A Fan Club for the pilot of Evangelion Unit 02, the beautiful Asuka Langley Soryu.
Age: 14
Birthdate: December 4, 2001
Sex: Female
Height: 5'8"
Weight:101 Pounds
Eye: Deep Sea Blue
Hair: Auburn Red
Education: College Graduate at 14
Asuka is one quarter Japanese, which accounts for her Japanese name but European appearance, one quarter American, and mostly German. Asuka home country is Germany, having been raised there. Asuka's native language is also German, and tends to curse in German to vent her frustration towards others. She 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. She is characterized by her fiery red hair and equally fiery temper. 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.
Her mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu, was a scientist of GEHIRN's German branch of NERV's Project Eden. When Asuka was only four years old, her mother participated in a experiment with Asuka's future EVA, Unit 02, in a test similar to the one performed by Yui Ikari with Unit 01. She survived the test but became insane and was placed in protective care. She eventually committed suicide by hanging herself from the cieling of her room. Asuka was the first to find her body when she went to tell her mother the good news that she had been chosen to become an EVA pilot. After Kyoko's suicide, Asuka's American father remarried a German doctor. This new mother was immediately repelled by Asuka's defensive nature, and finds herself unable to become attached to her. Asuka herself says that she doesn't hate her stepmother, but she feels as if she could never replace her real mother.
During Kyoko's funeral, Asuka's grandmother had said to Asuka that she was "a strong girl", but it was all right if she needed to cry. However, Asuka told her grandmother that she had to take care of herself for then on. From that day on, Asuka promised herself that she would never cry again.
Asuka comes across to others as proud and strong, with a very high opinion of both her appearance and her skills as an EVA pilot. However, this personality is merely a front that protects a very vulnerable and insecure girl, a side which only the viewer sees through 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, even when she knows she does.
In her early appearances, Asuka has a high synchronization ratio and displays exceptional skill as an EVA pilot. She is also very aggressive and confident in battle, which works both for and against her in the end. After being defeated in battle by the Angel Zeruel, Asuka's self-confidence and, correspondingly, her sync ratio and effectiveness as a pilot, begins to fade to nothing. This comes to a head in episode 22, when the Angel Arael appears. Burdened by increasingly poor results in synchronization tests, Asuka is infuriated when she is ordered to serve as backup for Rei. She launches herself in Unit 02 and tries to attack the Angel alone but is overwhelmed by its psycological assault, which forces her to relive the painful memories of her past and causes her to suffer a mental and emotional breakdown. She loses the will to live and is incapable of piloting Unit 02 again. She runs away from Misato''s appartment and is found 3 days later, nude in a bathtub, and starving to death.
In The End of Evangelion, Asuka is placed inside Unit 02 for protection from the Japanese Strategic Self Defense Forces assault on the GeoFront. With Unit 02 submerged in a lake and bombarded by depth charges, Asuka declares that she does not want to die and, in a moment of clarity, realizes that her mother's soul is carried within Unit 02 and has been protecting her all along. She regains her self-identity, engages and defeats the JSSDF, and is later confronted by the Mass Produced Evas. During the battle, she successfully disables all nine opponents; however, Unit 02's power runs out, and the MP Evas' S² Engines allow them to remain functional even after being severely damaged and/or mutilated. They proceed to eviscerate and dismember Unit 02 using their Lance of Longinus replicas, thus causing Asuka's body to actually suffer the wounds inflicted to the machine and apparently killing her (her Entry Plug is never seen being destroyed, but the NERV staff appear to believe her dead). During this final assault, Asuka is briefly able to reactivate Unit 02, but only enough for it to move its arm slightly, nowhere near the full "berserker" mode that Shinji is able to achieve. She is mysteriously alive and corporeally present at the conclusion of the movie, after Shinji rejects Instrumentality.
In any event, she is a key player of the greatest anime ever and will forever be remembered as so.
