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     Introduced in Book 1 

Shinji Ikari

The protagonist of Neon Genesis Evangelion. A Child Soldier who fought in a war against Eldritch Abominations, Shinji has been hibernating within Eva-01 for an unknown amount of time at the start of the story, and upon waking up, finds himself in the hands of Aria T'Loak in the Mass Effect universe. Book 1 and 2 chronicle his many misadventures, as well as his relationship with the Queen of Omega.

  • Action Survivor: From a put upon Child Soldier out of his depth in the original series, to a more assured, self sufficient teenager capable of pulling off Indy Ploy and gunfights with surprising ablomb.
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He openly admits that he'd get down on his knees and beg for help saving Tevos' life if he wasn't in such rough shape that he'd likely be unable to stand back up again.
  • Anti-Hero: Type III, with shades of Type V. A total sweet heart under normal circumstances, Shinji nevertheless has no problems riling up interrogators, taking hostages, or even killing trained troops in cold blood, if he feels it necessary to secure his freedom, or save someone he cares about.
  • Beware the Nice Ones=/=Good Is Not Soft: He's as polite and sweet natured as in the series, though more assertive, but Shinji's experiences have made him more ruthless, to the point of being willing to gun down hardened soldiers if he feels their endangering someone he cares for, without hesitation. Looking at you, WILLE.
    • Aria is mildly disturbed that he prefers Cryo rounds because "it's easier to clean up the mess afterwards".
  • Blade Enthusiast: Prefers knives to guns due to having more experience with them.
  • Casual Danger Dialogue: His only reaction to several soldiers pointing guns at him is to wonder why everyone seems to have a nice hat and asking if Rei has one too.
  • Clothes Make the Legend: He dresses almost identically to Aria as a statement that he belongs to her.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Gets fairly sarcastic, especially in Book 2, given who he ends up dealing with.
    • Early in Book 1, Aria asks if Shinji can't hold his liquor. He snarks back that since he grew up outside of time, he wouldn't know; there wasn't a bar.
  • Don't Make Me Destroy You: At separate points he offers both Misato and her soldiers the opportunity to simply stand down and let him save Tevos, stating he's perfectly willing to end things with no more violence. However, he's also perfectly willing to climb over their still warm corpses to save her.
  • Eye Beams: Gains them upon realizing his angelic nature. Unfortunately for him, doubles as an Eye Scream moment also, due to what using one does to a human eyeball.
  • Last of His Kind: Though he looks human, Shinji is technically a Human Alien as he is the last Lilim.
  • May–December Romance: Regardless of how you look at it, there is a huge age gap between Aria and Shinji, moreso due to the Time Abyss.
  • "No More Holding Back" Speech: Gives one upon realizing that he's not just the last Lilim, he is Lilim the last angel.
  • Older Than They Look: Chronologically speaking, he turns out to be impossibly old on account of the Time Abyss of staying in Eva. Physically speaking however, he looks no older than 18 or 19.
  • Only Sane Man: He's frequently acting as one to WILLE through Book 2, calling them out on their tendencies to shoot themselves, and everyone around them in the foot.
  • Percussive Pickpocket: Every time he bumps into a woman, he steals her gun.
  • Pet the Dog: Tries to do right by both Rebuild!Shinji and Rei, even offering them a ride to anywhere in the galaxy they want to go.
  • Sex God: Justified in that Yui downloaded her entire memory into him, including tantric massage. It helps that most of his partners are asari and he studied their physiology heavily.
  • Time Abyss: As in, older than the last trillion universes.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Gets more ruthless and angrier in Book 2, on account of Tevos being incapacitated by WILLE. He calms down once she recovers.
  • Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Hacks the MAGI and adds himself into the chain of command as "Supreme Fleet Rear Admiral Commander Brigadier General Ikari."
  • Unwitting Pawn: Defied. He joins up with Aria and becomes a criminal because, as he explains to Misato, he's really sick and tired of being used as a tool by other people, and suffering for it, and doesn't have to answer to anyone as a criminal. When she rebukes that everyone has to answer to someone, he snarks that she and Sederis would have gotten along.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Tells Genesis Shinji that he is the only one who ever really accomplished anything in NERV and they blamed and shunned him until they came crawling back to him, having accomplished nothing in the 14 years he was in stasis.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Apparently, Kaworu contacted him to explain that he's been dropped into the Rebuild universe. Shinji assumes he's joking, until he realizes who's conducting his medical examination.

Aria T'loak

Space Pirate, crime boss, and effective ruler of Omega, Aria finds herself in the unusual position of fishing a human teenager with no record within the Alliance out of the body of a Humongous Mecha. After a rocky start, she ends up in an unusual relationship with the bewildered chap.

  • Anti-Hero: Type V. Aria is a crime lord who bluntly explains to Ritsuko that she has little interest in morality, or saving the world. She's a hero in the contemporary sense in that she works on Pragmatic Villainy, has some standards, and on account of her relationships with Shepard and Shinji encouraging her to keep a soft approach.
  • Dating Catwoman: Crime boss in love with former Mecha Pilot and Child Soldier? Everyone's fairly bewildered as to what the two see in each other.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Doesn't allow slavery, organ trafficking, or biochemical weapon trading on Omega, and has several Pet the Dog moments.
    • Early in Book 1, she kills Dr Rentola when he asks for permission to euthanise and dissect an unconscious Shinji For Science!.
  • Not Your Problem: When Ritsuko attempts to convince Aria to give up the assault on WILLE and let them keep Genesis Shinji, on the grounds that doing otherwise would doom the Rebuild Universe's human race, Aria bluntly makes it clear that she couldn't care less. Given that Shinji just wanted to go home, and WILLE responded to Shinji saving their captain by attempting to kill him, Aria's lack of sympathy is unsurprising.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Part of the reason for her blocking all eezo shipments from Omega is she then gets to charge people a second time for said shipments after the embargo is over.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Considerably less evil than in canon due to being exposed to a full paragon Shepard.
  • Tranquil Fury: She keeps perfectly calm upon seeing WILLE attacking and considering gunning down a helpless Shinji, but everyone knows she's really freaking pissed, and her actions in response leave no ambiguity on the matter.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: When the Citadel kidnap Shinji, she blocks of all eezo shipments from Omega on the spot before pulling a rescue operation. When she witnesses upon exiting the mass relay, WILLE knocking Shinji out and threatening to kill him, she plots to invade and capture the Wunder there and then.

Tisala

An asari and former Council Spectre, often seen with Shinji. Introduced early in Book 1 and pops up throughout. Takes the place of one of Shinji's most trusted friends throughout the story. Survived only due to Pragmatic Villainy on the part of Aria due to her actions early in the tale. Is revealed to have some serious PTSD

  • The Ace: The reason Aria spares her early in Book 1. Even with her issues she considers her far too valuable to outright kill and leaves Shinji to resolve her problems later in the tale.
  • Broken Ace: What she's revealed to be later in the story, and implied to also be the only reason Shinji managed to hold her off after she kidnapped him. She gets better though, invoking fully the I Am Not Left-Handed trope, according to Shinji, as a result.
  • Sudden Principled Stand: She resigns immediately after turning Shinji into the Council, being disgusted at having to kidnap an innocent young man.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: During her fight with Shinji, she knocks away her gun when she thinks he's leaping for it and when Shinji reveals he was going for the omnitool, she points out that communications won't work. Shinji actually wanted it for the built in knife.

Tevos

  • Cunning Linguist: Besides being arguably the most diplomatic councilor, she's also fluent in nearly a dozen Earth languages.
  • Damsel in Distress: Due to WILLE not knowing anything about asari biology, they're attempts to sedate her leave her in a coma for several chapters.

EDEN

     Introduced in Book 2 

Shinji Ikari

Protagonist of Rebuild of Evangelion, our readers find our alternate Shinji in the tragic aftermath of Rebuild 3.0, barely functioning as he is dragged to the WILLE fleet by Captain Shikinami. After having a rough time, his luck finally starts to turn around upon having a face-to-face with himself.

Asuka Langley Shikinami

The Second Child, pilot of Eva Unit-02, and a 28 year old war veteran in the body of a 14 year old. Former friend and co-worker of Shinji Ikari, our reader finds her watching a trio of SEELE MP Evas overlooking a duplicate Unit-01 that fell out of the Room of Gauf, as she attempts to drag Rebuild Shinji, Rei Q, and herself through the desert to the Wunder, in the aftermath of 3.0
  • Anti-Hero: Type II. Much as she hates her job, it's what she's good at, and what the world needs, so she puts up with it. And while she is unpleasant to deal with on the surface, she does care about the people around her, even if she's frustrated by their quirks and mistakes.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: She's ultimately willing to forgive Shinji for causing Fourth impact, not that she wholly blames him to begin with. What she does have a harder time forgiving is the fact that Shinji returned to Eva for Rei, and later Rei Q, not for Asuka.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 14 years later, she's still just as obnoxious as she was before, calling people demeaning nicknames suck as 'brat', 'idiot', or 'doll', and generally being unfriendly even to the people she's close to. But she keeps a spare set of spectacles for Mari in case she loses them, keeps Shinji and Rei Q safe on the way to the Wunder, and when Genesis Shinji offers to help Rebuild Shinji get of his Heroic BSoD, she takes him up on it, albeit in her seemingly uncaring way.
  • Never My Fault: Subverted. Much as it pains her to admit, she realises that she's just as, if not more responsible for Fourth Impact than Shinji, as she had the opportunity to tell the truth and talk him out of it, but wasted it in favour of trying to kill him.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Trying to kill Shinji, and only attempting to talk him out of pulling the spears when she literally had no other option, was not the wisest decision she's made. She knows it, and it's likely why she's relatively soft towards Shinji.
  • Not Growing Up Sucks: Because of the Curse of Eva, she's a 28 year old soldier stuck as a teenager and she's not happy about it. The fact that she suffers 'childish' emotions as a consequence of being perpetually hormonal doesn't help either.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Sacrificed Unit-02 to take down Unit-13. Genesis Shinji is shocked that she did so.
  • Pride: She's offended when SEELE's Evas ignore her, as it means they don't even consider her a threat, and she generally hates appearing weak and fearful in front of anyone, even if it's the smartest decision to make.
  • Running Gag: Both Genesis Shinji and Aria call her Sohryu, and both times she corrects them, the first time with frustration, the second with a bit of shock.
  • Undying Loyalty: To WILLE. When choosing between Unit-01 and saving her organisation, the organisation comes first.

Misato Katsuragi

Captain of the WILLE fleet, effectively the biggest threat to Gendo for the time being. In the aftermath of Fourth Impact, our dear captain is thrown for a loop when an older duplicate of her former charge, as well as a blue alien are found to have to passed through the Room of Gauf.

Ritsuko Akagi

Misato's second in command, and key scientific and technological expert of the WILLE staff. Ends up triggering a set of Disaster Dominoes upon encountering Tevos and the other Shinji.

  • Anti-Hero: Solid Type IV. She'll save the world, even if she has to use and kill a child, amongst other things, to do it.
  • Asshole Victim: A non-fatal example. During Aria's infiltration of the Wunder, she takes her out, and starts interrogating her, with painful results. After everything's she's pulled, it's somewhat satisfying to see her knocked down a peg.
  • Dirty Business: Her opinion on what she's done: If saving the human race means becoming a monster, then she's willing to pay that price.
  • Jerkass: Even with her good intentions, she's still an unpleasant person to deal with, and it's pretty much hate at first sight between her and Genesis Shinji. Between injecting Tevos with a tranquilliser for rabid dogs, and considering execution for Shinji in spite of saving her and Misato's life, Shinji's admittance that he doesn't like her much is easy to understand.
    • Jerkass Has a Point: She admits that she doesn't actually have anything personal against either Shinji, but believes that sacrifices have to be made to win, even if it involves killing children who's only crime was trying to do the right thing, and screwing up horrendously. She also points out that while principles and morals are good and all, they're hard to appreciate if people end up dead when trying to uphold them.
  • Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Played with. She is a scientific genius, after all, but there's really no denying that she makes some stupid decisions and assumptions due to not knowing her limits. For one, she doesn't even consider that as an asari, Tevos might react differently to chemicals than an animal or human would, with near lethal consequences. She also tries to deny that ''Genesis'' Shinji was an Eva pilot on the grounds that he hasn't suffered the Curse of Eva, without considering that even her knowledge of the Evas is somewhat limited.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Tranquillising Tevos instead gets her into a coma and very nearly causes brain death, because neither her nor the other WILLE doctors have dealt with an asari's physiology before. This causes a chain of events beginning with Rebuild Shinji turning on WILLE, and ending with Aria and him conquering the organisation.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Is one, and wants Misato to become a more extreme one.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Encouraged Misato to decapitate Rebuild Shinji with an Explosive Leash in 3.0.

Mari Illustrious Makinami

WILLE's other pilot, and Asuka's partner-in-crime. She's stuck in the same situation as her, being about the same age, and the same age body.
  • Affably Evil / Wild Card: Downplayed on both counts. She's not evil, but she has little real loyalty to WILLE beyond their commitment to saving the world. She'll prevent Aria from taking Genesis Shinji, but only because WILLE would not tolerate her doing her doing otherwise. Outside of that, she proves surprisingly apathetic on what happens to her crew, just watching from the sidelines as Shinji ploughs through them.
  • Anti-Hero: Type V. As she admits, her only concern is piloting Eva, and taking down NERV and SEELE. Beyond that, she's nowhere near as invested in WILLE as the rest of the crew.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Generally not on the same plane as everyone else. Ritsuko flat out asks if Mari knows she's weird, after she comments on the comatose Tevos' hotness.
  • Covert Pervert: Averted. She's not remotely subtle in her enjoyment of seeing two people in the nude, and even asks Sakura why she isn't taking notes.
  • Nice Girl / The Pollyanna: She's perpetually cheerful and full of support, even if she comes across as weird to everyone else. When Rebuild Shinji, at the tail end of 3.0, freaks over the idea that there's another him walking around, she comforts him with an explanation, and refers to him as 'Puppy-kun' as a term of endearment.
  • Older Than They Look: As with Asuka, she suffers from the Curse of Eva, and is a full grown woman in the body of a teenager, more or less.
    • Not Growing Up Sucks: Notably averted. Unlike Asuka, she has very little problems with not getting older. If she does have any issues with her eternal youth, she's being incredibly tight lipped on the subject.
  • The Nicknamer: 'Puppy-kun', 'Doggy-kun', 'Princess,' 'Space Lady', she's very fond of these.
  • Punch-Clock Hero / Punch-Clock Villain: She's with WILLE because she enjoys piloting Eva, and doesn't have anything against either Shinji despite the two being WILLE's Designated Villains. She doesn't even mind that Genesis Shinji is an Angel, but for WILLE, that's a big no-no, even for a loose cannon like her, so she can't willingly let Aria have him back.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: She's one of the few amongst WILLE who averts this. Between 2.0 and 3.0, and 3.0 to Book 2, she's still as sweet, enthusiastic and extroverted as when she first appeared.

Gendo Ikari

Commander of NERV, and the now driving force behind the Human Instrumentality Project. He's also ''Rebuild'' Shinji's father, and a colossal prick.

Kozou Fuyutsuki

Gendo's second in command, and his co-conspirator in the Human Instrumentality Project. Has relatively little presence in the story compared to Gendo.

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