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I distinctly remember, in the Anime anyway, a scene where Eva Unit 02 sorties
to fight an Angel without Central Dogma's authorization (If I find the scene
online, I will link it here), seen when EVA Unit 01 descends back into Central
Dogma for reasons I can't remember (damage, maybe?).

Seeing that EVA Unit 02 has the soul, at least the maternal part of Asuka's
mother, imbued into the EVA itself, piloting the mech would be impossible for
everyone except Asuka, going on the basis of EVA Unit 01's connection with
Shinji.

My question is this, if EVA Unit 02 has a soul that is only known to work with
Asuka, how did Mari manage to pilot EVA Unit 02 without any known
difficulties?


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How did Mari manage to pilot EVA Unit 02?


If you watched 2.22 you will see that the cores for Asuka and Mari were
switched out before Mari took control of Unit-02.

Depending on the language, you csn hear in the background the crew rewriting
Unit-02's access keys when Mari's gearing up to fight Zeruel. One assumes this
has some bearing with how Mari is able to take control.

There's no clear-cut canonical explanation of why but there are theories, one
involving the time loop theory and Kyoko. But that's a topic for another
question.

[![dat core
yo](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vm29m.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vm29m.png)


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