My headcanon is "Everyone who died at, or after, Second Impact." It just seems tidy.

Look, Reichu, we get it. Pen Pen is an omnipresent deity who observes humans in instrumentality even while alive. We know that already. :P

LCL is the primordial soup that all familiar Earth life evolved out of, so even though only homo sapiens are "angels", all life is Lilith's doing (excepting Adam's children). All souls of all lifeforms were collected into Instrumentality, including plants and the like, though for the most ...

Lilith created all familiar life on the planet. It's just that only Lilin matter as expressions of Humanity.

Additionally, all of Adam's Angels are, basically, the same species. It's just that their species has "Can be whatever they want" as a racial trait.

Since the Dummy Plugs can sync with any soul and the MP Evas were always meant to use it, the souls of the MP Evas don't matter; they could literally be hobos.

Though they're probably SEELE loyalists, to be frank. Can't be having your own Evas berserk and dovetail away from your apocalyptic scenario.

Rei's soul IS the mother of all mankind. She probably has compatibility with all possible Evangelions on that merit alone, even if they would be better served by the actual children of the mother.

Well, like, they can recover souls from dead bodies and split them into parts, what else do you need to be able to do? They can even transfer memories.

What more manipulation is there to the soul besides cheating death and changing who someone is?

Because Rei basically has no agency for most of the story and is even more developmentally stunted than the other pilots. She doesn't even have 14 years of life experiences despite her apparent age.

Shinji only rejects it after he experiences it, thus Rei must allow it to happen initially. Perhaps she argues and questions his decision because she knows it's not his true desire, instead of deciding, "Welp, he told everyone to die. Just gonna do it. Okay done individuality is over."

Shinji was probably the most loved and cared for person in all of NERV, to be entirely honest.

It's just that people aren't perfect and all relationships cause pain.

So why did the second impact occur then? Lilith didn't come into contact with Adam, a single human did, unless I'm mistaken. Were the requirements for third impact different from those for second? Because that Impact event was the Antartica Research team waking up Adam. Second Impact was Adam attem...

1) Third Impact requires Adam and Lilith, specifically, to come together, or a suitable clone of either. A single human or an ordinary Angel isn't really good enough.

2) Adam's soul floated around like all souls probably do, until they were all collected by Giant Naked Rei.

Bullshit amounts.

Also, Shinji did ask about how Kaworu knew his name and Kaworu did give a plausible explanation. "Everyone knows you're name you're fuckin' famous."

I always figured NERV filled it up with all that bullshit the same way they terraformed it to look like a surface world environment from outside the pyramid and shit.

What if the Moons were enforced by AT Field magic bullshit while in interstellar transit?

his isn't quite true. The train scene in ep 19, where Touji effectively "listens in", can be argued to be evidence that Rei has some form of ESP abilities (latent telepathy, or . . . something). Similarly, P3II seemingly connects the minds of Shinji, Misato, Asuka and Rei even...

You can say all this because you don't perceive at all what I do in the symbols of the series, you think symbols and names or more or less gratuitous. As long as you do, for sure we won't agree on much things ! I can perceive things, I just don't agree with them. The "You only disa...

I read the post concerning FAR lore, yet I am unsatisfied, it would kill the essential symbolism and what it stands for. For obvious reasons, like the fact relying on panspermia resolves nothing, as you're still bound to wonder what creates the FAR, or why the fuck humans didn't evolve the ...

For Kaworu, in the original series he's not exactly privvy to the sync test results of other pilots which made Kaworu suspicious, and in Rebuild everyone had a decade and a half to learn about Kaworu and all kinds of nonsense.