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[OOC] Exsilium Application
» PLAYER INFORMATION
Player NAME: Stefan
Current AGE: 24
Player TIME ZONE: U.S. Pacific
Personal JOURNAL:chronologist
IM & SERVICE: AIM - dragoon1940
Player PLURK: dragoon1940
Current CHARACTERS: None
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Asuka Langley Soryu
Canon & MEDIUM: Neon Genesis Evangelion - animated television series and movie(s).
Canon PULL-POINT: Post-Second Impact, prior to the beach scene.
Character AGE: 14
Character ABILITIES: Asuka is a child (or teenage, in this case) prodigy and is an extremely quick learner. Give her time and motivation and she can pick up and retain information and physical training very easily. In addition, she's extremely intelligent; as of canon, she's already obtained an undergraduate degree in a unspecified subject. She's also physically fit and is in excellent physical shape for a girl her age. She's also a skilled Eva pilot and, at least when her psyche is relatively healthy, able to achieve a very high synchronization ratio with her Eva unit. This may translate to a certain ability to be able to mentally adapt and link with equipment that requires a mental or psychic link. She does not possess any psychic powers; she is simply able to slip into a connective state. She also retains the muscle memory of using the various weapons her Eva wielded in combat thanks to said synchronization. Although not the best fighter, this means she'll have a decent starting point. Otherwise, she's a fairly normal teenage girl.
Character HISTORY: Asuka was born in Germany in late 2001 to her American father and her mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu. She holds an American citizenship, as well as German. She is one-quarter Japanese, which accounts for her rather strange name. As a young child, she was traumatized by several incidents involving her mother.
Kyoko was injured during a contact test of the Eva 02 series and driven insane when part of her soul was bound to the Eva's core. As a result, she no longer recognized Asuka as her daughter, instead thinking a doll was Asuka and referring to the real Asuka as "that girl over there". This was compounded by her mother's later suicide by hanging; Asuka found the body when she returned to tell her mother the good news that she'd been selected as an Eva pilot. Adding to the horror, her mother had also "killed" the doll.
She declared that she would never cry again and that she would rely only on herself; she would not need help from anyone. Her father remarried, but Asuka never truly got close to her new stepmother. She doesn't hate her, she simply feels as if she could never replace her real mother.
She achieved an unspecified degree at a university in Germany and received training as an Eva pilot. In late 2015, she was transferred to Tokyo-3 in Japan, along with Eva Unit 02, to help combat the Angel attacks.
It was there that she met the the Third and First Children – Shinji Ikari and Rei Ayanami, respectfully. She met Shinji first, when the military convoy carrying her and Unit 02 to Japan came under attack from an Angel. Shinji accompanied her in the entry plug as she fought and eventually (with some help from the navy and quick thinking) defeated the Angel. Upon her arrival in Japan, she moved in with Shinji and Major Misato Katsuragi, much to Asuka and Shinji's chagrin.
At first, she managed to fit in. She was the center of attention (briefly) at school for her rather exotic looks. Despite that, she only really made one friend: Hikari. She distanced herself from the rest (although she had an odd pseudo-friendship with Shinji). She assisted with the defense of Tokyo-3 on several occasions, including one where the trio of pilots finally managed to get their act together and destroy an Angel using teamwork developed on the fly. After that, things went horrifically downhill.
Shinji and Asuka's friendship deteriorated as she began to see him as a threat to her vaunted position as the “best” pilot of the trio. Their conflicting feelings for one another clashed, especially with Asuka's attempts to keep herself as the “superior”. Despite working in tandem to fight the Angels, Asuka expressed nothing but scorn after Shinji was temporarily trapped in the Sea of Dirac. Her feelings of inferiority were further reinforced when she was unable to defeat Bardiel, the thirteenth Angel.
Her mental and emotiona state truly began to deteriorate after a humiliating defeat at the hands of the fourteenth Angel. She came extremely close to being killed and Unit 02 was crippled. Determined to reassert herself despite her falling synchronization rates, she sortied against the fifteenth Angel. Unit 02 was struck by a beam of light, which proved by a psychic attack against the pilot – Asuka. In an extremely traumatic event, her mind was literally forced open to the creature and she was forced to relive her mother's insanity and face her own fears of being left alone and unwanted. Her synch rates crashed even further and when forced to sorty against the sixteenth Angel, she was unable to even get Unit 02 to move.
Throughout this period, she continually clashed with Shinji and Rei, her erstwhile companions, including accusing Rei of being a doll. However, after her defeat and the violation of her mind at the hands of the fifteenth Angel and her inability to even move her Eva during the engagement with the sixteenth, she lapsed into a deep depression and eventually went comatose, refusing contact with the outside world and was thus unavailable and replaced with Kaworu Nagisa – who turned out to be the seventeenth Angel.
NERV was attacked by JSSDF and SEELE forces intent on securing the Evas units and initiating Third Impact. Asuka was placed into Unit 02 for safekeeping and placed at the bottom of a lake in the geofront. Being bombarded by depth charges, she repeated her wishes to remain alive .To not die. Unit 02 responded. She discovered, much to her overwhelming joy, that her mother had been with her all along – inside Unit 02. She embraced this new knowledge and in a stunning display, annihilated many of the JSSDF forces assaulting NERV headquarters. SEELE deployed over a dozen Mass Production Eva units and Unit 02's power cable was severed, leaving it to run on battery power. In a running battle, she destroyed most of the enemy Evas, only to see them reanimate and return to life as her batteries died. Eva 02 was subsequently torn limb from limb and Asuka was presumably killed.
However, she was absorbed into the collective humanity during Instrumentality and later returned to Earth alongside Shinji Ikari.
Asuka will be arriving post-End of Evangelion.
Character PERSONALITY: Asuka comes off as an overbearing, proud, willful, arrogant and brash young woman. She can certainly play the part of the social butterfly and attract attention when she wants it; she can even be charming. However, she has a difficult time truly connecting to others and her only real friend in Tokyo-3 seemed to be Hikari. She tends to be rather playful and happy-go-lucky, at least when she’s in a good mood. Added to that, however, is her need and want to be the center of attention. She’ll show off, she’ll boast. She truly is skilled, though. It’s not as if she doesn’t have skills to be proud of. She simply likes other people to know that, yes, she is that good. This stems fro the period of her life where her mother believed that a doll was the "real" Asuka and refused to acknowledge Asuka as her real daughter. Asuka simply doesn’t want to be forgotten or to be alone. She wants to be noticed, for people to feed her self-esteem issues and acknowledge her. All of this contributes to a subconcious (and in part, conscious) low self-image that Asuka carries around with her. If she isn't the best and people aren't acknowledging her as the best, she feels worthless. In fact, she derives most of her own self-worth from the praise and attention of others, despite her contemptuous treatment of those she considers beneath her. Asuka, in fact, detests herself – after all, if her own mother didn't want her, what good can she be? But she tries to counter-act this with the aforementioned praise and attention. She wants people to validate the idea that she's worth something and when other people don't, it chips away at her already precarious psyche and sense of worth.
Asuka will tease people relentlessly, whether good-natured or mean-spirited (often mean-spirited), insulting or needling at others in order to provoke a reaction. She has contempt for people she believes are weak or can’t stand up for themselves, as well as for authority figures she doesn’t truly like. She feels that she is the best in the world at what she does and that no one will ever be able to live up to her. When she is proven wrong, her most likely reaction is get angry, hurl insults, and then go off to sulk and to reassure herself (and possibly others) that it was a fluke. Next time they won’t get so lucky. Similarly she refuses to acknowledge her own mistakes and will often shift the blame to others in an attempt to reinforce her own psyche and poor self-image. She also tends to get frustrated when other people can’t keep up with her.
In combat and under pressure, Asuka reacts quickly and often decisively. She doesn’t always react in the most well-thought out ways, but she does react and move quickly. She’s quick on the uptake and aggressive. However, this often leads to her disregarding orders she believes are stupid or don’t make sense and will resort to a head-on, aggressive approach (which she believes has served her well in the past).
When Asuka feels insulted or if she gets angry at someone she'll go off on them, either with words or with some sort of physical attack (usually a slap or a hurled object). She’s very touchy and has a temper, which is partly to hide her own insecurities about herself and her work. In fact, most of her arrogant, proud personality is just that – a façade to hide her own vulnerabilities and the fact that deep down inside, she really is just a scared little girl who wants help. She’s gotten so good at repressing that part of her and repressing the traumatic memories that led to this that even she believes it to a certain extent. Continued pressure or failure on her own part will strip this away and if her self-built image and support system collapses, she'll collapse with it. If she no longer has concrete proof and reinforcement telling her that she's worth something (and if she's not the best, she isn't worth anything), she'll withdraw within herself and turn semi-suicidal.
Asuka also has a special hatred and contempt for people who are “over-logical”, who don’t show emotion, and in general don’t act human or don’t react to her teasing. In her mind, they act like “dolls” and this again leads back to the rather traumatizing experience with her mother when she was a child. Rei Ayanami, the First Child, was one of these and Asuka detests her, both for her inability to respond like a “normal” person and the fact that Rei garnered attention from both Shinji Ikari and Gendo Ikari, taking away attention from her, the Second Child.
Post-Impact, Asuka has a whole new set of trauma that piles on to of her existing issues. Although her obsession with her mother and her mother's death has been (somewhat) tempered by the knowledge that her mother did not truly reject her, she still deals with a cripplingly low self-image of herself. She failed again – when it was most important – and in addition, was forced to experience a horrible death at the hands of the Evangelion mass production series. She has shifted part of the blame for her death to Shinji Ikari. In addition, the main external focus and item that she derived most of her self-worth from - Unit 02 - is gone, destroyed in the battle that killed her. She's adrift and trying to find a purpose for herself and a reason to keep on living (aside from her own innate fear of death). It's going to take her a while to crawl out of the emotional hole she's dug down into.
As such, she's likely to be surly, blunt, short and overall generally unpleasant to most people she encounters. She's going to privately question her own reason for existing. In short, she'll be an emotional wreck.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Spear.
Chosen SKILLSET: For all of her training, Asuka is still a fourteen-year old girl and physical combat would probably go against her, simply because of her size and relative lack of strength. However, she's very agile and quick on her feet, as well as a quick learner. In addition, piloting an Eva and the associated merging of "minds" means she has the muscle memory and training to effectively use a certain selection of melee and ranged weaponry. So she can fight - but someone larger and stronger than her would probably be able to beat her, unless she can figure out how to use her agility and speed against them. She's also very intelligent - she has a degree in an unspecified discipline, although it's implied it's in physics or some other mathematical field.
Character INVENTORY: A plugsuit and some bandages wrapped around her head, left eye and left arm.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON: Let me get this straight:
[There's a pause as Asuka takes a breath on the other end. There's tension in her voice beyond just the way she sounds like she's being put upon and she's scolding someone for asking her a stupid question. There's very real frustration, a cutting anger and a quiet sort of muted despair.]
These people want me to help them fight a war against a group of people I've never even heard of? This isn't my fight, assholes! Give me a good reason to go along with this stupid scheme - and it better not be some "do it for the good all mankind" stupidity.
I've done enough of that. I've already fought for the sake of...
[Her tone turns distinctly mocking and sing-songy, a sickly-sweet tone that carries with it the implications that anyone who actually believes in this stuff is an idiot.]
...humanity. Didn't do anyone any good, anyway! Everyone still ended up dead! Find somebody else!
[Her voice cracks at the word "dead" and she hangs up rather abruptly.]
Third PERSON: Asuka had a complicated relationship with solitude. It was both welcomed and loathed, often at the same time.
For once, Shinji was out of the apartment and Misato - Misato was off doing whatever it was she did as heir erstwhile commander and supervisor. So the apartment she shared with the Third Child and the Major was all her's. At first, she'd reveled in it - turned on the TV, started blasting her music and obnoxiously high volumes and simply enjoyed having the run of the house. But slowly, as time wore on and the afternoon began to fade into evening, she found herself growing bored. With a muted grumbled, she tossed the magazine she'd been trying to read across the room and watched it flop to the floor as it hit the wall.
"What am I supposed to do by myself?" She muttered. In truth, she was starting to find it a bit unnerving. She'd watched the films she'd brought with her from Germany a dozen times over, Japanese programming was hideously dull and - well, she supposed she could run through some exercises or try doing homework, but neither appealed to her.
Not that she actually wanted Shinji or Misato around, but it was so much easier to keep herself entertained when they were here - she could poke at Shinji, try to make him squirm (and as unflappable as Misato tended to be, at least she was another woman that Asuka could talk to about stuff; not that she needed that). So she wormed her way deeper into the cushions of the couch and stared at the digital clock across the room and watched seconds tick into minutes.
Besides, being alone meant her mind had time to work and think and bring up memories she'd rather leave forgotten.
But she didn't need anyone around. That was silly.
Player NAME: Stefan
Current AGE: 24
Player TIME ZONE: U.S. Pacific
Personal JOURNAL:
chronologistIM & SERVICE: AIM - dragoon1940
Player PLURK: dragoon1940
Current CHARACTERS: None
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Asuka Langley Soryu
Canon & MEDIUM: Neon Genesis Evangelion - animated television series and movie(s).
Canon PULL-POINT: Post-Second Impact, prior to the beach scene.
Character AGE: 14
Character ABILITIES: Asuka is a child (or teenage, in this case) prodigy and is an extremely quick learner. Give her time and motivation and she can pick up and retain information and physical training very easily. In addition, she's extremely intelligent; as of canon, she's already obtained an undergraduate degree in a unspecified subject. She's also physically fit and is in excellent physical shape for a girl her age. She's also a skilled Eva pilot and, at least when her psyche is relatively healthy, able to achieve a very high synchronization ratio with her Eva unit. This may translate to a certain ability to be able to mentally adapt and link with equipment that requires a mental or psychic link. She does not possess any psychic powers; she is simply able to slip into a connective state. She also retains the muscle memory of using the various weapons her Eva wielded in combat thanks to said synchronization. Although not the best fighter, this means she'll have a decent starting point. Otherwise, she's a fairly normal teenage girl.
Character HISTORY: Asuka was born in Germany in late 2001 to her American father and her mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu. She holds an American citizenship, as well as German. She is one-quarter Japanese, which accounts for her rather strange name. As a young child, she was traumatized by several incidents involving her mother.
Kyoko was injured during a contact test of the Eva 02 series and driven insane when part of her soul was bound to the Eva's core. As a result, she no longer recognized Asuka as her daughter, instead thinking a doll was Asuka and referring to the real Asuka as "that girl over there". This was compounded by her mother's later suicide by hanging; Asuka found the body when she returned to tell her mother the good news that she'd been selected as an Eva pilot. Adding to the horror, her mother had also "killed" the doll.
She declared that she would never cry again and that she would rely only on herself; she would not need help from anyone. Her father remarried, but Asuka never truly got close to her new stepmother. She doesn't hate her, she simply feels as if she could never replace her real mother.
She achieved an unspecified degree at a university in Germany and received training as an Eva pilot. In late 2015, she was transferred to Tokyo-3 in Japan, along with Eva Unit 02, to help combat the Angel attacks.
It was there that she met the the Third and First Children – Shinji Ikari and Rei Ayanami, respectfully. She met Shinji first, when the military convoy carrying her and Unit 02 to Japan came under attack from an Angel. Shinji accompanied her in the entry plug as she fought and eventually (with some help from the navy and quick thinking) defeated the Angel. Upon her arrival in Japan, she moved in with Shinji and Major Misato Katsuragi, much to Asuka and Shinji's chagrin.
At first, she managed to fit in. She was the center of attention (briefly) at school for her rather exotic looks. Despite that, she only really made one friend: Hikari. She distanced herself from the rest (although she had an odd pseudo-friendship with Shinji). She assisted with the defense of Tokyo-3 on several occasions, including one where the trio of pilots finally managed to get their act together and destroy an Angel using teamwork developed on the fly. After that, things went horrifically downhill.
Shinji and Asuka's friendship deteriorated as she began to see him as a threat to her vaunted position as the “best” pilot of the trio. Their conflicting feelings for one another clashed, especially with Asuka's attempts to keep herself as the “superior”. Despite working in tandem to fight the Angels, Asuka expressed nothing but scorn after Shinji was temporarily trapped in the Sea of Dirac. Her feelings of inferiority were further reinforced when she was unable to defeat Bardiel, the thirteenth Angel.
Her mental and emotiona state truly began to deteriorate after a humiliating defeat at the hands of the fourteenth Angel. She came extremely close to being killed and Unit 02 was crippled. Determined to reassert herself despite her falling synchronization rates, she sortied against the fifteenth Angel. Unit 02 was struck by a beam of light, which proved by a psychic attack against the pilot – Asuka. In an extremely traumatic event, her mind was literally forced open to the creature and she was forced to relive her mother's insanity and face her own fears of being left alone and unwanted. Her synch rates crashed even further and when forced to sorty against the sixteenth Angel, she was unable to even get Unit 02 to move.
Throughout this period, she continually clashed with Shinji and Rei, her erstwhile companions, including accusing Rei of being a doll. However, after her defeat and the violation of her mind at the hands of the fifteenth Angel and her inability to even move her Eva during the engagement with the sixteenth, she lapsed into a deep depression and eventually went comatose, refusing contact with the outside world and was thus unavailable and replaced with Kaworu Nagisa – who turned out to be the seventeenth Angel.
NERV was attacked by JSSDF and SEELE forces intent on securing the Evas units and initiating Third Impact. Asuka was placed into Unit 02 for safekeeping and placed at the bottom of a lake in the geofront. Being bombarded by depth charges, she repeated her wishes to remain alive .To not die. Unit 02 responded. She discovered, much to her overwhelming joy, that her mother had been with her all along – inside Unit 02. She embraced this new knowledge and in a stunning display, annihilated many of the JSSDF forces assaulting NERV headquarters. SEELE deployed over a dozen Mass Production Eva units and Unit 02's power cable was severed, leaving it to run on battery power. In a running battle, she destroyed most of the enemy Evas, only to see them reanimate and return to life as her batteries died. Eva 02 was subsequently torn limb from limb and Asuka was presumably killed.
However, she was absorbed into the collective humanity during Instrumentality and later returned to Earth alongside Shinji Ikari.
Asuka will be arriving post-End of Evangelion.
Character PERSONALITY: Asuka comes off as an overbearing, proud, willful, arrogant and brash young woman. She can certainly play the part of the social butterfly and attract attention when she wants it; she can even be charming. However, she has a difficult time truly connecting to others and her only real friend in Tokyo-3 seemed to be Hikari. She tends to be rather playful and happy-go-lucky, at least when she’s in a good mood. Added to that, however, is her need and want to be the center of attention. She’ll show off, she’ll boast. She truly is skilled, though. It’s not as if she doesn’t have skills to be proud of. She simply likes other people to know that, yes, she is that good. This stems fro the period of her life where her mother believed that a doll was the "real" Asuka and refused to acknowledge Asuka as her real daughter. Asuka simply doesn’t want to be forgotten or to be alone. She wants to be noticed, for people to feed her self-esteem issues and acknowledge her. All of this contributes to a subconcious (and in part, conscious) low self-image that Asuka carries around with her. If she isn't the best and people aren't acknowledging her as the best, she feels worthless. In fact, she derives most of her own self-worth from the praise and attention of others, despite her contemptuous treatment of those she considers beneath her. Asuka, in fact, detests herself – after all, if her own mother didn't want her, what good can she be? But she tries to counter-act this with the aforementioned praise and attention. She wants people to validate the idea that she's worth something and when other people don't, it chips away at her already precarious psyche and sense of worth.
Asuka will tease people relentlessly, whether good-natured or mean-spirited (often mean-spirited), insulting or needling at others in order to provoke a reaction. She has contempt for people she believes are weak or can’t stand up for themselves, as well as for authority figures she doesn’t truly like. She feels that she is the best in the world at what she does and that no one will ever be able to live up to her. When she is proven wrong, her most likely reaction is get angry, hurl insults, and then go off to sulk and to reassure herself (and possibly others) that it was a fluke. Next time they won’t get so lucky. Similarly she refuses to acknowledge her own mistakes and will often shift the blame to others in an attempt to reinforce her own psyche and poor self-image. She also tends to get frustrated when other people can’t keep up with her.
In combat and under pressure, Asuka reacts quickly and often decisively. She doesn’t always react in the most well-thought out ways, but she does react and move quickly. She’s quick on the uptake and aggressive. However, this often leads to her disregarding orders she believes are stupid or don’t make sense and will resort to a head-on, aggressive approach (which she believes has served her well in the past).
When Asuka feels insulted or if she gets angry at someone she'll go off on them, either with words or with some sort of physical attack (usually a slap or a hurled object). She’s very touchy and has a temper, which is partly to hide her own insecurities about herself and her work. In fact, most of her arrogant, proud personality is just that – a façade to hide her own vulnerabilities and the fact that deep down inside, she really is just a scared little girl who wants help. She’s gotten so good at repressing that part of her and repressing the traumatic memories that led to this that even she believes it to a certain extent. Continued pressure or failure on her own part will strip this away and if her self-built image and support system collapses, she'll collapse with it. If she no longer has concrete proof and reinforcement telling her that she's worth something (and if she's not the best, she isn't worth anything), she'll withdraw within herself and turn semi-suicidal.
Asuka also has a special hatred and contempt for people who are “over-logical”, who don’t show emotion, and in general don’t act human or don’t react to her teasing. In her mind, they act like “dolls” and this again leads back to the rather traumatizing experience with her mother when she was a child. Rei Ayanami, the First Child, was one of these and Asuka detests her, both for her inability to respond like a “normal” person and the fact that Rei garnered attention from both Shinji Ikari and Gendo Ikari, taking away attention from her, the Second Child.
Post-Impact, Asuka has a whole new set of trauma that piles on to of her existing issues. Although her obsession with her mother and her mother's death has been (somewhat) tempered by the knowledge that her mother did not truly reject her, she still deals with a cripplingly low self-image of herself. She failed again – when it was most important – and in addition, was forced to experience a horrible death at the hands of the Evangelion mass production series. She has shifted part of the blame for her death to Shinji Ikari. In addition, the main external focus and item that she derived most of her self-worth from - Unit 02 - is gone, destroyed in the battle that killed her. She's adrift and trying to find a purpose for herself and a reason to keep on living (aside from her own innate fear of death). It's going to take her a while to crawl out of the emotional hole she's dug down into.
As such, she's likely to be surly, blunt, short and overall generally unpleasant to most people she encounters. She's going to privately question her own reason for existing. In short, she'll be an emotional wreck.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Spear.
Chosen SKILLSET: For all of her training, Asuka is still a fourteen-year old girl and physical combat would probably go against her, simply because of her size and relative lack of strength. However, she's very agile and quick on her feet, as well as a quick learner. In addition, piloting an Eva and the associated merging of "minds" means she has the muscle memory and training to effectively use a certain selection of melee and ranged weaponry. So she can fight - but someone larger and stronger than her would probably be able to beat her, unless she can figure out how to use her agility and speed against them. She's also very intelligent - she has a degree in an unspecified discipline, although it's implied it's in physics or some other mathematical field.
Character INVENTORY: A plugsuit and some bandages wrapped around her head, left eye and left arm.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON: Let me get this straight:
[There's a pause as Asuka takes a breath on the other end. There's tension in her voice beyond just the way she sounds like she's being put upon and she's scolding someone for asking her a stupid question. There's very real frustration, a cutting anger and a quiet sort of muted despair.]
These people want me to help them fight a war against a group of people I've never even heard of? This isn't my fight, assholes! Give me a good reason to go along with this stupid scheme - and it better not be some "do it for the good all mankind" stupidity.
I've done enough of that. I've already fought for the sake of...
[Her tone turns distinctly mocking and sing-songy, a sickly-sweet tone that carries with it the implications that anyone who actually believes in this stuff is an idiot.]
...humanity. Didn't do anyone any good, anyway! Everyone still ended up dead! Find somebody else!
[Her voice cracks at the word "dead" and she hangs up rather abruptly.]
Third PERSON: Asuka had a complicated relationship with solitude. It was both welcomed and loathed, often at the same time.
For once, Shinji was out of the apartment and Misato - Misato was off doing whatever it was she did as heir erstwhile commander and supervisor. So the apartment she shared with the Third Child and the Major was all her's. At first, she'd reveled in it - turned on the TV, started blasting her music and obnoxiously high volumes and simply enjoyed having the run of the house. But slowly, as time wore on and the afternoon began to fade into evening, she found herself growing bored. With a muted grumbled, she tossed the magazine she'd been trying to read across the room and watched it flop to the floor as it hit the wall.
"What am I supposed to do by myself?" She muttered. In truth, she was starting to find it a bit unnerving. She'd watched the films she'd brought with her from Germany a dozen times over, Japanese programming was hideously dull and - well, she supposed she could run through some exercises or try doing homework, but neither appealed to her.
Not that she actually wanted Shinji or Misato around, but it was so much easier to keep herself entertained when they were here - she could poke at Shinji, try to make him squirm (and as unflappable as Misato tended to be, at least she was another woman that Asuka could talk to about stuff; not that she needed that). So she wormed her way deeper into the cushions of the couch and stared at the digital clock across the room and watched seconds tick into minutes.
Besides, being alone meant her mind had time to work and think and bring up memories she'd rather leave forgotten.
But she didn't need anyone around. That was silly.