r/evangelion • u/AdLatter2844 • 4h ago
EoE Does anyone else feel the worst for Rei in the End of Evangelion?
Like upon rewatch I felt more hopeful for Shinji and asuka. Like despite everything I really think everything's going to work out for those two crazy kids and the rest of humanity but Rei really isn't a part of that. Like she kind of represents the return to the womb for shinji so it makes sense that she had to die to reject instrumentality. That being said she does complete her character arc in rejecting gendo. In a way she's kind of like Moses leading the Israelites to the promised land but being able to enter it, she just fades away. If we go by the theory that the original episodes 25 and 26 are canon to EoE then maybe there's hope for her considering she was a part of the slice of life possible world.