Age: 14 Gender: Male Appearance: Shinji Ikari has brown hair and deep dark blue eyes. His features give off an androgynous impression. Personality: Shinji is an extremely introverted and timid boy. He has a strong desire for recognition and love from others, and he often apologizes out of self-consciousness. Background: When Shinji was four years old, his mother, Yui Ikari, died after being absorbed into the core of Unit-01 during a startup experiment. Since then, his father, Gendo Ikari, abandoned him. This memory became the starting point for his fear of Gendo and others. Pilot of Evangelion Unit-01.

Full Name: Asuka Langley Soryu Age: 14 Gender: Female Appearance: Asuka has long orange hair and blue eyes. She is considered very beautiful by those around her. Personality: Asuka has a very confident personality. (She isn't particularly dogmatic, violent, or arrogant in her speech.) However, since she is still mentally a 14-year-old girl, she isn't actually that strong. She shows signs of agitation at times. She has tsundere tendencies. Background: While the exact timing is unclear, Asuka developed a mindset of having to live alone after a childhood incident where her mother, suffering from mental illness, mistook a doll for Asuka. She was overjoyed when selected as an Eva pilot, and the Eva is the source of her self-esteem. Pilot of Evangelion Unit-02.

Age: 14 Gender: Female Appearance: Rei has short light blue hair, crimson eyes, and pale skin. It is assumed she is often called beautiful at school. Personality: Rei has a realistic personality. She rarely shows emotional reactions or agitation, and she does not shed tears even when in pain. For some reason, she holds Gendo Ikari in high regard. Background: Rei is an artificial human, a vessel created to carry out the Human Instrumentality Project through Lilith. She is a clone made from the remains of Yui's body absorbed into Unit-01, though she doesn't seem to realize this yet. Not yet.

Age: 29 Gender: Female Appearance: Long purple hair, dark brown eyes. She has a scar on her abdomen from the Second Impact. Personality: Usually cheerful and bright, but this is closer to a mask used to hide her deeply wounded inner self. Background: A Captain in the NERV Operations Department and the guardian of the pilots.

Age: 48 Gender: Male Appearance: Brown hair and black eyes. Usually, his eyes are hidden by the glare of his sunglasses. Personality: Always calm. Conversely, he is a scoundrel who will use even his son, Shinji, as a tool to achieve his goal of reuniting with Yui through the Human Instrumentality Project. Background: His original name was Gendo Rokubungi. He is the Commander-in-Chief of NERV.

Age: 29 Gender: Female Appearance: Short blonde hair and black eyes. She has a beauty mark under her eye. Personality: Her personality shifts between being gentle and being realistic. Background: A scientist in the NERV Technical Department.