History Fanfic / RepublicCityBlues

* AlternateUniverseFic: This story takes place in the seedy underbelly of Republic City and evokes FilmNoir. Korra is just a regualr waterbender is this one, not the Avatar. Additionally, pretty much all the main characters are involved in organized crime in some way or another.

* HarmfulToMinors: Asami apparently saw her mother's blood-ridden corpse with the head crushed, and was a survivor of her home being burnt down anyways, all while she was six years old. No wonder she's so messed up in the present.

** Asami is objectively a horrible person, but she does truly love her father, her dead mother, and Korra. She'd kill for any one of them.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Korra shoots a man ''four times''. Her first shot landed in his [[EyeScream eye]], her second exploded his skull, and the third and fourth were to finish him off. He apparently was conscious until the fourth and final shot, trying to piece together the fragments of his skull and the bloody mess that was his eye, before Korra puts him out of his misery. He also apparently pissed himself after her third shot.

* EyeScream: Korra shoots a waterbender directly in the eye during a fight, which turns his eye into a bloody mess.

* UndignifiedDeath: The waterbender that Korra kills dies trying to piece his fractured skull together, fix the bloody mess that is his eye, screaming his loved one's names, and pissing himself.

* HasAType: Captain Beifong tells Korra that Asami has a "weakness" for Water Tribe girls, which leads to Korra questioning whether Asami actually likes her or her tribal association.

* TraumaButton: Asami loses her mind and starts bawling her eyes out at the sound of a certain song (''Almost Blue'') reminds her of who she was before she lost herself to revenge.

* DoesntLikeGuns: Yasuko, when she was alive, ''hated'' guns. Sama remarks that she probably also would've hated the fact that her daughter Asami creates and uses guns with ruthless efficiency.

** Don't suggest that Hiroshi didn't love his wife. Asami nearly shoots Kuvira over this. [[spoiler: Later averted, after the reveal that he shot his wife because she was about to rat him out to the people.]]

** Don't suggest that Hiroshi didn't love his wife. Asami nearly shoots Kuvira over this.

* TheAce: Asami, even more than in canon. On top of being a great engineer, martial artist, and driver, she's her father's second-in-command in their criminal enterprises, the ''lead'' engineer of Future Industries, and an absolutely lethal combatant.

* TheAce: Asami, even more than in the main series. On top of being a great engineer, martial artist, and driver, she's her father's second-in-command in their criminal enterprises, the ''lead'' engineer of Future Industries, and an absolutely lethal combatant.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: Justified. It is social suicide amongst the Sato to wear an outfit twice. Considering the fact that they're mafia, it probably is to show off their wealth to outsiders.

* TheConfidant: Korra to Asami.

** In this universe, bloodbending is a story that the Southern Water Tribe tells children to scare them into behaving.

* TigerByTheTail: [[spoiler: Korra and Asami realize that they are ''so'' far into organized crime and being blackmailed by Captain Beifong, that the only two ways to escape are either death, or prison.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: This version of Asami is an AxCraxy MafiaPrincess who is capable of murdering entire rooms of people and feeling no remorse. Korra is also a lot colder here, mostly due to her background as an ex-cop.

* DefiantToTheEnd: The [[spoiler: Triple-Threat firebender]] that Asami and Kuvira capture spends her last moments cussing them out. Justified, as she was already dying from her bullet wounds, so she might as well insult the woman that [[YouKilledMyFather killed her parents]].

* TraumaButton: Asami loses her mind and starts bawling her eyes out at the sound of a certain song that she seems to associate with the Last Dance massacre.

* HarmfulToMinors: Asami apparently saw her mother's blood-ridden corpse with the head crushed, and was a survivor of her home being burnt down anyways, all while she was a little girl. No wonder she's so messed up in the present.

* DoesntLikeGuns: Yasuko, when she was alive, ''hated'' guns. Sama remarks that she probably would've hated the fact that her daughter Asami creates and uses guns with ruthless efficiency.

* ForcedIntoEvil: How Asami views her and Korra's actions. She claims that because their actions are just an effect of another action, they didn't have a choice in what they did.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Korra shoots a man ''four times''. Her first shot landed in his [[EyeScream eye]], her second exploded his skull, and the third and fourth were to finish him off. He apparently was conscious until the fourth and final shot, trying to piece together the fragments of his skull and the bloody mess that was his eye, before Korra puts him out of his misery.

* CombatMedic: According to Korra, all of the waterbending officers in the Southern Water Tribe were trained on how to use [[HealingHands the healing side of waterbending]] in order to save lives.