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its been a bit so someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
it comes down to the syncro rate the pilots have with the Eva, The more synchronized they are, the better control they have and the more power they can exert through the Eva.
But the more synchronized they are the more that the pain transfers over as well – and after a certain point the syncro rate starts causing physical damage to transfer over as well.
Like with Asuka in End of Evangelion. Who loses an eye and her arm gets split in two.
It works like that because the EVA’s weren’t exactly designed. They are living things that the pilots are synchronising their souls with to control them.
Normally it just transfers pain, but if they’re synced enough they will transfer damage too
It depends on the sync rate. The higher the sync rate, the more physical damage is actually reflected.
They didn’t intentionally design it this way: It’s the way it HAS to be. Basically, here’s the thought process:
There are these things called “Absolute Terror Fields” (frequently shortened to “AT Field”). These things have a lot of functions, but the 2 that matter are:
A sufficiently strong AT field is basically an impenetrable force field, capable of blocking bombardments from hundreds of nuclear weapons without any issue.
Two AT fields of similar strength can cancel each other out where they collide, disabling the force field.
Angels, the things that the Evangelions were built to fight, have stupidly strong AT fields, and as a result it is functionally impossible to kill them. The only way to win is to use another equally stupidly powerful AT field to cancel the Angels’ AT fields out. THAT is the reason Evangelions exist: It’s not to punch the Angels into submission, it’s to disable the AT fields that make them immortal.
And in order to generate an AT field, the pilot and Evangelion MUST “synchronize,” or essentially become the same being. This is why, when his sync rate reached 400%, Shinji straight-up dissolved. The Evangelions don’t reflect damage as a deliberate process, but rather the Pilots and Evangelions literally are the same being, fused on a metaphysical level. Thus, harming the Evangelion harms the Pilot inside because the two are actually one and the same at high enough sync rates.
In conclusion, episode 7 was filler and Jet Alone never would have worked.
it depends on the sync ratio, which lends to your second question.
Evangelion are grown from angel DNA, and then their spinal columns are severed and an entry plug socket is inserted in its place, such as the entry plug replaces part of the spinal cord. also, the tip of the entry plug is physically sticking into the back of the Evangelion’s core and the higher the pilot synchronized, the closer to the core the pilot gets, and some weird shit can happen in the realm of the core.
I never watched Evangleion, just synopsises and clips.
But what I learned from people who HAVE watched it, mostly from this very thread, it depends on the sync rate. More sync means not just pain gets transfered, but eventually also damage. The EVA’s weren’t designed like this, this control mechanism is just the only viable method of controling them.
Unless someone creates remote controlled or autonamous EVA’s, that would solve all issues, I guess.
It wasn’t designed that way. It is very clear from the synchronization rate scaling past 100% that the connection between the pilot and Eva goes way higher than the designers considered possible.
At low sync rates it operates basically a mech like in Pacific Rim. You can control it with your mind, but you are still physically holding a joystick and pulling a trigger in the control plug to visualize your eva shooting a gun.
At high sync rates you control it like your own body. At this point the eva is incredibly fast and agile, moving like a superhuman. At this level you feel everything the eva feels, and pain transfers. Losing an eye hurts, and you feel like you lost an eye. But when you power down and de sync your eye is fine.
Past 100% sync you are the Eva. If it loses an arm, you lose an arm. Now you will still regenerate like the eva as well as long as you stay synced, which is why Shinji didn’t lose his arm in the first fight he went 100% synchronized and berserked.
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its been a bit so someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
it comes down to the syncro rate the pilots have with the Eva, The more synchronized they are, the better control they have and the more power they can exert through the Eva.
But the more synchronized they are the more that the pain transfers over as well – and after a certain point the syncro rate starts causing physical damage to transfer over as well.
Like with Asuka in End of Evangelion. Who loses an eye and her arm gets split in two.
It works like that because the EVA’s weren’t exactly designed. They are living things that the pilots are synchronising their souls with to control them.
Normally it just transfers pain, but if they’re synced enough they will transfer damage too
It depends on the sync rate. The higher the sync rate, the more physical damage is actually reflected.
They didn’t intentionally design it this way: It’s the way it HAS to be. Basically, here’s the thought process:
There are these things called “Absolute Terror Fields” (frequently shortened to “AT Field”). These things have a lot of functions, but the 2 that matter are:
Angels, the things that the Evangelions were built to fight, have stupidly strong AT fields, and as a result it is functionally impossible to kill them. The only way to win is to use another equally stupidly powerful AT field to cancel the Angels’ AT fields out. THAT is the reason Evangelions exist: It’s not to punch the Angels into submission, it’s to disable the AT fields that make them immortal.
And in order to generate an AT field, the pilot and Evangelion MUST “synchronize,” or essentially become the same being. This is why, when his sync rate reached 400%, Shinji straight-up dissolved. The Evangelions don’t reflect damage as a deliberate process, but rather the Pilots and Evangelions literally are the same being, fused on a metaphysical level. Thus, harming the Evangelion harms the Pilot inside because the two are actually one and the same at high enough sync rates.
In conclusion, episode 7 was filler and Jet Alone never would have worked.
it depends on the sync ratio, which lends to your second question.
Evangelion are grown from angel DNA, and then their spinal columns are severed and an entry plug socket is inserted in its place, such as the entry plug replaces part of the spinal cord. also, the tip of the entry plug is physically sticking into the back of the Evangelion’s core and the higher the pilot synchronized, the closer to the core the pilot gets, and some weird shit can happen in the realm of the core.
I never watched Evangleion, just synopsises and clips.
But what I learned from people who HAVE watched it, mostly from this very thread, it depends on the sync rate. More sync means not just pain gets transfered, but eventually also damage. The EVA’s weren’t designed like this, this control mechanism is just the only viable method of controling them.
Unless someone creates remote controlled or autonamous EVA’s, that would solve all issues, I guess.
It wasn’t designed that way. It is very clear from the synchronization rate scaling past 100% that the connection between the pilot and Eva goes way higher than the designers considered possible.
At low sync rates it operates basically a mech like in Pacific Rim. You can control it with your mind, but you are still physically holding a joystick and pulling a trigger in the control plug to visualize your eva shooting a gun.
At high sync rates you control it like your own body. At this point the eva is incredibly fast and agile, moving like a superhuman. At this level you feel everything the eva feels, and pain transfers. Losing an eye hurts, and you feel like you lost an eye. But when you power down and de sync your eye is fine.
Past 100% sync you are the Eva. If it loses an arm, you lose an arm. Now you will still regenerate like the eva as well as long as you stay synced, which is why Shinji didn’t lose his arm in the first fight he went 100% synchronized and berserked.