"Amani" <amani@charter.net> wrote:
> > Rei has many times tried to sacrifice herself... Kensuke says she
> > doesn't value her own life, and Rei III says she longs for despair.
> >  Ritsuko too attributes the first berserk incident to "mental
> > instability in the pilot", and right before the second one Shinji sees
> > the impressions of Rei, before it bashes at the window in front of
Rei.
> >  So I'm guessing it's Rei's "soul" in Unit 00.  (Hey, she has no
mother,
> > so who else would be in it?)
>
> I'm going to agree with Disaster in saying Rei's soul is in /Rei/. Hell,
> it's not even /her/ soul, in a way. Well, it is. I'm stopping on that
before
> I confuse myself.

LOL
Didn't you read the threads Michael and I played with?

> I always attributed Rei's refusal to sacrifice herself to her unwavering
> obedience to Gendou (until EoE, of course). He won't allow her to die,
so
> she's not going to die. He needs her for other uses. Like to grope and
> stuff. (Taryn watching EoE for the first time with her friend Kerri,
"Hey,
> you're not seriously going to--ohmygod, don't touch her THERE!" And thus
> commenced much Gendou bashing. We knew it was coming, but we still hate
> him.)

I do not think that Rei has any more or less an inclination to sacrifice
herself then anyone else. I think she has a stronger sense of a more
communal team effort rather then seeing each pilot as an individual. You
know one of those people who puts the success of the team over the success
of the person. This is most likely fostered by Gendo or could simply be an
attribute of those who have little experience with their own emotions and
random thoughts.

You thought that Gendo was bad for putting his hand over Rei's heart? Just
cause she was naked and that happened to be where her breast was? His hand
DID do THROUGH her flesh though, not like he was really groping her. Now
what Shinji did to Asuka in the very first scene, I would Shinji bashing
for that if anything.
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