History FanFic / AeonNatumEngel

* [[HumansAreBastards All Human Sub-Species Are Bastards]]: 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.

* CrapsackWorld: It's HPLovecraft meets ''Evangelion'' (squared, because of how it inspired ''Cthulhu Tech'') meets ''First Encounter Assault Recon''. Bleak doesn't even go anywhere near describing the outlook for humanity.

* XMeetsY: It's sort of a bit like HPLovecraft, AlastairReynolds, and StephenBaxter got drunk together and watched all of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' in one sitting, had an epic session of ''CthulhuTech'' (no mortal remains) and played the whole ''[[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' series (no vivendi expansions), then plotted out the setting.

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* OverusedRunningGag: YourMileageMayVary, but in-universe Misato certainly thinks so about the Special Services' non-existence.

* ViewersAreGeniuses: YourMileageMayVary on the fic, but in-universe Shinji comments that one of the TV shows is one giant pile of this. You almost have to be to get some of the references, and then there's all the untranslated German...

* [=~Chekhov's Armoury~=]

* [=~Me's A Crowd~=]: The Migou Soldiers of Necessary Actions as seen in Iceland are the soul splitting variant. See also HiveMind.

* [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=]: Our heroes got some criticism for contaminating Lake Michigan with Shoggoth-like substances. Considering the InsignificantLittleBluePlanet example above, it's more likely has to do with the lake being right next to the capital of the NEG than about ecological reasons.

-- '''Tropers/EarthScorpion''', The monster responsible for this fic.

-- '''Tropers/EarthScorpion''', The CosmicHorror responsible for this fic.

They were, however, the [[{{MIB}} men-in-black]] who conspiracy theorists whispered about and cultists dreaded.

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

* PaintingTheFourthWall: Certain things are always represented in italics, like foreign (or made up) languages. The Heralds' thoughts were each represented differently, and occasionally the alignment of the text shifts.

[[caption-width-right:225:[[DeadpanSnarker Shinji]], [[BloodKnight Asuka]], and [[CreepyChild Rei]].\\

* FanficChopSuey: From this, we can determine that the author likes;
** Hard Sci-fi
** Anime, of the deconstructed variety.
*** {{Deconstruction}} in general.
** Time travellers, aliens, and psychics [[spoiler:Yes, the Great Race of Yith, the Migou, and parapsychics all appear.]]
** Cynicism.
*** He regularly posts to StarDestroyer.net, [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=140260 Spacebattles.com]], and RPG.net.
** RealTimeStrategy, almost certainly at least one ''[[CommandAndConquer Command & Conquer]]'' game.
** {{Tabletop RPG}}s

* XanatosRoulette: Gendo and Fuyutsuki admit that this is what their plans amount to, since certain eldritch abominations can screw over them without trying. Or in author's words:
--> '''Tropers/EarthScorpion''': I'm not gonna spoil anything by saying that one of the possible reasons why something didn't go as planned is simply the result of Nyarlathotep being a dick.

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

* TemptingFate - "''The possibility of a [[HalfLife resonance cascade scenario]] is extremely unlikely!''"

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

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''? [[WellThatIsNotThatTrope 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 [[CompleteMonster 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.

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

* CanonDiscontinuity: Tropers/EarthScorpion [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4415150&postcount=661 considers]] a recent supplement book (''Mortal Remains'') to be pretty [[{{Understatement}} subpar]]. With post-Core and post-Vade Mecum supplements in general, if it's not in the fic itself, then it either doesn't exist or it's very minor, usually as part of...

* TheCombatPragmatist: Almost everybody considering the nature of the fic, but the Replica Elites fill the cake with explosives and leave it for someone to find, then pick off the survivors as they stand, covered in the remains of their friends.

* 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: Tropers/EarthScorpion himself?]]

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

* 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]]? [[supersecretspoiler: Tropers/EarthScorpion himself?]]

* 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.]] [[supersecretspoiler:And then there's Alma.]]

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''? [[WellThatIsNotThatTrope Well,]] ''[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Aeon Natum Engel]]'' [[WellThatIsNotThatTrope 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 [[CompleteMonster 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.

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''? [[WellThatIsNotThatTrope Well,]] ''[[WellThatIsNotThatTrope Aeon Natum Engel]]'' [[WellThatIsNotThatTrope 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 [[CompleteMonster 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.

* MinovskyParticle: Arcanotech in general and some of the magic and para-psychics.

-- '''Tropers/EarthScorpion''', The [[strike:Nascent]] CosmicHorror ([[strike:currently a hostage of Creepy!Rei]] '''I AM FREE!''') responsible for this fic.

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

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Heralds. [[strike:Of course the 11th and 17th reskins probably won't count.]]

* TheCombatPragmatist: Almost everybody considering the nature of the fic, but the Replica Elites [[strike: take the cake]] fill the cake with explosives and leave it for someone to find, then pick off the survivors as they stand, covered in the remains of their friends.

* LampshadeHanging: Really quite common, [[strike:almost approaching...]] ''in the form of:''

* NukeEm: Suggested by both NEG High Command and Migou [meeting/assembly] as a response to the deteriorating situation in Iceland, but fortunately [[strike: denied]] postponed. The Order, on the other hand...

* ScaleOfScientificSins: 1 is banned; 2 is what started this whole mess; 3 and 5 resulted in Nazzadi and Project Herkunft and "officially" banned for same reasons as 1; 4, 6 and 7 [[strike:are probably gonna be lumped together in the Iteracy (ANE's Instrumentality)]] will have to wait until the rewrite...and even then there's no guarantee that they'll show up.

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]] and undoes the bleakness of ''Evangelion''? Well, ''Aeon Natum Engel''...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 [[CompleteMonster 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.

* [[spoiler:[[RocksFallEveryoneDies Alma Wakes Up, Everyone Gets Eaten]]]]

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

* 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 [[DisContinuity "Everything is Falling Apart" scenario]] to happen.

* DisContinuity: Tropers/EarthScorpion [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4415150&postcount=661 considers]] a recent supplement book (''Mortal Remains'') to be pretty [[{{Understatement}} subpar]] ([[ScrewYouElves Screw you Elf-like Nazzadi]]). With post-Core and post-Vade Mecum supplements in general, if it's not in the fic itself, then it either doesn't exist or it's very minor, usually as part of...

** He spends a lot of time around highly intelligent people snarking at each other. Some of those discussions between the various scientists are far too accurate, in this troper's opinion, to be anything but based off real life.

* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: No concrete evidence for this, but looking at how the story has gone so far, this troper is pretty sure that those upgrades the Evas just got are, at the very least, going to be needed, and quite possibly going to turn out to be detrimental.