Line #21 FanFic/TakingSights


1	->''Don't worry. I have a plan.''
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3	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 (i.e. Shinji). [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4109686/1/Taking_Sights_Book_1 Available here]]
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5	!!Tropes:
6	* BelligerentSexualTension:
7	** Subverted by Asuka and Shinji. [[spoiler:They blow right past their mutual attraction and enter a state of mutual loathing.]]
8	** Possibly played straight by [[spoiler:Asuka and Toji]].
9	* BerserkButton: A number of characters possess or develop a few triggers that are guaranteed to piss them off:
10	** Derogatory remarks about Gendo are this for Rei, [[spoiler:at least at first]].
11	** Gendo becomes one for Shinji after they have an epic falling out over the phone.
12	** Any reminder of the collateral damage Asuka has caused in her solo battles, [[MyGreatestFailure for Asuka]].
13	** Asuka's tendencies for excessive violence for Misato, and [[spoiler:after she annihilates a hijacked Unit-00 in Terminal Dogma, for Ritsuko]].
14	* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Asuka's]] started earlier than in canon.
15	* CallingTheOldManOut - Fuyutsuki (ironically) and [[spoiler:Shinji]].
16	* CreepyChild - Rei, as Hideki Anno always intended.
17	* DeadFic: No update since 2010.
18	* DirtyOldWoman - Yui and [[spoiler:Lovecraftian!Asuka]].
19	* DysfunctionJunction: Misato's household, even more than the canon version.
20	* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Penguin]] - Gendo: "I was not aware that penguins could growl"
21	* GilliganCut - Indulged in during the lighter moments.
22	--> '''Fuyutsuki:''' Trust me, Shinji. If there's one thing the commander doesn't get, it's angry.
23	--> Thirty Minutes Ago
24	--> '''Gendo:''' I am going to ''murder'' that little shit.
25	* HeterosexualLifePartners - Gendo and Fuyutsuki. [[spoiler:Depending on if the balls touched while fulling Yui's birthday request of a threesome.]]
26	* ImportantHaircut:
27	** Important [[spoiler:Beard Trim]].
28	** And not just that--one flash forward to an [=EoE=] sequence sees Misato make a comment about Asuka's shorter hair.
29	* LoveAtFirstPunch - Possibly [[spoiler:Touji]].
30	* ManipulativeBastard - Gendo. [[spoiler:Rarely actually works though]].
31	* MistakenForGay - [[spoiler:Shinji]] gets this by [[spoiler:Gendo]].
32	* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Anti-Hero]]: [[spoiler:Gendo's attempts to improve his relationship with Rei and Shinji approach EpicFail levels.]]
33	* OldShame: [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=6436929&postcount=63 To Lavanya Six, believe it or not]].
34	* PeggySue - Subverted. It's the ''villain'' that goes back. [[spoiler:And a slightly Lovecraftian, immortal version of Asuka, but not properly.]]
35	* PromotionToParent: Hikari Horaki after her mother's death.
36	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: In Chapter 4:
37	--> '''Fuyutsuki:''' "THIS! ISN'T! FUNNY!"
38	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gendo delivers one hell of a speech of this kind to Shinji in Chapter 10 over the phone.
39	* SarcasticConfession: You have to be real careful what you tell Rei because she CAN read between lines (despite her emotionless nature)...
40	-->'''Asuka:''' Look, boy and girls...men and women too...have rituals.\
41	'''Rei:''' Rituals?\
42	'''Asuka:''' It's stupid crap girls gotta do if they wanna [[UnusualEuphemism get their mack on with the dude they want to bone]]--like cooking them lunch first or being all fake demure--because if they don't do it then everyone else thinks she's a slut.\
43	'''Rei:''' Ah, so your behavior towards Mister Kaji is explained by [[BrutalHonesty your desire to "bone" him but to not appear promiscuous for wanting to do so]].\
44	'''Asuka:''' [[VisibleSilence ...]]\
45	'''Rei:''' Am I...in error?
46	* 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."
47	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - [[spoiler:It doesn't work very well.]]
48	* SoProudOfYou - Gendo does this. [[spoiler:It gets seen through.]]
49	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Done by [[spoiler:Lovecraftian!Asuka]] in Shinji's dream.
50	-->[[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."]]
51	* TitleDrop - "I'm glad we've had this chance to take sight of each other"
52	* TroubledButCute: Misato's [[TroubledButCute exact words]] to describe Shinji in the third chapter.
53	* VillainProtagonist - Sort of. Most of Gendo's plans revolves around undoing his own schemes in the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion original series]].
54	* VillainsOutShopping - Gendo and Fuyutsuki [[spoiler:go to a strip club. And it's hilarious!]]
55	* WellDoneSonGuy - Deconstructed at both ends.
56	* WhoWantsToLiveForEver - [[spoiler:Original Asuka. She's literally lived to the ''end of the universe''.]]

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