#asuka langley soryou

[pinkchwrryyy]

If you accept for Evangelion : Asuka X Photography Enthusiast! Male reader

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭!🩷

✦𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦: Neon Genesis Evangelion

✦ 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: Asuka Soryou Langley x Male! Photography enthusiast! reader

✦𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭: you are simply trying to relax while doing what you love the most, photography. You’re about to take the perfect shot of some pretty flowers when a certain red haired girl interrupts you…

✦ 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞: scenario, one-shot, request

✦𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: fluff

✦ 𝐓𝐖: none

✦ 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬: none

⚠️𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫: 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧, 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭⚠️

Perfect shot

You’re crouched low in the grass, your camera steady in your hands as you frame the perfect shot. The sun is dipping lower on the horizon, casting a soft golden glow over the field of wildflowers in front of you. You’ve been out here for hours, capturing the delicate details of each petal, the vibrant colors, and the way the light hits just right. Photography is your escape, your way of freezing a moment in time. You line up another shot, focusing on a patch of bright red poppies that sway gently in the breeze. It’s perfect. Until—

Crunch.

You freeze, eyes narrowing as a pair of shoes stomp right through your carefully chosen shot. Your heart sinks. You slowly lift your gaze from the ruined flowers to the culprit, and of course, it’s her.

“Asuka,” you mutter under your breath, pushing yourself to your feet.

Asuka Langley Soryou stands there, hands on her hips, looking down at you with a smirk that’s halfway to a sneer. She’s in her school uniform, but her fiery red hair is untamed, catching the sunlight in a way that almost makes her look as wild as the field around you.

“What?” she snaps, noticing the glare you’re sending her way. “Got something to say, photography freak?”

You take a deep breath, trying to calm yourself. “You just stepped on my shot.”

Her brow furrows, and she glances down at the trampled flowers. Then she shrugs, completely unapologetic. “So? They’re just flowers. You can find more.”

You bite back your frustration, knowing that arguing with her is like trying to reason with a storm. “It’s not about just finding more. I’ve been working on this for hours, trying to capture something specific, and you just ruined it.”

Asuka crosses her arms over her chest, looking bored. “Not my problem.”

Of course she wouldn’t care. She never does, not when it comes to anyone else’s interests. You grit your teeth, debating whether it’s worth the effort to press the issue. But then an idea hits you, and a mischievous smirk tugs at your lips.

“Fine,” you say, shrugging as you bring your camera up to your chest, checking the settings casually. “You want to make it up to me? Let me take your picture.”

Her eyes widen, and she recoils slightly, as if you’ve just suggested something outrageous. “What? No way. Why would I let you do that?”

“Because you ruined my shot,” you say, keeping your tone light but firm. “And because you owe me.”

Asuka scoffs, tossing her hair over her shoulder in that dramatic way she always does. “I don’t owe you anything.”

You arch a brow, not backing down. “Come on. You’re always going on about how great you are. What’s the harm in letting me take a few pictures? Or are you scared I’ll capture something you don’t like?”

That does it. Asuka’s pride flares up instantly, her blue eyes narrowing as she glares at you. “Scared? Of you? Don’t make me laugh!”

You shrug again, nonchalant. “Then prove it. Let me take the pictures.”

There’s a tense moment where you think she’s going to flat-out refuse. But then, with a huff, she rolls her eyes and crosses her arms tighter over her chest. “Fine. But make it quick. I don’t have time to waste on your stupid hobbies.”

You hide a grin as you raise your camera and adjust the settings. “Stand over there,” you say, pointing to a spot where the light filters through the trees behind her, casting a warm glow over the scene. She moves to where you indicate, her posture stiff and uncomfortable.

She looks annoyed, her lips pressed into a tight line, but you know Asuka well enough to see that she’s secretly intrigued. She likes being the center of attention, even if she’d never admit it. You snap a few shots, focusing on her face, the way the light highlights the sharp angles of her cheekbones and the intensity in her eyes.

“Relax a bit,” you suggest, lowering the camera slightly. “You look like you’re about to kill someone.”

She glares at you. “I’m not a model, you know.”

“Could’ve fooled me,” you mutter, half to yourself. But she hears it, and a faint blush creeps up her cheeks.

“Just hurry up,” she snaps, turning slightly, her hair catching the light again. You take a few more shots, capturing the way her fiery personality shines through in every expression she makes, from annoyance to something softer, almost curious.

“Why do you even care about this stuff?” she asks suddenly, breaking the silence. “Photography. It seems… pointless.”

You lower the camera and look at her, surprised by the question. Asuka rarely shows interest in anything that isn’t directly related to her. “It’s not pointless to me,” you say simply. “It’s about capturing moments, seeing things from a different perspective. Sometimes, it’s the small things that matter.”

She frowns, looking like she’s trying to understand but can’t quite grasp it. “You’re weird.”

You chuckle. “Maybe. But you’re still letting me take your picture.”

She snorts, crossing her arms again. “Yeah, well, don’t get used to it.”

You finish the last few shots, taking in the rare sight of Asuka, not in battle or throwing insults, but just… being. She’s still herself, still sharp-tongued and fierce, but there’s something about seeing her through the lens that makes her feel more real, more human. When you lower the camera for the final time, she’s watching you with a curious expression.

“Well?” she asks. “Was it worth it?”

You nod, offering a small smile. “Yeah. It was.”

She scoffs, clearly not used to being praised in a context so unusual to her, and starts to walk away, but not before tossing a glance over her shoulder. “Next time, don’t waste your time on flowers. They’re boring.”

You laugh as you watch her go, knowing that Asuka will always be Asuka, but there’s something about this moment that feels different—like you’ve captured a part of her that no one else ever sees.

[unknown-eva]

[ivnwrites]

How Asuka Langley Soryu is a realistic portrayal of teenage female sexuality

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a legendary science fiction and mecha anime created by Hideaki Anno in 1995 (though there's some heated debate over the second designation given the reality of the evangelions). It's noted for its psychological and theological discussions and its questions about humanity, loneliness, and what it means to live with other people. The main characters have also achieved this sort of legendary status, becoming easily recognizable, but they also are notable just for how well they're written.

Asuka Langley Soryu is one of the main eva pilots and, I am going to be talking about how she is depicted in terms of her developing romantic and sexual awareness in the series and how it's still one of the most accurate depictions of female adolescent sexuality in any media.(I am doing this as a currently 21 year old woman who went through being a 14 year old girl)

Asuka fits almost perfectly into the mold of a traditional mecha anime protagonist; we're told that she got her college degree at 13, she's an ace pilot, she's assertive and much more determined than the actual main character, and has a dead parent. But Evangelion isn't a traditional mecha anime so none of this happens without consequence. Asuka's accomplishments and her need to be the "best" are shown to be the result of her desperation not to be ignored. This in turn stems from her mother's insanity during which she thought a doll was Asuka and couldn't recognize her own daughter. Needing her mother to see her is so important and fundamental to her character that knowing her mother is still literally there 'watching over her' inside the eva is enough to pull her out of complete catatonia in the series ending. This background allows Asuka to have more depth than a traditional character who is simply portrayed as sexy with no knowledge of it or acknowledgement from other characters in the series, making her simply eye candy for the audience but has no ownership of her own body.

The most famous (infamous?) scene that needs to included in this discussion happens when she is attacked by Arael in episode 22 and has her mental breakdown, we see a snippet a the scene I'll talk about later with Kaji. It repeats over and over the last moment when she yanks open her shirt to expose her bra and the top of her breasts and screams "Look at me, dammit, look at me!" As a result of her mental state, we don't know if this is what actually happened, but that doesn't matter because the scene tells us that this is part of how Asuka thinks of her body in her own mind. One analysis I've read talked about this scene as Asuka's frustration that "her body isn't developed or adult in the way she wishes it was." I agree with this, and also read the scene as her sort of trying to physically reinforce her assertion that she's an adult, and her saying 'I have an adult body, why don't you want me?'

This frustration and anger stems from the conflicting messages that girls receive. They're told at various young ages that they're women just because of their bodies development. Growing breasts mean that they are "getting a woman's body," they "become women" when they start menstruating. However, these physical experiences are universal, and pay no heed to a girl's individual mental development. Physical changes can only exacerbate this, because girls see their bodies matching those of women, and so does society at large. Girls the world over start to be treated as adults the instant they start developing breasts when it comes to seeing them as sexual objects, but at the same time, they are still belittled and told that they aren't smart enough to know their own bodies. Girls are also told that they supposedly mature faster than boys, and all of this together creates a strange conflict where girls are at the same time told that they are supposed to be adults and yet only treated as adults when it is convenient for those around them, or when they do something wrong, otherwise they are seen as foolish children. "Save the world, but don't expect your emotional turmoil to be taken seriously."

This can be seen clearly in her relationship with Kaji. Throughout the series, Asuka is shown to be infatuated with him, even though he’s in his 30s and already in an on-again-off-again relationship with Misato. He's shown openly flirting with other adult characters in the series, and multiple characters even get in cracks about it, but from his first appearance onward, he brushes off every one of her advances. We see what is perhaps the most significant their interactions during the Arael scene. The audience is shown a flashback to the two of them having a nighttime conversation on the deck of a ship while they're traveling to Japan from Germany during which she tries somewhat clumsily to seduce(?) him and convince him that she's not interested in anyone else. His ultimate response is to tell her that she's still a child and doesn't have to rush into everything because she still has time.

In reality, it isn't rare for teenagers to develop crushes on adults in addition to their peers. In real girls, the same way as in the series, they can see it as a sign that they are more mature than their peers or even more ready for an 'adult' relationship than those around them. Asuka has what is probably the best outcome; the subject of her affection turns her down but is otherwise kind, as are the other adults around her. In the end it's her own deeper unacknowledged problems that cause the situation to spiral. The problem is that unlike in the series, there often seems to be no way for girls to win psychologically. In real life, if a girl's feelings are returned this leads to obvious problems, and public rejection can lead to ridicule. Girls are blamed for mistakes on the one hand, and belittled on the other. They aren't given the compassion and understanding that they need most at those times.

Through her interactions with Kaji, we can see the disconnect between Asuka's desire to be seen as an adult and her actual actions. She become hyper, somewhat aggressive, and slightly possessive when Kaji is around, becoming frustrated when the relationship between him and Misato rekindles. From Asuka's perspective, she can't see why she isn't the better choice. As discussed above, she sees her physical body as functionally the same as all the other women Kaji expresses even passing interest in, and psychologically she sees herself as more mature than Misato (and she is both right and wrong depending on which aspect of their personalities you examine, but that's a whole unrelated issue). The problem is that she has no idea what the adults around her are thinking; an adult man will not be attracted to an adolescent girl, and though all of the women around her can see that this is just a teenage crush, Asuka herself doesn't have the life experience to know this yet. This, combined with her fear of being ignored, means that what is actually a perfectly reasonable rejection registers to her as abandonment.

We can see this even more clearly if we look at her relationship with Shinji. The two of them are the same age, classmates, living together with Misato, both lost their mothers at a young age, both pilot the evangelions, and have grudging sexual tension that persists to the very end. Despite this, their personalities are pretty much incompatible. The line that is most iconic between them is Asuka's  "what are you, stupid?" (the english dub's version of her japanese line "Anta baka?" basically asking 'are you dumb?'). Shinji is a lot more timid and less self confident than Asuka, and she frequently is shown literally pushing him around. We see in other parts of the series that he is attracted to her but is too intimidated by her to really be able to do anything.

At one point when the two are alone at home, she kisses him, explicitly stating that it's because she's bored. It predictably doesn't go well, with Shinji just standing there frozen until Asuka backs away and then runs to the bathroom to dramatically rinse her mouth out, declaring that she should never kiss to kill time. It's played as a funny scene, but later we see that it actually had a deep effect on Asuka. It's implied that she did see Shinji as a potential romantic interest, but saw his silence and his lack of engagement with her as rejection, and this along with his improvement as a pilot over the series leads her to resent him more and more. During her mental breakdown, Asuka sees an image of his face and screams "You won't help me! You won't even hold me! You're no one! No one!"

In her mind, she has been rejected by all of the people sh's approached romantically. This leads her to feel unwanted and she starts to draw in on herself, and her feeling of animosity grow to encompass all of the characters in the series. In the same episode as her breakdown, she's shown standing naked in front of a bathtub (see note below) saying how much she hates having to be so close to Misato and Shinji. She become more and more worked up until she kicks something across the room yelling "I hate Misato, and I hate Shinji, and I hate that First Child bitch Rei! I hate my dad, I hate my mom! But mostly, most of all, I hate myself! I hate this! I can't stand it anymore! Why do I have to do this! Why me?!"

It is intriguing that Asuka, and the other female characters in Evangelion who show similar insight, came from the mind of an unmarried (at the time), childless man in his mid-30s. Anno himself says that "I like to read romance novels written by women. Since I'm a male, I don't really know the emotions of women. And because I want to understand their feelings, and create more realistic female characters, this is something I have to pursue." and there are plenty of accounts of him asking female animators and voice actresses for their input on characters to ensure that they were realistic. Because of this, Anno allows Asuka to express some of the frustration teenage girls feel with their bodies, and manages to walk the thin line of making Asuka real as a burgeoning sexual being without crossing into the sexualization of a minor.

Note: It is uncomfortably easy to find sexual art and dolls of the underage main female characters in the series but none of this comes from the series itself (there is one character who provides occasional 'fanservice', but she is an adult woman in her 30s). In the actual anime, nudity is not treated sexually, rather it is used to represent and heighten characters' feelings of vulnerability and isolation, reinforcing the idea that characters have been left completely alone with nothing except for their own skin, and at times not even that. Despite this, fans in Japan fixated on the character Rei Ayanami, which Anno attributed to the fact that "They can't handle strong women such as Misato and Asuka." This is even more unfortunate because it abandons the character's stoic loyalty and dive into self reflection midway through the series in favor of reducing Rei to an injured quivering victim using just the visuals of episode 1 (though once again, there's character traits there that are ignored as well). The most important part to say about this is also the fact that both Rei and Asuka are 14 YEARS OLD IN THE SERIES. For god's sake Japanese men, WHY!

Another Note: Actually I can explain why; the age of consent in Japan is 13 which has led to entire industries based on the exploitation of teenage girls, which means that child prostitution and pornography are rampant. Essentially, pedophilia is totally legal in Japan, in addition to child pornography as long as it isn't of real people, meaning that pedophilic anime and manga are totally legal, because easily available child pornography has 0 negative impacts, right? (WRONG). industries based on exploiting young girls: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-vulnerable-high-school-girls-in-japan-a-culture-of-dates-with-older-men/2017/05/15/974146c4-035d-11e7-9d14-9724d48f5666_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a58a262e1867 child pornography laws in Japan: http://time.com/2892728/japan-finally-bans-child-pornography/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/57eaaf23-0cef-48c8-961f-41f2563b38aa

[bestgirlasuka]

[ex-vento-avreo]

my take on an eventual jojo x evangelion au

[dakishimetainoni]

Ikari Shinji, from Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo.

[kookaifoundation]

?? is asuka’s last name soryuu langley or soryou langley

[mordogeira]

tagged by @that-kawoshin-evageek, thanks!!

Rules: Tag nine people you want to get to know better!

Relationship status: uhhh I wanna say taken, but it’s still a little blurry

Favorite color: cobalt blue and grey

Lipstick or Chapstick: chapstick because my lips are always dry as fuck

Last song I listened to: Dimitri Mendleev by Astronautalis

Last movie I watched: Return to Montauk (rather unwillingly)

Top three TV shows:

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Digimon

Top three characters:

Asuka Langley Soryou

Oshino Ougi

Utena Tenjou

Top three ships 

uhhh I’m really not into these but:

Utena/Anthy

Aveline/Donnic

Shepard/Garrus

I don’t have much time rn to tag people, so I’m just gonna tag all my mutuals! 

[jimsunset]

A little draw of Asuka.

[westerncosplay]

Cosplayer: JuTsukino

[unknown-eva]

[ex-vento-avreo]

I love hikatoji as much as the next person, but I'm also a big fan of asuhika. I kid you not, I thought they were in love. And they also have a sleepover scene like kaworu and shinji??

[akari-chibi]

Trying Asuka XD

:P

[fandom-my]

[unknown-eva]

from nintendo

[unknown-eva]