Criminal Shinji

[Thomas68]

When reading a serial killer biography most of them have hardships and abuses they had to endure in throughout their lives. Shinji had to endure a life full of solitude and mindfuck. What would be the possibility of Baka-Shinji entering a life of crimes consedring his mental state (even with his passive personality)?

[Reichu]

Shinji is considered highly at risk for becoming like his dad. So this means anything from drunken brawls to sabotage to shooting his subordinates dead to subjecting the entire planet's fate to his whims. (Whoops, already got the last one covered...)

[Sachi]

At worst, I can picture him hurting somebody a la the EoE kitchen scene, maybe even killing them. This would have to be a result of high tension and passion, however, and would likely only happen if he were in a similar mental state as he was in EoE (which, as we know, requires a lot of push); odds are, if it did happen, it wouldn't be a trend.

[Sicarius VI]

^ If that were the case, and say take that EOE scene. Let's say he hypothetically killed Asuka or anyone he cared about. I believe he would have another break down after being in his EOE state, and then two things could happen. Suicide, or he goes mentally insane and becomes a criminal. I would heavily believe the first would happen. This is because he would want to kill himself before he could hurt anyone else.

[Guy Nacks]

^ the thing is, though, that Shinji is not actively suicidal, only passively suicidal. Asuka, in ep 22 on the other hand...

Plus, didn't Anno himself say something to the effect that Shinji doesn't have enough self worth to even justify killing himself?

[Compiling_Autumn]

It's hard to be a criminal when there exists no law, let alone a society to enforce it. When the series ends, it's just Asuka and Shinji together, free to love or abuse each other as they see fit.

[NemZ]

serial killer

Well, he isn't white, didn't abuse animals, isn't fascinated by fire and as far as we know isn't a bedwetter so odds are serial killer is not in his future.

Shinji is highly empathetic, but also highly idealistic and prone to dramatics. I can see him perpetrating crimes for a 'greater good', but not merely for personal gain. Violent crimes of passion are a definite possibility, and I wouldn't put it far past him to become a stalker or possibly a serial date rapist. I could very believably see him become a drug abuser for 'self medication' purposes, and this could potentially lead to crimes like theft to feed the habit.

[amitakartok]

^Crimes for a greater good, you say...?

...anti-UN terrorist, maybe? Partly as revenge for using him and partly because he now sees them as bad men who must be stopped before they hurt others.

[Lu-Cuss]

I can't imagine him being the kind of guy to go steal a car or sell drugs etc. He's way too timid of a person for that, and if that's the way he is while going through the shit he did at his age, he probably wouldn't ever be like that in future. I can see him one day snapping and assaulting/killing somebody while in a moment of rage, but not much else. I think his contempt for how his father treated him might be too much for him to perpetuate it, but I can also see him going towards it the way some people beat their kids because their fathers beat them.

[StarShaper7]

Sexual predator.

Breaks into hospitals and masturbates to the sight of unconscious women. Preferably comatose redheads. His calling cards are small handmade crosses he leaves next to the beds.

Also keeps the disembodied head of what appears to be a young albino boy in his basement. He cradles it in his arms at night and cries himself to sleep.

[SEELE-01]

Sexual predator.

Breaks into hospitals and masturbates to the sight of unconscious women. Preferably comatose redheads. His calling cards are small handmade crosses he leaves next to the beds.

Also keeps the disembodied head of what appears to be a young albino boy in his basement. He cradles it in his arms at night and cries himself to sleep.

It's funny because it's true


I think he would go for a more Gendo-like personality, no direct violence... We saw him running away from fights even when inside an 80-meter nearly indestructible robot, if that doesn't boost your confidence and make you cocky then what will?

[IronEvangelion]

I can see him becoming a low-level thug or something of the sort, or at least becoming domestically violent and abusing his spouse on a regular basis. I really don't see him becoming any sort of organized criminal or leader, I think he has too many psychological and emotional issues preventing that from happening. I can imagine adult Shinji stumbling out of a bar shouting obscenities, then making his way back to his rundown apartment, hitting his spouse, then grabbing a beer from the fridge, popping some pills, and basically just passing out for the rest of the night. To me that would be the most likely outcome if he went the 'criminal' route.

[Bagheera]

I think the idea's incredibly far-fetched, personally. Shinji doesn't have the iron in him to go the Gendo route, and he's too empathetic to do anything predatory (there's the hospital scene, yes, but look at how that broke him -- I can't see a repeat happening).

Drug abuse is a definite possibility, though. I remember reading a fic once where both Shinji and Asuka are both alcoholics and drug addicts, with Kensuke marveling at how they'd changed. And I remember thinking "this isn't much of a change at all, it fits their personalities and experiences near-perfectly." Only reason I didn't go that route in Ghosts is because I couldn't see a way to pull a good end out of it, and because I strongly suspect Misato's influence would keep them away from such things. But without that? Hell yeah, right up their alley.

[Thomas68]

I remember reading a fic once where both Shinji and Asuka are both alcoholics and drug addicts, with Kensuke marveling at how they'd changed.

Can you pass that fanfic?

[Guy Nacks]

Can you pass that fanfic?

I don't know if this is the specific one, but it does involve them using heroin. It's also fucking fantastic, but sadly unfinished.

[url]https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3462016/1/The-Lighthouse[/url]

[Bagheera]

I don't know if this is the specific one, but it does involve them using heroin. It's also fucking fantastic, but sadly unfinished.

[url]https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3462016/1/The-Lighthouse[/url]

That's the one.

[Mr. Jive]

The kid is hateful, ungrateful, unstable, close minded, violent, misogynistic, homicidal, suicidal, genocidal and that was before he try to kill his own father, sexual abuse his roommate only to later strangle her then he kill everybody like he always wanted to do. Make no mistake that most of the characters in the anime knows this including his own father. Gendo himself is the original Shinji, he just a better actor then his son is in hiding it all. Or do you really think EOE is the first time gendo shot someone dead? Shinji is a monster in a plug suite. Anyone who think this loser has a hopeful future just refuse to see the monster that is in front of them. He either gonna be in jail for domestic violence toward his girlfriend(not Asuka she want nothing to do whit him) or boyfriend, get hook on drugs and soon OD from it, Or kill himself due to never finding any happiness. A dark future awaits this little psycho, just as long he don't drag anyone like Asuka, kensuke or toji down whit him I could careless what happens to him.

[Iuvenal]

Speaking of criminal Shinji, how did he learn to strangle people? I don't think your average Japanese 14 year old would know to press his thumbs into the windpipe, they'd be more likely to leave a victim with a sore neck than actually suffocate them.

[pwhodges]

A dark future awaits this little psycho,

Have you actually watched to the end of either the series or EoE?

I could careless what happens to him

Since the show is largely about him, I guess you've little interest in it at all, then.

[Stillborn]

I'm just tired of Anno solidifying the image of "Shinji will fail regardless of of decisons". At this point Jive's and Shamsiel's absurd scenarios seem possible.