"Richard Liang" <rhliang@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote in message
news:3D264BA3.1000807@interchange.ubc.ca...
> Disaster wrote:
> > Now then, to continue.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.

Okay Richard, I'm serious about bottom posting!
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Disaster
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