Hah! Well, the point of the thought exercise was to see if a dead but soul-salvaged Kaji could be reconstituted from LCL. That I'm unsure about. After all, we don't see anything like it in the show. Plus, this effectively means that everyone with access to Metaphical Biology tech can be immortal, which really shoots "SEELE is doing it for their immortality" down good. Of course, that was already true with the Rei clones.
The closest I can think of from the show would be Shinji coming out of Unit-01. Shinji and Asuka returning to mortal form after Instrumentality may have been similar. Then again, in both cases, there were extraordinary circumstances involved -- the EVA in the first, and Instrumentality in the second.
It's probably a matter of semantics whether the ability to be resurrected in this fashion properly counts as immortality -- by that standard, most D&D characters are de facto immortal, at least until old age catches up to them. (Which brings up another question: whether this process could be manipulated to reverse aging.) And it's a very conditional and dependent form of immortality at that; at the very least, someone has to
want you back enough to salvage your soul. I think even the SEELE committee recognizes that, in their case, that's a distinctly dubious proposition
.
Then again, if the Dark Eldar can make it work (and in a society as rife with backstabbing as theirs, yet!), maybe SEELE can, too.
I disagree. That organism is the EVA. It is just that EVAs, in keeping with mythology, have an actual "seat of the soul" - but so do angels, so that isn't unnatural at all.
It's unnatural to
humans, at least.
But Yui now IS EVA-01, which can best be seen post-Zeruel. The only reason they can be controlled like robots at all is the armour.
Ritsuko refers to the EVA armor as the restraint in the aftermath of Zeruel, yes, but there seems to be more to it than that. The pilot controls the EVA by synchronizing with the resident soul, after all, not the machinery; apparently the entry plug also extends into a cavity bored into the core itself. And the Entry Plug is inserted into an artificial segment of the EVA's spine at the base of the neck, suggesting a physical link to the nervous system as well.
Basically, EVAs are living beings subjected by force to a foreign will. So add that to the list of Ritsuko's crimes... ehem. Now, Yui's memories may not be expressed in EVA neurons (though - maybe they are? Who knows. Something has to be in the head of the creature, after all...), but she clearly is in posession of them. Seeing how lucidly she talks in EoE, in full possession of them, in fact. So, even if maybe not in the forms of neurons, the memories do "come along".
I wasn't questioning whether Yui and Kyoko had their full memories, just whether the soul plays by the same rules with regards to memories and mind while it's absorbed into an EVA as when it's incarnated as a human. And the Angels take a number of forms that seem outright incompatible with any sort of biology of memory storage we're familiar with, so who knows how that part works for them.
As someone said, glamour shots.
At the least, it seems much more likely than, say, underwear. If it were that, she wouldn't just be flushed handing it over to Kaworu; she'd be steaming like a cartoon teakettle.
