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* OutOfCharacterMoment: As usual in PeggySue stories, this plays a part. Noticing Asuka’s increasingly odd behaviour, Misato demands knowing what is happening. Similarly, when they accidentally meet Touji and he gets shocked at seeing Asuka, they realize they are not the only time-travellers.
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: As usual in PeggySue stories, this plays a part. Noticing Asuka’s increasingly odd behaviour, part.
** Shortly before Sachiel shows up, Asuka volunteers to fly out to Tokyo -separating her from her beloved Evangelion for an indefinite period, in order to help train the other two pilots. And that's nothing compared to what happened with Rei... Misatodemands knowing what is happening. catches on pretty quickly that something's up. [spoiler: .Turns out all three of the Children are {{Peggy Sue}}s.]]
** Similarly, when they accidentally meet Touji and he gets shocked at seeing Asuka, they realize they are not the only time-travellers.
** Shortly before Sachiel shows up, Asuka volunteers to fly out to Tokyo -separating her from her beloved Evangelion for an indefinite period, in order to help train the other two pilots. And that's nothing compared to what happened with Rei... Misato
** Similarly, when they accidentally meet Touji and he gets shocked at seeing Asuka, they realize they are not the only time-travellers.
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* AllForNothing: When Rei meets Gendo for first time after travelling to the past she slaps him and informs him all of his planning was for nothing because he would fail. Gendo was pretty... shaken afterwards.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: As usual in PeggySue stories this is one of the goals of the main characters. The other is the "Israfel Special".
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* HoldingHands:
** Shinji and Asuka linked their hands when [[spoiler:they walked into the sea together]] before returning to the past.
** Shinji and Asuka linked their hands when [[spoiler:they walked into the sea together]] before returning to the past.
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* YouCheatingHeart: Subverted. Ritsuko accuses Gendo of cheating on her with her mother. He claims he and Naoko broke up a good while before he and Ritsuko started dating, and Naoko was aware of it.
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* YouCheatingHeart: YourCheatingHeart: Subverted. Ritsuko accuses Gendo of cheating on her with her mother. He claims he and Naoko broke up a good while before he and Ritsuko started dating, and Naoko was aware of it.
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* GreenEyedEpiphany: Subverted. When Asuka begins to suspect that Rei's feelings towards Shinji are not sisterly at all she gets jealous... and then stops herself, remembering that was when everything started to go wrong in the original timeline (she loving Shinji but being unable to spit it out and being jealous of Rei because she thought that Shinji liked her was a major factor in her break-down).
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* IgnoredLoveConfession: As Ritsuko is expressing her frustration about her abysmal love life…
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* IgnoredLoveConfession: IgnoredConfession: As Ritsuko is expressing her frustration about her abysmal love life…
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* TitleDrop: After waking up in the past Asuka laughs and exclaims:
-->'''Asuka''':''"It's a do-over, [...] It's a motherfucking do-over! [...] I'm gonna do it right this time,"''
-->'''Asuka''':''"It's a do-over, [...] It's a motherfucking do-over! [...] I'm gonna do it right this time,"''
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* DrowningMySorrows: In the first story draft Rei decided to get hammered when she thought she had missed her second chance and Asuka had beaten her to the punch again because she was under house arrest (long story) for long enough for Asuka getting there and get her claws into Shinji before she did.
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* ThreePointLanding: When Shinji and Asuka met Rei, she was perched on her HumongousMecha's shoulder. In order to talk with them, she leapt from the giant robot and landed on the catwalk in this position.
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* MentalTimeTravel: All time-travellers wake up in their younger bodies.
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* MentalTimeTravel: Shinji, Asuka and Rei's minds were sent back in time to three months before the beginning of the Angel War (and later they find out they are not the only returnees). All time-travellers wake up in their younger bodies.bodies. Asuka jokingly suggests they pretend everything was just a prophetic dream or something, and theorizes Kaworu has something to do with their return.
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* TriangRelations: Shinji, Asuka and Rei have a three-ways relationship. Each member of the triangle loves the remainder two.
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* TriangRelations: Shinji, Asuka and Rei have a Type 8 three-ways relationship. Each member of the triangle loves the remainder two. It is basically a kind of spiritual FixFic in response to their Type 6 LoveTriangle in ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''.
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* PercussiveTherapy: Ritsuko suggested to Rei that she should take her feelings towards Commander Ikari out on the Angel. Even Misato, who has [[ItsPersonal ample reason to hate Angels]], was a bit creeped out by the results.
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-->'''Asuka''':''"Trying to stab you when we ran into each other by Misato's memorial was spur of the moment. I've had three months to plan this meet-up. Besides, [...] you masturbating over my comatose body was far from the worst thing to happen to me that week. At least it proved you were too dumb to know when you're being hit on instead of just gay."''\\
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--->'''Asuka''':''"Trying to stab you when we ran into each other by Misato's memorial was spur of the moment. I've had three months to plan this meet-up. Besides, [...] you masturbating over my comatose body was far from the worst thing to happen to me that week. At least it proved you were too dumb to know when you're being hit on instead of just gay."''\\
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** In the first draft Misato uttered one when she saw Asuka had been reading "The Ethical Slut":
--->''Misato couldn't help but smile... until she happened to glance at the cover of the book Asuka had been reading, and realised it was a copy of The Ethical Slut. And Asuka had apparently been taking notes.''\\
''What.''
--->''Misato couldn't help but smile... until she happened to glance at the cover of the book Asuka had been reading, and realised it was a copy of The Ethical Slut. And Asuka had apparently been taking notes.''\\
''What.''
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* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ In the initial draft]] Asuka ran into this trouble while talking to Shinji about the events of the original timeline:
-->''"Months of treating you like crap... and you still wanted me." She sat down on the bench beside him. "And I wanted you. Couldn't admit it to myself, but I did. Do. Whatever fucking tense I should be using."''
-->''"Months of treating you like crap... and you still wanted me." She sat down on the bench beside him. "And I wanted you. Couldn't admit it to myself, but I did. Do. Whatever fucking tense I should be using."''
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by TRopers/{{Jake}} (autor of ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'') is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the Sufficient Velocity forums in [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by TRopers/{{Jake}} (autor of ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'') is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the Sufficient Velocity forums in [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.[[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by TRopers/{{Jake}} (autor of ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'') is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the Sufficient Velocity forums in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by TRopers/{{Jake}} (autor of ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'') is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the Sufficient Velocity forums in [[https://forums.[[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: You really, ''really'' does not want to mess with Shinji or Asuka in presence of Rei. She has a gun and she is very trigger-happy.
-->''"Was it absolutely necessary to pull a gun on him?" Asuka chided, half-heartedly.''\\
''"He made you cry," Rei replied, as if nothing more needed to be said. Perhaps it didn't.''
-->''"Was it absolutely necessary to pull a gun on him?" Asuka chided, half-heartedly.''\\
''"He made you cry," Rei replied, as if nothing more needed to be said. Perhaps it didn't.''
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* SheCleansUpNicely: The trio of time-travellers found Hikari right when she was about to go out with Touji. She had got ready to his date, and the kids were shocked at how pretty she was.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: The trio of time-travellers found Hikari right when she was about to go out with Touji. She had got ready to his their date, and the kids were shocked at how pretty she was.looked.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: The trio of time-travellers found Hikari right when she was about to go out with Touji. She had got ready to his date, and the kids were shocked at how pretty she was.
-->''It took Shinji a moment to realise who he was looking at. She was wearing her hair loose in ringlets instead of her usual pigtails, along with artfully-applied makeup that made her look a few years older. It was also the first time he'd seen Hikari out of her school uniform, and the rather adventurously-cut sundress and court heels were not the kind of thing he'd imagined the famously straitlaced Class Representative wearing at weekends.''
-->''It took Shinji a moment to realise who he was looking at. She was wearing her hair loose in ringlets instead of her usual pigtails, along with artfully-applied makeup that made her look a few years older. It was also the first time he'd seen Hikari out of her school uniform, and the rather adventurously-cut sundress and court heels were not the kind of thing he'd imagined the famously straitlaced Class Representative wearing at weekends.''
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* SecretKeeper: Sakura and Nozomi know about her brother and her middle sister -respectively- and other people being time-travellers and are keeping it secret... despite of Sakura being very loud and indiscreet.
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* BetaCouple: Hikari and Touji. Shinji, Asuka and Rei run into them for first time when they are about to go out.
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by TRopers/{{Jake}} is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the Sufficient Velocity forums in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by TRopers/{{Jake}} (autor of ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'') is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the Sufficient Velocity forums in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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* TookALevelInIdealism: After returning to the past, Shinji, Asuka and Rei are more sarcastic but also more idealistic: Shinji does not believe he can change things for better but he wants to try to anyway, Asuka try to be more carefree and a better friend since her former method to cope with her trauma did not work at all and Rei stops wishing for death and begins to learn how living.
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by Jake is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the Sufficient Velocity forums in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by Jake TRopers/{{Jake}} is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the Sufficient Velocity forums in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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--> A desperate, slightly hysterical giggle bubbled out before she could stop it. "It's a do-over," she breathed. "It's a motherfucking ''do-over''!" She fairly bounced out of bed and snatched up her dressing gown. "I'm gonna do it ''right'' this time," she muttered, throwing open the curtains. "I'm gonna have the best damn synch score ''ever'' now. Well... I can live with tied for first place with Shinji, I guess." She filled her electric kettle from the small wash-basin in one corner of her room. "Heh. I think I'll work on synchronising a little better with him too, after I beat the crap out of his asshole dad... Maybe I can defuse Commander Creepybeard's precious blue-haired tykebomb too? Well, she ''is'' kinda the baka's sister, wouldn't hurt to try being nice to her either way. In fact, screw it. If my life's going to turn into the biggest fanfiction cliche ever I'm just gonna roll with it and be the ultimate Mary-Sue, because I have ''earned'' some verdammt wish fulfilment in my life... And I really need to raise my blood sugar and blood caffeine levels because that sounded crazy even to myself."
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* NoAccountingForTaste: [[PeggySue In the previous timeline]] Shinji had wondered why his nice, loving mother would fall for his jerkass father. But after considering his mother got absorbed into Unit 01 on purpose to become an eternal reminder of humankind’s existence and she actually ''wanted'' him to watch how she seemingly died, Shinji wonders why his father would marry her and decides there is no accounting for taste.
-->'''Shinji''':''"So, yeah, [...] That's the woman my father is planning to cause total human extinction to reunite with. No accounting for taste, I suppose."''\\
'''Asuka''':''"Guess not,"''
-->'''Shinji''':''"So, yeah, [...] That's the woman my father is planning to cause total human extinction to reunite with. No accounting for taste, I suppose."''\\
'''Asuka''':''"Guess not,"''
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* [[MetaGuy Meta Girl]]: Asuka, when she realises what's happened, doesn't so much lean on the fourth wall as trip over and bang her head on it. With a side order of ConversationalTroping on top!
--> A desperate, slightly hysterical giggle bubbled out before she could stop it. "It's a do-over," she breathed. "It's a motherfucking ''do-over''!" She fairly bounced out of bed and snatched up her dressing gown. "I'm gonna do it ''right'' this time," she muttered, throwing open the curtains. "I'm gonna have the best damn synch score ''ever'' now. Well... I can live with tied for first place with Shinji, I guess." She filled her electric kettle from the small wash-basin in one corner of her room. "Heh. I think I'll work on synchronising a little better with him too, after I beat the crap out of his asshole dad... Maybe I can defuse Commander Creepybeard's precious blue-haired tykebomb too? Well, she ''is'' kinda the baka's sister, wouldn't hurt to try being nice to her either way. In fact, screw it. If my life's going to turn into the biggest fanfiction cliche ever I'm just gonna roll with it and be the ultimate Mary-Sue, because I have ''earned'' some verdammt wish fulfilment in my life... And I really need to raise my blood sugar and blood caffeine levels because that sounded crazy even to myself."
--> A desperate, slightly hysterical giggle bubbled out before she could stop it. "It's a do-over," she breathed. "It's a motherfucking ''do-over''!" She fairly bounced out of bed and snatched up her dressing gown. "I'm gonna do it ''right'' this time," she muttered, throwing open the curtains. "I'm gonna have the best damn synch score ''ever'' now. Well... I can live with tied for first place with Shinji, I guess." She filled her electric kettle from the small wash-basin in one corner of her room. "Heh. I think I'll work on synchronising a little better with him too, after I beat the crap out of his asshole dad... Maybe I can defuse Commander Creepybeard's precious blue-haired tykebomb too? Well, she ''is'' kinda the baka's sister, wouldn't hurt to try being nice to her either way. In fact, screw it. If my life's going to turn into the biggest fanfiction cliche ever I'm just gonna roll with it and be the ultimate Mary-Sue, because I have ''earned'' some verdammt wish fulfilment in my life... And I really need to raise my blood sugar and blood caffeine levels because that sounded crazy even to myself."
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* ShoutOut:
** Plenty of them to ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''.
--->''Maya stared after her boss and formerly-secret crush as she disappeared down the corridor. "What the hell just happened?"''
** Right like in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', it is [[spoiler:Kaworu]] who sends everyone back.
** [[spoiler:Kaworu]] is a girl? ''[[Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs It sounds familiar]]''.
** Shinji confronts his father about the fact he is piloting the robot ate his mother, right like in ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''.
** Ritsuko suggests the wrestling move Rei used against Sachiel was taken from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.
** Plenty of them to ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''.
--->''Maya stared after her boss and formerly-secret crush as she disappeared down the corridor. "What the hell just happened?"''
** Right like in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', it is [[spoiler:Kaworu]] who sends everyone back.
** [[spoiler:Kaworu]] is a girl? ''[[Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs It sounds familiar]]''.
** Shinji confronts his father about the fact he is piloting the robot ate his mother, right like in ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''.
** Ritsuko suggests the wrestling move Rei used against Sachiel was taken from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.
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** Plenty of themShoutOut: They must be added to ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''.
--->''Maya stared after her boss and formerly-secret crush as she disappeared downthe corridor. "What the hell just happened?"''
** Right like in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', it is [[spoiler:Kaworu]] who sends everyone back.
** [[spoiler:Kaworu]] is a girl? ''[[Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs It sounds familiar]]''.
** Shinji confronts his father about the fact he is piloting the robot ate his mother, right like in ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''.
** Ritsuko suggests the wrestling move Rei used against Sachiel was taken from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.proper subpage.
** Plenty of them
--->''Maya stared after her boss and formerly-secret crush as she disappeared down
** Right like in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', it is [[spoiler:Kaworu]] who sends everyone back.
** [[spoiler:Kaworu]] is a girl? ''[[Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs It sounds familiar]]''.
** Shinji confronts his father about the fact he is piloting the robot ate his mother, right like in ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''.
** Ritsuko suggests the wrestling move Rei used against Sachiel was taken from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.
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''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by Jake is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the SufficientVelocity forums in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
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Answer:All of them, obviously. Duh.]]-]
->''"Nothing like the end of the world to make you rethink your life choices," Asuka replied. "Though I honestly didn't plan on that part, at least not above and beyond experimenting with alternative coping mechanisms for my abandonment issues, 'cause pushing everyone away so I didn't have to worry about them leaving me was kinda counterproductive in hindsight." She smiled brightly. "But we get to be probably the first three people in history to make hindsight useful."''\\
''Everything about Shinji except his voice said, If you say so.''
Three months before the Third Angel reached Tokyo-3 Shinji Ikari signed up for martial arts classes, Asuka Langley Soryu walked into an Internet cafe in Berlin, accessed an anonymous remailer service and sent a long and detailed message to Kaji Ryouji telling him several things he wasn't previously aware of, and Rei Ayanami slapped Commander Ikari hard enough to knock his glasses off. Events had ceased to proceed according to the Scenario and they were about to get real weird.
After Third Impact the three Children are sent back. Shinji analyzes his chances of outmanoeuvring his father and SEELE and preventing a Third Impact, estimates they are zero, and decides he will try anyway since he has nothing left to lose (and at the very least he can be a better friend). Asuka decides that since the universe has reset itself she can try another brand of craziness since her former coping method has proved being less than ideal. And Rei plots.
Three months later Shinji arrives on Tokyo-3 and after watching Rei piloting Unit 00 and slaughtering Sachiel and finding out Asuka is already there he realizes the timeline has already gone off the rails.
As the three pilots discuss their situation, make plans and bond, they find out they are not the only time-travellers… and they like spending time together.
''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by Jake is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the SufficientVelocity forums in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
To read other Evangelion PeggySue fanfiction go to ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'', ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'' or ''Fanfic/NGEMitigation''.
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* AMechByAnyOtherName: The Evangelions, as well known as "the secret anti-kaiju weapon that will work."
* AbusiveParents: Besides the usual culprits (Gendo abandoned Shinji and ordered Rei to live in a dump and be heavily sedated, Asuka’s father threw her aside after getting married to his lover…) Naoko Akagi is worse than she was in canon due to the changes done to Rei’s background. She [[spoiler:abused her little daughter emotionally and later strangled her to death.]]
* AccidentalInnuendo: Asuka should have chosen a better way to phrase her opinion on Shinji’s aiming skills…
-->'''Misato''':''"The rookie did good, […] In fact I think he did better than your first time, Asuka."''\\
'''Asuka''':''"My first time was at the age of seven, […] Besides, it's all just point and squirt; you'd expect a boy to be capable of that by his age. […] Ugh! Please don't ever quote that out of context. Or at all, in fact."''
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Rei’s origin is pretty different from canon: [[spoiler:In this story, Rei was born two years after Gendo and Naoko stopped dating, and the elder Akagi replaced Yui’s DNA with hers.]]
* AndThisIsFor: After slapping Gendo, Rei says:
-->'''Rei'''(coldly):''"That [...] was for Shinji."''
* ApologisesALot: Shinji’s automatic impulse to apologise for anything drove Asuka mad the first around, so she tries to break his habit early on:
-->'''Asuka''':''And if you promise to try not to be a wet blanket who apologises for his very existence, I promise I'll try to use less tsun and more dere this time, because I want to be a better friend too.''
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Averted. TimeTravel? Shinji finds it perfectly believable. After all what has happened to him, why not?
-->''He didn't see any point in wondering whether or not this was real; considering he'd been at least partly responsible for shattering the very fabric of reality and/or turning the entire human race -less himself, a two hundred-foot naked copy of his sister(?) and Asuka- into LCL to experience some rather nebulous transhumanist paradise, skepticism about mere mental time travel seemed rather silly.''
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Delivered by Rei to Gendo. It was strong enough to send Gendo sprawling and knock his glasses off his face.
* AttentionWhore: Asuka still likes when people pay attention to her:
-->'''Asuka''':''"What can I say? I'm a born show-off."''
* {{Badass}}: Rei trashed Sachiel brutally in her first deployment.
* BattleCouple: Shinji, Asuka and Rei at any combination.
* BeneathTheMask: Asuka was a lonely, frightened, vulnerable girl that fabricated a mask of harshness and arrogance to push everyone away so that no one hurt her. After the canon events she has realized it was very counterproductive, so she has dropped it. She is still bold and daring but she no longer tries to look mean.
* BiTheWay: Asuka and Rei like Shinji and each other.
* BigBrotherMentor: Ritsuko becomes this to Rei after discovering [[spoiler:Rei is a clone of her mother.]]
* BrainBleach: [[spoiler:In a future chapter the cast discovers Kaworu has also returned… gender-swapped.]] After the initial shock, Asuka casually states:
-->'''Asuka''':''"Although it was sweet of you to think of a gift like that for the two of us." *long, awkward silence* "What? He always enjoys the show when Rei and I-"''\\
'''Gendo''' ''and'' '''Ritsuko''':''"Too much information!"''\\
''*another long, awkward silence*''\\
'''Ritsuko''':''"I think that's the first thing we've agreed on since I found out you did my mom."''
* BrattyHalfPint: Sakura Suzuhara is tiny, cranky and demanding.
* BreakTheCutie: Meek, soft-spoken Shinji had been so thoroughly broken by the Angel War that after surviving the world ending he [[spoiler:decided killing himself.]] He got sent to the past instead, and although he is trying to change things for better he is very fatalistic about his chances.
* BreakTheHaughty: Brash, bold, prideful Asuka got her heart broken, her pride shattered, her mind raped and her body chopped into pieces and devoured before the beginning of the history. She became suicidal before AND after dying and being reborn, but now the universe has got a makeover she has decided turning a new leaf, too.
* BreakThemByTalking: Rei broke Gendo by telling him all of his plotting, scheming and manipulating would amount to nothing, and he would fail.
-->'''Shinji''':''"How much did you actually tell my father, anyway?"''\\
'''Rei''':''"Few details. Only that everything he had worked towards and everything he had put myself and his only son through had been for nothing, and that he would die alone and unmourned, rejected by the only person he had ever truly loved."''
* BrokenBird: Asuka and Rei. Their reaction to a decade of abuse and trauma culminating with their deaths is becoming badass.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Subverted. Shinji and Asuka thought that [[spoiler:Rei was his sister due to be a Yui clon. However in this timeline she is genetically Ritsuko’s little sister.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Rei of all people calls Gendo out on having abused Shinji and her emotionally before informing him all was for nothing.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Asuka defines herself as very clingy and possessive. So, how can she practice polyamory? Easy. She is clingy and possessive to both Shinji and Rei.
* CooldownHug: How do Shinji and Asuka react when Rei is feeling depressed after opening up? They hug her, of course. The gesture cheers the three of them up.
* CurbStompBattle: Rei against Sachiel. She kicked its groin, shattered one of its kneecaps, slammed its face against a building, suplexed it and finally disembowelled it.
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[[folder:D-F]]
* DeadpanSnarker: After having gone through the Angel War and the end of the world, the three Children have gotten very, very sardonic.
** After having a short talk with Gendo:
--->'''Asuka''':''"Well, that was a touching family reunion,"''\\
'''Shinji''':''"Could've been worse. He could've forced me into the Eva to go fight the Angel with absolutely no training whatsoever because the only other pilot got put in hospital in a botched synch-test or something,"''
** Rei describes her confrontation with Gendo:
--->'''Shinji''':''"Figures. How much did you actually tell my father, anyway?"''\\
'''Rei''':''"Few details. Only that everything he had worked towards and everything he had put myself and his only son through had been for nothing, and that he would die alone and unmourned, rejected by the only person he had ever truly loved. [...] It was... cathartic,"''
** After seeing Rei's apartment for first time:
--->'''Asuka''':''"We spend hundreds of millions of dollars a week keeping the Evas running and they couldn't spring for the rent in a nicer part of Tokyo-3 than this?"''\\
'''Shinji''':''"That's the Japanese housing market for you,"''
* DeathSeeker: Rei was one in her former life, seeking oblivion to escape from her pain. Now she is done with it and intends to live and try new things.
* DoubleEntendre: When Misato is teaching Shinji about gun safety:
-->'''Misato''':''"Sure. Which leads us right on to the next lesson: How to clean and maintain your weapon."''\\
'''Shinji''':''"That sentence would sound really wrong out of context."''\\
'''Misato''' (snorting):''"If you need help cleaning and maintaining ''that'' you're on your own."''
* DrivenToSuicide: Before being sent back, after a nasty fight and a talk Shinji and Asuka walked into the sea together.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Misato drove Shinji to the Geofront, and Shinji was proud with himself for only needing to grab the safety handle twice for the whole ride, despite her crazy driving antics.
* FacePalm: Asuka facepalms when she finds out that Shinji did not know that pilots get paid.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Shinji thinks of killing his father… before coming up with something better: give him exactly what he wants and reunite him with Yui… and then seeing his mother giving his father a piece of her mind.
* FieryRedhead: Time-travel has changed many things for Asuka, but she keeps being brave, bold, hot-tempered and spirited.
* FirstTimeFeeling: When Rei wakes up in the past, the effects of her feeling-numbing medication have worn off, and she is trying to cope with the rush of different emotions.
-->''And then she felt a sudden stab of fear at the sheer intensity of the emotion, which was like nothing she'd ever felt before. She glanced over at the untidy stack of pill bottles on the nightstand. They will keep you from becoming distracted, Commander Ikari's voice said in her memory. Apparently whoever was responsible for sending her back in time had decided she might benefit from getting a little distracted, because this was ten times worse -or better?- than when she finally said 'no' to Gendo Ikari for once after skipping her meds for a week.''
* FlatWhat:
-->'''Asuka''':''"Trying to stab you when we ran into each other by Misato's memorial was spur of the moment. I've had three months to plan this meet-up. Besides, [...] you masturbating over my comatose body was far from the worst thing to happen to me that week. At least it proved you were too dumb to know when you're being hit on instead of just gay."''\\
'''Shinji''':''"What,"''
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[[folder:G-I]]
* GenderFlipped: [[spoiler:Kaworu thought he could avoid fulfilling his role prophesied in the Scrolls if he was reborn as a girl.]]
* GenreSavvy: The people hiding together with Shinji in the shelter know how the “HumongousMecha versus {{Robeast}}/{{Kaiju}}” thing uses to work:
-->''"The military must've hit the Angel with something big," a man in NERV uniform replied. "Either an N2 mine or a fuel-air explosive."''\\
''"Never works in the movies," a third voice muttered.''\\
''There was another, longer vibration. "And that," the NERV employee continued with a proud grin, "is the secret anti-kaiju weapon that will work!"''
* GiantEqualsInvincible: During Sachiel’s attack a Nerv employee says a HumongousMecha is the only thing works against a giant monster.
* TheGlomp: Asuka and Hikari somehow managed to glomp each other –flying tackle included- when they met again.
* GrandTheftPrototype: Asuka mentions the trope for its former name when she calls Bardiel “the Angel of Gundamjacking”.
* GreenEyedMonster: When Asuka suspects Rei can be in love with Shinji she starts to feel jealous… and then she stops herself, remembering her jealousy was used to turn her into a puppet and she is done with that.
-->''Asuka had only ever seen that smile once, directed at Shinji after Ritsuko -or Misato- finally got him back out of Unit-01. Now she wasn't continually seeing red and green both at once, she had to admit it was quite a nice smile. Rather cute, in fact.''\\
''Then Asuka had to fight down a sudden stab of fear, anger and jealousy. Was it possible that Rei's feelings for Shinji were...??''\\
''Arrrrgh. No, bad brain. No hedgehog impressions; that was where it all went wrong the first time round. Rei? Ayanami had deserved better than that, much less Rei Akagi.''
* GrewASpine:
** After returning Shinji considers running and hiding for an instant… before resolving he would not run away this time and he would not be scared anymore.
** After having been his dutiful servant in the original timeline Rei slapped Gendo and called him out on everything.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Shinji ''and'' Rei are infatuated with Asuka.
* HintDropping: When Asuka meets Shinji she mentions on passing she had been constantly hitting on him… and getting exasperated because she could not tell whether he was dense or not interested:
-->'''Asuka''':''"You masturbating over my comatose body was far from the worst thing to happen to me that week. At least it proved you were too dumb to know when you're being hit on instead of just gay."''
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: [[spoiler:Kaworu]] does not get why the other time-travellers are puzzled about his [[spoiler:sex change.]]
* HumongousMecha: The Evas, bio-mechanical giant robots.
* HurtingHero: When Shinji was four he saw her mother’s body dissolving. His father abandoned him shortly after. When Asuka was four, her mother went crazy, stopped acknowledging her and killed herself. Her father –who cheated on his wife without caring about Asuka hearing him and his lover- remarried and abandoned her shortly after. Rei was ordered living in a dump and taking a cocktail of feeling-numbing drugs. The three of them were forced to fight giant {{Eldritch Abomination}}s despite of being kids. And then the world ended and they died. And now they have been reborn in the past and have to go through it once more.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Misato demands an explanation, Asuka suggests her picking a beer first:
-->''Asuka smiled sadly. "Knew you'd figure it out sooner or later. You might wanna grab a beer for this."''
** As she is listening to their story, Misato decides a beer is not enough:
--->''Misato tossed back the whiskey she'd poured herself after realising beer just wasn't going to cut it tonight.''
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Asuka and Rei are mostly heterosexual and they like the same boy but they fall in love with each other.
* IgnoredLoveConfession: As Ritsuko is expressing her frustration about her abysmal love life…
-->''"I am going to murder him! Mother of God, I've dated some really lousy men over the years but this is a goddam record. I give up. I really do. You wanna be my torrid lesbian rebound fling?"''\\
''"Yes!" Maya squeaked, before she could stop herself, then clapped both hands over her mouth in horror.''\\
''This had the effect of shocking Ritsuko out of her steadily increasing hysteria. "Uh... We never had that conversation, okay? And on a totally unrelated note, meet me after your shift finishes and we'll go for a completely platonic drink somewhere, because I could really use some company." She stood up. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go and have a talk with Rei."''
* IllGirl: Sakura wears a cast.
* ItsAllMyFault: As Asuka notes, Shinji blames himself for all what happened in canon, including messes were not his doing or he had no control about.
-->'''Asuka''':''Yes, I remember everything. So do Rei and Shinji, who's probably hiding because he blames himself for what happened to you; in fact, come to think of it he blames himself for pretty much all of it.''
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[[folder:J-L]]
* JustFriends: Asuka insists that Rei is her friend and just a friend. She definitely has not a crush on Rei, not matter how cute she is.
* KidWithTheRemoteControl: The first time around neither Shinji nor Asuka really knew why they were chosen as Evangelion pilots. Now they and Rei know it is because their “giant robot moms”.
* KnightInSourArmor: Shinji, Asuka and Rei are more determined than ever to save the world. They are also more sarcastic than ever due to be fully aware of having been puppets used to fight massive alien monsters and bring about the end of the world.
* LatexSpaceSuit: The pilots’ plug-suits. Shinji really, really does not like them:
-->''His good mood lasted about ten minutes. "Is it absolutely necessary to pilot an Evangelion wearing skin-tight neoprene?" Shinji grumbled. He'd always hated plugsuits, but then he'd always hated damn near everything about this job so he'd never bothered to make an issue of it. But now he knew what was coming, he really thought he ought to take a stand.''\\
''Nobody, he reasoned, should have to confront Armageddon in a gimp suit.''
* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Comically and ironically, it is Asuka who does this to Kaji about Misato:
-->'''Asuka''':''"You think this is some harebrained roleplay thing? Fucksake, Kaji, I walked into your cabin on the boat carrying Unit-02 to Japan wearing nothing but a smile and you still turned me down. You're not over Misato yet, I get it. She's not over you yet either if that makes you feel better."''
* LoveTriangle: Subverted. Shinji spends a while agonising over having to choose between Asuka and Rei… only to be informed he does not have to choose because both girls like each other and him.
* LovelyAngels: Asuka and Rei.
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[[folder:M-O]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Gendo used their employees’ emotions to manipulate them. Asuka has realized he set her up to hate Rei because it made her easier to control and she is done playing by his rules, so she has befriended Rei.
* MeaningfulRename: After returning to the past Rei decides she is no longer Rei Ayanami, Yui Ikari’s clon had no dreams or hopes and wished for nothing else than the peace of oblivion. She is now Rei Akagi, Ritsuko’s little sister what wants to find out what she wants to do when she grows up.
-->'''Rei''':''"Rei Ayanami is dead, I am not her. I am Rei Akagi, Ritsuko's little sister. I am not sure what I want to do when I grow up, but I would like to find out what it is like to kiss a boy. I think I would like to find out what it is like to kiss a girl, as well; Ritsuko said it was similar in most ways, but different in others."''
* MentalTimeTravel: All time-travellers wake up in their younger bodies.
* MindScrew: Shinji defines Instrumentality as “whatever the hell had happened.”
* ObliviousToHints: After Instrumentality Asuka has realized Shinji did not react to her hints because he was oblivious and clueless, not because he was not interested.
* OfficialCouple: Shinji, Asuka AND Rei.
* OffingTheOffspring: Naoko Akagi murdered Rei’s first clon [[spoiler:who in this story was her biological daughter and she was aware of it.]]
* OneTrueThreesome: Shinji, Asuka and Rei, as well known as the “Israfel Special”.
* OnlySaneMan: After returning to the past Asuka is the most stable pilot on the team. A fact she finds scary.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: As usual in PeggySue stories, this plays a part. Noticing Asuka’s increasingly odd behaviour, Misato demands knowing what is happening. Similarly, when they accidentally meet Touji and he gets shocked at seeing Asuka, they realize they are not the only time-travellers.
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[[folder:P-R]]
* ParentalFavoritism: Gendo loved Rei more than Shinji... however, Gendo being Gendo, it only means he treats her in a slightly less crappy fashion.
* PeggySue
* PrecisionFStrike: After waking up in her bed and finding out she had returned to the past, Rei swore for first time in her life:
-->'''Rei''':''"Oh, shit."''
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Subverted. Asuka felt like this after her mother's death, but now the universe has reset itself and she has another chance she decides that after all...
** GodIsGood:
--->''"So," she said slowly. "Our father, who art in heaven, yada yada yada. I know, we haven't spoken in a long time; I kinda stopped believing in you for a while, truth be told. I mean, no God was better than a God that let that happen to Mama. I was pretty mad at you for that at the time, but now that I'm in possession of all the facts... Well, actually I'm still mad at you. Second Impact, the Angels, whatever the hell happened to the planet after Wondergirl decided to hand Shinji phenomenal cosmic power the same day he finally got around to having that psychotic break he'd been procrastinating about since the clusterfuck with Toji and the Angel of Gundamjacking: I'm pretty sure at least half of that was your fault. Jeez, I appreciate a hands-off management style as much as anyone, but there's limits..."''\\
''She sighed. "But apparently you hit the reset button, so I have a shot at making things less of a cataclysmic shitshow this time around. Low bar to clear, I know, but hey. So... Thanks for that, I guess. We have a long way to go before we rebuild our relationship still, but it's a big step in the right direction. Just... If I have some great divinely-mandated destiny and you're not just doing this out of morbid curiosity, please give me the occasional nudge in the direction of not fucking it all up? Surely you owe me that much. Oh, and please don't get all judgemental if I trade in some purity points to make Shinji less emo, that kid needs all the help he can get." She blew out a long breath. "Amen, I guess."''
* RedHeadedHero: Asuka is the red-haired heroine of this story.
* RedIsHeroic: Asuka wears red and her HumongousMecha is red, too.
* TheReveal: When Asuka announced Rei was moving with them, Misato demanded knowing what was going on. The three Children figured out that she would find out sooner or later so that they told her everything.
* ReverseMole: First thing Asuka did after returning was passing information on Kaji.
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[[folder:S-U]]
* SayingTooMuch: After getting an impressive score in his first synch test Misato asks Shinji if he is sure he has never done this before. Of course he denies it, but later he wonders what she would have done if he said “yes”… not knowing Ritsuko was listening.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Ritsuko has figured out what Shinji –and maybe Asuka and Rei- are time-travellers but she has kept it to herself.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Subverted. After hearing how his father treated Rei Shinji wants to kill him… and then he thinks of a better idea: giving him exactly what he wants –reunite with Yui- and then watching while his mother gives Gendo a piece of her mind.
* ShoutOut:
** Plenty of them to ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''.
--->''Maya stared after her boss and formerly-secret crush as she disappeared down the corridor. "What the hell just happened?"''
** Right like in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', it is [[spoiler:Kaworu]] who sends everyone back.
** [[spoiler:Kaworu]] is a girl? ''[[Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs It sounds familiar]]''.
** Shinji confronts his father about the fact he is piloting the robot ate his mother, right like in ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''.
** Ritsuko suggests the wrestling move Rei used against Sachiel was taken from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The three Children hope being this, since neither Gendo nor SEELE could foresee their pawns would know about their scenario from the beginning, but they are not too confident on their abilities to pull it off.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Asuka does not find Rei cute. No, of course not. That would be silly.
-->''A little bit, but probably not by grabbing random classmates to conduct "experiments" with. If nothing else, Asuka won't let her do that sort of thing; she's too protective of her friend, definitely a friend, she does not have a crush on Rei Akagi no matter how cute she is now...''
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: When Shinji finds out that Asuka remembers everything, including his actions when she was comatose Shinji thinks he has already screwed it up and decides to put himself off his misery. Horrified, Asuka talks him out of it.
* ThatDidntHappen: After Gendo and Naoko broke off, she insisted that they behaved as if their relationship never happened.
* TogetherInDeath: Before returning to the past Shinji and Asuka decided to commit suicide together and walked into the ocean holding hands.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In the original timeline Rei was too injured to fight Sachiel. In the current timeline she rips it apart.
** Before leaving his old home Shinji takes Judo classes.
** Asuka is more emotionally focused this time around… which means she is in fact more dangerous.
* TriangRelations: Shinji, Asuka and Rei have a three-ways relationship. Each member of the triangle loves the remainder two.
* TrueCompanions: After surviving the Angel War, dying before being fifteen, outliving the end of the world and going back to the past Shinji, Asuka and Rei are bonding and becoming this.
* UnfamiliarCeiling: Parodied. When Shinji wakes up in his bed in his Uncle’s house he thinks that ceiling is not unfamiliar at all.
-->''Shinji stared up at the ceiling. It was as far from unfamiliar as a ceiling could possibly be, which would have been vaguely reassuring if it hadn't been the ceiling he had last seen shortly before getting That Letter and starting down the slow but inexorable path to... Well, whatever the hell had happened.''
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[[folder:V-Z]]
* WaveMotionGun: Shinji describes Ramiel’s particle beam with these words.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted. Shinji sought his father's acknowledgement and approval. After going through the Angel War and end of the world, returning to the past and finding out about what kind of life Rei has led he is sick of it:
-->'''Shinji''':''"Well, he can keep his fucking approval,"''
** Shinji really thought a SoProudOfYou moment was the only thing he was getting out of piloting Eva:
--->''"We get paid?"''\\
''Asuka facepalmed externally for good measure. "Yes, Shinji, we get paid. Quite well, in fact. Did you think the only thing you were getting out of this gig was empty promises of basic parental affection?"''\\
''"Actually... yeah."''\\
''Asuka pondered this information for a long moment. "Well, that explains a lot," she concluded. "C'mon, Shinji, let's go spend your dad's money!"''
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: After considering his mother got absorbed into Unit 01 on purpose to become an eternal reminder of humankind’s existence and she actually ''wanted'' him to watch how she seeming died, Shinji wonders what his father saw in her. Asuka can not figure it out either.
-->'''Shinji''':''"It's just that I'd repressed the memory as thoroughly as possible because I saw my mother die horribly when she tried to synch with it and succeeded a bit too well. Or so everyone thought; if I didn't hallucinate ''everything'' between seeing you go down to the Mass-Production Evas and waking up on the beach, she actually did it on purpose so that Unit-01 could become an eternal monument to mankind's existence... or something. I don't know all the details and I'm not sure I want to, especially why she found it necessary to make me watch."''\\
'''Asuka''':''"Oh,"''\\
'''Shinji''':''"So, yeah, [...] That's the woman my father is planning to cause total human extinction to reunite with. No accounting for taste, I suppose."''\\
'''Asuka''':''"Guess not,"''
* WhenSheSmiles: Shinji and Asuka think Rei has a very cute smile.
-->''Shinji's head shot upwards at the familiar voice. Perched casually on Unit-00's shoulder, Rei met his gaze and smiled that little Mona Lisa smile that had made him harbour thoughts he was somewhat embarrassed about.''
-->''Asuka had only ever seen that smile once, directed at Shinji after Ritsuko -or Misato- finally got him back out of Unit-01. Now she wasn't continually seeing red and green both at once, she had to admit it was quite a nice smile. Rather cute, in fact.''
* WorldOfSnark: Nearly every sentence comes out of the mouths of Shinji, Asuka and Rei drips with sarcasm.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Sakura pokes fun at her brother without fear of retaliation because he would not hit a girl.
* YouCheatingHeart: Subverted. Ritsuko accuses Gendo of cheating on her with her mother. He claims he and Naoko broke up a good while before he and Ritsuko started dating, and Naoko was aware of it.
* YouDidntSeeThat: When Maya accidentally slips that she DOES want being Ritsuko's torrid lesbian rebound fling, Ritsuko mutters: ''"Uh... We never had that conversation, okay?"''
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->''"How does someone as naturaly clingy and possessive as me successfully practice polyamory, you mean?" Asuka smirked. "Easy. I'm clingy and possessive of both of them."''
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[-[[caption-width-right:349:Question: Which of them is getting a ''[[Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust “Israfel Special”]]''?\\
Answer:All of them, obviously. Duh.]]-]
->''"Nothing like the end of the world to make you rethink your life choices," Asuka replied. "Though I honestly didn't plan on that part, at least not above and beyond experimenting with alternative coping mechanisms for my abandonment issues, 'cause pushing everyone away so I didn't have to worry about them leaving me was kinda counterproductive in hindsight." She smiled brightly. "But we get to be probably the first three people in history to make hindsight useful."''\\
''Everything about Shinji except his voice said, If you say so.''
Three months before the Third Angel reached Tokyo-3 Shinji Ikari signed up for martial arts classes, Asuka Langley Soryu walked into an Internet cafe in Berlin, accessed an anonymous remailer service and sent a long and detailed message to Kaji Ryouji telling him several things he wasn't previously aware of, and Rei Ayanami slapped Commander Ikari hard enough to knock his glasses off. Events had ceased to proceed according to the Scenario and they were about to get real weird.
After Third Impact the three Children are sent back. Shinji analyzes his chances of outmanoeuvring his father and SEELE and preventing a Third Impact, estimates they are zero, and decides he will try anyway since he has nothing left to lose (and at the very least he can be a better friend). Asuka decides that since the universe has reset itself she can try another brand of craziness since her former coping method has proved being less than ideal. And Rei plots.
Three months later Shinji arrives on Tokyo-3 and after watching Rei piloting Unit 00 and slaughtering Sachiel and finding out Asuka is already there he realizes the timeline has already gone off the rails.
As the three pilots discuss their situation, make plans and bond, they find out they are not the only time-travellers… and they like spending time together.
''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by Jake is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' PeggySue fanfic inspired by ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'' and full of comedy, drama, romance, snark and the “Israfel Special”. It can be found in the SufficientVelocity forums in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.17721/ this thread]]. A rough first draft can be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].
To read other Evangelion PeggySue fanfiction go to ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'', ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'' or ''Fanfic/NGEMitigation''.
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!!Tropes:
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[[folder:A-C]]
* AMechByAnyOtherName: The Evangelions, as well known as "the secret anti-kaiju weapon that will work."
* AbusiveParents: Besides the usual culprits (Gendo abandoned Shinji and ordered Rei to live in a dump and be heavily sedated, Asuka’s father threw her aside after getting married to his lover…) Naoko Akagi is worse than she was in canon due to the changes done to Rei’s background. She [[spoiler:abused her little daughter emotionally and later strangled her to death.]]
* AccidentalInnuendo: Asuka should have chosen a better way to phrase her opinion on Shinji’s aiming skills…
-->'''Misato''':''"The rookie did good, […] In fact I think he did better than your first time, Asuka."''\\
'''Asuka''':''"My first time was at the age of seven, […] Besides, it's all just point and squirt; you'd expect a boy to be capable of that by his age. […] Ugh! Please don't ever quote that out of context. Or at all, in fact."''
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Rei’s origin is pretty different from canon: [[spoiler:In this story, Rei was born two years after Gendo and Naoko stopped dating, and the elder Akagi replaced Yui’s DNA with hers.]]
* AndThisIsFor: After slapping Gendo, Rei says:
-->'''Rei'''(coldly):''"That [...] was for Shinji."''
* ApologisesALot: Shinji’s automatic impulse to apologise for anything drove Asuka mad the first around, so she tries to break his habit early on:
-->'''Asuka''':''And if you promise to try not to be a wet blanket who apologises for his very existence, I promise I'll try to use less tsun and more dere this time, because I want to be a better friend too.''
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Averted. TimeTravel? Shinji finds it perfectly believable. After all what has happened to him, why not?
-->''He didn't see any point in wondering whether or not this was real; considering he'd been at least partly responsible for shattering the very fabric of reality and/or turning the entire human race -less himself, a two hundred-foot naked copy of his sister(?) and Asuka- into LCL to experience some rather nebulous transhumanist paradise, skepticism about mere mental time travel seemed rather silly.''
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Delivered by Rei to Gendo. It was strong enough to send Gendo sprawling and knock his glasses off his face.
* AttentionWhore: Asuka still likes when people pay attention to her:
-->'''Asuka''':''"What can I say? I'm a born show-off."''
* {{Badass}}: Rei trashed Sachiel brutally in her first deployment.
* BattleCouple: Shinji, Asuka and Rei at any combination.
* BeneathTheMask: Asuka was a lonely, frightened, vulnerable girl that fabricated a mask of harshness and arrogance to push everyone away so that no one hurt her. After the canon events she has realized it was very counterproductive, so she has dropped it. She is still bold and daring but she no longer tries to look mean.
* BiTheWay: Asuka and Rei like Shinji and each other.
* BigBrotherMentor: Ritsuko becomes this to Rei after discovering [[spoiler:Rei is a clone of her mother.]]
* BrainBleach: [[spoiler:In a future chapter the cast discovers Kaworu has also returned… gender-swapped.]] After the initial shock, Asuka casually states:
-->'''Asuka''':''"Although it was sweet of you to think of a gift like that for the two of us." *long, awkward silence* "What? He always enjoys the show when Rei and I-"''\\
'''Gendo''' ''and'' '''Ritsuko''':''"Too much information!"''\\
''*another long, awkward silence*''\\
'''Ritsuko''':''"I think that's the first thing we've agreed on since I found out you did my mom."''
* BrattyHalfPint: Sakura Suzuhara is tiny, cranky and demanding.
* BreakTheCutie: Meek, soft-spoken Shinji had been so thoroughly broken by the Angel War that after surviving the world ending he [[spoiler:decided killing himself.]] He got sent to the past instead, and although he is trying to change things for better he is very fatalistic about his chances.
* BreakTheHaughty: Brash, bold, prideful Asuka got her heart broken, her pride shattered, her mind raped and her body chopped into pieces and devoured before the beginning of the history. She became suicidal before AND after dying and being reborn, but now the universe has got a makeover she has decided turning a new leaf, too.
* BreakThemByTalking: Rei broke Gendo by telling him all of his plotting, scheming and manipulating would amount to nothing, and he would fail.
-->'''Shinji''':''"How much did you actually tell my father, anyway?"''\\
'''Rei''':''"Few details. Only that everything he had worked towards and everything he had put myself and his only son through had been for nothing, and that he would die alone and unmourned, rejected by the only person he had ever truly loved."''
* BrokenBird: Asuka and Rei. Their reaction to a decade of abuse and trauma culminating with their deaths is becoming badass.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Subverted. Shinji and Asuka thought that [[spoiler:Rei was his sister due to be a Yui clon. However in this timeline she is genetically Ritsuko’s little sister.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Rei of all people calls Gendo out on having abused Shinji and her emotionally before informing him all was for nothing.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Asuka defines herself as very clingy and possessive. So, how can she practice polyamory? Easy. She is clingy and possessive to both Shinji and Rei.
* CooldownHug: How do Shinji and Asuka react when Rei is feeling depressed after opening up? They hug her, of course. The gesture cheers the three of them up.
* CurbStompBattle: Rei against Sachiel. She kicked its groin, shattered one of its kneecaps, slammed its face against a building, suplexed it and finally disembowelled it.
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[[folder:D-F]]
* DeadpanSnarker: After having gone through the Angel War and the end of the world, the three Children have gotten very, very sardonic.
** After having a short talk with Gendo:
--->'''Asuka''':''"Well, that was a touching family reunion,"''\\
'''Shinji''':''"Could've been worse. He could've forced me into the Eva to go fight the Angel with absolutely no training whatsoever because the only other pilot got put in hospital in a botched synch-test or something,"''
** Rei describes her confrontation with Gendo:
--->'''Shinji''':''"Figures. How much did you actually tell my father, anyway?"''\\
'''Rei''':''"Few details. Only that everything he had worked towards and everything he had put myself and his only son through had been for nothing, and that he would die alone and unmourned, rejected by the only person he had ever truly loved. [...] It was... cathartic,"''
** After seeing Rei's apartment for first time:
--->'''Asuka''':''"We spend hundreds of millions of dollars a week keeping the Evas running and they couldn't spring for the rent in a nicer part of Tokyo-3 than this?"''\\
'''Shinji''':''"That's the Japanese housing market for you,"''
* DeathSeeker: Rei was one in her former life, seeking oblivion to escape from her pain. Now she is done with it and intends to live and try new things.
* DoubleEntendre: When Misato is teaching Shinji about gun safety:
-->'''Misato''':''"Sure. Which leads us right on to the next lesson: How to clean and maintain your weapon."''\\
'''Shinji''':''"That sentence would sound really wrong out of context."''\\
'''Misato''' (snorting):''"If you need help cleaning and maintaining ''that'' you're on your own."''
* DrivenToSuicide: Before being sent back, after a nasty fight and a talk Shinji and Asuka walked into the sea together.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Misato drove Shinji to the Geofront, and Shinji was proud with himself for only needing to grab the safety handle twice for the whole ride, despite her crazy driving antics.
* FacePalm: Asuka facepalms when she finds out that Shinji did not know that pilots get paid.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Shinji thinks of killing his father… before coming up with something better: give him exactly what he wants and reunite him with Yui… and then seeing his mother giving his father a piece of her mind.
* FieryRedhead: Time-travel has changed many things for Asuka, but she keeps being brave, bold, hot-tempered and spirited.
* FirstTimeFeeling: When Rei wakes up in the past, the effects of her feeling-numbing medication have worn off, and she is trying to cope with the rush of different emotions.
-->''And then she felt a sudden stab of fear at the sheer intensity of the emotion, which was like nothing she'd ever felt before. She glanced over at the untidy stack of pill bottles on the nightstand. They will keep you from becoming distracted, Commander Ikari's voice said in her memory. Apparently whoever was responsible for sending her back in time had decided she might benefit from getting a little distracted, because this was ten times worse -or better?- than when she finally said 'no' to Gendo Ikari for once after skipping her meds for a week.''
* FlatWhat:
-->'''Asuka''':''"Trying to stab you when we ran into each other by Misato's memorial was spur of the moment. I've had three months to plan this meet-up. Besides, [...] you masturbating over my comatose body was far from the worst thing to happen to me that week. At least it proved you were too dumb to know when you're being hit on instead of just gay."''\\
'''Shinji''':''"What,"''
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[[folder:G-I]]
* GenderFlipped: [[spoiler:Kaworu thought he could avoid fulfilling his role prophesied in the Scrolls if he was reborn as a girl.]]
* GenreSavvy: The people hiding together with Shinji in the shelter know how the “HumongousMecha versus {{Robeast}}/{{Kaiju}}” thing uses to work:
-->''"The military must've hit the Angel with something big," a man in NERV uniform replied. "Either an N2 mine or a fuel-air explosive."''\\
''"Never works in the movies," a third voice muttered.''\\
''There was another, longer vibration. "And that," the NERV employee continued with a proud grin, "is the secret anti-kaiju weapon that will work!"''
* GiantEqualsInvincible: During Sachiel’s attack a Nerv employee says a HumongousMecha is the only thing works against a giant monster.
* TheGlomp: Asuka and Hikari somehow managed to glomp each other –flying tackle included- when they met again.
* GrandTheftPrototype: Asuka mentions the trope for its former name when she calls Bardiel “the Angel of Gundamjacking”.
* GreenEyedMonster: When Asuka suspects Rei can be in love with Shinji she starts to feel jealous… and then she stops herself, remembering her jealousy was used to turn her into a puppet and she is done with that.
-->''Asuka had only ever seen that smile once, directed at Shinji after Ritsuko -or Misato- finally got him back out of Unit-01. Now she wasn't continually seeing red and green both at once, she had to admit it was quite a nice smile. Rather cute, in fact.''\\
''Then Asuka had to fight down a sudden stab of fear, anger and jealousy. Was it possible that Rei's feelings for Shinji were...??''\\
''Arrrrgh. No, bad brain. No hedgehog impressions; that was where it all went wrong the first time round. Rei? Ayanami had deserved better than that, much less Rei Akagi.''
* GrewASpine:
** After returning Shinji considers running and hiding for an instant… before resolving he would not run away this time and he would not be scared anymore.
** After having been his dutiful servant in the original timeline Rei slapped Gendo and called him out on everything.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Shinji ''and'' Rei are infatuated with Asuka.
* HintDropping: When Asuka meets Shinji she mentions on passing she had been constantly hitting on him… and getting exasperated because she could not tell whether he was dense or not interested:
-->'''Asuka''':''"You masturbating over my comatose body was far from the worst thing to happen to me that week. At least it proved you were too dumb to know when you're being hit on instead of just gay."''
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: [[spoiler:Kaworu]] does not get why the other time-travellers are puzzled about his [[spoiler:sex change.]]
* HumongousMecha: The Evas, bio-mechanical giant robots.
* HurtingHero: When Shinji was four he saw her mother’s body dissolving. His father abandoned him shortly after. When Asuka was four, her mother went crazy, stopped acknowledging her and killed herself. Her father –who cheated on his wife without caring about Asuka hearing him and his lover- remarried and abandoned her shortly after. Rei was ordered living in a dump and taking a cocktail of feeling-numbing drugs. The three of them were forced to fight giant {{Eldritch Abomination}}s despite of being kids. And then the world ended and they died. And now they have been reborn in the past and have to go through it once more.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Misato demands an explanation, Asuka suggests her picking a beer first:
-->''Asuka smiled sadly. "Knew you'd figure it out sooner or later. You might wanna grab a beer for this."''
** As she is listening to their story, Misato decides a beer is not enough:
--->''Misato tossed back the whiskey she'd poured herself after realising beer just wasn't going to cut it tonight.''
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Asuka and Rei are mostly heterosexual and they like the same boy but they fall in love with each other.
* IgnoredLoveConfession: As Ritsuko is expressing her frustration about her abysmal love life…
-->''"I am going to murder him! Mother of God, I've dated some really lousy men over the years but this is a goddam record. I give up. I really do. You wanna be my torrid lesbian rebound fling?"''\\
''"Yes!" Maya squeaked, before she could stop herself, then clapped both hands over her mouth in horror.''\\
''This had the effect of shocking Ritsuko out of her steadily increasing hysteria. "Uh... We never had that conversation, okay? And on a totally unrelated note, meet me after your shift finishes and we'll go for a completely platonic drink somewhere, because I could really use some company." She stood up. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go and have a talk with Rei."''
* IllGirl: Sakura wears a cast.
* ItsAllMyFault: As Asuka notes, Shinji blames himself for all what happened in canon, including messes were not his doing or he had no control about.
-->'''Asuka''':''Yes, I remember everything. So do Rei and Shinji, who's probably hiding because he blames himself for what happened to you; in fact, come to think of it he blames himself for pretty much all of it.''
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[[folder:J-L]]
* JustFriends: Asuka insists that Rei is her friend and just a friend. She definitely has not a crush on Rei, not matter how cute she is.
* KidWithTheRemoteControl: The first time around neither Shinji nor Asuka really knew why they were chosen as Evangelion pilots. Now they and Rei know it is because their “giant robot moms”.
* KnightInSourArmor: Shinji, Asuka and Rei are more determined than ever to save the world. They are also more sarcastic than ever due to be fully aware of having been puppets used to fight massive alien monsters and bring about the end of the world.
* LatexSpaceSuit: The pilots’ plug-suits. Shinji really, really does not like them:
-->''His good mood lasted about ten minutes. "Is it absolutely necessary to pilot an Evangelion wearing skin-tight neoprene?" Shinji grumbled. He'd always hated plugsuits, but then he'd always hated damn near everything about this job so he'd never bothered to make an issue of it. But now he knew what was coming, he really thought he ought to take a stand.''\\
''Nobody, he reasoned, should have to confront Armageddon in a gimp suit.''
* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Comically and ironically, it is Asuka who does this to Kaji about Misato:
-->'''Asuka''':''"You think this is some harebrained roleplay thing? Fucksake, Kaji, I walked into your cabin on the boat carrying Unit-02 to Japan wearing nothing but a smile and you still turned me down. You're not over Misato yet, I get it. She's not over you yet either if that makes you feel better."''
* LoveTriangle: Subverted. Shinji spends a while agonising over having to choose between Asuka and Rei… only to be informed he does not have to choose because both girls like each other and him.
* LovelyAngels: Asuka and Rei.
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[[folder:M-O]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Gendo used their employees’ emotions to manipulate them. Asuka has realized he set her up to hate Rei because it made her easier to control and she is done playing by his rules, so she has befriended Rei.
* MeaningfulRename: After returning to the past Rei decides she is no longer Rei Ayanami, Yui Ikari’s clon had no dreams or hopes and wished for nothing else than the peace of oblivion. She is now Rei Akagi, Ritsuko’s little sister what wants to find out what she wants to do when she grows up.
-->'''Rei''':''"Rei Ayanami is dead, I am not her. I am Rei Akagi, Ritsuko's little sister. I am not sure what I want to do when I grow up, but I would like to find out what it is like to kiss a boy. I think I would like to find out what it is like to kiss a girl, as well; Ritsuko said it was similar in most ways, but different in others."''
* MentalTimeTravel: All time-travellers wake up in their younger bodies.
* MindScrew: Shinji defines Instrumentality as “whatever the hell had happened.”
* ObliviousToHints: After Instrumentality Asuka has realized Shinji did not react to her hints because he was oblivious and clueless, not because he was not interested.
* OfficialCouple: Shinji, Asuka AND Rei.
* OffingTheOffspring: Naoko Akagi murdered Rei’s first clon [[spoiler:who in this story was her biological daughter and she was aware of it.]]
* OneTrueThreesome: Shinji, Asuka and Rei, as well known as the “Israfel Special”.
* OnlySaneMan: After returning to the past Asuka is the most stable pilot on the team. A fact she finds scary.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: As usual in PeggySue stories, this plays a part. Noticing Asuka’s increasingly odd behaviour, Misato demands knowing what is happening. Similarly, when they accidentally meet Touji and he gets shocked at seeing Asuka, they realize they are not the only time-travellers.
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[[folder:P-R]]
* ParentalFavoritism: Gendo loved Rei more than Shinji... however, Gendo being Gendo, it only means he treats her in a slightly less crappy fashion.
* PeggySue
* PrecisionFStrike: After waking up in her bed and finding out she had returned to the past, Rei swore for first time in her life:
-->'''Rei''':''"Oh, shit."''
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Subverted. Asuka felt like this after her mother's death, but now the universe has reset itself and she has another chance she decides that after all...
** GodIsGood:
--->''"So," she said slowly. "Our father, who art in heaven, yada yada yada. I know, we haven't spoken in a long time; I kinda stopped believing in you for a while, truth be told. I mean, no God was better than a God that let that happen to Mama. I was pretty mad at you for that at the time, but now that I'm in possession of all the facts... Well, actually I'm still mad at you. Second Impact, the Angels, whatever the hell happened to the planet after Wondergirl decided to hand Shinji phenomenal cosmic power the same day he finally got around to having that psychotic break he'd been procrastinating about since the clusterfuck with Toji and the Angel of Gundamjacking: I'm pretty sure at least half of that was your fault. Jeez, I appreciate a hands-off management style as much as anyone, but there's limits..."''\\
''She sighed. "But apparently you hit the reset button, so I have a shot at making things less of a cataclysmic shitshow this time around. Low bar to clear, I know, but hey. So... Thanks for that, I guess. We have a long way to go before we rebuild our relationship still, but it's a big step in the right direction. Just... If I have some great divinely-mandated destiny and you're not just doing this out of morbid curiosity, please give me the occasional nudge in the direction of not fucking it all up? Surely you owe me that much. Oh, and please don't get all judgemental if I trade in some purity points to make Shinji less emo, that kid needs all the help he can get." She blew out a long breath. "Amen, I guess."''
* RedHeadedHero: Asuka is the red-haired heroine of this story.
* RedIsHeroic: Asuka wears red and her HumongousMecha is red, too.
* TheReveal: When Asuka announced Rei was moving with them, Misato demanded knowing what was going on. The three Children figured out that she would find out sooner or later so that they told her everything.
* ReverseMole: First thing Asuka did after returning was passing information on Kaji.
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[[folder:S-U]]
* SayingTooMuch: After getting an impressive score in his first synch test Misato asks Shinji if he is sure he has never done this before. Of course he denies it, but later he wonders what she would have done if he said “yes”… not knowing Ritsuko was listening.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Ritsuko has figured out what Shinji –and maybe Asuka and Rei- are time-travellers but she has kept it to herself.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Subverted. After hearing how his father treated Rei Shinji wants to kill him… and then he thinks of a better idea: giving him exactly what he wants –reunite with Yui- and then watching while his mother gives Gendo a piece of her mind.
* ShoutOut:
** Plenty of them to ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''.
--->''Maya stared after her boss and formerly-secret crush as she disappeared down the corridor. "What the hell just happened?"''
** Right like in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', it is [[spoiler:Kaworu]] who sends everyone back.
** [[spoiler:Kaworu]] is a girl? ''[[Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs It sounds familiar]]''.
** Shinji confronts his father about the fact he is piloting the robot ate his mother, right like in ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''.
** Ritsuko suggests the wrestling move Rei used against Sachiel was taken from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The three Children hope being this, since neither Gendo nor SEELE could foresee their pawns would know about their scenario from the beginning, but they are not too confident on their abilities to pull it off.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Asuka does not find Rei cute. No, of course not. That would be silly.
-->''A little bit, but probably not by grabbing random classmates to conduct "experiments" with. If nothing else, Asuka won't let her do that sort of thing; she's too protective of her friend, definitely a friend, she does not have a crush on Rei Akagi no matter how cute she is now...''
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: When Shinji finds out that Asuka remembers everything, including his actions when she was comatose Shinji thinks he has already screwed it up and decides to put himself off his misery. Horrified, Asuka talks him out of it.
* ThatDidntHappen: After Gendo and Naoko broke off, she insisted that they behaved as if their relationship never happened.
* TogetherInDeath: Before returning to the past Shinji and Asuka decided to commit suicide together and walked into the ocean holding hands.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In the original timeline Rei was too injured to fight Sachiel. In the current timeline she rips it apart.
** Before leaving his old home Shinji takes Judo classes.
** Asuka is more emotionally focused this time around… which means she is in fact more dangerous.
* TriangRelations: Shinji, Asuka and Rei have a three-ways relationship. Each member of the triangle loves the remainder two.
* TrueCompanions: After surviving the Angel War, dying before being fifteen, outliving the end of the world and going back to the past Shinji, Asuka and Rei are bonding and becoming this.
* UnfamiliarCeiling: Parodied. When Shinji wakes up in his bed in his Uncle’s house he thinks that ceiling is not unfamiliar at all.
-->''Shinji stared up at the ceiling. It was as far from unfamiliar as a ceiling could possibly be, which would have been vaguely reassuring if it hadn't been the ceiling he had last seen shortly before getting That Letter and starting down the slow but inexorable path to... Well, whatever the hell had happened.''
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[[folder:V-Z]]
* WaveMotionGun: Shinji describes Ramiel’s particle beam with these words.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted. Shinji sought his father's acknowledgement and approval. After going through the Angel War and end of the world, returning to the past and finding out about what kind of life Rei has led he is sick of it:
-->'''Shinji''':''"Well, he can keep his fucking approval,"''
** Shinji really thought a SoProudOfYou moment was the only thing he was getting out of piloting Eva:
--->''"We get paid?"''\\
''Asuka facepalmed externally for good measure. "Yes, Shinji, we get paid. Quite well, in fact. Did you think the only thing you were getting out of this gig was empty promises of basic parental affection?"''\\
''"Actually... yeah."''\\
''Asuka pondered this information for a long moment. "Well, that explains a lot," she concluded. "C'mon, Shinji, let's go spend your dad's money!"''
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: After considering his mother got absorbed into Unit 01 on purpose to become an eternal reminder of humankind’s existence and she actually ''wanted'' him to watch how she seeming died, Shinji wonders what his father saw in her. Asuka can not figure it out either.
-->'''Shinji''':''"It's just that I'd repressed the memory as thoroughly as possible because I saw my mother die horribly when she tried to synch with it and succeeded a bit too well. Or so everyone thought; if I didn't hallucinate ''everything'' between seeing you go down to the Mass-Production Evas and waking up on the beach, she actually did it on purpose so that Unit-01 could become an eternal monument to mankind's existence... or something. I don't know all the details and I'm not sure I want to, especially why she found it necessary to make me watch."''\\
'''Asuka''':''"Oh,"''\\
'''Shinji''':''"So, yeah, [...] That's the woman my father is planning to cause total human extinction to reunite with. No accounting for taste, I suppose."''\\
'''Asuka''':''"Guess not,"''
* WhenSheSmiles: Shinji and Asuka think Rei has a very cute smile.
-->''Shinji's head shot upwards at the familiar voice. Perched casually on Unit-00's shoulder, Rei met his gaze and smiled that little Mona Lisa smile that had made him harbour thoughts he was somewhat embarrassed about.''
-->''Asuka had only ever seen that smile once, directed at Shinji after Ritsuko -or Misato- finally got him back out of Unit-01. Now she wasn't continually seeing red and green both at once, she had to admit it was quite a nice smile. Rather cute, in fact.''
* WorldOfSnark: Nearly every sentence comes out of the mouths of Shinji, Asuka and Rei drips with sarcasm.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Sakura pokes fun at her brother without fear of retaliation because he would not hit a girl.
* YouCheatingHeart: Subverted. Ritsuko accuses Gendo of cheating on her with her mother. He claims he and Naoko broke up a good while before he and Ritsuko started dating, and Naoko was aware of it.
* YouDidntSeeThat: When Maya accidentally slips that she DOES want being Ritsuko's torrid lesbian rebound fling, Ritsuko mutters: ''"Uh... We never had that conversation, okay?"''
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->''"How does someone as naturaly clingy and possessive as me successfully practice polyamory, you mean?" Asuka smirked. "Easy. I'm clingy and possessive of both of them."''
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