>>2159229Not him, but you could view the Lilin/Lilim as one Angel. A colony-angel made up of individual units. It's not that they have fragmented souls, but they are fundamentally incomplete since all of them make a whole. They need each other, and as such, they become lonely and desire others.
It's one of the beautiful things about NGE, a sci-fi take on a simple concept of human need for contact.
Were you to break down these AT-fields, the Lilin/Lilim would be one in instrumentality. Episode 25 says something about it.
"There is always a void, a part that has been lost in our hearts."
(This is what gives rise to the hunger in our hearts)
(This is what gives rise to fear and insecurity)
So, it's not that far off from religions like Scientology, where there is a mythological (sci-fi mythological) cause for negative aspects of humanity, which would be forsaken angry souls of others latching onto yours.
