Naoko whodunnit (was Re: [EVA] Eva Manga: Like? Dislike?)

[immano]

>She had the clones' parts for spare anatomy (there must be some process for
>"putting back together again" :P )

What about the "dispose of the relevant biological parts" bit?

> Was the clone tank in existence when Naoko strangled Rei I, or was it
> a later Gendou-Ritsuko idea?  What was the reason Naoko fell to her
> death?  Somehow I'm not sure it was suicide.

Induced suicide sounds very likely, if unproven.

> If there were replacement Reis, Naoko being colder would have known
> that another would replace R I.

That's not true. She was only involved in the Magi project, she might not 
have known about Terminal Dogma. In fact, she was entirely unaware that Rei 
was a clone. Gendo introduced her as the child of an acquaintance.

> I don't believe she was so frenzied she would have leapt to her death over
> Gendou's reported insults from the mouth of a child, as she already knew 
> he was
> using her on the rebound from Yui.  Naoko was too intelligent - & she'd 
> just
> finished the Magi so was probably feeling proud.

So intelligent she let herself be used by a man who showed little affection 
to her, a fact that she deliberately chose to ignore. When presented with a 
child way too resemblant to the woman she had wanted so much to replace, she 
deformed the sentence the child said into a taunt from the woman she had 
thought gone, and not being exactly stable to begin with (unable to relate 
as a mother and to conduct a rational life as a woman, see above) she went 
overboard and killed Rei and herself. Entirely likely and also entirely 
predictable by somebody like Gendo.


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