My Enemy, My Friend

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One of the many, many fics originating from Space Battles.com, My Enemy, My Friend (written by K9Thefirst1) is basically a more coherent take on the same idea as the Round Robin NGE: A Little Angel On My Shoulder, i.e., after getting killed, the angels end up as tiny versions of themselves who follow around the pilots who killed them. Unlike its crackier sibling however, it has both a coherent plot and excellent characterization, although some of the latter isn't exactly what you'd expect. Notable for being one of the very few works that manage to make the angels sympathetic, mainly by showing things from their perspective. Although still^[when?] early days (only one angel has actually been dispatched), all the signs are good.

Tropes used in My Enemy, My Friend include:

• A Boy And His Plushie-Sized Ghost Angel
• Blue and Orange Morality: The angels aren't really bad so much as following a completely different set of rules.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Sachiel more or less actually states outright that his main reason for wanting to hang around Shinji is that Shinji managed to kill him. Apparently he's impressed.
• Humans Are Cthulhu: Ironic as it may be.
• Humans Through Alien Eyes: Well, angelic eyes anyway.
• Lemony Narrator: K9 constantly comments on the story and snarks at the characters, especially Shinji.
• Not-So-Imaginary Friend
• Shout-Out: A few.
  • *BLAM!* Lame. *BLAM!* Lame. *BLAM!* Lame.
  • Misato evidently knew Chuckie Finster growing up, and he got taken by The Slender Man.
  • Sachiel remarks that if the Evas were really powered by love, Shinji would be getting laid more.
  • Asuka is described as a "female Rum Tum Tugger."
    • From the same chapter, it seems that The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya (or at least the characters) are in Shinji's class.
• Stealth Pun: At one point, Sachiel comments that Eva-01 is "Sex on Legs." In canon, Eva-01 was made from Lilith's legs.
• Your Mom: After Sachiel defeats the initial JSSDF assault, it declares to the retreating humans that it's going to go "plow your Mom." (That is, Lilith)