TARO TAMOTSU
Name:
Taro Anno Tamotsu-kun
Age:
14
Gender:
Male
Occupation:
Eva-01
Appearance:
Taro is a pale Japanese teenage male, with medium-length blackish-blue hair and brown hazelnut eyes. He stands at 1.65 meters, or roughly 5'5" in height, and has a rather athletic and slim body due to his slightly abnormal high metabolism. His normal attire includes a comfortable shirt and pants/shorts (he isn't picky) yet he never makes himself look sloppy or messy. His plug suit's colors are almost predominately dark-blue and white, along with having dark grey and yellow slashes and stripes here and there.
Personality:
Taro is a passionate soul, one who's ready to do almost anything when it comes to defeating the Angels that he hates with a passion. While he's not quite proud of his work, he instead looks at his job as an act of vengeance, a necessary job to combat his old wounds and to redeem for his mother's death. He's completely in the zone during the battles, with his serious "no-fucks" given attitude makes him a truly impressive pilot to behold. He'll do anything just to ensure that his enemies will stay down for however long it will take him to 'kill em' all'. He does not consider failure as an option and always tries to find ways to succeed...
Of course, this leads in to some of his major faults. Taro's aggressive nature stems from the fact that he's cold and high-tempered, sometimes even using violence personally to tell people to screw off, whether they be pilots or more boldly in occasions... NERV Staff (although he strangely quiets down within Gendo's direct presence or whenever he speaks to him directly). This stems from the fact how he killed his abusive father as he attempted to kill Taro's mother... and unfortunately failed to save her. As a result, this mental trauma also keeps him from bonding with the other pilots, often making him rather anti-social outside of the battlefield, as he doesn't want to loose more people that he cares about. He often is seen inside his room exercising or "trying" to calm down by laying still on the bed for sometimes hours at a time, protecting his vulnerable side from any possible and curious somebodies. Taro also blames himself for not being able to help his mother and sometimes can be seen tearing silently as he looks at pictures of his mother and destroying anything that he believes belong to his father.
More disturbingly, Taro views the Angels as resurrected constructs of his father's spirit, who (in his own words) 'scowl in distasteful pleasure as they attempt to pull [Taro's] soul down with him to the cold depths of Hell and back'...
History:
Taro's early life is something he has no pleasure in sharing about... and when he does share it, he often goes into gruesome detail about it.
His family wasn't the wealthiest bunch in Tokyo by any stretch. Taro's father, Hando Tamotsu, was abusive and abruptly cold and remorseful since shortly after his son's birth, while also being addicted to cocaine and lived a life of crime just to get the next bag. Taro's mother, Yoko Tamotsu, was much more secretive, for she claimed to work in a decent-paying office for medical research though she was actually a member of NERV's research division. The two together in a small apartment shortly before Taro was born and while at first they seemed to be a rather sensible couple at the time... until their son was born that is.
Hando always had a thing for cocaine, his mother estimating he had been snorted it since his teenage years. The two often fought verbally against one another in brutal screaming matches, which Taro describes the events 'as if two wild animals were roaring hellish flames at one another'. In fact, Taro initially was scared and frightened by these events, often shutting himself in his room to block out the noise out in the kitchen. Sometimes he hears dishes getting smashed... sometimes he hears a slap of skin... sometimes he even hears questionable moans of struggle. It was... dreadful... sickening... horrific... he has heard sounds that would make nearly all men or women squirm. Of course, he doesn't always see what was going on, but he can always guess. And he was helpless to stop it...
Of course, in such an abusive relationship Yoko tried everything to keep Handa out. When telling him to get out of the house didn't work, she tries to board the room up to the point where it would seem certain he'd never come in. Of course, every time she does that, the man somehow gets in... and brutally punishes Yoko in the process. Restraining orders have been attempted to be lurched by Yoko herself, but always fell back on the thought of her own murder by her husband's hands. But the turning point of all this happened on one fateful night...
On that fateful night... Yoko wasn't home. She was getting late off work, not intentionally, but simply because of workload stresses. When Handa crept into the room, his voice was maniacal and psychotic, his voice cooing for his wife as he laughs manically as if he was the devil himself. Taro feared he would be next and thus shut himself in his room, while also taking the extra measure in hiding under his bed. He hoped he won't see him... after all the two never really talked let alone see one another. As the footsteps and laughing crept louder and louder down the hall, the boy kept absolutely still and quiet. At first, it didn't even look as if he was going to find him as all the noises ceased for a brief few seconds... until Taro looked back to see the terrifying eyes of his father. With a piercing scream, the boy attempted to flee out of the house, but vefore he could even crawl out from the bed, he felt a firm grasp plant itself on his ankle. The invader dragged him out from under his bed all the way to the kitchen near the front of the house. Then Taro hears the screeching metal of a silver knife sharpening against the counter... Handa was going to kill him. No matter how much he tried to flee, the grip remained tight around his ankle. Death seemed inevitable...
But within a stroke of absolute luck, Taro's mother came home with a scream of rage unlike anything he has ever heard. Yoko attempted to stab Handa with a knife of her own, straggling her husband with all her adrenaline might she had with her. The two clashed it what seemed to be a showdown for the ages, a final battle to the death to determine the superiority of who really owns the household once and for all. But unfortunately for Yoko, Handa was too strong and as she laid crippled on the floor after her spine was shattered by a kick into the counter edge. As she laid helpless as Handa raised the butcher's blade to stab her... a spark of rage filled Taro's eyes. Spotting a nearby silver fork, Taro grasps it as he lunges towards his father, stabbing him fatally in the neck. Blood dripped down Handa's throat as he gasped for air until dying hunched over the kitchen sink in a small pool of blood. Taro finally had revenge against his father... yet it didn't stop from his mother dying silently in just a few short hours due to paralysis. A series of negative grief attacks enraged the boy to such a degree into punching the walls, shattering glasses, causing his own chaos of grief across the room until he curls himself into a ball and weept uncontrollably...
If it weren't for the arrival of Yoko Tamaturo's friend Misato Katsuragi the next morning, Taro would've been left alone to die in his own grief. But with the Field Commander's good will and compassionate heart, he took the boy as her own, reporting the entire incident to Gendo Ikari immediately. But of course... the Supreme Commander would find a good use for the boy now having unlocked a tool of rage...
To become a pilot for Evangelion Unit-01 and fight against the oncoming angels... and he believes he will not disappoint him unlike his own son before him.
Theme:
TBA
