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Ascension/Characters


This page is for summarizing the characters in Ascension. Most of the original Eva characters were twisted and turned by the author beyond recognition, for better or worse. Spoilers are be present.


Pilots

Kaworu Nagisa

"Yo, WAZZZZUUUUUP?!"

The main protagonist of the story, Kaworu's a fourteen year old orphan who grew up without family or emotional support of any kind; all leads he has from his past is a heavily damaged photo and a 19-character alphanumeric code tattooed onto his arm. As a result, he taught himself to be self-supportive and not hang onto anyone but unlike canon!Asuka, he doesn't shut himself off from everyone but simply avoids placing too much importance in his life on others. His personality was crafted by the author to be a hybrid between canon!Kaworu and Kamina, to... interesting results: he has a pessimistic worldview that the world is a crappy place powered by Asskicking Equals Authority where everyone takes what they need from those who can't defend themselves and no one tries to change things because Status Quo Is God. He wants to change this but seeing as most people simply think he's a Large Ham nutjob, it isn't like he means it, right?

He became a pilot when Rei in Unit-00 was incapacitated by Sachiel; Kaworu commandeered the Eva and defeated the Angel. He was then taken into custody by Section 2 and introduced to Yui who basically blackmailed him into testing Unit-01 for her or being "silenced" to cover up loose ends.

Rei Ikari

"Indeed."

Rei is Kaworu's classmate and Yui's adoptive daughter. People find her somewhat strange and that's not due to her author-induced Xenafication. The author's reasoning behind this is an experiment about how Rei would grow up if she would preserve her original personality without Gendo's influence. Mind you, she still has severe abandoment issues due to Yui rarely spending any time with her outside work. Just as her canon counterpart, she rarely interacts with others (though this time around, she does so because she honestly doesn't give a damn, not because she was told not to) and even admits that she's an existential nihilist.

Another of her traits unique to the fandom is the lots of weaponry she carries on her person, even firearms; she's a scarily good marksman. She's been working for the AEL for an unspecified length of time and it quickly becomes apparent that she's not your everyday schoolgirl even before Kaworu finds her in Unit-00's entry plug. It becomes even more obvious when she starts performing superhuman feats of agility near the end of season 1.

Asuka Langley Shephard

"What an idiot..."

The newest member of Kaworu's class, Asuka instantly develops animosity with Kaworu, seeing him as a Wide-Eyed Idealist who needs to have his eyes opened before he falls flat on his face. She never spent lots of time in any of her previous schools as she moved around a lot. Unknown to everyone in the class, Asuka is a highly proficient battleframe pilot and hand-to-hand fighter with ambitions of following her father's footsteps and entering the military with her coming of age; her expertise is what got her recruited by Yui. Also, Asuka is the youngest member of the cast.

Her backstory was revealed late in the first season: two year-old Asuka and her mother was on a business trip in Europe when they found themselves in the middle of a terrorist attack. In the confusion, Kyoko was shot right in front of Asuka and bled to death while clutching her daughter. This scarred Asuka's mind to the point that even after she stopped having nightmares, she's now hell-bent on tracking down the ones responsible and getting revenge no matter what.

AEL personnel

Yui Ikari

"I have work to do so if you'd be so kind..."

The current chairman of the Artificial Evolution Laboratory and mother of one child. Due to differences in Evangelion technology, she didn't have to undergo a contact experiment to get the Evas operational. However, she got into a major disagreement with Gendo ten years before the story begins and they divorced, with Gendo leaving the AEL and taking most of the robotics experts with him to found Gehirn. Despite this setback, Yui took control of the AEL with an iron hand and built it up into the highly successful biotech firm some people call "the modern Black Mesa".

As the chairman of a huge company, Yui never had the time to take care of Rei who, as a result, grew up as an independent and withdrawn girl. Instead, Yui poured all of her time and attention into creating the Evangelions and doing it so good that no one outside the AEL had any idea about their or the Geofront's existence.

Adrian Shephard

"Riiight..."

Being snatched from the G-Man by Vortigaunts shortly after the Uprising, Shephard joined the Confederate army to make sure something like Black Mesa never happens again. In a few years, he managed to climb to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel while carefully hiding his involvement with HECU. After Kyoko's death, he left Earth with the intention of not returning; the Sachiel incident however prompted the army to dispatch someone to snoop around and shed some light on what the AEL is up to. Due to Shephard being considered by his superiors as somewhat of a loose cannon, he was assigned to the task with Asuka accompanying him.

He's a pretty fun guy despite the fact that he's technically in his sixties due to the G-Man's stasis putting him out of commission for 20 years.

The Evas

Unlike the canonverse, the Ascensionverse's Evangelions don't need contact experiments to work. Using salvaged remains of the Overwatch Dispatcher, the Confederacy developed rudimentary AI technology for use on board larger spacecraft. For the Evangelions, AEL scientists write specially crafted A Is they convert into electric impulses and upload into the Evangelion's core, essentially acting as a crude substitute for a real soul.

Lilith

"We have not had many opportunities for communicating in the past; now we have an opportunity to rectify that."

The AI of Unit-00. Over time, Lilith bonded with Rei as a big sister and is the only person Rei ever considered to be her friend.

Adam

"Questions flow like water from the depths of the curious mind. [...] I was searching for ways to better serve the purpose which I was created for; for without purpose, our existence is nil. Purpose is that which creates us and binds us to existence, that which guides us in life, that which defines the part of us that makes us."

Adam is a more newer creation and barely interacted with humans before being put into cryofreeze. After his assignment to be Kaworu's partner, he rapidly starts forming his own personality which is quite similar to Lilith's.

Sekhmet

"I MUST HAVE BLOOD!!!"

Sekhmet is Unit-02's AI. Unlike her fellow Evangelions, Sekhmet is completely, totally insane and not in a good way: she herself says that since she's a weapon made to kill and destroy, she might as well have fun while fulfilling her purpose. It certainly doesn't help that she's praising Khorne while working.

  1. ↑ fired at full-auto so technically it was 10+ headshots
  2. ↑ a beer brand in the author's home country
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