Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari

Overview------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The pilot of Evangelion Unit 01. Brown hair, gray-blue eyes, usually wearing a white dress shirt, blue t-shirt, dark pants and white sneakers with blue accents, though he'll wear something more casual when at his home. His plugsuit, which he only ever wears when he's piloting his Eva, has a very light blue torso, complemented by the rest being a dark blue color with some fairly prominent black accents from the torso down and a 01 symbol printed on it.

Personality---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. He is shown to the extreme of this, forsaking many lives (even his own) to save one person. Because of his 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.

Backstory------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shinji's father, NERV's commander Gendo Ikari, left him at a train station after the death of Shinji's mother Yui Ikari when he was around 4, leaving him to live with his school teacher for most of his life. During the attack of the third angel Sachiel, he was picked up by NERV and became the official pilot of Evangelion Unit 01 going forward, despite his reluctance to do so. As of now, Shinji still serves as Unit 01's pilots, but he also attends college with the other Evangelion pilots.