Yeah, I know. It seems awesome, ML....
CK, I thought Rei was simply Gendo's attempt to bring Yui back, soul and all. Never did figure out where she got her original body, but it was apparantly cloned repeatedly... The Rei clones scare me...
And Rei isn't scarred, she's just always been like that. Remember, the worst things that have happened to her(in chronological order) were getting choked by Ritsuko's mom, the Unit-00 Activation Test(where Gendo burnt his hands to save her), and its repeat(this time with Shinji saving her)...
And Rei was still the same before even getting strangeled, except not as quiet and really mean(hence her calling Ritsuko's mom an "old hag", and henceforth, getting the first of her many bodies killed)...
So while Shinji and Asuka were had reasons to be all emo(Asuka being her mom hung herself and before that treated some doll as the real Asuka; and Shinji being neglected by his dad, and his mom being killed in the 2nd Impact), Rei, from what I observed, simply suffered from having no real mother and not being tought what her emotions are or how to deal with them...
EDIT: I just thought of something htat seems kinda weird... you guys are 19 and 18, yet both like girls from Eva who are 14 and ML likes Misty, who's 11...creepy...
*eye twitches*