History FanFic / AeonNatumEngel

* XMeetsY: It's sort of a bit like Creator/HPLovecraft, Creator/AlastairReynolds, and StephenBaxter got drunk together and watched all of ''Anime/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.

** 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 "[[IncrediblyLamePun 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.]]

** [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]] has also been included, properly [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftianized]]. And there are enough ShoutOut references to [[AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]] that it can probably be called a component. Of course, that didn't need to be altered much to fit in.

* 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 [[AlastairReynolds Conjoiner's]] book.

* XMeetsY: It's sort of a bit like Creator/HPLovecraft, AlastairReynolds, and StephenBaxter got drunk together and watched all of ''Anime/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.

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: All Whites are like this. In-universe, Rei is certainly admired from a distance, when people aren't getting cold shivers and having to break her glance.

[[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/showthread.php?t=140260 fanfic]].

** EVA-01 & EVA-02's LITANs are named Nerv and Gehirn, respectively.

* MythologyGag: Many, with the Operation CATO being a very ironic re-telling of the JSSDF assault on the Geofront during ''End of Evangelion''.

* 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.]] [[color:white:And then there's Alma.]]

* TranslationConvention: This happens when somebody reads something (like Rei's "notes") since the Author established that his settings uses reformed English as the main language, which in simple terms is a fully phonetic version of our modern English. The main reason for reformation is to reduce the numbers of screwups in increasingly common arcane rituals (and to avoid cleaning the mess because of some very minor misspelling during the ritual).

*** Averted in several other scenes, most notably the Nazzadi Loyalists, who appear to use an entirely fictional, [[ViewersAreGeniuses internally consistent]] language.
* {{Understatement}}: Quite common considering the writing style. Here's an example from recent chapter:
-->Things were a little less confident in Nero Command.

* MesACrowd: The Migou Soldiers of Necessary Actions as seen in Iceland are the soul splitting variant. See also HiveMind.

* {{Magitek}}: As noted in the ''Cthulhu Tech'' article, magic is merely a kind of science not understood by people yet. The D-Engine is a classic kind of Magitek, though, with its flagrant disregard for thermodynamics. And then there's the use of [[GhostInTheShell cyberbrains]] to link sorcerers together ''inside someone's soul'' and make sorcerous rituals faster to cast. That is, rituals where the arcane symbols are carved into a mountain using a giant laser mounted on a flying battlecruiser, because getting a sculptor is too slow.

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

* GatlingGood: The Plasma Minigun.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The high-power charge beam often carried by Unit 00 is quickly dubbed the "Rei Gun", despite the fact that (as Rei points out) it's not actually a ray gun at all.

* 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, it's AT field protects it from these things at first...]]

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* XMeetsY: It's sort of a bit like Creator/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.

* DiminishingVillainThreat: While still dangerous, The Order and the Rapine Storm are a lesser threat because they are outnumbered compared to everyone else or are no longer underestimated.

* VillainDecay: While still dangerous, The Order and the Rapine Storm are a lesser threat due to being outnumbered compared to everyone else for the former and being no longer underestimated and contained for the latter in this fic compared to the Vanilla CthulhuTech.

See ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'', and ''VideoGame/{{FirstEncounterAssaultRecon}}'' for other tropes which might appear.

See ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'', and ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}'' for other tropes which might appear.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The high-power charge beam often carried by Unit 00 is quickly dubbed the "Rei Gun", despite the fact that (as Rei points out) [[DontExplainTheJoke it's not actually a ray gun at all]].

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 [[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.

* ASimplePlan: Operation CATO. [[spoiler: Punch through the Dagonite lines, complete the ritual the Order had already started, capture the Herald.]] Relatively simple, right? ItGotWorse.

* 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 [[ItGotWorse just gets worse and worse.]]

* ItGotWorse: 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.
** Chapter 15b ends with this line:
---> And then it got worse.
*** Considering the ending, there's not many ways it could've possibly gotten worse.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: The in-universe film, Snake Fist (which the name of an in-universe film in [[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon Project Origin]]), is a) very popular, and b) packed with this trope, to the extent that it has a telekinetic katana-wielding Nazzadi actor as the lead even though it's set 50 years before the Nazzadi were created. From the trailer shown, it appears that it just involved slamming every action move trope together.
** Although the fic is generally quite good at avoiding it, prior to it being pointed out correct, the Deep Ones were noted as being heavily dependent on IR vision, and almost blind to green. Guess what seawater (you know, where the FishPeople live) is almost opaque to, and what it lets through?

->''And thus it begins. The saving of the world.''\\
-- '''Gendo Ikari''', Ashcroft Representative of Europe.

->''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'''

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4716493/1/Aeon_Natum_Engel Aeon Natum Engel]] is a ''NeonGenesisEvangelion[=/=]CthulhuTech[=/=][[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' crossover [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=140260 fanfic]].

See ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''CthulhuTech'', and ''{{FEAR}}'' for other tropes which might appear.

!!Provides Examples Of:

->''How Boring.''\\
-- '''Nyarlathotep''', The former CEO of the Chrysalis Corporation, the Soul of the Outer Gods, the Crawling Chaos, the Great Beast, Lord Entropy, the End of All Things, Master of Cessation, King of Oblivion, More Of A Dick Than Gendo, the Watcher in the Dark (Whatever the fuck he feels like).

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!!!See ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''CthulhuTech'', and ''{{FEAR}}'' for other tropes which might appear. Specific tropes found in ''Aeon Natum Engel'':

* CrazyAwesome: Oh, sure, the fic may act like it's trying to avert it. But, really, [[spoiler:a fight between a Star-Spawn with a Mythos-ized [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Barrier Jacket and Intelligent Device (Signum's to be specific)]] playing the role of Asuka, versus lobotomized-Cthuloid-monster-Engels playing the MP Evas (so, pretty much the same thing), in a re-enactment of the climactic battle of ''End of Evangelion'', under the sea, in a giant grotto with a statue of Cthulhu ''that gets used in the fight''?]] Yeah, it's Crazy Awesome.

* GeniusBonus: If you're smart enough. If not, then it's FridgeBrilliance after checking the net.

* SubbingVersusDubbing: Ken rants about the inferiority of the both Post-Reform and Pre-Reform official English dubs & subs compared to the original Japanese and how they [[BlindIdiotTranslation screwed]] [[LostInTranslation things]] up. This is how he recongnizes the Japanese Shinji was mumbling, by the way.

* TheWoobie: By WordofGod, the local genocidal StarfishAliens, the Migou, are his personal woobies.

* 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.