I don't conclude for any single theory; I am open minded and list possibilities. I'm keeping this Class 2-A theory which I still see with extended narrative value as opposed to discounted. I'm don't see where it was scrapped. There are different answers, sure, but I'm not keeping `hobos r us' (lol). Many hobos are strong willed with forceful characters and a random person is likely to go plain mad. One of the different answers from many posts before is that SEELE also had a way around the human soul requirement (different mechanics from the human `touch' or `dive' `experiments') to imprint Kaworu's pattern on the m.p.u. cores, that is, there are subdivided parts of Kaworu's soul in the m.p.u's. No hobos, no random anyone, no Class 2-A members souls, not human. Supported through simile with the reasoning for Rei I's soul in Unit zero. Many use and even conclude this possibility (nervarchives, evadictionary, etc.)
The MPs were actually constructed at seven sites around the world.
Fandom knows about the seven sites but seven sites producing m.p.u. parts for assembly, or one, two from one site and two, three from another or what (9 m.p.u shown or 12 m.p.u intended don't fit in whole numbers from seven sites)? The human still has to have been where the m.p.u's core is ready if the human's soul is to be used. A pilot can climb in as a pilot anywhere, even alone (Asuka Strikes!).
Germany is probably the site of the dummy system.
Agreed, but honestly have to ask how does this work in disfavor of Class 2-A members having their souls taken for the m.p.u's?
There is an established paradigm for maternal souls being suited for Eva cores and for using children as pilots.
Agreed, within a given timeframe of the storyline before it becomes non-linear. A paradigm only until the realization of the dummy plug.
The symmetrical qualities of the maternal soul - child pairing hints at better chances for the childrens' souls to work in the cores than anyone elses in particular if/when there are mothers' souls missing. Eva Unit 03 being completely contaminated with Bardiel and the way it was pounded into puree are more supportive of Touji's mother's soul being lost than being salvaged.
Since Class 2-A is comprised of "Fourth Level Candidates", their mothers are likely in a state wherein their souls can be salvaged into Eva cores as needed. These souls could thus be used for the MP Evas.
Could be used potentially. Too much `Now that we have dummy plugs, let's focus on the pilots even if we have mothers souls missing...'
The dummy system would not necessarily be foolproof, and Seele would probably prefer to have some kind of backup as opposed to none.
The dummy system was shown to fail (TV episode 19) and not even Gendo had any kind of backup. Gendo demonstrated unusual confidence in the dummy system to the degree of chiding Shinji towards leaving for good and order his record erased. Why would SEELE be presumed to know any better than NERV in this? and while SEELE did have backup plans for the backup plans it was shown not infalible. They were counting on the dummy plug system: Ritsuko's undoing was destroying NERV's dummy plug system, Gendo smiled with the dummy plug system set to destroy Eva Unit 03 and the m.p.u. did have the dummy plug system.
The problem with your theory is that there's no reason to do it. The kids are useless without their parents' souls in the Eva
The kids are useless without their parents' souls in the Evas -- if they are being proposed as pilots, precisely.
On the other hand, not useless but rather pliable, conditioned, part of the program from birth, and convenient as souls to be dominated via Kaworu dummy plugs. Deconstructs to useful and handy instead. Several reasons to do it: starting with providing SEELE the elegant means fitting their signature style and religion to tidy up all the loose ends in Class 2-A.
Kensuke was never meant to be a pilot in any incarnation of the script. Unit 04 was unmanned; had its test been successful it would have been piloted by an American.
Not allowed to be a pilot in any incarnation of the script certainly and certifiably dying to be one throughout TV Series. Not actually allowed still allows for having been in the plans but it did not work out just as much as was never actually meant to be without any further reference.
Unit 04 was unmanned during `the nevada vanishing event' yes, but it was not going to be unmanned, needed a child pilot, therefore it had a soul and the souls that we know of from the Evas up to then had been of mothers from members of Class 2-A. The Marduk Institute front is Tokyo-n centric. The reference for Kensuke as a Unit 04 pilot is from the NGE themed videogames. Where do you get an american pilot from? Which american child with which mother's soul corresponds to this proposed american pilot?