Sachiel

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Sachielサキエル
Name Meaning	Covering of God Price of God
Symbolism	Angel of Water
Number	The 3rd Angel
First Appearance	Angel Attack Stage 01: Angel Attack

Sachiel (サキエル, Sakieru^?) (Hebrew זכיאל), is the 3rd Angel seen in the TV series, and is the first Angel to attack after the Second Impact. First emerging out of the ocean to the east of Tokyo-3, the Angel makes its way towards the Tokyo-3 and engages in combat with Evangelion Unit-01, which is in its first operational mission. It is preceded by Lilith and succeeded by Shamshel.

Profile

Sachiel's appearance is tall, thin, and humanoid, it is slightly larger than an Evangelion, and functions both on land and in water. Its proportions are unlike those of a human; its arms are long enough to reach below its knees and its legs and feet are elongated and disproportionate. It lacks a proper humanoid head and neck, but like other Angels, contains a core in the center of its solar plexus. Its head is barely mobile and appeared to primarily be made up of bone and is structured much like a bird's, even having a long beak. After Sachiel regenerates from an N² mine attack, a second head emerges from its body, with a shorter beak than the first. Sachiel has red irises, which are able to be seen deep within its eye sockets. Sachiel possesses blood of a bluish-purple color, making it unique among Angels for whom blood has been observed.

Unusual among Angels, Sachiel possesses a respiration system based in the thighs and crotch, breathing in through gills in the thighs and exhaling through a set of nostril in the crotch area. Said gills also serve as an underwater propulsion system. The Angel's natural weaponry consist of two lance-like bone structures that extend from its forearms and are shown to be able to be energized to increase their destructive capability. These are physical structures that serve as the Angel's ulna or outer arm bone. After the Angel regenerates from the N² Mine attack, it develops the ability to fire a long-range energy blast from the eyes of its second face, which results in crucifix-shaped spikes of energy. While not a being capable of flight itself, Sachiel demonstrates the ability to use its own A.T. Field to enhance its jumping ability to great lengths. Sachiel is also capable of altering its body shape and muscle mass, increasing it when under strain. As a last resort, it can wrap itself into a ball around its opponent and self-destruct.

History

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Sachiel in NERV's monitors

Sachiel is first seen swimming through the flooded ruins of a city just east of Tokyo-3 before emerging from the ocean and engaging the JSSDF, forces that attempted to stop it. In spite of Sachiel's apparent lack of interest in combat, the military's efforts failed to cause any damage, and were unsuccessful to slow its advance toward Tokyo-3.

While on its way to Tokyo-3, Sachiel was temporarily stunned by a missile barrage from the JSSDF VTOL aircrafts that happened to surprise it. However, the attacks soon began to have no effect on it, the Angel soon adjusted to the attacks and pressed forward. Instead of counterattacking, Sachiel simply shot down a VTOL with the attitude of swatting a fly with curiosity, before using its A.T. Field to do a leap away from its aggressors.

After all of their efforts proved ineffective against the Angel, the JSSDF lured Sachiel to Mt. Takanosu and detonated an N² Mine underneath its feet, creating a massive explosion that succeeded in damaging Sachiel, destoying approximately 18% of its mass. However, the Angel quickly began regenerating back the damage it had sustained, generating a new facial plate that pushed the old one up over the new mask. While the N² mine failed to stop Sachiel, the mine does slow it down long enough for NERV to prepare Evangelion Unit-01 to be sent into combat against Sachiel.

Sachiel's second face

Upon arrival in Tokyo-3, Sachiel takes on much more aggressive behavior, revealing a new ability by casting a crucifix-shaped pillar of light in the middle of Tokyo-3 that penetrates into the Geofront below. As Sachiel proceeds to wander through Tokyo-3, it stumbles upon the recently-activated Evangelion Unit-01, piloted by Shinji Ikari; however, due to Shinji being inexperienced with the EVA, fell after just a few steps, Sachiel then breaks the Evangelion's arm, grabs hold of the Evangelion's head and (after several attempts) proceeds to impale Unit-01 in the head with its lance-like structure hosted inside its forearms, the impact of this flings it against a building.

Sachiel's cross explosion after it self-destructed

Following a period of silence, Unit-01 reactivates, going berserk before jumping on top of Sachiel, ripping a piece of the Angel's face plate apart, revealing a lower, more organic appearance. As Unit-01 charges against the Angel once more, it is stopped by Sachiel's A.T. Field, but the Evangelion promptly regenerates its previously broken left arm, and uses its A.T. Field to corrode through the Angel's barrier. Before Unit-01 could continue its assault on the Angel, Sachiel retaliated by casting a cross-shaped explosion at point-blank range at it, but it proved unable to stop the berserk Evangelion, who grabbed both of Sachiel's arms, and broke them with a sharp snap before kicking it into a building.

As the Evangelion landed on top of the Angel, it proceeded to repeatedly punch its core before breaking off one of Sachiel's ribs and using it to repeatedly stab at the Angel's core, slowly cracking it. Sachiel, realizing that it might die, jumped on top of Unit-01 and wrapped around its head, self-destructing shortly after and raising a cross-shaped pillar of light high into the sky. However, its sacrifice did not destroy Unit-01, as shortly after the explosion, Evangelion Unit-01 emerged from the destruction, having only suffered moderate damage.

In Other Media

Neon Genesis Evangelion manga

Sachiel in the manga.

While Misato picks up Shinji by car, Rei pilots Unit-01 and confronts Sachiel. During this encounter, Sachiel is depicted as being fairly nimble; however, the Angel loses the ability of enlarging his muscles. Its battle with Unit-01 is changed as well: after the berserk EVA jumps in front of it, the Angel uses its right lance to strike at the EVA once more. Unit-01 stops the lance in its jaws, and kicks Sachiel in the face. The Angel frees its arm from the grip of the EVA and starts slashing at Rei, who evades the attack by jumping away from it. After dodging more lance slashes, Unit-01 charges at Sachiel, who reacts by deploying its A.T. Field. After restoring its left arm, Unit-01 destroys its A.T Field, only to be hit by Sachiel's cross beam. Unit-01 deflects the attack, sending the Angel against a building. With another leap, Unit-01 hits the Angel's core with its knees. Unit-01 then proceeds to smash the core with its right hand, Sachiel's then self-destructs around Rei and Unit-01. Even after being engulfed in the massive explosion, the EVA does not sustain any significant damage.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: the Iron Maiden 2nd

In the game, Sachiel is part of the mass Angel attack.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra

Sachiel is one of the playable characters in the "brawling" game Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra. He's the first opponent in Unit-01's Story mode.

Petit Eva: Evangelion@School

Sachiel appears in one episode of Petit Eva: Evangelion@School. Here, it is portrayed as a giant monster terrorizing the city. While doing so, it is struck on the forehead by a bogey thrown by Unit-01, who is at NERV Academy at the time. Realizing what it was and where it came from, Sachiel rushes towards the school, demanding to know who threw the bogey at him. Unit-01 then decides to fight him; however, he is way smaller than Sachiel, who proceeds to repeatedly stomp on him. This continues until Shinji plugs Unit-01 into an outlet, which recharges him and increases his height until he is taller than Sachiel. Realizing that it cannot win, Sachiel tries to run away, but is grabbed by Unit-01, rolled up into a ball, and thrown far away. It is later found, now way smaller than it was, by Rei III, who washes it in a nearby stream and hangs it up to dry.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days

Sachiel, much like the original anime, is the first Angel to be seen attacking Tokyo-03. It is double-teamed by Shinji and Rei in Unit-01 and Unit-00 respectively. After a brutal fight, Sachiel is brought down, but not before wounding Rei in the eye with one of its spears.

Development

Proposal Sachiel design, dated 14 May 1994.

The more refined version of Sachiel's design, labelled "Version A", depicts the ribs and scapular carapace structures as three separate parts, although many cuts in the anime use a different version, labelled "Version B", where they form one combined structure. This "Design B" is also used by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto in the manga. One other discrepancy is that, in B, both right and left "ribs" possess an upper bone-spur, whereas in A this feature is only present on the left, and visibly absent from the start.

The Neon Genesis Evangelion Proposal presents an earlier concept for Sachiel's design, although it bears little resemblance to the final version beyond the basic tall and thin humanoid motif. It possessed a more crustacean shell, with longer claws and two antennae protruding from his shoulders. His legs and arms appeared to be covered with patches of gills. He sported a different face design with a mouth and a giant blue eye in the middle, surrounded by what appear to be six smaller orange ones.

Ishtar from Wahhaman.

Sachiel design was originated from a prototype of the character Ishtar from Yoshitoh Asari manga series Wahhaman.

Trivia

• It was designed by the manga artist Yoshitoh Asari.
• The "ch" in "Sachiel" is pronounced as a hard "K".
• Sachiel is one of the few Angels to appear in more than one episode. It also makes a brief cameo reappearance as a holographic shooting target in Episode 03's training simulation.
• Sachiel's energy explosions blatantly resemble a Latin cross. One cross-explosion penetrates the GeoFront, but how is not known: Sachiel's blasts are supposedly weaker than the similar explosions Zeruel sets off, at the very least incapable of damaging Unit-01. How the blasts are formed is unexplained.