Character sheet
Name: Warren Shatter
Sex: Male
Appearance:
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Age: 15
Nationality: American

Bio: While NERV may just be Earth's best and brightest option in combating the Angelic threat, they are far from the only organization working to save all of humanity, with one notable example being Japan's Jet Alone project. Durandal was one such organization. A military contractor based within the United States, Durandal worked to develop a weapon to fight Angels. Whether simply by coincidence or on purpose, Durandal seemed to follow a number of NERV's methods. They gathered and trained a group of orphaned children as soldiers, dubbed the Paladin Project, and they also attempted to work on a mind-machine interface, in order to more smoothly control the machines they hoped to design.

Warren himself was a product of the Paladin Project. Born during the early years of the after effects of Second Impact, times were hard for young Warren's parents. Lack of proper medical treatment mean that his mother would die during childbirth, and his father, a doctor with a limp who looked ten years older than he truly, was killed when a field hospital for soldiers he had volunteered to work at was shelled. Warren has managed to keep his father's old cane, a simple thing made of mahogany and ripped with steel, along with a number of his medical texts which he will occasionally browse through. Shortly afterwards, Warren was picked up by Durandal, where he trained as one of its many Paladin Initiates. Overall, he scored average in the simulated combat tests, and since Durandal could truly only ever use a small fraction of its Initiates when full production of their designed weapon platform happened, Warren was deemed expendable enough to be used as a guinea pig for some of Durandal's mind-machine interface prototypes. These prototypes were flawed, however, and most of the experiment's test subjects died, with survivors suffering from brain hemorrhaging, accompanied by blood flowing from eyes, ears, and nose, as well as excruciating headaches. The condition was soon dubbed 'Novack Syndrome', after its first victim. Medication was quickly developed for the survivors, and it did a decent job of suppressing the condition's nasty, and rather fatal, effects. Even with the medication, however, the project's victims still suffered. Occasional migraines and bloody noses would plague all who survived, and sufficient trauma, either physical or mental, could bring on an even more serious bout of bleeding.

Soon afterwards, Warren was found to be synch positive by NERV, and rather quickly spirited away, after a few deals between the two organizations of course. Warren, however, faced some measure of discrimination during his time with NERV, largely due to the fact that he was trained to as a Paladin rather than one of NERV's own Neospartans, and despite the fact that Warren held no personal loyalty whatsoever to Durandal, he was still considered a security risk, and many of his personal freedoms were limited. He now finds himself headed to Japan, in order to reinforce a failing defense by an organization he doesn't fully trust.

Personality: Warren keeps people at a distance, emotionally if not physically. He has no personal qualms about interacting with other people or his fellow pilots, but he distances himself mentally. Many of his remarks are sarcastic in nature, and he often deflects questions about himself with such words. His suffered 'prejudice' from NERV has also left him rather cynical, and a little questioning of NERV as a whole, but despite this, he remains a loyal and efficient pilot. While he may dislike his current employers, he has been trained since childhood to be a defender of mankind, and so he would do it, if only because he knew nothing else. As far as hobbies go, Warren is a fan of card games and card tricks. Paladin Initiates weren't ever afforded much luxury or comfort, but one of the few ways they had to let off steam was through gambling on games of chance, often betting things such as rations, or watch shifts, and whatever other small luxuries could be found around like chocolate and books.

Eva unit number and description: Unit 09 is a so called 'Surplus Unit'. Evangelions are undeniably powerful, and remarkably few in numbers. This isn't for lack of trying, of course. There are many ways for the production of an Evangelion to fail. Genetic flaws, faulty construction methods, or even sabotage have ended a large number of prospective Evangelions. Many of these failed Units are simply left to rot or used as spare parts, and the Surplus Unit production line seeks to remedy this by purchasing and gathering all these many failed Units and combining them into one whole and working Evangelion.

Unit 09 is the first Surplus Unit produced, and it is a veritable Frankenstein's monster. While efforts have been taken to standardize its various mismatched parts, there are a number of obvious features that point towards its fractured origins. The most obvious sign is its head, where it only has one eye, the other being covered by armor plate. The original Evangelion's eye never fully developed, and thus its eye socket was instead cleared out and filled with sensor equipment that did essentially the same job. And while the Unit has been covered with a coat of new paint, colored black and gray, underneath it is plain to see just where this Unit came from. The armor plating of its various limbs and body parts are almost all completely different, from varying projects and marks. For example, its left arm is lined with a number of reactive charges, an old attempt at better armoring the Evangelions that was eventually scrapped, while the armor plating on its torso is designed to run millions of volts of electricity in order to act as a deterrent against Angelic blows, another failed project that died along with the original Evangelion. All of these things combined make Unit 09 a living hell to work with for the various engineers and mechanics in charge of maintaining it, and it is likely to face even more standardization as damages force more modern replacement parts to be installed. For now though, it is entirely unique, the only one of its kind.