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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8984362/1/Alpha-and-Omega Alpha and Omega]]'' is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' / ''Franchise/MassEffect'' crossover fic written by Xed Alpha.

Set several years after the end of the Reaper War, when Evangelion Unit-01 from post-End of Evangelion, having been contained outside of spacetime for a couple of eternities re-enters the universe and crashes into the side of Omega. An Aria who has been exposed to paragon Shepard discovers a... ''slightly'' older Shinji Ikari contained within. It doesn't take long until Citadel Council and other parties take notice. Then assassination attempts happen and people get kidnapped and things start to get more complicated. Administrivia/NeedsABetterDescription.

This fic, while not originally intending to, eventually ended up being somewhat of a [[DatingCatwoman romance]]. Takes a little bit to get into, but is a fun read either way. Just a placeholder for now, but add tropes as you spot 'em.

See Character Sheet [[Characters/AlphaAndOmegaFanfic here.]]

Enjoy!

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!!This work provides examples of:

* AdaptationalVillainy: In keeping with [[spoiler: the Rebuild Universe,]] [[spoiler: Misato is a downplayed case of this, becoming a KnightTemplar who, [[CuriousQualmsOfConscience while morally conflicted over the decisions she's made,]] has effectively become as bad a parent to Shinji as Gendo is.]] [[spoiler: Gendo, meanwhile, is even worse, as unlike his original incarnation, he refuses to acknowledge the wrongness of his AssimilationPlot when confronted by Yui, and descends further into madness and obsession as Book 2 progresses.]]
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: [[spoiler:WILLE's preventive measures to make sure Tevos isn't a threat nearly kill her]].
* AccidentalProposal: Shinji asks Aria to be his bond mate without realizing it's the equivalent of marriage.
* AfterTheEnd: In both cases, an extreme one in Shinji's case...
** Third case comes up at the end of the first part [[spoiler:when Shinji and Tevos are thrown into [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild]]-verse.]]
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:The Triumvirate of Leviathans]] seem to believe so. Shinji proceeds points out that he was, got bored and asked if [[spoiler:the lonely squids]] with ego problems would like an appointment as his Consort-schedule had a slot open at Tuesday. [[spoiler:The Leviathans didn't like that.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: EDEN, though implied intended to be this way.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Asuka apparently made one before Shinji restarted the universe]].
* AntiHero: Shinji, Aria, and their crew range all over the scale, but overall constitute a Type V, being {{Noble Demon}}s [[ItsAllAboutMe dedicated to their self-interest,]] who nevertheless practice PragmaticVillainy, and have very little interest in kicking dogs [[ShootTheDog unless they really have to.]]
** In Book 2, [[spoiler: WILLE - with Misato in particular - are a fairly dark Type IV/V, being a group of {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, wanting to stop SEELE and NERV, [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil but have lost virtually]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters all of the moral high ground]] [[TookALevelInJerkass beyond their intent in fighting the fourteen year war.]] After Aria takes over, they soften into a Type III/IV.]]
* AntiVillain: In Book 2, [[spoiler: [[TheRemnant WILLE]] are a solid Type III, trying their damnedest to save the world, but having gotten ruthless enough to [[KickTheMoralityPet screw over one of the children they shanghaied into the war,]] and [[SelfFulfillingProphecy paranoid enough to make enemies out of people who initially just wanted to go home.]]]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] finds it incredibly unlikely that Shinji has all of Yui's knowledge, remarking on it being "one in a billion" that it could happen without him being left as a vegetable. [[spoiler:Misato]] asks [[DeadpanSnarker if it's less likely than]] [[spoiler:a second Shinji appearing out of the sky with a blue alien]].]]
* ArsonMurderAndAdmiration: How Aria sums up Shinji's situation after he's kidnapped by a Spectre.
-->'''Aria''': "So... he nearly cut a Spectre's throat, stole her weapon, and then took two of the most influential Asari in the galaxy hostage at gunpoint. You know, I can't help but feel slightly proud..."
* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler:Gendo and Fuyutsuki are still at it in [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild]]-verse.]]
* BadassBoast: Shinji makes one to a [[spoiler:Leviathan]].
-->'''Leviathan''': '''"WHO ARE YOU TO STAND BEFORE US, TINY ONE?"'''
-->'''Shinji''': "I am Lilim, the last Angel. I am also Adam and Lilith, the first Angels. I represent the beginning and end of all things as well as everything that came between. Who are ''you''... to stand before me?"
* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler: The ENTIRE SEQUEL is this.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shinji is still the nice, unassuming guy he was in canon, even after becoming engaged to Aria T'loak. He also uses cryo rounds in shootouts because it doesn't smell as bad as incendiary rounds and makes for a less messy clean up if you get to the bodies before the ice melts. Aria is slightly unnerved by his reasoning.
** [[spoiler: [[LittleMissBadass Kodama Horaki]] is the perfect picture of politeness as [[SuicideAttack she threatens to blow herself,]] [[TakingyouWithMe Aria, and Shinji]] to hell if Aria attempts to release him. When Aria [[ShutUpKirk belittles her]] and casually suggests freeing Shinji - [[FantasticRacism an Angel to WILLE]] - [[BerserkButton she loses it,]] and launches the grenade.]] [[spoiler: If Aria weren't a biotic, the three of them would've been dead as a doornail.]]
* BigBad: In Book 1, [[spoiler: The Leviathans.]] [[spoiler: Rebuild!Gendo picks up the slack in Book 2.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The Reapers, including Harbinger, do this under the control of Shepard]]
* BloodKnight: Leeroy Jenkins is more interested in fighting [[spoiler:Asuka]] than actually beating her.
* CasualDangerDialogue: What does Shinji do when faced with a couple dozen soldiers all pointing guns at him? Ask what's up with all the [[CoolHat cool hats]] and if [[spoiler:Rei]] has one too.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: After getting TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Rebuild!Shinji and EDEN regarding her [[TheHypocrite self-serving excuses]], Misato starts to grow out of her KnightTemplar behaviour and make efforts to connect with Shinji again. By the time Shinji recovers from the injuries gained from saving her from a hijacked android, she's wholly averted the IHaveNoSon treatment he got in 3.0, and makes efforts to be [[GoodParents a better guardian to him.]]]]
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: Shinji is given a male variant of Aria's IconicOutfit (namely, the jacket is a full one and has coattails) as way of telling everyone that he's hers.
* CoolAirship: [[spoiler:AAA WUNDER in [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild]]-verse, of course.]]
* CoolHat: Shinji notes that everyone on [[spoiler:WUNDER]] seems to have one.
* CoolStarship: The Normandy (of course), Aria's Elbrus and later on, Shinji's Normandy-Class (Ayanami variant) Thunder Child.
* CosmicPlaything: Finally averted with Shinji, who manages to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass,]] and get some luck in his life. [[spoiler: Rebuild!Shinji plays this ''very'' straight though, [[TraumaCongaLine as following on from 3.0,]] he gets dragged by Asuka back to the Wunder, barely lucid enough to learn that there's another Shinji running around, and finally comes face to face with an older, badass version of him after being shoved in a cell with [[UncannyValley Rei!Q]] while Misato recovers from her injuries. [[ThrowTheDogABone He finally gets out of his funk]] after ME!Shinji manages to convince him that the preceding events were at least not entirely his fault, [[TheScapegoat despite WILLE's opinion to the contrary,]] and he manages to get enough a spine to tell off WILLE and Misato, for being [[MoralMyopia hypocrital]] {{Entitled Bastard}}s. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming He even manages to get Misato to open up,]] [[IHaveNoSon after her previous frigidity.]] [[MoodWhiplash Then he gets his entrails torn out by a hijacked android]] [[YankTheDogsChain after shoving Misato out of the line of fire,]] and survives only to wake up in another ''universe'' several months later, to find out that his home planet has been dragged to the ME Universe, pristine, but blocked off by the Citadel Council. Thankfully, things get better for him.]]
* CrapsackWorld: [[spoiler: Book 2 takes place in the Rebuild Universe, with the implications that aside from the WILLE Fleet and NERV headquarters, the world has been so battered and savaged that life can no longer exist on its surface.]] [[spoiler: In Chapter 13, Shinji uses EVA-13 to undo most of the damager and bring mankind back, and dimension jump the planet through to the Mass Effect Universe, but given the open warfare between WILLE and NERV, it's still leagues away from {{A World Half Full}}.]]
* CrashIntoHello: A rather extreme variant. Unit-01 comes out of the Dirac Sea and crashes into Omega at the beginning of the story.
* CunningLinguist: Tevos speaks eleven Earth languages. It would be twelve but her pronunciation of Korean is still rather stiff.
* CurbStompBattle: Aria and her men against [[spoiler:WILLE]], especially when [[spoiler:Maya]] tries to tackle Aria. Aria doesn't even move except to turn her head and irritably tell [[spoiler:Maya]] to get off.
* DamselInDistress: Averted when [[spoiler:a Leviathan]] attempted to take Aria as a persuasion tool to get Shinji to join them.
** [[spoiler:Shinji]] became one for [[spoiler:Aria]]to rescue in Part 2 after [[spoiler:WUNDER's crew (read: Akagi)]] had thrown [[spoiler:him]] in the brig after saving them.
* DatingCatwoman: Possibly the basis of the entire fic. It's Shinji Ikari and Aria T'Loak, possibly doubles as a [[CrackPairing Crack Pairing]], but somehow works out pretty good.
* DeadpanSnarker: Shinji's response to Aria asking if he's a lightweight is to remark that he wouldn't know given that he grew up outside of time... there wasn't a bar.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Due to the Citadel forming a blockade between the Rebuild!Earth and the rest of the Mass Effect Galaxy, the only way Misato and Rebuild!Shinji can get back home is by cutting a deal with Hackett. The price for entry? [[WeaponOfMassDestruction One EVA unit for Alliance research.]] [[ShellShockedVeteran Misato]] is understandably hesitant, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt given what the EVAs have done to her world,]] but goes through with it, figuring that if Hackett wants to shoot himself in the foot with the tech, that's his business.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Shinji does this, granted with Unit 01 but still, when a Leviathan hovers over the Afterlife and tries to nab Aria to be their DamselInDistress]]
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: When gathering the supplies he needs to heal Councilor Tevos, Shinji warns [[spoiler:Misato]] that he's perfectly willing to end things without any more violence. He's also perfectly willing to kill every last one of them to save Tevos.
** Soon after Shinji offers the same chance to the soldiers waiting for him.
* TheDragon: Jona Sederis to [[spoiler:Leviathans]]
** You could say Shinji is to Aria, from a... certain perspective.
* DroppingTheBombshell: After Shinji's kidnapped, brought to the Citadel, and told that he can't be allowed to leave in Aria's company, Tevos asks what he intends to do now. Shinji responds that he intends to take her hostage, make her bring him to a ship that'll take him back to Omega, and then have a light lunch followed by a nap. Tevos thinks he's trying to be funny until he reveals he stole Tisala's gun.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Aria doesn't allow slavery, organ trafficking, or biochemical weapon trading on Omega.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Shinji starts rambling about all the different signs that the Asari were genetically modified, Aria asks how he could possibly know all that. Shinji's in the middle of explaining how he has a doctorate in evolutionary biology and three [=PhDs=] when he remembers that he never finished high school, which is how he learned Yui uploaded all of her knowledge into him.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Shinji's way of disposing Jona Sederis for good.]]
* FantasticArousal: When Shinji takes Councilor Tevos hostage, he pokes her in the small of her back with a gun whenever she stops walking. Eventually she angrily snaps at him for his "molestation", causing him to remember that spot is a major erogenous zone on Asari.
* {{Foil}}: It's not commented on, but Aria and [[spoiler: Rebuild!Misato could be seen as one to the other.]] [[spoiler: Both are {{Badass}} [[IronLady Iron Ladies]] in charge of a fleet, both have a relationship with a Shinji Ikari, and both are something of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. However, Misato is an outwardly {{Stoic}}, [[CuriousQualmsOfConscience but internally conflicted]] KnightTemplar, presumably working with legal backing given her disdain for criminals, who keeps an emotional distance from her crew, [[WeUsedToBeFriends and has a currently strained relationship with her Shinji despite the two having once been close.]] Contrast with Aria, a [[AffablyEvil ruthless, yet stable and personable]] NobleDemon, a SpacePirate who is feared by the law abiding galaxy at large, [[OppositesAttract and despite being strangers initially,]] [[FourthDateMarriage ends up in a very intense and happy relationship with her Shinji.]]]]
* GargleBlaster: Noverian rum is completely non-alcoholic until it comes into contact with saliva. Then it ferments rapidly. Shinji insists it's some kind of chemical weapon [[CrowningMomentOfFunny then asks for another]].
* GreyAndGrayMorality: The first half of Book 2 devolves into [[spoiler: Aria and her crew, a cast of [[ItsAllAboutMe openly self-interested]] Space Pirates who nevertheless [[EvenEvilHasStandards have some limits,]] and just want their crew member and the Council delegate safe and hound, versus WILLE, [[WellIntentionedExtremist an organisation dedicated to saving what's left of the world,]] but who's standards have so thoroughly dropped in the fourteen years of warfare that they prove willing to [[KickTheMoralityPet scapegoat a traumatised fourteen year old for their screw ups,]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero very nearly kill an alien due to a ill used security measure,]] and [[UngratefulBastard outright knock out and detain the man who saved their commander]] [[FantasticRacism for being one of the species they used to fight.]]]]
** BlackAndGreyMorality: [[spoiler: After Aria comes out on top, the two effectively team up to take on [[BigBad Gendo Ikari,]] who's still at his AssimilationPlot in the Rebuild universe]]
** MoralityKitchenSink: [[spoiler: After Rebuild!Earth is dragged through to the Mass Effect Universe, everyone's got their own agenda, between the Citadel boarding off the planet out of the legitimate fear of the Evangelions, to Hackett trying to procure a unit so that the Alliance can prepare for future threats.]] Bout the only thing ''everyone'' agrees on is that [[spoiler: [[BigBad Gendo]]]] needs to go.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Fuyutsuki cuts his losses with NERV, and ditches Gendo for WILLE, who, being the jackass he is, takes it about as well as you expect.[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that his main goal, Yui's resurrection, has been achieved, and Gendo has become ''really'' batshit in the aftermath.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Shinji's long term hibernation within EVA Unit 01 has effectively turned him into an Angel-Human Hybrid, being able to use some of their powers in the process. The residents of the Mass Effect universe hardly mind, [[spoiler: [[FantasticRacism but it gets him into a heap of trouble with the WILLE crew when they find out.]]]]
* HowUnscientific: Shinji's reaction when [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] insists he couldn't have been an Eva pilot because he hasn't suffered the "Curse of Eva" (halted aging).
* TheHypocrite: In spite of their good intentions, [[spoiler: Misato, and WILLE in general, have this issue. Case in point, Misato attempts to [[WhatTheHellHero shame Shinji for killing several of her men to save Tevos,]] despite the fact that 3.0 makes it clear that she has a WeHaveReserves [[BadBoss policy in regards to her own crew,]] and that Shinji [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou flat out tried to resolve the situation peacefully.]] Hell, when she gets pissed over the fact that she's working under criminals, Shinji points out that her theft of the Wunder from SEELE makes her no better than [[SpacePirate Aria.]] It takes EDEN and Rebuild!Shinji calling her out to get out of this mindset.]]
* IAmNotLeftHanded: After Tisala starts working for Aria again, Shinji learns that either she was really out of shape when they fought or she was seriously holding back.
* ImpossibleTheft: Kasumi will often perform an InvertedTrope where she lines other characters' pockets with stolen goods without them noticing.
* IndyPloy: Shinji openly admits he usually makes things up as he goes along.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: In Rebuild 3.0, Shinji woke up to find himself in an unknown environment, where he's denied his status as Eva pilot by a considerably icier Misato. Upon recovering from her injuries in Book 2, Misato wakes up to find her organisation under control of pirates, herself stripped of any authority, and finds herself face to face with an android version of herself.]] When she bitterly exclaims that she feels her world's been turned upside down, and that she's facing a soulless version of herself, EDEN amusingly notes that that was [[spoiler: ROE!Shinji's]] ''exact'' response.
* KleptomaniacHero: When hired by Aria and Shinji, Kasumi steals pretty much everything she finds while working. And when she can't carry anymore, she starts lining the other characters' pockets.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: In the sequel [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] claims Shinji doesn't know anything important about Councilor Tevos' situation even though, [[spoiler:given that Shinji's the only one who even knows her species]], he clearly knows more about Tevos than anyone else present. Though [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] doesn't know that Shinji also has a medical doctorate from his mother's memories and has studied Asari physiology.
* LastOfHisKind: Due to being far ''far'' older than the current universe, Shinji is the last Lilum.
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Aria has come to realize that ruling Omega through respect is better than through fear. It's less likely to result in betrayal for starters.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Younger Shinji joins Aria after his older alternate self points out that everyone in NERV and WILLE treats him like shit despite proving that they can't accomplish anything without him.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''WILLE Bridge Bunny''']]: "So you're on their side now!?"
-->[[spoiler:'''Shinji''']]: "Since when were any of you ever on my side?"
* MoodWhiplash: Shinji fries Jona's head with EyeBeams then starts cursing as it also fried his eyeball and wonders if that's why Angels were always so pissed off.
* MuggingTheMonster: In Chapter 5 of Book 2, [[spoiler: [[UngratefulBastard WILLE knock out Shinji after he reveals himself to be an Angel whilst saving their lives, with 6 and 7 implying that they would either kill him, or keep him under lock and key.]] Unknown to them, Aria and her crew had just entered their universe and witnessed everything. [[BestServedCold Aria retorts by launching a full scale invasion of the WILLE fleet,]] [[CurbStompBattle utterly thrashing them in the process.]]]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Misato seems to be heading this way after both Young Shinji and EDEN call her out on how she and WILLE have treated Young Shinji.]]
* MythologyGag: Because Shepard doesn't have a canonical gender, they're never referred to with a gender specific pronoun.
* NeverMyFault: Subverted with [[spoiler: Rebuild!Asuka. As much as she ''wants'' to blame Rebuild!Shinji for Fourth Impact, she internally realises in the aftermath that if she just talked things out with him instead of attacking, things might have worked out better.]]
* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: To make her understand how boring godhood is, Shinji asks Asuka if she'd enjoy playing a videogame where she can't be harmed and could destroy any enemy without pushing a button. ''True'' absolute power doesn't corrupt absolutely; it makes you absolutely sick of it in a mere moment.
* NoSell: Between armor so advanced that "casual attire" can take a full clip of armor piercing rounds without a scratch and kinetic barriers, Shinji and the rest of Aria's crew can outright ignore small arms fire from WILLE.
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Misato spends much of Book 2 [[TheStoic keeping her emotions bottled up,]] and only losing her shit when the situation gets really out of hand e.g. [[WhatTheHellHero when Ritsuko's security measures get Tevos comatose and near death.]] Then Rebuild!Shinji saves her life from a hijacked EDEN, only for him to be degutted with EDEN's omnitool. We don't see much of her reaction ''then'', but Rebuild!Shinji's coma recollections her [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther being hysterical and screaming right afterwards.]]]]
* NotWorthKilling: EDEN's thoughts on [[spoiler:Misato]].
* OhCrap: Jona Sederis has one after she comments that all that matters with mercenaries in the end is who has the biggest gun, [[spoiler:EDEN responds by activating Unit-01]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:All the Children in the sequel are in their late twenties but still look fourteen as a side-effect of piloting the Evas]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Joker starts getting concerned when EDI uses contractions and breaks regulations since she never does either. This turns out to be because EDEN's hacking of EDI caused their programming to get scrambled.
** In the sequel, Shinji realizes something is seriously wrong when no one in [[spoiler:WILLE]] knows Tevos' name, meaning she wasn't in any condition to introduce herself.
** Multiple characters note [[spoiler:Misato]] gave up too easily against Aria's forces. This is because she's been replaced with [[spoiler:EDEN]].
* PetTheDog: Older Shinji offers to take [[spoiler:his younger self]] back to Omega with him, or Earth, or wherever he wants to go. [[spoiler:Rei]] too if she wants.
* PragmaticVillainy: Aria halting all shipments of Eezo to Citadel space does more than just tell the Citadel not to screw with her. She also gets to charge again for all the canceled shipments and charge more due to the increased prices from the (short-lived) shortage.
** Shinji utilizes this when telling Aria about his recruitment of [[spoiler:younger Shinji and Rei. In doing so, he's tripled the number of people loyal to her that can pilot Unit-01.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with WILLE, who's security measures to keep Tevos and Shinji in line, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt while admittedly understandable given the circumstances,]] end up incapacitating and nearly killing the former, and badly antagonising the latter. Later on, their efforts to quarantine [[UngratefulBastard Shinji for being an Angel]] [[MuggingTheMonster end up]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend antagonising Aria,]] and result in a chain of events ending with them being curb stomped and taken over by Shinji's far more advanced crew. In short, if WILLE had been less paranoid, and more willing to give the benefit of the doubt, a lot of Book 2 would have been avoided in their favour.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: EDEN gives one to [[spoiler:Misato]] in the sequel.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Probably not a good idea to be on Shinji's bad side when this happens. Later EDEN also when she [[spoiler:activates the Dummy Plug System]].
* RightBehindMe: A heartwarming variation occurs when Shinji realizes that he accidentally asked Aria to marry him.
-->'''Shinji''': "Even if... Even ''if'' I wasn't entirely sure, it doesn't matter."
-->'''EDEN''': "And why is that?"
-->'''Shinji''': "Because the question...still...''stands''. And if she ''were'' right here, ''EDEN'', I'd turn to her and say: 'Aria T'loak, will you be my bondmate! (''{{beat|Panel}}'') And she is standing ''right behind me'', isn't she?"
* RunningGag: Every time Shinji bumps into a woman, he steals her gun.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: By Book 2, Chapter 15, Gendo has gone from top of the world and on the verge of accomplishing his life goals, to a Paranoiac who's still obsessed with his AssimilationPlot after it's lost all meaning, given that his wife has come back from the Eva, and has made it ''extremely'' clear she disagrees with the plan. It gets so bad that [[AffablyEvil Fuyutsuki]] [[EveryoneHasStandards jumps ship,]] and [[MoralEventHorizon Gendo opts to drop an N2 mine on a refugee zone.]]]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The Council is worried that with the power of an Evangelion, Aria will become a threat to the Citadel and thus order Shinji kidnapped. In response, Aria orders all shipments of Eezo (which she supplies roughly 90% of) to Citadel space to be halted immediately and for any inquiries about her decision to be directed towards the Council.
** [[spoiler: WILLE's [[NiceJobBreakingItHero various screw ups throughout Book 2]] happen because they want to be [[ControlFreak in control of the situation,]] and are scared of what Shinji and Tevos might do. See ProperlyParanoid for how well that works out.]]
* SexGod: Shinji due to his mother uploading all of her knowledge into his brain, including tantric massage. It helps that several of the women he's slept with as "The Shadow Consort" are Asari and he studied everything he could find on them, particularly physiology.
* ShoutOut: The Elbrus' cook's name is LeeroyJenkins and he lives up to his name.
** Also to [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds]] Not only is Shinji's Ship named after the Thunder Child in said book, but Aria goes so far as to paraphrase it, implying their upcoming fight against WILLE will be 'bows and arrows against the lightning'. [[CurbStompBattle She wasn't entirely wrong, either]] And also, two chapters are literally named 'War of the Worlds', with each part using chapter names that are a shout out to the book.
* SpacePirates
-->'''Shinji''': "Oh don't look so shocked. I mean, in all fairness, we ''are'' pirates after all."
-->'''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Shinji]]''': "Pirates...?"
-->'''Shinji''': "''Well'', space pirates anyways. Didn't... that ever come up?"
-->'''Shinji''': "...''Space'' pirates?"
-->'''Shinji''': "You know: Pirates, but... [[RecycledInSpace in space]]."
* SpaceshipGirl: This is essentially EDEN to a T. Basically a mecha ninja-Misato with even more extreme MamaBear tendencies than normal. [[spoiler: More-so after the android she's inhabiting gets destroyed, and she has to be retrofitted into a TokenMiniMoe body, ala Anime/GhostInTheShell.]]
* SuddenPrincipledStand: Tisala quits Spectre immediately after kidnapping Shinji and delivering him to the Citadel.
* TakeAThirdOption: When choosing between [[spoiler: staying in the Rebuild universe to fight Gendo, running the risk of losing and be trapped there forever, and leaving for the Mass Effect universe, but abandoning the Rebuild!Earth and its people to their fate,]] Shinji instead chooses to [[spoiler: Use EVA-13 to drag Earth through the Room of Gauf ''into'' the Mass Effect universe and undo ''all'' the damage the impacts have done to its surface, making [[AssimilationPlot Human Instrumentality Project]] a near impossibility.]] [[DeconstructedTrope Ends up deconstructed however,]] as while this solves a lot of the problems they were facing, his mercenaries end up deserting out of anger that he risked their lives, ''and'' brought them into Citadel territory, the Citadel end up blocking off the planet [[spoiler: out of fear of the Evas,]] and [[spoiler: Gendo,]] against all reason, actually ''ramps'' up the pressure in a desperate attempt to see his plans through. In taking a third option, Shinji ends up out of freezer and into the fryer, to use the expression.
* TaughtByExperience: Because Shinji's body is physically 18, he now has the right proportions to take advantage of all the knife fighting he did as an Eva pilot.
* TimeAbyss: Shinji has been estimated to be 1.68 decillion years old (That's 33 zeroes. Or to put it another way, he's lived through over a ''trillion'' universes).
* TooDumbToLive: Aria outright calls several mercenaries this for 1) thinking she didn't see their betrayal coming, and 2) believing she should rule through fear.
* TookALevelInBadass: Shinji's goes from a [[ClassicalAntiHero confused, scared and damaged 14 year old]] to someone perfectly capable of taking Citadel leaders hostage, and wiping out a trio of narcissistic, mind-controlling {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. [[spoiler: He even wins out against a troop of WILLE soldiers, with and without Mass Effect tech, whereas his former self barely survived the JSDF onslaught in End of Eva.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Due to her dealings with Paragon Shepard, Aria has started ruling Omega through respect instead of fear.
** [[spoiler: While she's no where near as warm as she used to be, Misato ends up apologising and opening up again to Rebuild!Shinji after he recovers from saving her life, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy outright offers to leave Shinji on the Citadel where it's safe and he doesn't have to pilot, despite wanting to stay with him and repair their relationship again.]] When Shinji instead opts to go back to Earth with her, [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther she's internally happy over the fact.]]]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: WILLE is formed of several former NERV members who have ''really'' gotten bitter in the war against NERV and SEELE. [[DownplayedTrope Granted, most of them are]] clearly at worst [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With Hearts Of Gold,]] but it's jarring to see Maya go from being a [[NiceGirl sweet-natured]] ActualPacifist to [[HatesSmallTalk chewing out Shigeru and Makoto for chatting,]] and bitching at the doctor fixing her face [[NothingPersonal for being one of the enemy.]]]]
* {{Troll}}: Removing [[spoiler:Misato's and Ritsuko's]] access is necessary. Changing their official ranks to "Petty Officer Third Class in charge of swabbing the decks" and "Assistant Pencil Sharpener" is just for fun.
* TrollingTranslator: Leeroy Jenkins.
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Shinji hacks [[spoiler:the MAGI]] and add himself as "Supreme Fleet Rear Admiral Commander Brigadier General Ikari".
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Three of the [[spoiler:WILLE]] bridge bunnies think they can take Aria because they outnumber her three to one, completely ignoring that Aria is wearing the same clothing as Shinji (or rather, he's wearing the same clothing as her) which means their weapons won't do anything and she likely has access to the same high tech weaponry he does, though props to Aria for not even ''using'' said guns or armor, and instead beats them all barehanded, but then the fight was Aria T'Loak vs Maya Ibuki, Makoto Hyuuga and Aoba Shigeru. The outcome could only be what you expect.
* VerbalBackspace: When Shinji has taken Councilor Tevos hostage, Aria demands to know what's going on.
-->'''Aria''': "Do you still have your Spectre clearance?"
-->'''Tisala''': "Yes but I really shouldn't-" *DeathGlare from Aria* "-really shouldn't be worrying about that right now."
* WalkingSpoiler: You can't read Book 2 without being spoiled on [[spoiler: the events of Eva 3.0, as the story begins in the aftermath of the Fourth Impact at the end of the movie.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Right in the middle of receiving a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from EDEN [[spoiler: over her treatment of Young Shinji, Misato has the gall to mention she couldn't bring herself to detonate the choker. This only infuriates EDEN even further and Misato comes close to having her head sliced off via omniblade.]]
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 11's end in the sequel hints that things are going to change, but it's nothing to prepare for Chapter 12.
* WhamLine: EDEN's response when Aria demands to know in three words or less what she's designed to be to Shinji.
-->'''EDEN''': "[[spoiler:Dummy Plug System]]."
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Aria insists she doesn't have any friends. She has herself, people who want something from her, and she has Shinji but fuck if she knows what the last means.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Sakura, Maya, Makoto, and Shigeru]] don't get much mention after Chapter 9, after Aria's takeover of [[spoiler: WILLE]]. Given that Shinji mentioned that he offloaded most of the original crew of [[spoiler: the Wunder]] to the other ships, [[PutOnABus it's possible they were transferred,]] though the fic is ambiguous on the subject.
* WretchedHive: Omega of course. Aria claims it holds the best and worst of the galaxy.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When Shinji fights Tisala, the latter notices him glancing towards her gun and his omnitool and uses her biotics to knock the gun away. Shinji instead dives for the omnitool since it has an omniblade and he's far more experience with knives than pistols.
** [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] confiscates Tevos' omnitool after Tevos starts throwing people around with her biotics, thinking it's an offensive function of the omnitool rather than a natural ability.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8984362/1/Alpha-and-Omega Alpha and Omega]]'' is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' / ''Franchise/MassEffect'' crossover fic written by Xed Alpha.

Set several years after the end of the Reaper War, when Evangelion Unit-01 from post-End of Evangelion, having been contained outside of spacetime for a couple of eternities re-enters the universe and crashes into the side of Omega. An Aria who has been exposed to paragon Shepard discovers a... ''slightly'' older Shinji Ikari contained within. It doesn't take long until Citadel Council and other parties take notice. Then assassination attempts happen and people get kidnapped and things start to get more complicated. Administrivia/NeedsABetterDescription.

This fic, while not originally intending to, eventually ended up being somewhat of a [[DatingCatwoman romance]]. Takes a little bit to get into, but is a fun read either way. Just a placeholder for now, but add tropes as you spot 'em.

See Character Sheet [[Characters/AlphaAndOmegaFanfic here.]]

Enjoy!

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!!This work provides examples of:

* AdaptationalVillainy: In keeping with [[spoiler: the Rebuild Universe,]] [[spoiler: Misato is a downplayed case of this, becoming a KnightTemplar who, [[CuriousQualmsOfConscience while morally conflicted over the decisions she's made,]] has effectively become as bad a parent to Shinji as Gendo is.]] [[spoiler: Gendo, meanwhile, is even worse, as unlike his original incarnation, he refuses to acknowledge the wrongness of his AssimilationPlot when confronted by Yui, and descends further into madness and obsession as Book 2 progresses.]]
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: [[spoiler:WILLE's preventive measures to make sure Tevos isn't a threat nearly kill her]].
* AccidentalProposal: Shinji asks Aria to be his bond mate without realizing it's the equivalent of marriage.
* AfterTheEnd: In both cases, an extreme one in Shinji's case...
** Third case comes up at the end of the first part [[spoiler:when Shinji and Tevos are thrown into [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild]]-verse.]]
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:The Triumvirate of Leviathans]] seem to believe so. Shinji proceeds points out that he was, got bored and asked if [[spoiler:the lonely squids]] with ego problems would like an appointment as his Consort-schedule had a slot open at Tuesday. [[spoiler:The Leviathans didn't like that.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: EDEN, though implied intended to be this way.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Asuka apparently made one before Shinji restarted the universe]].
* AntiHero: Shinji, Aria, and their crew range all over the scale, but overall constitute a Type V, being {{Noble Demon}}s [[ItsAllAboutMe dedicated to their self-interest,]] who nevertheless practice PragmaticVillainy, and have very little interest in kicking dogs [[ShootTheDog unless they really have to.]]
** In Book 2, [[spoiler: WILLE - with Misato in particular - are a fairly dark Type IV/V, being a group of {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, wanting to stop SEELE and NERV, [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil but have lost virtually]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters all of the moral high ground]] [[TookALevelInJerkass beyond their intent in fighting the fourteen year war.]] After Aria takes over, they soften into a Type III/IV.]]
* AntiVillain: In Book 2, [[spoiler: [[TheRemnant WILLE]] are a solid Type III, trying their damnedest to save the world, but having gotten ruthless enough to [[KickTheMoralityPet screw over one of the children they shanghaied into the war,]] and [[SelfFulfillingProphecy paranoid enough to make enemies out of people who initially just wanted to go home.]]]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] finds it incredibly unlikely that Shinji has all of Yui's knowledge, remarking on it being "one in a billion" that it could happen without him being left as a vegetable. [[spoiler:Misato]] asks [[DeadpanSnarker if it's less likely than]] [[spoiler:a second Shinji appearing out of the sky with a blue alien]].]]
* ArsonMurderAndAdmiration: How Aria sums up Shinji's situation after he's kidnapped by a Spectre.
-->'''Aria''': "So... he nearly cut a Spectre's throat, stole her weapon, and then took two of the most influential Asari in the galaxy hostage at gunpoint. You know, I can't help but feel slightly proud..."
* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler:Gendo and Fuyutsuki are still at it in [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild]]-verse.]]
* BadassBoast: Shinji makes one to a [[spoiler:Leviathan]].
-->'''Leviathan''': '''"WHO ARE YOU TO STAND BEFORE US, TINY ONE?"'''
-->'''Shinji''': "I am Lilim, the last Angel. I am also Adam and Lilith, the first Angels. I represent the beginning and end of all things as well as everything that came between. Who are ''you''... to stand before me?"
* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler: The ENTIRE SEQUEL is this.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shinji is still the nice, unassuming guy he was in canon, even after becoming engaged to Aria T'loak. He also uses cryo rounds in shootouts because it doesn't smell as bad as incendiary rounds and makes for a less messy clean up if you get to the bodies before the ice melts. Aria is slightly unnerved by his reasoning.
** [[spoiler: [[LittleMissBadass Kodama Horaki]] is the perfect picture of politeness as [[SuicideAttack she threatens to blow herself,]] [[TakingyouWithMe Aria, and Shinji]] to hell if Aria attempts to release him. When Aria [[ShutUpKirk belittles her]] and casually suggests freeing Shinji - [[FantasticRacism an Angel to WILLE]] - [[BerserkButton she loses it,]] and launches the grenade.]] [[spoiler: If Aria weren't a biotic, the three of them would've been dead as a doornail.]]
* BigBad: In Book 1, [[spoiler: The Leviathans.]] [[spoiler: Rebuild!Gendo picks up the slack in Book 2.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The Reapers, including Harbinger, do this under the control of Shepard]]
* BloodKnight: Leeroy Jenkins is more interested in fighting [[spoiler:Asuka]] than actually beating her.
* CasualDangerDialogue: What does Shinji do when faced with a couple dozen soldiers all pointing guns at him? Ask what's up with all the [[CoolHat cool hats]] and if [[spoiler:Rei]] has one too.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: After getting TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Rebuild!Shinji and EDEN regarding her [[TheHypocrite self-serving excuses]], Misato starts to grow out of her KnightTemplar behaviour and make efforts to connect with Shinji again. By the time Shinji recovers from the injuries gained from saving her from a hijacked android, she's wholly averted the IHaveNoSon treatment he got in 3.0, and makes efforts to be [[GoodParents a better guardian to him.]]]]
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: Shinji is given a male variant of Aria's IconicOutfit (namely, the jacket is a full one and has coattails) as way of telling everyone that he's hers.
* CoolAirship: [[spoiler:AAA WUNDER in [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild]]-verse, of course.]]
* CoolHat: Shinji notes that everyone on [[spoiler:WUNDER]] seems to have one.
* CoolStarship: The Normandy (of course), Aria's Elbrus and later on, Shinji's Normandy-Class (Ayanami variant) Thunder Child.
* CosmicPlaything: Finally averted with Shinji, who manages to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass,]] and get some luck in his life. [[spoiler: Rebuild!Shinji plays this ''very'' straight though, [[TraumaCongaLine as following on from 3.0,]] he gets dragged by Asuka back to the Wunder, barely lucid enough to learn that there's another Shinji running around, and finally comes face to face with an older, badass version of him after being shoved in a cell with [[UncannyValley Rei!Q]] while Misato recovers from her injuries. [[ThrowTheDogABone He finally gets out of his funk]] after ME!Shinji manages to convince him that the preceding events were at least not entirely his fault, [[TheScapegoat despite WILLE's opinion to the contrary,]] and he manages to get enough a spine to tell off WILLE and Misato, for being [[MoralMyopia hypocrital]] {{Entitled Bastard}}s. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming He even manages to get Misato to open up,]] [[IHaveNoSon after her previous frigidity.]] [[MoodWhiplash Then he gets his entrails torn out by a hijacked android]] [[YankTheDogsChain after shoving Misato out of the line of fire,]] and survives only to wake up in another ''universe'' several months later, to find out that his home planet has been dragged to the ME Universe, pristine, but blocked off by the Citadel Council. Thankfully, things get better for him.]]
* CrapsackWorld: [[spoiler: Book 2 takes place in the Rebuild Universe, with the implications that aside from the WILLE Fleet and NERV headquarters, the world has been so battered and savaged that life can no longer exist on its surface.]] [[spoiler: In Chapter 13, Shinji uses EVA-13 to undo most of the damager and bring mankind back, and dimension jump the planet through to the Mass Effect Universe, but given the open warfare between WILLE and NERV, it's still leagues away from {{A World Half Full}}.]]
* CrashIntoHello: A rather extreme variant. Unit-01 comes out of the Dirac Sea and crashes into Omega at the beginning of the story.
* CunningLinguist: Tevos speaks eleven Earth languages. It would be twelve but her pronunciation of Korean is still rather stiff.
* CurbStompBattle: Aria and her men against [[spoiler:WILLE]], especially when [[spoiler:Maya]] tries to tackle Aria. Aria doesn't even move except to turn her head and irritably tell [[spoiler:Maya]] to get off.
* DamselInDistress: Averted when [[spoiler:a Leviathan]] attempted to take Aria as a persuasion tool to get Shinji to join them.
** [[spoiler:Shinji]] became one for [[spoiler:Aria]]to rescue in Part 2 after [[spoiler:WUNDER's crew (read: Akagi)]] had thrown [[spoiler:him]] in the brig after saving them.
* DatingCatwoman: Possibly the basis of the entire fic. It's Shinji Ikari and Aria T'Loak, possibly doubles as a [[CrackPairing Crack Pairing]], but somehow works out pretty good.
* DeadpanSnarker: Shinji's response to Aria asking if he's a lightweight is to remark that he wouldn't know given that he grew up outside of time... there wasn't a bar.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Due to the Citadel forming a blockade between the Rebuild!Earth and the rest of the Mass Effect Galaxy, the only way Misato and Rebuild!Shinji can get back home is by cutting a deal with Hackett. The price for entry? [[WeaponOfMassDestruction One EVA unit for Alliance research.]] [[ShellShockedVeteran Misato]] is understandably hesitant, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt given what the EVAs have done to her world,]] but goes through with it, figuring that if Hackett wants to shoot himself in the foot with the tech, that's his business.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Shinji does this, granted with Unit 01 but still, when a Leviathan hovers over the Afterlife and tries to nab Aria to be their DamselInDistress]]
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: When gathering the supplies he needs to heal Councilor Tevos, Shinji warns [[spoiler:Misato]] that he's perfectly willing to end things without any more violence. He's also perfectly willing to kill every last one of them to save Tevos.
** Soon after Shinji offers the same chance to the soldiers waiting for him.
* TheDragon: Jona Sederis to [[spoiler:Leviathans]]
** You could say Shinji is to Aria, from a... certain perspective.
* DroppingTheBombshell: After Shinji's kidnapped, brought to the Citadel, and told that he can't be allowed to leave in Aria's company, Tevos asks what he intends to do now. Shinji responds that he intends to take her hostage, make her bring him to a ship that'll take him back to Omega, and then have a light lunch followed by a nap. Tevos thinks he's trying to be funny until he reveals he stole Tisala's gun.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Aria doesn't allow slavery, organ trafficking, or biochemical weapon trading on Omega.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Shinji starts rambling about all the different signs that the Asari were genetically modified, Aria asks how he could possibly know all that. Shinji's in the middle of explaining how he has a doctorate in evolutionary biology and three [=PhDs=] when he remembers that he never finished high school, which is how he learned Yui uploaded all of her knowledge into him.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Shinji's way of disposing Jona Sederis for good.]]
* FantasticArousal: When Shinji takes Councilor Tevos hostage, he pokes her in the small of her back with a gun whenever she stops walking. Eventually she angrily snaps at him for his "molestation", causing him to remember that spot is a major erogenous zone on Asari.
* {{Foil}}: It's not commented on, but Aria and [[spoiler: Rebuild!Misato could be seen as one to the other.]] [[spoiler: Both are {{Badass}} [[IronLady Iron Ladies]] in charge of a fleet, both have a relationship with a Shinji Ikari, and both are something of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. However, Misato is an outwardly {{Stoic}}, [[CuriousQualmsOfConscience but internally conflicted]] KnightTemplar, presumably working with legal backing given her disdain for criminals, who keeps an emotional distance from her crew, [[WeUsedToBeFriends and has a currently strained relationship with her Shinji despite the two having once been close.]] Contrast with Aria, a [[AffablyEvil ruthless, yet stable and personable]] NobleDemon, a SpacePirate who is feared by the law abiding galaxy at large, [[OppositesAttract and despite being strangers initially,]] [[FourthDateMarriage ends up in a very intense and happy relationship with her Shinji.]]]]
* GargleBlaster: Noverian rum is completely non-alcoholic until it comes into contact with saliva. Then it ferments rapidly. Shinji insists it's some kind of chemical weapon [[CrowningMomentOfFunny then asks for another]].
* GreyAndGrayMorality: The first half of Book 2 devolves into [[spoiler: Aria and her crew, a cast of [[ItsAllAboutMe openly self-interested]] Space Pirates who nevertheless [[EvenEvilHasStandards have some limits,]] and just want their crew member and the Council delegate safe and hound, versus WILLE, [[WellIntentionedExtremist an organisation dedicated to saving what's left of the world,]] but who's standards have so thoroughly dropped in the fourteen years of warfare that they prove willing to [[KickTheMoralityPet scapegoat a traumatised fourteen year old for their screw ups,]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero very nearly kill an alien due to a ill used security measure,]] and [[UngratefulBastard outright knock out and detain the man who saved their commander]] [[FantasticRacism for being one of the species they used to fight.]]]]
** BlackAndGreyMorality: [[spoiler: After Aria comes out on top, the two effectively team up to take on [[BigBad Gendo Ikari,]] who's still at his AssimilationPlot in the Rebuild universe]]
** MoralityKitchenSink: [[spoiler: After Rebuild!Earth is dragged through to the Mass Effect Universe, everyone's got their own agenda, between the Citadel boarding off the planet out of the legitimate fear of the Evangelions, to Hackett trying to procure a unit so that the Alliance can prepare for future threats.]] Bout the only thing ''everyone'' agrees on is that [[spoiler: [[BigBad Gendo]]]] needs to go.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Fuyutsuki cuts his losses with NERV, and ditches Gendo for WILLE, who, being the jackass he is, takes it about as well as you expect.[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that his main goal, Yui's resurrection, has been achieved, and Gendo has become ''really'' batshit in the aftermath.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Shinji's long term hibernation within EVA Unit 01 has effectively turned him into an Angel-Human Hybrid, being able to use some of their powers in the process. The residents of the Mass Effect universe hardly mind, [[spoiler: [[FantasticRacism but it gets him into a heap of trouble with the WILLE crew when they find out.]]]]
* HowUnscientific: Shinji's reaction when [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] insists he couldn't have been an Eva pilot because he hasn't suffered the "Curse of Eva" (halted aging).
* TheHypocrite: In spite of their good intentions, [[spoiler: Misato, and WILLE in general, have this issue. Case in point, Misato attempts to [[WhatTheHellHero shame Shinji for killing several of her men to save Tevos,]] despite the fact that 3.0 makes it clear that she has a WeHaveReserves [[BadBoss policy in regards to her own crew,]] and that Shinji [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou flat out tried to resolve the situation peacefully.]] Hell, when she gets pissed over the fact that she's working under criminals, Shinji points out that her theft of the Wunder from SEELE makes her no better than [[SpacePirate Aria.]] It takes EDEN and Rebuild!Shinji calling her out to get out of this mindset.]]
* IAmNotLeftHanded: After Tisala starts working for Aria again, Shinji learns that either she was really out of shape when they fought or she was seriously holding back.
* ImpossibleTheft: Kasumi will often perform an InvertedTrope where she lines other characters' pockets with stolen goods without them noticing.
* IndyPloy: Shinji openly admits he usually makes things up as he goes along.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: In Rebuild 3.0, Shinji woke up to find himself in an unknown environment, where he's denied his status as Eva pilot by a considerably icier Misato. Upon recovering from her injuries in Book 2, Misato wakes up to find her organisation under control of pirates, herself stripped of any authority, and finds herself face to face with an android version of herself.]] When she bitterly exclaims that she feels her world's been turned upside down, and that she's facing a soulless version of herself, EDEN amusingly notes that that was [[spoiler: ROE!Shinji's]] ''exact'' response.
* KleptomaniacHero: When hired by Aria and Shinji, Kasumi steals pretty much everything she finds while working. And when she can't carry anymore, she starts lining the other characters' pockets.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: In the sequel [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] claims Shinji doesn't know anything important about Councilor Tevos' situation even though, [[spoiler:given that Shinji's the only one who even knows her species]], he clearly knows more about Tevos than anyone else present. Though [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] doesn't know that Shinji also has a medical doctorate from his mother's memories and has studied Asari physiology.
* LastOfHisKind: Due to being far ''far'' older than the current universe, Shinji is the last Lilum.
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Aria has come to realize that ruling Omega through respect is better than through fear. It's less likely to result in betrayal for starters.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Younger Shinji joins Aria after his older alternate self points out that everyone in NERV and WILLE treats him like shit despite proving that they can't accomplish anything without him.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''WILLE Bridge Bunny''']]: "So you're on their side now!?"
-->[[spoiler:'''Shinji''']]: "Since when were any of you ever on my side?"
* MoodWhiplash: Shinji fries Jona's head with EyeBeams then starts cursing as it also fried his eyeball and wonders if that's why Angels were always so pissed off.
* MuggingTheMonster: In Chapter 5 of Book 2, [[spoiler: [[UngratefulBastard WILLE knock out Shinji after he reveals himself to be an Angel whilst saving their lives, with 6 and 7 implying that they would either kill him, or keep him under lock and key.]] Unknown to them, Aria and her crew had just entered their universe and witnessed everything. [[BestServedCold Aria retorts by launching a full scale invasion of the WILLE fleet,]] [[CurbStompBattle utterly thrashing them in the process.]]]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Misato seems to be heading this way after both Young Shinji and EDEN call her out on how she and WILLE have treated Young Shinji.]]
* MythologyGag: Because Shepard doesn't have a canonical gender, they're never referred to with a gender specific pronoun.
* NeverMyFault: Subverted with [[spoiler: Rebuild!Asuka. As much as she ''wants'' to blame Rebuild!Shinji for Fourth Impact, she internally realises in the aftermath that if she just talked things out with him instead of attacking, things might have worked out better.]]
* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: To make her understand how boring godhood is, Shinji asks Asuka if she'd enjoy playing a videogame where she can't be harmed and could destroy any enemy without pushing a button. ''True'' absolute power doesn't corrupt absolutely; it makes you absolutely sick of it in a mere moment.
* NoSell: Between armor so advanced that "casual attire" can take a full clip of armor piercing rounds without a scratch and kinetic barriers, Shinji and the rest of Aria's crew can outright ignore small arms fire from WILLE.
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Misato spends much of Book 2 [[TheStoic keeping her emotions bottled up,]] and only losing her shit when the situation gets really out of hand e.g. [[WhatTheHellHero when Ritsuko's security measures get Tevos comatose and near death.]] Then Rebuild!Shinji saves her life from a hijacked EDEN, only for him to be degutted with EDEN's omnitool. We don't see much of her reaction ''then'', but Rebuild!Shinji's coma recollections her [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther being hysterical and screaming right afterwards.]]]]
* NotWorthKilling: EDEN's thoughts on [[spoiler:Misato]].
* OhCrap: Jona Sederis has one after she comments that all that matters with mercenaries in the end is who has the biggest gun, [[spoiler:EDEN responds by activating Unit-01]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:All the Children in the sequel are in their late twenties but still look fourteen as a side-effect of piloting the Evas]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Joker starts getting concerned when EDI uses contractions and breaks regulations since she never does either. This turns out to be because EDEN's hacking of EDI caused their programming to get scrambled.
** In the sequel, Shinji realizes something is seriously wrong when no one in [[spoiler:WILLE]] knows Tevos' name, meaning she wasn't in any condition to introduce herself.
** Multiple characters note [[spoiler:Misato]] gave up too easily against Aria's forces. This is because she's been replaced with [[spoiler:EDEN]].
* PetTheDog: Older Shinji offers to take [[spoiler:his younger self]] back to Omega with him, or Earth, or wherever he wants to go. [[spoiler:Rei]] too if she wants.
* PragmaticVillainy: Aria halting all shipments of Eezo to Citadel space does more than just tell the Citadel not to screw with her. She also gets to charge again for all the canceled shipments and charge more due to the increased prices from the (short-lived) shortage.
** Shinji utilizes this when telling Aria about his recruitment of [[spoiler:younger Shinji and Rei. In doing so, he's tripled the number of people loyal to her that can pilot Unit-01.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with WILLE, who's security measures to keep Tevos and Shinji in line, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt while admittedly understandable given the circumstances,]] end up incapacitating and nearly killing the former, and badly antagonising the latter. Later on, their efforts to quarantine [[UngratefulBastard Shinji for being an Angel]] [[MuggingTheMonster end up]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend antagonising Aria,]] and result in a chain of events ending with them being curb stomped and taken over by Shinji's far more advanced crew. In short, if WILLE had been less paranoid, and more willing to give the benefit of the doubt, a lot of Book 2 would have been avoided in their favour.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: EDEN gives one to [[spoiler:Misato]] in the sequel.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Probably not a good idea to be on Shinji's bad side when this happens. Later EDEN also when she [[spoiler:activates the Dummy Plug System]].
* RightBehindMe: A heartwarming variation occurs when Shinji realizes that he accidentally asked Aria to marry him.
-->'''Shinji''': "Even if... Even ''if'' I wasn't entirely sure, it doesn't matter."
-->'''EDEN''': "And why is that?"
-->'''Shinji''': "Because the question...still...''stands''. And if she ''were'' right here, ''EDEN'', I'd turn to her and say: 'Aria T'loak, will you be my bondmate! (''{{beat|Panel}}'') And she is standing ''right behind me'', isn't she?"
* RunningGag: Every time Shinji bumps into a woman, he steals her gun.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: By Book 2, Chapter 15, Gendo has gone from top of the world and on the verge of accomplishing his life goals, to a Paranoiac who's still obsessed with his AssimilationPlot after it's lost all meaning, given that his wife has come back from the Eva, and has made it ''extremely'' clear she disagrees with the plan. It gets so bad that [[AffablyEvil Fuyutsuki]] [[EveryoneHasStandards jumps ship,]] and [[MoralEventHorizon Gendo opts to drop an N2 mine on a refugee zone.]]]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The Council is worried that with the power of an Evangelion, Aria will become a threat to the Citadel and thus order Shinji kidnapped. In response, Aria orders all shipments of Eezo (which she supplies roughly 90% of) to Citadel space to be halted immediately and for any inquiries about her decision to be directed towards the Council.
** [[spoiler: WILLE's [[NiceJobBreakingItHero various screw ups throughout Book 2]] happen because they want to be [[ControlFreak in control of the situation,]] and are scared of what Shinji and Tevos might do. See ProperlyParanoid for how well that works out.]]
* SexGod: Shinji due to his mother uploading all of her knowledge into his brain, including tantric massage. It helps that several of the women he's slept with as "The Shadow Consort" are Asari and he studied everything he could find on them, particularly physiology.
* ShoutOut: The Elbrus' cook's name is LeeroyJenkins and he lives up to his name.
** Also to [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds]] Not only is Shinji's Ship named after the Thunder Child in said book, but Aria goes so far as to paraphrase it, implying their upcoming fight against WILLE will be 'bows and arrows against the lightning'. [[CurbStompBattle She wasn't entirely wrong, either]] And also, two chapters are literally named 'War of the Worlds', with each part using chapter names that are a shout out to the book.
* SpacePirates
-->'''Shinji''': "Oh don't look so shocked. I mean, in all fairness, we ''are'' pirates after all."
-->'''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Shinji]]''': "Pirates...?"
-->'''Shinji''': "''Well'', space pirates anyways. Didn't... that ever come up?"
-->'''Shinji''': "...''Space'' pirates?"
-->'''Shinji''': "You know: Pirates, but... [[RecycledInSpace in space]]."
* SpaceshipGirl: This is essentially EDEN to a T. Basically a mecha ninja-Misato with even more extreme MamaBear tendencies than normal. [[spoiler: More-so after the android she's inhabiting gets destroyed, and she has to be retrofitted into a TokenMiniMoe body, ala Anime/GhostInTheShell.]]
* SuddenPrincipledStand: Tisala quits Spectre immediately after kidnapping Shinji and delivering him to the Citadel.
* TakeAThirdOption: When choosing between [[spoiler: staying in the Rebuild universe to fight Gendo, running the risk of losing and be trapped there forever, and leaving for the Mass Effect universe, but abandoning the Rebuild!Earth and its people to their fate,]] Shinji instead chooses to [[spoiler: Use EVA-13 to drag Earth through the Room of Gauf ''into'' the Mass Effect universe and undo ''all'' the damage the impacts have done to its surface, making [[AssimilationPlot Human Instrumentality Project]] a near impossibility.]] [[DeconstructedTrope Ends up deconstructed however,]] as while this solves a lot of the problems they were facing, his mercenaries end up deserting out of anger that he risked their lives, ''and'' brought them into Citadel territory, the Citadel end up blocking off the planet [[spoiler: out of fear of the Evas,]] and [[spoiler: Gendo,]] against all reason, actually ''ramps'' up the pressure in a desperate attempt to see his plans through. In taking a third option, Shinji ends up out of freezer and into the fryer, to use the expression.
* TaughtByExperience: Because Shinji's body is physically 18, he now has the right proportions to take advantage of all the knife fighting he did as an Eva pilot.
* TimeAbyss: Shinji has been estimated to be 1.68 decillion years old (That's 33 zeroes. Or to put it another way, he's lived through over a ''trillion'' universes).
* TooDumbToLive: Aria outright calls several mercenaries this for 1) thinking she didn't see their betrayal coming, and 2) believing she should rule through fear.
* TookALevelInBadass: Shinji's goes from a [[ClassicalAntiHero confused, scared and damaged 14 year old]] to someone perfectly capable of taking Citadel leaders hostage, and wiping out a trio of narcissistic, mind-controlling {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. [[spoiler: He even wins out against a troop of WILLE soldiers, with and without Mass Effect tech, whereas his former self barely survived the JSDF onslaught in End of Eva.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Due to her dealings with Paragon Shepard, Aria has started ruling Omega through respect instead of fear.
** [[spoiler: While she's no where near as warm as she used to be, Misato ends up apologising and opening up again to Rebuild!Shinji after he recovers from saving her life, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy outright offers to leave Shinji on the Citadel where it's safe and he doesn't have to pilot, despite wanting to stay with him and repair their relationship again.]] When Shinji instead opts to go back to Earth with her, [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther she's internally happy over the fact.]]]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: WILLE is formed of several former NERV members who have ''really'' gotten bitter in the war against NERV and SEELE. [[DownplayedTrope Granted, most of them are]] clearly at worst [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With Hearts Of Gold,]] but it's jarring to see Maya go from being a [[NiceGirl sweet-natured]] ActualPacifist to [[HatesSmallTalk chewing out Shigeru and Makoto for chatting,]] and bitching at the doctor fixing her face [[NothingPersonal for being one of the enemy.]]]]
* {{Troll}}: Removing [[spoiler:Misato's and Ritsuko's]] access is necessary. Changing their official ranks to "Petty Officer Third Class in charge of swabbing the decks" and "Assistant Pencil Sharpener" is just for fun.
* TrollingTranslator: Leeroy Jenkins.
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Shinji hacks [[spoiler:the MAGI]] and add himself as "Supreme Fleet Rear Admiral Commander Brigadier General Ikari".
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Three of the [[spoiler:WILLE]] bridge bunnies think they can take Aria because they outnumber her three to one, completely ignoring that Aria is wearing the same clothing as Shinji (or rather, he's wearing the same clothing as her) which means their weapons won't do anything and she likely has access to the same high tech weaponry he does, though props to Aria for not even ''using'' said guns or armor, and instead beats them all barehanded, but then the fight was Aria T'Loak vs Maya Ibuki, Makoto Hyuuga and Aoba Shigeru. The outcome could only be what you expect.
* VerbalBackspace: When Shinji has taken Councilor Tevos hostage, Aria demands to know what's going on.
-->'''Aria''': "Do you still have your Spectre clearance?"
-->'''Tisala''': "Yes but I really shouldn't-" *DeathGlare from Aria* "-really shouldn't be worrying about that right now."
* WalkingSpoiler: You can't read Book 2 without being spoiled on [[spoiler: the events of Eva 3.0, as the story begins in the aftermath of the Fourth Impact at the end of the movie.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Right in the middle of receiving a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from EDEN [[spoiler: over her treatment of Young Shinji, Misato has the gall to mention she couldn't bring herself to detonate the choker. This only infuriates EDEN even further and Misato comes close to having her head sliced off via omniblade.]]
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 11's end in the sequel hints that things are going to change, but it's nothing to prepare for Chapter 12.
* WhamLine: EDEN's response when Aria demands to know in three words or less what she's designed to be to Shinji.
-->'''EDEN''': "[[spoiler:Dummy Plug System]]."
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Aria insists she doesn't have any friends. She has herself, people who want something from her, and she has Shinji but fuck if she knows what the last means.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Sakura, Maya, Makoto, and Shigeru]] don't get much mention after Chapter 9, after Aria's takeover of [[spoiler: WILLE]]. Given that Shinji mentioned that he offloaded most of the original crew of [[spoiler: the Wunder]] to the other ships, [[PutOnABus it's possible they were transferred,]] though the fic is ambiguous on the subject.
* WretchedHive: Omega of course. Aria claims it holds the best and worst of the galaxy.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When Shinji fights Tisala, the latter notices him glancing towards her gun and his omnitool and uses her biotics to knock the gun away. Shinji instead dives for the omnitool since it has an omniblade and he's far more experience with knives than pistols.
** [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] confiscates Tevos' omnitool after Tevos starts throwing people around with her biotics, thinking it's an offensive function of the omnitool rather than a natural ability.
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* CrapsackWorld: [[spoiler: Book 2 takes place in the Rebuild Universe, with the implications that aside from the WILLE Fleet and NERV headquarters, the world has been so battered and savaged that life can no longer exist on its surface.]] [[spoiler: In Chapter 13, Shinji uses EVA Unit 01 EVA-13 to undo most of the damager and bring mankind back, and dimension jump the planet through to the Mass Effect Universe, but given the open warfare between WILLE and NERV, it's still leagues away from {{A World Half Full}}.]]



* TakeAThirdOption: When choosing between [[spoiler: staying in the Rebuild universe to fight Gendo, running the risk of losing and be trapped there forever, and leaving for the Mass Effect universe, but abandoning the Rebuild!Earth and its people to their fate,]] Shinji instead chooses to [[spoiler: Use Unit-01 to drag Earth through the Room of Gauf ''into'' the Mass Effect universe and undo ''all'' the damage the impacts have done to its surface, making [[AssimilationPlot Human Instrumentality Project]] a near impossibility.]] [[DeconstructedTrope Ends up deconstructed however,]] as while this solves a lot of the problems they were facing, his mercenaries end up deserting out of anger that he risked their lives, ''and'' brought them into Citadel territory, the Citadel end up blocking off the planet [[spoiler: out of fear of the Evas,]] and [[spoiler: Gendo,]] against all reason, actually ''ramps'' up the pressure in a desperate attempt to see his plans through. In taking a third option, Shinji ends up out of freezer and into the fryer, to use the expression.

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* TakeAThirdOption: When choosing between [[spoiler: staying in the Rebuild universe to fight Gendo, running the risk of losing and be trapped there forever, and leaving for the Mass Effect universe, but abandoning the Rebuild!Earth and its people to their fate,]] Shinji instead chooses to [[spoiler: Use Unit-01 EVA-13 to drag Earth through the Room of Gauf ''into'' the Mass Effect universe and undo ''all'' the damage the impacts have done to its surface, making [[AssimilationPlot Human Instrumentality Project]] a near impossibility.]] [[DeconstructedTrope Ends up deconstructed however,]] as while this solves a lot of the problems they were facing, his mercenaries end up deserting out of anger that he risked their lives, ''and'' brought them into Citadel territory, the Citadel end up blocking off the planet [[spoiler: out of fear of the Evas,]] and [[spoiler: Gendo,]] against all reason, actually ''ramps'' up the pressure in a desperate attempt to see his plans through. In taking a third option, Shinji ends up out of freezer and into the fryer, to use the expression.
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** BlackAndGreyMorality: [[spoiler: After Aria comes out on top, the two effectively team up to take on [[BigBad Gendo Ikari,]] who's still at his AssimilationPlot in the rebuild universe]]

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-->[[spoiler:'''Shinji''']]: "Since when were any of you ever on my side?"]]

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* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: In Rebuild 3.0, Shinji woke up to find himself in an unknown environment, where he's denied his status as Eva pilot by a considerably icier Misato. Upon recovering from her injuries in Book 2, Misato wakes up to find her organisation under control of pirates, herself stripped of any authority, and finds herself face to face with an android version of herself.]] When she bitterly exclaims that she feels her world's been turned upside down, and that she's facing a soulless version of herself, EDEN amusingly notes that that was [[spoiler: ROE!Shinji's]] ''exact'' response.
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** [[spoiler: [[LittleMissBadass Kodama Horaki]] is the perfect picture of politeness as [[SuicideAttack she threatens to blow herself,]] [[TakingyouWithMe Aria, and Shinji]] to hell if Aria attempts to release him. When Aria [[ShutUpKirk belittles her]] and casually suggests freeing Shinji - [[FantasticRacism an Angel to WILLE]] - [[BerserkButton she loses it,]] and launches the grenade.]] [[spoiler: If Aria weren't a biotic, the three of them would've been dead as a doornail.]]



* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Fuyutsuki cuts his losses with NERV, and ditches Gendo for WILLE, who, being the jackass he is, takes it about as well as you expect.[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that his main goal, Yui's resurrection, has been achieved, and Gendo has become ''really'' batshit in the aftermath.]]



* SpaceshipGirl: This is essentially EDEN to a T. Basically a mecha ninja-Misato with even more extreme MamaBear tendencies than normal.

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* SpaceshipGirl: This is essentially EDEN to a T. Basically a mecha ninja-Misato with even more extreme MamaBear tendencies than normal. [[spoiler: More-so after the android she's inhabiting gets destroyed, and she has to be retrofitted into a TokenMiniMoe body, ala Anime/GhostInTheShell.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Sakura, Maya, Makoto, and Shigeru]] don't get much mention after Chapter 9, after Aria's takeover of [[spoiler: WILLE]]. Given that Shinji mentioned that he offloaded most of the original crew of [[spoiler: the Wunder]] to the other ships, [[PutOnABus it's possible they were transferred,]] though the fic is ambiguous on the subject.
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* CosmicPlaything: Finally averted with Shinji, who manages to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass,]] and get some luck in his life. [[spoiler: Rebuild!Shinji plays this ''very'' straight though, [[TraumaCongaLine as following on from 3.0,]] he gets dragged by Asuka back to the Wunder, barely lucid enough to learn that there's another Shinji running around, and finally comes face to face with an older, badass version of him after being shoved in a cell with [[UncannyValley Rei!Q]] while Misato recovers from her injuries. [[ThrowTheDogABone He finally gets out of his funk]] after ME!Shinji manages to convince him that the preceding events were at least not entirely his fault, [[TheScapegoat despite WILLE's opinion to the contrary,]] and he manages to get enough a spine to tell off WILLE and Misato, for being [[MoralMyopia hypocrital]] {{Entitled Bastard}}s. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming He even manages to get Misato to open up,]] [[IHaveNoSon after her previous frigidity.]] [[MoodWhiplash Then he gets his entrails torn out by a hijacked android]] [[YankTheDogsChain after shoving Misato out of the line of fire,]] and survives only to wake up in another ''universe'' several months later, to find out that his home planet has been dragged to the ME Universe, pristine, but blocked off by the Citadel Council. Thankfully, things get better for him.]]
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* TheHypocrite: In spite of their good intentions, [[spoiler: Misato, and WILLE in general, have this issue. Case in point, Misato attempts to [[WhatTheHellHero shame Shinji for killing several of her men to save Tevos,]] despite the fact that 3.0 makes it clear that she has a WeHaveReserves [[BadBoss policy in regards to her own crew,]] and that Shinji [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou flat out tried to resolve the situation peacefully.]] Hell, when she gets pissed over the fact that she's working under criminals, Shinji points out that her theft of the Wunder from SEELE makes her no better than [[SpacePirate Aria.]] It takes EDEN and Rebuild!Shinji calling her out to get out of this mindset.]]
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: WILLE is formed of several former NERV members who have ''really'' gotten bitter in the war against NERV and SEELE. [[DownplayedTrope Granted, most of them are]] clearly at worst [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With Hearts Of Gold,]] but it's jarring to see Maya go from being a [[NiceGirl sweet-natured]] ActualPacifist to [[HatesSmallTalk chewing out Shigeru and Makoto for chatting,]] and bitching at the doctor fixing her face [[NothingPersonal for being one of the enemy.]]]]
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* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Misato spends much of Book 2 [[TheStoic keeping her emotions bottled up,]] and only losing her shit when the situation gets really out of hand e.g. [[WhatTheHellHero when Ritsuko's security measures get Tevos comatose and near death.]] Then Rebuild!Shinji saves her life from a hijacked EDEN, only for him to be degutted with EDEN's omnitool. We don't see much of her reaction ''then'', but Rebuild!Shinji's coma recollections her [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther being hysterical and screaming right afterwards.]]]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: After getting TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Rebuild!Shinji and EDEN regarding her [[TheHypocrite self-serving excuses]], Misato starts to grow out of her KnightTemplar behaviour and make efforts to connect with Shinji again. By the time Shinji recovers from the injuries gained from saving her from a hijacked android, she's wholly averted the IHaveNoSon treatment he got in 3.0, and makes efforts to be [[GoodParents a better guardian to him.]]]]


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* TookALevelInBadass: Shinji's goes from a [[ClassicalAntiHero confused, scared and damaged 14 year old]] to someone perfectly capable of taking Citadel leaders hostage, and wiping out a trio of narcissistic, mind-controlling {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. [[spoiler: He even wins out against a troop of WILLE soldiers, with and without Mass Effect tech, whereas his former self barely survived the JSDF onslaught in End of Eva.]]
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* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Due to the Citadel forming a blockade between the Rebuild!Earth and the rest of the Mass Effect Galaxy, the only way Misato and Rebuild!Shinji can get back home is by cutting a deal with Hackett. The price for entry? [[WeaponOfMassDestruction One EVA unit for Alliance research.]] [[ShellShockedVeteran Misato]] is understandably hesitant, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt given what the EVAs have done to her world,]] but goes through with it, figuring that if Hackett wants to shoot himself in the foot with the tech, that's his business.]]
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* BigBad: In Book 1, [[spoiler: The Leviathans.]] [[spoiler: Rebuild!Gendo picks up the slack in Book 2.]]


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* HumanoidAbomination: Shinji's long term hibernation within EVA Unit 01 has effectively turned him into an Angel-Human Hybrid, being able to use some of their powers in the process. The residents of the Mass Effect universe hardly mind, [[spoiler: [[FantasticRacism but it gets him into a heap of trouble with the WILLE crew when they find out.]]]]
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** [[spoiler: While she's no where near as warm as she used to be, Misato ends up apologising and opening up again to Rebuild!Shinji after he recovers from saving her life, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy outright offers to leave Shinji on the Citadel where it's safe and he doesn't have to pilot, despite wanting to stay with him and repair their relationship again.]] When Shinji instead opts to go back to Earth with her, [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther she's internally happy over the fact.]]]]

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* GeniusBonus: Alpha and Omega can stand for Shinji (Alpha) and Aria (Omega) since he pilots Unit-''01'' and she [[MemeticMutation is Omega]]. It also stands for Shinji since he's not only the first and last angels, [[spoiler:but he also became God for a time before the story started]].



* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with WILLE, who's security measures to keep Tevos and Shinji in line, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt while admittedly understandable given the circumstances,]] end up incapacitating and nearly killing the former, and badly antagonising the latter. Later on, their efforts to quarantine [[UngratefulBastard Shinji for being an Angel]] [[MuggingTheMonster end up]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend antagonising Aria,]] and result in a chain of events ending with them being curb stomped and taken over by Shinji's far more advanced crew. In short, if WILLE had been less paranoid, and more willing to give the benefit of the doubt, a lot of Book 2 would have been avoided in their favour.]]



* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with WILLE, who's security measures to keep Tevos and Shinji in line, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt while admittedly understandable given the circumstances,]] end up incapacitating and nearly killing the former, and badly antagonising the latter. Later on, their efforts to quarantine [[UngratefulBastard Shinji for being an Angel]] [[MuggingTheMonster end up]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend antagonising Aria,]] and result in a chain of events ending with them being curb stomped and taken over by Shinji's far more advanced crew. In short, if WILLE had been less paranoid, and more willing to give the benefit of the doubt, a lot of Book 2 would have been avoided in their favour.]]

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* AdaptationalVillainy: In keeping with [[spoiler: the Rebuild Universe,]] [[spoiler: Misato is a downplayed case of this, becoming a KnightTemplar who, [[CuriousQualmsOfConscience while morally conflicted over the decisions she's made,]] has effectively become as bad a parent to Shinji as Gendo is.]] [[spoiler: Gendo, meanwhile, is even worse, as unlike his original incarnation, he refuses to acknowledge the wrongness of his AssimilationPlot when confronted by Yui, and descends further into madness and obsession as Book 2 progresses. Lmapshaded by Shinji, who questions how]]

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* {{Foil}}: It's not commented on, but Aria and [[spoiler: Rebuild!Misato could be seen as one to the other.]] [[spoiler: Both are {{Badass}} [[IronLady Iron Ladies]] in charge of a fleet, both have a relationship with a Shinji Ikari, and both are something of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. However, Misato is an outwardly {{Stoic}}, [[CuriousQualmsOfConscience but internally conflicted]] KnightTemplar, presumably working with legal backing given her disdain for criminals, who keeps an emotional distance from her crew, [[WeUsedToBeFriends and has a currently strained relationship with her Shinji despite the two having once been close.]] Contrast with Aria, a [[AffablyEvil ruthless, yet stable and personable]] NobleDemon, a SpacePirate who is feared by the law abiding galaxy at large, [[OppositesAttract and despite being strangers initially,]] [[FourthDateMarriage ends up in a very intense and happy relationship with her Shinji.]]]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with WILLE, who's security measures to keep Tevos and Shinji in line, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt while admittedly understandable given the circumstances,]] end up incapacitating and nearly killing the former, and badly antagonising the latter. Later on, their efforts to quarantine [[UngratefulBastard Shinji for being an Angel]] [[MuggingTheMonster end up]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend antagonising Aria,]] and result in a chain of events ending with them being curb stomped and taken over by Shinji's far more advanced crew. In short, if WILLE had been less paranoid, and more willing to give the benefit of the doubt, a lot of Book 2 would have been avoided in their favour.]]


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* WalkingSpoiler: You can't read Book 2 without being spoiled on [[spoiler: the events of Eva 3.0, as the story begins in the aftermath of the Fourth Impact at the end of the movie.]]

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