Theory and Analysis:Evangelion "2.5"
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"We've seen it. The proof of its construction was very useful." |
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"Making something... Nurturing something is really great. You can see and learn so many things from the process." |
Evangelion "2.5" is the title given by the fanbase for the events that take place between Evangelion 2.0 and Evangelion 3.0, in the Rebuild of Evangelion continuity.
When Evangelion 3.0 came out in 2012, there was a lot of discussion about the absence of preview scenes in the film itself, this being much more focused on events 14 years after the final film ended. Over the time, some of the staff's allegations have made it clear that these are discarded ideas for a movie, which might not even have Shinji present. This article aims to theorize and discuss the events of the time-skip, which may be the origin of Wille, village-3, Kredit etc.
The Preview
"Eva-01 is frozen with Shinji and Rei still trapped inside. The fortress city is abandoned. Nerv personnel are held in confinement. Eva-06 is dropped into Dogma. The quickening Eva-08 and its pilot. And finally, the children fated to meet are gathered at last. Where will this story of people wishing to live lead?"
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Thrice upon a Time
In a scene of Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0 that is indicative of what happened during the 14-year timeskip, Kaworu and the elder Kaji speak to each other. Kaworu is dressed in the same Nerv commander uniform as Gendo and the Bethany base commander, with Kaji in the same vice-commander uniform as Fuyutsuki and the Bethany base vice-commander. Kaworu, whom the elder Kaji calls "Commander Nagisa", agrees to go to the settlement where the younger Kaji farms. Indicating that they supposedly became friends during this period.
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The Time-Skip period
The information below are indexed by Szmitten, and are an exercise of logical imagination about a chain of events consistent with the universe presented in the films. It is subject to change.
Immediately after N3I, Gendo and Fuyutsuki disappear and SEELE promotes Kaworu and Kaji to Commander and VC believing them to be their agents, but both are independant and are/become allies. NERV personnel are rounded up by UN/JSDF/SEELE-proxies and kept at the Marine Research Institute (Kaji's front for future-WILLE). Hex pillars and an exclusion zone is put around Eva-01 and Tokyo-3 is abandoned. Kaworu and Kaji are able to negotiate the release of NERV staff by allowing deeper UN/JSDF/SEELE-proxy military supervision, strict measures including banning Kaworu from being pilot and Commander (alternative is wearing a DSS choker invented for him), the autonomous (dummy plug?) conversion of Mark.06, completion of a dual entry Eva-08, minor attempts to repair Eva-02, and no attempts to revive/recover Eva-01/Shinji. Kaji quietly founds WILLE and uses his position to find and reroute NERV and EuroNERV assets to it. Kaworu learns of Kaji's watermelons. Characters meet the Rei clones. Kaji and Misato become intimate. Asuka wakes up and is released with a hex pillar in her eye. 11th Angel appears in some capacity. Misato becomes pregnant and tells Kaji at some point after this.
12th Angel appears, and Unit-08 has to be made inactive in some way so it can't prevent it and Mark.06 from merging with it or from descending into Dogma. During or prior to this, Kaji mobilises WILLE's insurrection and violence erupts, the lake outside HQ is filled with bakelite, WILLE members wear blue armbands to identify themselves. They maybe steal Wunder here.
Mark.06 removes Longinus from Lilith, reviving her (but soulless?). Mark.06 merges with and beheads Lilith. This causes raining skulls and Guf to open; crucifixes appear on the land and coreification begins, and humans start turning into red Evas; NERV HQ rises into the sky, the red Evas plug Dogma's shaft, and Lilith's head (now Rei somehow) is in the command center. The Moon approaches and bleeds. Meanwhile, Kaji acquires Cassius, the Shin goodbye scene, Kaji "saves" Kaworu, Kaji enters Dogma via VTOL and crashes. Somehow this results in Cassius (converted into a woven Longinus that Kaworu never sees) and Longinus through Lilith's and Mark.06's cores in an unknown configuration or order which stops Third Impact, but most people are dead. All of the above has to happen 6 months +/-3 after the end of 2.0.
Later, Gendo and Fuyutsuki rebrand NeoNERV and constructs ships and Evangelions. Dogma is sealed. Kaworu remains at NERV with Tentatives as coreified Eva-01 is launched into orbit. The next 14 years consist of Eva fights between WILLE and NERV and the support of Village-3 via Kredit.
