"Michael Wignall" <wigs@evangelion.com> wrote:
> "DBM" <dbmacpherson@uq.net.au> wrote:
> No matter how you look at it though, Rei is only 5 years old.
>
> Rei's body was created _after_ Yui was absorbed into Eva-01.
> Yui was absorbed in 2004. The "salvaged" experiment took
> place in 2005, and the Encyclopaedia of Eva #3 states that Rei-001
> was 5 when Naoko killed her in 2010.

You can't argue with that!

> So she has "existed" for 5 years. The only issue is how old her
> body is. I say that it is 5 years old as well, that they didn't
> do any "acceleration" until after the first Rei had died.

Perhaps they waited for puberty?

> > Rei-3 has a navel.  This is usually a physical remnant that
> > indicates where a child was attached to a placenta via an
> >  umbilical cord... Depending on how the Clones were created,
> > such things may or may NOT have been required.
>
> Yeah we commented on this a while ago ^_^
>
> Personally I think its there for purely aesthetic reasons.

It could also be the place of last contact with Lilith when they were
created!
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