Rei Ayanami
綾波レイ
Gender
Female
Age
14
Birthday
3/30
About
Height: 149 cm (4'11")
~!Source of genetic material: Yui Ikari and Lilith, the Second Angel.!~
Ayanami is the First Child and the pilot of Evangelion Unit 00. She is shown to be socially withdrawn and hardly interacts with anyone. Rei's cool, silent and emotionally-stunted personality has garnered the scorn of her schoolmates; Asuka calls her a "doll" or "puppet". Although she once only associated with Gendo, she and Shinji break the ice after the battle against Ramiel and grow progressively closer for a while. In the manga version, Rei grows a lot closer to Shinji than in the anime.
~!Clones of her, which lack souls, are kept hidden under the NERV building to be the supposed "cores" of the Dummy Plugs. !~
~!It is hinted that Rei died twice; in the series, this stems from the fact that Rei herself says "I think I'm the third one," shortly after her death when Unit 00 self-destructed, an event that she could not remember. The first Rei is shown to have died as a small girl at the hands of Dr. Naoko Akagi for revealing carelessly (or perhaps in an intentional set-up by Gendo Ikari) to Naoko that Gendo called her a "useless old hag." The explanation is that her soul and most of her memories are transferred to one of the clones every time she dies, which then takes the preceding Rei's place as if she had not died at all. !~
Appears In
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
Japan Anima(tor)’s Exhibition
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse
Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA
Petit Eva Bokura Tanken Doukoukai
Beautiful World
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion
Sakura Nagashi
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko Piko Middle School Students
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion: Mirai kara Kita Shinsoku no ALFA-X
Evangelion x KATE CM
Evangelion × Attack ZERO
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z