nerv bae wrote:Because there’s a new pink-hair Midori picture? No, I don’t think that’s evidence of moving Third Impact up 14 years. Seems more likely to me that she’s in a pre-flashback scene, set within a couple of days of 3.0, before a flashback to Third Impact (where we see her with brown hair, or her mom).
I'm starting to have doubts that it's Midori's mom: the images seems to point that this short will be a recollection of A3I from the people that were there, but if it's Midori's mom (who we know died 14 years before 3.0), then that would mean that little Midori shouldn't be far away, but then how did she survived?
The logical explanation would be that this long-haired girl is Midori herself, but then how old would that make Midori? Everything about her in 3.0 and Thrice, from her height to her voice, her demeanor and the fact she share her room with Sakura, points to her being young, around Sakura's age.
Another explanation could be that this short will be a mix of recollection and "omniscient POV", the part about the long haired woman being something that only her got to see before dying.
Could be the 9th Angel waking up, since Asuka is still wearing what looks like a prototype version of her Angel-sealing eyepatch. Maybe the mini-pillar will be inserted in her eye after A3I?
That could be Mark.06? Logically it's the only Eva that still has all its limbs at this point in time, unless Unit 08 is already ready and deployed but I doubt it.
Although looking at how the other images (except the one with Midori) seems to be about the Actual Third Impact, and looking at the landscape on the background also being blood red, maybe that "Eva" is actually a Failure of Infinity being formed (and before it lose its head, since it seems to still had one), if so then this "Eva" should had the form of Unit 01, that would explain why this Eva looks to be completely red.