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Technical record

Name: Ayanami Rei

Age: 14

Birth: Unknow

Status: Designated pilot of EVA 00

Blood type: Unknow

High: 1m 58cm

Relatives: None

Eyes color: Red

Hair color: Blue

Voice: Hayashibara Megumi 

 

Ayanami Rei, first children (I know that's a grammar mistake, but it's said in the serie), designated pilot of Evangelion unit 00... Designated?  We better say designed.  Designed?  How could ever been Rei "designed"?, why not born? Simply because Rei was made, just and exclusively (almost) to be the EVA 00 pilot.  Rei does not have what you normally call a mother or a father, the closest she has as father is Ikari Gendou (Shinji's father), who really is her creator...

Rei's history begins in the year 2000, with the second impact.  Then was the beggining of investigation about Lillith and Adam (well, technicaly, they had begun before, but it was that time when the deepest investigation began) by Gehirn (in german: brain).  Some time after her wife's death (and sending his son Shinji to somewhere)  Ikari Gendou, Gehirn director brought a little girl to the HQ.  Her name, Ayanami Rei. Actually, Gendou designed and gave life to Rei using in part Yui's DNA, mixed with part of Lillith.  It means that Rei is not human at all, because half of her "escence" is from Lillith, who she is some kind of clon of.  Even more, Rei is not the only.

Ayanami Rei forms part of an experiment destined to create a human being from "nothing", for saying it some way.  Anyway, altohoug Gehirn scientists were able to create a human body, they coudn't create its soul.  So, where does Rei's soul come from? It is not said clearly in the serie, the most similar Dr. Akagi says is that "Rei is the only recipient wich contains a soul" from all they were able to construct, it means, all the other Rei, who form part of the dummy system of EVAs (and that she destroys in a jealousy attack, I'll explain why down).  To know where Rei took her soul from (as it's clear that humans cannot make one), it is necesary to realize of a little detail.  In the deepest  of NERV complex, terminal Dogma, we find Lillith.  She's that white being with a seven-eyed mask (let's call Lillith as female), whose hands are nailed to a red cross, with no legs, because of having Longinus lance incrusted in her chest, that impides regeneration (who has seen the serie know what I mean, and who hasn't, can find the pic in galleries).  When Rei take Longinus lance out from her chest, Lillith's legs grow inmediately (you can see that in Evangelion: Death, not the TV serie); however, Lillith stays still crossified, without experiment any change (well, not considering to be a few "completer").  Why?  Becuase she lacks something.  She lacks one of the angels to complementate... or Rei. Yes, that's right, she lacks the "something" that was taken to make Rei.  So, we could suppose very sure that Rei's soul cames from Lillith, can't we?

The first Rei in the world is not the one we see in the initial chapters of the serie.  The first one was that girl that arrived with Gendou, and she was murdered.  Her murderer was Akagi Naoko, Ritsuko's mother and Magi System's creator. Well, those weren't her only characteristics, she and Gendou had a loving affair, although he never cared of her, as it seems.  Rei's death cause was her... indiscretion, when told Dr. Akagi the way that Gendou reffered to (something like "hag"). When listened that, Akagi losed control and strangled the little girl, whispering some frase like "there always will be more to replace you").  When she noted what she has just done, Dr. Akagi took a gun and shooted into the head.  It's interesting to realize that while Rei was dying, a Nagisa Kaworu (the last angel) flash image appears in the screen, just as in Rei's eyes.

Second Rei, made as replacement of the previous one (nobody should know about her death, just imagin what would happen if they'd known anyone could be so easyly replaced), is the one that we see in the most part of the serie.  Although Rei's soul is supposed to be the same always, different personalities can be seen in her, but principal features stays.  Rei is vegetarian, she hates meat, and the red color, 'cause it's blood color.  Rei's nature is very introverted, she never shows her feelings, so hiden they are that it may be thought she lacks them; anyway, at the time the serie goes on, Rei learns to express her emotions.  A strange detail can be noted in one chapter, wich Rei talks about her feelings (her thoughts can be listened), then she says hates red and why; also then Rei denotes herself as "a non-bleeding girl".  She doesn't refers, clearly, that she does not have blood (many hurts she gets in the serie to prove it false), but she lacks menstruation, why?  Rei's home is a copy of her childhood "home", in the deepest NERV instalations; there are very few furniture, in general a bed, a clothes one and a little freezer.  Aspect is not precisely clean, because Rei doesn't tidy it up so often,she's more important than it seems... that's the reason why there are papers and bandages all over the floor and even some furniture.  Mail acumulates at the door and ringer is out of order, besides, the door has no key, so anyone could enter.  Rei doesn't worry about keeping alive (as she does some suicide actions, such as exploiting a N2 mine beside an angel or blocking the way of a particles beam protected by a single shield, just to give Shinji some time to shoot his own particles beam with EVA 01), because she thinks to be unnecessary.  That's because of knowing about the other Rei's existence, who are able to replace her as efficiently as herself in driving the EVA 00, in case of death.

The only person Rei feels affection is commander Ikari, her creator.  In many aspects, he is more Rei's father than his own son's, Shinji.  Rei keeps Gendou's glasses devotionly, as a remembrance of that day when he opened her entry plug using both hands naked, no mattering the door's hot surface (since then he has a burning in his hands), as consequence of a failed unit 00 activation experiment.  That day his glasses fell down to the floor, and broke with the heat.  These glasses are very important to Rei, some kind of amulet and she carries them even in some activation tests.  Very slowly, Rei gets some affection to Shinji, maybe because of his Yui half.  Shinji achieved that Rei smiled, when opened her entry plug, after the battle against the fifth angel, Ramiel (well, that time the entry plug was almost milded, not just hot; but Shinji wore his plug suit).  Another curious fact in Shinji and Rei's relation is that they both "sinchronizate" easily; i.e.,  Along Israfel, the seventh angel, battle preparation, Shinji and Asuka should learn a coreography, but they didn't even hit by a chance at the same time.  With Rei things were very different, Misato suggested to change Asuka by Rei temporaryly in the coreography; Shinji and Rei made perfect sinchronization at the first try.

Usually, Rei obbeys blindly Gendou orders, but, as the serie goes on, she begins obbeing her own feelings, as when unit 03 was infected by the third angel, Bardiel, being its pilot inside; Rei didn't attack inmediately, as ordered, but vacillated a moment ("he's inside", she said, he reffered to Suzuhara Touji, Shinji's friend), and for that, the angel attacked first (and won fastly, look in the angels section).

It was precisely to begin admiting her feelings what drove the second Rei to death.  Unit 00 was being infected by the sixteenth angel, Armisael, unit 02 could help, because of Asuka's lost of sinchronization.  So Gendou ordered unit 01 (which was restricted) to help Rei's unit 00.  The angel attacked EVA 01 and Rei, when saw that it could infect Shinji's unit, inverted his own unit AT field, trapping the angel inside the EVA, then she destroyed the angel and her own unit being inside of it (if she had ejected the plug the field would have turned off). Before activating self-destruction, Rei says "my heart wants to unite with Shinji", in the sexual an marital sence (altough it is never explained, neither in the serie nor the movies).  Second Rei's death was kept in secret, only the highest charges in NERV knew (Gendou, Fuyutsuki and Dr. Akagi).  A third Rei was "placed in service" almost inmediately.  The only problem was that she didn't remember everything that had happened to the other Reis.  We see that when Shinji thanks Rei for destroying unit 00 to prevent the angel to attack him, and Rei ask him "what are you talking about?"; Shinji explains, and asks at his time if she does not remember, Rei's answer is "no, I don't, maybe because I am the third..."  'Back' at home (between ' ' because actually it's the first time that this Rei enters), she observes Gendou glasses as it were the first time, and tears fell over them...  "Are these tears?, it's the first time I see them.  No. It isn't the first..."

After destroying unit 00, Rei never drives an EVA (there wasn't any extra one, you can't take an EVA from your pocket).  After that, to create more Reis is not possible anymore, because Ritsulo decides to tell Shinji the truth, well, she tells him and Misato that EVAs are copies of Adam (well, unit 01, special as always, is a copy made from Lillith itself), that Rei is just one of many, the one that takes the turn to carry her soul.  All the rest are just "recipients" to Rei's soul, not human being, "and for that I will destroy them"... So that was the last day to the other Reis, who formed part of the dummy system (so that was the last day to the dummy system, too).  Ritsuko killed the other Reis because they "had defeated her"; it comes to know that Ritsuko, just as her mother ("I'm a fool, as my mother was!"), had an affair with Gendou, but despite of all, he doesn't care of her and preffered Rei (you must consider that Rei was a copy of his wife, he was a bit right, besides of another detail I tell you later).  So, Ritsuko gets a jealous attack and eliminated the competition, although not completely, because the last Rei keeps her life, fortunately to her fans (thanks to god!).

Finally a new pilot arrives to replace Asuka, Nagisa Kaworu, that, as said, results to be Tabris, the last angel. Kaworu met Rei once and told her "you're like me".  During the battle between unit 02 and unit 01 (Tabris was driving unit 02 by remot control, while he was going to Dogma), Magi detected a new AT field coming from Terminal Dogma, that finished as suddenly as it had begun.  Tabris rised up his eyes and saw her.  There it was Rei.  Watchig him. And in that moment, Rei and Tabris seemed to be sorrounded by a brilliant halo... (click to analysis in the THEORY)

The Evangelion TV serie ends here (at least the part that everybody knows).  Well, it doesn't end there, actually, there are two more chapters, in wich Shinji sees the begginig of the human instrumentation plan, but as Rei does not have a great participation there (and nobody liked them, anyway), i won't comment them.

Rei participation in Evangelion:Death & Rebirth is almost null, she only wakes up at night and left the house, leaving there Gendou's glasses.  Broken.

Rei participation in Evangelion The end is remarked.  Here is revealed part of the truth about Rei.  Gendou protected her so much because he hoped that she would send him were Yui was. How? Not sure, we only see that he introduces his hand into Rei's body, and ask her to (well, he ordered seems more exact). Before that Rei has lost an arm, it simply fell, because her "AT field couldn't support her body anymore".  Far to obbey Gendou, as she used to do, Rei absorbes his arm, and regenerates her own, sayin "I am not your toy anymore".  Then, she flies to Lillith and whispered "I'm back".  In that moment it appears a black screen with a phrase: "Welcome". Rei is absorbed by Lillith, who leaves the cross and her mask.  Her face is Rei's.

This new "Lillith" or "Rei" becomes bigger and bigger, without breaking anything, but trasspasing as a ghost.  The new Rei is who will control the third impact...

This is the story of Rei, without details.  Do you want to know our theory about Rei and the angels? If you do, click here.

Well, if you seem that Rei is some kind of obsession, and you want to ensure, just know how by clicking here.

 

Curiosities

· The name "Rei" means "zero", in one of the many japanese numeration systems (in japanese the name of the number depends of what it reffers to, it means, it isn't the same one pencil than one car).  This maybe is because Rei's destiny (if you can talk about destiny concerning to her) was to pilot unit 00.

· Did you know that Public Relation Chief of TV Tokio is named Rei Anami?  Interesting coincidence... Or maybe not just coincidence...

· Did you know that Hideaki Anno, director and creator of Evangelion, is vegetarian, just as Rei is?

· Did you know that Hideaki's father, Takuya Anno, lost a leg, as Touji?

· Did you know that Reisboy's girlfriend doesn't like Rei? Can you imagine why?

 

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