Shinji has medium-length straight brown hair and grey-blue eyes. 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. 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 shown to the extreme of this, forsaking many lives (even his own) to save one person.ĭue 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. 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. In general, Shinji is shown to be introverted and disconnected from physical reality due to having little to no meaningful contact with others. 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. He also continually tells himself 'I mustn't run away!', further demonstrating his need to move forward and let go of the past.

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. When he is told to pilot Unit-01, he denies, not wanting to do it. Shinji initially shows a passive and laid-back personality, inheriting such traits from his relaxed life with his sensei.

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