History Fanfic / NewVegasShowtime

* OneSteveLimit: Averted - Eddie shares a nickname with the convict leading the NCRCF Powder Gangers, and his actual name, Edwin, is the same as Robert House's middle name. Also, 2D's real name is [[spoiler:Edward, like Edward "Caesar" Sallow's]].

* AdaptationalHeroism: Akechi goes from a remorseless assassin to an AntiHero, in part because the ended up in Nipton and what happened there [[EvenEvilHasStandards offended whatever morals he had left]], and in part because it comes after his defeat at the Engine Room.

* InSpiteOfANail: Despite Ryuji taking the Courier's place as the latest of Think Tank's abductees, the events (at least initially) unfold more or less as in canon, implying [[spoiler:there's something special about Ryuji's brain, equivalent to the Courier's brain damage from the double tap.]]

* AdaptationalIntelligence: The courier lacks the GameplayGuidedAmnesia the player character had in canon, and often acts as MrExposition to Akira.

-->'''Author's comment:''' The {{handwave}}s are thus: Makoto and Akechi are neeeeerds, endgame Akira's stats can be high enough to count him as a nerd too, Haru's father paid for extra English classes, Ann is Ann, and Futaba learned English because every piece of documentation for a programming language is in that language.

* SeenItAll: Raul and Neil have both lived for over a century (234 and ca. 150 years respectively) and seen enough to take Futaba's lie about being a victim of a teleportation accident at face value.

** Joker's ''legal'' name being Ren Amamiya, with Akira Kurusu being a nickname he uses, showed up previously in the author's ''Zwrotnicaverse'' series. Chapter 15, which prominently features Akechi, is named after a Polish idiom, following ''Zwrotnica Królewska'''s chapter naming convention.

** Joker's ''legal'' name being Ren Amamiya, with Akira Kurusu being a nickname he uses, showed up previously in the author's ''Zwrotnicaverse'' series.

** In chapter 15, like in canon, Akechi exposes himself as knowing more than he should've by using the wrong word -- this time, by refering to himself and Makoto as "Japanese" in a setting that largely forgot the country even existed.

* CoverIdentityAnomaly: To cover for his Japanese accent and lack of local knowledge, Akira initially claims to be from a Vault populated only by Japanese-Americans with a stash of Japanese media. When the Courier asks which number the Vault was, the first number Akira thinks of is 22; unfortunately for him, the Courier has been to Vault 22, which is both long abandoned and completely overrun by mutated plantlife. This, along with his outfit (that doesn't resemble a Vault suit at all) and airsoft gun (which shoots plastic, a massive waste of oil in the Wasteland) puts enough holes in his story that he quickly abandons it in favor of the truth.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: When the Primm cons mention to Akechi that they had seen someone similar to him (Makoto) in a different town, Akechi slips up and refers to her and himself as "Japanese"; knowledge that Japan even ''existed'' is mostly lost to time, and Makoto refered to herself with that term as well.

* BattleDiscretionShot: Haru's fight with the Fiends isn't described, the reader only sees the aftermath: Haru, covered in blood, most of it not hers, tightly gripping a fire-axe.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: As soon as the most immediate danger is out of the way, Makoto offers to help people of Primm deal with their lack of law enforcement, despite being stranded in space and time and already being aware how dangerous the world can be.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Akechi is a self-destructive mentally unstable hatchetman and a traitor, and even he finds [[MakeAnExampleOfThem what the Legion did to Nipton]] horrifying.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Canonically Akechi [[UncertainDoom possibly]] died a few weeks before the Thieves faced Yaldabaoth. Here, he unambiguously survived that fight and lived long enough to get banished to the Mojave alongside the Phantom Thieves.