[EVA] Gendou - man or monster?

[Carl Gustav Horn]

You're right that someone looking at Rei from the outside would  
wonder (even Shinji wondered) about her circumstances. If we consider  
the rather industrial, patched-together looking lab where Rei is said  
to have grown up, Rei wouldn't think her run-down apartment was  
anything abnormal, and being a loner in class, she wouldn't have the  
chance to learn otherwise. But nevertheless, she seems happy at least  
in her personal relationship to Gendo, which is a big difference  
between her and Shinji.

--C.

On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Dorian Gray wrote:

>
> Rei's also not been liked by anyone in her class, by Ritsuko or  
> (likely) any
> other of her coworkers, no wonder she's kind of happy when Gendo  
> shows up
> being sort of nice to her. Yet she still lives with only a few  
> scraps of
> this 'nice' from Gendo, still lives in a run down old apartment,  
> etc. Gendo
> might be nice to her in some things we see, but that doesn't mean  
> he's nice
> total.
>
> As for Gendo, remember that
> 1) Rei's currently the closest thing he has to his wife,
> 2) she's his meal ticket (his way to beat SEELE to instrumentality and
> getting Yui back), sure he's going to panic when that's threatened.
>
> If Gendo's a true conniving bastard, as you say, we need to accept the
> second reason for his activity.
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