History FanFic / AeonEntelechyEvangelion

** Shinji thinking himself to be better than the prince in the fairy tale "Literature/SleepingBeauty" (Shinji was familiar with the original, {{NSFW}} version.)

''[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aeon-entelechy-evangelion-ane-rewrite.162079/ Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' is a [[TheRemake 2nd edition/sequel/rewrite]] of Tropers/EarthScorpion's ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel'' because ES [[MythologyGag ran out of ink]]... er, felt dissatisfied with the inconsistencies between the earlier and later chapters. As of September 7, 2012, a prologue and nineteen chapters have been published, currently in Book II. Naturally, so far it has turned out just as terrifying as ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel''.

* XMeetsY: It's as if Creator/HPLovecraft, Creator/AlastairReynolds, and StephenBaxter got drunk together and watched all of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' in one sitting, then plotted out the setting.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Blanks are made by creating a secondary artificial neural network in captured humans and xenomixes. Notably, this trope name is literally false; the presence of a soul is something which can be [[DoingInTheWizard quantified]].

* PostCyberPunk: The [[Main/{{Arcology}} arcologies]], and the New Earth Government in general. Even more so than in ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' with deeper fusion of ''[[AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]]'' and ''EclipsePhase''.

* XMeetsY: It's as if Creator/HPLovecraft, AlastairReynolds, and StephenBaxter got drunk together and watched all of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' in one sitting, then plotted out the setting.

''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion'' is a [[TheRemake 2nd edition/sequel/rewrite]] of Tropers/EarthScorpion's ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel'' because ES [[MythologyGag ran out of ink]]... er, felt dissatisfied with the inconsistencies between the earlier and later chapters. As of September 7, 2012, a prologue and nineteen chapters have been published, currently in Book II. Naturally, so far it has turned out just as terrifying as ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel''.

* AbandonedPlayground: There is a small patch of grass, with a swing hanging from the tree in the middle of it, in the middle of the abandoned arcology dome that Rei lives in. Notably, Shinji is GenreSavvy enough that he finds it creepy. Note that [[spoiler:it looks almost exactly the same as Alma's HappyPlace in ''Project Origin'' at Still Island.]] That can't be a coincidence....

* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Most of England turned into one big city before the Arcologies were created. The Evangelion Project moved to London-2 after the Rapine Storm conquered China and got uncomfortably close to Japan.

** Gendo has one. In fact, he practices sorcery in a tower, which looks over a city, which is in a hidden cavern underneath another city composed largely of [[PyramidPower pyramidal]] arcologies. That man has serious style.

* GhostTown: Rei lives in an otherwise abandoned arcology dome. It's all clean, and tidy [[spoiler:well, apart from her room]], and...empty.

* PostCyberPunk: The arcologies, and the New Earth Government in general. Even more so than in ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' with deeper fusion of ''[[AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]]'' and ''EclipsePhase''.

* {{Understatement}}: Quite common, considering the writing style.

* EveryoneIsRightHanded: WordOfGod says that Nazzadi are primarily left-handed, since that part of human base was basically flipped by the Migou.

* IncrediblyLamePun: "Eva EVA equipment"; it got a chuckle out of Ritsuko.

* AlternateUniverseFic: AEE is one to ''Evangelion'' and ''{{FEAR}}'', while ''CthulhuTech'' gets the dubious honor of having everything be a point-of-divergence right after ''Vade Mecum'' because ES had declared everything post-''Vade Mecum'' [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4415150&postcount=661 unsourcebooks]].

* FusionFic: In addition to merging ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''CthulhuTech'' and ''{{FEAR}}'', the ''[[AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]]'' and ''EclipsePhase'' stuff that started to appear heavily in later parts of ''ANE'' are now featured more prominently.

* InertialDampening: Aircraft pilots are heavily modified with cybernetics so that they could tolerate high [=Gs=] in order to compete with their Migou counterparts.
** And they still can't cope with Misato's driving.

* {{Jerkass}}: A mild version with Ritsuko, who unlike in canon doesn't act nice, and is usually blatantly unemphatic, but she is so consistent about it that she comes off as less of jerkass she was in later parts ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and as more of a person who tries to cope with her job that has a very real (and inevitable) risk of being driven to insanity.

* MassTeleportation: [[spoiler:Asuka accidentally tore a hole in reality while trying to locate Yam's core and as a result both Unit-02 and the Harbinger were displaced far up in the atmosphere.]]

* MeleeATrois: The NEG, Migou and Mot were engaged in this before the first two backed off to lick their wounds.

** The Tsuchigumo, as befits their [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex heritage]].

* [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morally Dubious Corprate Executive]]: The Ashcroft Foundation and their representatives, compared to the altruistic shining knights of the canon CthulhuTech.

** A medic dies not long after he is introduced. His name is Marek [[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon Janckowski]].
** After being submerged in blue LCL used in what may have been the memory-backing up proceedure, Rei's hair was temporarily dyed blue.
** The "recreation area" where Rei lives is a ten by ten patch of grass with a tree (trans)planted in it, with a [[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon swing]] on it.

* TheOnlyOne: Averted, everybody who are expected to be competent at their jobs will be competent. There is a little of this trope with Asuka, who feels that most of the higher ups are compromising her piloting, though she knows better.

* ParanoiaFuel: Few In-Universe examples:

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The reason why @/EarthScorpion didn't completely replace ''CthulhuTech'' with ''EclipsePhase'' is that the latter's elements break a lot of NGE's story pillars. With the [[BrainUploading digitizing of the mind]] and [[BodySurf resleeving]], Shinji and Asuka are completely unnecessary when Gendo could just fork Rei to fill in the gaps.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Averted, mostly. It's rather well edited, with only a slight tendency to [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness excess verbosity]], especially when the Author is expositioning, and very few grammar/spelling gaffes.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Calvin likes to make these for Asuka, to the point that Asuka is almost starting to think that all of interactions with "Uncle Cal" are these.

** The Children of Chaos (Nyarlathotep) and Death Shadows (Hastur) cults. Their goal is to subvert the humanity from the inside, and even with the NEG's infamously strong security, these guys keep finding holes in it.

* SophisticatedAsHell: A noted element in the narration. It seems to be some by-product of mixing SesquipedalianLoquaciousness and {{DeadpanSnark|er}}.

* SquareCubeLaw: One of the points the Author mercilessly lampshades on when the Mechas are present, [=EVAs=] included.

* StateSec: Although cracks do exist, on the whole Earth Scorpion's interpretation of ''CthulhuTech'' StateSec in the Core and Vade Mecum basically makes them something that not even [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake]] will sneak by, and also making it impossible for the Damnation View's [[FanonDiscontinuity "Everything is Falling Apart" scenario]] to happen.

* SummoningRitual: One asylum prisoner tried to make a summoning circle under the influence of Mot before being restrained. One of the Military suggested that Mot is a result of Migou's botched summoning.

* TechnologyPorn: The technologies used in the story tend to get explained, even when they're using purely fictional laws of physics to operate, and, of course, certain things (like, say, the [[EclipsePhase Total Information Tactical Analysis Networks]]) get rather loving descriptions of their operating principles.

* ViralTransformation: The Leng ecosystem, a combination of [[{{Starcraft}} Zerg Creep]], SidMeiersAlphaCentauri xenofungus, [[CommandAndConquer Tiberium]] (of the really bad ''Tiberium Sun'' variety) and god knows what else, spreads out in Storm-controlled territory.

* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: [[OneWorldOrder New Earth Government]] designs are utilitarian and precisely designed for optimal performance, regardless of aesthetics; Migou designs are noted as "approaching techno-organic from the far side", in that they're machinery which looks organic, rather than lifeforms replacing technology.

!!See ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'', ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}'',''RevelationSpace'' and ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' for other tropes which might appear. Specific tropes found in ''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion'':

!!See ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''CthulhuTech'', ''{{FEAR}}'', ''[[AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]]'' and ''EclipsePhase'' for other tropes which might appear. Specific tropes found in ''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion'':

Take the CthulhuMythos, as seen through the futuristic, HopelessWar lens of ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. Add in the supernatural horror of the ''FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' series, as well as various bits and pieces (most of them nasty) from ''EclipsePhase'' and ''[[AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]]''. [[FusionFic Now throw them all into a blender]], and [[DarkerAndEdgier use the resulting nightmare of a setting to tell the already dark and apocalyptic story]] of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

But, don't worry! [[ManipulativeBastard Gendo Ikari]], a senior figure in the Ashcroft Foundation (the world's largest MegaCorp) will save us from the monstrous, god-like threats called Harbingers (named after [[MythologyGag Canaanite deities]]) which are attacking on top of all of this. Apparently, he has some kind of [[NeonGenesisEvangelion secret weapon.]]

!!See ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''CthulhuTech'', ''{{FEAR}}'', ''[[AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]]'' and ''EclipsePhase'' for other tropes which might appear. Specific tropes found in ''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion'':

* FusionFic: In addition to merging ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''CthulhuTech'' and ''{{FEAR}}'', the ''[[AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]]'' and ''EclipsePhase'' stuff that started to appear heavily in later parts of ''ANE'' are now featured more prominently.

* {{Jerkass}}: A mild version with Ritsuko, who unlike in canon doesn't act nice, and is usually blatantly unemphatic, but she is so consistent about it that she comes off as less of jerkass she was in later parts ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and as more of a person who tries to cope with her job that has a very real (and inevitable) risk of being driven to insanity.

* XMeetsY: It's as if Creator/HPLovecraft, AlastairReynolds, and StephenBaxter got drunk together and watched all of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' in one sitting, then plotted out the setting.

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The reason why @/EarthScorpion didn't completely replace ''CthulhuTech'' with ''EclipsePhase'' is that the latter's elements break a lot of NGE's story pillars. With the [[BrainUploading digitizing of the mind]] and [[BodySurf resleeving]], Shinji and Asuka are completely unnecessary when Gendo could just [[MesACrowd fork]] Rei to fill in the gaps.

It is now 2091. Space is controlled by the [[StarfishAliens Migou]], who are trying to [[BugWar stomp]] mankind back into the Stone Age without waking up anything else that lives on Earth. The [[HalfHumanHybrid Esoteric Order]] of [[FishPeople Dagon]] are trying to wake Cthulhu. A large percentage of Asia has become weirdly merged with Leng, where the Dead God, Hastur, resides, and there is a [[BlackAndGreyMorality subtle war]] going between two sides of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s and one side of {{Complete Monster}}s inside the territory controlled by the [[OneWorldOrder New Earth Government]].

''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion'' is a [[TheRemake 2nd edition/sequel/rewrite]] of Tropers/EarthScorpion's ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel'' because ES [[MythologyGag ran out of ink]]... er, felt dissatisfied with the inconsistencies between the earlier and later chapters. As of February 23, 2012, a prologue and eighteen chapters have been published, currently in Book II. Naturally, so far it has turned out just as terrifying as ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel''.

ItGotWorse.

* ItGotWorse: The aftermath of Operation Ankou, both on the battlefield and elsewhere.

* AntiAir: Anti-Orbital Defenses in Chapter 18.

* StateSec: Although cracks do exist, on the whole Earth Scorpion's interpretation of ''CthulhuTech'' StateSec in the Core and Vade Mecum basically makes them something that not even [[MetalGear Solid Snake]] will sneak by, and also making it impossible for the Damnation View's [[FanonDiscontinuity "Everything is Falling Apart" scenario]] to happen.

** Shinji thinking himself to be better than the prince in the fairy tale SleepingBeauty (Shinji was familiar with the original, {{NSFW}} version.)

* HumansAreSpecial: Brutally, brutally subverted. We're an species descended from out-of-control Elder Thing hypertech on a world which is important because it's claimed by much more powerful species than us, and we're the idiots mucking around with technology we don't understand.

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, mankind stumbles across knowledge of [[HPLovecraft the Mythos]], as the flaws in the old scientific models become evident. [[MagicVersusScience The scientific method]] is promptly applied, and things turn out pretty well, with sorcery-as-a-science and reactionless engines transforming all aspects of our culture. Sounds nice?

* AlternateHistory: At the start of Chapter 1, there is an excerpt from ''[[HPLovecraft The Shadow Out of Time]]'', which makes it clear that both the Elder Thing city in Antarctica and the Yithian city in Australia were historically discovered in the 1930s, putting the point of divergence quite a bit before now.

* CatsAreMean: Cats, as in the works of HPLovecraft, are intelligent and don't really like humans. Much of this comes from the fact that they are now their pets, when in the past the humans were basically servitors with the task to take care of the cats' bodies, which the cats considered to be useless, since they spent almost all their time soul-surfing in the Dreamlands doing things incomprehensible to human minds. Then the Dreamlands were eaten, and now suddenly they are mere pets to former servants, while others had [[AndIMustScream worse fates]]. Oh, and their eyes are used for security systems.

* XMeetsY: It's as if HPLovecraft, AlastairReynolds, and StephenBaxter got drunk together and watched all of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' in one sitting, then plotted out the setting.

* AlienBlood: Possessed by aliens, perhaps unsurprisingly. Averted with both the Nazzadi and the Deep Ones, as the former are basically just human, and the latter are still terrestrial creatures that use hemoglobin.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Tank crews view mecha as this in-universe. They show their opinion by making sarcastic comments about stable firing platforms, optimized weight distributions, and low target profiles.
** The narration states that Chicago-2, while awesome looking, is simply outdated for the Aeon War.

* BalanceOfPower: The Aeon War is currently in the six year long relative stalemate with no major victories or losses since the Fall of China, which is close to collapsing since Mot appeared on the Eastern Front.
* BeamSpam: Mot is apparently only capable of firing one beam from each face of its [[SinisterGeometry trapezoid form.]] But when it takes an almost gratuitous amount of abuse from the NEG, it's response is to [[spoiler: reshape itself into literally thousands of smaller trapezoids orbiting around each other - and each of ''them'' can fire a beam from their face.]] The resulting barrage of beams levels entire ''mountains''.
* {{BFG}}: London's capital-grade defenses include railguns that fire small nuclear warheads. Small, for a nuclear warhead, that is. Also, the pallet rifle, so useless in canon ''Evangelion'', has been replaced by the Babylon, a hypervelocity, 155mm coilgun which is [[GunPorn lovingly introduced over several paragraphs]].
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The real Migous, which are briefly mentioned to be a part of Rapine Storm, are Yeti-like. The bugs in the orbit are not actually Migou, but the name stuck.

* BugWar: The NEG-Migou conflict is the main example of this, although this trope is partially inverted, because the Migou are the more technologically advanced, intelligent, tool-users, and in fact have very little in common with traditional sci-fi "bugs" apart from their appearance. The fight against the hatchlings of Harbinger-4, Eshmun, was a more conventional example of this trope, given that they were a bit insect-like, a bit squid-like, a bit crab-like, and had CombatTentacles.

* CloningBlues: When each of the main fusion series has this as one of the important plot devices...well, of course this is going to feature. However, unlike canon ''CthulhuTech'', the Migou continued to make Nazzadi soldiers even after the defection, as reinforcements (and replacements) for the Loyalists, at least according to NEG Intelligence. (Because, really, how else could they produce that many soldiers?)

* ContainmentField: This is mentioned a lot of times when Arcanotech is involved, particularly in weapons. There are also containment wards used when Mot is causing Aeon War Syndrome.

* CrypticConversation: The whole prologue, and pretty much all conversations that don't refer to immediate events, and sometimes those too, can be extremely cryptic.

* DiscontinuityNod: It is noted that, in-universe, the Nephilim technology evolved from the useless ''Mortal Remains''-style [[{{Mon}} leash dogs]] (who are also nearly-guaranteed to go out of control and will always try to kill their handler first) to, among other models, the spider-like Tsuchigomos (which put the squishy human pilot inside a safe armour-plated pod, and are more like mini-Engels). The Loyalist Nazzadi seems to be a nod to the elf-life Nazzadi of the canon CthulhuTech.

* DontAnswerThat: The Investigators tried to question Shinji, who is assumed to be a prime target of those infiltrators in the airport, but had a high-level lawyer do the talking for him.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The German student from the 1920' dreams of the times of Aeon War. Maybe.

* ElectronicEyes: Those who serve in the military are offered to replace their organic eyes with artificial ones (or harcontacts, hard permanent contact lenses, for those who refuse) due to things on the battlefield, mostly lasers, that tend to fry the eyeballs just by looking at them. [[spoiler:Asuka apparently lost hers due to looking at a nuclear detonation.]]
* EliteMooks: Loyalist Nazzadi come in an Elite variety, who have extensive cybernetic and genetic enhancements, and are issued Migou-level weaponry and gear. Likewise, Combat Blanks, reprogrammed humans, are more akin to a light suit of power armor even before they have equipment, and have small antimatter reaction chambers where their guts would be which are used to fuel their integrated weapons and enhancements.

* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Mot, as a passive effect, appears to draw energy in from its surroundings.

** Mot transformed itself into the spire that kept extending both upwards and downwards in order to get inside the Geofront. After it was killed, Mot left behind a kilometer tall spire-corpse for Ashcroft to clean up.
* {{Expy}}: Tsuchigumos are Lovecraftian, lobotomized [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Tachikomas]]. One of the pilots of these things acted like a Tachikoma for good measure. Not to mention Shinji being a [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya sarcastic bastard]]. Moreover, a remarkable number of Shinji's classmates seem to be (sometimes genderflipped) expies of various other anime characters.

* EyeScream: Hollow socket variant with Rei. In the battle against Asherah, it [[spoiler:rips Unit 01's eye out with lamprey-like hands.]]
* FailsafeFailure: Averted, most of the failsafe failures were the results of said failsafes being damaged or destroyed. Asuka complained on how they screwed things up when dealing with SubsystemDamage, though.

* [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom Giant Wall of Spacetime Violating Madness]]: Asherah turns into one.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Duh. Shinji nearly goes mad from almost being stepped on by Asherah while he was at the airport. And those auto-censors are not perfect.

* HumansAreMorons: How almost everybody non-human views humanity in general and the NEG in particular. This view is especially held by the Migou. (and @/EarthScorpion)

* JawBreaker: [[spoiler:Asuka rips of Yam's jaw while falling down from near-orbit.]]

* KansasCityShuffle: With everyone's attention focused on Mot and the AWS it generates, various agencies and factions make moves in both open warfare and the SecretWar.

* LegoGenetics: Averted. Gene fixing is a very complicated process with its own share of problems, like a genetically enhanced math genius being unable to recognize faces, including her own in the mirror.

* MechanicalEvolution: In the very round-about way, the Humanity is the result of the still-functional Shoggoth machinery trying to work without its now dead masters.

* MindRape: Looking at a Harbinger, even through auto-censored video feeds, induces insanity and nightmares ''very'' quickly. Also used by various groups to get information, or just to inflict torment.
* MiniMecha: The Tsuchigumo, as befits their [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex heritage]]. The Recon mecha are described as being borderline PoweredArmor.

* MoreDakka: The NEG high command's plan against Eshmun.
-->''The tactics could be summarised as [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 “Use A Gun. And If That Doesn’t Work, Use More Gun”]].''

* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Like in ''CthulhuTech'', thanks to Nazzadi leaders any research into anything transhuman was stopped (at least officially). Unlike in ''CthulhuTech'', the influence of those old Nazzadi leaders is starting to fade.

** Nuclear weapons are then used against it ''again'', [[spoiler: in the form of a nuclear warhead mounted inside Unit-01's chest, with spacetimed warped so that all directions point away from the Eva. For once, it actually works]].

* [[RealRobot Real Robot]]: The non-Eva mechas are this, and the Evas themselves are more closer to this when the AT-Fields are not involved. In fact, this appears to be a setting element; Asuka criticizes Shinji for failing to use Unit 01's AT-Field to get away with firing the Babylon one-handedly, with a strong implication that she ''could'' do it.

* RitualMagic: Imported from ''CthulhuTech'', this is the only type of magic humanity can use. Used to [[spoiler:revive Shinji]].

* SophisticatedAsHell: A noted element in the narration. It seems to be some by-product of mixing SesquipedalianLoquaciousness and [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snark]].

* [[TechnoBabble Techno]]-[[{{Magibabble}} Magibabble]]

* TrackingDevice: [[spoiler:A few of the spikes Asuka fired at Yam have a tracking devices in them, tagging it so they could track in the murky waters.]]

* EyeScream: Hollow socket variant with Rei. In the battle against Asherah, it [[spoiler:rips Unit 01's eye out with [[NightmareFuel lamprey]]-like hands.]]