"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.

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Michael Wignall
"Tomorrow's just an excuse away..."