Yui Ikari and the Third Impact
Yui's whole plan ever since she decided to do the contact experiment with Unit 01 was so that Shinji can be in control of the third impact and she chose unit 01 because it is Lillith's offspring which did become a valuable asset to SEELE when initiating the third impact. After Asuka's death by the hands of the mass production evangelions Yui decided to activate because she knew that seeing the parts of unit 02 would break Shinji and to deter him from fighting the mass production evangelions so Yui can be in the centre of SEELE's scenario. SEELE were so close to initiating their impact until Rei-Lillith fusion appeared and that essentially helped Yui because iirc Yui did say Rei was like the person for Shinji's wishes. If Rei Lillith never rose or like if Rei rejected Gendo but instead of fusing with Lillith she just leaves. What exactly happens. Does Yui's soul get forcefully shut down and unit 01 is controlled by the mass produced evangelions to do SEELE's third impact. Also SEELE apparently from one of the video games apparently wanted to do the contact experiment themselves during the third impact. I do feel like Yui already had a plan and could potentially do what she did anyways by making Shinji control the third impact and she still decides to leave to be a testament that humanity existed. If Yui does somehow fail how would SEELE be able to fuse would idk Keel Lorenz "share" unit 01 or maybe due to instrumentality the MPEs get the souls of SEELE and somehow they do some sort of exorcism and just kick Yui Ikari out? How would it work?