>>2841521"A younger Kaji". That's the perfect way to describe him from Asuka's POV.
It's a shame that it will never be real, because he has everything Asuka tried to find in Kaji and Shinji (ending up in a deep disappointment and in the case of the latter, a toxic hatred).
But well, Asuka is a tragic character after all. And Evangelion was far from being a happy story...