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According to Jewish lore, in particular the Talmud, Samael was the Evil Angel of Death, as opposed to Gabriel who was the Good Angel of Death. He is known as the angel who took the form of a serpent and tempted Eve, according to other texts. In The Holy Kabbalah, he took Lillith as his bride after she was rejected by Adam. It has been suggested that Samael is the true angelic name of Satan, rather than Lucifer (The Roman name for Venus, the Dawnstar).
My idea is this: What if not all of the Angels in Evangelion were opposed to humanity? And that there were more than just 17 of them. They are the 17 indicated in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but prophecies are not always correctly interpreted.
Samael, in this case, would have rebelled against God or Adam (depending upon your interpretation), perhaps with other Angels. Why has been lost over the ages, but what is known is that Samael and his followers were imprisoned underneath the Atlantic Ocean floor, as the other Angels were unwilling to kill their own kind. Thousands of years, maybe millions of years, later, and after Second Impact, a United States Navy submarine discovers what appears to be a gigantic humanoid lifeform laying on the sea floor.
Now, SEELE has massive control over Earth through the UN, but some factions from various nations in government and the military are not under their thrall. The US Navy, with assistance from other former NATO nations in the utmost secrecy, recover Samael and take him to a secret base in Canada. With help from allied personnel in NERV and a lot of hard work, it is determined that the creature is similar to an Angel, though apparently more bestial, almost demonic.
With the Evangelion Project underway, and these factions suspecting there is more to the UN and SEELE than defending against the Angels, they begin a secret project to create Anti-Evangelions using Samael. The project is codenamed "Eidolon", the Greek word for a ghost or astral double of a person.
Using technology they manage to steal from the Eva program and a lot of ingenuity, the first operational Eidolon, is completed. It is given this codename due to the fact it is smaller than an Eva. However, it has razor sharp teeth, claws, and is far faster and more agile than an Eva. Due to it's apparently demonic origins, however, it is far more difficult to control. Even with most of it's brain lobotomized and controlled, the Eidolon, when activated, is in a nearly constant berserker state. However, one of the scientists on the project theorizes that a human soul might be able to get control of the beast, based on what happened to Yui Ikari and Askura's mother. He thus sacrifices himself, hoping his 14 year old daughter will be able to tame the Eidolon.
How does this alter the Eva timeline? Is it possible that demons are the key to the prevention of Third Impact? And how does SEELE react?
According to Jewish lore, in particular the Talmud, Samael was the Evil Angel of Death, as opposed to Gabriel who was the Good Angel of Death. He is known as the angel who took the form of a serpent and tempted Eve, according to other texts. In The Holy Kabbalah, he took Lillith as his bride after she was rejected by Adam. It has been suggested that Samael is the true angelic name of Satan, rather than Lucifer (The Roman name for Venus, the Dawnstar).
My idea is this: What if not all of the Angels in Evangelion were opposed to humanity? And that there were more than just 17 of them. They are the 17 indicated in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but prophecies are not always correctly interpreted.
Samael, in this case, would have rebelled against God or Adam (depending upon your interpretation), perhaps with other Angels. Why has been lost over the ages, but what is known is that Samael and his followers were imprisoned underneath the Atlantic Ocean floor, as the other Angels were unwilling to kill their own kind. Thousands of years, maybe millions of years, later, and after Second Impact, a United States Navy submarine discovers what appears to be a gigantic humanoid lifeform laying on the sea floor.
Now, SEELE has massive control over Earth through the UN, but some factions from various nations in government and the military are not under their thrall. The US Navy, with assistance from other former NATO nations in the utmost secrecy, recover Samael and take him to a secret base in Canada. With help from allied personnel in NERV and a lot of hard work, it is determined that the creature is similar to an Angel, though apparently more bestial, almost demonic.
With the Evangelion Project underway, and these factions suspecting there is more to the UN and SEELE than defending against the Angels, they begin a secret project to create Anti-Evangelions using Samael. The project is codenamed "Eidolon", the Greek word for a ghost or astral double of a person.
Using technology they manage to steal from the Eva program and a lot of ingenuity, the first operational Eidolon, is completed. It is given this codename due to the fact it is smaller than an Eva. However, it has razor sharp teeth, claws, and is far faster and more agile than an Eva. Due to it's apparently demonic origins, however, it is far more difficult to control. Even with most of it's brain lobotomized and controlled, the Eidolon, when activated, is in a nearly constant berserker state. However, one of the scientists on the project theorizes that a human soul might be able to get control of the beast, based on what happened to Yui Ikari and Askura's mother. He thus sacrifices himself, hoping his 14 year old daughter will be able to tame the Eidolon.
How does this alter the Eva timeline? Is it possible that demons are the key to the prevention of Third Impact? And how does SEELE react?
