Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu

Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu
惣流・キョウコ・ツェッペリン
Age	31
Birthday	1974 (exact date unknown)
Seiyū	Maria Kawamura

Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu is the mother of Asuka Langley Soryu. She appears in Episodes 22, 25, and 25'.

She was a brilliant scientist involved with Project E at Gehirn's German branch. However, she served as the test subject for a Contact Experiment with Eva-02, which trapped the maternal component of her soul inside the Evangelion's core. Kyoko developed a severe psychological illness as a result and needed to be institutionalized.

Kyoko became unable to recognize Asuka as her daughter, while rag dolls (which she alternated between treating tenderly and violently) became surrogate "Asuka-chan"s. One doll was decapitated; Asuka acquired the head and carried it with her as she watched her mother through the hospital glass. Kyoko throttled another, and, ultimately, used it to commit a "double suicide", hanging both herself and the doll-Asuka -- a spectacle the real Asuka had the misfortune of seeing.

While Kyoko was confined at the hospital, her husband (Langley) began to carry out an affair with her doctor. Little discretion was taken from the start, as the two engaged in sexual acts in the room adjacent to Kyoko's; and, by the time of the funeral, they were already married. Individuals attending Kyoko's funeral provided insinuations that Langley's infidelity was the ultimate driving force behind the suicide itself.

Although Kyoko physically died, the maternal component of her soul, at the very least (see note below), continues to survive within Eva-02. Asuka only learns that "[Mama] was always watching over" her and "protecting" her shortly before the two of them, ironically, do at last die together: Kyoko, as Eva-02, is ravaged and killed by the Mass Production Evangelions, taking Asuka with her.

Also, something about Arael mind-hacking and subsequently shutting away her soul.

Notes

• In a flashback in Episode 25, we hear the insane Kyoko begging Asuka, "Please die with me!". In the Episode 25' scene where Asuka finds her mother within Eva-02, Kyoko repeats, "You mustn't die! You must live! You're alive!", several times. However, the familiar "Please die with me!" is mixed in twice among her inspirational words. This implies that the remainder of Kyoko's soul was salvaged into Eva-02 following her physical death.

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Characters

Main characters: Shinji Ikari | Rei Ayanami | Asuka Langley Soryu

Nerv staff: Misato Katsuragi | Gendo Ikari | Ritsuko Akagi | Kozo Fuyutsuki | Ryoji Kaji | Maya Ibuki | Makoto Hyuga | Shigeru Aoba

Classmates: Toji Suzuhara | Kensuke Aida | Hikari Horaki

Other characters: Kaworu Nagisa | Yui Ikari | Naoko Akagi | Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu | Dr. Katsuragi | Keel Lorenz | Pen Pen

Rebuild of Evangelion: Asuka Shikinami Langley | Mari Makinami Illustrious | Sakura Suzuhara | Ryoji Kaji (Jr)

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