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Character Name; Asuka Langley Shikinami
Canon; Rebuild of Evangelion
Canon Point; Post-3.33 [http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Rebuild_of_Evangelion]
Age; 28 mentally, 14 physically.
House; Baldr, Asuka is a girl who has based her life upon being the best she can at everything in which she involves herself. Though this primarily reflects upon the fact that she sees herself as the best pilot NERV has ever had, it applies to her interactions with others as well. With a tendency to isolate herself from others, Asuka uses her talent, and a fair amount of bragging, as an excuse to never interact with other people beyond a superficial level. This is also a defensive mechanism meant to spare her the pain that often comes with becoming close to others.
As of 3.33, Asuka has become jaded during a decade and a half spent fighting the war against NERV, yet she retains her own sense of pride as a pilot. It is worth noting that, in 3.33, the sole time Asuka is able to smile is while piloting her Eva, a small sign that she has pinned what little bit of happiness she has left on her talent as a pilot.
Power; Regeneration
Personality;
The pride of the Euro Air force, Asuka is a talented young girl who managed to attain an impressive level of success despite her young age. Having been risen to the the rank of captain at the age of 14, Asuka sees herself as the very best as what she does and often backs up that bragging on the battlefield, as seen when she effortlessly dispatched the seventh angel during her first appearance in 2.22.
Despite her impressive credentials, Asuka is also a lonely girl who has seen her meteoric rise to the top isolate her from others. Often citing that she didn't need other people, she has few friends and tends to treat the people around her as being beneath her and refers to them in a mocking and even insulting tone more often than not. Despite this carefully crafted exterior, Asuka does occasionally feel lonely in her little world, and will sometimes reach out to other people to awkward ways to make herself feel better. This is most evident in a scene in which Asuka sneaks into Shinji's bedroom and lays down beside him, an action that causes Shinji to freak out, but also one that seemed to give Asuka some level of comfort.
As the film progresses, we see Asuka slowly begin to open up. This is seen mostly in her garnering something of a crush on Shinji that causes her to do such things as attempt to cook dinner for him and, more importantly, put aside her own feelings and volunteer to pilot Evangelion Unit-03 during a start-up experiment so that Rei could have the night for her dinner party with everyone. A similar level of growth can be seen in her conversation with Misato before entering Unit-03, in which Asuka admits that it wasn't so bad talking to people at a heart-to-heart level.
This impressive act of kindness shows great growth for Asuka as a person, but also proves to be her downfall, as, during the experiment, Unit-03 is taken over by the Ninth Angel and is forced to do battle with a berserk Unit-01. Though we never see Asuka's reaction to the battle, we do hear her scream when Unit-01 finally defeats the Angel and then breaks its entry plug in half with a single bite, leaving Asuka in such horrible shape afterwords that she had to be sealed away due to risk of contamination from the Angel's influence.
During the decade and a half between the end of 2.22 and the beginning of 3.33, Asuka has become jaded and a bit bitter. Having been forced to fight a war for years upon years, she lacks a good deal of the vigor and bravado that marked her youth and instead tends towards a rather severe and cold disposition, a type of maturity garnered from fighting for her life on a daily basis and living in a world which allows little time for anything but conflict. Indeed, the only time we really see Asuka fully embrace the glory of her past is while she is piloting an Eva. While seated in the giant robot, her speech becomes much more lively and she evens manages to smile on one occasion. It seems as if she is happiest while doing what she had loved as a child – and, on some level, it seems to help to distract her from just how bad things have become, even if just for a little while.
While piloting an Eva seems to help Asuka stay happy in a dreary world, another part of her past brings her nothing but shame and anguish, for upon Shinji Ikari's rescue after fourteen years, Asuka is forced to confront her feelings for him, leading to nothing but ill thoughts for the former Air Force captain. In many ways, her crush on Shinji has come to represent everything wrong with her childhood self. For all she had done for him, Shinji had just used the opportunity to lavish attention upon Rei and then, through his own selfish actions, managed to cause Near Third Impact and begin the mess she had found herself embroiled in for fourteen years.
No longer calling Shinji an idiot as she did when she was a child, Asuka now refers to him as a brat, a fact that frames well how Asuka now sees her former crush. While she was forced to endure life in a hellish landscape of war and violence for over a decade, and thus was forced to grow and mature whether she liked it or not, Shinji remained in stasis for the entire period of time and remained the child he was the day he caused Near Third Impact. This, in many ways, leaves Asuka to see Shinji as a physical reminder of the follies of her youth, not only in that she now regards her crush on him as something that brings her pain to remember, but also as a reflection of the person she used to be as well.
It is worth nothing that due to a mysterious set of circumstances known as “The Curse of Eva”, Asuka has not aged a day physically since the battle with the Ninth Angel. This reinforces her issues in that while others have grown and matured physically, she has been forced to remain perpetually 14 for a decade and a half. In many ways, Asuka's own inability to grow up physically is something of a reflection of the fact that she still remains hung up on her issues from the time when she was literally 14.
The ultimate reflection of this comes near the end of 3.33, in which Shinji manages to trigger a true Fourth Impact. After having been stopped from doing so by a combination of Kaworu sacrificing himself and Mari removing Shinji from his Eva, Asuka is the first to find the now mentally broken Shinji lying in the fetal position. Asuka snidely remarks that Shinji couldn't even save her, echoing how her younger self had seen Shinji as someone who could bring her out of her isolation, but who she now saw as a weak child who caused others nothing but pain.
So in all, as of 3.33, Asuka is jaded woman who feels most at home on the battlefield and who also grapples with unresolved issues from her youth on a regular basis. Despite all of this, she still manages to put her all into fighting a seemingly endless war with NERV and protecting the few things that are still special to her.
Character Name; Asuka Langley Shikinami
Canon; Rebuild of Evangelion
Canon Point; Post-3.33 [http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Rebuild_of_Evangelion]
Age; 28 mentally, 14 physically.
House; Baldr, Asuka is a girl who has based her life upon being the best she can at everything in which she involves herself. Though this primarily reflects upon the fact that she sees herself as the best pilot NERV has ever had, it applies to her interactions with others as well. With a tendency to isolate herself from others, Asuka uses her talent, and a fair amount of bragging, as an excuse to never interact with other people beyond a superficial level. This is also a defensive mechanism meant to spare her the pain that often comes with becoming close to others.
As of 3.33, Asuka has become jaded during a decade and a half spent fighting the war against NERV, yet she retains her own sense of pride as a pilot. It is worth noting that, in 3.33, the sole time Asuka is able to smile is while piloting her Eva, a small sign that she has pinned what little bit of happiness she has left on her talent as a pilot.
Power; Regeneration
Personality;
The pride of the Euro Air force, Asuka is a talented young girl who managed to attain an impressive level of success despite her young age. Having been risen to the the rank of captain at the age of 14, Asuka sees herself as the very best as what she does and often backs up that bragging on the battlefield, as seen when she effortlessly dispatched the seventh angel during her first appearance in 2.22.
Despite her impressive credentials, Asuka is also a lonely girl who has seen her meteoric rise to the top isolate her from others. Often citing that she didn't need other people, she has few friends and tends to treat the people around her as being beneath her and refers to them in a mocking and even insulting tone more often than not. Despite this carefully crafted exterior, Asuka does occasionally feel lonely in her little world, and will sometimes reach out to other people to awkward ways to make herself feel better. This is most evident in a scene in which Asuka sneaks into Shinji's bedroom and lays down beside him, an action that causes Shinji to freak out, but also one that seemed to give Asuka some level of comfort.
As the film progresses, we see Asuka slowly begin to open up. This is seen mostly in her garnering something of a crush on Shinji that causes her to do such things as attempt to cook dinner for him and, more importantly, put aside her own feelings and volunteer to pilot Evangelion Unit-03 during a start-up experiment so that Rei could have the night for her dinner party with everyone. A similar level of growth can be seen in her conversation with Misato before entering Unit-03, in which Asuka admits that it wasn't so bad talking to people at a heart-to-heart level.
This impressive act of kindness shows great growth for Asuka as a person, but also proves to be her downfall, as, during the experiment, Unit-03 is taken over by the Ninth Angel and is forced to do battle with a berserk Unit-01. Though we never see Asuka's reaction to the battle, we do hear her scream when Unit-01 finally defeats the Angel and then breaks its entry plug in half with a single bite, leaving Asuka in such horrible shape afterwords that she had to be sealed away due to risk of contamination from the Angel's influence.
During the decade and a half between the end of 2.22 and the beginning of 3.33, Asuka has become jaded and a bit bitter. Having been forced to fight a war for years upon years, she lacks a good deal of the vigor and bravado that marked her youth and instead tends towards a rather severe and cold disposition, a type of maturity garnered from fighting for her life on a daily basis and living in a world which allows little time for anything but conflict. Indeed, the only time we really see Asuka fully embrace the glory of her past is while she is piloting an Eva. While seated in the giant robot, her speech becomes much more lively and she evens manages to smile on one occasion. It seems as if she is happiest while doing what she had loved as a child – and, on some level, it seems to help to distract her from just how bad things have become, even if just for a little while.
While piloting an Eva seems to help Asuka stay happy in a dreary world, another part of her past brings her nothing but shame and anguish, for upon Shinji Ikari's rescue after fourteen years, Asuka is forced to confront her feelings for him, leading to nothing but ill thoughts for the former Air Force captain. In many ways, her crush on Shinji has come to represent everything wrong with her childhood self. For all she had done for him, Shinji had just used the opportunity to lavish attention upon Rei and then, through his own selfish actions, managed to cause Near Third Impact and begin the mess she had found herself embroiled in for fourteen years.
No longer calling Shinji an idiot as she did when she was a child, Asuka now refers to him as a brat, a fact that frames well how Asuka now sees her former crush. While she was forced to endure life in a hellish landscape of war and violence for over a decade, and thus was forced to grow and mature whether she liked it or not, Shinji remained in stasis for the entire period of time and remained the child he was the day he caused Near Third Impact. This, in many ways, leaves Asuka to see Shinji as a physical reminder of the follies of her youth, not only in that she now regards her crush on him as something that brings her pain to remember, but also as a reflection of the person she used to be as well.
It is worth nothing that due to a mysterious set of circumstances known as “The Curse of Eva”, Asuka has not aged a day physically since the battle with the Ninth Angel. This reinforces her issues in that while others have grown and matured physically, she has been forced to remain perpetually 14 for a decade and a half. In many ways, Asuka's own inability to grow up physically is something of a reflection of the fact that she still remains hung up on her issues from the time when she was literally 14.
The ultimate reflection of this comes near the end of 3.33, in which Shinji manages to trigger a true Fourth Impact. After having been stopped from doing so by a combination of Kaworu sacrificing himself and Mari removing Shinji from his Eva, Asuka is the first to find the now mentally broken Shinji lying in the fetal position. Asuka snidely remarks that Shinji couldn't even save her, echoing how her younger self had seen Shinji as someone who could bring her out of her isolation, but who she now saw as a weak child who caused others nothing but pain.
So in all, as of 3.33, Asuka is jaded woman who feels most at home on the battlefield and who also grapples with unresolved issues from her youth on a regular basis. Despite all of this, she still manages to put her all into fighting a seemingly endless war with NERV and protecting the few things that are still special to her.