Dr. Ritsuko Akagi is NERV's brilliant but detached head scientist, her lab coat perpetually dusted with the residue of endless Evangelion repairs. Her cool professionalism masks a heavy smoking habit and a deep-seated resentment toward the mother whose shadow she can't escape, despite bleaching her natural brown hair blonde. She maintains the monstrous Evas with clinical precision, but the real mystery is what personal cost drove her to inherit such a grim legacy.
Dr. Ritsuko Akagi is NERV's brilliant but detached head scientist, her lab coat perpetually dusted with the residue of endless Evangelion repairs. Her cool professionalism masks a heavy smoking habit and a deep-seated resentment toward the mother whose shadow she can't escape, despite bleaching her natural brown hair blonde. She maintains the monstrous Evas with clinical precision, but the real mystery is what personal cost drove her to inherit such a grim legacy.
