History FanFic / AeonNatumEngel

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4716493/1/Aeon_Natum_Engel Aeon Natum Engel]] is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion[=/=]TabletopGame/CthulhuTech[=/=][[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' crossover [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aeon-natum-engel-nge-cross-over.140260/ fanfic]]. That combination should tell you something of [[CosmicHorrorStory the general feel and theme of the story]].

* OurGodsAreDifferent: The Heralds.

* CloningBlues: When each of the main fusion series has this as one of the important plot-devices...

** Anime, of the deconstructed variety.
*** {{Deconstruction}} in general.

*** He regularly posts to Star Destroyer.net, Spacebattles.com, and RPG.net.

* AuthorityEqualsAssKicking: Yul'uth-ca the Star Spawn Priest.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4716493/1/Aeon_Natum_Engel Aeon Natum Engel]] is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion[=/=]TabletopGame/CthulhuTech[=/=][[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' crossover [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aeon-natum-engel-nge-cross-over.140260/ fanfic]].

If that combination doesn't tell you [[CosmicHorrorStory the general feel and theme of the story]], then nothing will.

To describe it...well, you know how [[FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K certain]] [[FanFic/ThousandShinji other]] ''Evangelion'' fan-fics head straight for blending GrimDark and RuleOfCool in a seamless mix which creates a valiant effort which [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann goes beyond the impossible, kicks reason to the curb,]] and undoes the bleakness of ''Evangelion''? [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Well,]] ''[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Aeon Natum Engel]]'' [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope doesn't]]. It's cold, it's hard, and it's cynical. The "good guys" do monstrous things in the name of survival, the "bad guys" are [[BlackAndGreyMorality very hard to tell]] from the "good guys", and the really bad guys are...well, really bad indeed. It's very well written, and stylish, in a dark, understated kind of way, and sometimes induces headaches from the sheer amount of [[JigsawPuzzlePlot elaborate plotting]], but don't go into it thinking that it's necessarily light reading.

[[ViewersAreGeniuses It may help to make notes...]] and to have the [[ShoutOut/AeonNatumEngel external memory device plugged in]]. Finally, as a result of [[OldShame author dissatisfaction with the fic after its finale]], a rewritten version is underway, entitled ''FanFic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion''.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The Migou.
* ChekhovsArmoury

* SchrodingersGun

* ShownTheirWork
* ShowWithinAShow

* ThisIsNotADrill

* {{Xenofiction}}

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Rei wakes up Alma during the battle against Moloch. EVERYBODY DIES. Nyarlathotep is bored. Bad End....at least until the rewrite.]]

->''It seems that I'm suffering from conservation of psychological problems; by making Shinji more sane and balanced, I'm... negatively affecting THE WHOLE WORLD!''
-->-- '''Tropers/EarthScorpion'''

* ADeathInTheLimelight: Oh, hell yes. [[spoiler:He makes you feel sorry for cultists. That's an achievement.]]

* AncientConspiracy: AHNUNG (re-skinned SEELE)
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Hikary of the ''Weny Komdy'']] is subjugated to this in chapter 15b.

* TheAntiChrist: Foreshadowed.

* BoobyTrap: The Replica Elite loves these.

* {{Techno|Babble}}-{{Magibabble}}
* TechnologyPorn

[[UpToEleven Now with even less sanity!]]]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As part of the LittleHeroBigWar and JigsawPuzzlePlot, there are occasionally sections looking at what other people in universe, who don't appear to be linked to the main plot, are doing. Some of them even survive, and tend to reappear.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Averted. This setting's Rei uses the more realistic (and [[PaletteSwap offically sactioned]]) white hair. Likewise, Tropers/EarthScorpion accepts that Misato's is a stylised black and writes it as such. There are photoshopped images of Rei (or as she gets called, Creepy!Rei); the term "creepy" is very much correct.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: A definite 2 -- there's plenty of physics-breaking to go around, but it's all explained and internally consistent. Like most good 2s on the scale, it reads as if it were far harder than it actually is.

To describe it...well, you know how [[FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K certain]] [[FanFic/ThousandShinji other]] ''Evangelion'' fan-fics head straight for the CrazyAwesome, blending GrimDark and RuleOfCool in a seamless mix which creates a valiant effort which [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann goes beyond the impossible, kicks reason to the curb,]] and undoes the bleakness of ''Evangelion''? [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Well,]] ''[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Aeon Natum Engel]]'' [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope doesn't]]. It's cold, it's hard, and it's cynical. The "good guys" do monstrous things in the name of survival, the "bad guys" are [[BlackAndGreyMorality very hard to tell]] from the "good guys", and the really bad guys are...well, really bad indeed. It's very well written, and stylish, in a dark, understated kind of way, and sometimes induces headaches from the sheer amount of [[JigsawPuzzlePlot elaborate plotting]], but don't go into it thinking that it's necessarily light reading.

* HailfirePeaks: Iceland. TruthInTelevision here; it really does have glaciers in close proximity to active volcanoes. Although somewhat less FishPeople, {{Starfish Alien}}s, and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Probably.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The NEG and the Ashcroft Foundation do some pretty not-nice things, in the name of survival, even before we get into the ''Evangelion'' and ''F.E.A.R.'' bits. Meanwhile, the Migou are shown to have a fairly good point (that humanity is in fact totally irresponsible with its reality-breaking arcanotechnology), and the Dagonites have been shown, in the VillainEpisode, to not entirely be monsters, at least along themselves. WordOfGod says that he's never going to do the same for the [[OmnicidalManiac Rapine Storm]], though. Intersects with...
* BlueAndOrangeMorality

* EvilAlbino: Well, we don't know about "evil" exactly (and technically ''sidoci'' aren't albinos), but Rei's certainly not normal. Also, we've caught a glimpse of an inactive Kaworu, along with mentions of a synchronicity incident. [[spoiler:Since this is a ''F.E.A.R.'' crossover, that ''can't'' be good]].

* OurGodsAreGreater: The Heralds.

[[spoiler:And if that wasn't bad enough, Rei is apparently the product of Project [[GratuitousGerman Herkunft]] (Origin). [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Feel free to start gibbering.]]]]

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: After the discussion on ''Children Of An Elder God'''s apparent revival, Tropers/EarthScorpion said that his fic will have the proper Mythos ending, although considering the crossover series, it's not that surprising.

To describe it...well, you know how [[FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K certain]] [[FanFic/ThousandShinji other]] ''Evangelion'' fan-fics head straight for the CrazyAwesome, blending GrimDark and RuleOfCool in a seamless mix which creates a valiant effort which [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann goes beyond the impossible, kicks reason to the curb,]] and undoes the bleakness of ''Evangelion''? [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Well,]] ''[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Aeon Natum Engel]]'' [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope doesn't]]. It's cold, it's hard, and it's cynical. Logistics and planning beats hotbloodedness and bravery, and, despite that, humanity is still losing. The "good guys" do monstrous things in the name of survival, the "bad guys" are [[BlackAndGreyMorality very hard to tell]] from the "good guys", and the really bad guys are...well, really bad indeed. It's very well written, and stylish, in a dark, understated kind of way, and sometimes induces headaches from the sheer amount of [[JigsawPuzzlePlot elaborate plotting]], but don't go into it thinking that it's necessarily light reading.

* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/AeonNatumEngel Quite a few of these.]]

To describe it...well, you know how [[FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K certain]] [[FanFic/ThousandShinji other]] ''Evangelion'' fan-fics head straight for the CrazyAwesome, blending GrimDark and RuleOfCool in a seamless mix which creates a valiant effort which [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann goes beyond the impossible, kicks reason to the curb,]] and undoes the bleakness of ''Evangelion''? [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Well,]] ''[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Aeon Natum Engel]]'' [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope doesn't]]. It's cold, it's hard, and it's cynical. Logistics and planning beats hotbloodedness and bravery, and, despite that, humanity is still losing. The "good guys" do monstrous things in the name of survival, the "bad guys" are [[BlackAndGreyMorality very hard to tell]] from the "good guys", and the really bad guys are...well, really bad indeed. It's very well written, and stylish, in a dark, understated kind of way, and sometimes induces headaches from the sheer amount of [[JigsawPuzzlePlot elaborate plotting]], but don't go into it thinking that it's necessarily light reading.

[[ViewersAreGeniuses It may help to make notes...]] and to have the [[ShoutOut/AeonNatumEngel external memory device plugged in.]] Finally, as a result of [[OldShame author dissatisfaction with the fic after its finale]], a rewritten version is underway, entitled ''FanFic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion''.

See ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'', and [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]] for other tropes which might appear.

* {{BFG}}: In the fight against Mot, (re-skinned Ramiel, the 5th Angel) they take a partially-constructed ''frigate'' and tear off all the unimportant parts so that they can case it in cooling devices and pump the entire arcology power grid into its ventral laser.
** Also: the pre-CATO refits, which give the Units, in order, a particle beam, a plasma-firing minigun, and a plasma lance, run off a capital-ship grade D-Engine. The capital-grade charge beam which Unit 00 now carries (and which has been dubbed the "Rei Gun"), can be hooked up to the other two Units though umbilical cables and run off their D-Engines as well, for something which produces mushroom clouds when it hits. [[spoiler: And killed Dagon, a rather horrible number of Migou ships (to the extent that the NEG Command were really impressed), and managed to discorporate Moloch before blowing up from overuse.]]
** Foxtrot 813's and other Replica's standard issue is a ECU-IMFW-3 (Imphaw for short) which is a powered up version of the Repeating Cannon from the first F.E.A.R. with an underslung Assault Rifle. Moreover, the Replica Elite carry the nasty {{EnergyWeapon}}s from FEAR, which put power armour killing power in the hands of infantry
* {{BFS}}: The DF-Spear, an Eva-scale spear with a core made from the crystalline structure of Mot, which conducts AT-Fields exceptionally well.
** Now retired, due to its [[spoiler:tendency to tear a nasty hole in the spacetime continuum when two very strong AT-Fields clash, almost forming a new Zone and destroying Units 01 and 02.]]
** And that's nothing compared to [[spoiler:Лu-hvean'tahæn]], which is...well, it has its own AT-Field. I think that's enough alone, even if it wasn't used by a [[spoiler:Star Spawn]], scaled appropriately.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The NEG and the Ashcroft Foundation do some pretty not-nice things, in the name of survival, even before we get into the ''Evangelion'' and ''FEAR'' bits. Meanwhile, the Migou are shown to have a fairly good point (that humanity is in fact totally irresponsible with its reality-breaking arcanotechnology), and the Dagonites have been shown, in the VillainEpisode, to not entirely be monsters, at least along themselves. WordOfGod says that he's never going to do the same for the [[OmnicidalManiac Rapine Storm]], though. Intersects with...

* CreepyChild: Surprisingly ''averted'' with the daughter of the cultist in chapter 12. Yes, she may be a Deep One hybrid, and was implied to be a weak precognitive. She still just squabbles with her siblings and acts like an eight-year old does.
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Alma]]...who appears to be [[spoiler:Rei's mother. We're all doomed.]]
*** [[spoiler:Yes, she is. Yes, we are. [[TwoWords The End]].]]

* {{Crossover}}: If we ignore for a moment that ANE ''is'' one, it has a rather ''interesting'' meta-relationship with ''[[FanFic/NobodyDies NGE: Nobody Dies]]''

* DeadpanSnarker: Almost every character shows some elements of this, most notably Shinji.[[color:white: "Almost" isn't exclusive of Rei.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: The arrival of the ACTUAL Migou warships has this effect on many people, enough to consider (and implement) some very desperate measures.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Rei, did you just blow up Dagon? Fettel, did you just [[MindRape mindrape]] '''Dagon'''!?]]

* DividedWeFall: Uniting humanity against the common threat is one thing; getting them to agree on HOW to fight said common threat can be problematic.

* EldritchAbomination: Where to start? With the Heralds, which are the Angels but ''even more'' Lovecraftian? With the fungoid insects of the Migou? With the Deep Ones? With [[spoiler:Rei, and the rest of Project Herkunft]]? [[color:white: Earth Scorpion himself?]]

* EvilAlbino: Well, we don't know about "evil" exactly (and technically ''sidoci'' aren't albinos), but Rei's certainly not normal. Also, we've caught a glimpse of an inactive Kaworu, along with mentions of a synchronicity incident. [[spoiler:Since this is a ''FEAR'' crossover, that ''can't'' be good]].

* FromBadToWorse: Operation CATO not going exactly as planned? Fishmen using nukes? Migou responding to all that? The summoning of the Herald gone wrong? Pray that the author won't make the Rapine Storm appear out of nowhere, despite being at least a whole continent away from Iceland.

*** Considering the ending, there's not many ways it could've possibly gotten worse.

* FusionFic: Both ''Evangelion'' and ''FEAR'' have been blended almost seamlessly into the greater ''Cthulhu Tech'' universe. Not that this was necessarily that hard for ''Evangelion'', of course, but still...
** [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]] has also been included, properly [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftianized]]. And there are enough ShoutOut references to [[Creator/AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]] that it can probably be called a component. Of course, that didn't need to be altered much to fit in.

* HumansAreCthulhu: [[spoiler: Alma Wade is implied to be humanitiy's own Old One. Dagon's ignorance of this trope is why he initally thinks Paxton Fettel has to be a son of Yog-Sothoth, even when the invocation dosen't work.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: There are lots of human-looking things, which are just vaguely off. [[spoiler:Of course, if they look like a human, they're probably an artificial being...or Nyarlathotep]]. And [[spoiler:then there's Alma.]]
** And then there's Replica sub-commander Orpheus, a... thing that sucks the memories (or soul?) from the Nazzadi loyalist squad leader.

** In the words of the author, ''"Nazzadi are just human, which is to say, they're bastard-covered bastards with a bastard topping and a squishy bastard core."'' I think that's fairly clear.
* HumansAreSpecial: 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.
** In a way, though, we are special. We live on Cthulhu's planet. That's not the kind of special you really want to be, though.
*** We also created our own [[spoiler: Old One]]. OhCrap.

* InstantArmor: The Star Spawn High Priest's [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha "Barrier Jacket".]]

* ItsRainingMen: Several companies of special forces PowerArmor and one Unit 02, being dropped from high in the atmosphere, to conduct a mid-air boarding of Migou Swarm Ships. [[spoiler:It works. Less fun when the Migou pull the same on Operation CATO.]]

* KnightTemplar: A Cultist during the Operation CATO is left in charge (after killing the competition) of the one the survivor groups, and to ensure that they will live to fight another day, she places the most weakest of the group, the children, as a rear guard and the vanguard. For some reason, she reminds people of [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Rossiu]], although WordOfGod says that it was unintentional.

** Rather like the readers, [[TakeThat of course]].
*** [[GoMadFromTheRevelation The clues are all there, and they cannot be unread...]]

* MacrossMissileMassacre: As a part of Cthulhu Tech's Macross legacy, everybody got the multi-missile launchers. Chapter 15b crowned the Migou as kings of this trope with their ridiculously advanced hive mind-like storms upon storms of missiles.

* MegaCrossover: It hits the required minimum number for the "Mega" label when the ''FEAR'' elements start working their way in. There may be yet more connections; many (though not all) of the {{Shout Out}}s turn out to be plot-relevant in some way. Most notably, the ''FEAR'' elements started as simple {{Shout Out}}s, but slowly started making their way into the main story. [[spoiler:The Lovecraftianized ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]]'' elements look to be heading in the same direction.]]

* MidSeasonUpgrade: ...or a late SoLastSeason considering that they are still on early Heralds, but the Evas had their conventional D-Engines replaced with the engines that powered Project Daeva, which gives them a LOT MORE power output without tearing reality to pieces (as much), and that's not counting the new hardware. Even Rei was somewhat impressed.

* MindOverManners: Imported from Cthulhu Tech. Played with during the NERO briefing, where Rei describes Misato's unstable emotional state, after which Misato calms down and then gets angry and tells Rei to stop probing her head, after which Rei explains that she has no mind-reading powers (as far as we know) and being a sensory type, she is just good at analyzing.

* MindScrew: The effect at just looking at some [[CosmicHorrorStory extra-normal]] things, the dreams, [[spoiler:Alma, oh gods, Alma]]...uh, basically, the story is sort of made of this trope.
** Also, it's widely agreed to be the effect of reading too much ''Aeon Natum Engel'' in one sitting, and may cause manic laughter, over-analysis of patterns, and starting to think like [[EldritchAbomination EarthScorpion]].

** [[FridgeBrilliance Of course]], that raises the question of whether the ''main'' narration is [[UnreliableNarrator actually accurate]].
*** Of course not: That is WHY humans go insane when facing the Eldritch, our reality schema is inherently inaccurate.

* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Destroying two reality-breaking energy sources close to each other is a bad idea as the newly created Zone after the Twin-Herald fight will show you.

* {{Omake}}: Now comes complete with a separate selection of non-canon [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5614523/1/Aeon_Natum_Engel_Code_OMAKE Code OMAKE]] situations, including two (at current date) examinations of what would happen if the ''Aeon Natum Engel'' characters met their FanFic/NobodyDies counterparts. There is Rei-based [[MoodWhiplash Temperment Whiplash]].

* SealedEvilInACan: Duh. [[spoiler: It's also the whole reason why everybody wants to take over Iceland. Hell, the reason Iceland itself exists is because of the said can]].
* SeparateButIdentical: The similarities between human and Nazzadi is even more evident in here than in ''Cthulhu Tech''. Besides better agility and nightvision, their different appearance and preference for racial mecha, Nazzadi can be practically identical to humans, especially the younger generation. Compare that to Canon better than you Nazzadi from ''Mortal Remains''.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: So cynical it gets a bit caustic at times. There's even a thinly veiled author digression in Chapter 9 against the idea that ''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann TTGL]]''-style tactics could ever work.
** Confirmed by WordOfGod. Apparently, Tropers/EarthScorpion is one of those strange people in the "Rossiu was Right" camp.
*** And to hammer it home, during Operation CATO some cultists with some very familiar names and personalities are gunned down by Foxtrot 813.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: According to Dr Miyakame, Asuka looks and sounds enough like her mother that, from behind, he mistook them, which was a bit of a shock for him.
** Oh, obviously, there's still the Shinji-Gendo similarity, which gets lampshaded whenever Shinji raises an eyebrow or interlocks his fingers (normally with comments along the lines of "Don't do that. It looks odd.").

* TakeThat: Interlude 2 consists largely of mockery of the...sillier parts of the extended CthulhuMythos, especially Brian Lumley, although the author has also made his disdain for August Derleth clear.

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

* TemptingFate - "''The possibility of a [[VideoGame/{{Half-Life}} resonance cascade scenario]] is extremely unlikely!''"

** And the Migou [meeting/assembly]. Still hard to understand, though.

* {{Understatement}}: Quite common considering the writing style. Here's an example from recent chapter:

* UnusualUserInterface: Maya and other Magi operators take a page from ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' with very thinly disguised cyberbrains. And then there are the Special Services cybersorcerers, who take a leaf from the [[Creator/AlastairReynolds Conjoiner's]] book.

* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler: The sixth herald is an aquatic being that hasn't been on earth since before the oxygen catastrophe. The modern atmosphere is poisonous to it and it swims in water rich in flammable hydrocarbons. Of course, its AT field protects it from these things at first...]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: So, exactly, how are the vat-grown, weaponised, genetically-altered first generation Nazzadi different from the vat-grown, weaponised, genetically-altered Replica troops? [[spoiler: Well, apart from the fact that the Replicas are soulless.]]

* [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Human Sub-Species Are The Real Monsters]]: Well...yes. The state vivisects people suspected of involvement in cults and puts them through intrusive neural response mapping (it does repair them if they're found innocent, but come on). The Ashcroft Foundation has the Projects and the Groups, which involve things like the Evangelion Group (sticking teenagers in arcanocyberxenobiological monstrosities and using them as soldiers) and the [[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon Herkunft]] Group.

* AndIMustScream: Directly referenced in chapter 15b.

** RealTimeStrategy, almost certainly at least one ''[[CommandAndConquer Command & Conquer]]'' game.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Shalim-Shachar (re-skinned Israfel, the 7th Angel) is eliminated early. Dancing is way too silly in this setting. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Moloch (re-skinned Sandaphalon, the 8th Angel) which is turned from a rather anti-climatic Angel defeated by egregious middle-school physics into a giant escalating battle spanning the length of a conventional novel, that [[FromBadToWorse just gets worse and worse.]]
** WordOfGod says that if there was an ANE anime, Operation CATO would be the season 1 finale.

* OldShame: The initial chapters which, in the word of Tropers/EarthScorpion, are littered with aborted fetuses of dead plot arcs, amongst other things. One of the reasons of the Bad End and the new rewrite.

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Rei wakes up Alma during the battle against Moloch. EVERYBODY DIES. Nyarlathotep is bored. Bad End....at least until the rewrite.]]

* HermeticMagic: Your standard Arcane Magic from CthulhuTech. ANE got one notable example with the special ship equipped with lots of very accurate lasers carving out the summoning runes on the side of the mountain.

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