"Zlmndra" <tamago__chan@NOSPAMPLShotmail.com> wrote:
> > Which leaves you with the greater emotional pain and loss,
> > emptiness and sadness?  If your mother was somehow
> > restored to you when you were 16, which 'you' would be
> > happiest:  The one orphaned at birth who never knew a
> > mother's love, or the one who lost the most important
> > person in your life at a time when you were old enough
> > to understand what it meant?
> >
> > Take as much time to think about it as you need.
>
> I think that's taking it a little far.  Rei does somewhat understand and
> feel the need for such a connection.  Even if she understands less of it
in
> a conventional sense.

Relax Z, this is not a hard argument to shoot down. Just as Rei is aware
of what she is missing so to does a child know that other children have
mothers.

> We could argue that Asuka doesn't have a mature connection to guys
either.
> imho, she doesn't quite understand relationships either.  However, she's
not
> the one who gets the short end of the stick most of the time now, is
she?

*Shrug*
She's 14, no way does she understand what a real relationship is all
about.

> Anyway... anyone who has looked at the thread found good Shinji/Rei
fics? :)
> I trawled fanfiction.net... and some of the stuff there is appalling! :\

Have you tried just doing a google search?
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