Misato Katsuragi

⏵ player information
name and pronouns: Mila, she/her
age: 35
contact: gravenrose, PM this journal for discord.

⏵ character information
name: Misato Katsuragi
canon: Neon Genesis Evangelion
age: 29-30
canon point: Post-End of Evangelion.
history: NGE Wiki.
abilities: Administration, firearms training, hand-to-hand combat training, skilled automobile driver,
personality:
Major Misato Katsuragi is effectively the commander of operations at the headquarters of NERV in Tokyo-3 and is the direct commander of all of the Eva pilots. She projects an air of casual hedonism off-duty and does her best to seem friendly and approachable, though this is in part a cover for her abuse of alcohol and the fact that she does not have her personal life together at all. Before the arrival of Shinji Ikari, her apartment is a complete mess, covered in beer cans and she relies entirely on instant foods and take out for sustenance. Despite this, in her professional life she's completely put together and professional.

She is a control freak, completely consumed by her desire to fight the angels, in part because of her complicated feelings surrounding her father, to whom she is grateful for saving her life but whom she also hates for continually neglecting her and her mother for his work. She is described as "[living] life so lightly as to barely allow the possibility of human touch" by series director Hideaki Anno. She keeps others at arm's length and struggles with intimacy, despite being flirtatious and charming. Most, if not all of her energy is poured into her work.

Despite her flaws, she does her best to be a motherly figure to the two pilots who live with her, Asuka and Shinji, but fails largely because she is incapable of forming deeper connections with them, largely out of her own fear of vulnerability and her need to continue ordering them into mortal peril. She is accused of 'playing house' and really, it's quite accurate. Despite being protective of her pilot's lives and stating her desire to keep them alive, she still is unable to properly protect either of them from the dangers of fighting the Angels nor does she seem to have ability or wherewithal to try and reach them when they clearly suffer from severe psychological issues and trauma.



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Player

Name & Pronouns: Mila, she/her
Age: Over 18
Contact Details: gravenrose, PM

Canon Info

Canon Name: Misato Katsuragi
Canon Age: 29

Canon: Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Character Summary: In the setting of Neon Genesis Evangelion, interaction with a strange alien entity known as an 'Angel' in Antarctica results in a major ecological disaster known as Second Impact. The daughter of the lead scientist of the expedition who leads the Katsurag Expedition which is in part the cause of Second Impact, Misato Katsuragi is badly injured, but survives thanks to her father, who is killed by Second Impact while saving her life. After suffering briefly from selective mutism, she attend university and eventually joins the precursor to the organization known as NERV, a special paramilitary organization dedicated to defending the Earth from the threat of a Third Impact and the Angels.

Major Misato Katsuragi is effectively the commander of operations at the headquarters of NERV in Tokyo-3 and is the direct commander of all of the Eva pilots. She projects an air of casual hedonism off-duty and does her best to seem friendly and approachable, though this is in part a cover for her abuse of alcohol and the fact that she does not have her personal life together at all. Before the arrival of Shinji Ikari, her apartment is a complete mess, covered in beer cans and she relies entirely on instant foods and take out for sustenance. Despite this, in her professional life she's completely put together and professional. She is a control freak, completely consumed by her desire to fight the angels, in part because of her complicated feelings surrounding her father, to whom she is grateful for saving her life but whom she also hates for continually neglecting her and her mother for his work. She is described as "[living] life so lightly as to barely allow the possibility of human touch" by series director Hideaki Anno. She keeps others at arm's length and struggles with intimacy, despite being flirtatious and charming. Most, if not all of her energy is poured into her work.

Despite her flaws, she does her best to be a motherly figure to the two pilots who live with her, Asuka and Shinji, but fails largely because she is incapable of forming deeper connections with them, largely out of her own fear of vulnerability and her need to continue ordering them into mortal peril. She is accused of 'playing house' and really, it's quite accurate. Despite being protective of her pilot's lives and stating her desire to keep them alive, she still is unable to properly protect either of them from the dangers of fighting the Angels nor does she seem to have ability or wherewithal to try and reach them when they clearly suffer from severe psychological issues and trauma.

AU Info

AU Name: Misato Katsuragi
Age: 29

AU History: Summarize their backstory! You can write this out in full or bullet point it - just make sure you get all the important bits down.

• 1993 - Misato Katsuragi is born, 15th October.


• 2000 - After her mother divorces her father, Misato and her father, Hideaki Katsuragi move to Yumemigaoka.


• 2007 Misato's father, a scientist studying the Dream Sphere is severely injured during a Nightmare attack while in a self-induced coma. His mind gone, he never reawakens after this. Misato Awakens during this stressful time and dedicates herself to fighting Nightmares.


• 2011 - Misato attends university with an eye to becoming a teacher. She does not want any other child to feel as alone as she did when thrust into the role of Dreamer.


• 2015 - Misato graduates from university. She makes the decision to have her brain dead father finally removed from life support. "See, Dad. I made it."


• 2016 - Misato starts working at Promised Morning Private Academy as a teacher.


• 2018 - After working for two years at Promised Morning Private Academy, Misato is becoming disillusioned with her attempts at mentorship and with the Union as a whole, which she is beginning to see as a restrictive and overbearing organization that isn't willing to actually prepare young Dreamers for what actually fighting in the Dream Sphere entails. She also meets Binah/Garion Kim, a first year high school student, for the first time. Late in this year, she is convinced to help Binah/Garion with fighting Nightmares beyond simply being a mentor.
  
• 2019 - Joins Binah in a new project to continue fighting Nightmares and protecting the Dream Sphere outside of the watchful eye of the Dreamer's Union that Misato now finds stifling. The stark divide between her cheerful and well put together professional life and her messy personal life becomes even wider when she begins a clandestine relationship with Binah, who is supposed to be her student.


• 2021 - Binah graduates mcuh to Misato's relief. She insists on keep the relationship secret for a few months more at least to try and stave off the rumor mill.
  
  Nothing else of particular note to present.

AU Personality:

Above all things, Misato Katsuragi is a little bit of a control freak. Losing her father and her mother in circumstances that she had no way to effect or reasonably control has left her as someone who tries desperately to control the things around that she feels ought to be in her control. This manifests primarily in her professional life, where she is a compassionate but exacting teacher and coach who expects the best out of students and rarely accepts excuses for poor performance from those whom she knows can do better. In her career as a dreamer, she is the same. On the team she works with, she takes orders only from one person and acts as a sort of executive officer, demanding that her teammates be prepared for anything and that they give their best in the defense of those who dream. She bucks against the Union, and chafes at the suggestion that maybe she should listen to what they have to say, given her long distaste for the organization.

Her personal life is where the control slips and falls apart. She lives alone in an apartment which she rarely cleans. Misato never cooks for herself, living instead off of a combination of instant food, konbini, and take out. She's an enthusiastic drinker and almost always drinks to excess. When she does try to rein this in, she tends to burn through cans and cans of coffee, seeking solace in the buzz of caffeine rather than the oblivion of alcohol.

She has an outwardly pleasant, friendly, and flirtatious demeanor that she employs to keep people off-guard and to ensure that she stays in their good graces, but she almost never lets someone get close to her. She struggles with trusting others and with being able to trust that others will still be there after her mother left and the death of her father. As such, she keeps others mostly at arm's length, being a pleasant acquaintance but never a close friend.

Her relationship with her mother is non-existent. She hasn't heard from her since the divorce and her relationship with her father was complicated. Despite having custody of her, he was obsessed with his work and rarely had time for her. She resented him and his absence deeply throughout her childhood, and that resentment deepened when he went and got himself killed in the name of his research. At the same time, she loves him, even though he's gone, and worries that maybe she isn't living up to the hopes and expectations he had for her. This leaves her in a place where she both craves approval and support, but feels unable to trust anyone enough to let them close enough to give it to her.

Misato is self-conscious about being almost thirty and not yet being married, but at the same time is starting to make peace with the fact that she is like her father, too obsessed with her work and self-given mission to be a good parent. She also sees this with the children in her classes at the Academy, many of whom she cares about wants to genuinely help. She wants them to live and to be happy, but she knows that if they're going to defend humanity from the Nightmares that sometimes sacrifices will ahve to made in the name of the greater good. If that means directing them into fighting the way she and her team do, then she'll do what has to be done.

Other AU Changes: n/a

Dreamer Info (Remove if not applicable)

Dreamer Title: Dreamer Hollow
Appearance: Imagine her with a beer and a cigarette.



Archetype: Striker

Power Considerations: This is the exciting bit! List at least four potential D Rank powers for your character to come into the game with. The mods will select one (two, if apping an Experienced Dreamer) at random to serve as your starter power.

1. "Anti-Terror Field"
This is the light of my soul. A sacred territory in which no one may intrude.

This power allows Dreamer Hollow to create a nigh-impenetrable shield which is capable of offering her personal protection against the attacks of Nightmares. Importantly, this shield is personal only. While she could in theory activate the shield and step in front of someone else to take a blow, she is unable to extend it, enlarge it, or otherwise form it to include anyone else. Additionally, while it creates a seemingly impenetrable barrier, those whom Misato trusts are able to step through the Anti-Terror Field as if it weren't there at all.

At D-rank, while tough, it is not indestructible. As she gains power, it will grow stronger and stronger, until the point where it will become nearly impossible to pierce through brute force. Additionally, at lower levels she is not able to move quickly while focusing on keeping the field in place. This will grow easier as the rank of the power goes up.

2. "Grasp of Leliel"


This power allows Hollow to make use of her shadow(s) as weapons of a sort. By activating this power, anyone standing within her shadow is rooted to the ground and unable to move, making them an easier target for Dreamer Hollow and her allies. As the power grows stronger, she may be able to expand her shadows beyond their normal casting area, or even use them to reach out and snare people beyond their immediate reach.

Any light or darkness that stops Hollow from casting a shadow will negate this power.

3. "Hollow Mine"
Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.

By imbuing an object or spot on the ground with her power, Hollow can cause it explode, dealing indiscriminate damage to the surrounding area. At lower power levels, the number and strength of the objects can be affected will be limited. As the power level grows, she'll be able to create more and to increase their explosive power.

4. "Positron Hollow Beam"
All the power in Japan

Dreamer Hollow manifests a massive sci-fi cannon that fires a devastating beam of energy at her enemies. Not a signature, but might be mistaken for one if only aesthetically. It takes time to get going/power up though and using it lives Misato vulnerable to a counter attack. As it goes up in rank, she can also funnel other's powers through it to make the attack more powerful, though the charge time will never be able to get all that much faster.


RP Sample: TDM

Other Notes: Anything else to add? you can also just put a meme here, i won't judge