History Fanfic / ACrownOfStars

* TheyDo: Shinji and Asuka thought they would not do because they were too damaged and it was too late to begin a healthy relationship. Then their future selves showed up and told. "Yes, you DO. We are married and expecting. Now stop making excuses and moping."

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Avalon’s Royal Family are {{Physical God}}s with all it entails, and all of them undergo military training because they are duty-bound to protect their subjects.

** SanitySlippage: WordOfGod is that Jinnai's become much more paranoid (and a big time megalomaniac) since he overthrew Winthrop because he realizes that the same thing could happen again; only this time with ''his'' head on the chopping black.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Shinji's actions while Asuka was in a coma are mentioned several times.
** In chapter 33, Shinji admits to Asuka that in Boston, he would touch himself at night while thinking of her.
--->“We’re both in unexplored territory, Asuka. You don’t... have to tell me anything. What we’re doing right now is more than I could have done anything but dream about a week ago.”\\
She cracked her eyes open a slit to peek at him. “Dream about, hmm?”\\
“Ahh... let me put it this way; there were a few nights in Boston where I didn’t fall asleep thinking of you.”\\
“Pervert. What happened to ‘I know that ship has sailed’?” she asked a little archly.\\
“I’d just kind of given up hoping. Not thinking.”
** And in chapter 35, Shinji drops his bit of self-depreciating snark.
--->'''Shinji''' (thinking): ‘Right. It will only be something I’ve dreamed about for years with the girl I’ve been in love with since the day we met after I’ve failed her in every way possible and ended the world. A girl who has had sex hundreds of times, all of them practically rape, except how they didn’t exactly happen. And I’ve never had sex with anyone or anything but Mrs. Rosie Palms. No pressure. What could go wrong?’

* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: Shinji and Asuka could control their giant robots because their mothers were locked inside them. After Third Impact they wre aware of it, but since their Evas were destroyed or stranded in space that knowledge came too late to be useful. However they were the only people could move an Evangelion, so that the dictators ruling the post-apocalyptic ravaged world kept them alive because they had an use for both mind-broken teenagers.

* TheCameo: In chapter 8, the main characters of "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2748982/1/The-Way-Out-is-Through The Way Out is Through]]" make a short appearance.

--> Jinnai stopped talking very quickly. Most people do when someone puts the business end of an M1911 .45 caliber pistol to the back of their head. The sharp, clear click of the hammer being cocked just served to underline the implicit threat in the cool kiss of the barrel’s metal against the back of his head.

* ShesGotLegs: Asuka's legs are often Shinji's focus. In chapter 25, while they are having a serious -and, for once, civil- talk, Shinji has to force himself to not spend the whole time ogling to her legs:
-->''Asuka was waiting for him. Wrapped in a blood-red bathrobe and towel, she was curled up in the bed like a ruby cat, slender fingers tapping gently together as she watched him like a hawk as he carried the tray in. Good gods, she looked hot. Her oh gods long, smooth legs peeking out from the edge of the robe were—‘FOCUS, Ikari!’ He saw her eyebrow rise when she spotted the rose.''

After Third Impact, Shinji and Asuka's lives [[FromBadToWorse got increasingly worse]]. For five years they were puppets of the warring warlords and military dictators fighting over the control of the post-apocalyptic world. They were kept alive only because they were the only living persons able to pilot an [[HumongousMecha Evangelion]], and they were forced to remain apart for three years. Although they met again, they were so physically and psychologically worn-down and emotionally wrecked than they were unable to open up. Still they stuck together because they felt that nobody else in the world could understand their pain.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: In chapter 74 Shinji tried to convince Asuka to stay behind as he fought to keep her safe. Her slap was louder than a thunder.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Asuka was two dictators' plaything for three years and they always made her feeling filthy and shameful. When she and Shinji got together and started to have sex he made her feeling wonderful, beloved and special; and she could not get enough of him. Sex scenes between they are depicted tender rather than titillating.

* ArcWords:
** “And now you´ll have an army at your back, and gods on your side.”
** “There Is No Such Thing As Fear.”

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Played straight. According Asuka, Shinji's penis is nearly twice larger than BigBad's and former BigBad's. Moreover, the latter two abused her sexually, were pretty lousy in bed and made her feeling dirty, whereas Shinji made her feeling good, happy and special. [[spoiler:Then again, while she was being used by her former superiors, Daniel had been bopping her in and out of that time span, replacing her with a simulacrum so she wouldn't actually be sexually assaulted by either one of them...and its secretions [[KickTheSonOfABitch made them paranoid, violent, and impotent]].]]

* AMechByAnyOtherName: Leaving out the Evas themselves, the '''Star Strider''' and '''Black Knight''' units of the Avalon Army. A '''Star Strider''' looks like a ''[[Anime/PanzerWorldGalient Galient]]''/''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Mobile Suit]]''/''[[Anime/{{Patlabor}} Labor]]'' hybrid. Or if ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and a ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross valkyrie]]'' got a child, and their offspring fused with a ''Franchise/TransformersAutobot'' and grew ''Anime/GunBuster''’s double cockpit.

* AMechByAnyOtherName: Leaving out the Evas themselves, the '''Star Strider''' and '''Black Knight''' units of the Avalon Army. A '''Star Strider''' looks like a ''[[Anime/PanzerWorldGalient Galient]]''/''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Mobile Suit]]''/''[[Anime/{{Patlabor}} Labor]]'' hybrid.
** No, no. It looks like if ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and a ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross valkyrie]]'' got a child, and their offspring fused with a ''[[Franchise/Transformers Autobot]]'' and grew ''Anime/GunBuster''’s double cockpit.

** Shinji has realized [[NotSoDifferent he is just like his father]] [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl and he would also burn the world for the woman he loves]]. So that he asks Asuka keeping him from becoming a monster.

* NotSoDifferent: Rayana pointed out to Shinji that he and his father are more alike than he would want to admit: both were willing to end up the world for a woman. Eventually Shinji has to admit regretfully that it's true.

* StressVomit: Shinji in chapter 52 vomits when he finally realizes [[NotSoDifferent he is just like his father]]: he would destroy anything and anyone that threatened or harmed the woman that he loves.

It can be found in the [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/a-crown-of-stars-nge-ou.11766/ Sufficient Velocity forums]] and in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11931859/1/A-Crown-of-Stars FF.Net]].

* AllThereInTheManyvhual: [[WordOfGod Strypgia]] provides commentary and insight in the story, and even clarifications about the many shout-outs in [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/a-crown-of-stars-nge-ou.11766/ this thread]].
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted in chapter 15. After Shinji mentions that he and Asuka got forced to work for military dictators, Rayana says there are groups of purely evil people... but simultaneously she remarks that they are mercifully rare.

->Don’t…that’s something else they told us. LYou don’t have to be afraid anymore. Of anything. And ‘you’re allowed to be happy now.’ Don’t miss this chance.

->Don’t…that’s something else they told us. You don’t have to be afraid anymore. Of anything. And ‘you’re allowed to be happy now.’ Don’t miss this chance.

** Shinji does not know if he will be able to forgive his father after abandoning him and using him, his sister and Asuka as tools to achieve his plans.

* ActionDad: Shinji is this to his daughter. He hates fighting, but if someone threatens Asuka and their baby, he'll jump in his battle mecha or have on his PoweredArmor and will blow stuff up.

** [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] is a HotBlooded BloodKnight AcePilot with one decade worth of training that pilots HumongousMecha and has beaten [[EldritchAbomination alien]] [[{{Robeast}} monsters]], HumongousMecha and whole armies.
** In canon Misato is a soldier and excellent strategist prone to go into MamaBear rampages. In this fic she is one of leaders of an army and wears a PoweredArmor.
** All female soldiers of the Avalon Army, really. They are well-trained, experienced soldiers and many of them are SuperSoldiers or have PsychicPowers.

* AcePilot: Although she was ''very'' broken when the story starts out, Asuka was her squad's best pilot, with the greater number of kills. During a scene Ching praises her performance during the battle of the Geofront and when she and Shinji used a barely-moving prototype mecha in Germany to fight and defeat several fully-functional MP-Evas. Later she has a new TransformingMecha and kicks butts with it.

** In chapter 33 Shinji admits to Asuka that some few nights in Boston he touched himself as thinking of her.

** And in chapter 35 Shinji thinks he has never got sex with anyone but "Mrs. Rosie Palms".

* AfterTheEnd: The history happens five years after [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Third Impact]]. In a very ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' fashion, the world is in ruins, scavengers inhabit the ruins and wastelands, and warlords fight over the control of what little is left.
* AGodAmI: Daniel sought to ascend to godhood to have enough power to make a positive change on his world.
* AlienSky: The wildly different stars and constellations, plus the [[RingWorldPlanet ringworlds]] shifting across the sky, kind of hint that Shinji and Asuka had arrived on a different planet, galaxy and dimension.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Avaloni people don't even come from the same dimension that Shinji and Asuka were born in but still they talk to both pilots in Japanese, German, English, Latin, or whatever they feel more comfortable using. Justified since they have pretty advanced language-teaching technology.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: After the events of the prior fic Asuka and Shinji were so burned-out that they were afraid of having a real relationship. Asuka had proposed to Shinji an agreement where he would give her everything and she would not have to give anything back. She did not expect him taking him, but Shinji did, muttering it was better than nothing. In the first chapter they meet their future selves -who have underwent so many changes they are considerably happier, more balanced, and have a real, healthy, balanced relationship- and the older Asuka -and several more characters later- denounces that "agreement" was a hollow shell of a relationship.
* AllThereInTheManual: [[WordOfGod Strypgia]] provides commentary and insight in the story, and even clarifications about the many shout-outs in [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/a-crown-of-stars-nge-ou.11766/ this thread]].

* PoweredArmor: Used by the Imperial Army. They are named Heinlein Mk 161 infantry combat suits -after Creator/RobertAHeinlein-.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: In chapter 55:
-->'''Asuka''': ''“EVERYONE IN FRONT OF ME BETTER SURRENDER IN THE NEXT THIRTY SECONDS, OR I’M GOING TO BLOW A NEW CRATER IN THIS LITTLE PLANET.”''

* PrecisionFStrike: At the height of chapter 75 Shinji is fighting to save his world, has got family and friends back, he and Asuka have gotten together, they are going to be parents and Asuka has ''[[CantSpitItOut FINALLY]]'' said him that [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove she loves him]] right before a battle. Faced with the possibility of getting killed in action, he says:
-->'''Shinji''': ''"To Hell with dying. I'm going to live!"''

* UnfamiliarCeiling: During their first night sleeping in their new home Shinji can not help to think their room’s ceiling is "another unfamiliar ceiling".
-->''Sleep did eventually overtake him, but Shinji knew he’d laid there for at least a couple of hours in the dark, staring at the sky out the windows, or at yet another unfamiliar ceiling. ''

* FrickinLaserBeams: The Avaloni army is equipped with beam weapons. In chapter 76, a positron cannon was used against Asuka's HumongousMecha. It was capable of shooting down a war mecha strong enough to tank nukes.

* YourCheatingHeart: When Asuka's mother Kyoko was mentally ill her husband cheated on her with her doctor in the next room where Asuka could hear them. Several characters bring it up and Asuka declared in chapter 33 she does not inted to forgive him:
-->'''Asuka''':''‘Oh yes, my wonderful and supportive father, who ditched Mama before she was even gone, and me before she was two weeks in the ground. He can rot in Hell in the cell next to Shinji’s father. They can swap ‘cheating on your child’s mother’ tips.’ “He can stay wherever the Hell he is now. He’ll get all the care from me that he gave my mother and I,”''

* BadDreams:
** Asuka has suffered recurring nightmares for ''sixteen'' years. They were pretty bad when they “only” consisted of her mother’s madness and suicide, but they got worse during the Angel War and the post-TI years. However they stopped after she and Shinji started to sleep together.
** Shinji had frequent bad dreams, too.

!!''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'' provides examples of the next tropes:

* GenreShift: A very abrupt shift. "A Throne of Bayonets" was military fiction in a post-apocalyptic setting. ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'' adds a bunch of sci-fi tropes, featuring physical gods, intergalactic empires, dimensional and time travelling, space-ships, power armours…

Check ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'', ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionR'', ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'', ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'', ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'' and ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'' to see other Eva continuation fics. Go to ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'', ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'', ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'', ''Fanfic/TheIkaris'', ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'', ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'', and ''Fanfic/MobileFighterEvangelion'' to see other AU Eva fics. Check ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'', ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'', ''Manga/ReTake'', ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'' to see PeggySue Eva stories. Go to ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', ''Fanfic/GodsAngelsAndKings'', ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'', ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'', ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'' and ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'' if you are interested in crossovers.

-->He never managed to say to her face that it was all worth it to see that wisp of a smile and hear her calling him ‘baka’ again in that softer voice.

* AGodIAm: Daniel sought to ascend to godhood to have enough power to make a positive change on his world.

Check ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'', ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionR'', ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'', ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'', ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'' and ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'' to see other Eva continuation fics. Go to ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'', ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'', ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'', ''Fanfic/TheIkaris'', ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'', ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'', and ''Fanfic/MobileFighterEvangelion to see other AU Eva fics. Check ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'', ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'', ''Manga/ReTake'', ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'' to see PeggySue Eva stories. Go to ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', ''Fanfic/GodsAngelsAndKings'', ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'', ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'', ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'' and ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'' if you are interested in crossovers.

* AltumVidetur: Several characters quote some Latin sentences every so often. The moot of Avalon Imperial Army is "Numquam Soli. Semper, Sumus Legio", which means "Never Alone. Always, We Are Legion", and each corps' motto is in Latin, too. In one point "Morior Invictus", which means "I Die Unconquered" is quoted.

* VillainousDemotivator: [[BigBad Jinnai]] constantly threatens his subordinates with getting them or their families executed if they underperform or act in a way that is less than perfectly loyal to him. After learning that [[BrokenAce Asuka]] -whom he had used like a toy for two years- [[BattleCouple and]] [[TheHero Shinji]] [[RelationshipUpgrade got together]] he warned her that he had shot a traitor, raised a still smoking gun as citing "[[AltumVidetur 'Ultima ratio regnum']], mm, Sohryu?", and shortly after he exploded and declared he would sell her into slavery for not pleasing him.