History Characters / StrategicCyborgEvangelion

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu - Taunts [[spoiler:''Zeruel'']] after scoring the first visible bit of damage on him in the entire battle. The Angel's reaction is YouGotSpunk while Asuka's is a JawDrop.

* HotScientist - She has a degree in genetics.

* KnifeNut - She's got a ''lot'' of these in her coat. Also good with them in an Eva, to the point of [[EyeScream stabbing Sachiel in both eyes at once]], all but goring Sarafiel with one and slashing Israfel mid-flight with two.
* LadyOfWar

* BadassBiker - Has an electric motorbike as her transportation of choice.
* BadassBookworm - She has an IQ of 164, higher than the city's entire high-school age population.
* BadassLongcoat - A black trenchcoat she wears at all times while not piloting. It is essentially her equivalent of her canon counterpart's school uniform. [[spoiler:She wears it as a countermeasure to DirtyMindReading, hiding her body so that boys won't think about it.]]

* BikerBabe - Her introduction in the first chapter has her almost running Kaworu down with her bike, getting an earful from Hikari as a result.
* ColdSniper - Aside from her cold mannerisms, she's a crack shot and prefers single-shot long-range weapons over automatic ones.
* CrazyPrepared - Her ExtendedDisarming scene in has her procuring an absurd amount of weaponry from her coat, including a ''grenade launcher''.

* [[spoiler:CryCute]] - [[spoiler:Into Kaworu's chest when she finds out that he's her LongLostSibling.]]

* {{Meganekko}} - Subverted: she has mild hyperopia and doesn't actually need corrective wear per se but wears them anyway to keep her eyesight from deteriorating further. She only wears glasses at home, using contact lenses instead while in public.

* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl - Aside from an early demonstration of SuperStrength, she's also revealed to possess [[spoiler:psychic powers]].

* FingerlessGloves - Black ones.

* BiTheWay

* HeroicAlbino - One of the bullies he confronts in chapter 2 even taunts him about it by calling him Snow White. Hikari actually asks if he is one, but not even Kaworu knows.

* SomeoneYourOwnSize - Declares this to '''[[spoiler:Zeruel]]'''. The Angel is mildly amused.

* KnifeNut - She's got a ''lot'' of these in her coat.
** And her throwing skills are good enough to ''[[EyeScream knife someone in the eye]] from beyond visual range in fog''!

* MurderousThighs - She can snap necks with them.

* NotSoStoic - When Kaworu shows her his tattoo, the same one she has, Rei completely loses her composure, going from [[spoiler:stumbling around in shock]], to [[spoiler:yelling at him]] to [[spoiler:crying into his chest]].
* [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]] - She brutally kills over a dozen people at one point with a mixture of sniping and ambushing.

* ThePowerOfRock - She's a fan of death metal and metalcore.

* AdaptationalBadass - He's considerably more of a fighter than in canon.

* TheAlcoholic - He's a heavy drinker but somehow never gets drunk, no matter how much alcohol he consumes. He gets away with it only because Yui warned him not to even try DrinkingOnDuty.

* BadassBystander - Against Sachiel.

* ChasteHero - He outright states a lack of interest in relationships, much to Toji's shock. Later on, he also tells Rei to PleasePutSomeClothesOn without any hint of embarrassment or arousal.
* CombatPragmatist - His hand-to-hand fighting style is rather brutal, ranging from [[GroinAttack full-powered kicks to the crotch]] that leave the victim in such excruciating pain as to need assistance to stand up, to bending his victim over and repeatedly kneeing them in the stomach until said victim throws up.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu - Even after witnessing Sachiel administering a beatdown to Rei and having only sat in Unit-00 for a few minutes, he relentlessly calls the Angel out on all the pain and destruction it caused. [[TheBully Sachiel]] is understandably pissed... before Kaworu starts backing his words with [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the Eva's fists]], demonstrating that the Angel is actually [[SubvertedTrope much weaker than it looks]].
* GadgeteerGenius - He has small-current electronics as a hobby and even built a tripwire-controlled nailgun to keep intruders out of his room.

* HeroicAlbino - One of the bullies he confronts in chapter 2 even taunts him about it by calling him Snow White.
* IShallTauntYou - To Sachiel. And it actually works; as it turns out, Angels are just as vulnerable to psychological warfare as humans.
* KnightTemplar - He's not at all squeamish about getting his hands dirty, to the point where he gives Sachiel a brutal beating while calling out all the death and destruction it caused before killing it, all without being prompted to do so.

* NeverGetsDrunk - He can down an entire bottle of vodka in a single swig and suffer no ill effects. In fact, he uses alcohol in place of coffee to wake himself up.

* BadassBiker - Has an electrically powered motorbike as her transportation of choice. She's good enough of a driver to take highly accurate sniper shots while riding.

* ImprobableAimingSkills - Sniping human-sized targets from across the street with an anti-material rifle held one-handed and while FastRoping with the other hand probably counts as this. As do headshotting someone standing behind her with a machine pistol fired at full-auto from across the room without looking, ''using the target's reflection in someone else's eye to aim''. Or accurately sniping from the seat of a moving motorbike.

* ThePowerOfRock - She's a fan of death metal and metalcore, almost constantly listening to it in her earplugs.

* ReligiousBruiser - Despite excelling in the art of killing, she's shown to be praying for God's forgiveness at one point.
* RoomFullOfCrazy - The ceiling of her room is written full of Kabbalistic symbols, diagrams and biblical text including the Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelations.

* SuperReflexes - during the Ramiel battle, [[spoiler:one of the Angel's drones shot an energy beam at her from behind]]. Rei's response was to [[spoiler:spin her Eva around, go into BulletTime and ''[[AttackReflector deflect the beam into another opponent]] with her sword'', calculating the exact angle required to deflect the beam onto target without ruining her weapon]].

* SuperStrength - At the age of nine, she was already able to kick down a door with enough force to send it flying, even knocking down someone who happened to be behind the door. The exact limit of her strength is unknown but she kicks Kaworu across her room without any effort.

Her backstory was revealed late in the first season: [[spoiler: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.]]

* BayonetYa - She's pretty skilled with a bayonet.

** Confirmed in chapter 13 where she [[spoiler:masturbates while fantasizing about [[LesYay Mari]]]].

* TragicKeepsake - [[spoiler:The stone she wears as pendant is implied to be Kyoko's.]]
* {{Tsundere}} - Come on, Asuka isn't Asuka without this!

* ArbitrarySkepticism - She works with Evas on a daily basis yet she has a hard time believing the Dead Sea Scrolls

* PowerHair
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure - Despite having basically threatened Kaworu into working for her, that was the only time she acted antagonistically towards him. She's not above giving him a pay bonus if he does his job well.

* TheSpock - Not emotionless by any means but she's still

* WarriorPoet - He picked up quite a vocabulary when he rewrote himself.

* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter - she LOVES this, taking it far enough to freak even Asuka out

* JapaneseSiblingTerminology - Used ''incorrectly''. She calls Adam ''niisan'' even though she's the older one.

* WomanInBlack - Almost all of her clothing is black, except for her plugsuit.

* JapaneseHonorifics - Mostly uses ''san'' towards everyone except Yui, whom she calls ''Hakase-dono''. According to author's notes, that's supposed to be Lilith's equivalent of ThankTheMaker.

The main protagonist of the story, Kaworu is a fourteen year old orphan who grew up on the streets of Vienna. Not having had a family to depend on, nor memories about his early childhood, he was essentially forced to raise himself; the result is a friendly but independent boy who can live by himself just fine. Unlike his canon incarnation, however, Kaworu is streetwise and completely in touch with the world. His worldview, on the other hand, is a rather pessimistic one: he believes that the world is dominated by AsskickingEqualsAuthority where everyone takes what they need from those who can't defend themselves. From that opinion arises his wish to support those who can't defend themselves, even if he brings hardships onto himself by doing so.

* TheAlcoholic - He's a heavy drinker but somehow never gets drunk, no matter how much alcohol he consumes. He gets away with it only because Yui told him not to even try DrinkingOnDuty.

* ChasteHero - He's essentially the SpearCounterpart to InnocentFanserviceGirl, casually telling Rei to PleasePutSomeClothesOn without any hint of embarrassment or arousal.

* HeroicAlbino

** In fact, the second chapter draws explicit parallels between him and ''Adolf Hitler''.

* TheMcCoy - Considerably more emotional than in canon.

* UnskilledButStrong - Unlike Rei and Asuka, Kaworu has no combat skills at first.

* BadassBookworm - She has an IQ of 164.
* BadassLongcoat - A black trenchcoat she wears at all times while not piloting. It is essentially her equivalent of her canon counterpart's school uniform.
* BikerBabe - Her introduction in the first chapter has her busting through the school's gates with her bike.

* KnightTemplar - Even more so than Kaworu!

* NietzscheWannabe - Unlike Kaworu whose pessimistic worldview is contrasted by an optimistic personality, Rei is an all-around pessimist.

* LeParkour - Assisted by telekinesis. She can scale walls and run vertically upwards pretty much indefinitely.

* SpockSpeak - Implied that she uses it by choice, as she fully understands slang and everyday euphemisms when others use them.
* TheStoic - Appears to be at first, with her even priding herself on it. Later revealed to be very much NotSoStoic, with extensive internal conflicts.

* SugarAndIcePersonality - She eventually opens up to Kaworu.

* WomanInBlack - Almost all of her clothing is black.

* CovertPervert - She's repeatedly shown [[LesYay gleefully peeping at a naked Rei]] with implications that [[spoiler:she's... ''[[ADateWithRosiePalms having fun]]'' while doing it]].

''"Jawohl, mein Führer!"''

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 [[GurrenLagann Kamina]], to... ''interesting'' results: he has a pessimistic worldview that the world is a crappy place powered by AsskickingEqualsAuthority where everyone takes what they need from those who can't defend themselves and no one tries to change things because StatusQuoIsGod. He wants to change this but seeing as most people simply think he's a LargeHam nutjob, [[BlatantLies it isn't like he means it, right?]]

He became a pilot when [[spoiler: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]].

* ActionSurvivor - As Asuka points it out, it's not competence or PlotArmor that makes him survive Angel battles but pure, sheer luck. And a heaping help of improvisation.

* ATeamFiring - His aptitude with firearms is absolutely ''abysmal''. [[spoiler:When not using the Spear of Longinus, that is.]]

* TheMcCoy

* [[spoiler:NotQuiteHuman]] - [[spoiler:His DNA doesn't quite match up with that of a baseline human. His alcohol and infection resistance is also far beyond normal.]]

* ScrewDestiny - He's an atheist precisely because he hates being controlled by a higher power. [[spoiler:If only he knew about the G-Man...]]
* StoneWall - His task in the team is keeping the enemy's attention on himself.

* UnskilledButStrong - Aside from some streetfighting experience, Kaworu is a complete amateur when it comes to combat.

''"Indeed."''

Rei is Kaworu's classmate and Yui's [[spoiler: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. The result is a Rei who moves from team cannon fodder and walking fanservice to being a highly competent pilot but having serious abandonment 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.

* AcePilot - Mostly Bushwhacker, forced upon her by Unit-00's [[FlawedPrototype faulty construction]] making it too fragile for close combat. That's not to say she can't fight as a Steamroller, mind you.

* BadassLongcoat - A black trenchcoat, hiding both her figure and her weapons.

* BrokenBird - [[spoiler:BeneathTheMask of her indifference, she has [[StoicWoobie very low self-esteem]]]].

* CrazyPrepared - Her ExtendedDisarming scene in [=S1Ch22=] has her procuring an absurd amount of weaponry from her trenchcoat including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AG36 this]]

* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl - So far she demonstrated {{Telepathy}}, SuperStrength and CeilingCling on a vertical surface.

* FriendlessBackground - Mostly due to her [[BadassLongcoat unusual]] [[CoolShades appearance]], Rei's pretty much a social outcast in her class - in fact, omake ''The present'' reveals that she had no friends as far back as elementary school. She initially appears to not care about it [[spoiler:until it's revealed that she has cripplingly low self-esteem and doesn't approach anyone because she thinks they'd never understand her]].
* ImprobableAimingSkills - Sniping human-sized targets from across the street with an anti-material rifle held one-handed and while FastRoping with the other hand probably counts as this. As do headshotting someone standing behind her with a machine pistol[[note]]fired at full-auto so technically it was 10+ headshots[[/note]] from across the room without looking, ''using the target's reflection in someone else's eye to aim''. Or accurately sniping from the seat of a moving motorbike.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl - Rei was already this in canon and the author saw it better not to change it. As a result, this Rei has no complaints about [[spoiler:parading naked in front of Kaworu]].

* NietzscheWannabe - She's pretty pessimistic in general.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace - Towards Kaworu later on, [[SheIsNOTMyGirlfriend drawing a lot of attention]].

* TheStoic - Bit less than canon but still stoic.

* SuperStrength - In ''The present'', she kicks down a door. And by kicking down, we mean blowing it clean off its hinges so hard it knocked the guy standing behind it to the ground. Oh, and did we mention she was ''nine'' at the time?
* UnkemptBeauty - She doesn't care about her own appearance all that much.
* WalkingArmory - A sword, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M82_Barrett_rifle Barret M82A1]], two [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi#Military_variants Micro Uzis]], two custom-modified [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateba_Autorevolver Matebas]], an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AG36 AG36 grenade launcher]] and a shitload of knives.

''"What an idiot..."''

The newest member of Kaworu's class, Asuka instantly develops animosity with Kaworu, seeing him as a WideEyedIdealist 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 [[MiniMecha battleframe]] pilot and hand-to-hand fighter with ambitions of following her father's footsteps and enlisting as she comes of age; her expertise is what got her recruited by Yui. Also, Asuka is the youngest of the pilots.

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

* ArbitrarySkepticism - she works with Evas on a daily basis yet she has a hard time believing the Dead Sea Scrolls

* HotScientist - She DOES have a degree in biotechnology.
* IronLady - And Rei appears to be heading towards this as well.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* TheSpock

''"Riiight..."''

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

''"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."''

'''''"I MUST HAVE BLOOD!!!"'''''

* DoNotTauntCthulhu - Even after witnessing Sachiel administering a beatdown to Rei and having only sat in Unit-00 for a few minutes, he relentlessly calls the Angel out on all the pain and destruction it caused. [[TheBully Sachiel]] is understandably pissed... before Kaworu starts backing his words with [[NoHoldsBarredDeatdown the Eva's fists]], demonstrating that the Angel is actually [[SubvertedTrope much weaker than it looks]].

''"Yo, '''WAZZZZUUUUUP?!'''"''

* ActionSurvivor - as Asuka points it out, it's not competence or PlotArmor that makes him survive Angel battles but pure, sheer luck. And a heaping help of improvisation.
* AdaptationalBadass
* TheAlcoholic - he's a heavy drinker and gets away with it only because Yui told him not to even try DrinkingOnDuty.
* BadassBystander - against Sachiel.
* ChasteHero - he's essentially the SpearCounterpart to InnocentFanserviceGirl
* CheshireCatGrin
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* DoNotTauntCthulhu - even after witnessing Sachiel administering a beatdown to Rei and having only sat in Unit-00 for a few minutes, he relentlessly calls the Angel out on all the pain and destruction it caused. [[TheBully Sachiel]] is understandably pissed... before Kaworu starts backing his words with the Eva's fists, demonstrating that the Angel is actually [[SubvertedTrope much weaker than it looks]].
* GadgeteerGenius - he has small-current electronics as a hobby.
* GivingTheSwordToANoob - unlike Rei, Kaworu has no skill with polearms but still gets the Lance of Longinus because also unlike Rei, he has [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy no skill with firearms]] either.

* IShallTauntYou - to Sachiel. And it actually works as it turns out Angels are just as vulnerable to psychological warfare as humans.
* KnightTemplar - he's not at all squeamish about getting his hands dirty, to the point where he gives Sachiel a brutal beating while calling out all the death and destruction it caused before killing it, all without being prompted to do so.

* [[spoiler:LovecraftianSuperpower]] - [[spoiler:in a ShoutOut to VideoGame/{{Prototype}}, Kaworu can morph his arms into claws that can cut through most things including glass like paper]]
* ManlyTears - [[spoiler:in the first season finale]]

* MessyHair
* MysteriousPast - not only he doesn't have any family, he's suffering from amnesia and doesn't remember anything from his childhood.
* NeverGetsDrunk - confirmed. He's also shown doing a Misato-style {{Beergasm}}, downing an entire bottle of vodka in a single swig in place of coffee to wake himself up.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent - his BerserkButton.
* ParentalAbandonment - he used to be an orphaned street kid before coming to Tokyo-2 and according to Yui, there are no records of his parents whatsoever
* ScannableMan - not a barcode but he has a serial number tattooed onto his arm.
* ScrewDestiny - he's an atheist precisely because he hates being controlled by a higher power. [[spoiler:If only he knew about the G-Man...]]
* StoneWall - his task in the team is keeping the enemy's attention on himself.
* [[spoiler:TimeAbyss - the intro of Part 2 confirms that Kaworu is still very much alive in 3672.]]
* UnskilledButStrong - aside from some streetfighting experience, Kaworu is a complete amateur

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 [[spoiler: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.

* AcePilot - mostly Bushwhacker but force her into close combat and she'll go Steamroller with her sword

* AntiHero - type 4: she has no moral qualms about killing and torturing people if the situation calls for it
* BadassBiker
* BadassBookworm - she has an IQ of 164
* BadassLongcoat
* BikerBabe - her introduction in the first chapter has her busting through the school's gates with her bike
* BrokenBird - [[spoiler:BeneathTheMask of her indifference, she has [[StoicWoobie very low self-esteem]] which eventually resulted in a [[DrivenToSuicide suicide attempt]]]]
* [[spoiler:ColdSniper]]
* CrazyPrepared - her ExtendedDisarming scene in [=S1Ch22=] has her procuring an absurd amount of weaponry from her trenchcoat including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AG36 this]]
* CreepyChild - according to some of her classmates

* DeathGlare - she gets her kicks out of this
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness - when [[spoiler:she's about to kill herself]]
* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl - so far she demonstrated {{Telepathy}}, SuperStrength, CeilingCling on a vertical surface, [[spoiler:LovecraftianSuperpower]]...
* FascinatingEyebrow - she takes this to almost [[Series/StargateSG1 Teal'c]]-levels
* FingerlessGloves - black ones, she takes them off prior to deploying [[spoiler:her LovecraftianSuperpower]]
* FriendlessBackground - mostly due to her [[BadassLongcoat unusual]] [[CoolShades appearance]], Rei's pretty much a social outcast in her class - in fact, omake ''The present'' reveals that she had no friends as far back as elementary school. She initially appears to not care about it [[spoiler:until it's revealed that she has cripplingly low self-esteem and doesn't approach anyone because they'd never understand her]].
* GoingCommando - implied in the first season
* ImprobableAimingSkills - [[spoiler:sniping human-sized targets from across the street with an anti-material rifle held one-handed and while FastRoping with the other hand]] probably counts as this. As do headshotting someone standing behind her with a machine pistol[[note]]fired at full-auto so technically it was 10+ headshots[[/note]] from across the room without looking, ''using the target's reflection in someone else's eye to aim''.
** [=S2Ch9=] reveals that Rei can dismember opponents with medium-range sniper shots. ''In fog so thick you can't see further than twenty meters.''
* InnocentFanserviceGirl - Rei was already this in canon and the author saw it better not to change it. As a result, this Rei has no complaints about [[spoiler:parading naked in front of Kaworu]]
* {{Keigo}} - when conversing in Japanese with Tabris in [=S1Ch23=], she uses the ultra-polite ''watakushi'' first-person pronoun
* KnifeNut - see CrazyPrepared above

* KnightTemplar

* MurderousThighs - she can snap necks with them
* NietzscheWannabe - she's pretty pessimistic in general and goes on an extended rant when [[spoiler:Kaworu stops her from committing suicide]]
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace - towards Kaworu in Part 2, [[SheIsNOTMyGirlfriend drawing lots of attention]]
* [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]] - she brutally kills over a dozen people in [=S2Ch9=] with a mixture of sniping, ambushing and hit-and-run attacks
* ParentalAbandonment - the primary reason for her being emotionally withdrawn is Yui's attention being focused [[MarriedToTheJob elsewhere]]. The [[DisappearedDad complete lack of a father figure]] doesn't help either.
* LeParkour - assisted by telekinesis. She can scale walls and run vertically upwards pretty much indefinitely.
* ThePowerOfRock - she's a confirmed fan of death metal and metalcore
* TheQuietOne - with the exception of her brief conversations with Kaworu, she never speaks unless spoken to
* ReligiousBruiser
* RoomFullOfCrazy - the ceiling of her room is written full of Kabbalistic symbols, diagrams and biblical text including the Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelations
* SmallGirlBigGun - and a ''tank rifle'' at that
* SpockSpeak - implied that she uses it by choice as she fully understands slang and everyday euphemisms when others say them
* TheStoic
* StreetSamurai - the author was aiming for this impression
* SugarAndIcePersonality - she only opens up to Kaworu

* SuperStrength - in ''The present'', she kicks down a door. And by kicking down, we mean blowing it clean off its hinges so hard it knocked the guy standing behind it to the ground. Oh, and did we mention she was ''nine'' at the time?
* ThousandYardStare - when [[spoiler:she's about to kill herself]]
* TrueNeutral
* UnkemptBeauty
* WalkingArmory - a sword, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M82_Barrett_rifle Barret M82A1]], two [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi#Military_variants Micro Uzis]], two custom-modified [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateba_Autorevolver Matebas]], an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AG36 AG36 grenade launcher]] and a shitload of knives.
* WomanInBlack - her most distinctive feature

* AcePilot - a mixture of Steamroller and Plugger. Her exact role in the team is to execute repeated flanking attacks from range.
* BadassNormal - so far she's the only pilot who appears completely ordinary
* BayonetYa - she's pretty skilled in this

* ChildSoldier - she started her combat training before she even began puberty
* {{Counterattack}} - her favorite tactic if forced into close combat: invoke TheLawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort to cause the enemy to tire itself out and make a mistake she can exploit then hit back ''hard''
* CovertPervert - she's repeatedly shown [[LesYay gleefully peeping at a naked Rei]] with implications that [[spoiler:she's... ''[[ADateWithRosiePalms having fun]]'' while doing it]].

* GoodBadGirl - she dated several guys before but never went all the way. On the other hand, she's bisexual and is a CovertPervert.
* IllBeInMyBunk - Asuka is confirmed to be consciously invoking this on girls with breasts larger than hers
* InSeriesNickname - the stooges nicknamed her "the Blonde Cyclone"[[note]]a beer brand in the author's home country[[/note]]
* LethalChef - outright stated by her father
* {{Meganekko}} - subverted: she only wears glasses at home (she uses contacts everywhere else). She has mild hyperopia and doesn't actually need glasses per se but wears them anyway to keep her eyesight from deteriorating further.
* MilitaryBrat

* TragicKeepsake - [[spoiler:the stone she wears as pendant is implied to be Kyoko's]]
* {{Tsundere}} - come on, Asuka isn't Asuka without this!

* HotScientist - she DOES have a degree in biotechnology
* IronLady - and Rei appears to be heading towards this as well
* MarriedToTheJob - pretty much. Not pulling an all-nighter is the ''exception'' for her.

* TheReveal - she knows [[spoiler:Kaworu's tattoo]] and for some reason it scares the crap out of her

* ColonelBadass

* {{Expy}} - of [[Series/StargateSG1 Jack O'Neill]]
* TheKirk
* MilitaryMaverick - he only follows the rules while he's being watched
* OCStandIn - there is absolutely no canon information available about him so the author took some liberties
* PassingTheTorch - he allows Asuka to pursue her militaristic ambitions because he can't be her guardian forever; he even gave her Marine-grade CQC training
* RetiredBadass
* SemperFi - he's ex-USMC

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 AIs they convert into electric impulses and upload into the Evangelion's core, essentially acting as a crude substitute for a real soul.

* JapaneseHonorifics - as expected from a OneWorldOrder speaking English, they are the only ones from the cast who use them
* JapaneseSiblingTerminology - she calls Adam ''niisan'' even though she's the older one
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence - level 4

* [[HumanPopsicle Evangelion Popsicle]] - at the beginning of the story, getting thawed out for Kaworu
* MachineMonotone - before he became fully operational
* RoboSpeak - ditto
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence - over the course of season 1, upgrades himself from level 3 to level 4 by reading human literature
* WarriorPoet - he picked up quite a vocabulary when he rewrote himself