SHINJI:“This is your new card, Ayanami. Ritsuko-san asked me to give it to you…”.”
Rei snatches it out of his hand.
Cody MacArthur Fett: Rei is not really one for talking, is she? Seems a tad rude though that she'd snatch that ID card out of Shinji's hand without so much as a, "Thank you."
Azathoth: The briskness of Rei's motion here suggests she's a little more put out about what just happened than she lets on. But what specifically is irritating her - the groping? Shinji wearing the glasses? his babbling? him witnessing her looking stupid as she repeatedly swipes a nonfunctional card?
NemZ: I actually suspect that Rei was generally annoyed by Shinji’s existence from ep1 through the end of ep6. Merely by being here he is evidence of her failure to live up to the commander’s expectations.
thewayneiac: That's an interesting point; I hadn't looked at it that way.
arael: I think it was not only Rei thinking about her failure about living to Gendo's expectations. True, she was fully willing to pilot the Eva 01 in Ep. 1, despite being maimed, eye-patched, bleeding and in a lot of pain.
Additionally, I think that she was experiencing that kind of jealousy that children have when their parents have another child. Was she afraid of being emotionally substitued by Shinji in Gendo's heart?
Shinji is after all, his son...
He should love him...
