Blade wrote:

>> 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").

Well, since I was the one to pose the question, I guess I should clarify...

To me, Rei isn't a whole person much in the same way I wasn't until recently
(which is what got me thinking about it).  Simply put, there's something
missing inside.  While she may go though life surviving, she really isn't
alive.  It's like she's living simply because she was told to, much in the
way I was living simply because I refused to take my own life (but if I
happened to lose it, no big deal).  Think in terms of Evanessence's "Bring
Me to Life."