History Fanfic / ACrownOfStars

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

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

* CatSmile: In chapter 64, after playing in front of a crowd Asuka kissed Shinji, informed him that he and she had a date with a bed right now and grinned a grin “would have done credit to a Great White shark.”

* AmazonChaser: Shinji [[HeroesWantRedheads loves]] Asuka for her [[FieryRedhead beauty]], intelligence, [[HotBlooded bravery]], [[{{Determinator}} determination]]... and also for her fighting skill and prowess. Even though he hated fighting he was incredibly drawn to her when she battled an enemy.

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Before the FinalBattle [[HeroesWantRedheads Shinji]] tried to talk [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] [[StayInTheKitchen into staying behind and safe]]. [[ActionGirl Asuka would have nothing of it]].

%%* HeroesWantRedheads: Shinji has loved Asuka since he was fourteen.

-->'''Asuka''':''“Let me guess, your first clear memory in a long while is waking up underwater on a beach, with these two waiting for you? Preceded by a bunch of really strange dreams, memories that don’t feel like yours, and weird perspectives on things in your head?”''\\

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gendo’s reaction when he learns that Asuka means to his son so much as Yui means to him. It is right then when he realizes how badly he has screwed everyone’s lives.

--->''Asuka kept staring at the door he’d left through for a long time. “What the fuck just happened?” she finally asked the empty room.''

''“Fräulein Pilot Asuka Langley Sohryu? I’m sorry to interrupt your rest, but this is the earliest I could arrive.” Shinji still could hardly see the backlit figure, just a caped silhouette. The figure noted his squint. “Ah, my apologies for the brightness of the portal. Rather a large energy differential between here and home. Let me get that.” He snapped his fingers and the glowing mini-sun shrank to a point and vanished. The near-daylight illumination dropped to just the solitary camp lantern hanging at the tent’s entryway.''

--->'''Shinji''': “I... even if it had been futile, I should have tried. I can’t abandon you like that again, Asuka. So I won’t. Ever.”\\

--->'''Shinji''': ''“This place gets weirder every time I turn around. Witch Queens, people with wings, people back from the dead, at least three copies of us running around, and a bartender that looked like a dragon. I’d ask ‘what’s next?’, but I bet that would count as tempting fate around here.”''

* TrespassingToTalk: In the first chapter [[PhysicalGod Daniel]] shows up in the Shinji and Asuka’s cabin at the night as they resting in order to make his offer.

* UnkemptBeauty: Shinji always thought that [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] looked [[HeroesWantRedheads beautiful]] -[[AmazonChaser and/or hot]]- not matter what (although in the chapter 21 she had a makeover and his legs quit on him).

** GenderFlipped and deconstructed with Rei. She does not want Shinji leaving her sight because she cares for him and wants to protect him… so she shut down the dimensional portal, cutting Shinji and Asuka’s platoon off and blocking them from contacting with the Empire. She was endangering not only their lives but also endangering everyone on the whole planet only because she was afraid of Shinji leaving and jealous of Asuka.

* CatchPhrase: Shinji has several ones: "Oh Gods Oh Gods Oh Gods Oh Gods Oh Gods Oh Gods"; "Oh Gods, please don’t let me fuck this up!"; "Don’t say ‘I’m sorry’, or she’ll kill me. Don’t say ‘I’m sorry’, or she’ll kill me. Don’t say ‘I’m sorry’, or she’ll kill me.".

* CanNotSpitItOut: Shinji and Asuka got together after he said he loved her. However Asuka was still very confused, frightened and insecure of herself and of her feelings. So it took a while until she was ready to admit to herself and him that she needed him and loved him back.

* HurtingHero: After the canon events where Shinji and Asuka endured parental abandonment and abuse since they were four, were forced to combat alien monsters, got constantly beaten and mind-raped, actually ''died'' and outlived the end of the world... they had to survive in a devastated world ruled by warlords kept them alive because they had an use for them. While they worked for two wannabe dictators Asuka was sexually harassed every day, both got more wounds and scars... when the story begins they have overthrown a dictator, and they are helping to topple another and rebuild their world.
-->''“Asuka, both of our parents practically dumped us by the side of the road before we were four. Both of us have actually died in combat with alien monsters before we were fifteen. We outlived the end of the world, and then some. Why should anything in our lives be easy, even the good things?”''

* BladeOnAStick: Rayana brandishes a naginata in a piece of fanart.

* TheHero: Asuka wants to turn Shinji in the hero she knows he may be in lieu of the wimp he usually behaves like. At the beginning he is not enthused about the idea but later he decides he wants to become a hero for her.
-->'''Shinji''':''“You want a hero? I can be one. You want the Shinji who eats Angels for breakfast? That can be me. That will be me. I can do anything now. Now that I have a cause, a reason to start over new.”''
* HeroesWantRedheads: Shinji has loved Asuka since he was fourteen.

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