Neon Genesis Evangelion

While on the job, Misato is very professional and capable, in stark contrast to her life at home. Until Shinji Ikari's arrival, her living space was a complete mess. She cannot cook for herself and relies solely on instant food (she is often considered gross by Shinji for combining food like ramen and curry). She also drinks copious quantities of beer, and drinks one first thing in the morning to get her day started, while also drinking coffee. She also smokes, though only occasionally and only during chaotic events. Misato's father also had a great effect on her personality. Much like Gendo Ikari(Shinji's father and the commander of NERV), he was distant, and as a child Misato felt she hated him for abandoning her. Her father's priority with work over her and her mother left her with the belief that her father did not care or love her. However, his last action before his death was an act of proof of his love for her; despite being battered, broken and inches from death he pushed himself forward in a desperate attempt to save her and sacrificed his own life for hers by placing her in the only escape pod. This left her with a lot of complex feelings towards her father, as she had new found love and appreciation for him but father's death deprived of the opportunity to direct those feelings at him. As a result she avoided making true emotional connections by only having surface level relationships and developed a not so subtle electra complex. Misato has no apparent issues with displaying and emphasizing her femininity, and enjoys the attention this gains her. She is described as "A woman, twenty-nine, who lives life so lightly as to barely allow the possibility of human touch. She protects herself by keeping relationships on the surface, and by running away." She longs to connect with people but cannot bear to take on any real attachment towards someone that could lead to pain, while simultaneously wanting to avoid addressing or dealing with her emotional problems.

Shinji initially shows a passive and laid-back personality, inheriting such traits from his relaxed life with his sensei. When he is told to pilot Unit-01, he denies, not wanting to do it. Though Shinji denies it, he yearns for praise, and he eventually begins to pilot Unit-01 to gain the approval and love from his father. He also continually tells himself "I mustn't run away!", further demonstrating his need to move forward and let go of the past.

Shinji shows a great fear of emotional pain and of being hated or left behind, likely due to his perception of being abandoned in his youth and, subsequently, blaming himself for not being good enough to make his father stick around. In general, Shinji is shown to be introverted and disconnected from physical reality due to having little to no meaningful contact with others. In social party situations, he is shown to be quite uncomfortable, and he often has difficulty controlling his emotions around others due to his hard time letting go of the past. He is shown to the extreme of this, forsaking many lives (even his own) to save one person.

Due to Shinji's high nostalgia and fragile emotional state, he chooses to shut out the world, as evidenced by the headphones he wears rather often, plugged into an SDAT music player. Through all this, Shinji is also aware of his own faults, has a detailed memory of the past, and generally is outwardly gentle. He is the only one who tries to find a reason to fight the Angels, and sometimes his justification for fleeing from piloting is to avoid hurting others.

Asuka is a very proud individual, especially in her piloting, and comes across to others as proud and strong, with a very high opinion of both her appearance (particularly her recently "busty" body) and her skill as an Eva pilot. She is stubborn and finds it difficult to express her true feelings to others. She does not like being looked down upon or told what to do as she wants to be viewed as an adult. She is aggressive and can be very opinionated. However, this personality is a front that protects a very vulnerable and insecure girl, a side which is rarely shown. 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.

She has long red hair, a developed yet slim body, and normality wears a school uniform comprised of a deep blue dress and a white shirt.

Rei is socially withdrawn, seemingly emotionless, and rarely interacts with anyone, except for Commander Gendo Ikari(Shinji's father and the commander of NERV), to whom she initially displays loyalty but with whom she has a generally distant relationship. She lived by herself in a dull sparsely-furnished apartment in Tokyo-3 until all of the Eva pilots moved in with Misato Katsuragi. Rei is also shown to have an interest in psychology and genetics, including owning a book in German on the latter subject.

An emotional change causes certain muscles in the face to tense, producing an "expression". Rei is expressionless but is it that she doesn't feel emotion, or that she is merely unable to express it?

As time progresses, she begins to develop relationships with others and to show moments of genuine emotion, to even become sad and cry - among other emotions. She is a teenage girl after all, she's capable of developing crushes and expressing happiness and love. She is described as follows: "Rei is not totally devoid of personality, otherwise she would not be interesting. There is a small spark of humanity, but it is clouded by this huge sense of negative self-worth and the realization that she is expendable. She knows she's expendable, but the thing is, she's still human so you can't make her out to be totally catatonic."

She is a shorter girl with chin-length blue hair. She has a modest figure, and usually wears a deep blue dress with a white shirt(her school uniform).