![]() This would fit in with the mother-child dynamic in NGE rather nicely, as it's clear that synchronization is not merely a physical process, but also a spiritual one. In animals that engage in viviparity ("live birth"), like humans, the mother's physical investment is so great that it might follow that most or all of the child's soul comes from her, as well. Sexual reproduction is more complicated, of course, since there are many different ways for it to happen. (This is also implied by the unnamed Seed in NGE2, who references the idea of the FAR's descendants/reincarnations growing in number - something that would be impossible if the number of FAR souls that the Seeds carry with them are all that will ever exist.) In asexual reproduction, a being actually splits its body apart, so perhaps its soul is divided as well and each part eventually becomes whole again. So why does it matter worth a darn if the Chamber of Guf is empty? There's clearly another way to get a soul, apparently through the boring old process of reproduction. There is, of course, the usual question of what it has to do with anything, since nobody else - aside from the Evas, and perhaps Kaworu - seems to have had any trouble getting a soul. ![]() Ritsuko's "they have no souls because the Chamber of Guf was empty" dialogue is a bit perplexing. In any event, all of this makes sense much more readily if Adam and Lilith keep separate supplies. On top of that, the Angels appear a rather convenient fifteen years later - implying that they only received their souls in the year 2000 and subsequently underwent a fifteen-year incubation period. However, we learn in 21' that Adam's Doors of Guf opened at Second Impact. This implies that the Chamber of Guf being talked about was emptied out and sealed up quite some time ago. In-series evidence for multiple chambers comes from Fuyutsuki's comment in EoE that "the doors to the world's beginning and end" (the Doors of Guf) have finally opened once again. This is also corroborated by the fact that the unnamed Seed is still traveling to its planet thus, if there is only one Chamber of Guf and it is empty, they would be kind of screwed, but they don't give any indication that this is something that worries them. So, there being seven different Chambers of Guf would make good practical sense. We know that the Moons have some sort of link with the Chamber(s) of Guf, so, all things said, the implication being made in this cut scene is that the FAR's souls were liberated in some sort of "Zeroth Impact" and distributed between the seven Seeds for later use. In the PSP version of NGE2, Kaworu is told by another Seed of Life - using a lot of rather indirect language - that there are seven Seeds total, and their Moons were "boarded" by the First Ancestral Race.
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