Mari Clone Theory

[EvaFanX]

So this is just a random idea I had floating around my brain for a while concerning the Mari Clone theory. So I figured I’d post it here. So sit back, and let me weave you a tale. Maria Escariot is a friend if Yui and Gendo in College. At some point, she joins NERV and works on the Eva project. The initial plan for the pilots is that they’d all be clones, and so Maria becomes the donor for the Makinami series. At some point, she becomes aware of Gendo’s plan, and so she begins to concoct her own plan to stop him. She implants her memories into one singular clone, including all the info on the Evas and such, through some unknown means, though it is possible that they were programmed in, due to their nature as clones. Alternatively, she could have transferred either part of or the entirety of her soul, similar to Lilith with Rei. This is so she can enact her plan under NERV and Gendo’s radar. As shown in 3.0+1.0, we know that the Shikinami series had trials to select the pilot of Unit-02. So, using the knowledge granted to her, Maria’s clone easily wins out among the rest of the Makinami series and becomes a pilot. Thus, the events of Evangelion 2.0 all the way to 3.0+1.0 occur. Of course, this is just a theory I came up with, and I’m sure there are holes in this that I’ve missed. But anyway, there it is.

[Blockio]

Not at all unlikely, actually! It's almost certainly not a coincidence that Mari's last name also ends in -nami, so even if there wasn't a full series of clones (which for the record may still be - we never saw who or what served as the control interface of the Mk.07s!), I'd call it a fairly well-founded take that one was at least intended to exist, perhaps with only Mari herself made