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| Evangelion - Asuka Indepth |
Indepth version by (someone) i found this version on the net and it would probly be impossible for me to get any better then this. (pls contact me if you wrote this so i can give u credit, i only mildly edited it)
Asuka grew up very fast due to having to care for herself mentally, even though she can be very grown up she is still a 14 year old girl and has friends her own age she can relate to like Hikari. To Asuka, her EVA unit meant her life and she is very willing to perish with EVA-02 in the battlefield with honour.Nonetheless, Asuka seemed to have warmed up to the friendship of both Rei and Shinji. She has particularly grown fond of the shy Shinji ^_^.
Asuka is considered highly egostical, agressive, and arrogant. Even though she IS very smart, she does realitivly bad in school, mainly because she can't read Japanese that well, since she went to school in Germany and graduated from college there.
As for her past, her mother commited suicide and Asuka was adopted by people in Germany. Later on in life she met Ryoji Kaji and grew attatched to him. At one point she runs away with Hikari Horaki, but was found by NERV agents.
Asuka has access to a powerful weapon of destruction and enjoys using it to show off what she perceives to be her one true asset. In Asuka's case, it's the ability to pilot EVA. Anything that threatens her rank as number 1 is not acceptable (thus her initial dislike of Shinji).
Asuka's ALL ABOUT the color red shes a fiery red head and I'll bet she made them make her EVA red. Remember red is fire, passion, heat...and blood.
The EVA pilots rarely work as a team, and if two or more EVAs DO work together, it is usually under the advice and command of Katsuragi Misato. But we have seen Asuka take the lead, and do a good job with it mostly....
Of course, at the same time, she deliberately takes the most risky jobs and assignments. In the battle with the 9th Angel, when Tokyo-3 had lost power, Asuka's out-of-combat leadership was less than exemplary because she was trying to show off. But when it came to combat leadership, she formulated a workable battle plan and deliberately took the most dangerous assignment.
Yes, she had to "pay Shinji back" for his help with the 8th Angel, and even afterwards declared, "Now we're even, Shinji," but underneath it all, why does Asuka really take those sort of jobs?
Well of course there's the Show-Off factor. "Look at me, I'm so great, I can do this so easily and so of course you should pay attention to ME." This need goes back to Mama, of course: "Look at me, Mama."
But there's probably a small part of Asuka that's suicidal. That part grows larger and larger as the series progresses; certainly she seems depressed towards the end of the series and one of depression's symptoms is "Thoughts of Suicide or Death."
So she doesn't mind taking the riskier jobs because if she dies, then at least the pain is over. And if she lives, then she'll be a Hero. It's a win-win situation for her...until the great and mighty Third Child shows up.
"Wonder Girl" and "The Mighty Shinji" are threats to Asuka's self-esteem. She never gets over her extreme dislike for Rei, understandable in the circumstances. As for Shinji...
Her flirtations with Shinji stem from two things: One, she wants to be thought of as an adult (especially by Kaji), and she views sex as an adult topic of conversation. She thinks nothing of cupping her breasts and using them as an example in discussions of thermal expansion physics lessons. If I wanted an example of thermal expansion, I'd use water as it heats up and cools down. Asuka uses her breasts and when Shinji blushes and stammers out that he doesn't think about that kind of thing, Asuka calls him a "dull little boy" in a very high and mighty tone.
The other reason she flirts with Shinji is that she's still a 14 year old girl. After Kaji "dumps" her, that is, fails to return her crush on him, the only available male for any sort of sexual or romantic experimentation is Shinji. Asuka has hormones and she's curious, and sex is an adult thing and she's trying to be adult.
I should note that kissing in Japan is A Big Deal. Parents don't kiss in front of their children, because kissing is considered a sign of either strong romantic love or sexual foreplay.
Now granted, Asuka comes from Germany, and is only part Nihonjin (Japanese), so kissing is not going to be quite as big a deal to her. But to Shinji...well that's a horse of a different color. But they're both very curious about these things. Rei is too distant to Shinji, and of course so is Misato.
The three women in Shinji's life, Rei, Misato, and Asuka, represent his past, present and future, respectively.
Asuka is his future, as End of Evangelion clearly shows. I'm not saying they love each other necessarily. But the fact does remain that he chose to be with her. That does say something.
In the end, Asuka, you end up as much humanity's savior as Shinji himself.
Good job, girl.
That is why many people prefer Asuka, The can relate to her in many ways for she is a human and acts and feels the same way as one, she has feelings like a real human which is very odd for alot of animes.
OTD - One Tear Drop since 1 January 2002 Which originally begun as an Asuka Langley Sohryu Shrine [Neon Genisis Evangelion NGE] - tru_soljah@hotmail.com |
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