Slight problem: Naoko Akagi's soul is currently taking up residence in Unit 00. (Thus, yes, Naoko Akagi's suicide was due to the loss of her soul, but it wasn't because Rei's got it.)
My big trouble with the hybrid-soul thing is that I sincerely do not think they've got the metaphysical technology to do that kind of thing. If they did, they'd have managed to shoehorn something into the rest of the Rei-quarium that could at least do more than giggle and look creepy. They couldn't even manage to keep the Eva units from sucking down a soul at at will when they were feeling a bit peckish.
Now, I could see Lilith's soul having been fractured or split in transit to Rei...though I think she'd have significantly more problems than she does, had that happened. In the end, I still have to say that it's more likely that they just did the functional equivalent to duct taping a human brain to the nervous system of a sea anemone.
Lilith's Soul is to Human Mind as Square Peg is to Round Hole.
My big trouble with the hybrid-soul thing is that I sincerely do not think they've got the metaphysical technology to do that kind of thing. If they did, they'd have managed to shoehorn something into the rest of the Rei-quarium that could at least do more than giggle and look creepy. They couldn't even manage to keep the Eva units from sucking down a soul at at will when they were feeling a bit peckish.
Now, I could see Lilith's soul having been fractured or split in transit to Rei...though I think she'd have significantly more problems than she does, had that happened. In the end, I still have to say that it's more likely that they just did the functional equivalent to duct taping a human brain to the nervous system of a sea anemone.
Lilith's Soul is to Human Mind as Square Peg is to Round Hole.