What is Rei doing in that weird Sephirothic LCL pool in EoE?

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What is Rei doing in that weird Sephirothic LCL pool in EoE?

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Postby FriedGlutenDisc » Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:26 am

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Just finished rewatching the whole series, and this scene stuck out to me, but I can hardly find any mention of it online, let alone discussion. Where is she? The Eva graveyard? The Dummy Plug Plant? What is she doing? Why is she doing it seemingly unsupervised?

If anyone has any answers or even guesses, please let me know.

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Postby Blockio » Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:06 pm

It's been a hot minute since I've seen EoE, but if memory serves me, it was somehwere in Terminal Dogma. The Eva Graveyard is too large to be the one in that shot, so it'd need to be some other Sephirotic Tree tho.
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Re: What is Rei doing in that weird Sephirothic LCL pool in EoE?

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Postby Shun » Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:22 pm

Considering that Rei is inside the Sephirah Malkuth, the one closest to the earthly world, I imagine that symbolically it means that she is preparing for the ascension along the Tree of Life, to reach at the end of the ritual the spiritual world represented by the Sephirah Keter (the crown). Remember the crown of MP Evas on Lilith's head, and the Tree of Life that enter inside her from the third eye. Narratively it could be a purification ritual or something related to AT Field to prepare the body/soul for merging with Lilith, nothing else comes to my mind.
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Postby Kendrix » Tue Mar 02, 2021 4:36 pm

The indentations do seem to be the same ones as in the EVA graveyard.

My attention goes mostly to how she's neatly folded the clothes. Maybe an allusion to the stereotype that ppl who aren't planning to come back or are suicidal leave their clothes all neat, or how she's 'cast off the veneer of humanity'
Though it's also a market difference to how Rei II would just throw her clothes wherever (see eps 5 and 6) and then pick them up later.
It's hard to pinpoint if this is a difference between the two incarnations or simply due to the situation, the 'promised day' having finally come.

As to the actual function, my thought was also that it's some sort of preparation, or alternatively, the preparation's already done and the LCL is meant to keep her together till Gendo comes to pick her off. That, or some sentimental purpose. Ritsuko does tell us that this is where Yui died, so, also where they got the scraps of meat that Rei was created from.

At least when she climbed out there & goes to the dummy plug plant that probably was for sentimental reasons, if Gendo's line is any indication.
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Postby UrsusArctos » Tue Mar 02, 2021 4:41 pm

View Original PostKendrix wrote: Ritsuko does tell us that this is where Yui died, so, also where they got the scraps of meat that Rei was created from.


Yui died in the setup at the Eva Graveyard where Eva-01 was created, and there never was a corpse left behind. Yes, both look very similar visually (and this is wholly deliberate) but this isn't the same place.
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