Shinji's Mother

"I don't care what I have to do as long as I have you, Shinji. That's all I need."

Shinji's mother was a human woman living alone who was the mother of Shinji. She loved her son deeply, though became unstable psychologically after her son was killed. She refused to accept her son's death. While in the hospital, she grabbed his body and shook it as she sobbed, believing her son being dead was a mistake and begging him to wake up. When Shinji's body, now possessed by a nightbreed did, she was ecstatic.

When Shinji began eating dead animals she didn't want to accept his deeds and vehemently opposed him even touching an animal. None the less, she dutifully saw to the remains after he ate them. However, she'd take the living hell to losing her son any day and believed he was still alive and not a dead creature "sucking the life out of animals." At one point, she contradicted herself by saying her boy Shinji was too sweet to have killed those animals, despite having just disposed of the remains of a kitten he'd ate.

She displayed severe schizophrenia and loss of reality. The nightbreed-possessed Shinji had her so loyal to him she even jumped in front of Shido's sword when the latter was about to kill him and caught it with her bare hands, badly cutting herself. Then she allowed Shinji to lick the blood on her palms, cooing that Shinji was her son and she didn't care what she had to do as long as she had him.

Appearances

 * Episode 7