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>>670711 What? Rei wasn't creepy, nor was she without emotion. She had trouble expressing emotion, because she doesn't really understand it, like she doesn't understand a lot of things, but it is clear to us when she is happy or upset.
She's only ever creepy in the sense that everything connected to NERV and Gendo's antics is kinda creepy. She in herself is not creepy, but what we know of her origins and what she symbolises is.
>It just kinda backfired because a lot of people like quiet girls and were willing to look past/ignore her creepiness. no - we were meant to be empathetic towards her at the beginning of the show just as Shinji is. As you say, a lot of people like quiet girls. A quiet girl is never written to be disliked, unless like, they're visibly scheming in the background or something.
The point is that Asuka and Rei are opposites. Rei doesn't spur on or encourage Shinji to act on their possible relationship enough, whereas Asuka plays crazy mind tricks on him in a kinda forced reverse psychology sort of way in an effort to make him act and reinforce her own feelings towards him. We're meant to be put in the same dilemma as Shinji, - who does he go with? Unlike Shinji we understand the underlying reasons behind their actions, because, well we're the audience, and Shinji's dumb
Both characters are meant to be likable, though. In fact all of them are. I know Gendo's a fucking bastard, but he's also goddamn awesome.
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