History FanFic / Exoria

Zelda is the crown princess of Hyrule, a seemingly constitutional monarchy sharing a continent with two other modern superpowers, the Gerudo - led by Generalissimo Ganondorf - and Valent - which became completely isolationist seventeen years ago after a coup. The three nations are in a stalemate while maintaining a tentative peace. Link is a [[Main/ImprobableWeaponUser gunsword]]-wielding intelligence agent working for Hylian Joint Intelligence, who is reassigned to Zelda as an interim bodyguard after her original bodyguard was killed in a secret mission tasked to him by Joint Intelligence. Valent eventually launches a sudden offensive on both Hyrule and Gerudo without warning, and, in the face of overwhelming military strength, Zelda has little choice but to seek help from Ganondorf in hopes of repelling the invasion. Things take a turn for the worse when it's discovered that Valent is utilizing three [[GameBreaker overpowered superweapons]] that is effectively decimating Hylian and Gerudo defensive lines. With [[FiveRoundsRapid most conventional military options]] off the table, Link is sent to infiltrate enemy lines to sabotage and destroy these weapons.

* DeathOfAChild: Chapters Nine and Ten feature [[spoiler:a little girl trapped in a war zone. Link attempts to get her to safety, but she gets hit by a stray bullet and dies]].

* CompetenceZone: Averted. While Link and Zelda - nineteen and eighteen respectively - seem to have an extremely wide range of skills for their professions despite their age, much older characters, such as Impa, Leonore, and Morgan, clearly are very good at what they do. Zelda, having inherited the kingdom at sixteen, is also portrayed realistically, showing signs of TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask (which is also lampshaded in the story).

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Princess Zelda shows signs of this, which is to be expected from someone who became the leader of the country when she was sixteen. She occasionally lapses into more personal territory with her chief of staff Impa, however, and has become more open with Link.

** The part where Link rides a motorcycle off a Gerudo military transport plane in Chapter Nine pulls lines directly from VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3.
*** As further Shout Outing to the Franchise/MetalGear series, Anansi roars just like the titular bipedal tanks, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the Shagohod]].

* DistractedByTheSexy: Link [[BodyguardCrush is]] [[{{Bishonen}} hot]] - a fact that Zelda and Jessica realise when his [[SunglassesAtNight sunshades]] come off. Cue gawp mouths.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Manee and Sira. Suggested to be common and accepted in Gerudo by necessity.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Manee and Sira, who were also implied to be SchoolgirlLesbians. Suggested to be common and accepted in Gerudo by necessity.

* InfantImmortality: Subverted. Chapters Nine and Ten feature [[spoiler:a little girl trapped in a war zone. Link attempts to get her to safety, but she gets hit by a stray bullet and dies]]. The author mentions the trope by name in the author's notes, and says that AnyoneCanDie in the story, with the exception of PlotArmor.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Justified and reconstructed. Although Zelda is the crown princess of Hyrule, she is also its effective sovereign, as her father has been in a coma for about two years now, and her mother has passed away. The Zelda of ''Exoria'' is also seemingly popular enough with the people, but is clearly irritated and impatient with the management of politics when no one outside her inner circle can see her.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5399870/1/Legend_of_Zelda_Exoria Exoria]]'', despite its strange name, is a FanFiction based on ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' written by Sudentor with a single catch: The entire story is set in modern times, many centuries after any Zelda game. Zelda is the crown princess of Hyrule, a seemingly constitutional monarchy sharing a continent with two other modern superpowers, the Gerudo - led by Generalissimo Ganondorf - and Valent - which became completely isolationist seventeen years ago after a coup. The three nations are in a stalemate while maintaining a tentative peace. Link is a [[Main/ImprobableWeaponUser gunsword]]-wielding intelligence agent working for Hylian Joint Intelligence, who is reassigned to Zelda as an interim bodyguard after her original bodyguard was killed in a secret mission tasked to him by Joint Intelligence. Valent eventually launches a sudden offensive on both Hyrule and Gerudo without warning, and, in the face of overwhelming military strength, Zelda has little choice but to seek help from Ganondorf in hopes of repelling the invasion. Things take a turn for the worse when it's discovered that Valent is utilizing three [[GameBreaker overpowered superweapons]] that is effectively decimating Hylian and Gerudo defensive lines. With [[FiveRoundsRapid most conventional military options]] off the table, Link is sent to infiltrate enemy lines to sabotage and destroy these weapons.

One of the better modern adaptations of ''Zelda'' out there, ''Exoria'' maintains close links with traditional ''Zelda'' elements despite being set in a completely different age; Link remains mostly silent and has spoken a grand total of once throughout the story, he travels with a sentient assistant on the same vein of Navi or Midna, [[ShoutOut references are made to the games themselves]], and the story finds parallels with the game formula themselves, such as the dungeon crawls and the bosses. Despite this, the story never quite loses its [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and gritty modern feel]], and has maintained a high standard of writing.

As of Chapter 23 (updated October 7, 2011), ''Exoria'' passed the 250,000 word mark, including the prologue and an omake. The author stated the story is only about a quarter to a third complete.

As an aside, [[ShoutOut the author seemed to realize that this FanFic has its own page on TV Tropes, and made comments about it in the author's notes from time to time]].

[[DeadFic Unfortunately, we're very unlikely to see what the other three quarters of the story were meant to be]].

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Director Leonore is noted to be around her fifties, but still being fairly beautiful.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Director Leonore is noted to be around her fifties, but still being fairly beautiful.

** This, in fact, happens to Zelda [[CrowningMomentofFunny twice]].

As of Chapter 23 (updated October 7, 2011), ''Exoria'' has passed the 250,000 word mark, including the prologue and an omake. The author states the story is only about a quarter to a third complete.

As an aside, [[ShoutOut the author seemed to realize that this FanFic has its own page on TV Tropes, and made comments about it in the author's notes from time to time]]. [[DeadFic Or at least he did]].