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The tragic symphony which is Asuka's life was composed when she was quite young and still a child of great innocence. Kyoko Zepplin Sohryu (Asuka's mother)was a test pilot as well as a technician engineer when the fabrication of Eva was still in its infancy. One day, due to an accident during a test activation, Kyoko became insane. As a result of her insanity, Asuka's mother started to regard a doll as Asuka and would refer to the real Asuka as "that girl over there". The only thing little Asuka could do was angrily stare through the hospital window of the room where her mother and the doll resided. Through various gestures of affection and love to the doll, Asuka's mother was in fact, at a deeper level, trying to make-up for all the time she had lost with Asuka as a result of her constant focus on work and research rather than her daughter, Asuka. To add to the anger and abandoned feeling Asuka possessed (although not purposely), her father remarried and cut off all connections from Asuka and her now insane mother.
Soon, Asuka would be identified as the second child. This caused great excitement within Asuka and she ran home with great happiness and pride to reveal the good news to her mother. Perhaps now her mother would pay more attention to her instead of the doll now? Asuka hoped. Surely, this was a good reason for her mother to finally notice her. As Asuka excitedly opened the door and cried out "Look Mamma!" with a huge smile on her little face, the image that came before her was one of shock. There was her mother; hanging from the ceiling by means of a rope. Kyoko Zepplin Sohryu had killed herself and beheaded the "Asuka doll". Suicide.
The tragedy that was Asuka's childhood would become the defining factor which would set the course for the rest of her life. Taking this tragedy into her and trying her best to put it behind her forever, Asuka swore she would always be the best at everything. To establish this, Asuka graduated from college at an extremely early age. She placed all sense of importance and self-worth in her position as the second child who pilotted Eva Unit 02. According to Asuka, this was also the means by which she had control over her life. As she shoved away all her memories, Eva Unit 02 and her control of it would become her life and a source which measured her own self worth. Thus, failure was not an option. Ever.
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