Michael Wignall wrote:
> Shinji's mother is in Eva-01. We know that for a fact.
> Asuka's mother is in Eva-02. We know that for a fact.
> 
> It is established that the A-10 nerve is vital for the Eva's connection
> with the pilot (various sources including a quote from Sadamoto
> saying that directly).
> 
> The A-10 nerve link is involves the connection between mother and
> child.

I kind of figured that early in the series.. the Eva basically
substituted for the child's lost parent and that's why they couldn't use
an adult as the pilot. But the A10 Nerve thing was lost on me.. thanks
for the info. Thought it was just more technobabble or somesuch.

<subsequent snips for space>

> Next later in the episode when Shinji is in Eva-00.
> -----------------
> Ritsuko: A10 Nerve connection started.
> 
> Announce: Harmonics Level plus 20.
> 
> Shinji: Ah, what's this?
>         Something's directly entering my mind. What is it?
>         Ayanami? Ayanami Rei? It's Rei, this impression is hers.
>         Ayanami? Isn't it?

You know, I never put that together. So that little Rei head that he
sees floating for a second before the Eva goes nuts is actually that of
the child-Rei...

> The fact is that Naoko really had no connection to Eva-00 at all.
> Naoko was a computer scientist, she was at Gerhirn to work
> on the Magi. That is what she didn't, she wasn't an Eva scientist
> like Yui or Kyouko. She didn't participate in any "contact
> experiments" with Eva-00.

She did seem to be "expecting" Yui to "die" when she went into EVA-01's
entry plug though, as her dialogue after the fact seemed to show. If she
had no connection to the project, how did she know this? Yui WANTED to
merge with the Eva (I think.. Gendo doesn't seem totally aware of this
because of his single-minded obsession to be with her again after it
happens..).

> They really is nothing connecting her
> to Eva-00 at all... Except that fact that if Rei's soul is in Eva-00,
> in particular if a copy of Rei's soul from the time it resided in
> Rei-001 was in Eva-00, well then it would have plenty of reasons
> to be made at the daughter of it's killer.

Gendo was actually very warm in the short scene he's seen with the
child-Rei, so why would it attack him at the window? Ditto for the other
Rei... she didn't seem to bear any ill will towards the other clones in
Terminal Dogma (we don't know about the clones till the end of the
series, but she is shown in that same area in that weird tube with the
brain thing a few times earlier in the show). Of course that's an
assumption and all, but I just thought I'd bring it up since the one
time it avoids the window is when Shinji is in the plug..

> And yes of course Rei has Lilith's soul, but that isn't to say that
> Rei doesn't make that soul her own, that she doesn't have an effect
> on it. When Rei returns to Lilith, Lilith takes on Rei's shape, she
> takes on Yui's shape in effect. This is evidence enough to show
> that the soul can change and grow.

See, now the reason I thought of my theory and not the one you just
described is, because it means they'd have to "split" the soul.. as,
after all, everytime Rei died, they transferred her soul into a new
body. An "empty shell" as Ritsuko called the clones in the vat. But at
the same time, I DO agree with your statement about it changing, because
Rei III is quite a bit different in personality then Rei II... and Rei I
seemed almost "impish", to copy someone's else's description..

Ahh well, more to ponder on. ;)

> Anyway there are plenty of threads on this discussed in the past.
> Go check out google groups if you want to read up on some of
> them.

I don't. If I want back issues, I'll order a magazine. If I want a
discussion, I'll post a message. :P

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