Asuka Langley Soryu

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 **Asuka Langley Soryu** is the deuteragonist of the Evangelion franchise (manga, anime, and reboot films). Asuka is best known for her outgoing and abrasive personality, as well as her need to be independent. Asuka also appears in Trooper Village Stories as Kirby Bulborb's love interest and later wife.

Asuka is a peacekeeper and the older sister of Haruhi Suzumiya. She met Kirby while the two attended a university in England, and became his girlfriend and partner in peacekeeping missions. Before marrying Kirby, Asuka became famous for her peacekeeping missions (being referred to as "the Number One peacekeeper"), including her helping Olimar, Louie, and The President repay the Hocotate Freight debt. After marrying Kirby, she assisted him and the other citizens of Trooper Village in defeating various enemies. Through their peacekeeping missions, Asuka and Haruhi became deities to the Pikmin, and Asuka also became a goddess to the Bulborbs after her marriage to Kirby.

## Appearance

     Asuka has long auburn hair and dark blue eyes. Asuka's hair is loose with the flanks held in twin tails with her red Interface Headset. She wears a school uniform as her most iconic outfit, which consisted of a dark blue pleated overall dress over a white button-up blouse with short puffed sleeves, a red bow attached to the collar, white knee socks with red stripes and black shoes. She wears a red watch on her wrist. She also wears outfits such as her pale yellow dress with a lavender choker and red shoes. Her plugsuit is red, stylized with fancy layers and accents with a 02 symbol printed onto the plugsuit. Throughout Trooper Village Stories, Asuka is mainly shown in her school uniform, but was briefly featured in her Evangelion Unit-02 plugsuit in the episode Sunset.

## Personality

Asuka is a very proud individual, especially in her piloting, and comes across to others as proud and strong, with a very high opinion of both her appearance (particularly her recently "busty" body) and her skill as an Eva pilot. She is stubborn and finds it difficult to express her true feelings to others. She does not like being looked down upon or told what to do as she wants to be viewed as an adult. She is aggressive and can be very opinionated. However, this personality is a front that protects a very vulnerable and insecure girl, a side which the viewer sees in her dreams or thoughts. She is often violent and intrusive of other people's space, especially Shinji's. She also has a strong need to be self-sufficient, and has a great deal of difficulty dealing with her self-perceived failure when she does need help. In the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe, Asuka is shown to be slightly less violent and stubborn. She helped her boyfriend and later husband Kirby Bulborb overcome his fear of Mitites on their peacekeeping missions.

### Background

Asuka Langley Soryu was born on December 4, 2001 as Asuka Langley Suzumiya Soryu. Her younger sister Haruhi Suzumiya was born 10 months later on October 8th 2002. She was born and raised in Germany, has German and Japanese ancestors, and is a US citizen. At some point during her childhood, her name was changed to Asuka Langley Soryu and she and her family moved to the UK. In her teenage years, Asuka began attending a university, where she met her future husband Kirby Bulborb for the first time, and became close friends with him. They became a couple not long afterwards. Asuka graduated from the university and received a diploma. She also learned how to speak fluent Japanese.

After graduating from university, Asuka began going on peacekeeping missions for those in need, often assisted by Kirby and sometimes went on solo missions. These heroic contributions turned her into somewhat of a deity. Returning to Earth, the Pikmin served under her, as Asuka became Queen of the Earth. Her and Haruhi's peacekeeping missions also turned Haruhi into somewhat of a deity. Through her peacekeeping missions, Asuka befriended several other peacekeepers, including Rufus, Gruffalo Dawson, and Doc Kermit Frogglegg.

#### Season 1

During one of her peacekeeping missions, Asuka visited Hocotate Freight alongside several other peacekeepers, including Doc Kermit Frogglegg and Rufus. Asuka helped Olimar and Louie in their goal of repaying their debt, joining them on the Planet of the Pikmin. After repaying the debt, Asuka travelled with Olimar back to Hocotate before they travelled back to Earth to save Louie, who had accidentally been left behind. Once Louie was saved, Asuka decided to remain on the Planet of the Pikmin to perform more peacekeeping missions there, smiling at Olimar, The President, and Louie as they returned home.

#### Season 2

Asuka travelled to the Submerged Castle and encountered a Waterwraith, but managed to escape from it.

Asuka called Mayor Reginald Bulborb a "freakazoid" when he talked to a Minako Aino poster while under the influence of the Puffstool's spores. She later hid underground to avoid being infected by the spores, and returned to the village when the Puffstool was killed. Asuka attended the trial of Makuta.

#### Season 3

Asuka is mentioned during a confrontation between Kirby and Makuta. After Makuta calls Asuka "the worst girl", Kirby fatally injures him for insulting Asuka, which ultimately leads to Makuta's death.

     Asuka then travelled to Trooper Village, where she met and befriended Minako Aino. During a conversation with Minako where Asuka calls one of her idioms "stupid", Blue asked Asuka if he, Red and Yellow could take pictures of her for Mayor Reginald Bulborb (who likely requested them for his brother Kirby to have instead). Asuka initially refused, asking why Bulborbs are "such perverted idiots", but decided to let them take the photos anyway. Later on, Asuka and Kirby got married. In April 2018, Asuka was kidnapped by a group of Breadbugs, but was saved after all of the Breadbugs were killed.

## Other Universes

Aside from her existence in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe, there are multiple timelines in which Asuka Langley Soryu exists. There are also multiple timelines within the Evangelion franchise with different variants of Asukka herself; for more info on Asuka's various appearances in media within the Evangelion franchise, please refer to her Evangelion Wiki article.

### Neon Genesis Evangelion

In the Evangelion franchise, Asuka was born in Germany, but with an American father and a half-German, half-Japanese mother. Asuka is one-quarter Japanese. Asuka is a native of Germany, having been raised there, though her nationality is technically American. Asuka's native language is German, and in both the series and the manga she tends to curse in German.

When she was young, Asuka was chosen to be the designated pilot of Evangelion Unit-02. Auka is a child prodigy and has earned a university degree in an unspecified field as a teenager; she also speaks fluent Japanese, but has trouble reading and writing kanji. Asuka had years of training starting from a young age to become a pilot for the Evangelion. Asuka is very proud of being an Eva pilot, and near-constantly wears her A10 nerve clips in her hair because she wants everyone around her to know that she is a pilot. She has an extremely high sync-ratio with Eva that both Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari cannot parallel.

Asuka also appears in the franchise's animated feature films and related media, video games, the *Rebuild of Evangelion* films, and the manga adaptation by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.