User blog comment:Sn1p3r187/What do you think happened after Third Impact?/@comment-25322628-20150521043709

Based on the cover of End of Evangelion, Shinji and Asuka are left alone in a dead world, hoping for others to return from being LCL. But one can only assume for the worst that nobody else returns, and we're left to decide what we believe will happen. In a dead world, nothing living can survive for long, so Yui, Gendo, SEELE and the Evas created a lifeless world and used Shinji to achieve this.