AnalyticalWrath wrote:I always assumed that the mask has something to do with this, or at least blocks her way back.
Could you explain your reasoning behind this? I don't see any connection, personally. The function of Lilith's mask (assuming it has any at all) still poses an enormous mystery to me, but implying that it has something to do with her transferance to Rei seems illogical. The salvage wasn't trying to put Lilith's soul anywhere -- the target was Yui, so Lilith ending up in a Yui-like body was by all indications an accident.
Shin-seiki wrote:As for the advantages of EVA-01 over any other EVA for her purposes, I wonder whether another EVA would be able to sprout twelve wings and restore the world (which, more than anything else, indicates to me that Yui attains divine status by the end of the story) like she does in Ep26'. (Tho one wonders if Yui could really see that far ahead...)
Is it possible that the twelve wings refer to Shogouki's connection to Lilith? Though I do find it odd that, initially, she only sprouts four, the number that Adam displayed in Antarctica. Is there any significance to this discrepancy? (Also interesting is that twelve wings is, traditionally, a trademark of
Sammael -- need I explain who that is?
-- which makes one wonder what Lilith/Rei is doing with twelve...)
Also, much about the very end of 26' (the
Heisoku no kakudai bit, anyway) continues to twist my brain into knots... Shin-seiki, how much of what is going on do you think can be attributed directly to Yui? Granted, she seems a bit more active then than earlier in the episode, where she was a passive focal point of the 3I "ritual".
BTW, I'll be posting a goody later on that relates vaguely to the topic at hand. (I WOULD post it now, if avians.net wasn't being stupid.)
Originally posted on: 23-Jan-2004, 15:20 GMT