"Michael Wignall" <usenet@mdwigs.tk> wrote in message news:Vsi%9.37$FP6.3265@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> "Psaiyan Prince Vegeta" <ppvegeta@hotmail.communism> wrote in message
> news:8r4r3v8ab16kddi544iaisf368qporiklm@4ax.com...
> > This just occured to me after a few drinks, but perhaps if one were to
> > pull on one of those many pairs of human legs sticking out of her
> > lower torso, we would end up retrieving a Rei Ayanami clone, if only
> > an empty vessel without a soul?
>
> I think that is exactly what would happen.
>
> Lets set the scene here.
>
> Eva-01 was joined to Lilith during the experiment where Yui was absorbed
> (see liner note from episode 21). Presumably also Eva-01 was joined to
> Lilith during the experiment where they tried to salvage Yui.
>
> This is what I think happened. They go to reconstruct Yui's body, but
> something goes wrong, they don't just get one reconstruction of Yui's body,
> they get many of them. At this point Yui is effectively absorbed into
> Lilith, Yui's soul is somewhere within the source of life of all humanity.
> They go to reconstruct a human body out of that, and they end up with a
> whole lot of little human bodies, clones of Yui. They then try and put Yui's
> soul into one of them. Yui doesn't want to go though, she doesn't want to
> return to physical form. Lilith's soul though, for all intents and purposes,
> could just be floating around in her body minding its own business. Then a
> bunch of scientists put her in Yui's body. Thus Rei is born. She has Yui's
> body (created out of the makeup of Lilith, remember Rei is not exactly like
> Yui, she does have blue hair and red eyes after all) but she doesn't have
> Yui's soul, she has Lilith's soul instead. They then go and prepare a whole
> lot of the other bodies that they created (still souless) and put them down
> in terminal dogma. Sometime later they sever Eva-01 from Lilith. Lilith is
> left with no legs, not soul, but lots of little legs sticking out of her.
> Eva-01 is left as a clone of Lilith and possessing Yui's soul.

Makes sense, in a Eva sort of way...

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