Asuka Langley Soryu

* Casual Wear
* Pilot Suit

Scopedog

Shin Getter Two

Ruri Saotome

Cynthia

Keiko Kamikita

Sunset Shimmer

Pink Diamond

Usagi Tsukino

Catra

Rei Ayanami

Axis Zeon

* Shinn Asuka (formerly)
* Shinji Ikari
* Rei Ayanami (formerly)
* Haman Karn

Injustice Regime

* Glemy Toto

Guild of the Multiverse

Asuka Langley Soryu is a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion and is a major character in The Knights of the Multiverse, introduced in Season 1. After all the trauma she had endured on her Earth, she finally finds herself free from her ties there and able to forge a new life with people who actually care about her well-being by joining the Crystal Knights in their universe-traveling, supervillain fighting escapades. She's since become the main pilot of God Sigma, and later Shin Getter Two, to battle against the forces of evil for herself and her new family.

## Personality

Once a proud individual that would always try to look & be strong, always boasting about her piloting skills and violently lash out whenever someone "argued" with her, Asuka just... doesn't have the strength to do that anymore. After being beaten by several of the Angels and upstaged several times by her fellow EVA pilots, the final blow came when the Angel Arael penetrated her mind and tore down all her walls, leaving her as the vulnerable, insecure, and scared young girl she tried desperately to not be. She was left lost and confused, not helped by how she's been taken away to some another Earth. However, quite ironically, being taken even further out of her comfort zone might have been the best thing for her. As she spent time around the other Knights, she learned to be more open both to assistance from them and to having fun every now and then, especially thanks to many of them acting as her mentors and with teammates like Kamille teaching her that sometimes it's okay to act her age once and a while. More than that though, from several loses and consultation with the others, she finally managed to get it through her head that she can't always win and be perfect; and that's okay. All she can really do is do what she *can* do and give everything she has to do it. From their influence, she's become someone who wants nothing more than to protect everything important to her, as well as begin to accept the past and continue on into the future.

## History

### Pre-Series

When Asuka was only four years old, her mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu (who worked as a scientist for the German branch of NERV) participated in a contact experiment with Eva Unit 02. She thankfully survived the test, but the experience drove her insane, believing that one of Asuka's dolls was actually her daughter, only ever acknowledging Asuka as "that girl over there".

### Season 1

#### Arrival

Having fallen into a portal, Asuka found herself in a city back alley, where she passed out from hunger loss. She was picked up by some of the team while they were looking for a portal they had detected in a city (which was obviously the one that brought her here). They quickly took her back to the Glomar and brought her to the med bay. After a while, she was able to move about fairly well after getting some food into her, but she wouldn't speak.

She makes a brief cameo in the second episode of the season, where she is briefly seen during dinner, sitting at a table *very* far away from the rest of the cast, with some of the group mentioning how no one really knows what went down in her home dimension, but the team's higher ups have told them to keep her distance and let her speak up whenever she feels like she's ready. This is to show the audience how far she's fallen after the events of her home series.

## Skills & Equipment

* Piloting

While it took her a while to adjust to how Earth Prime robots operate compared to an Evangelion unit, Asuka quickly picked up how to pilot a Super Robot, and can now virtually pilot any Mecha with high efficiency.

* Photon Pistol
* Photon Rifle
* Hand-to-Hand Combat

Asuka was taught moderate hand-to-hand combat skills by Catra & Kamille to defend herself.

## Relationships

### Shinji Ikari

In her home universe, whenever Shinji would try to get close to her, Asuka would blow him off with insults to keep herself from letting anyone in her head. Of course, after her soul-searching when she was pulled into Earth Prime, when she returned, she tried to reconcile with Ikari even after all she had done, to no avail.

### Rei Ayanami

Stemming from her traumatic experiences as a child, Asuka used to hate Rei for being nothing more than a doll, doing anything her commander told her to do without question, even killing herself if she was ordered to.

### Lulli

Asuka was the one who found Lulli after she managed to escape her captors. After the ex-Eva pilot saved her from being destroyed, the former caretaker Droid became dedicated to try and help her get out of whatever sort of mood she was in. And while it didn't break Asuka out of her depressive state, she was just happy to have someone around that seemed to want to be there for the first few days she was with the Knights.

While she was scared of how cold and robotic she became whenever she activated her Heart Circuit, making her believe that her kind persona was just as artificial as her skin, she changed her tone quickly when she learned about her modifications, correlating it to how NERV essentially treated her as just another disposable tool too that they would do whatever they wished with.

From there, Asuka and Lulli's relationship continued to develop throughout the Knights' battle with the Renegades into a true friendship, with her being Asuka's closest companion out of all the Knights. The genuine kindness Lulli offered her helped to slowly but surely pull her out of her depression, and the two truly found solace in how they had pretty much been thrown away by their "masters".

When Asuka started to fall back into despair after losing a few battles too many and started to think the Knights'll throw her to the side like NERV did, Lulli was the one to remind her that she wasn't alone anymore, and that she's surrounded by lots of people that care about her a lot, herself included. She also reminded Asuka that she isn't perfect and shouldn't try to be. Just like she told her once, she only needs to be herself.

### Kamille Bidan

Even though he's only a couple years older than her, Kamille acts as a surrogate older brother to Asuka, giving her the type of guiding figure she probably always needed: actual companionship. Someone who would stick by her side through all her faults and give her the emotional support she needs, but always there to also knock her down when she gets too over her head. Even when Asuka finally confessed how much of a terrible person she was back on her world, the former A.E.U.G. pilot stayed right by her side, saying that the fact that she realized how she acknowledged her faults was enough. Besides, that wasn't the Asuka that he knew. He immediately saw the potential she had as a freedom fighter but knew that she had a problem with letting out her more vulnerable side.

## Notes

Asuka's story in this series begins in the brief period of time where she ran away from NERV & subsequently got found at the beginning of episode 24 of the original Evangelion anime, right before the events of the End of Evangeilion movie. This is mostly so her characterization in this series can focus around her growing past both the trauma she endured and her attitude through the original series, with the help of an actually caring & supportive group that both helps her regain her confidence but make sure she still stays humble. This is actually partially inspired by the depiction of Dinobot Grimlock in the 2005 IDW Transformers comics, where the Decepticon Scorponok tortured him to the point he incurred brain damage but was later found by his own group of misfits, a group of screwup Decepticons called the Scavengers, who helped him speak, read and write again (just replace "reading and writing" with "piloting Mecha and opening up to others". Also she doesn't have a mental condition like Grim did).

Asuka's character arc in Season 1 is something akin to a mixture between her old comrades in Rei & Shinji and fellow Gainax character Simon from Gurren Lagann; more specifically, his arc after Kamina dies. For a good chunk of the season's first quarter, she mostly keeps to herself, only speaking up occasionally and having huge fits of violence in battle while the team helps to rehabilitate her, similarly to Ayanami in the original series (which is all the more ironic given how often she criticized her behavior there, then changing into into a state sort of like Shinji where she gains some confidence but is still awkward towards those around her before finally evolving into a bonafide freedom fighter like Simon was. She also has a relationship with Lulli that is based off of Simon's relationship with Nia (in a platonic sense rather than a romantic one) as a non-human that acts as her main emotional support, helping her break out of her depressive state and become better than she was before.

* To represent how far she's trying to distance herself from her time at NERV, her red Interface Headset that held her twin tails is eventually replaced with two beads, similar to the ones she wore when she was a child.

Asuka's pilot suit she gains while working with the Knights is taken directly from the character Maria Fleed from UFO Robo Grendizer due to the characters' shared color schemes.

To help the parallel to Ruri's role in KotM being inspired by Go from Getter Robo Armageddon a bit better, Asuka and Elchi's position in the Knights is inspired by Go's teammates Kei and Gai, with Asuka taking Kei's role of the one with a lot of traumatic baggage and now wants to protect everything important to her, with her learning to accept the past and continue on into the future.