History FanFic / Exoria

** Various streets in downtown Hyrule City are named after plot elements of the Zelda games, including [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina Street]], [[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Tetra Avenue]], and [[TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle Boulevard]]. The National Mall also seems like it was pulled right out of Washington, D.C., albeit with much more trees.

** Zelda would like to remind everyone that [[QuantumOfSolace policy cannot be conducted on the basis of hunches and innuendo]].

* {{Expy}} - Link gains a sentient AI assistant named Durandara. Her name is a shout out to [[{{Marathon}} Durandal]], while her character and mannerisms are more akin to [[{{Halo}} Cortana]]. Both are named after Cool Swords from [[{{PublicDomainArtifact}} French Mythology]].

* [[HotAmazon Hot Amazons]] - The Gerudo, as par of the course.
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* BeyondTheImpossible Link's fight with Anansi and his escape with Zelda are a mixture of this and ItGotWorse.
** Both of which the author and the characters themselves constantly lampshade.

** The [[FictionalDocument Exoria Files]] says that most people thought the gunsword was a stupid and unconventional weapon...until a Valentine Duchess personally led Valentine forces against Zoran crusaders in battle more than two hundred years ago, and, using a gunsword, [[BeyondTheImpossible achieved]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible two hundred and thirty-two confirmed kills]]'' [[BeyondTheImpossible to her name personally]].

* FemaleSuccessIsFamily - Jessica has achieved the rank of major in MICO at a young age due to her family being nobility and the governing family of one of Gerudo's provinces. Many in MICO and the Gerudo military who know about this give her a hard time about it, seeing her as taking a cheap shortcut. It comes without the UnfortunateImplications, however, since everyone else is female.
** It's more likely that they think her success is due to her family, and the ire toward her is due to the shortcut issue than her gender. It brings about less FridgeLogic than if one assumes it's a gender issue.
** In a gender-inversion, Steven is a major in Valentine military intelligence who got his rank because his father is a three-star general in the army; he's aware of this enough to attempt to learn from his more competent and experienced colleagues, Alexandria and Juno, who are female.

* ZeroSumGame - Mentioned by its exact name as the preferred mode of international politics, at least where Zelda and Ganondorf are concerned. Even when at war with Valentine, both of them seem to want to avoid Valentine's actual destruction in fear that they'd lose the political tripod that had kept their nations at bay for so long.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5399870/1/Legend_of_Zelda_Exoria Exoria]]'', despite its strange name, is a FanFiction based on ''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 ZeroSumGame 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.

* MoralEventHorizon - One scathing review feels that ''author'' crossed it when Lily was killed. The author's reply is something of a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* {{Badass}} - And how. There is loads and loads of this; in fact, even common infantrymen (especially the Gerudo) may count, but special mention must go to the gunblade-wielding Valentine Duchess and, of course, Link.

** [[CallOfDutyModernWarfare '''"There used to be thirty-thousand people living in Fort Regner and its township. Now, the area seemed like a ghost town."''']]

* WouldHitAGirl - Gerudo's military and civilian population are almost entirely made up of women, and the Valentine gender-balanced military doesn't segregate or discriminate by gender. No one in the story shows any reservation in shooting them with the bullets start flying.

* WouldntHitAGirl - Averted. Gerudo's military and civilian population are almost entirely made up of women, and the Valentine gender-balanced military doesn't segregate or discriminate by gender. No one in the story shows any reservation in shooting them with the bullets start flying.

* WouldntHitAWoman - Averted. Gerudo's military and civilian population are almost entirely made up of women, and the Valentine gender-balanced military doesn't segregate or discriminate by gender. No one in the story shows any reservation in shooting them with the bullets start flying.

** This, in fact, happens to Zelda [[CrowningMomentofFunny twice]], a fact she [[StupidSexyFlanders chides herself for]].

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

** A mention is made in the ''Exoria Files'' of a Zoran rights activist Madonna, who was assassinated by human supremacist groups in the city of ''Memphis'' in 14''68''. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Does this remind you of a certain American civil rights activist assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee]]?

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

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

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

* EnsembleDarkhorse - Major Jessica has been noted as the most likable Gerudo so far by many of the readers.

* ZeroSumGame - Seemingly the preferred mode of international politics, at least where Zelda and Ganondorf are concerned. Even when at war with Valentine, both of them seem to want to avoid Valentine's actual destruction in fear that they'd lose the political tripod that had kept their nations at bay for so long.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Link reveals the gunsword as his weapon of choice. Paragraphs down, he tops that by finding Epona...or, more specifically, MRX-402A ULATRV "Epona", a military reconnaissance hyperbike. Then he tops that again by escaping Hyrule City on it with Zelda while trying to outmaneuver roadblocks, humvees, attack helicopters, enemy gunsword-wielding motorcycle-riding scouts, and a massive spider mecha.
** The [[spoiler:defeating of Anansi in a high-speed chase]]. The author seems to like chase scenes a lot.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - A Hylian battalion hiding in the forests refuses to answer Durandara's radio calls, fearing that it may be a Valentine trap to draw them into the open. Durandara, on a whim, states the final score of a Hylian ballgame, to which the Hylians finally respond. Durandara was ''not'' amused.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Lily tries to offer a cookie to Durandara. May couple as a CrowningMomentOfFunny: Durandara is an holographic AI.

** From the same chapter:\\
--> Durandara: [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Who the Hell do you think I am?]]

** From the same chapter:
-> Durandara: [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Who the Hell do you think I am?]]