History FanFic / TakingSights

* ImportantHaircut - Important [[spoiler:Beard Trim]].

* CrowningMomentofFunny
** Shinji's imagination running away with the idea of being thrown in jail for spilling classified secrets.
--> [[PrisonRape soap soap soap soap soap soap]]
** Gendo [[spoiler:sings Karaoke. With Fuyutsuki. At a strip club.]]
** Rei being mistaken for a computerized answering machine by Asuka when she takes a call for Misato.

''Don't worry. I have a plan.''

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gendo delivers one hell of a speech of this kind to Shinji in Chapter 10 over the phone.

!!Tropes present in FanFic/TakingSights:

* WhoWantsToLiveForEver - [[spoiler:Original Asuka. She's literally lived to the ''end of the universe''.]]

* VillainProtagonist - Sort of. Most of Gendo's plans revolves around undoing his own schemes in the [[NeonGenesisEvangelion original series]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForEver - [[spoiler:Original Asuka. She's literally lived to the ''end of the universe''.]]
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* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero NiceJobBreakingItAntiHero]]: [[spoiler:Gendo's attempts to improve his relationship with Rei and Shinji approach EpicFail levels.]]

--> soap soap soap soap soap soap

---> '''Fuyutsuki:''' Trust me, Shinji. If there's one thing the commander doesn't get, it's angry.
---> Thirty Minutes Ago
---> '''Gendo:''' I am going to ''murder'' that little shit.

--->[[spoiler:"That's how you know it, and how I, who am an illusion of your mind and definitely '''not''' a phantom from the Dark Era at the absolute end of the universe's entropic arc, know it too."]]

* CrowningMomentofFunny - Gendo [[spoiler:sings Karaoke. With Fuyutsuki. At a strip club.]]

* ItGotWorse - So, so much. And the author is only promising more.
* GilliganCut - Indulged in during the lighter moments.
---> '''Fuyutsuki:''' Trust me, Shinji. If there's one thing the commander doesn't get, it's angry.
---> Thirty Minutes Ago
---> '''Gendo:''' I am going to ''murder'' that little shit.

A fanfic by Lavanya Six, which proceeds to turn the entire PeggySue trope completely on it's head... by sending ''[[BigBad Gendo]]'' back in time, instead of the usual (ie Shinji). [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4109686/1/Taking_Sights_Book_1 Available here]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Gendo's attempts to improve his relationship with Rei and Shinji approach EpicFail levels.]]

* MagnificentBastard

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation - Used liberally [[spoiler:to screw over Gendo's emotional manipulation of others]]. And of Gendo himself, obviously.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Asuka vs [[spoiler:Sandalphon]].
** To elaborate: [[spoiler:after the Angel's telepathic attack leaves everyone except Gendo and Asuka unconscious - ''including'' Units 00 & 02 - Asuka uses Unit 01 to fight Sandalphon. Towards the end, the battle has spilled over into Terminal Dogma, the two combatants duking it out right in front of Lilith. Skipping to the awesome: Asuka, through sheer bloody-mindedness and willpower, triggers Unit-01's Berserk State... except she's still in total control. At the end, she ''rips Lilith's mask off and uses the sharp edge to hammer/stab Sandalphon's core until it dies''.]]

* {{HSQ}} - How much worse can the situation get? Can it get worse than ''that?'' What matter of manipulative plan can Gendo come up with to try and fix it? [[spoiler:How badly will ''that'' fail?]]

* MagnificentBastard - You know who.
* ManipulativeBastard - See above. [[spoiler:Rarely actually works though]].

* {{HSQ}} - How much worse can the situation get? Can it get worse than ''that?'' What matter of manipulative plan can Gendo come up with to try and fix it? [[spoiler:How badly will ''that'' fail?]]

** And not just that--one flash forward to an EoE sequence sees Misato make a comment about Asuka's shorter hair.

* MagnificentBastard - You know who.
* ManipulativeBastard - See above. [[spoiler:Rarely actually works though]]

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* CallingTheOldManOut - Fuyutsuki (ironically) and [[spoiler: Shinji]].

* ScheduleSlip: Was once updated on a somewhat regular basis, then slowed down and eventually stopped moving for a while in 2009. Got one more chapter in early 2010, and it's been dormant since then. The author has admitted that she's struggled with the direction the story had taken, and that it was making it difficult to write. She has, however, promised that she will eventually finish it, as she doesn't want to become "one of those authors.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation - Used liberally [[spoiler: to screw over Gendo's emotional manipulation of others]]. And of Gendo himself, obviously.

* CreepyChild - [[spoiler: Rei]]. As Hideki Anno always intended.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Asuka vs [[spoiler: Sandalphon]].

* CrowningMomentofFunny - Gendo [[spoiler:sings Karaoke. With Fuyutsuki. At a strip club.]]

* PeggySue - Subverted. It's the ''villain'' that goes back. [[spoiler:And a slightly Lovecraftian, immortal version of Asuka, but not properly]]

* CallingTheOldManOut - Fuyutsuki (ironically) and [[spoiler: Shinji]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Asuka vs [[spoiler: Sandalphon]]

* {{HSQ}} - How much worse can the situation get? Can it get worse than ''that?'' What matter of manipulative plan can Gendo come up with to try and fix it? [[spoiler: How badly will ''that'' fail?]]
* DirtyOldWoman - Yui and [[spoiler: Lovecraftian!Asuka]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners - Gendo and Fuyutsuki. [[spoiler: Depending on if the balls touched while fulling Yui's birthday request of a threesome.]]
* ImportantHaircut - Important [[spoiler: Beard Trim]]

* LoveAtFirstPunch - possibly [[spoiler: Touji]]
* PeggySue - subverted. It's the ''villain'' that goes back. [[spoiler: And a slightly Lovecraftian, immortal version of Asuka, but not properly]]
* MagnificentBastard - you know who
* ManipulativeBastard - see above. [[spoiler: Rarely actually works though]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - [[spoiler: It doesn't work very well]]
* SoProudOfYou - Gendo does this. [[spoiler: It gets seen through]]

* VillainProtagonist - sort of. Most of Gendo's plans revolves around undoing his own schemes in the [[NeonGenesisEvangelion original series]].
* VillainsOutShopping - Gendo and Fuyutsuki [[spoiler: go to a strip club. And it's hilarious!]]
* WellDoneSonGuy - Deconstructed at both ends
* WhoWantsToLiveForEver - [[spoiler: Original Asuka. She's literally lived to the ''end of the universe'']]