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Full Name: Shinji Ikari. Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime version) Age: 14 Gender: Male Sexuality: Arguably bisexual.	.shinji ikari.
Shinji was born in Japan, almost a year after the Second Impact hit and changed the Earth forever. Son of Gendo and Yui Ikari, both renowned scientists, his first years were spent under the wing of his caring but hardworking mother, who, along with his father, was developing an ultra-secret and very high-budget project for the government. The little boy was happy in his early childhood, unaware of his parents' work and finding their occasional periods of absence completely normal. He would become used to being left with his uncle's family whenever his mother and father were not there to take care of him. Still, his mother raised the baby with much love, knowing that he would grow up in the promising future she was creating for him. In the year 2004, the project that his parents had been developing was ready for its first real experiment. Proud and hopeful, Yui Ikari decided to bring her son along to the facilities, despite his tender age. After hearing her colleagues protest, she simply answered «I want to show the promising future to my child.» Those were her last words. A freak accident caused Shinji's mother to disappear. Her body was never found and she was assumed to be dead. From that day on, Gendo Ikari was never the same. And little Shinji, who would later forget his mother's face and never remember what had happened to her, was abandoned. Not much is known about Shinji's life from this point until his 14th birthday. He was left at the care of a teacher and his family, with whom he lived but did not interact with. His days were spent going to school, getting home, taking care of his personal chores, eating, studying and sleeping. He never really had any friends. Shinji rarely talked to his father and saw him with even less frequency, soon figuring that they only made contact whenever his father needed him for something. In the year 2015, Shinji received a letter from his estranged father with a postcard of a woman in a somewhat erotic pose, urging him to travel to Tokyo-3 at once, without any further explanation. Upon arrival, Shinji tried to find his way around the city, becoming himself completely lost in what appeared to be a deserted metropolis. Suddenly, something exploded not too far away, startling the young boy, who found himself to be in the middle of a battle between the army's machinery and... something else. He was nothing short of panicking before he was found by Misato Katsuragi (the commander of the Evangelion team and woman who appeared in the postcard), who picked him up and helped him escape the ongoing battle, taking him to GeoFront and somewhat explaining what was happening, never really revealing to the boy just what he was doing in this place, exactly. It is only after they find Shinji's father that he was told the reason: his father wanted him to pilot the Evangelion Unit 01 to fight the entity that had started attacking the city - to which they refer to as an Angel. Confused and shocked by everything going on at once, Shinji refused everything he was asked to do, protesting loudly. They soon realized that there was no way to convince the young boy, so Gendo ordered his workers to bring out the other pilot, Rei Ayanami to do the job, even though she had already been badly injured. Mostly out of pity for the girl, Shinji decided to gather up some courage and accepted to fight off the Angel. After the attack, Shinij is taken in by Misato, who becomes his guardian and lives with PenPen, her pet penguin. Shinji begins training inside Unit 01 and starts his first day of classes at the new school, gradually becoming friends with two of his classmates (Toji and Kensuke), who were antagonizing him at first because Toji's sister had been caught in the middle of the fight between the Angel and Shinji's Eva, but later understand Shinji's side of the story and his struggle as a pilot. Later in the story, Shinji and his classmates are taken to the middle of the ocean to meet the Second Child, pilot of the Eva unit 02: Asuka Langley Soryu. They develop a strange relationship, that goes from a mix of rivalry and partnership, to a potential crush, to hatred and jealousy on Asuka's part. Shinji is never sure of what's going inside the red hair girl's head, and is, apparently, not bothered by (most of) her provocations. Between fighting Angels and undergoing several situations, Shinji is discharged and re-accepted by Nerv, almost murders one of his classmates, who was chosen to pilot Unit 03, threatens to leave and returns, watches Rei Ayanami sacrifice herself in order to destroy an Angel, discovers the disturbing truth about her existence, witnesses Asuka going into a comatose state after the attack of an Angel that provoked serious psychological trauma in her, meets and creates a strange relationship with Kaworu, who turns out to be an Angel and is killed by Shinji. At the end of the series, Shinji goes through the Instrumentality - which is described by his father to be «simply the return to the state of the beginning, the primal womb that was lost». It is at this time that Shinji suddenly wakes up in a completely new world.	.story.
Shinji is shy, has a low self-esteem, is reclusive and afraid of physical contact. He often tries to be by himself, shutting out the world by listening to music on his STAD player, avoiding painful situations and being confronted by emotions, in fear of hurting others and in turn getting hurt by them. His mother's death and father's abandonment created several issues, such that he has a general mistrust for people and makes no real effort to gain theirs. Though he claims he does not believe in himself and often wonders why he pilots the Evangelion when he is so reluctant to cause people's deaths and it brings him so many other hardships, the truth is he does so because it is the only way he can gain everyone's - namely his father's - approval and admiration. Shinji is timid and somewhat intimidated by female presences. He is constantly teased and confused by Asuka, who seems to demonstrate a need to prove she is better than him in every aspect and Misato (his guardian), who also teases him, but in a good-natured and light way. While Shinji is bothered by Asuka, he finds Misato slightly irritating him due to her behavior and almost-constant drunkenness. Despite his efforts to distance himself from people, Shinji is polite and curious. He often shows himself as nervous and shy around new people, but can also react to them in a cold, serious manner, though he is more easily embarrassed than aggravated. He doesn't take much liking in sharing emotions and is known to lack assertiveness and/or the will to stand his ground and be listened to. One of the few things that Shinji truly enjoys doing is playing the cello, even if he claims that he is not an exceptional musician.	.personality.
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