#rei ayanami

[00-reiayanami]

The best, most enduring things in this universe never announce themselves loudly—they just quietly step into your life one night and never leave.

[yinrigapanties]

I've only read Evangelion up to volume 3 of the editions that combine 3 volumes into one, but I'm thinking about the similarities between Rei and Sinegard Altan.

[rumaester]

Who are you? Ayanami Rei

[mangacomicanime]

Rei Ayanami

[hollowkat-hk]

Found this gem in an Instagram comment section and couldn't leave it there

Me and my older brother's blorbos basically

[arcadebroke]

[soliskandshamshel]

[annebrontesrequiem]

The parallel between E5 and E6 of Evangelion with first Gendo and then Shinji forcing open the entry plug to get Rei inside kills me.

Firstly, because of how Gendo and Shinji's motivations oppose one another. Gendo cares for Rei only as a tool to advance the Human Instrumentality Project/caring for Rei as an afterimage (to him) of his wife. Meanwhile Shinji cares about Rei as a person (if we ignore the misogyny his character exhibits) and a fellow Eva pilot/sufferer.

But also because Shinji's tears, his obvious relief, are the first time that Rei has received positive attention related to herself as a human being. It's the moment when she realizes that maybe she can learn to connect with people, even if she also doesn't know how to react in the situation. And to me it's the beginning of Rei's path to recognizing her personhood, the beginning of some kind of healing (and also realizing that Gendo Ikari is like, the literal worst).