Ascension (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Ascension is a fusion fanfic of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime and the Half-Life series of videogames, incorporating minor inspirations from and references to several other verses including Code Geass, Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Mobile Suit Gundam. Befitting to fanfiction written from the Half-Life universe, the author went out of his way writing notes on the various machinery and science that appears in the story. The result is a more hard sci-fi take on the world of Evangelion (such as explaining AT-fields via quantum physics and string theory instead of psychology).
The central concept is that many Evangelion stories attempting to fix the horror of canon events into a somewhat better outcome induce core personality changes in Shinji Ikari. The author of Ascension went in the opposite direction by relegating Shinji to a support role and having someone else take center stage instead. It is not, however, a completely light-hearted mecha comedy story.
It is the year 2041 AD. 23 years ago, humanity achieved the impossible and scored a major victory against the Combine, pushing their Overwatch oppressors off the Earth and into deep space. Since then, humanity's technological level skyrocketed: with the development of the Vance-Kleiner-Magnusson Interstellar Waygates, humans have spread across several star systems to secure the future of their race in the event of another alien invasion. Back on Earth, the Confederacy of Man united humanity under a single banner and led them towards the common goal of ensuring its survival under the protection of the Confederate Armed Forces' spacefleets and Mechanized Battleframe divisions. However, the leaders to the nation are not as sincere in their intentions as they appear.
In 1998, the premature arrival of Second Impact by the way of the Black Mesa Incident distrupted SEELE's plans and forced its members into hiding. After the Great Uprising of 2018, these men and women were quick to manipulate themselves into positions of power and pursue their original goal once more: the Instrumentality of Mankind.
Kaworu Nagisa was an orphan who grew up on the streets of Vienna with a burning desire to change the world in a direction he believed would be better. When his vigilante tendencies earn him a disciplinary transfer to Tokyo-2 and he wanders into the middle of a battle between Evangelion Unit-00 and the Angel Sachiel, his life irreversibly changes.
Ascension is planned by the author to be a tetralogy. It can be found at the Half-Life/Evangelion crossover section of Fanfiction.net and has its own TVTropes page. The author amitakartok is a member of the Spacebattles.com forums.
Category:Fan Fiction