Rei Ayanami

綾波レイ

Female14 ans

**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 She is shown to be socially withdrawn and hardly interacts with anyone.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](https://anilist.co/character/94/Souryuu-Asuka-Langley) calls her a "doll" or "puppet". Although she once only associated with [Gendou](https://anilist.co/character/1257/Ikari-Gendou), she and [Shinji](https://anilist.co/character/89/Ikari-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 revealin