How does Eva-01 obtain the Fruit of Life?

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How does Eva-01 obtain the Fruit of Life?

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Postby jinisjin12 » Sat Jul 17, 2021 8:06 am

A lot of people seem to think that Eva-01 got it through eating Zeruel’s S2 engine but that doesn’t make sense when you look at Episode 2, where Evangelion Unit-01 clearly regenerates her arm. There are other examples of Eva-01 possessing the Fruit of Life before devouring Zeruel, such as continuing to function after the 5 minute time limit.

It is suggested that the Fruit of Knowledge is the culmination of mankind's science, giving humanity the ability to build Evas whereas the Fruit of Knowledge gives infinite energy, regeneration, etc, etc

So Eva-01 shouldn't be able to do what she did(Regenerating her arm and continuing to function despite 5 minutes passing) if she didn't have the Fruit of Life before eating Zeruel's S2 engine

Other Evas do not do this. All this seems to suggest that Evangelion Unit-01 has had the Fruit of Life since the beginning of the series but I’m confused on how it got it.

Also, to add on this, when you look at the mass produced Eva units, you'll see some similarities between them and Eva-01. They both regenerate, and they both can act without umbilical cables

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Re: How does Eva-01 obtain the Fruit of Life?

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Postby Lacissal » Tue Jul 20, 2021 7:11 am

A simple explanation is that when episode 2 was produced Eva 01's abilities and the Fruits were one of those things, like what the AT Field or the Human Instrumentality Project was, that they hadn't fully decided on yet.

The simple in-universe explanation is Yui + Lilith. Unit 01 of the main Eva's is the only one to possess a 'complete', non fractured soul, so you could chalk it up to Yui going to the extreme to protect Shinji. 01 is the only Eva grown from Lilith, who as we see when the spear of Longinus is removed also regrows the lower part of her body, despite not having the FoL.

If they already possesed the FoL then there would be no need to carefully preserve Shamshel's S2 engine or test it (or a copy) out with Eva 04 and wipe out an entire branch of NERV in the process/

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Re: How does Eva-01 obtain the Fruit of Life?

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Postby Blockio » Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:52 pm

Regarding episode 2; making a broken arm usable again is a whole different beast to completely regrowing an arm. In theory, even a normal human could do something akin to that given enough muscle strength and pain tolerance.

As for the MP Evas - they don't actually regenerate, that impression comes from the fact that thecontinuity in EoE is just shot to hell. There's an old thread that breaks it down in great detail
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Re: How does Eva-01 obtain the Fruit of Life?

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Postby Archer » Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:21 am

View Original PostBlockio wrote:Regarding episode 2; making a broken arm usable again is a whole different beast to completely regrowing an arm. In theory, even a normal human could do something akin to that given enough muscle strength and pain tolerance.

As for the MP Evas - they don't actually regenerate, that impression comes from the fact that thecontinuity in EoE is just shot to hell. There's an old thread that breaks it down in great detail

I think the main reason they appear to regenerate is the one MP Eva that straight up gets ripped in half, but ends up back together again later.

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Postby HedgehogsDilemma » Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:54 pm

View Original PostLacissal wrote:A simple explanation is that when episode 2 was produced Eva 01's abilities and the Fruits were one of those things, like what the AT Field or the Human Instrumentality Project was, that they hadn't fully decided on yet.

sorry if this is a dumb question, but what suggests (to you, or in general if this is established knowledge i didn't know) that what the AT field and human instrumentality project were weren't decided on at the start of the series?


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