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The Evangelion Premise
>The Human Instrumentality Project is Seele’s endgame: eliminate the boundaries between individual humans and merge everyone into a single, godlike consciousness.
>To achieve this, they need a catalyst/vessel: someone who embodies both human frailty and divine potential. Shinji becomes that vessel.
This parallels the way Abrahamic messiahs (and Yhwach in Bleach) function: not as an end in themselves, but as conduits for a higher unifying force.