I agree... I think that when Rei II sacrifices herself for Shinji is 
when she starts to realize that her higher purpose is to protect him, 
and eventually hand the future to him.  The potential for her to become 
interested in Shinji exists, but it doesn't happen in the series, or at 
least never comes up.  But all of it, as you said, seems to be 
instinctive to her.

Richard

Disaster wrote:

>Now then, to continue.
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>Even though Rei is Lilith in the sense that her Soul is Lilith's, this
>does not mean that Rei fully understands that she is Lilith or even if she
>does, what Lilith is suppose to be. This is part of the self
>identification thing. Rei looks in a mirror and sees a teenager. But this
>does not look right to her. Even so it is what she sees thus it is what
>she believes. This means that Rei thinks that she is Rei, and that Rei is
>a teenager that pilots an Eva and goes to Shinji's school. At least this
>is true for the majority of the series.
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>This opens up the possibility that Rei might become interested in Shinji.
>However we also learn that Rei feels as though she has a connection to
>every human. A bond of some sort. This tells us that she at least is
>suspicious of her original nature and who she really is.
>
>Rei is in to much conflict within herself, trying to find out who or what
>she really is to ever become interested in anyone else during the time
>that we see her. It's not a selfish thing, it's closer to instinctive.
>--
>Kind regards
>Disaster
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