Werner Franxx

Werner Franxx, better known as Dr. FRANXX or "Old Pervert". He was the commander in chief in the construction of a series of models of the Franxx as a competitor to the Evas and as a way to fight against NERV and Britannia.

## Appearance

He had the appearance of an older man, sporting grey hair and a mustache. He normally wears a white coat similar to the other adults in the setting, along with white gloves, and he also uses a cane. Half of his face, his entire jawbone, thumb finger, index finger, and middle finger of his right hand are mechanical. Part of his new left arm is blue in color as it contains 001.

In the past, he had unkept black hair that almost reached his shoulders and his bangs covered the left side of his face. He also has a thin beard and still wears the same white lab coat and no cane. He lost his arm when he first met 001.

## Personality

Since he was young, Dr. FRANXX had been pragmatic and immoral, as he cultivates illegal experiments toward cloning involving human fetuses purely to satisfy his curiosity. By his own admission, he was enslaved by his lust for knowledge and doesn’t hesitate to use brutal and abominable methods to achieve his scientific goals. He was very meticulous in his work and was very protective of it to the point he was furious if someone were to enter his lab without permission.

As an atheist, he did not believe in deities and finds immortality to be a nuisance. When asked if he planned to have the procedure to become immortal, he declined because he preferred not have his body messed with and found a cyborg version of himself more favorable. He rarely interacted with others due how invested he was with his research, facing ethical scrutiny for its immoral and illegal conduct. However, after working with Karina Milsa for several years and hearing her confess her feelings to him, he eventually reciprocated them despite insisting she had bad taste, and they planned to marry before her death during a FRANXX drill. Her death emotionally broke his mentality; he stopped caring about the future and humanity, and poured all his focus into the study of Klaxosaurs and Angels, and the development of the FRANXX with its parasite.

He was also adventurous and can never stay in the same place long, and always looks to have a front-row seat when there is a big battle. After encountering 001, he found her beautiful and alluring, and, despite losing an arm to her aggressive nature, he remained madly in love with her, a fact that he contributes to him losing whatever humanity he had left in him. After obtaining a DNA sample from her hair, he sought to create the perfect specimen and thus created Zero Two, an experiment he takes great pride in. He also is credited for creating all the parasites, who are nurtured and trained since birth to become pilots and fight against the klaxosaurs. His fascination with science and his creations tends to have a bizarre effect on him, to the point he refers to Strelizia as beautiful.

As an old man, he had the nature of a calm individual, with a lecherous streak, as seen when he groped Nana. He takes pride in how beneficial his creations prove to be, but he does seem quite disinterested in the formal procedures, such as when he was asked to attend the ceremony and he reluctantly agreed.

## Story

He is considered by many to be the savior and the one to stop Gendo Ikari's madness with his Third Impact plan before his true motive is revealed. In his youth, he was known as Werner Franxx, a scientist who was subjected to ethical scrutiny for using immoral and illegal cloning experiments. Some time later, he was successful in unlocking the key to immortality by injecting people with doses of magma energy, though the people lost their reproductive systems after the procedure. He created his underground laboratory, growing Stamens and Pistils to control and carry out all sorts of orders. Shortly after the start of the war against the alien invasion, he found the ideal way to finance his work in the form of an alliance, and soon the Eurasian Federation, when McGillis took over as Prime Minister.

## Trivia

He got the nickname "Old Pervert" because of the way the 2 pilots work with each other, although he tries to justify the way the Franks work with Mother Nature, 001.