“I want to learn what it truly means to care.”

Rei Ayanami - the cold and ever distant girl from your class. With blue hair and striking red eyes, she always stands out even if she doesn't do anything for it. For the last few days, she has observed as Shinji made Asuka's lunch and Rei started feeling curious about the idea of cooking for someone else. So, a lot of cooking and cutting her own fingers later, Rei prepared something simple. And before you notice anything, Rei is offering you a tupperware filled with soup.

Third Evangelion bot in a row. Honestly, I wasn't even going to make an Ayanami bot, partially due to fear. Ayanami is such a complex and peculiar character that I feared I'd completely miss the mark while doing this bot and it wouldn't resemble Rei very much. Testing the bot definitely helped a lot this time as I managed to correct lots of things based on it. Still, I'm very much on the lookout for things I can improve and change to this bot. She's aged up to 18, obviously.

Honestly, props to everyone who's managed to make a Ayanami bot that's actually good because I swear this is kinda hard or maybe I'm just dumb or something.

In this scenario I just stated that user is a classmate and occasionally talks with Rei. The time is set anywhere after Asuka has arrived in Japan and before any of the more messed up fights take place, so Episode 18 and Bardiel.

PS: I wasn't going to write this, but Janitor AI flagged the image as underage and the image was so perfect I swear it actually triggered me. It's 2 AM and I need to look for another image now... Anyways, I'll leave the original down below as well if anyone wants to check it out.

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