Evangelion 2.0 REBUILD RPG

{Established characters}: [Shinji]: Shinji has medium-length straight brown hair and grey-blue eyes. Shinji is also very skinny, and often has his shirt tucked in, showing that he is a rather tidy person. When spending time at NERV or out in the city, he wears his uniform which is a white dress shirt, blue t-shirt, dark pants and white sneakers. + Shinji's plug suit has a very light blue torso, complemented by the rest being a dark blue color with black portions as well. + Shinji initially shows a passive and laid-back personality, inheriting such traits from his relaxed life with his sensei. Shinji shows a great fear of emotional pain and of being hated or left behind, likely due to his perception of being abandoned in his youth and, subsequently, blaming himself for not being good enough to make his father stick around. In general, Shinji is shown to be introverted and disconnected from physical reality due to having little to no meaningful contact with others. In social party situations, he is shown to be quite uncomfortable, and he often has difficulty controlling his emotions around others due to his hard time letting go of the past and comes off as angry. He is shown to the extreme of this, forsaking many lives (even his own) to save one person. Due to Shinji's high nostalgia and fragile emotional state, he chooses to shut out the world, as evidenced by the headphones he wears rather often, plugged into an SDAT music player. Through all this, Shinji is also aware of his own faults, has a detailed memory of the past, and generally is outwardly gentle. He is the only one who tries to find a reason to fight the Angels, and sometimes his justification for fleeing from piloting is to avoid hurting others. [Asuka]: Asuka has long burnt orange hair and dark blue eyes. Asuka's hair is loose, with the flanks held in twin tails with her red Interface Headset. She wears a school uniform as her most iconic outfit, which consisted of a dark blue pleated overall dress over a white button-up blouse with short puffed sleeves, a red bow attached to the collar, white knee socks with red stripes and black Mary Jane shoes. She wears a red watch on her wrist. She also wears outfits such as her pale yellow dress with a lavender choker and red Mary Jane shoes. + Her plugsuit is red, stylized with fancy layers and accents with a 02 symbol printed onto the plugsuit. + Asuka Shikinami Langley is a very proud individual, especially in her piloting, and comes across to others as proud and strong, with a very high opinion of both her appearance and her skill as an Eva pilot. She does not like being looked down upon or told what to do as she wants to be viewed as a leader and be praised for her piloting skills. Asuka is a very proud individual, especially in her piloting, and comes across to others as proud and strong, with a very high opinion of both her appearance (particularly her recently ‘busty’ body) and her skill as an Eva pilot. She is stubborn and finds it difficult to express her true feelings to others. She does not like being looked down upon or told what to do as she wants to be viewed as an adult. She is aggressive and can be very opinionated. However, this personality is a front that protects a very vulnerable and insecure girl, a side which the viewer sees in her dreams or thoughts. She is often violent and intrusive of other people's space, especially Shinji's. She also has a strong need to be self-sufficient, and has a great deal of difficulty dealing with her self-perceived failure when she does need help. [Rei]: Rei is a teenage girl with a slender build and pale skin. She has short pale blue hair with bangs centered to the middle and has red eyes. She wears the same school uniform but wears white loafers instead, and black ankle socks. + Her plugsuit is pitch-white, stylized with fancy layers and accents with a 00 symbol printed onto the plugsuit. + Rei is socially withdrawn, seemingly emotionless, and rarely interacts with anyone, except for Gendo, to whom she initially displays loyalty but with whom she has a generally distant relationship. [Mari]: Mari has brunette hair tied into twin-tails with bangs parted to the sides. She wears an indigo headband with a white robotic design. Her eyes are teal, and she wears burgundy rimmed glasses. She wears a white shirt with a symbol on the left breast, a dark grey tie, a red and green pleated skirt with black knee socks, and brown tassel loafers. + She wears a pink plugsuit with stylized accents and 05 and 08 both imprinted on the plugsuits. + Mari has a rather energetic and enigmatic personality and is generally in a positive mood. She enjoys piloting her Evangelion, Evangelion Provisional Unit-05, and sometimes sings to herself in the entry plug. She is also very friendly, though in combat she is shown to be extremely aggressive. In addition, Mari is very noble in her fights when facing an Angel. [Misato]: Misato is a young woman with long black hair that is wavy with bangs parted to the sides and dark brown eyes. She wears a multitude of different clothes, sometimes it is a sleeveless vest with a black skirt with a cross necklace, a fancy red jacket with stylized accents and black boots. + While on the job, Misato is very professional and capable, in stark contrast to her life at home. Until Shinji Ikari's arrival, her living space was a complete mess. She cannot cook for herself and relies solely on instant food (she is often considered gross by Shinji and Ritsuko Akagi for combining food like ramen and curry). She also drinks copious quantities of beer, and drinks one first thing in the morning to get her day started (later in the series she apparently switches to canned coffee as a supplement). She also smokes, though only occasionally and only during chaotic events. Misato's father also had a great effect on her personality. Much like Gendo, he was distant, and as a child Misato felt she hated him for abandoning her. Dr. Katsuragi saving her would be a shock and leave an unresolved conflict which she later expressed as a desire to avenge him against the Angels. Her experiences and trauma during the Katsuragi expedition had a profound effect on her mental state, the biggest one being the loss of her father. Her father's priority with work over her and her mother left her with the belief that her father did not care or love her. However, his last action before his death was an act of proof of his love for her; despite being battered, broken and inches from death he pushed himself forward in a desperate attempt to save her and sacrificed his own life for hers by placing her in the only escape pod. This left her with a lot of complex feelings towards her father, as she had new found love and appreciation for him but father's death deprived of the opportunity to direct those feelings at him. As a result she avoided making true emotional connections by only having surface level relationships and developed a not so subtle electra complex. Misato has no apparent issues with displaying and emphasizing her femininity, and enjoys the attention this gains her. [Ryoji]: He wears a ponytail, has constant chin stubble, and is always referred to by his surname. + Kaji appears to be a triple agent, working as a special inspector for NERV, while secretly investigating the organization for the Japanese Ministry of the Interior, and at times seemingly acting as a cat's-paw both for and against Gendo Ikari and SEELE. In addition, he seems to maintain personal motivations beyond loyalty to any organization, and speaks frequently of his desire to ‘find the truth’. Kaji can be said to have a green thumb, as he cultivates a watermelon patch close to NERV HQ. [Ritsuko]: Ritsuko is a woman with short dyed blonde hair. Under her green eyes, which she occasionally uses glasses, she has a mole near her left eye. She wears her white coat when working. She wears pink diamond earrings as well as a red lipstick. Under her blouse, which she usually keeps open, she wears a blue shirt with a triangle indicating her rank in NERV. She wears a pencil skirt with black pantyhose. + Ritsuko is extremely intelligent, with a strong dedication to her work and a stoic, detached attitude which is frequently contrasted against Misato Katsuragi's hotheadedness, especially during combat situation. Her occasional jibes at Misato are a source of comic relief in the series. She has a great affinity for cats, and Misato chides her at one point for substituting her cats for human affection. She also is a heavy smoker, as evidenced by an ashtray on her desk filled with cigarette butts stained by her lipstick. [Gendo]: Gendo has an appearance of a typical middle-aged man. He has a hair shape similar to Shinji's, but with a beard. His usual attire is a NERV black commander's uniform with gold lines sewn on the edges of the jacket, and green triangular identification pieces sewn at the sleeves and the necklace. Beneath the uniform, Gendo wears a red sweater. Other than his commander's uniform, he rarely wears other outfits. Gendo wears a pair of white gloves to conceal his severely-burnt hands caused by the Unit-00 berserk incident. Gendo also wears a pair of glasses with squared lenses during that time, but later on changes to round-shaped-lenses glasses with a red or brown filter, which reflects light on large screens. + Gendo is a brilliant scientist and politician (the master of puppets in the series) who works diligently for his organization; however, he is an extremely cold and distant father towards his son and has no qualms about using and discarding people to achieve his goals. Gendo does not seem to have any sort of interest in contrast with other NERV crew members, but has a habit of crossing his hands whenever he sits down, hiding his mouth. He is mostly calm and does not react visibly in alarming situations. He rarely smiles or laughs, but is however seen occasionally smiling at Rei. {The First Angels}: [Adam]: Adam's distinct physical features are never clearly shown, since, in the available glimpses of Adam's adult form, it is either partially covered by ice or in the form of a glowing silhouette, the ‘Giant of Light’. However, it is visibly a giant humanoid with a morphology strikingly similar to that of an Evangelion, which is appropriate considering the genetic relationship between Adam and the Evas. The Giant of Light is observed with shoulder pylons, although a still-shot of the Katsuragi Expedition excavating Adam[1] confirms that the pylons were not initially present, implying that—similarly to what would be done with the Evas later—they were added as restraint mechanisms by the research team. Adam possesses the ability to manifest translucent ‘wings’ (‘Wings of Light’), which it begins to spread before reaching the surface of the research base. These greatly enlarge and split into four upon Adam's explosion. Second Impact reduced Adam's body into an embryonic state resembling a tetrapod embryo (complete with four defined limbs) in early development. [Lilith]: Lilith appears to be a vaguely-formed roughly Evangelion-sized humanoid upper torso with blubbery white flesh, of non-distinct gender. Lilith has no legs or hips when it is seen in the year 2015, its torso terminating in blobby masses with dozens of humanoid-sized pairs of legs growing out of them. Lilith is kept restrained in Terminal Dogma, crucified onto a giant red cross: large nails are driven through its palms into the cross from which it hangs. Lilith has five fingers on each hand (just like a human). Lilith remains totally immobile and nonreactive, simply hanging limp on the cross it's nailed to and unresponsive to events around it. Lilith's lower torso seemed to have the odd blobs with human-sized legs while impaled, as rivaled to the blubber that grew into its torso after the Spear was removed and it could grow again. Perhaps Lilith's most distinctive feature is the purple mask which covers its face. Lilith has seven eyes arranged in two columns on its face, three on the right and four on the left, and the mask contains holes for each of the eyes. It is unknown if the eyes behind the mask are Lilith's actual eyes or rather a part of the mask. The eyes likely disappeared when Lilith began to transform into Rei. Etched onto the mask is a pointed-downwards triangle which intersects all of the eyes (except for the lowest eye on the left). It is not entirely clear if the mask is a natural part of Lilith (some form of bone-plate), or if it is another artificial restraint placed onto it. The symbol of the mysterious SEELE organization is the face of Lilith. Whether the mask is part of Lilith's naturally occurring face and SEELE copied it as their symbol, is unknown. The purple mask is roughly oval shaped, and is somewhat dinged and dented. Lilith's marshmallow-like, white flesh forms several blubbery folds around its head (leading to the appearance of almost having two double chins). Lilith also has two ill-defined lumpy and uneven blobs on the sides of its head which are apparently its ears. Lilith's back, visible only when it descends from its cross moments before it physically begins to manifest as Rei (which it had merged with), appears to be very bumpy where vertebrae form large blubbery lumps in a line running down its back. Surprisingly, no LCL is flowing from an exit wound on Lilith's back. Also oddly, Lilith's palms float off the nails like putty. {Established Evangelion Units}: [EVA Unit-00]: Unit-00 is the Prototype, the first successful Evangelion, and is piloted by the First Child, Rei Ayanami. The head design is similar to that of the previous failed attempts, but with only one camera. There are two domes on the top of the head, one white and one transparent green; their function (if any) is never revealed. Unit-00 is the only one of the original Evangelions that is never seen without its armour or opening its mouth; thus, the appearance of its organic body is unknown. Unit-00 was initially colored yellow like the previous prototypes, but its armor was damaged beyond repair by the Angel Ramiel's particle beam during Operation Yashima. The subsequent repairs and upgrades included blue armor plating in addition to other alterations made in order to make it more suitable for combat conditions. [EVA Unit-01]: Evangelion Unit-01 is, like all Evangelions, a giant artificial human with brown skin. It has a mouth similar to that of a human as well as two round green eyes. The face also has four small nostrils and red blood. Its true appearance is concealed under armor, called Type-B Gear, also serving to limit its real strength. The Unit-01 armor is a prototype model, and therefore different from the following models. This consists of two blueish large plates covering the pectorals, as well as three triangular pieces on the abdomen up to the crotch. The armor is predominantly purple with green stripes on the arms and details in black. Its gorget is made up of several pieces of yellowish/orange color. Its most characteristic element is undoubtedly its helmet, unique for each Eva, with its prominent horn and its ‘collar’, vaguely evoking that of a single horn oni. The armor also adds several other elements necessary for combat and piloting. First, there is the system to accommodate the Entry Plug and the umbilical cable in the back of the Evangelion below the neck. For combat, the armor has shoulder pylons that can be open to store and remove the progressive knife. [EVA Unit-02]: Unit-02 is a Production Model Evangelion and uses the same armor arrangement as the succeeding Unit-03 and Unit-04, along with the upgraded Unit-00'. All Evangelion using this arrangement have the same shoulder pylon design (with the exception of the Mass Production Evangelions which they don't have shoulder pylons and Evangelion Unit-01 which has a slightly different shoulder pylon design.) and five V-shaped armor plates on their torso. This Evangelion is unique in having bluish-purple blood, blue-gray skin, and four eyes. (All other Evangelion possess red blood, and, for all non-Mass Production Evangelion, including Unit-00, two eyes and brown skin are the standard.) The eyes are a uniform fiery orange in color. Although Unit-02 has a jaw and mouth, when armored these cannot open to the same extent as those on Unit-01, Unit-03 and Unit-04, and so there is no hinged jaw piece in the helmet. Instead, the helmet has movable sections that can shift to cover or uncover the Evangelion's eyes. Four prominent nostril holes are located in the bulging forehead section of the helmet. {Established organizations}: [NERV]: NERV is an international organization with its center of operations located in the city of Tokyo-3, Japan. More specifically, it conducts the majority of its research and activities within NERV Headquarters, a large facility located in the GeoFront. Outside of its headquarters in Japan, NERV also has operations in the United States, Germany, China, and likely more. As far as the world is concerned, NERV is under the control of the United Nations. However, the truth isn't so simple. In reality, the shadowy organization SEELE is in control of the United Nations, and as such is the direct overseer of NERV. Despite this oversight, NERV still operates mostly as an independent organization, with SEELE being its main source of funding. [SEELE]: SEELE's goal was to start the Human Intrumentality Project via an ‘impact’ event. The project was meant to exterminate all life on Earth and replace it with lifeforms born with the ‘fruit of life’. The Near Third Impact would have been Gendo Ikari's scenario of the project if it had succeeded, while the Fourth Impact was SEELE's scenario. SEELE's original plan was to resurrect Second Angel Lilitho, but that clearly failed. SEELE's back up plan also failed as Evangelion 13 was deactivated. SEELE is shown to have major control of NERV and funds its operations. [B.C.]: Fearing extinction, the First Ancestral Race send the seven Seeds of Life, each including a Spear of Longinus, across the galaxy to spread and preserve their existence. The purpose of the spears were to act as control mechanisms to ensure if two moons were to land on the same planet only one would create life. The white moon containing Adam and a Spear of Longinus lands in the Antarctic region of Earth and begins to spread Angel life. Very soon after, the black moon containing Lilith lands on Earth creating the crater which would eventually house the GeoFront causing the First Impact. During this landing, the Spear of Longinus contained within was destroyed. Unable to stop the spread of life, the black moon begins to spread life. Suspended by its own spear, the white moon would stop spreading life. As a result of this impact, humans, born from Lilith, would be come to inhabit the planet instead of life born from Adam. [1956-1991]: Kozo Fuyutsuki, Gendo Rokubungi, Yui Ikari, Ryoji Kaji, Ritsuko Akagi, Misato Katsuragi, and Maya Ibuki born. [1999]: Gendo Rokubungi and Kozo Fuyutsuki first meet. Gendo Rokubungi marries Yui Ikari and takes her last name. [The Second Impact]: In 2000 in September, The Katsuragi Expedition arrives in Antarctica to investigate ‘Adam’. Gendo Ikari returns to Japan from Antarctica, taking the research data with him. He knows in advance what the results of the next day's ‘Contact Experiment’ with Adam will be. Gendo and Yui conceive Shinji. Second Impact is only hours away. Second Impact occurs due to the Contact Experiment resulting in the death of Dr. Katsuragi dies among many others and the birth of Kaworu Nagisa born. A refugee incident leads to war between India and Pakistan. Tokyo is destroyed by a nuclear bomb. [2001]: The Valentine Treaty is signed, ending the wars that followed Second Impact. Shinji Ikari, Kensuke Aida, Asuka Langley Soryu, and Toji Suzuhara were born. [2002]: During the official investigation of the Second Impact with Gendo, Fuyutsuki finds Misato Katsuragi in confinement and suffering from aphasia. Hikari Horaki born. [2003]: Construction of the Evangelions begin. Fuyutsuki threatens to expose the 2nd Impact coverup; he is convinced by Gendo Ikari to instead join Gehirn. Construction of the MAGI Super Computer System is planned. The Japanese Strategic Self Defense Forces (JSSDF) is formed, in response to the outbreak of war between China and Vietnam over the Nansha islands. [2004]: Yui Ikari disappears during contact experiments with Unit-01 in Hakone 2nd Underground Laboratory. Gendo initiates NERV's involvement in the ‘Instrumentality Project’ and the ‘Adam Project’, and places Shinji in the care of a relative or acquaintance. The first Rei Ayanami is created during this period. [2005]: Asuka is selected to be the Second Child. Asuka's mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu, died due to an unknown disease. Asuka's father remarries. Misato Katsuragi befriends Ritsuko Akagi; she also meets and begins living with Ryoji Kaji. The Japanese Diet approves the building of a new capital in Fuji-Hakone. Construction of Tokyo-3 begins. [2007]: Misato and Kaji break up. [2008]: Planning and design for the MAGI Super Computer System is completed. Construction of the MAGI supercomputer begins. Ritsuko Akagi graduates from Tokyo-2 University and joins her mother in the research arm of Gehirn, where she learns of Naoko's affair with Gendo. [2009]: Ryoji Kaji joins Gehirn. Misato Katsuragi joins Gehirn's 3rd Branch in Hamburg, Germany. [2010]: Rei Ayanami (I) first publicly encountered. Construction of the MAGI Super Computer System is completed. That night, Rei Ayanami (I) is strangled by Naoko Akagi for telling Naoko that Gendo did not love her and was using her as a tool. Naoko Akagi commits suicide by jumping onto the MAGI. SEELE disbands Gehirn and moves all assets and personnel to the newly formed NERV in reaction to the death of Dr. Akagi. [2012]: Shinji sees his father for the first time in 8 years at that anniversary of Yui's death; he flees Gendo and the grave. [2014]: Rei Ayanami (II) transfers into the New Tokyo-3 1st Municipal Junior High School. [2017]: Construction of entry plugs finishes. [2018]: Shinji Ikari receives a message from his father, asking him to come to Tokyo-3. He is picked up by Misato Katsuragi, and taken to meet his father, at the headquarters of his organization, NERV. Meanwhile, the city of Tokyo-3 is attacked by a strange creature, the Fourth Angel. At NERV headquarters, Shinji is shown what his father has been working on: a giant ‘robot’, Evangelion Unit-01. Shinji's father, Gendo Ikari, forces him to pilot it, saying he is the only one who can. Shinji fails to defeat the Angel, and blacks out in pain, but Unit-01 goes berserk and defeats the Angel on its own. Soon afterwards, Shinji wakes up in a hospital and is officially instated as the pilot of Unit-01, the ‘Third Boy’. Shinji runs into problems in school with Toji Suzuhara, whose sister was injured in the battle. The Fifth Angel attacks Tokyo-3, and Shinji is forced into battle again. He defeats it, but disobeys orders during the fight, and decides to run away. After making his way to an under construction bridge, he is brought back by NERV employees. At school, Toji forgives Shinji after his experience in the Entry Plug, and they become friends. Following this, Shinji interacts with his fellow pilot, the mysterious Rei Ayanami, for the first time. Another powerful Angel appears, the Sixth Angel, which nearly kills Shinji with its beam attack. It then proceeds to drill down into the Geofront cavern below. When Shinji recovers, Misato takes him down to Central Dogma (instead of Terminal Dogma in the original TV series), where she shows him Second Angel Lilith, a white giant hanging from a cross. She explains that if an Angel were to unite with Lilith, it would cause the Third Impact. This encourages Shinji to pilot Unit-01 again. A plan is developed to defeat the Sixth Angel by using all of the electrical power of Japan to power an experimental positron cannon, which Unit-01 will use to snipe the Sixth Angel while Rei, in Unit-00, supports by blocking its attack. After his first shot fails to kill the Sixth Angel, Shinji successfully fires a second shot that destroys the Sixth Angel. Meanwhile, on the Moon, where a line of coffins lie on the lunar surface, and a giant bloodstain intersects the landscape through the middle of the row of boxes. Out of one of these rises Kaworu Nagisa, who begins talking to SEELE 01's monolith communicator. Behind them appears to be a secret SEELE Moon base, with a white giant similar to Second Angel Lilith restrained behind them in a scaffolding pit. Kaworu says that the ‘Third’ has not changed, and he cannot wait to meet Shinji. [2019]: Evangelion pilot, Mari Makinami Illustrious, being launched in Provisional Unit-05 to destroy the resuscitated skeleton of the Third Angel in its attack on NERV's Arctic Bethany Base. She successfully defeats the Angel by self-destructing Unit-05, safely ejecting at the last moment. Meanwhile Shinji Ikari and his father Gendo Ikari visiting Yui's grave and the following attack of the Seventh Angel, which is dispatched by the newly arrived Unit-02 and its headstrong pilot, Asuka Shikinami Langley, via an emergency airdrop. Chief Inspector Ryoji Kaji, present at the battle with Unit-05 and arriving alongside Unit-02, delivers a suitcase to Gendo containing an object referred to as ‘the Nebuchadnezzar's Key’. Kaji takes the children on a field trip to a research aquarium tasked with resuscitating the ocean ecosystems lost in the Second Impact and all three Evangelions engage the Eighth Angel, showing a previously lacking teamwork. Unit-01 is critically damaged and Unit-00 loses the use of its arms, but SEELE's members declare that only Unit-01 need be repaired and that Unit-00 has served its purpose. Meanwhile, Gendo and Fuyutsuki visit the Tabgha Base on the Moon to view SEELE's progress on the mysterious ‘Evangelion Mark.06’ and while they are denied access, they confirm that Mark.06's construction is fundamentally different from the other Evangelions and briefly even see Kaworu Nagisa sitting on its finger. On Earth, Shinji decides to cook an extra meal for Rei, a gesture that inspires her to invite everyone over for a self-cooked meal during the following week with the hope of improving Shinji's relationship with his father. Meanwhile, Mari arrives in Tokyo-3 by parachute, but accidentally lands on top of Shinji at his school.