest to themselves and allowed themselves to have the human contact they needed, became a couple and lived in the world once destroyed, now recreated, which was purified after its baptism of blood.

Meanwhile, in a distant planet, a god of stone falls from the heavens holding the lances of eternity, and the cycle starts again...