Quote:“Lilin perceive three dimensions but are fundamentally Fifth Dimensional creatures. The fruit of your knowledge allows you to perceive the universe in a way that causes the timeline to exist as perceived. The lilin soul is a functional part of the three dimensional reality, the perception of which gives it form.”This is all messed up... first Lilim are four dimensional beings relative to their own frame of reference.... Humans can perceive the flow of time after all. A stick man that can move around is 3 dimensional, those 3 just happen to be length, width and time as the third rather than depth. A dot can also be a two dimensional being if it can also perceive time... just in that case it has nothing changing to perceive. A literal perfect existence as it can't be improved further... unless you make it no longer a one dimensional being. Nirvana is to become as the dot.
Also, its not actually a true time loop... its more insidious. Humans aren't lilum, lilum were human though. There is only 3rd impact... a dozen or a million times or something over. Humanity died on the day Adam was released. The Blast through the planet off axis just enough so that seasons stopped. The general misery level keeps the lilum from noticing the stars have moved. The think its the day after 3rd Impact and try and rebuild. The Earth is in disrepair (exploding contient and all)... time to pull humanity up by its boot straps. Only, its not quite true. Its just that everything is around 15 years older than last time. The Geofront is entirely man made. Its taken a ginormous number of cycles to make... but all the digging, and the armour and skeletons of Eva are works of progress.
The lilum are now fighting back... After.dozens of attempts they've managed to actually build a working group of weapons. Evagelions. With it they are taking humanity back one soul or so at a time. The reason 'Angels' are now huge is an arms race. The Dead Sea Scrolls are computerized records of the cycles. Keele is a cyborg as the metal contains his humanity.in the lilum shell. The magi are 3 who are human again dodging the cycle. Its why they send an angel just to kill the magi. The 'Angels' hugeness is the result of half of humanity being absorbed. The Berserk mode on Eva 01 is it eating parts of the 'Angels' so that it can take back the human souls of the lilum that make it up. The absorbed are in dot mode. They are in the white space. they know nothing and everything all at once. The 'Angels' are elsewhee, elsewhen the attack monsters are but harvesting avatars. Lillith had a full body, but has been staked for long enough that the souls of that body are breaking free... explaining all those little legs. The avatars are ever changing as more souls means moree power.
The whole thing is with the End of Evangelion and lanching the Eva into space is because that puts the reclaimed souls out of reach. Shinji keeeps respawning but has had as many different moms as their are Eva 01s in the space fleet. There were actually 30 or more 'Angels' at one point. much weaker ones now. Basically a disturbing number of new game plus modes rather than a time loop. the lilum just kept their inventory... the greater one their levels.
Every time 3rd Impact resets a few less people bother to come back... NERV and SEELE are counter harvesting. If they can cause enough damage they will get a shot at the avatar's controlers. They've offed half the starting 'Angel's' number. Kawaoru is apparently sick of the game. Patern regonition. A cumulative Shinji would end thiis so much faster.
At least that is my first impression.