Greetings all..

I've been lurking here for a while now, and my recent viewing (and
subsequent re-viewings) of the Evangelion movies have prompted me to
actually post something. For reference, I've seen the whole series in
both Japanese and English at least thrice, and while I can't claim to
have seen it when it was new, I did make sure to make the trips to
Suncoast to purchase each DVD upon it's domestic release within a day or
two (movies included).

Anyways, the movies have naturally caused my interest in the series to
peak, and I've been doing a lot of reading on various groups, forums and
sites, garnering what information I can. As expected with something like
Eva, however, there's still many questions that remain unanswered, and
perhaps I could bring up one particular one while I'm at it..

-- If the Eva's possess souls, whose are in each one?

Well, we know that Shinji and Asuka's mothers are in EVA-01 and EVA-02
respectively, and it's almost certain that Naoko Akagi is in EVA-00
(besides the chalk outline and blood, we never see the aftermath of her
death).. but what about the others? EVA-04 never had any screentime as
far as I know, seeing as how it blew up on activation and all, and
EVA-03 was possessed by an Angel.. heck, we never even saw Toji in the
entry plug while it was active, so I can't even say for certain who
would be in there.

We know from one of the earliest episodes (3 & 4) that Kensuke doesn't
have a mother.. and from the way Toji speaks similarly, he probably
doesn't either. And it's later learned that all the children in class
2-A are candidates for Eva piloting.. was Toji's mother in EVA-03 then?
If so, since when did he ever have a connection to NERV / SEELE prior to
being "chosen"?

The fact that EVA-03 and EVA-04 were being built in the United States
instead of Japan complicates things even further..

THEN AGAIN, we never see or hear any mention of EVA-03 using or
generating an AT Field at all, and if it lacked a soul, that'd certainly
make it easy to possess since there wouldn't be any opposing force. That
coincidentally happens to be the reason that Tabris.. err, Kaworu was
able to control EVA-02 when Asuka went comatose.. there was no willpower
to resist him.

But then on the other hand, what the heck good would an Evangelion be if
it didn't have it's most powerful offensive and defensive weapon, the AT
Field? They built the thing just so it could go berserk? That seems
unlikely..

Is ignorance bliss, or does anyone else have thoughts on this? I won't
even get started on ideas for the Mass Production Units.. ;P


Whew, that was a long way to delurk, huh?

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J.C. Bengtson - "Makoru"
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