In article <Xns9380AC6B7103Akaliarules@66.185.95.104>, kumonryuu@hotmail.com 
says...
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>fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com (Frank White) wrote in
>news:baal3f$am6$2@news.fsr.net: 
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>> In article <Xns938075F55418kaliarules@66.185.95.104>,
>> kumonryuu@hotmail.com says...
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>>>fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com (Frank White) wrote in
>>>news:ba6sms$2cnp$2@news.fsr.net: 
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>>>> In article <ZFrxa.23158$_e6.6816@news2.east.cox.net>, 
>>>> sanjian@widomaker.com says...
>>>>>
>>>>>Vaughn L.Porter wrote:
>>>>>> "Daniel Rudy" <dcrudy@invalid.pacbell.nospam.net.0123456789>
>>>>>> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:3EC4AFF4.7090805@invalid.pacbell.nospam.net.0123456789... 
>>>>>
>>>>>> He's neither. He's very repressed. And let's face it, as much as
>>>>>> I like Asuka, she's not exactly the sort of girl who's going to
>>>>>> make a man out of you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                      Vaughn L.Porter
>>>>>>                                       Or Rei, for that matter.
>>>>>>                             Misato, 
>>>>>> OTOH....
>>>>>
>>>>>Actually, I think Misato has the capability.  She's emotionally 
>>>> damaging,
>>>>>like Asuka (a certain toothpick scene aside), and unlike Rei, I
>>>>>think 
>>>> she's
>>>>>actually capable of being supportive.
>>>>>
>>>>>Personally, I think Maya would be a better choice, but I'm biased 
>>>> towards
>>>>>her.  That, of course, is assuming she's interested in men.
>>>>>
>>>>>Now, here's a question.  What would it take to make a full person
>>>>>out of Rei.
>>>> 
>>>> What makes you think Rei isn't a whole person already?
>>>
>>>Watching "Evangelion".
>> 
>> (whacks Blade with an N2 mine for being too glib)
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>Moi? ;p
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>> Having the soul of an apparently immortal being - the 
>> mother of humanity - stuck in the cloned, teen-age bod
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>"And what a bod it is!"
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>> of a missing woman, and the resultant confusion / odd
>> behavior (especially since no one TELLS Rei she's
>> got a high voltage soul in a low voltage body) HARDLY
>> constitutes lack of completeness.
>> 
>> Wanna try again?
>
>Nope.  You might make an argument she's a whole BEING from that (from a 
>certain POV), but that hardly makes her as whole PERSON (in its 
>colloquial definition of meaning "human").

Rei has the capacity for and to love, she has a sense of
humor (you have to watch, but it IS there), and she - at
least in Rei III incarnation - can make her own decisions
even when it's to do the opposite of what she's been 
trained, told, and expected to do.

What is not whole about her?

FW