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2[[caption-width-right:350:Do NOT gaze too long into it. It is dangerous...]]
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4->''Sometimes, children go into their parent's closet and dress up, pretending to be their parents, acting as if they were in charge, as if they ruled the house, as if they were the kings and queens of the Earth. But then their parents come home, and the game is revealed as a lie.\
5For millennia, humanity has played at being kings and queens, at ruling the world they call home. Now, the car is pulling into the drive...''
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7''Children of an Elder God'' is a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''[=/=]Creator/HPLovecraft FusionFic by John Biles and Rod M, replacing the Angels with [[EldritchAbomination Cthulhu and all the rest of the Great Old Ones]], giving an already mind-screwy stew an entirely new flavor.
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9It's the year 2014. Humanity feels safe in their homes, seeing themselves like kings of the planet. Little do they know, they live in an island isolated in the middle of an universe plagued with horrors... and those horrors are coming back home.
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11Only a few Children can stop the Old Gods from reclaiming their world. However, each battle makes their bodies evolve and gain new powers... and maybe to save humanity, Shinji, Asuka and Rei must stop being human.
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13The fic's main site is no longer available, although [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200916195625/http://www.thekeep.org/~rpm/eva/coaeg.html it's been archived]]. [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/children-of-an-elder-god-chapter-24-draft-continues.165721/ The original draft of the final chapter]] is posted at Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom. [[https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ttuura/roinaa/coaeg/ A fan-compiled archive]] of the entire story is also available.
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15Compare with ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', another ''Evangelion'' crossover with similar themes (the Children becoming more than human due to the action of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and picking up powers as they killed things). In fact, ''Children Of An Elder God'' [[WordOfGod gets credited]] as one of the biggest influences together with ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' and ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''.
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21* AbusiveParents: Shinji was abandoned by his father when he was four and recalled by Gendo ten years later because his father had an use for him. In chapter 7, when Shinji tells Asuka about it, she is shocked and furious.
22* AcePilot: Shinji, Asuka and Rei are more skillful and more competent than their canon selves. In their first engagement, Shinji and Rei managed to kill an humongous spider-alike EldritchAbomination had turned the whole city into a giant cobweb infested with billions of spiders. In her first engagement Asuka tore a SeaMonster to bloodied pieces when it got her angry. And every time they killed a new cosmic horror they became more powerful.
23* ActionGirl: Asuka and Rei are mecha pilots trained since they were little kids and have the powers of the cosmic horrors killed by them.
24* AdaptationalBadass: The Children are somewhat more heroic and way more badass than their canon counterparts. Shinji pilots his giant robot willingly and gains powers, Asuka becomes a better fighter and gains fire powers, Rei is terrifying...
25* AffablyEvil: Nyarlathotep is polite, congenial and charismatic... even when he is readying to obliterate your soul. When [[spoiler:Asuka and Touji are fighting him and even swearing at him,]] he remains non-offended and even amused.
26* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: In chapter 4, while Kaji and Asuka are talking, he laughs and ruffles her hair in a paternal, placating way.
27* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The ''Scimitar'', NERV's mobile command carrier, is described as an aircraft carrier attached to a pair of zeppelin balloons, all heavily armored.
28* AlienGeometries: The city of R'Lyeh is a five-dimensional dreamworld following the rules of Xoth, stuck into reality where Earth's laws of physics are polite suggestions. When the buildings are forced to obey gravity exist in a three-dimensional space, they collapse.
29* AmazonChaser: When Shinji met Asuka, he noticed two things about her: she was a beautiful girl... and she was a kick ass fighter. He wound up falling very hard for her.
30* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Shinji, Asuka, Rei, Touji and Hikari fight Eldritch Abominations and steal their powers after killing them. However the stolen power transforms them gradually until they become human-looking cosmic horrors. They never become evil -although their power ''tries'' to corrupt them- but they stop being human.
31* AnimalisticAbomination: The first enemy fought by Shinji was an EldritchAbomination wich looked like a giant spider. Later on, Asuka fought a green, crab-like Great Old One. Another Angel constantly produced an endless stream of these.
32* AnyoneCanDie: The only main characters survived the war were [[spoiler:Shinji, Asuka, Touji, Hikari and Misato.]] Everyone else died... but [[spoiler:Ritsuko and Maya,]] although it is revealed in the last scene.
33* AfterActionHealingDrama: Chapter 19 starts when Asuka and Rei have been taken to the hospital to be healed after getting brutally hurt by the latest cosmic horror that they had fought... and by each other.
34* TheAgeless: The Children are permanently stuck in fourteen-years-old bodies due to their powers. Misato noticed this when [[spoiler:she got old, but neither Touji nor Hikari aged.]]
35* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In chapter 21, a terrorist group invades NERV's German base.
36* AllYourPowersCombined: The Children have the abilities and powers of all Great Old Ones.
37* ApocalypticLog: The prologue consists in Gendo and Fuyutsuki listening to the "Transcript of the Last Transmissions of the Long-Smith Expedition", recorded by two scientists while they were exploring a network of caverns. The log abruptly ends up when they are found by an EldritchAbomination.
38* ApologisesALot: Shinji has this habit. When Asuka tells him that her parents are dead he apologizes, and Asuka reminds him that he has nothing to apologize for.
39-->'''Shinji:''' So what are your parents like?\
40'''Asuka:''' [''sharply''] Dead.\
41'''Shinji:''' I'm sorry.\
42'''Asuka:''' Don't be such a wimp, Shinji. It's not your fault they died.
43* ArcWords: "The Stars Are Right", stated by characters like Gendo, Fuyutsuki, Rei... when they think or feel that the prophecies are about to come to pass. Sometimes the stars can be seen literally moving into position
44* ArchnemesisDad: When Shinji found out about [[spoiler:his parents wanting to use the powers that he and his friends had stolen from the Elder Gods to create a FalseUtopia, he and the other pilots rebelled and fought Gendo and Yui.]]
45* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Yui]] ascends to godhood when [[spoiler:she seizes the power of the Outer Gods and uses it to create a new world.]]
46* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Asuka is a temperamental, hot-blooded redhead, wears red clothes, pilots a red war mecha, ''and'' has fire powers.
47* AttentionWhore: Subverted. Asuka's foster mother helped her with her temper and self-esteem issues, but the German girl still liked and needed to being the centre of attention. However she develops powers and abilities during the War which bring the ''wrong'' sort of attention and freak other people out. After the FinalBattle Asuka just wants to be unnoticed and remain anonymous.
48* AwfulTruth: In chapter 22, Asuka demands to know what happened to her parents, and Gendo tells her: [[spoiler:Kyoko volunteered to get a genetically modified fetus implanted in her womb. Unfortunately it killed her, and in the resulting chaos, the lab went up in flames, and Asuka’s parents died.]]
49* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Shinji and Asuka's relationship was uneasy at the beginning. Still, when Gendo lectured Asuka angrily, Shinji went out of his way to reassure her. And when Asuka found out that Gendo ordered Shinji getting into an Eva without previously warning his son that most people tried to synch with an Eva died or went crazy, she got angry.
50* BadassInDistress: Misato is a very competent soldier, but in chapter 21 she was captured by terrorists and had to be rescued by [[spoiler:Rei.]]
51* BadBoss: Gendo is a jerk who treats his subordinates like garbage, mistreats them, sends them on dangerous missions without warning them previously about the risks, insults them and belittles them rather reprimand them properly, and sacrifices them when it is convenient. For all that, though, he's unremittingly devoted to the salvation of mankind.
52* BatmanGambit: Nylarathotep tried to [[spoiler:make Asuka believe that he was the true founder of her religion so that she despaired and joined him.]] It nearly worked, but a third party showed her that Nylarathotep lied.
53* BattleAura: Asuka's battle aura is made of glowing flames.
54* BattleCouple: Shinji and Asuka got together during the story. They fight eldritch abominations using their super robots... or power stolen from other monsters they killed previously.
55* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: A consequence of insanity-inducing Great Old Ones, although sometimes it is less a "battle" and more a "rejection of a false reality".
56** [[spoiler:After the FinalBattle, the dead old gods whose power was stored in the combined body of all Evas tried to take over the Evangelion-entity; but they not only fought the Children, but each other, and by that time the Children had become so powerful that they had a farewell conversation with Rei (who would stay behind to ensure that they never obtained the power of Eva) while crushing them and not even noticing the effort put into it.]]
57* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Shinji wishes to be a god during a dream, thinking it was just a silly dream. Later on, he gets godly power, but he doesn't like it because it corrupts him and removes his humanity gradually.
58* BedmateReveal: In chapter 15, Asuka wakes up, looks around, realizes that Touji is sleeping on her bed and screams. Her screams wake Touji up, he sees Asuka and starting yelling, too. [[spoiler:It is, obviously, all the fault of subconscious teleportation]].
59-->Someone snored very close to her, so she rolled over and said, "Quit sno..." Having opened her eyes, she could see who it was. Touji was naked next to her except for his blue boxer shorts and white socks, which needed to be washed. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN BED WITH ME?"\
60"Mmm, Misa..." Touji mumbled, then snapped the rest of the way awake. "AAAA!!!!! WHAT IN HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED?"\
61"I'm not in YOUR bed! You're in mine! How the hell did you get into my apartment?" Asuka shouted.\
62"You're smoking crack! I wouldn't try to crawl into your bed if you were the last woman on Earth!"
63* BelligerentSexualTension: Shinji and Asuka had this for a while. He was an IdiotHero, and she was his {{Tsundere}} BattleCouple. However their arguments were more civil than in canon since he was less wimpy and she less short-tempered.
64* BeneathTheMask: In her first scene Asuka is interacting with Kaji, someone she trusts implicitly, so her mask is dropped and she behaves nicely. Later she is meeting other people, including her co-workers, so she keeps her mask on and she acts like a harsher, more prideful person. Throughout the story she gradually falls her mask as she gets closer to other people, especially Shinji.
65* BerserkButton:
66** Asuka was not enthused about touching Amaliel, let alone fighting it. Then the aquatic cosmic horror bit her robot's hand off. Asuka bludgeoned it, torn ''its'' limbs off and then ripped flesh chunks off its body until she was sure it was very, very dead.
67** Just try and hurt Shinji when Rei's around. Even if she's not around, she will know anyway. Shown best in chapter 12, where [[spoiler:Orifel almost convinces Rei to switch sides, until she sees Shinji being overwhelmed by Orifel's children, at which point she promises to eat his heart.]]
68* BetaCouple: Touji and Hikari developed as the same time Shinji and Asuka started out their relationship. At the end they chose [[spoiler:to remain among normal human beings unlike Shinji and Asuka, who could not fit in human society anymore.]]
69* BigDamnHeroes: Rei performs one in chapter 1 to save Shinji when he had been trapped by the spider-alike monster Matarael. Just about all the Children pull them off for one another at some point.
70* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Asuka came across to other people like as an arrogant, brash girl, but when they knew her a little, most of them realized that she was trying to mask her insecurities and psychological issues. Although she's certainly more balanced than the Asuka of canon... at least, in the beginning.
71* BioAugmentation: NERV tried to use this to create humans capable of piloting Evangelions. It went... horrifically.
72** One of the methods Keel Lorenz used to prolong his life, along with just about everything else imaginable.
73* BittersweetEnding: At the end, [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka have lost almost everyone that they care for, and due to their mutations they don't fit into human society any longer, so they abandon civilization forever]]. Still [[spoiler:they are still together, the narration states that their remaining friends will meet them again, and thanks to them humanity has been saved and will endure for several centuries more]].
74* BloodKnight: Deconstructed. Due to her upbringing Asuka is very aggressive, battle-hungry and eager to engage the enemy. However her first fight was against an alien horror was so repulsive-looking she does not even want to go near it. When it bites her robot's hand off, though, she loses her shit, rips its limbs off, and bludgeons it until it is a bloody pulp... which earns her a 'very' harsh reprimand for being too aggressive and ignoring orders to capture it.
75* BodyHorror: Appears absolutely everywhere. The Evas, the Children, the Angels...
76** [[EldritchAbomination Amaliel]] was a dark, green blob with crab-like claws, tentacles and something vaguely resembling a head.
77--->... an almost globular torso, with six long sinuous limbs terminating in crab-like claws. From the upper end a subsidiary globe bulged forward bubble-like; its triangle of three staring, fishy eyes, its foot-long and evidently flexible proboscis, and a distended lateral system analogous to gills, suggested that it was a head.
78** [[EldritchAbomination Violator]] -another of the Lovecraftians abominations fought by the main characters- had mouths on its palms. And mouths, tongues and tentacles everywhere. It had both male and female sex attributes, raped corpses, and ran around after its head was blown off.
79** All the Children can mess around with their physical form like a demented molder of clay. One of the creepiest instances include Shinji crying spiders, Asuka producing hundreds of blood-sucking tendrils from her mouth, face, and shoulders, and Shinji turning his arms into snakes and shoving them down people's throats.
80** The Evangelions are fond of making tentacles.
81* BoisterousBruiser: Asuka is her squad's best fighter. She is as enthusiastic and lively as in canon, and more sociable and more congenial, making her easier to hang out with.
82* BondingOverMissingParents: In chapter 7, Shinji and Asuka do this. Shinji tells him that his father abandoned him after his mother’s death and then he asked her what her parents were like. She replied that they were dead, and they talk about how they lost their parents.
83* BonusMaterial: This story's original homepage included several omakes with crazy scenes (one of them written by the author of ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'' in which Kaji goes crazy after reading a "forbidden text"), and the newest homepage includes author's notes explaining some scenes or clarifying several homages, as well as an introduction to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
84* BreakTheCutie: Throughout the story Shinji has to fight humongous, super-powerful cosmic horrors. In the process he gradually stops being human, loses his -blood and surrogate- family and almost all his friends and [[spoiler:although they win, he and Asuka are so removed from baseline humans that they say goodbye to their last remaining friends and leave human civilization forever.]] Everyone gets a bad case of this, really.
85* BreakTheHaughty: Asuka was somewhat arrogant and brash when she came along (albeit she was calmer than in canon thanks to be raised by a good foster mother). In her first battle she was supposed to capture her adversary alive, but she got carried away when it got her mad and she killed it. As a consequence of it, she got lectured, berated and threatened by Gendo. During the War she sees her friends and people getting insane or dying because of the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s they are fighting [[spoiler:as she gets put through several defeats and humiliations, including being raped due to the influence of the absorbed remnants of Y'golonac]] and when all is over she pretty much has no pride left.
86* BringMyRedJacket: Asuka had the most violent fights.
87* BrokenAce: Asuka is the best fighter and mecha pilot in her squad, a college graduate, and she is bolder and more cheerful than her canon self. However she keeps hiding deep childhood trauma and abandonment issues, and fighting ancient cosmic horrors got her even more broken during the War.
88* BrokenBird: In order to try to get over her mother going crazy and killing herself, and her father abandoning her shortly after, Asuka trained to become the best war mecha pilot ever. Thanks to finding a decent mother figure, she did not become as hostile to and frightened of other people as her canon self, but she still tried to be self-reliant. Through the war she lost friends, her own humanity and [[spoiler:she was raped]], but her reaction to each tragedy was trying to become more badass and more independent.
89* BrokenHero: In spite of everything what they endured, the Children tried to remain upbeat and positive during and after the War.
90* BrokenTears: After [[spoiler:being raped,]] Asuka sobs and cries uncontrollably.
91-->And then the memories came, and all Asuka could do was curl into a ball and cry.
92* BrownNote: In episode 9, "The King In Yellow" play makes an appearance. When it's performed, a lot of people goes mad and die, and Hastur shows up at the end. However, it's defeated and destroyed.
93* BurningWithAnger: Asuka is a very hot-blooded, very powerful pyrokinetic redhead. When she gets angry, she goes up in flames. Literally.
94* ButNowIMustGo: After the War, [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka leave their remaining friends. Misato and their friends ask them if they really have to go, and Shinji and Asuka reiterate that they can't stay because they don't belong among humans anymore.]] Subverted because [[spoiler:Misato and friends friends followed them a while later and they were together again.]]
95* CameBackWrong: When [[spoiler:Gendo and Yui created a FalseUtopia using the stolen power of the Outer Gods, they brought Kaji and other characters back to life.]] However they were puppets with no life of their own. They'd stop moving if no one was looking at them.
96** The risk of this is why [[spoiler:Fuyutsuki doesn't resurrect Gendo again after he gets his head crushed by Nyarlathotep]].
97* CanNotSpitItOut: Shinji liked both Asuka and Rei, so he didn't say anything until he was sure about his feelings. King Alars from the Kingdom of Joy has an identical problem with Uoht and Cassilda.
98* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Shinji is this to Asuka. Sometimes he drives her mad, and sometimes he makes her happier than nobody ever. In chapter 16:
99-->Sometimes you drive me nuts. But then you do something that changes my mind, like dancing wonderfully. I had a lot of fun tonight, Shinji.
100* ChickMagnet: Shinji is meek, quiet, self-effacing... and girls are obsessed with him. And he has no idea why. Mere minutes after meeting him Asuka was already clinging to him (albeit in an attempt to make Kaji jealous), and Touji commented that Shinji had all of the girls behind him despite being a dweeb.
101* ChildSoldiers: Played for horror. All adults who try to synch with an [[HumongousMecha Evangelion]] go mad, mutate, or die. The only ones capable of piloting an Evangelion are a very small number of fourteen-year-old kids (the others all go made, mutate, or die) who have to fight Cthulhu and co. to save humanity, and whose bodies change and mutate whenever they kill an EldritchAbomination. Eventually they stop being human, and although they don't go mad, they're very traumatized.
102* ClingyJealousGirl:
103** Asuka displayed this trait around Kaji and later Shinji. When she saw a picture of Kaji surrounded by Misato and Ritsuko she wrapped her arms around his and asked who those women were.
104** Rei gets jealous and aggressive when other girls come near Shinji. Mainly Asuka.
105* CluelessChickMagnet: Shinji is really thick and oblivious. In a scene Shinji is watching Rei trying to talk Asuka into sharing him… and he thinks that they can’t possibly want a threesome with him.
106-->'''Asuka:''' And I'm not sharing my boyfriend with you!\
107'''Touji:''' Damn, Shinji, a lot of guys would kill for a deal like that.\
108'''Shinji:''' I'm sure they weren't actually talking about sharing me.\
109'''Rei:''' We were.
110* CombatTentacles: Rei is capable of sprouting flaming tentacles from her back and impale an enemy with them. Asuka can produce blood-sucking tendrils, and Shinji can turn his arms into snakes. [[spoiler: And after beating Adam, all the Children gained the ability to basically do whatever the heck they wanted to their bodies]].
111* ConvenientComa: [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] was in a coma after the FinalBattle. Maya looked after her while she was comatose, but she had to wait for a long while until Ritsuko woke up and they had their happily ever after. And by "a long while", we mean "almost 600 years".
112* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Shinji, Asuka, Rei, [[spoiler:Touji and Hikari]] are motherless. They are also giant robot pilots and fight cosmic horrors.
113* CooldownHug: In chapter 7, Shinji tried to comfort Asuka after she realized that Kaji would never love her. Asuka broked down and held him tightly as she sobbed. In reaction, Shinji hugged her back until she calmed down.
114* CordonBleughChef: Misato, as always. And although she's normally an excellent chef (unusually taking Shinji's role as the household chef in fanfiction), she occasionally likes being "creative" and mixing foods that were not meant to be mixed:
115-->Misato woke up clutching her stomach, which was mildly nauseous, and wondering if Asuka had put LSD in the homemade pizza. I'm never letting Asuka make saurkraut pizza or whatever that was, ever again.
116* {{Crossover}}: Between ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
117* CrushBlush: At the beginning, when Asuka still had a crush on Kaji, she tended to blush around him. An example happened in chapter 4:
118-->"You say the sweetest things, Asuka," Kaji said casually.\
119Asuka blushed furiously and tightened her embrace just a little bit.
120* CryIntoChest: After Asuka realized her crush Kaji loved Misato, Asuka broke down sobbing onto Shinji's chest when he tried to comfort her.
121* CurbStompBattle: Asuka against Amaliel in chapter 4. The SeaMonster sliced her mecha's hand off while she was squooshing it like a cooshball. She bludgeoned it and tore it to pieces.
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125* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Subverted. When Shinji suggests that maybe his father had a good reason for ditching him, Asuka replies that that's dumb:
126-->"I guess he just lost interest after your Mom died. The bastard."\
127"Don't call him that," Shinji said. "He's doing his best to save the world. I guess that has to take priority."\
128"That is NO excuse for how he treats you. I'd beat him down if he was my father and treated me like that. He wouldn't even let you live with him!"\
129"Maybe he knew I'd be better off here," Shinji said faintly.\
130Asuka started to reply, then wondered for a moment if Shinji was right. "You are better off here," she said. "With people who actually care if you live or die."
131* DareToBeBadass: In the first chapter, Gendo does this to Shinji. Shinji agrees to get in the giant robot because he thinks that he'll let Gendo down if he refuses.
132** Subverted in the annotated version of the story, with author's commentary included. Gendo actually used mind magic on him.
133* TheDarkTimes: Cosmic horrors ruled Earth in the past. The story happens because they're returning... and they don't particularly care about the ape-like creatures infesting their ancestral homeworld.
134* DeadpanSnarker: Ritsuko is a very sarcastic person and is armed with a very dry sense of humor.
135-->'''Ritsuko:''' Hmm. I see you're busy. When you two are done, I need to see Misato.\
136'''Misato:''' I was just trying to find out who his girlfriend is!\
137'''Ritsuko:''' I suppose he had it written on the inside of his underwear or something?
138* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Asuka’s little brother killed Kyoko when her genetically modified fetus tried to eat her way out.]]
139* DeathGlare: In chapter 4, when Asuka wraps her arm around Shinji and both walk away together, Rei hurls at her a jealous, angry glare could melt steel, combined with glowing red eyes. She does this a number of times when she thinks other people are getting close to Shinji.
140-->Rei was staring at Asuka, intensely, her face twisted in anger. Her fists were clenched, shaking slightly. It was hard to tell in the sunlight, but they thought they saw her blood red eyes glow brightly for a moment.
141* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Asuka's parents died in a lab fire when she was a little child. She remembers them fondly and misses them, as opposed to her canon self who loathes her father.
142* DefiledForever: Asuka feels like this after [[spoiler:getting raped.]]
143* DefrostingIceQueen:
144** Shinji turns Rei -a cold, emotionless HumanoidAbomination- and Asuka -a temperamental tsundere with no social skills- into this through working together closely, fighting together and -in the case of Asuka- living together. Both girls develop feelings towards him and are often jealous of each other.
145** In chapter 4, after hearing false rumours about Shinji and Rei dating, Touji asks his friend how much he did melt the "ice queen".
146--->"So tell me, buddy," asked Touji. "Exactly how far didja... y'know... melt the ice queen, if ya know what I mean?"
147* DefusingTheTykeBomb: After losing her parents and becoming the NERV's puppet, Asuka found a decent foster mother who defused her. Several years later she helped Shinji to find a better reason to keep living. At the same time, Rei's friends tried to defuse her, but they weren't quite successful.
148* DesignerBabies: Deconstructed. Since most people went mad or mutated horribly when they tried to control an Evangelion, NERV [[spoiler:created genetically mutated fetuses and implanted them in volunteers, which eventually ate their way out of the wombs and tried to kill everyone. One of them killed Asuka’s mother.]]
149-->How could you do something like that? That's horrible, going around altering the genetics of babies! How could you do that to my parents?
150* DespairEventHorizon: Nylarathotep tried to invoke this when he [[spoiler:tried to make Asuka believe that everything she believed in was a lie.]] It nearly worked, because Asuka lost hope and wanted to burn everything and everyone down.
151-->It was too much for her. She'd never wanted any of this. The flame washed out of her like a torrent; she heard the people behind her burst into flames and die, but she didn't care. If this was the world, she wanted to destroy it. Better that nothing exist, if the Outer Gods were all there was. Humanity would be better off dead.\
152Nylarathotep tried to speak, but her flames rushed through him, charring him to ash in an instant. But he wasn't dead. He would rise again, she knew, and that knowing infuriated her more.\
153She gathered her strength. This world would burn. Burn, burn, burn. If it burned hot enough, maybe she would die herself, and not have to live in it.
154* DestructiveSaviour: The main characters often cause so much property damage when they fight that most of cities become a bunch of ruins in their passing.
155* {{Determinator}}: Shinji is pretty pliable and passive, but he can become a determinator when something important is at stake. In chapter 8, he wouldn't stop fighting in spite of his enemy's power because he would not fail Asuka and Rei.
156* DeterminedDefeatist: When Gendo tells Shinji that he is to pilot Unit-01, Shinji thinks that he can't do it... but he decides to try anyway.
157* DevotedToYou: During the War, Shinji and Asuka become inseparable. At one point Asuka tells Shinji that she'll not leave him, ever. And she didn't do.
158* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: [[http://web.archive.org/web/20030205124833/http://www.geocities.com/zhuoyilong/fic/forbidlore.txt In an omake]] Gendo asked Kaji if he had not been stupid enough to read a forbidden text. Kaji intended to tell he did not read it... and then he said he did it.
159-->"You do know that, like the text of 'The King in Yellow', this material here is Seraphim clearance only?"\
160"Yes."\
161"So I trust you weren't foolish enough to read it?"\
162'Of course not' Kaji wanted to snort in reply. "Of course I did."
163* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Shinji, Asuka, Rei (and later Touji and Hikari) spend the whole time fighting and slaying cosmic horrors, in and out of their giant robots. Sadly, they do not literally punch out Cthulhu, though.
164* DisappearedDad: Shinji's father abandoned him. Shinji tries to give his father the benefit of the doubt, but Asuka thinks Gendo is just a bastard.
165* DisproportionateRetribution: Rei overhears a classmate saying that she wants to ask Shinji to the dance. Rei's response is to find her dreamself in the Dreamlands and ''brutally murder her''. This put the girl in a coma.
166** Rei does not react well to Asuka's closeness to Shinji, even before they became romantically involved.
167--->"Langley," she replied quietly.\
168"Asuka? What about her?"\
169"She was with Ikari."\
170"With Shinji?"\
171Rei nodded."What do you mean, 'with Ikari'?" asked Maya. "They weren't..."\
172"Ibuki-san," said Rei evenly, "I want to kill her."
173* DistantFinale: The last scene happens a ''long'' time after the FinalBattle and its initial aftermath and features [[spoiler:Maya telling Ritsuko]] what had happened to the remaining characters and the world in the meantime.
174* DoomedHometown: It happens systematically and repeatedly. The main characters live in Tokyo-3, the whole of Japan is destroyed. They move to NERV Germany, and their HomeBase is destroyed. After the War they settle on America, but [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka can't lead a normal life anymore and leave.]]
175* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Averted when Violator takes over Rei's body and rapes Asuka. The event is treated as horrifying, disturbing and psychologically scarring for both girls, and no one thinks it's hot, sexy or whatever.
176* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Many people, sometimes even those unrelated to Eva, have at least partially prophetic dreams. Considering the influence Great Old Ones have over the Dreamlands, this is appropriate.
177* DreamingTheTruth: At the beginning, Shinji had intensely disturbing dreams where he turned into something inhuman after killing several {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Then he realizes that's what is happening to him and his teammates.
178* DreamSequence: In chapter 5 Shinji has a fairy tale-like dream (and he is aware of it being a dream the whole time) where he is the Prince of Tokyo-3 and has to move all of Princess Asuka's possessions to her new room before sunset in order to receive King Gendo's reward and become a god, and Pen Pen and a horde of penguins help him to complete the task. From that point the dream got increasingly and quickly disturbing.
179** Misato had one that read rather like a drug trip after eating saurkraut pizza.
180* DrivesLikeCrazy: Misato is a terrible driver that ignores or otherwise disregards the existence of a tiny, non-important thing called "limit speed". In chapter 5:
181-->Misato roared through the streets of Tokyo-3 in her car as if all the Angels were chasing her. Asuka laughed with delight while Shinji clung to his seatbelt, shaking. "Faster, faster!" Asuka shouted, while Shinji prayed for engine failure.\
182"I'm gonna have to slow down soon, or I'll drive right through our apartment building. I don't think the Andersons would like that." Misato took the corner at about fifty miles an hour without any trouble, thanks to the absence of any traffic. Shinji, on the other hand, was glad he hadn't eaten dinner yet.
183* DualWielding: When facing [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]], Asuka wields two swords when she fights: [[FlamingSword one of them is covered with fire]] and the other radiates light. They're normally very powerful, but considering who she's fighting...
184-->Two swords came out. One was covered with orange-red flame, the other shone with pale moonlight. They rose, dispelling the gloom that had fallen upon the balcony, then sliced down in unison. The Regent caught one with each hand, and the fire and light were snuffed. "Fire dies and light fades." His hands twisted and the flaming sword was wrenched from Asuka's hands, falling at Cassilda's amber-frozen feet. The moon sword simply snapped in his hands, then crumbled away to dust.
185* DugTooDeep: The story stars out when a team of spelunkers met an EldritchAbomination while they were exploring a vast network of deep, unexplored caverns. Said EldritchAbomination decided to kill all them and go outside, setting in motion the world-ending prophecies that the main characters intend to avert.
186* DudeMagnet: Asuka became instantly popular among her male classmates.
187-->Kensuke and Touji were over by them in an instant, followed a few seconds later by a tide of humanity. A rather small tide, but it was disconcerting nonetheless. Asuka smiled and waved and said hello to three dozen people, quickly learning their names. The only really hard part of it was trying to sort out who was shouting what.
188* EarnYourHappyEnding: The main characters got to fight and slay cosmic horrors to have a chance to lead a mostly happy life. This is most evident for Ritsuko and Maya. [[spoiler:The former awakens from a 500-year-long coma, where she has been watched over by the latter all that time. Ritsuko is still a [[FishPeople mermaid of sorts]] who can't breathe air, but Maya assures her that it might be possible to make her human again. Regardless, they can finally live their lives together again.]]
189* EatingTheEyeCandy: When Asuka appears in chapter 4, Shinji spends a while looking to her while she leaves her giant robot's cockpit and washes the LcL off her body, and thinking she is a very beautiful girl.
190* EldritchAbomination: The Great Old Ones take the place of the Angels...and then there's the [[ManBehindTheMan Outer Gods]].
191* EldritchLocation: The city of R'lyeh was a kind of multi-dimensional dreamworld "forced into reality", forged by an EldritchAbomination in memory of the physics of Cthulhu's own home planet of Xoth. Earth's laws of physics were nothing but mere suggestions.
192-->R'lyeh was nothing more than a dream forced into reality, a memory of a place long destroyed - reduced to dust by the dream's creator, in his arrogance and power. And now the dream was over and reality surged in, and the laws of Earth asserted themselves.\
193Buildings which twisted through five dimensions suddenly were confined to three, and fell in chunks or crumbled to dust or toppled over because the supports in the fifth dimension were no more.\
194The very ground below it evaporated or inverted or became one-dimensional threads which snapped under the weight.
195* EmotionlessGirl: Rei is pretty emotionless. It is played for horror, as it was meant to be in the original show.
196-->He had looked into the girl's eye. It was red, a bright, vibrant red, but otherwise seemed guileless, straightforward, and void of any particular emotion.
197* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone knew what Shinji and Asuka were falling for each other. However Shinji kept saying "It isn't like that!" and Asuka kept protesting "He's just a friend!" whenever someone brought the subject up, until they got together. Likewise, most people could see the growing attraction Rei felt for Shinji.
198* ExpendableClone: Gendo treated Rei as this despite her being closer to a HumanoidAbomination; as time passed, however, this was subverted as he wouldn't have time for the DAGON project to produce a viable copy, even when he wanted to be rid of her. Later she [[spoiler:sacrifices herself to save her friends and protect humankind]], arguing that she must be the one to make the sacrifice because she is not a normal human being.
199* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Asuka bludgeons Amaliel to death after it chops her Eva's hand off.
200-->The giant red Eva, in a surprisingly swift movement, heaved an empty tugboat out of the water and repeatedly smashed Amaliel with it.\
201"You call this a battle?" asked Touji.\
202Unit-02 grabbed a fistfull of tentacles, then ripped them savagely off of Amaliel's body. A horrific shriek of pain ensued.\
203"Looks more like a savage beating to me," observed Touji. "So, Shinji, how d'ya like the new pilot so far?"\
204The children paused a moment to watch Asuka perform three elbow drops in a row, flattening Amaliel and burying him in a concrete crater.\
205Shinji shrugged. "Well... um... violent."
206* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Ritsuko and Maya]] stabbed [[spoiler:Naoko]]'s eyes when they killed her.
207* FallingIntoTheCockpit: When Matarael and its spawn came along and invaded the city Shinji was dragged along to the Evangelion Unit 01 and ordered to pilot it. Later he describes the episode to Asuka and she is flabbergasted -since he piloted an Eva without prior training- and horrified -since nobody informed him of the risks (most people die or go mad when they try to pilot one).
208* FalseUtopia: Gendo and Yui's plan is [[spoiler:to harness the power of Great Old Ones after the Children kill them all to create a paradise for humans. This takes the form of a peaceful pocket universe (or something) where everyone is content, dead loved ones are back (most prominently Kaji, Gendo, and Kensuke), and peaceful First Contact is on the horizon. Unfortunately, the power source corrupts everything, creating disasters that Gendo and Yui have to put increasing amounts of time into fixing, and the resurrected people are just puppets. Ultimately, the Children notice something's wrong with the world, learn that the method Yui and Gendo intend to use would only hasten the corruption of the world, and sorrowfully rebel.]]
209* FieryRedhead: Asuka is moody, hasty, feisty and temperamental. In her first appearance she got ordered to capture an aquatic EldritchAbomination. She did not really want to because she would have to ''touch'' the slimy, repulsive thing to seize it. Then it bit her robot's hand off. She started to yell, swear, pummel it and claw it so savagely that there only were chunks of bloody flesh smearing the ground when she was done with it.
210* FingerTenting: Gendo does this so often than even in his dreams in chapter 5 Shinji imagines his father tenting his fingers:
211-->Prince Shinji kneeled before the throne of his father, King Gendo of Tokyo-3, who sat on his great basalt and onyx throne, his gloved fingers pursed to form a triangle.
212* FirePurifies: Asuka wants her fire to become a tool to purify rather a weapon to destroy.
213-->The flames of hell are the fires which burn away impurities.
214* FirstKiss: Shinji and Asuka kissed for first time in chapter 16:
215-->"Have you ever been on a date before?"\
216"No."\
217"Well, you do know how a date ends, right?"\
218He blinked. "Umm...no."\
219A second later, she was right in front of him.\
220"It's supposed to end with a kiss." Before he knew what hit him, her lips met his. He nearly fell down from surprise. Then she was back at a more normal distance.
221* FishPeople: [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] gradually transforms into [[http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Deep_One a Deep One]] from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, resembling a humanoid fish with lanky, scrawny, human-like limbs, gills, fins and tail, and she loses the capability to breathe air. Fortunately, the process is halted partway; while this unfortunately means that she wound up breathing water instead of being amphibious, she also isn't as hideous as a full-fledged Deep One.
222* FixFic: The fic fixes some little things (Shinji is less meek, Asuka's childhood is less horrid...) before sending everyone and everything to Hell.
223* FlyingFirepower: Asuka Langley Sohryu, whose pyrokinetic powers allow her to form flaming wings.
224* FollowTheLeader: This story was possibly the first example of super-powerful, badass Shinji. Many other Eva fics such like ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'' followed its lead.
225* ForcefulKiss: In chapter 16, after their first date, Asuka walked up to Shinji and she kissed him all of sudden.
226* ForeignCussWord: Asuka resorts to swear in her native tongue when she gets angry.
227** In episode 4 an Angel ripped off her robot's hand (and Asuka felt it as if it was her own hand). Her answer?
228--->"ICH WILL DIESEN KLEINEN SCHEISSKOPF TOTEN!!!"
229** In an omake an Asuka action figure says "Gott in Himmel!" if you squeeze her chest.
230* ForeignLanguageTirade: When Asuka was fighting Amaliel, the EldritchAbomination cut her robot's hand off, making Asuka feeling the pain of getting her hand ripped off. She launched into a very loud, very colourful rant as she tore the monster apart. She started off shouting "ICH WILL DIESEN KLEINEN SCHEISSKOPF TOTEN!!!" and it got angrier since that point.
231* FunWithAcronyms: Developed Automatic Guardian Organic Navigator: Dagon.
232* FusionFic: Between Evangelion and the Cthulhu Mythos. The pseudo-Christian stuff is replaced with HP Lovecraft, right down to Misato wearing an elder sign instead of a cross.
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234
235[[folder:G-I]]
236* GiantEqualsInvincible: Since the enemies in this story are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, conventional weaponry, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, nukes... are predictably useless, and they can only be found using bio-mechanical giant super robots which are, in fact, cloned eldritch abominations.
237* GiantSpider: The first enemy Shinji fights is a skyscraper-sized spider-shaped EldritchAbomination spread its webs all over the city and spawned millions of smaller spiders danced around its legs and flooded the city's streets.
238-->It showed a creature that resembled a huge spider, hundreds of feet tall, lying on its side, its legs working the air feebly. It was surrounded by a charred cocoon of spider silk and the corpses of countless spiders. However, more were erupting up from the ground and forming from its blood, which was puddled around it. Further more, the charred marks on its exterior were fading, and ichor was no longer leaking from it.
239* AGodAmI:
240** [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep-possessed Anna got into this, too, openly announcing it to cause rioting and chaos.]]
241** [[spoiler:After the Children fight the MP-[=EVAs=], Yui seizes the power of the Outer Gods to ascend to godhood and recreate reality according her will.]]
242* AGodIAmNot: Once the Children gain their powers [[spoiler:by killing the Great Old Ones and absorbing their powers]], people start worshiping and treating them like divine beings. While all of the Children are uncomfortable with it, Asuka is the most appalled due to her being a Christian -- in her eyes, the only being worthy of worship is God.
243* GodIsGood: In a dream, [[spoiler:Asuka has a vision in which God reveals that He sent her and the remaining Children to protect mankind from the Outer Gods.]] It's ambiguous if her vision was real or only a dream, though.
244* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It happens a lot. Most of people who tried to pilot an Evangelion went mad, mutated or died because they had to synch with the mind of an EldritchAbomination. Most of people who saw "The King Of Yellow" being performed went crazy and died when Hastur got summoned. And the list goes on...
245* GratuitousGerman: Asuka uses her mother tongue extensively.
246** Chapter 4 -where she shows up- is full of examples:
247*** When she is ordered to trap an Angel alive: "Scheiss egal"
248*** When Amaliel rips her robot's hand off: "ICH WILL DIESEN KLEINEN SCHEISSKOPF TOTEN!!!"
249*** When she emerges from her robot after battle: "Hat jemand ein Handtuch?" ("Does anyone have a towel?")
250** In an omake NERV makes figurines of the pilots as part of a money-making scheme. If you squeeze one of the Asuka action figures she says: "Gott in Himmel!", "Halten Sie!", "Schnell!" or "Sieg Heil!"
251* GreenAndMean: Amaliel, Asuka's first adversary she fought and killed was a lime-green, gelatinous SeaMonster packed with claws, pincers and tentacles.
252* GreenEyedMonster:
253** Asuka at the beginning got agitated, angry and jealous when she saw her crush Kaji flirting with Misato. Later she got jealous over Shinji.
254** Rei was usually calm, but she could get very jealous where Shinji was concerned. When she saw Asuka clinging to Shinji's arm in chapter 5, she actually ''growled''. While she glared silently at Asuka, her clenched fists shook, her eyes seemed to glow for a second and her friends got very, very scared. She even [[spoiler:murdered a the dreamself of a classmate who was going to as Shinji to the dance, sending the girl into a coma]].
255--->"For such a dweeb, that Ikari's got chicks all around him, huh?" asked Touji.\
256Kensuke nodded, still videotaping.\
257Suddenly, his camera died.\
258They heard a growl.\
259It wasn't just your ordinary growl, from a dog or a wolf. This was a deep growl, the sort of growl that suggested monstrous origins, dark and shadowy nights, and the promise of endless hours of pain. It was accompanied by a blast of cold running down their spines. The two turned around, slowly.\
260Rei was staring at Asuka, intensely, her face twisted in anger. Her fists were clenched, shaking slightly. It was hard to tell in the sunlight, but they thought they saw her blood red eyes glow brightly for a moment.\
261"Ohshit," whispered Touji. "She's mad."
262* GrewASpine: In this story Shinji kept being shy, quiet and non-confrontational like his canon self, but he resolved to learn to face his troubles, and he charged headlong into combat against whatever was threatening him and everyone.
263* HalfHumanHybrid: In chapter 21, [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] reveals that [[spoiler:her mother was half human, half Deep One.]]
264* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: In episode 23, Shinji resorts to his headphones to try to forget his current predicament:
265-->He laid in bed, music in his ears from his headphones and tried to zone out, but his mind kept spiraling back to Asuka.
266* HeartbrokenBadass: Misato was pretty heart-broken and hurt after [[spoiler:Kaji's death.]]
267* {{Hellfire}}: Asuka wields supernatural fire that can consume anything and everything.
268* HellIsThatNoise: In the prologue, two scientists and a team of spelunkers are exploring a nnetwork of caverns when they hear several fain, faraway screams. They freak out right away:
269-->[''there are faint screams in the distance'']\
270'''Home Base (Speaker unidentified)''': What the hell was THAT?
271* HereWeGoAgain: In the final scene, [[spoiler:Maya and Ritsuko prepare eldritch beings who menace humanity again; not aliens, this time, but in the form of the evolution of the human race.]]
272* HeroesPreferSwords: Asuka wielded two swords in several fights.
273* HeroicBSOD:
274** Asuka had a breakdown in chapter 18 after she [[spoiler:got raped]] and in chapter 21 after [[spoiler:killing several human terrorists.]]
275** Shinji also had a breakdown after [[spoiler:killing an army of terrorists that invaded NERV's German base.]]
276** And in chapter 23, Asuka breaks down again during a dream.
277* HeroicSacrifice: During the FinalBattle [[spoiler:Rei]] sacrificed herself to ensure that [[spoiler:the Great Old Ones remain sealed forever.]]
278* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The premise of the story is [[AcePilot the Children]] fighting Cthulhu Myths' {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and gaining their powers after slaying them. They did not stop being heroes, but they gradually stopped being human. Gendo stated that "they gazed into the abyss, and the abyss became them."
279* HighSchoolSweethearts: Shinji, Asuka and Rei met when they were fourteen. Although Shinji also had feelings for Rei he fell in love with Asuka. At the end of the history [[spoiler:he and Asuka left human civilization together. It is implied that they will always be together, not matter what.]]
280* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Nylarathotep tried to drive Asuka to despair. He was successful… to the point that she decided to burn everything down, starting with him.
281* HoldingHands: Shinji and Asuka held hands several times, including [[spoiler:the night they left humanity. Shinji grabbed Asuka's hand and they walked onto a boat before sailing out.]]
282* HotBlooded: Asuka is exuberantly passionate: she is cheerful, bold, hot-tempered, impulsive and brave (as shown when a sea monster got her mad. She roared, charged... and the cleaning crew had to scrap its remains off the floor).
283* HotWings: Asuka gained pyrokinesis and flame wings after killing a good number of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
284-->Asuka soared through the night on wings of flame.
285* HopelessSuitor: Asuka to Kaji in the early chapters when she still chased after him. Meanwhile Kaji (who was after Misato) ignored her or treated her like a little girl.
286* HouseHusband: Shinji takes care of all household chores in the Katsuragi's household because Misato is a slob.
287* HumanoidAbomination: Shinji, Asuka, Rei, Touji, Hikari and Anna are outwardly human-like... but the dead Great Old Ones live inside them. They have weird, creepy powers (insect and reptile control, twisting their body into bizarre forms, controlling the weather, making ice, forming living beings from their own blood 'by accident', fire manipulation, shaping the earth, possessing people who know their name, space bending...), their bodies regenerate damage instantly and don't age, and their presence creeps other people out.
288* HumongousMecha: The gigantic bio-mechanical Evangelions are severely -and disturbingly- different from canon, and piloting them is more dangerous (most people die or lose their minds when they get into the cockpit).
289* ImAHumanitarian: The Deep Ones are a race of man-eating fish people. In their Evangelions, the Children also ate other Evangelions.
290* IAmWho: During a nightmare in chapter 23, it’s revealed to Asuka that [[spoiler:the Children are literal Angels sent by God to save the world from the Outer Gods, and she’s the incarnation of Gabrielle.]]
291** Although it's debatable as to whether it actually happened; this is not brought up again, not discussed with the other Children, she has been shown to be a devout Christian, and she was in an easily-manipulable dreamscape.
292* IcyBlueEyes: Asuka has blue eyes, great fighting skills, and a fiery temper.
293* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: After fighting Amaliel Asuka wraps her arm around Shinji's and drags him away, urging him to tell her all about his battles. She was not intending to turn Shinji on, but "with Asuka's arm entwined with his and her warm tone of voice, his mind turned to mush".
294** Very disturbingly approached following the defeat of [[spoiler:The Violator, Y'golonac. The Children inherited his perverse lust, and are freaked out by it. To understate things.]]
295* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Gendo's approach to everything he does. Also when NERV was invaded; Shinji and Asuka brutally slaughtered a small army of soldiers trying to kill them. They don't even realize that they're treating the humans little different from the Angels until afterwards, at which point they're horrified and start justifying their actions to themselves.
296-->"Me too. I...we did what we had to do," Shinji said. "I feel terrible about it, but we really didn't have a choice. They had...they had to be stopped, right?"\
297"Right," Asuka said. "We didn't have a choice. Really. They invaded our base and wanted to use us to fight for their madness instead of against the Angels. And they had...they had Katsuragi-san."
298* IKissYourHand: In chapter Kaji 4 kissed Ritsuko's hand when he met her. In reaction she laughed and withdrew her hand.
299-->"Ah, Ritsuko, as beautiful as ever," said Kaji smoothly. He took her hand in his and kissed it.
300* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: In chapter 19, [[spoiler:Rei]] is forced by circumstance to possess Hikari, and Asuka and Touji try talk to her to free her.
301--> Touji approached Hikari slowly. "Um... Hikari?"\
302Rei's voice replied to him, "I am not Hikari."\
303The Children felt a chill run through them. "Let go of her!" screamed Asuka. "Get out!"\
304Touji grabbed Hikari's shoulder. "Whadaya mean you ain't Hikari!" he said desperately. "Of course you're Hikari! Stop playin' around!"
305* ImagineSpot: In chapter 23, as Rei tries unsuccessfully to persuade Asuka to share Shinji, Asuka can't help but envision it:
306-->Her mind flickered with something. It couldn't be a memory, as she knew it hadn't happened. Just an image of herself on a bed, Rei wrapped around her from behind, kissing her neck, as Shinji kissed his way down her belly. Her eyes widened and she drove the image out of her mind. She wouldn't do anything like that with another girl and ESPECIALLY not with Rei.
307* IMissMom: In chapter 7, Shinji tells Asuka that he's an orphan and he barely remembers his mother's face. She also misses Kyoko, even though she found a decent foster mother.
308* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Although she did not flaunt her skills as aggressively as in canon Asuka still tried to come across as a prideful, bombastic girl to hide her deep-seated insecurities. However her mask cracks during the War and after a while she stops wearing it.
309* InnocentBlueEyes: Shinji has clear blue eyes and he was a traumatized but innocent boy. He even tried to believe that his father was a decent person, despite of abandoning him.
310* InsecureLoveInterest: Shinji was very insecure about his feelings towards Asuka or Rei, and he was oblivious to theirs.
311* InterruptedIntimacy: In chapter 19, Asuka and Shinji are about to have sex when an enemy attacks the HomeBase. Shortly after they were making out in the locker rooms when Touji suddenly entered, saw them and gagged.
312* ItsPersonal: Misato wants to kill the Angels to avenge her father.
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314
315[[folder:J-L]]
316* JerkassHasAPoint: Gendo is a BadBoss, a bastard and an asshole, and at least a modicum of his anger stemed from annoyance at having been ignored, but he had a point when he told Asuka that charging the enemy blindly and not following orders will get her and everyone killed.
317* JumpedAtTheCall: Downplayed with Shinji in chapter 1. When his father asked him piloting Unit 01 he was not particularly enthusiastic about it, but he agreed to do it because he thought NERV had no one else and he did not want that his father thought he was a coward.
318* JustBeforeTheEnd: In the final chapters, the five pilots are anxious and worried because they can feel the end of everything is coming.
319* JustFriends: When Toji and Kensuke tease Shinji about Rei, he insists that they're only friends.
320* KidHero: All pilots are teenagers.
321* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: Only Shinji, Asuka, Rei and few other children can pilot an Evangelion. Other candidates are driven to madness when they try. This is because [[spoiler:the Children are all descendants with particularly strong blood of the Elder Gods, and possessed one of the more fortuitous mutations from the fallout of Adam exploding.]]
322* KillItWithFire: In chapter 1, billions of spiders -whose sizes range from spawned by an EldritchAbomination are flooding the city. As Shinji and Misato are running from them, Shinji sees a man setting himself on fire to burn away dozens of spiders clinging to his body. Rei also uses fire to burn away the city-wide webbing capturing Unit 01.
323** Once she gets fire powers, Asuka hardly enters battle without calling on them.
324* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: In chapter 4, after hearing false rumours about Rei and Shinji dating, Touji asks his friend:
325-->"So tell me, buddy," asked Touji. "Exactly how far didja... y'know... melt the ice queen, if ya know what I mean?"
326* LastGirlWins: Shinji falls for and ends up with [[spoiler:Asuka.]] He meets her in chapter 5, after meeting Misato, Rei, Hikari... and all remaining relevant female characters (save Anna, who was clearly never in the running anyways).
327* LastKiss: In the final episode [[spoiler:Shinji kissed Rei before she sacrificed herself to keep the Great Old Ones sealed forever.]]
328* LatexSpaceSuit: The pilots wear skintight pilot suits called plug suits. According Shinji, they look nice and are actually comfortable.
329-->The plugsuit wasn't bad. It looked fairly snazzy and it was remarkably comfortable for something so form-fitting.
330* LeeroyJenkins: During her first deployment, Asuka lost her temper and ripped a cosmic horror apart. Later on, Gendo criticized that behavior, stating that fighting like an enraged berserker would get them all killed.
331* LetsWaitAWhile: In chapter 23 Asuka is feeling very strong urges to make love to Shinji. However she suspects [[{{EldritchAbomination}} the Outer Gods]] want them to give in their base instincts so they can wipe humankind out, and she restrains herself, telling herself they are still too young and with no idea of how to do it properly.
332-->One day...one day she would she would make love to him. But not now. She was too young, and so was he, and she had a feeling that was what Nylarathotep wanted.\
333Also, she wasn't sure how to do it properly.
334* LighterAndSofter: Subverted. At the beginning it looks lighter and softer than canon: the characters are a bit happier and more psychologically stable, the battles against the Angels are less traumatic... and then more and more elements of the Cthulhu Mythos are introduced, and the setting becomes very dark.
335* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Shinji and Asuka become hugely co-dependant over the course of the story. At the beginning they were just friends, then they were dating, and then they needed each other to keep their sanity while their world collapsed, their friends died, and their powers corrupted them. At one point Shinji begs Asuka not to leave him, and she answers she'll never, ever, leave him.
336* LoveConfession: In chapter 23 Shinji and Asuka are resting in his room, wondering if they will be slaughtered in the next battle by the latest EldritchAbomination they are fighting, how longer the war will last... then Asuka tells him she loves him, and Shinji replies he loves her, too.
337-->"Shinji," she said softly. "I love you."\
338He gulped and kissed her again, then said softly, "I love you too, Asuka. Don't ever leave me. Please."\
339"I won't," she said. "Never."
340* LovecraftianSuperpower: To a degree; this is just how they choose to use them. Several of the Children have been seen using the abilities normally used by others. Apart from normal abilities like control of the elements, they have:
341** Shinji is capable to create and control insects, spiders and snakes. Including ''crying them out of his eyes''.
342** Rei is capable to possess people (among other things).
343** All of the children can produce living things from their body. Usually on accident.
344** Their blood can reverse mutations, heighten them, or just outright kill people.
345** Shinji and Rei can give themselves claws and fangs (Rei, in particular, can give herself arachnid mandibles).
346** Shinji can transform his limbs into serpents.
347** Shinji can slip out of any grasp and can spew forth webbing.
348** Asuka can produce hundreds of tiny tendrils that pierce the skin to drink blood.
349** They can teleport in what is often described as a swarm of bubbles (folding of space-time producing an appearance vaguely similar to Yog-Sothoth).
350** They can make tentacles
351* LoveHurts:
352** Rei fell for Shinji as soon as she met him, but Shinji was deeply in love with Asuka and he regarded Rei as a good friend. Worse still, one of the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s absorbed by Rei forced her to [[RapeAsDrama hurt Asuka physically and mentally]]. Rei had no chance to talk Asuka into sharing Shinji or having a three-ways relationship after that (although once things cooled down between them, she certainly tried), so she resigned to having an unrequited love.
353** In the FinalBattle, [[spoiler:Rei sacrificed herself]] to save everyone. Even though they won and survived the war, her teammates couldn't fully celebrate their victory because they loved her and missed her, even Asuka. But at least she finally got her kiss from Shinji.
354* LoveInterest: Shinji is Asuka and Rei's love interest. And Asuka is his.
355* LovelyAngels: In this crossover Asuka and Rei team up to destroy {{Eldritch Abomination}}s... but not of ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos the usual kind]]''.
356* LoveTriangle: During their first battles together Rei fell for Shinji. Then Asuka came along and as soon as she started to get familiar with Shinji, Rei was very, very jealous. Both girls competed over Shinji until he [[spoiler:chose Asuka.]] Rei would have been perfectly content if it were to become a threesome, although Asuka denied her.
357* LuminescentBlush: In chapter 4 Asuka bushes profusely when Kaji praises her offhandedly:
358-->Asuka blushed furiously and tightened her embrace just a little bit.
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362* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In chapter 19, Shinji and Asuka are making out and about to have sex in the base's locker rooms when they are caught by two fellow pilots.
363* TheManBehindTheMan: The main characters spend a long time fighting the Great Old Ones only to find [[spoiler:that they are acting at the behest of the Outer Gods, their true enemies (well, Nyarlathotep. The Outer Gods probably don't care in the slightest). This same story had played out again and again, with the defenders of the planet eventually being corrupted by the power they consumed eventually turn on their people and become the new Great Old Ones.]]
364* ManipulativeBastard: Gendo played with his pawns' emotions the whole time to get them to carry his goals out... or to save his own hide when his subordinates had got it with his crap. In a scene in which Asuka was angry enough to want to fry him -literally-, he resorted to point out that her boyfriend Shinji would be unhappy if she killed his father.
365* ManOnFire: In chapter 1, billions of spiders--whose sizes range from tiny to dog-sized--spawned by a massive, spider-like EldritchAbomination flooding the city. As Shinji and Misato are running from them:
366-->Shinji saw a man [[SelfImmolation setting himself on fire]] to get dozens of spiders off of him.
367* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Asuka and Shinji are a couple. Asuka is bold, outspoken, hot-blooded and domineering and belligerent; Shinji is shy, quiet, insecure and peace-keeping. When they interact, Asuka is bolder, more blunt and more aggressive than Shinji, who is more passive and calms her down when she gets angry with someone.
368* MechaShow: Giant robots are used to fight cosmic horrors.
369* MasturbationEqualsSexualFrustration: Darkly subverted. While he is in a steady relationship with Asuka at this point, Shinji relies on masturbation not because he's sexually frustrated, but because [[spoiler:the Great Old Ones are trying to corrupt him. He used masturbation after he was overwhelmed by the vile influence of the Violator to keep from forcing his lusts on others]]. Later, he discovers that [[spoiler:Adam's power had caused his semen to transform into hideous living monstrosities. Fortuantely, he later figures out how to turn the life-producing abilities of Adam off]].
370* MeleeATrois: In the FinalBattle, [[spoiler:the Children have to fight the dead Outer Gods once again.]] However the cosmic horros hated each other as much as they hated the Children, so they tried to fight the Children and each other simultaneously.
371* {{Metamorphosis}}: Chapter 16 reveals that [[spoiler:Ritsuko is in the process of turning into a Deep One. By the end of the fic, the transformation is complete]].
372* MildlyMilitary: Played with. Nerv is a pretty informal organization, but when Asuka forgot to follow orders during a sortie, Commander Gendo reprimanded her personally and harshly.
373* MindScrew: In chapter 5 Shinji has a horrid nightmare where he was dragged to a great underground lake to be turned into a god. The pool was filled with a black, oliy liquid substance which bubbled and seethed and sometimes rippled and formed tendrils that rose and fell. When Shinji tried to back away, a mob grabbed him, ripped his clothes and threw him into the pool. Then the ''real'' mind-screw began:
374-->His clothing was ripped from him, rough fingers bruising his flesh, and then naked, they lifted him like a sacrifice. They howled incoherently now as they ran towards the lake, while Ritsuko chanted and shouted in a deep voice not her own. "Come, Lords of the Outer Realms! Come and recieve this one into your number!"\
375They hurled him into the lake as he screamed, and the lake rose up and pulled him under. It suffused him, leaking in through his pores and sphincters, eating away at him and replacing him with itself. He became LCL and it was him. And the black fluid became a void, and around him, all was filled with the idiot flautings of a dozen mindless tentacled frog-things, which capered and played a dance for the beings who capered about in a great circle, ringing something behind him. The part of him that was still his 'real' self knew something horrible was there, but the god Shinji turned to gaze upon its master, giving a great incoherent cry of soulless joy.\
376At the last moment before he would have gazed upon it, the void cracked open, and there was light. And the light burned away the darkness, the void, the gods, and the dream.
377* MissingMom: Shinji and Asuka's mothers died when they were little children, although Asuka was taken in by a foster mother.
378* MobileFishbowl: [[spoiler: In chapter 22, Ritsuko's metamorphosis is accelerated by Anna under the influence of Nyarlathotep, then arrested using Touji's blood. She winds up unable to breathe air.]] One of the pilots immediately thinks of a water-filled diving suit, but the actual solution is a neck brace that circulates water over the gills.
379* MotherlyScientist: In contrast to her canon self, Ritsuko is a bit warmer and cares about the pilots. When some of them tell that they fear that they’ll become monsters, she states that she will not let it happen.
380* MustMakeAmends: Rei wanted to make amends with Asuka after [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination forced her to rape the red-haired girl.]] She felt so guilty that she was willing to let Asuka kill her.
381* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Invoked when [[spoiler:Asuka manages to kill Nylarathotep during a nightmare.]] She just knows he’ll rise again.
382-->Nylarathotep tried to speak, but her flames rushed through him, charring him to ash in an instant. But he wasn't dead. He would rise again, she knew, and that knowing infuriated her more.
383* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rei has this reaction when [[spoiler:one of the cosmic horrors that she absorbed overwhelmed her emotionally-deprived with inhuman lusts and raped Asuka]]. Even though she wasn't responsible for its actions, she felt guilty about Asuka's pain because she was unable to stop it, and she wanted to be punished by her teammate. To the point of being willing to be beaten to death by Asuka if that was what it took.
384* MyParentsAreDead: In chapter 7, Shinji tells Asuka that his father sent him away. Then he asks her what her parents are like, and she replies "Dead".
385-->They both laughed. "So what are your parents like?" Shinji asked.\
386"Dead." Her voice was a little sharp.\
387Shinji looked away. "I'm sorry."
388* NiceGuy: Shinji is too nice and kind for his own good. He tries to be nice to and understanding with everyone, and he even tries to give Gendo the benefit of the doubt and think that maybe his father had a good reason for abandoning him.
389* NightmareSequence: Shinji has one in chapter 5. It starts quite innocently, looking like a fairy tale where knight Shinji has to move all of Princess Asuka's possessions to become a god, and he is helped by a horde of cute penguins. Then it takes an increasingly unsettling turn when he is led deep underground until a vast subterranean lake filled with a bubbling, seething sludge from which formed tendrils. Shinji tried to back away and then a horde grabbed him, ripped his clothes and threw him naked in the lake. And ''then'' it got real disturbing.
390* NoEndorHolocaust: Averted. The body count in some battles is pretty high, even if the main characters aren’t fighting with their giant robots. At the end of episode nine, after defeating “The King of Yellow”, Misato looks over the devastation, and thinks:
391-->Medics and police covered the auditorium, checking on the wounded of body and soul. Misato looked at the devastation with sadness.\
392They were at war, and every war has its casualties.
393* NoIndoorVoice: Asuka may be ''very'' loud when she's happy and thrilled. In chapter 7, Shinji finds out about this when she walks into the classroom and talks very loudly.
394-->"Loud? Me? OF COURSE! I'M THE GREATEST!" boomed Asuka.
395* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Subverted. [[spoiler:When Rei wants to stay in the final EldritchAbomination to control it and protect her friends, they refuse to leave her alone.]] However she insisted on it until they caved.
396* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Asuka is not familiarized with the concept of "personal space". In her first appearance in chapter 4 she quickly latched on to Kaji. And later she stayed close to Shinji and wrapped an arm around his, despite of barely knowing Shinji at that point (although her intention was truly to get Kaji jealous):
397-->Asuka quickly stepped up to Shinji's side, taking his arm in hers, and strolled along with Kaji and Misato.
398* NoSocialSkills: Shinji is meek, introvert and not good interacting with other people (especially pretty girls who are apparently taking an interest in him). He admits that in chapter 4:
399-->Shinji Ikari was not a people person. He lacked severely in people skills. This went doubly so for girls that showed signs that they liked him. With Asuka's arm entwined with his and her warm tone of voice, his mind turned to mush. "Um, well, you see..."''
400* NotWhatItLooksLike: Parodied in chapter 19 when Shinji and Asuka are caught when they were about to make love in the lockers and Shinji automatically says that it is not what they think:
401-->Anna peeked into the boys' dressing room just in time to see her friend stradled atop Shinji, both wearing their plugsuits, though the way they were kissing, she had to wonder if the plugsuits were going to come off again. At Touji's outburst, the two lovebirds paused a moment and looked up, then quickly stood up and straightened themselves out.\
402"Aaagh!" screamed Touji. "It's true! You've turned kraut!"\
403"I-it's not what you think!" replied Shinji desperately. They all stared at him. He smiled weakly. "Okay, so it was what you think."
404* NowOrNeverKiss: In chapter 23, Asuka kisses Shinji and tells that she loves him, just in case they die in the next battle.
405* ObliviousToLove: During a large fraction of the story, if you tell Shinji that Asuka and Rei are smitten over him, he will laugh and say that is crazy talk.
406-->Touji glared at him. "You're gettin' all mushy on Asuka, ain'cha."\
407"D-don't be ridiculous!"\
408"I see the way she fusses over ya sometimes," said Touji, arms crossed with a stern expression.\
409"It's nothing like that!" insisted Shinji.
410* OfficialCouple: Shinji and Asuka. Touji and Hikari.
411* OfficialKiss: Asuka kissed Shinji for first time after their first date in chapter 16.
412* OhCrap: In chapter 4 Asuka clings to Shinji, driving Rei mad with jealousy. When Touji realized quiet, soft-spoken Rei was mad, he got this reaction.
413-->"Ohshit," whispered Touji. "She's mad."
414* OldFlame: Misato and Kaji got back together during the War [[spoiler:but he died later on.]]
415* TheOldGods: The Great Old Ones inhabited Earth long before mankind… and now they want to reclaim their home.
416* OneManArmy: Shinji, Asuka, Rei and their teammates killed the Great Old Ones and stole their powers, as well as those of a few masks of Nyarlathotep. Any of those kids was able to destroy whole armies, kill eldritch abominations and level cities.
417* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Rei is usually calm, quiet and soft-spoken. It is hard to get her angry. Then in chapter 4 she saw Asuka wrapping her arm around Shinji's. She was so consumed with jealousy she actually growled and clenched her fists while she glared at Asuka. When Touji and Kensuke saw she was actually ''mad'', they freaked out.
418* OperationJealousy: In chapter 4 Asuka sees her crush Kaji flirting with Misato and clung to Shinji to make Kaji jealous. Kaji did not even notice her antics, goading her to try harder. Her ploy failed and anyway she eventually fell for Shinji.
419* OriginalCharacter: Reporter Megumi Kunzama, Anna (the Fifth Child).
420* OrphansOrdeal: Shinji and Asuka lost their mothers and were abandoned by their fathers shortly after. Fortunately their parental substitutes were more competent in this story than in canon, so they were somewhat more stable and less introvert before the beginning of the War (and then a bunch of world-shattering Eldritch Abominations came along and their sanity suffered serious blows).
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424* ParentalAbandonment: Gendo abandoned his son Shinji after his wife's death to focus on eldritch studies and the upcoming war, and only recalled him when he needed him to kill Cthulhu and co. Asuka was similarly abandoned by her father after losing her mother, but she met a decent foster mother.
425* ParentalSubstitute:
426** When Shinji arrived to Tokyo-3 Misato took him in and took care of him.
427** After her parents died, Asuka was adopted by Dr. Himmelfarb. Her foster mother took care of her and mentored her for many years. Later Kaji became her guardian, and when the war began, Misato took her in together with Shinji.
428** After the end of the war [[spoiler:Shinji, Asuka, Touji and Hikari have lost their respective families.]] Misato insists on becoming the surrogate mother of the four teenagers. When they warn her that other people will give her grief about it, Misato retorts she does not give a damn.
429* ParentsInDistress: When a terrorist group invaded [[HomeBase NERV's German base]], they captured badass soldier and MamaBear Misato, and her wards Shinji and Asuka together with Rei had to rescue her. The three kids didn't want to kill people and they were hugely distraught about it afterwards, but they couldn't let those terrorists hurt their surrogate mother.
430* PastExperienceNightmare: Due to his childhood trauma, piloting an Evangelion (which drives most people insane), fighting cosmic horrors ''and'' stealing their powers after killing them, Shinji has frequent bad dreams. Sometimes they start out innocently but they soon devolve into nightmares where he is seized by a mob and thrown into an underground lake filled with black sludge which will turn him into a monster.
431* PeopleJars: In chapter 20, the clones of Rei are seen swimming inside their huge liquid-filled tank (and trying to break the glass to escape).
432* PersonOfMassDestruction: Shinji, Asuka and Rei –and to a lesser extent, Touji and Hikari- pilot HumongousMecha and wield powers of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. “Mass Destruction” doesn’t even come close to describe the kind of devastation that they can make.
433* PhantomZone: The Dreamlands are a strange, dark fantasy land set in a parallel dimension.
434* PitbullDatesPuppy: Downplayed compared with original canon, but Asuka is still pretty aggressive and combative, and Shinji is pretty wimpy and timid, so their relationship looks like this to their friends.
435* PlayfulCatSmile: Asuka smirks wickedly after kissing Shinji for the first time.
436* PlayingWithFire: Fire generation and manipulation is one of Asuka's powers.
437-->She sat upright, face contorted into an angry scowl, her fists suddenly ablaze with flame.
438* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In chapter 23 Shinji and Asuka are resting in his room, wondering if they would be killed by the latest EldritchAbomination in the next battle. Shinji kissed Asuka and begged her to never leave him:
439-->'''Asuka''': "Shinji," she said softly. "I love you."\
440'''Shinji''': "I love you too, Asuka. Don't ever leave me. Please."\
441'''Asuka''': "I won't, [...] Never."
442* PowerEchoes: When [[spoiler:Yui uses the stolen power given to the Great Old Ones by the Outer Gods to ascend to godhood,]] her voice echoes when she talks.
443* PowerFloats: After [[spoiler:stealing given to the Great Old Ones by the Outer Gods, Yui]] floats when she uses her power.
444* PowerGivesYouWings: During the War the Children gain the ability to grow or form wings. Asuka's are long flaming wings.
445* PowerGlows:
446** Asuka gives off an orange glow when she uses her pyrokinesis.
447** [[spoiler:Yui]] also glowed white when she used her powers during the Final Battle.
448* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: In the first chapter Shinji gets a giant robot and fights his first {{Robeast}}. When he kills Matriel, he feels ''something'' entering his body. That ''something'' was the power of the monster he had just slain.
449* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: When [[spoiler:Gendo and Yui seized the power stolen from the Outer Gods by the main characters,]] their voices plummeted and boomed when they talked.
450* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: Gendo and Fuyutsuki use several prophecies like guidelines. They usually are reliable. In the prologue, Gendo quotes a prophecy after it has come to pass.
451* PsychicPowers: Asuka is a pyrokinetic.
452* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:One of the monsters Rei absorbed forces her to rape Asuka]] in one of the later chapters.
453* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: When [[spoiler:Ritsuko wakes up from a coma and sees Maya, she thinks that she's in her forties. Maya informs her]] that she's nearly six hundred years old thanks to advanced aging-slowing technology.
454* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: All pilots are teenagers. Asuka is thirteen and their teammates are fourteen. Several of them –like Asuka or Touji- are quite hardheaded, too.
455* RedEyesTakeWarning: When Rei got jealous in chapter 4, her red eyes glowed for a split-second. Touji and Kensuke were utterly scared out of their wits when they saw it.
456-->Rei was staring at Asuka, intensely, her face twisted in anger. Her fists were clenched, shaking slightly. It was hard to tell in the sunlight, but they thought they saw her blood red eyes glow brightly for a moment.\
457"Ohshit," whispered Touji. "She's mad."
458* RedIsHeroic: Asuka was a heroine, piloted a war mecha and fought cosmic horrors older than the world, slaying them and stealing their powers. She was a redhead, she wore red, her giant robot was also red, and she even [[spoiler:gained fire elemental powers.]]
459* RedOniBlueOni: Asuka is the Red Oni -being fiery, high-spirited and loud- and Rei the Blue Oni -she is quieter, colder and usually emotionless-. As a bonus, Asuka has fire-related powers.
460* RelationshipUpgrade: In chapter 16, Asuka and Shinji have their first date. They dance together for a little while, and finally Asuka kisses him. From that point on, they are officially a couple.
461* ResistTheBeast: All Children face this because their stolen powers are inherently foul and corrupting. All of them feel dark urges and desires, and they struggle against them the whole time. What happened with [[spoiler:Rei and Asuka]] is a chilling reminder of what would happen if they failed.
462* {{Robeast}}: At the beginning the Angels fought by the main characters seem to be just weird, massive aliens monsters, although very ancient and slightly eldritch. Then it is revealed that they are full-blown Eldritch Abominations and there are worst things behind them and their attacks.
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466* SailorEarth: Anna, Asuka’s friend from Berlin and Fifth Child.
467* SaveTheDayTurnAway: During the War, Shinji, Asuka and Rei absorbed the powers of all {{Eldritch Abomination}}s killed by them until they became {{Humanoid Abomination}}s. When they fought the remaining Outer Gods, [[spoiler:Rei chose to seal herself with them forever, telling her friends that she'd never have a normal life.]] After saving the world, [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka left his friends and human civilization forever because they didn't belong with humans anymore]] (in a subversion, they left together).
468* SayMyName: In episode 19, after [[spoiler:Rei unintentionally hurts Asuka's body and soul]], Asuka decides to face off against her:
469-->"REI! Face me!" she bellowed, her fists lighting into flames.
470* SayingTooMuch: In chapter 5 Gendo reprimands Asuka, warning that she can be replaced. Asuka retorts according her foster mother, training a replacement is hard. Gendo asks what other classfied information she has been given, and Asuka wonders if she has not accidentally gotten her foster mother in trouble.
471* ScienceFictionFanFic: The giant robots, the giant alien monsters and the ancient cosmic horros are only the tip of the iceberg.
472* TheScottishTrope: One of the Angels (actually a Lovecraft-canon creature) can possess anyone who knows her name (even by simply seeing it written down), and will be almost guaranteed to do so if the possessee-to-be speaks it out loud. After [[spoiler:Rei]] defeats her, she gains this power and applies it to her own name. Did you read that spoiler?
473* SeaMonster: In chapter 4 Asuka fought Amaliel, an aquatic, sea-dwelling monster resembling a viscous blob with tentacles and pincers.
474-->...an almost globular torso, with six long sinuous limbs terminating in crab-like claws. From the upper end a subsidiary globe bulged forward bubble-like; its triangle of three staring, fishy eyes, its foot-long and evidently flexible proboscis, and a distended lateral system analogous to gills, suggested that it was a head.
475* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Gendo and Yui used the power of the [[EldritchAbomination Outer Gods]] to create a perfect world.]] However, their stolen power was gradually corrupting that world. When the Children realized what was happening [[spoiler:they rebelled and resolved to destroy the dream world.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Shinji -helped by his teammates- had to kill his mother Yui]] to achieve that goal.
476* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend:
477** In chapter 6 Asuka claimed she wrapped her arm around Shinji's earlier because she was trying to make Kaji jealous and she did not like her fellow pilot. Of course, everyone disregarded her claims.
478** Several chapters later, Shinji insists that Asuka isn't his girlfriend.
479--->Touji glared at him. "You're gettin' all mushy on Asuka, ain'cha."\
480"D-don't be ridiculous!"\
481"I see the way she fusses over ya sometimes," said Touji, arms crossed with a stern expression.\
482"It's nothing like that!" insisted Shinji.
483* ShellShockedVeteran:
484** After fighting and defeating a bunch of cosmic horrors from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, Shinji and Asuka are so traumatized that they feel they no longer fit into human society [[spoiler:so that they say goodbye to their remaining friends and leave civilization forever.]]
485** Rei, too. [[spoiler:She commits a HeroicSacrifice while stating that normal life is not for her.]]
486* ShipperOnDeck: Misato shipped Shinji and Asuka. In a scene she asks if they’re making out, and when they deny it, she pouts.
487* ShipSinking: Rei's chances to hook up with Shinji or having a three-ways relationship with him and Asuka vanished when [[spoiler:the Violator forced her to rape Asuka.]]
488* ShipTease: Teasing between Shinji and Asuka started as soon as Asuka's first appearance when she, trying to have Kaji paying attention to her, wrapped her arm around Shinji's, prompting him to blush because a beautiful girl was talking to him and touching him. The teasing between him and Rei started even before then.
489* ShowWithinAShow: In chapter 4 Kensuke proposes to go to the cinema to watch ''Gekiganger-X'', a movie based on a SuperRobotGenre show (the name being a homage to ''Anime/{{Gekiganger3}}'' and ''Anime/MazingerZ'').
490-->They've got ''Gekiganger X'' down at the movie theatre today.
491* SoProudOfYou:
492** Before dying, Asuka's father told that he was proud of her because she had potential to pilot and Evangelion and save humanity.
493--->He told me to be brave, that he was proud I would be an EVA pilot, and he wanted me to do my best to save humanity.
494** In chapter 7, Shinji tells that Gendo caught him when he was leafing through a dangerous-looking book and his father spanked him... but intriguingly, Gendo looked mad and proud at the same time.
495* SociallyAwkwardHero: Shinji, Asuka, Rei and -to a lesser extent- their friends, Rei, Touji, Hikari and Anna... could fight and kill Great Old Ones easily, but socializing and fitting in with other people became increasingly hard. After every battle they became more powerful and simultaneously less human. And at the end, Rei knows she can't ever lead a normal life, and Shinji and Asuka don't belong among humans anymore.
496* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil:
497** Played straight. The first enemies were weaker and less mind-screwing, and one or two giant robots could take them without too much trouble. The last enemies fought by the main characters were [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos ancient eldritch horrors which could obliterate planets with a mere gesture.]]
498** Gendo invoked the trope in the first chapter when the first Angel (a giant spider) came along, and he said it will likely be the weakest since it is the first one. He also said several times that their first enemies were -comparatively- weak and dumb, but their future adversaries would be more dangerous.
499* SpeakOfTheDevil: Misato escapes her kidnappers by repeating Rei's name over and over; as Rei helped kill the Elder God [[spoiler:Y'Golonac,]] this allows Rei to possess one of the kidnappers.
500* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Often the authors misspelled Asuka's surname, writing “Langely” instead of “Langley”. It was lampshaded in chapter 21: Shinji's spiders spun a heart-shaped web with Asuka's name written on it. Asuka says it's very sweet... but her name is misspelled.
501-->"Except it's 'Langley' not 'Langely', Shinji-kun," Asuka said, pointing.
502* SpitTake:
503** Shinji very nearly got this reaction when he read a newspaper was spreading rumours that Rei and he were dating. In chapter 4:
504--->With the last of breakfast done, he took a seat at the table, took a sip of water, unfolded the morning paper, then nearly spat his drink out.
505** In chapter 12, Misato spat her beer out when Rei suddenly appeared right in front of her:
506--->She turned to the keg, filled her mug, began guzzling it as she turned once more to the sunset, then spat out her beer as she suddenly found herself locking eyes with Rei.
507* SquareCubeLaw: In the prologue, a scientist finds an arthropod-like, gigantic EldritchAbomination and wonders how it can support its own weight:
508-->How... How can that thing support its own weight?
509* TheStationsOfTheCanon: The first episode of the anime (where Shinji reunites with is father, meets the NERV staff, and the other Children) is reproduced fairly faithfully, but with just enough minor alterations to signal the reader that something is off. The canon timeline is then thrown completely out of the window when Shinji fights Matriel, who is truly Atlach-Nacha (note the name difference from Matarael) in lieu of Sachiel, supported by Rei. The Angels are completely different and so is the story.
510* StepfordSmiler: In chapter 22, Asuka tries to smile when her friend Anna tries to comfort her, but it was plainly visible that she was still in pain.
511* SuperFic: The main characters gain powers after killing {{Eldritch Abomination}}s: Shinji controls arthropods and snakes, Asuka wields fire…
512* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In chapter 16, Shinji and Asuka cried out that they didn’t do anything when they were alone.
513-->"On the other hand, I gotta feel sorry for Shinji here, knowin' yer freaky abusive perverted nature. God only knows what ya did to the poor guy."\
514"W-we didn't do anything!" Shinji and Asuka cried.\
515At the same time.\
516Touji raised an eyebrow, then looked at the two of them suspiciously.\
517"Shinji, buddy, say it ain't so."
518* TalkingInBed: In chapter 23 Asuka goes to Shinji's bedroom and while they lay together, they talk about the war, their fear of dying and their feelings for each other.
519* TeamMom: Misato becomes this to the Children.
520* TearsOfJoy: When [[spoiler:Ritsuko woke up from her long coma]], Maya cried in happiness:
521-->Maya looked to be in her forties now, and she had a long white streak in her hair which rather reminded Ritsuko of a skunk. Her smile was still so bright; she was starting to cry, though she smiled.
522* TearsOfRemorse: After [[spoiler:the lingering, perverted essence of an EldritchAbomination (appropriately titled "the Violator") overwhelms the emotionally stunted Rei and drives her to rape Asuka]], Rei cries, blaming herself for Asuka's pain since she was unable to stop that cosmic horror.
523* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Asuka and Rei were members of the same squad, but they didn't get along because they were in love with the same person. After [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination seized Rei and forced her to hurt Asuka,]] their teamwork was even more strained.
524* TenderTears: In chapter 7, Asuka cries after realizing what Kaji loves another woman.
525-->And with those well-chosen words, Asuka finally snapped, tears flowing from her eyes. "I don't WANT anyone else! I want KAJI!"\
526"I... I'm sorry."\
527He gave her shoulder a gentle squeeze.\
528What happened next took him entirely by surprise.\
529She suddenly turned around and cried on his shoulder, holding him tight as she sobbed. He didn't know how long she cried on his shoulder, and it didn't seem to matter. She was someone in need, and all he could do was be there for her.
530* ThermalDissonance: Touji and Kensuke were standing next to Rei when Asuka met the group. When Rei saw the German girl wrapping her arm around Shinji's and dragging him away, the ambient temperature suddenly dropped, and Touji and Kensuke felt a blast of cold hitting them.
531* TheseHandsHaveKilled: When a terrorist group attempted to take over NERV's German base, Shinji and Asuka had to kill humans for first time. After the battle they spend a good while feeling sorry and depressed, trying to cope with their actions and telling themselves what they did what they had to do.
532* ThinkUnsexyThoughts: In chapter 23, Shinji is trying to keep his hormones under control, so he makes himself think of his father, hoping that it’ll turn him off.
533* ThreesomeSubtext: Between Shinji, Asuka and Rei. In chapter 23, Rei tries to talk Asuka into sharing Shinji. Asuka says no... but she can't help to be tempted.
534* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Played with. The main characters' base is located in Tokyo-3, and most of battles happen there... but the Angels also attack other countries and the pilots often have to fight in other places such like the USA West Coast or Canada.
535* TookALevelInBadass: The three pilots take levels constantly: every time they kill an EldritchAbomination they steal its power, and their bodies evolve to adapt to their enemies. So, every battle they grow more powerful.
536* TookALevelInCheerfulness: After getting orphaned and abandoned Asuka was a very angry, very hostile little girl. However her foster mother took care of her and helped her with her issues, and when Asuka met the remaining cast she was considerably more cheerful than her canon self.
537* TookALevelInIdealism: The Children are more optimistic and somewhat happier than in canon thanks to several changes on her upbringing (as an example, Asuka got a good mother figure. Ergo, she still is hot-tempered and tries to stand out but she is not constantly angry and she does not try to push everybody away constantly because she no longer is frightened of bonding with other people).
538* TookALevelInKindness: After losing her mother and being ditched by her father, Asuka's temper got real bad. Fortunately she got a decent foster mother who raised her properly, and her behaviour softened after a while.
539* TroubledFetalPosition: In chapter 18, Asuka curls into a ball and cries after [[spoiler:being raped.]]
540-->And then the memories came, and all Asuka could do was curl into a ball and cry.
541* TrueCompanions: In spite of all their fights and arguments, Shinji, Asuka, Rei, Touji and Hikari are a team and fight together during the War. After the FinalBattle they think of themselves as a family.
542* {{Tsundere}}: Due to have a better parental role model after her father died, Asuka's personality is softer. She still has a harsher, rougher, angrier side, but she displays her kinder self more easily, and her character gradually softens up after meeting Shinji.
543* {{Tykebomb}}: Rei and Asuka were raised by NERV since they were little kids to be the organization’s tools because they were the only ones capable of piloting Evangelions without mutating, going insane or dying. Asuka grew into a relatively normal teenager, but Rei was extremely creepy and unable to lead a normal life.
544* UnbrokenVigil: After her transformation into [[spoiler:a Deep One, Ritsuko]] fell unconscious and was in a coma for five hundred and twenty-eight years. [[spoiler:Maya]] kept watch over her, leading a mostly normal life and even occasionally dating, but remaining as long as possible by her bedside, patiently hoping for [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] waking up. When she finally and suddenly woke up, [[spoiler:Maya]] was overjoyed.
545* UncannyValley: The main characters creep most of people out because they can tell that those Children may look human but they're something different and very dangerous.
546* UncannyValleyGirl: Rei looks like a normal if emotionless and creepy girl. That creepiness hints that she is not human but something completely different and infinitely more dangerous and frightening.
547* UndyingLoyalty: In chapter 23 Shinji pleaded with Asuka to not leave him. She replied she will not leave him, ever. Later [[spoiler:when they are considering leaving human civilization after the war]], Asuka says plaintively that she will go wherever Shinji goes. She never considered parting with him.
548-->'''Shinji''': I love you too, Asuka. Don't ever leave me. Please.\
549'''Asuka''': I won't, [...] Never.
550* TheUnFavourite: Rei is Gendo's favorite pilot. In chapter 19, Asuka went mad with Gendo because he always favored Rei, not matter what.
551* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Shinji and Asuka since they met and Shinji noticed how beautiful she was. For a good while, though, neither of them dared to give the first step because they were afraid of rejection. Even after getting together they were hesitant to go beyond kissing because the Outer Gods could use their desire and lust to corrupt them.
552* UnwittingPawn:
553** Megumi Kunzama is a reporter that believes she’s getting the scoop on NERV. In reality, Gendo and Fuyutsuki are using her, leaking harmless or false information to her. And she’s no idea.
554** In the Kingdom of Joy, the man who would become The King in Yellow manipulated everyone to bring about the fall of the world.
555** All Children are [[spoiler:Gendo and Yui]]'s unwitting pawns, since [[spoiler:they're using the pilots to fight the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods and steal their powers in order to carry their plans forward.]]
556** Everyone is the Outer God's unwitting pawns (or maybe just Nyarlathotep's, it isn't entirely clear): all sorts of planets are set up with the same situation as Earth so that should the Children-equivalents win, they would fall to their own corruption, turn on their own species, and become the new Great Old Ones.
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558
559[[folder:V-Z]]
560* VictorGainsLosersPowers: A pretty dark example. When Shinji, Asuka, Rei and other pilots defeated an enemy they stole its power (usually by uncontrollably feasting on its still-living body)... but their enemies are the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s from the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''. Ergo, their powers allowed them easily obliterate a planet... and corrupted everything around them, making people frightened. Finally Shinji and Asuka were so fed up with people freaking out whenever they passed by [[spoiler:they left human civilization forever because they did not fit anymore.]]
561* VitriolicBestBuds: Misato and Ritsuko are good friends but they often enjoy teasing or poking fun at each other.
562-->'''Ritsuko:''' Hmm. I see you're busy. When you two are done, I need to see Misato.\
563'''Misato:''' I was just trying to find out who his girlfriend is!\
564'''Ritsuko:''' I suppose he had it written on the inside of his underwear or something?
565* WalkingTheEarth: After the War, [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka]] don't belong among normal human beings anymore, and after graduating high school, they decide to leave their guardian and friends and go sailing "around the world". They never returned to human civilization.
566* WellDoneSonGuy: Shinji agreed to pilot Unit 01 -among other reasons- because he did no want his father thinking he was a coward.
567* WeUsedToBeFriends: Asuka and Rei managed to get along, even though both girls liked the same boy… but after the battle against the Violator where [[spoiler:Rei hurt Asuka unwillingly but brutally,]] their friendship all but came to an end. It only started to heal at the very end parts of the story.
568* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: In chapter 9, Asuka and Hikari argue because Asuka doesn't like Touji and doesn't get why Hikari likes him. Ironically, Hikari thought Asuka's crush on Kaji was bad because Kaji was an older man and a playboy.
569-->Asuka started to retort, then sighed. She didn't want to fight with Hikari about this. He was bad for her, but she just wouldn't ever see it. I can't believe she likes this guy, Asuka thought. "Okay, okay, I'll try to get along with him, but..." He's a butthead, she thought.\
570I'm not too fond of your date either, Hikari thought. How can you like that guy? He's just a playboy. This is gonna be one big mess. But it gives me an excuse to ask Touji out, so... "Right. I'll talk to Touji as soon as I can."
571* WhatIf: This story replaces the Angels with Cthlhu and co. The result is the Children look saner but they become {{Humanoid Abomination}}s, and their world is ''more'' insane, darker and bleaker.
572* WhatTheHellHero:
573** When Gendo finally reveals Asuka what happened to her parents and tells everything about NERV’s genetic experiments she is absolutely furious and asks how they were capable to do such a thing:
574--->'''Asuka:''' How could you do something like that? That's horrible, going around altering the genetics of babies! How could you do that to my parents?
575** The standard response to the resulting damage after a battle against an Angel.
576* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In chapter 23, Nylarathotep tried to tempt all Children while they slept, talking them into join him. All refused him.
577-->'''Nylarathotep:''' Look, my offer stands, up until the bitter end, okay? So when you're face down in the dirt and your friends are all dying around you, keep me in mind. Just say the word and you'll be saved, your friends will be saved, your sister and Kensuke will be saved, and everything will be alright.\
578'''Touji''': You're still not taking my soul.
579* WhenSheSmiles: In chapter 7, [[HumanoidAbomination Rei]] [[EmotionlessGirl Ayanami]] blushes and smiles when Shinji says she's beautiful. Touji and Kensuke agreed that her smile was memorable.
580-->And then she smiled.\
581It was a small smile.\
582A very small one.\
583But it was a memorable one.
584* WillTheyOrWontThey: Shinji and Asuka spent months dancing around each other until they got together in episode 16.
585* WingedHumanoid: All the Children gain the ability to sprout wings and fly. Asuka has fire wings, while the wings of the others aren't consistently any particular form.
586-->Shinji nodded. They stood, and formed wings, and rose into the sky as the sun began to peek through the trees on the eastern shore of the Rhine.
587* WithFriendsLikeThese: Misato and Ritsuko argue constantly although they’re friends.
588* YouHaveFailedMe: At the end of chapter 9, [[spoiler:Cassilda, possessing Rei]] kills The King of Yellow, arguing that he’s failed and the Outer Gods don’t tolerate failures:
589-->"The Crawling Chaos will devour you all!" The King shouted. "The Outer Gods cannot be mocked! I have gazed upon the Throne of Azathoth! I have..."\
590"You have failed. And the Herald of the Outer Gods has no patience for those who fail him."
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594->'''Fuyutsuki''': "They gazed into the Abyss and now it lives inside them."

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