History Fanfic / DoingItRightThisTime

* 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.''

* ReverseMole: As soon as Asuka woke up in the past she passed information on Kaji secretely to warn him that the organization she was working for was plotting the end of the world.

* YourCheatingHeart: Subverted. Ritsuko accused Gendo of cheating on her with her own mother. Gendo replied he and Naoko broke up a good while before he and Ritsuko started dating, and Naoko was aware of it. Ritsuko was not fully convinced but she gave him the benefit of the doubt.

* YourHeadAsplode: Kaworu neglected to mention that this was a side effect of the MentalTimeTravel technique he'd [[MacGuyvering MacGuyver'd]] up. Not that it really mattered, given the overclocked S2 Organ powering it ''also'' Asploded shortly thereafter.

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 in time. 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 Tropers/{{Jake}} (author 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]], on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.338508/ SpaceBattles]] or [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5671597 AO3]]. The Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn version is not up-to date with the forum versions, although it fixes various typos and other minor errors pointed out on the forums and the Sufficient Velocity version is where most of the short excerpts from forthcoming updates get posted as it's the most active thread. A rough first draft can be read [[http://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'', ''Manga/ReTake'' or ''Fanfic/NGEMitigation''. Check ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'', ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'', ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'', ''Fanfic/TheIkaris'', ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'', ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'', or ''Fanfic/MobileFighterEvangelion'' to see other AU Eva fics. Check ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'', ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'', ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionR'', ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'', ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'' and ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'' to see other Eva continuation fics. Go to ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', ''Fanfic/GodsAngelsAndKings'', ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'', ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'', ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'' and ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'' if you are interested in crossovers.

* 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; [[spoiler:She used her own DNA as the "mother" source for Rei's creation as a high-tech BabyTrap, and when that failed she subjected her to non-stop emotional abuse and ultimately strangled her to death.]]

* AllAccordingToPlan: When Rei gets informed about Shinji's arrival to Tokyo-3 she is glad because all is going according her plan.

* 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.

* ApologisesALot: Shinji's automatic impulse to apologise for anything drove Asuka mad the first around, so she tries to break his habit early on:

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Averted. TimeTravel? Shinji finds it perfectly believable. After all what has happened to him, why not?

* ArchnemesisDad: Subverted. After returning to the past, Shinji thought he would have to find some way to stop his father's plans. When he and Asuka arrived at Tokyo-3, though, it turned out that Rei had confronted Gendo and revealed that they were time-travellers and his plans would fail, not matter what. Ergo, Gendo lost his motivation to oppose to them.

* AscendedFanboy: After returning to the past together with the remaining time-travellers [[spoiler:Kensuke, who in the original timeline was obsessed with becoming a HumongousMecha pilot, becomes an Evangelion pilot.]]

* AttentionWhore: Asuka still likes when people pay attention to her:

* TheBabyTrap: In this story Naoko was supposed to use Gendo's wife Yui's eggs to create Rei. Instead of it she used her own eggs. Ritsuko thinks her mother was trying to baby-trap Gendo, but Gendo doubts Naoko swapped her genetic material with Yui's because she was trying to make him committed to her.
-->Look! Read the results. They still had Mom's DNA profile in the records. She must've had an egg left over from the MAGI, and... Oh, fucking hell. She was sleeping with him. She must have been. Why else would she do this? She was trying to baby trap Gendo.

* BattleCouple: After returning to the past Shinji, Asuka and Rei agreed to share each other. Whenever any of them are fighting together they are acting as a battle couple. In their first engagements, Shinji and Rei took Shamshel down and Asuka and Rei blew Ramiel to smithereens.
* 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.

* HairDecorations: Asuka always wore her iconic red clips. In episode 3, she replaced them with an ordinary hair-tie.

* BiTheWay: Averted; Asuka is ''anything'' but matter-of-fact about it when she is forced to confront the fact she's bi.

* 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.

* HelloNurse: Asuka and Rei are very popular with their male schoolmates.

* NotBloodSiblings: A source of some discomfort to Shinji. First he had what he thought was a near-miss with SurpriseIncest before the whole PeggySue thing happened, but now it turns out Rei wasn't a clone of who everyone thought she was and they're definitely not even siblings by adoption ([[YouAreNotMyFather Rei's pretty emphatic about that]]) and he has no idea if that makes the time he accidentally saw her naked better or worse. Especially because [[LoveTriangle he has a bit of a thing for Asuka as well.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Lampshaded when Asuka has a moment of slightly horrified realisation that the person to come through the end of the world and the subsequent inexplicable do-over with the least amount of mental trauma might be ''her''.

* YourHeadAsplode: Kaworu neglected to mention that this was a side effect of the MentalTimeTravel technique he McGuyver'd up. Not that it really mattered given the overclocked S2 Organ powering it ''also'' asplode shortly afterwards.

* PatchworkFic: Although this is based on the original series, Mari Makinami from the ''Rebuild'' films appears in Chapter 4 as the intended pilot of Unit-04.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Shinji tried to hit his father with one of these when he met him (unfortunately, it doesn't have the effect he was hoping for, since [[spoiler:Rei stole his thunder a bit.]]):
-->'''Shinji:''' Is there a reason I'm piloting the [Evangelion] that ate mother?

* ImportantHairAccessory: Asuka makes the important decision to ''stop'' wearing her neural connectors as barrettes, to symbolise the fact that being an Evangelion pilot isn't ''all'' of who she is anymore. And then a few scenes later she discovers a practical advantage; a long ponytail makes it possible to do a proper HairFlip for emphasis when making a dramatic gesture.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Asuka and Rei are middle-schoolers and like each other.

'''Rei:''' ''[coffee cups meets table]'' The Commander is ''not'' my father. Not genetically ''or'' by his actions. ''[reins in herself]'' Forgive me. It is a... sensitive subject.
* 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?"

''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' by Tropers/{{Jake}} (author 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]], on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/evangelion-doing-it-right-this-time.338508/ SpaceBattles]] or [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5671597 AO3]]. The AO3 version is not up-to date with the forum versions, although the AO3 version fixes various typos and other minor errors pointed out on the forums and the Sufficient Velocity version is where most of the short exerpts from forthcoming updates get posted as it's the most active thread. A rough first draft can be read [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/working-title-doing-it-right-this-time-evangelion-extremely-rough-draft.14636/ here]].

''Everything about Shinji except his voice said, If you say so.''

* ICannotSelfTerminate: Kaworu was unable to kill himself and asked Shinji doing it. Understandably, Shinji is pretty irked about it.

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.

* {{Badass}}: The pilots use their experience and knowledge gained during the original timeline in their favour. Shinji takes martial art classes to prepare himself, Rei trashes Sachiel brutally in her first deployment, and Asuka helps to train her teammates.

* 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.]]

* PatchworkFic: Although this is based on the original series, Mari Makinami from the ''Rebuild'' films makes an appearance.