Second Child Asuka Langley Soryu

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Age:14
Sex:Female
Relations:Mother: Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu
Father: "Papa"
Step-mother: "Mama"
Guardian: Misato Katsuragi
Former Guardian: Ryoji Kaji
Japanese seiyū :Yuko Miyamura
English voice actor :Tiffany Grant

Asuka Langley Soryu (惣流・アスカ・ラングレー Sōryū Asuka Rangurē) is the Second Child and pilots Unit 02. She is from Germany, but with an American father and a half-German, half-Japanese mother. Her mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu, went insane after an Eva-related experiment and began to believe that an Asuka-like doll was, in fact, her daughter, to the point that she refused to even acknowledge the real Asuka. Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu hung herself on the very day that Asuka was chosen to become an Eva pilot. On that day, Asuka promised herself that she would never cry again. This event gives her an innate hatred of dolls and all things that she perceives to be doll-like, especially Rei. Asuka's father later remarried a woman for whom Asuka feels no affection. Asuka feels the need to verbally and sometimes physically lash out at everyone around her, except to her sole friend, Hikari, and her unrequited crush, Kaji, who is Misato's ex-boyfriend and more than twice Asuka's age. On her better days, however, she can be quite cheerful and friendly.

As a pilot, Asuka greatly fears being inadequate, often venting by lashing out at Shinji and Rei. Asuka says that she would rather die than be saved by the skill of another pilot. Her pride and recklessness affects her performance: she grows jealous of NERV's special treatment of its best Eva pilot, causing a massive drop in synchronization rate. Eventually, Asuka loses all functional synchronization with Unit 02. In her second-to-last battle, she suffers massive emotional damage as her Eva loses both arms and its head to the fourteenth Angel, Zeruel. She is only saved from death by Central Dogma's split-second decision to undo her remaining neural connections with the Eva. Her synchonization rate drops below-viable levels after she is attacked by the fiftheen Angel, Arael. Due to her inability to pilot the Unit 02 again, she finds herself useless and attempts suicide. Failing again, she falls comatose, and is tended in the NERV's infirmary until REBIRTH.

In Rebirth, Asuka is saved from assassination by NERV, being placed inside her Eva and dropped seventy meters below the surface of the lake in the underground crater. She awakens to the sound of battle and, despite her previous feelings of inadequacy, combats and takes out the nine SEELE Eva in less than three minutes, proving (albeit briefly) that she is indeed the most competent Eva pilot.


新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 惣流・アスカ・ラングレー ( 1/5 PVC製塗装済み完成品 )
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION Asuka Langley Soryu ( 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 惣流・アスカ・ラングレー ( 1/5 PVC製塗装済み完成品 ) )