>>3844732The only thing that unites the three Rei of the series up to this point is their appearance, nothing of their interior seems to be the same. Can you honestly say that with the elements you have at that moment those 3 Rei are for you a single person, a single soul?
And this is exactly the situation in which we are currently in the rebuild: the work is still in progress, we have not been told everything, and what has been revealed to us may very well be false. What is missing must be deduced by inference.
You can very well follow a work of fiction passively, without asking questions, but then you are only looking at it and not observing it, you are not understanding it. You write that mine are only theories, but theories MUST be made to understand a work of fiction for adults. The metaphor on the meaning of a story is told explicitly only in children's fables.
- and in any case, when was it ever possible to see Evangelion without making theories? –
And the theories must take into account that the rebuilds are not just a remake but are almost certainly sequels as well, as can be understood from what Kaworu declares in the post-credit scenes of 1.1 and 2.2 (and on which it is essentially based the well-known Time-loop theory).
Being a sequel, the laws that govern Rei's nature are the same as in the regular series (and therefore: her soul is one, and one of her bodies if it didn't have her soul could not move). Being remakes, 3.3 is the very free adaptation of what in the series is the part following the clash with Armisael, which in 2.2 was merged with the clash with Zeruel (and about that, it is clear that there is a progressive increase of the variations with which, from movie to movie, the equivalent episodes of the original series are told):
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