Asuka Langley Sohryu

Asuka Langley Sohryu

Asuka Langley Sohryu is one of the main characters of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. She was chosen as the Second Child by the Marduk Institute. First brought into the series in episode 8 "Asuka Strikes!", she has an extremely high sync-ratio with her EVA that both Shinji and Rei Ayanami cannot parallel. She is the pilot of Evangelion Unit-02 and moved to Japan, where she moves in with Misato and meets Shinji Ikari. She is first introduced as a brass, headstrong and confident character who is disliked by a vast majority of the lead characters, often seeming unsympathetic, insulting and a control freak to some of her peers. She is also incredibly prideful and balks at the thought of anyone else surpassing her. Shinji is awkward around her and finds her mean despite that he develops an attraction towards her and sees Asuka as someone that he desperately needs in order to gain confidence for himself. Although this side of Asuka is predominant, she only acts this way towards characters she has expectations for and/or gets in her way. Towards older people like Kaji, Misato and her family, she acts carefree and joyful. This also goes for some of her friends. She is supposedly "the most popular girl in school" for her confidence, and good looks. The boys even sell pictures of her around the school. She brags to Shinji and Rei about Her popularity. She also uses her popularity to get praise from elders like Misato and such. This is because of Asuka's traumatic past and not wanting to be abandon by others like her mother did. Like Shinji, she has deep psychological issues and does not know how to express her emotions very well to others.

Personality

Asuka is a very proud girl, 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 is stubborn and having difficulties in 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. Not only that, she is aggressive and can be very opinionated.

Appearance

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.