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Rei Ayanami (綾波レイ Ayanami Rei) is a fictional character from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion
and the film The End of Evangelion.

Rei Ayanami is the First Child (First Children in the Japanese version) and pilot of EVA-00. She is socially withdrawn and hardly interacts with anyone, except for Commander Ikari, who she initially displays some loyalty to but has a much more distant relationship with than commonly believed (she says in Episode 15 that she "doesn't know what kind of person he is", and seems confused by Shinji's belief that the two are close). She lives by herself in a nearly barren apartment in Tokyo-3. Toward the end of the series, Shinji comments that her apartment is very similar to the place where Ritsuko Akagi says she was born.

Throughout the series, Rei's cool and emotionally stunted personality added to her intrigue, and later resulted in arousing the scorn of Asuka, who referred to her as a "doll" or "puppet". Rei is the diametric opposite of Asuka, not only in terms of personality, but also physically. Asuka is outspoken, emotionally extreme, and violent; Rei is the opposite of Asuka on all these major accounts. Asuka has red hair and blue eyes, while Rei has red eyes, but blue hair. This color shift between the characters may also relate to the difference between how they are seen by others and what their true feelings are: Rei is frequently mistaken for being unemotional, while Asuka feigns arrogance to hide her insecurities. Rei and Asuka are believed by many fans to be caricatures of the respective female ideals of Japan and Europe. Rei also shares the traits of light hair, pale skin, and red eyes with Kaworu Nagisa, leading some fans to suggest that these traits are angelic in nature, and leading other fans to believe that these characters have albinism. The show's character designer, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, later said that these features exist solely to make Rei look more "distinguished" from the rest of the cast, though he did not specifically mention any of these theories. Rei describes blue as "agreeable" and red as the color that she "hates". She says that she dislikes eating meat, but does not call herself a vegetarian. Her color and food preferences might be due to an association with blood, which LCL is known to smell like, or due to some aspect of her origins, though these possibilities are pure speculation. It can be noted that the series creator, Hideaki Anno, is also a vegetarian.

Origins

An important fact about Rei is that her origin and heritage are left deliberately unspecified, so she might not even be entirely human. Ritsuko Akagi says that Rei was born in a certain room deep in the lower levels of NERV headquarters, but this is all that is known for certain about her creation. Her mysterious background has led fans to find multiple theories of just what exactly went into creating her.

Kaworu cryptically mentioned in their only conversation that she is "the same" as him. This statement was expanded in the "Director's cut" of the episode, in which Kaworu goes on to say that he and Rei are human vessels for the souls of Adam and Lilith, respectively; but since he was misinformed by SEELE about the location of Adam's body, there's no way to know how much of his information is accurate. He is definitely a counterpart or parallel to Rei in many ways, suggesting that the two have similar origins.

Gendo Ikari introduces Rei to the NERV staff in 2010 as an "acquaintance's child" whom he is temporarily taking care of. However, there is evidence that he probably created her and almost certainly named her; he said when Yui was pregnant with Shinji that he would have named the child "Rei" if it had been a girl. The Red Cross Book states that Rei was created from the "salvaged remains" of Yui Ikari after Yui's absorption into Unit 01. Others, however, believe Rei to be an accidental by-product of the contact experiment that caused this absorption, or of the attempts to "retrieve" Yui afterward. She is reported to be 14 years old in 2015, like every other eva pilot/candidate is, which would make her about four years old during the contact experiment and nine years old in 2010. The character model used in the 2010 scenes is based on development materials in which her age is only 4, thus causing confusion among fans as to her real birth year and date. Many are led to believe that she was only four years old in 2010, making her nine years old when she appears to be and is stated to be 14. One possible explanation for this inconsistency is that Rei and her clones were artificially aged from 2010 onward for unknown reasons.

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