History Fanfic / AdviceAndTrust

** Humorous example: The morning after the BigDamnKiss, Asuka leaves the bathroom to see Shinji bringing breakfast to the table. He's caught off-guard when he sees her...which leads him to stub his toe on the table. Shinji manages to set the tray down safely before grabbing his foot and jumping up and down.
** Less humorous example: [[spoiler:Ritsuko steps on the shards of her shattered porcelain cat figurine while in a serious bout of [[DrowningMySorrows drunk depression]]. Because she is also pounding painkillers, she doesn't even notice until she spots the blood trail.]]
** Another dramatic example: [[spoiler:Asuka gets shot in the foot during an assassination attempt. Astonishingly, she doesn't particularly care--not when her boyfriend and several of her friends were also shot at and hospitalized]].

Originally started in the forums of ''Sufficient Velocity'', this fanfic has been (per WordOfGod) highly influenced by other ''NGE'' fan stories ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'', ''Fanfic/WalkingInTheShadowOfDreams'', ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'' and ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling''. The story can be found on Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom ([[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/advice-and-trust-nge.8768/ here]]), and it is also hosted on Website/FanFictionDotNet ([[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10675474/1/Advice-and-Trust here]]) and Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/advice-and-trust-nge.311196/ here]]).

* HeroesWantRedHeads:
** Shinji is fully, completely and utterly smitten with Asuka.
** When Rei falls in love with both Shinji and Asuka she can not help to fantasize fondly about her beautiful red hair (despite previously hating red).
--->'' 'Shinji's deep blue eyes... Asuka's crystal blue ones... her long red hair... his sensitive hands... her long legs, his compassion, her fire, her heat...' ''

* SayMyName: In chapter 3 [[HeroesWantRedheads Shinji]] screams [[FieryRedhead Asuka]]'s name several times when he sees her sinking into the Sea of Dirac, and [[BadassInDistress Asuka]] screams his as asking help.

* CatSmile: Asuka displayed a very playful, smug and self-satisfied grin of this nature after being kissed by Shinji in front of all their classmates in chapter 8.

* CurseCutShort: Combined with ForeignCussWord at the end of chapter 6. Asuka has just [[spoiler:won a battle]] and she is [[spoiler:surrounded by a squad of armed guards]] who inform her that [[spoiler:Commander Ikari has ordered her arrest and confinement.]] In reaction she exclaimed “EURE MÜTTER-" (meaning "You mother-") before cutting to another scene.

-->''"Verfluchtes Arschloch! Kommandant Ikari ist eine Idiot! Ich werde mit meiner EVA auf seinem Haus herumtanzen! Zum Teufel mit euch allen!"''

--->''"Verfluchtes Arschloch! Kommandant Ikari ist eine Idiot! Ich werde mit meiner EVA auf seinem Haus herumtanzen! Zum Teufel mit euch allen! Lasst mich los, ihr verdammter abschaum! Lasst mich los oder ich reiß eure Arme ab! Wisst ihr nicht wer ich bin?! Ihr seid Idioten! Ihr seid ALLE Idioten! Und Kommandant Ikari! SIE SIND DER [=GRÖßTE=] IDIOT!"''

--->'' "Du Arschloch! Sie Ente verdammte Scheiße Esser! Ich bring dich um! No one hurts my Unit-02! Cut his heart out, Rei! Kill him!"''

'''Shinji''': “I… I th-think Asuka would say that’s her job. She might get upset at you trying to take that from her.”\\

-->'''Touji''':''“Oi, oi, what’s this? A quarrel between husband and wife?”''

--->''Asuka blinked in surprise. Shinji was… furious. She'd never seen him this angry. The usual calm expression he gave the world, or the warm and loving one he showed her when they were alone was gone. His face was twisted in a violent combination of anger, pain, and betrayal. She'd seen the Third Child without his clothes a lot in the last two weeks, but she'd never seen Shinji this naked.''

* AwkwardKiss: {{Subverted}}. In the first chapter, Asuka and Shinji's kiss was very awkward and tentative at the beginning and was heading towards this path when Shinji accidentally placed his hands on her waist to steady himself... [[TheBigDamnKiss and things changed]]. ''[[ForWantOfANail A lot]]''.

* ForWantOfANail: The premise of the story matches up exactly with canon until during the kiss Asuka gives Shinji -- he grabs her waist to stay upright (because he can't breathe and Asuka is holding his nose shut), which ''she'' interprets as the vital reassurance she was hoping for that he liked her, as well. Things tumble along from there... to say the least.
--> '''Asuka:''' I am so glad you decided to hold me, that first time. Look what it led to.

-->'''Shinji:''' "Kaji-san, I’m… scared. I’ve… I’ve never wanted a future like this before. I never cared if I lived to next year or even next month. But now… now I want a future like that so bad it hurts. Just… years. Years and years with Asuka. But… SEELE, and one more Angel… and all of it depends on me not screwing up and keeping my father from using Unit-01 to end the world…I’m so afraid I’ll mess up."

Shinji takes just the slightest different action when Asuka offers a kiss...and everything [[ForWantOfANail changes]]. Suddenly, they're no longer alone, and start becoming far stronger than they've ever been before. [[ForWantOfANail And from their new bond, changes start to ripple outward]]. The Angel War, and the plans of SEELE and NERV, will never be the same.

''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/advice-and-trust-nge.8768/ Advice and Trust]]'' is a ForWantOfANail ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fanfiction written by Strypgia -- author of ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'' -- where the events of a fateful kiss take an unexpected turn...and lead to Shinji and Asuka becoming a [[RelationshipUpgrade couple]]. Action, humor, suspense, and loads of [[{{SugarWiki/WAFF}} warm and fuzzy feelings]] await as the two struggle to keep their relationship under wraps, all while continuing the fight against the Angels.

* HurtingHero: In chapter 1, Asuka and Shinji have a long conversation where they talk about how they were abandoned by their fathers after their mothers' deaths when they were three—and never got an explanation or apology—they spent their whole childhood feeling lonely with no friends, nobody understood their pain or cared about it, they still have constant nightmares about it... After reaching each other out and bonding, they feel more confident about winning the war against a bunch of giant alien monsters, but they still see their family and friends getting hurt constantly.

* IThinkYouBrokeHim: Stated to Shinji, but it was actually [[spoiler:Rei who reduced Kaworu to babbling by giving him intimate photos of herself]].

* TheHero: Shinji. Main character and pilot of the strongest HumongousMecha in the series, he finds his motivation to become a hero after hooking up with Asuka.

* AwfulTruth: Every single one of the students at the school Shinji, Rei, and Asuka attend is a pilot candidate. Pilots are only able to sync with Eva via a bridge provided by the soul of a close loved one who resides in the unit's core. Every pilot candidate at the school has a MissingMom. When Shinji and Asuka piece this together, they are absolutely horrified.
** Ritsuko learns from Rei that her mother Naoko had killed the first Rei clone. She takes the revelation far worse than Shinji and Asuka had taken theirs; to the point that she spends the night alone in her apartment with a dangerous combination of severe depression, wine, and painkillers. Fortunately she calls someone for help before the situation gets worse.

--->''"Damn straight. So straighten up and be proud of it, Shinji. You're more than good enough to fight with me. We're elite Eva Pilots, one in a billion. Don't you ever stop chasing me, either. You and me are the most dangerous people on the planet. There's no one else I'd trust to have next to me in a fight like you." Asuka stopped and blinked to herself. She hadn't intended to be that open. She hadn't even realized how true that statement was until she said it. But it was. The thought of going into a fight now without her baka-Shinji at her side was profoundly unappealing. When they were together, they won. "Until the end of the world, you and me, against the Angels and anything else that tries to hurt us."''

* BedmateReveal: Shinji and Asuka ''both'' have a moment of this immediately after their RelationshipUpgrade, though they were more surprised that it wasn't AllJustADream (a really, really nice dream) than who the other person in the bed was.

** They look for places to talk withouth being seen by their friends because the two of them having a close, perfectly civil conversation would blow their cover.
* BeneathTheMask: Shinji had noticed that Asuka pretended to be harsh and prideful, but she was a frightened, vulnerable kid deep-down. After getting together she shows him her kindest, nicest side constantly.

** Speaking of Rei -- threaten Shinji and Asuka with deadly in front of her, and there will be nothing of you left after she is done with you.

* BetaCouple: Touji and Hikari. Their relationship developed mainly in the chapters 6 and 7.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shinji is pretty quiet and meek. However, when [[spoiler:Leliel trapped Asuka inside itself]], he forced his Eva into a berserk rage, roaring and ''tearing it to shreds''.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Rei is a calm, collected person. During the entire battle against [[spoiler:Zeruel]] she acts in a determined but non-aggressive fashion. Then when [[spoiler:the {{kaiju}} tries to attack Shinji and Asuka]], she goes full berserker on its posterior, completed with glowing red eyes and furious snarls and growls. She takes advantage of Zeruel's focus on Unit-03 to force it into 03's knife with a hosing of Pallet Rifle rounds, which ends once she runs out of ammo and Unit-01 runs out of power.
* BigBad: SEELE is a secret organization that intends to kill the entire human race and merge their souls into a single being. They caused Second Impact and spent the next few years bulding the Evas to prepare for the Angels that they knew were coming. They are ''literally'' the origin of all the trouble in the story, and the all the pain and suffering the three heroes has endured can be traced back to them, [[spoiler:including the deaths of Shinji and Asuka's mothers]].

* BigBrotherMentor: Asuka -- and Shinji -- become this to Rei after the former realized the latter was being treated like a puppet. Asuka convinced Rei to stop taking a medication regimen tailored to turn her into an emotionless doll, and she and Shinji helped Rei to move in a decent apartment and improve her social skills. Rei started to model her behaviour patterns after Asuka, and Asuka and Shinji became very protective of Rei.

* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Shinji used to think that Asuka was an arrogant, although intelligent and brave girl. Then they had a heart-to-heart talk and he found out about her painful past, her deep traumas, her nightly nightmares, and her feelings of inadequacy, helplessness and loneliness.

'''Tanaka:''' Is... is she talking about--\\

* BizarreAlienSenses: In chapter 7 Rei fights Zeruel. It is explored how she -- an ancient alien goddess stuck inside the body of a human teenager -- sees the world differently, how she senses everyone's AT Fields, their nature and their power, and during the battle she feels her Field and Zeruel's clashing.
* {{Blackmail}}: As part of her campaign to convince Misato to let them sleep together -- both literally and figuratively -- Asuka informs Misato that Shinji will not cook until she sees reason.

* BloodKnight: Asuka has been training to pilot a HumongousMecha and fight alien monsters since she was a four-year-old child [[spoiler:and found her mother's corpse hanging from a ceiling.]] Fighting is her whole life and she genuinely likes it. Her self-image is so tied to being a Pilot that when [[spoiler:Gendo fires her and Shinji]], she very nearly collapses right away.
* BloodLust: Asuka is real enthusiastic about shedding the enemy’s blood when she fights. She was [[spoiler:practically giddy when she slashed and stabbed Bardiel.]]

** In an early chapter Asuka tells Rei: "If and when you ever show them off to someone who is not the Third Child, wear something better than those panties, because that is the most boring underwear I have ever seen". Several chapters later she shows her new panties to Kensuke to determine if her new underwear is or is not boring. When Asuka asks Rei why Kensuke was passed out in the hall and what she did, Rei replies "What you told me."

** After Misato and Kaji having sex [[RightThroughTheWall keeps them up at night]], Asuka mentioned that she and Shinji would have to get Misato back once her birthday hit (Misato had forbidden them from having sex until then). Right before they go to bed on the night of her birthday, she says "Now… It has been a month. Let’s cost Misato some sleep."

* BrokenAce: Asuka -- the best pilot in the team as well as a certified genius and a gorgeous, hot-blooded, brave girl -- was already pretty broken before the beginning of the history, and she was heading towards a full breaking. Part of the premise of this story is altering the event where her downward spiral began (her and Shinji's ruined FirstKiss) and seeing if she can avoid becoming a fully broken ace. So far her self-esteem has suffered a few severe blows but she has managed to hold herself together.

* BrokenPedestal: Maya idolizes Ritsuko to the point of having a crush on her. However Ritsuko sees herself as an idiot who makes awful decisions in order to try to seduce an asshole who does not care about her, and she is afraid that she will become this to Maya if her assistant realizes how horrible she really is. In chapter 8, Ritsuko explicitly thinks that she is not who Maya believes she is. [[spoiler:Maya is reasonably horrified when Ritsuko shares her sins to her, but calms down and asks Ritsuko what the two of them can do right now to subvert Third Impact, to Ritsuko's astonishiment.]]

* CallToAgriculture: Kaji gardens and grows watermelons because he wants to make something he likes before dying since he thinks the world is ending. In chapter 8, Misato (the last to learn of Kaji's secret aside of Rei) brings the pilots down to his watermelon patch, and the kids spend some time gardening and weeding.

** [[spoiler: Rei Quatre is a character from the ''Literature/EvangelionAnima''. Here, she was created by Gendo as a contingency in case Rei Trois would turn against him, which is exactly what happens due to Rei Deux's feelings for Shinji and Asuka being carried over to Rei Trois.]]

* TheCasanova: {{Subverted}}. Due to a misunderstanding, all Shinji's female classmates convinced themselves that he is some sort of stud and is in a three-way relationship with Asuka and Rei (ironically they are accidentally not so off the mark: Shinji and Asuka are dating secretly, and Rei is in love with both, but she does not want to disrupt their relationship), so they start to lust after him and chase him, much to his chagrin (he only wants Asuka) and Asuka's wrath, who complains that they think he is "Shinji the Casanova" when he is hers.

** Asuka's plan in chapter 8 was meant to mess with Misato's mind ''and'' [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/4290937/ show subtly that they had matured since they were together]]: Asuka can now control her temper, both teens care about each other and are comfortable with their bodies and with sexuality to the point they can have fun with some fantasy -- or make fun of each other's personality traits -- without ruining their real relationship...
** Shinji starts to become more assertive, from responding to Asuka's teasing to convincing her to be honest with Misato about [[spoiler: Rei being overdosed, and later about the two of them holding each other to only stave off their nightmares]].

* AdaptationalSexuality: Rei is bisexual, the otherwise straight Asuka has a case of IfItsYouItsOkay towards Rei, and Kaworu is AmbiguouslyBi. In canon, the former two were straight and never made any exceptions respectively, and the latter was AmbiguouslyGay. There's also Ritsuko, who's also bisexual in this fic in contrast to canon.

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: In chapter 8 Misato brings up several old incidents where a severely intoxicated Ritsuko kissed her and flirted with her when they were college students. Ritsuko cuts her off, reminding her they were not supposed to speak of it again.
-->'''Misato''': Take her out for drinks next time instead of me and Kaji? [...] It's not like you've never kissed a girl before. Or done even m—\\
'''Ritsuko''': And you promised that we'd never speak of it again, and that it was only because we were both hammered out of our minds and hadn't had a guy in months.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: At the end of angsting about [[spoiler:Rei and her boyfriend both being alien hybrids, him swapping between feeling suicidal and wanting to destroy the world, two different organisations including their own boss having their own plans to end the world, and an AssassinationAttempt yesterday]], Asuka also notes that her foot hurts.

** PlayedForDrama when Misato ''really'' wants to get drunk, but decides she shouldn't, after [[spoiler:the team is attacked by snipers and Shinji is hospitalised]]. So, Rei passes her a can of UCC-brand coffee instead.

-->Shinji looked down at his girlfriend's face, her head pillowed in his lap. "Hmm? Usually you really like this." His hands kept stroking through her hair.

* BadBoss: Commander Gendo Ikari is prone to making bad choices and blaming them on his subordinates. He came up with a terrible strategy to defeat [[{{Robeast}} Bardiel]] at the expense of Unit-03 and Hikari inside, partly to protect Unit-01/Yui Ikari. [[TrueCompanions Shinji, Asuka and Rei]] had to go against his orders to triumph, and his reaction was to ''fire'' his two best Pilots for insubordination and reprimand his remaining loyal Pilot for going along with them. When Zeruel attacked and [[TheProfessor Ritsuko]] got hurt, he ordered her hauled out of the way because she was "irrelevant". When [[spoiler:the two Pilots that he had fired returned and helped to defeat [[HeroKiller Zeruel]] before it killed Rei]], he got mad. And when SEELE ordered him to apologize to Shinji and Asuka and permanently reinstated, he got it over with with the most token, backhanded apology conceivable at the time.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Even though [[BattleCouple Shinji and Asuka]] [[BelligerentSexualTension argue frequently]] [[SecretRelationship to try to hide]] their RelationshipUpgrade, they cannot successfully hide it all the time -- see Shinji's and Asuka's reactions when [[spoiler:Leliel swallowed Unit-02]].

* YouNeedToGetLaid: [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/advice-and-trust-nge.8768/page-9#post-2184173 Chapter 4]] begins the morning after Shinji and Asuka made love for first time. Rather moping and feeling sorry as usual, Shinji cried with joy, hummed and danced. Misato noted that he seemed feeling unusually good.