[b]Name:[/b] Shinji Ikari
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[b]Age:[/b] 14

[b]Sex:[/b] Male

[b]Weapons/Powers:[/b] N/A

[b]Personality:[/b] Shinji initially shows a passive and laid-back personality, inheriting such traits from his relaxed life with his sensei. He 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 quite introverted 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. Through all this, Shinji is also aware of his own faults, and generally is outwardly gentle and compassionate. He is the only one who tries to find a reason to fight the kaiju, and sometimes his justification for fleeing from piloting is to avoid hurting others.

[b]Biography:[/b] Shinji Ikari's life has been a very rough one for him. His parents were part of a special-ops anti-kaiju force known as NERV. His father, Gendo Ikari, was the commander of the team, with Shinji's mother, Yui Ikari, being a bioengineer of the same force. At the age of 3, Shinji's mother died in a contact experiment with the cyborg Evangelion, Eva Unit-01 at her own request. In what appeared to be an accident to onlookers, but was in fact planned by her, Yui's body dissolved into LCL and her soul was absorbed into the Eva's core. The subsequent attempt to salvage her soul back into a reconstructed body failed due to Yui's desire to remain in the Eva.

As he witnessed this event, Shinji was subjected to considerable trauma that had lingering effects upon him. After his mother's death, he was abandoned by his father and lived for 11 years with his sensei, until he was summoned to Tokyo-3 to pilot Unit-01 against the kaiju invaders. Gendo forces him to pilot it, saying he is the only one who can, while Shinji tries to refuse, until ultimately piloting it. He fails to defeat his first kaiju, only to be saved by Unit-01 when it gone berserk and defeats it on its own. Since then, with more training, Shinji became a famed pilot, saving humanity and cities from total destruction several times.

[b]Faction:[/b] GDF/NERV Pilot