Exactly, I don't think the long hair is to be taken literally, it's just a visual to show that she's been there all this time, afaik, she doesn't even have a physical body that can grow hair. Maybe if someone visited Shinji while he was in eva-01, he might have had long hair too, but once they pull ...

Gendo: The thirteenth Eva, unit of despair, is counterpart to Eva-01, unit of hope. Together, they are coming into alignment... tuning. This, too, is a ceremony I require. I really need to watch it a few more times, I really didnt get all that... But, funny, this makes me think of RahXephon so much...

The most logical reason be just storytelling, plot armor, it HAS to be about Shinji. But I bet there are better reasons to be found for that, for one, navigating the minus space doesn't seem that easy. It is for Shinji, maybe, because of his link to his father and eva13, he just teleports over. Also...

Thank you Anchorhead, nicely summed up, now I have little headcanon how that conversation would have went about the hazmat suit. Kaworu: Lets Go Shinji: No way, see all the warning signs? Its dangerous, imma put this suit on Kaworu: Thats only going to slow you down, and like me, you dont even need ...

We see that Rei Q burst into LCL, but I always assumed the liquid that appeared when Kaworu's head exploded was blood. Agreed, pretty sure there's brain chunks (making it that more traumatizing to Shinji) Also, Kaworu is supposed to be still in the Eva, head destroyed, but still there (theres this ...

Don't forget tho, this is the Shinji who didn't even ask what the hell that thing was during first few minutes of the movies (and series), Misato even bitched about it, and he was like "i didn't think you would tell me anyway" kind of vibe. Tho he did start this movie with a whole lot of q...

AdamMalkovitch#931240 wrote:so wild guess, those glyphs just spell out NERV. Sometimes a logo is just a logo.

If so, then at least we got 4 glyphs translated, thats if, they actually translate directly to alphabetical characters (and not more like kanji/kana or something, their shape seem to suggest that tho).

As far as producing external AT fields is concerned, categorizing into angel/adam based vs lilith/lilim based is imo all pretty irrelevant. They and we are all angels anyway. Adam is the first angel, Lilith is the second angel, mankind is the last angel. The only difference is, afaik, having the fru...

Exactly, as soon as I saw Rei with long hair I thought to myself "holy shit, she's been in there all this time? poor girl", I guess that what it's meant for and for me it worked. I'd say it's one of the least confusing things that would need explaining, imo. My theory: Kaworu is supposed t...

You were the first to bring NGE into this tho, which I think we shouldn't be doing at all. It's ambiguous at best if there is even a loop (for Kaworu that is) but NGE most certainly has nothing to do with it. The way I interpret Kaworu's vague mentions of meeting Shinji again, making him happy this ...

Not an answer, but something to add, when she first starts to notice her body is failing (when the suit beeps) she finds a hole-like thing on the palm of her hand, like stigmata (because of the crucifixion of Lilith?)

Is it in NTE explicitly established that the core contains the soul tho?
Isn't this more like NGE logic?

(but then again, the first appearance of a dummy plug -and untested one, nonetheless- ends up kicking the living daylights out of the 9th angel. Just saying...). A dummy plug in one of the most powerful eva's, and Shinji still being present there, but I get your point. I think the "brutality&q...

From what I gather, it was specifically made/upgraded to be able to do that, hinted as soon as the preview from 3.0, showcased to be able to merge with 02, forming 08+02 (which didn't end up happening anymore). Altho it seemed more like Wille kitbashed two half eva's together, rather than being able...

This is fundamentally incorrect.

No such thing, google around for "time as a spatial dimension". It's just another theory (which I mentioned as such), same as yours is "just" a theory.

Point is, Reichu, that the fourth dimension as time would basically be a spatial dimension, something we can't perceive but just travel, but a fourth dimensional being would be able to step forward and backward in time as if it just another spatial dimension. And when a fourth dimensional being does...

I guess it all depends whether its just a distortion of what we are seeing or what crazy extra dimensional stuff is going on. I would say that even in the gif you posted, the core is still actually just in the center. So hitting one of "copies" you see, would have no effect (in a way, that...

Altho I like the multidimensional moving thing, it just does not make much sense. Need to botch too many things together to make it work like "it made a mistake and still showed its core" is meh ... Especially how a second system could suddenly track it in this extra dimension, if they kne...

Hmm good point, up till now I assumed MK10 would have been a past Eva, since it went from 09 to 13 (meaning, a missing 10, 11 and 12), and thus something from during the timeskip. I don't think they'll linger too much on what happened before, hence why i thought it would be treated like eva04. But t...

Things I want see "answered" are the things we have literally missed, like the missing Eva's (10, 11?, 12?) and Angel (11, maybe a bit more about 12), I would be disappointed if that would be left to ambiguity (like Eva 04). Anno showed a sketch of Eva 10 today (found here https://forum.ev...