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Out there in the oceans of the world, there are many threats. And in an attempt to make things better for people all around, the Champions and the protectors of the Water Tribe will have to fight one of them..."
Out there in the oceans of the world, there are many threats. And in an attempt to make things better for people all around, the Champions and the protectors of the Water Tribe will have to fight one of them..."
A Job For The Water Tribe
, by Mike313 is a story set on the Coreline Shared Universe, and the introduction of an Alternate version of various Water Tribe members that all hold one thing in common: they all have powers and abilities of the Sub-Mariner.
Currently under construction. Please add tropes as you see them!
- A Day in the Limelight: For Korra (the Pokemon Trainer) and Nadia (the Illinois Sub-Mariner), both members of The Champions, as well as the introduction of the "Subbie" Alts of the Avatar-verse Water Tribes folk.
- Amazonian Beauty: Every single Alternate of the Avatar cast that Korra and Nadia talk to is impressively well-formed in the muscle department, to the point that a minor Running Gag is Korra saying that they all ate their vegetables. Seeing her Subbie Alternate Self even gives her pause and envy.
- Balance of Power: The Moon Spirit's host has some influence over the Ocean Spirit's, and this results in a balance between the Royal Family and Avatar.
- Crippling Overspecialization:
- Korra didn't expect to go back on land during the mission, so most of the water-types she brought along couldn't fight very well on land.
- Additionally, the fact that Avatar!Korra is the Avatar of the Ocean Spirit (and only capable of using water-bending, instead of all four of the Avatar-verse's elements) is discussed to be this... although only from the perspective of access to other elements. The fact she's incredibly powerful and destructive for a water-bender is talked about with constant awe.
- Elemental Baggage: Avatar Korra is exempt from the normal limits of waterbending, as her bond with the Ocean Spirit allows her to manifest water out of nothing. Hence why Team Aqua is interested in her...
- Far East Asian Terrorists: The Big Bad of the tale (and their "grand" introduction to the setting overall) is Team Aqua... pretending to be Team Magma.
- False Flag Operation: At the beginning, the heroes believe that the people who kidnapped various Water Tribespeople were members of Team Magma (for reasons still unknown at that particular moment). Turns out that the people who performed the actual kidnapping were members of Team Aqua, pretending to be Team Magma so if they managed to perform their objective of raising the ocean levels with Avatar Korra's unwilling help, they would be able to get away clean and both Team Magma and the Water Tribe would be blamed instead (and maybe wiped out in the ensuing retaliation). Trainer Korra manages to figure it out though, from the lack of Fire Type Pokemon in their teams.
- Forbidden Zone: The prime reason why The Champions arrive to the Water Tribe's city is because the Tribespeople had set a no-sail zone over it (mentioned to be pretty big and implied to be protected with extreme prejudice, and started because of Tribespeople going missing without a trace), and any kind of ships going in that direction (including those with food and humanitarian aid cargo) lose a lot of vital time going around the no-sail zone. In exchange for the removal of this zone, Princess Yue asks the Champions (and only the Champions) to help them find the missing Tribespeople.
- Hidden Elf Village: Hai Yang Sei, the underwater city of the Alternate Water Tribe.
- Impostor Forgot One Detail: Detailed above on False Flag Operation.
- Making a Splash: Avatar Korra is bonded with the ocean spirit instead of Raava, so while she is limited to this instead of the All Your Powers Combined powerset alts of her usually have, she is immensely powerful in that type of bending, and can even create water to bypass the Elemental Baggage issues benders have.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: The Fire Nation in the Tribe's original world nearly killed the Ocean and Moon spirits when they attacked. As anyone familiar with the original show could tell you, that would have been bad.
- The Only One: Justified Trope—Princess Yue and the rest of the Water Tribe are isolationist enough (even a long time after the Hundred Years War and the Fire Nation offensive that forced them to become what they are now) that they insist that the Champions do not request additional help to find the Tribespeople, and Trainer!Korra tries to salvage the mission by volunteering herself and Nadia to go at it alone.
- Other Me Annoys Me: Both versions of Korra don't like each other, at least at first. Trainer Korra even flat-out says that if such an attitude was the natural result of being an Avatar, then she was glad she was born without powers.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Korra (the Avatar Alternate, any case) is an absurdly powerful Waterbender, capable of demolishing various underwater mountains while working out her abilities (hence her practicing very far away from the city) and Team Aqua's plan to raise Earth's ocean levels is forcing her to go into Avatar Mode and unleash tremendous amounts of water before dropping dead from overexertion.
- Powers via Possession: The version of the Water Tribe in the story came from a world where Wan never closed the Spirit Portals, and when the Fire Nation attacked in their world, they fled into the spirit world and, with the help of flying fish-like spirits who briefly possessed them, became Atlantean. Afterwards, since they ceased to have a presence in the Avatar Cycle of Raava, they permanently formed bonds with the Moon and Ocean spirits in a similar way to that cycle, passing the spirits through the generations of the royal family and chosen Avatars, respectively.
- Shout-Out:
- The plan for Korra and the way it is executed (by poisoning her and making her go full Avatar through the agony of the poison) is pretty similar to the plan the Red Lotus used to try to kill her and destroy the Avatar Cycle completely on the third season of her canon show.
- Spanner in the Works: Pokemon trainer Korra is the only reason Avatar Korra survived and Team Aqua's plan failed.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Invoked as a pun for the title, however the characters are all pretty badass and tactically flexible in a way that the actual Trope doesn't highlight (although Trainer!Korra do mentally kicks herself at one point because she didn't think of bringing a greater number of amphibious Pokemon to the operation).
- Workout Fanservice/Kingpin in His Gym: The introductory scenes for both "Subbie" Katara and Avatar Korra are them performing some working out and practicing their martial arts skills (which establishes that Katara is enough of a Waterbending master that she's pretty much a One Woman Army and Korra's power makes her a Person of Mass Destruction.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: Every single hero but Trainer!Korra.
