"Michael Wignall" <wigs@evangelion.com> wrote:
> "Silver Paladin" <jackkc@uci.edu> wrote:
> > > Rei was "created" out of the salvaged remains of Yui from Eva-01.
> > > Yui was only absorbed in 2004. In 2010 Rei-001 was said to be
> > > 5 when she was killed by Naoko Akagi. (which cues into when
> > > the salvage operation on Eva-01 was supposed to take place, in
> > > 2005. That make the "entity" known as "Rei" around 10 in 2015.
> > > In that there has been a Rei since 2005-ish.
> >
> > That's assuming that all the Reis are the exact same age.  We really
> > don't know anything about the cloning process to determine if all the
> > Reis are the same age, or whether during the "memory transfer"
> > operation or whatnot, they're brought up to speed chronologically.
> >
> > I think Rei is too much of an X-Factor to reliably use her as a
> > constant.
>
> I am talking "age since coming into existence".

Which just happens to be what a chronological reference means.

> We are told that
> Rei is 5 in 2010, so that would make her 10 in 2015. Besides
> I think all the Rei's were "created" at the same time. From the
> EOE theatrical program:
>
> "Her body was created from the salvaged remains of Yui Ikari
> after Yui was taken into the Eva, and numerous Rei clones
> were then prepared in Terminal Dogma so that when one Rei
> dies she can be replaced by another."
>
> Rei was created then numerous Rei clones were created in
> Terminal Dogma. All the Rei clones we see in episode 23
> look to be the same age.

You said that you saw all the little feet come out of Lilith. If this is
the "birth" of the Rei clones then they would not just look the same age,
they would be.
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