>>3111053>she basically pretends not to know what a positive emotion is which really doesn't make senseMakes sense to me. Not really any example of it around her. No TV. She doesn't read. Even if she knew the definition it wouldn't mean anything to her.
>especially considering that Gendo actually went through the trouble of teaching her to speakBig fucking deal. You know children pretty much learn that by themselves just watching and listening to adults right?
>so she wasn't completely abandonedGendo is some kind of perverse narcissistic manipulator. She might have been better off being raised by wild animals than him.
>Without Rei's soul/memory she's a separate entity from ReiWe don't know that. There aren't a lot of details on the cloning process.
At the very least, she was cloned in a very similar manner (since she looks the same), and the DNA is probably mostly the same.
Seems to me like she shares none of Rei 2/3's memories though (or if she does, it's probably a much earlier state). So the main difference between them is how they mentally developed. We don't even know at what age Rei Q was "born" and how old she is. Her development seems pretty tragic though.
The interesting thing about Rei to me is how terribly introverted she is. Rei 2/3 and Rei Q might end up being more similar than one would think. Like I said, we don't know what Rei Q is thinking. Rei was always terribly introverted. We get to know Rei 2/3 but at first she seems mindless like Rei Q. But we don't get to know Rei Q. Maybe she's kind of mindless. Maybe she just sits there all day and doesn't really think about much of anything. Which would be extremely sad but that might be it.
In any case, what makes Rei Q any less of the "real" Rei than Rei 2/3? They're all clones. They must have the same or almost the same DNA. Rei Q is just younger.
