Just before Unit-01 absorbed the S² Engine, it used one of Zeruel’s arms to regenerate its severed left arm, demonstrating the Angelic ability of regeneration. The S² Engine seems to be used only at Unit-01’s discretion after acquiring it, the Eva is still sent into battle with an umbilical cable. Upon savagely disfiguring the fourteenth Angel, Zeruel, it proceeded to devour the Angel and assimilated its S² Engine, making Unit-01 the first physically complete Evangelion prior to the construction of the Mass Production units. Unit-01 is called the “Test Type”, perhaps because of the experimental way in which it was created: although Unit-01 seems to be an Adam-derived cybernetic organism like all other Evangelions, it is the sole Eva to have been born from Lilith. The Eva’s resident soul, Yui Ikari (Shinji’s mother), appears to be responsible for such events. The Eva will also take action to protect its pilot while sometimes servicing other interests. It frequently acts independently (the “ Berserk Mode”), without the instructions of a pilot and without any apparent power source. Following its going berserker and eating of Zeruel’s S² Engine, it was the only Evangelion able to go without umbilical cable until the construction of the Mass Production Evangelions.Ĭreated in the Third Annex of Gehirn’s Artificial Evolution Laboratory in Hakone from 2003 to 2004 and deemed a functional Eva unit in 2014, Unit-01 is piloted by Shinji Ikari (with Rei Ayanami or a Rei dummy plug as backup pilots), and has the best battle record of all the Evangelions. It is the only EVA to be born from Lilith. It houses the soul of Shinji’s mother, Yui Ikari. Additionally, afterwards, the MPE's are all seen completely immobile, either because their role in the ritual is over, or without the resident soul inside the core, there is nothing for the dummy plugs to sync with.Evangelion Unit-01 (初号機, “ Shogōki”) is the first non-prototype Evangelion unit, and is referred to as the “Test Type”. So in a sense, this is their way of letting the human souls that are trapped inside their cores free in order to take part in instrumentality. In one couple of frames you can see that it glows red after the core is pierced: Some people believe that the piercing of the core is to release the soul that's inside it. This happens during the sequence where the rest of humanity are getting turned into LCL and their souls released, which is in the form of a red glowing orb. Something that I forgot to mention, during the 2nd half of the End of Evangelion, during part of the instrumentality ritual the Mass Production Evas pierce open their own cores: There's not that much to back up such a theory, though. One particularly sadistic theory, using the Toji + Toji's mother's soul in Eva-03 lead, says that the souls in the mass production Evas are that of the mothers of the students in class 3-A and that the bodies in side the dummy plugs are those of those students. If I had to make an unsubstantiated guess, I'd say there were souls there but we'll never know whose they were. Taking this into account however, we can see that none of the mass production Evas seem to display any ability to generate that kind of AT Field (though they do generate an Anti-AT Field later), so who knows. In the case with humans, the AT Field simply keeps the body together (otherwise we turn into orange goo) but in order to generate large/strong AT fields that can block weapons and make you levitate at an Eva's scale, there needs to be a soul in the core. One theory supposes that based on Kaworu's statement about the AT Field being the "light of the soul", which seems to imply that a soul is required to produce an AT Field. We know in the case with Eva-03, that it's likely there was a soul put into the core that was "compatible" with Toji (Episode 17, Ritsuko and Gendo's conversation about the test at Matsushiro), perhaps his mother's? We also know that when the dummy system was activated in Eva-01, that there was a soul (Yui's) in that core, we know it can work with souls but we don't know for sure whether the soul is required. While there is a precedence for souls being in an Eva's core, it's not definitively stated or implied that the mass production Eva's all have souls. The only kind of answer for questions like this is "nobody knows for sure" (probably not even Hideaki Anno).
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