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Rei Q's climax also means nothing. What exactly is she overcoming? There wasn't anything for Rei Q to overcome in the first place. She has no ties, no bonds, she was free all along but didn't have the smarts to figure that one out. The image she leaves is that of a dumb girl that's more of a burden than a help.
Both Rei and Rei Q are Yui's clones, they're on a hierarchy lower than Yui. The portrayal of original Rei made her out to be an individual from the start, but questioning the meaning of that. Which shows intelligence and self-awareness, but with Rei Q? It's the demeaning way, of having Rei Q be literally nothing, and then growing into something.
Rei was so far beyond all of this, she doesn't consider her original clone heritage for one second because she knows it doesn't matter at all. That's why there's no mention from it from the story's or especially Rei's side, but Rebuild is more Yui-clone exposition than it is of Rei actually talking/thinking!
Similarly, because they're clones now, Rei Q becoming "her own person" is basically a pretentious way of calling Rei a retard who can't see she was her own person all along. It also garbles the concept of cloning - take the khara campus apocalypse manga. Rei is there somehow confused that she's not Yui, just because she's a clone. Why on earth would she be Yui? It's not the true in the real world, clones are different people, identical twins are different people, so why can't Rei put 1 and 1 together? What even makes her think that in the first place?
What has happened, is that Rei went from petite tortured philosopher to some sort of severe autism moe thing that's cute because "it doesn't understand but it wants to be people". There aren't any sci-fi concepts explored with Rebuild for Rei so far. It's actually denying them from existing.
1.11 shouldn't have any Asuka screentime, because she wasn't there. Not a good point.
