Shinji Ikari

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Shinji Ikari - Protagonist of the Evangelion anime and manga series (appeared in End of Evangelion, Evangelion Reubild and -Anima-. He is the pilot of Eva-01.

## Appearance

Shinji has medium-length straight brown hair and blue-grey eyes. Shinji is also very thin and his shirt is often tucked in, showing that he is a rather neat person. When spending time in NERV or in the city, he wears his uniform, which is a white shirt, blue T-shirt, dark pants, and white sneakers, although when in his apartment, he often wears something more casual. Shinji's costume has a very light blue torso, complemented by the rest of the dark blue with black parts.

## Personality

Shinji initially displays a passive and laid-back personality, having inherited such traits from his quiet life with his sensei. When told to pilot Unit-01, he denies, not wanting to do so. Though Shinji denies it, he craves praise, and he eventually begins piloting Unit-01 to earn the approval and love of his father, Gendo Ikari. He also constantly tells himself "I mustn't run away!" which further demonstrates his need to move forward and let go of the past.

Shinji is very afraid of emotional pain and being hated or left behind, likely due to feeling abandoned in his youth and subsequently blaming himself for not being good enough to force his father to stay. Overall, Shinji is shown to be introverted and out of touch with physical reality due to having little to no meaningful contact with others. He is quite uncomfortable in situations involving social parties and often finds it difficult to control his emotions in the presence of other people due to his difficulty in letting go of the past. He is shown to the extreme, giving up many lives (even his own) to save one person.

Due to Shinji's intense nostalgia and unstable emotional state, he prefers to shut himself off from the world, as evidenced by the headphones he wears quite often connected to an SDAT music player.

## Story

Around the age of three, Shinji lost his mother as a result of an experiment on contact with Unit-01. When he witnessed this event, he suffered a serious injury that had a lasting effect on him.

After being abandoned by his father, Shinji was sent to live with his "Sensei". He describes his life there as "peaceful": he did nothing but exist, and "nothing ever happened" there. Apart from Shinji's words and occasional allusions throughout the series, nothing is known about Shinji's life and childhood prior to the main events.

Like all Eva pilots, Shinji has a complex and layered personality. At the start of the series, he appears somewhat passive, outwardly polite but melancholic. He tends to consider himself less important and deserving of respect than other people. Perhaps as a result of this self-loathing or devaluation (combined with the likely fact that during his life with "Sensei" he had little contact with anyone), Shinji feels at a considerable or complete distance from people, believing that he cannot with whom to communicate and that no one can understand him.

14-year-old Shinji Ikari is summoned to Tokyo by his father, Gendo Ikari, to pilot Evangelion Unit 01 to fight the Angels, and soon with Desepticons. He is forced to join the Alliance against his will, as he learned that his father Gendo is an enemy to other warring factions.