Shinn Asuka

Shinn Asuka is a character from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny and is a major character in The Knights of the Multiverse, introduced in Season 2. Originally serving in Axis Zeon alongside he and his close comrades Lunamaria Hawke and Rey Za Burrel to serve justice to the Multiverse, he became disillusioned by their methods and thusly, he & Luna would go on to join the Crystal Knights to end their. He's the pilot of the original Impulse Gundam and the Destiny Gundam.

Personality
Shinn is often impulsive, hot-blooded and angry, the lingering trauma of his family's deaths still haunting him. He's also somewhat awkward, with a tendency to be a raging jerk at points. However, this is often to hide softer emotions he'd rather keep buried. He simply doesn't want what happened to him to happen to others. All he wants to be is a hero and protect those that matter to him and stand for those who cannot stand for themselves, and he'll do whatever it takes to do it. This dedication to protect those he cares about is mixed with a harbored, intense hatred for monarchies, government bodies, and any other ruling parties that see themselves as superior to others, use good people as nothing more than weapons and sacrifice both soldiers and innocent bystanders with little remorse, much like the Federation and Titans from his world.

As Axis Zeon's crusade across the Multiverse continued though, he started to become jaded towards the organization's mission. Although there were plenty of soldiers and pilots that were good men and women fighting for the same reasons he was, many more had the mindset of dictators looking to take the worlds they come across for their own purposes (like the people they were supposed to be fighting against), and some even seemingly joining the cause just to shoot things. This quickly led to him questioning if he was truly fighting for the right cause, and after forming kinships with several of the Knights, he defected and joined the rag-tag group to battle against his former allies. It was after this defection that he regained a sense of what he was fighting for with a newfound sense of justice, now more than dedicated to deliver it to anyone who wishes to do harm to others.

Pre-Series
Shinn Asuka was born in Side 6, and much of his life was spent in peace in the colony. He attended school, where he did reasonably well, though even in those days he had a stubborn streak that sometimes landed him into trouble. His greatest joy was spending time with his younger sister Mayu, three years his junior. Like his parents, Shinn was largely unconcerned by the goings-on outside the borders of their little colony, trusting in a small group of Zeon remnants who had survived the war and dedicated themselves to protecting their new home from any Federation treachery, several of whom Shinn and Mayu managed to make close friends out of, to keep them safe.

Then on June 15th, U.C. 0086, everything changed when the Federation, or more specifically, the Titans, attacked the colony after discovering the Zeon Remnant camp. After an evacuation was ordered, Shinn and Mayu fled as their parents lead them down towards the port, where several ships were waiting to take on evacuating civilians. As they ran for their lives, Mayu's cellphone fell from her purse, and Shinn leapt down the bank to retrieve it. Unfortunately, as he did so, a stray shot from the battle between the Titans and the Zeon troops struck the hillside above. Shinn was thrown off his feet and tumbled down the cliff, just a few feet away from an evacuee ship. And sadly, Mayu and their parents were killed instantly. In shock and swelling with tears, he was quickly hurried onto the ship. He had nothing left except his sister's phone and the pictures it contained. After arriving in a Zeon-based safe-haven, Shinn started hearing rumors about Zeon starting to rise back up to take on the Federation once more, and from there, decided to dedicate himself to learning how to pilot a Mobile Suit and defeat the monsters that slaughtered his family and everyone else that didn't make it out of their colony.

Skills
Shinn is a very talented pilot. He tends to favor close range combat, though is still quite good in medium and long range combat which come in handy due to both of his mobile suits capabilities to handle any form of combat. Despite his talents and natural abilities though, he does suffer a great deal from constantly grieving for the loss of his family to the previous war, to prevent the tragedy that causes the sorrow he experiences is the main driving force behind his reason to fight. Later on though, by tapping into the anger stemming from his loss of his family, Shinn is able to awaken his Newtype abilities, which causes his fighting style to become even more aggressive making him an unstoppable force to just about any pilots with exception of other highly skilled pilots like Haman and Kamille.

Mayu Asuka
Mayu was the closest person in Shinn's life, practically being his best friend. As one could imagine then, her death during the evacuation absolutely broke Shinn, leaving him a broken husk for a long time. Her death is also what motivated him to become a pilot, so he could protect others when he couldn't protect her. He still carries her cell phone on him, just so he knows a part of her is always with him.