That's a pretty good guess, actually. And it's true, they do have a lot to do with it. But the reason's a bit more complex than that. It's difficult to explain, and you'll probably think it's just science fiction or something stupid, but if you choose to believe me, here's the deal:
For some reason, only 14-year-olds are able to harmonize properly with the Evangelion units. And one day, I was selected to test a new unit, Unit-03. Unfortunately, the unit was contaminated by an Angel, and the entire mecha was infected and essentially controlled by the Angel, with me inside of it.
No one really knows how the Eva units work, but there's a part of them called a core, which is essentially where the vital point, the heart of the Eva is. Angels have them too, actually. The core is basically the primary power organ of the unit: break the core, and the whole thing shuts down. Now, I was in the cockpit of the Eva at the time: when the unit was taken over by the Angel, it assimilated me into its core, which did...something to me, biologically. When that happened, two things changed about my body.
The first is that I'm contaminated by the Angel. I have traces of Angel DNA in my body, and no one quite knows if that's negatively affecting me or what, because I'm the only person in the world who has ever had this happen to them. So that's special.
The second is something the Eva did to me. When I reached that level in the core, the Eva also changed me on a biological level, and somehow changed my body to keep it in a state where I'm permanently fit to pilot.
...Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with that. Piloting is what I do best, after all.
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For some reason, only 14-year-olds are able to harmonize properly with the Evangelion units. And one day, I was selected to test a new unit, Unit-03. Unfortunately, the unit was contaminated by an Angel, and the entire mecha was infected and essentially controlled by the Angel, with me inside of it.
No one really knows how the Eva units work, but there's a part of them called a core, which is essentially where the vital point, the heart of the Eva is. Angels have them too, actually. The core is basically the primary power organ of the unit: break the core, and the whole thing shuts down. Now, I was in the cockpit of the Eva at the time: when the unit was taken over by the Angel, it assimilated me into its core, which did...something to me, biologically. When that happened, two things changed about my body.
The first is that I'm contaminated by the Angel. I have traces of Angel DNA in my body, and no one quite knows if that's negatively affecting me or what, because I'm the only person in the world who has ever had this happen to them. So that's special.
The second is something the Eva did to me. When I reached that level in the core, the Eva also changed me on a biological level, and somehow changed my body to keep it in a state where I'm permanently fit to pilot.
...Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with that. Piloting is what I do best, after all.