Reichu wrote:Why doesn't she live with Gendou or something? (Is he too busy doing nasty things with Ritsuko whenever Rei isn't around?)
Yeah, pretty much.
Reichu wrote:Well, the "14" bit isn't really true
Well, actually it is, but...
Reichu wrote:While she can't really leave, she could at least make the best of a bad situation. Well, unless Gendou explicitly told Rei, "Rei, you will live in a desolate apartment and have a miserable, empty life in which I will be your sole source of interpersonal warmth. Understood?" and she replied, in her typical manner, with "Hai".
It's more likely that she doesn't have a salary and NERV can't spare a lot of cash for her living conditions. Shinji and Asuka had Misato to pay their rent; Rei had nobody to do her such a favor.
Shin-seiki wrote:I've always thought that Rei, tho she didn't know the truth of who and what she was, was certainly haunted by a vague awareness that her very existence was unnatural, and that was part of why her behavior was so atypical for a girl of fourteen; human emotions and social interactions were alien to the core of her being...
Or maybe it's because she spent most of her life with the Ice King as her legal guardian and mentor, who cared for her physical but not emotional well-being. Occam's Razor and whatnot.
Originally posted on: 27-Feb-2004, 04:15 GMT