History Fanfic / SagaMetroid

* FourElementEnsemble: Arne, Samus, Spire, and Armaud represent Air, Water, Fire, and Earth respectively.

* {{Bishonen}}: Arne is frequently noted to be very handsome in a somewhat androgynous and youthful way, and all the commissioned art for him shows him as a handsome, lean white-haired boy who grows up into a handsome, lean white-haired man later on based on artistic depictions of a matured Arne. The commissioned art of Erik Skjoldr confirms that its something [[StrongFamilyResemblance Arne gets from his father]].

* SuperStrength: Even without their armor, Samus and Arne are enormously strong, with their upper limits yet to be clearly defined. Notably, even as a toddler and before being augmented by the Chozo, Samus could easily shift boulders due to the universal genetic augmentations present in the 50,000s.[[note]]Some particularly impressive feats include overturning the charge of an enormous whale-like monster multiple times longer than Godzilla is tall, throwing a several hundred-ton robot high into the air with a good swing, kicking another through multiple walls, and in spin-offs even overpowering aliens evolved to be able to stand on neutron stars.[[/note]]

* AdultFear: Featured prominently in the destruction of the colonies on K-2L and Cylosis, particularly having to choose between your own life and that of your child, knowing that the sacrifice you will make will leave them alone in the world for the rest of their lives.

* DraconicAbomination: In full force with Ridley who isn't even capable of feeling empathy or altruism and played with through Viper who despite his inspiration from King Ghidorah is described more often as a Hydra than a drag.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Ridley's species is given no name but is often described as a sort of "Space Dragon", which by word of God is a blanket term for any sort of creature that fits the aesthetics of dragons enough. However Ridley is notably described as carapaced rather than scaled and has a healing factor that is certainly not part of the standard fantasy dragon's arsenal.
* OurElvesAreBetter: Surprisingly quite divergent from 40k's Eldar or from Star Trek's Vulcans, the Aelva's culture has yet to be delved into in a great deal of depth, but their emphasis on nomadism calls to mind Pathfinder's Elves.

* PlanetOfHats: Discussed and averted. Arne askes Samus if all Chozo are as nice as others make them out to be, Samus points out that while plenty are, the entire race isn't universally nice, nor is any other race universally the opposite.

** This notably doubles as foreshadowing for ''Samus Returns'' and ''Metroid Dread'' (though ''Metroid Dread's'' existence wasn't confirmed when this was written) reveal that not all of the Chozo are forces for good.

** Even when assumed to be dead, the very mention of Ridley's name causes fear across the universe, and Samus' parents are deemed heroes for seeming to have killed him and put an end to his reign of terror.

* ArmCannon: What would Metroid be without them?

* TeenGenius: Most of the young characters seen so far are brilliant due to being high performing students in academies for the superhumanly gifted, but Arne and Samus, in particular, can give the likes of Lex Luthor and Iron Man a run for their money. Casually designing very complex equipment, effortlessly demonstrating mastery of numerous esoteric fields of science and engineering, and being broadly familiar with a wide array of history and philosophy. All at the very onset of puberty.

While the story is fully available [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/saga-metroid.808706/ here]] on Spacebattles and [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/saga-metroid.59138/ here]] on Sufficient Velocity, the story is divided into books, with Book 1: Genesis, being available [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13444043/1/Metroid-Saga-Genesis here]] on Website/FanfictionDotNet and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21628858/chapters/51575263 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn.

* EvilAristocrats: All that has been revealed about the Kriken Empire paints its nobility as a den of monsters and schemers with Arch-Prince Trace managing to become a notorious war criminal as a pubsecent child.

** This notably doubles as foreshadowing for Samus Returns' and Metroid Dread (though Metroid Dread's existence wasn't confirmed when this was written) reveal that not all of the Chozo are forces for good.

* NayThiest: The Space Pirates are an example of this curiously enough. Their Confederacy disdains religion out of a belief that there is nothing in the cosmos worth worshipping because they are simply that superior. Their atheism does not cause their amorality, and they seem to acknowledge the existence of the supernatural, but they simply regard anything described as divine as too inferior to give any fealty.

* AmoralAtheists: Played with, the Space Pirates disdain religion out of a belief that there is nothing in the cosmos worth worshipping because they are simply that superior. Their atheism does not cause their amorality, and they seem to acknowledge the existence of the supernatural, but they simply regard anything described as divine as too inferior to give any fealty.

* AmoralAtheist: Played with, the Space Pirates disdain religion out of a belief that there is nothing in the cosmos worth worshipping because they are simply that superior. Their atheism does not cause their amorality, and they seem to acknowledge the existence of the supernatural, but they simply regard anything described as divine as too inferior to give any fealty.

* Evil Aristocrats: All that has been revealed about the Kriken Empire paints its nobility as a den of monsters and schemers with Arch-Prince Trace managing to become a notorious war criminal as a pubsecent child.

* ChickMagnet: Arne has yet to meet a character of a similar age and of a compatible orientation who hasn't had their eyes linger on him. Boys, girls, and enbies all find Arne to be very appealing and easy on the eyes, and he seems increasingly cognizant of how attractive he is.

* HeroicSacrifice: Both Arne and Samus' parents die saving their three year old children from RAID and Space Pirate attack respectively. Samus' mother uses a mining mech and her marine training to distract Ridley long enough for Samus to run away and for Rodney to suicide bomb the Afloraltite the space pirates had stolen; taking out Ridley's flagship and most of his fleet and horribly injuring Ridley himself. Arne's parents entrust Arne to Spire's care after reaching his gunship during the attack on Cylosis and say their goodbyes before fighting off an entire army of the RAID and Viper themselves to allow Spire's gunship to take off and flee; dying in each other's arms after one final frost breath attack from Viper.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Samus is a major HeadTurningBeauty even in her early teens and has many female admirers.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Arne his viewed as highly attractive and he has just as admirers of his gender as he does those of his opposite.

* HeadTurningBeauty: Even at a young age and with a decidedly tomboyish haircut and the toning and muscle definition of a super athlete, virtually every character of Samus' age notes that she's absolutely stunningly beautiful, with Ian and Arne both outright being at a loss for words for a few moments the first time they see her. [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Girls aren't immune either]], with multiple female characters also feeling attracted to her almost immediately after seeing her.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted, in the age of the ComNet, finding out the dark truths of the world is just a few keystrokes away. Most young characters are both aware of where babies come from and that death is a serious thing.

* {{Nepotism}}: Averted with Adam. Despite his family's prolific military history, he made it a strong point to avoid any patronage networks and worked his way up away from where his family had influence, rising to the top on his achievements alone.
** Adam notably also gives his younger brother no favours in the Prodigal Program despite being clearly capable of doing so and if anything, is extra hard on him for his irreverence and laziness.

* TheChosenMany: Samus and Arne are not quite as unique as they might seem at first. Progenitor cultures adopting orphans from more modern societies and raising them as their own is common enough for a specific term to be developed for it; Inheritor. Twelve of them in particular will rise to fill currently vacant prophetic roles.

* AdaptationalAgeOverhaul: While Ian Malkovich's age is never stated he seems to be somewhat older than Samus in Other M, being an enlisted soldier while Samus is still a child. Here the age gap is eliminated for the sake of "making the relation less odd" in Valiant's words.

* AdaptationAgeOverhaul: While Ian Malkovich's age is never stated he seems to be somewhat older than Samus in Other M, being an enlisted soldier while Samus is still a child. Here the age gap is eliminated for the sake of "making the relation less odd" in Valiant's words.

* AdaptationalAge: While Ian Malkovich's age is never stated he seems to be somewhat older than Samus in Other M, being an enlisted soldier while Samus is still a child. Here the age gap is eliminated for the sake of "making the relation less odd" in Valiant's words.

* {{Chuunibyou}}: Ian's efforts to portray himself as a cool kid with the wearing of sunglasses indoors and attempted smooth talking lingo and, by the word of other characters, not completely successful attempts at getting dates and impressing people give off strong shades of this. Especially when juxtaposed to it seeming to stem from a desire to set himself apart from his much more serious and much older elder brother Adam. This serves more to make him endearingly cringeworthy than actually cool, especially since the subculture he's trying to ape has been dead for thousands of years and nobody seems to fully get what it is he's trying to go for.

* DorkKnight: Samus and Arne are incredibly powerful, intelligent, and kind, and have the social skills and grace of a thrown brick. They're incredibly and unreservedly passionate, and don't have the best filters or appreciation for social cues. Arne is deeply underconfident and often unnecessarily shy, and a yet to settle into her later introspective stoicism Samus is a parsec a minute motor mouth who has no idea what is and isn't appropriate to say.

* TheRemnant: The population of Alimbics that were in stasis when their Empire was destroyed by Gorea are all that's left of their species. This essentially makes General Zurvduat the de-facto leader of their greatly diminished race.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Canonically, both Samus and Sylux's orientations were never explored at all and are left unknown. Here, both of them identify as pansexual.