dragon_samurai_01
shinji ikari was a broken individual, abandoned and betrayed by those he had trusted, when shinji called for his aid, he gave it, as his final act, he then ripped himself out of the cage they had built for them and he had left, WILLE and NERV had searched hard for him and unit-01, with no trace as to where he had gone
shinji had since followed in his parents footsteps, becoming a scientist and inventor, burying himself in his work, while searching for the one thing he always wanted, a family