History Fanfic / SagaMetroid

* SpacePirates: Of course, seeing as this is a ''Metroid'' fanfic after all. The formal name for their organization is the Confederacy of Dismor, and they're portrayed as a very loose band of actual pirate fleets, warrior culture clans, crime syndicates, fascist dictatorships, military juntas, corrupt megacorporations, and other such scum and villainy bonded together in search of mutual profit and conquest. With their ruthless Darwinian hierarchy and exaltation of cruelty and predation, kindness is systematically weeded out of their society as a culture rife with bullying and violence upon those who show weakness weeds out those seen as soft. Many still hold onto more altruistic ideals, but they're regarded as perhaps the most violent and terrifying of the universe's superpowers. WordOfGod is that they're called Space Pirates due to the initial contact with them being through their raids on other societies, leading to a nickname that ended up sticking that they ended up appropriating to show how little they care for the scorn of other cultures.

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

''Saga'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' AlternateUniverseFic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6256920/Mental-Omega Mental Omega]] (aka Phantasmal Fantasy on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom and Spartakrod on Website/SufficientVelocityDotCom)

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted. The story leans strongly towards a very constructivist view of society and morality with most people being products of their circumstances and societies. A three year old Samus on K-2L is notably spared by a space pirate penal legionary who due to being on the bottom of the social ladder themselves, can't bring themselves to hurt something so defenseless.

* {{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.

* AdaptationalBadass: Adam's brother, Ian, has psychic abilities, where he was canonically a BadassNormal as far as could be seen.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Thoroughly averted. Arne and his parents both have Red Eyes and have consistently been both heroic and kind-hearted. This will likely become somewhat the case after Arne's fall into becoming Sylux, but WordOfGod is that even as Sylux, Arne is still heroic and kindly; just deeply hurting and isolated and considerably more ruthless as a fighter.

* OfficialCouple: Samus and Arne are officially in a romantic relation with each short as of the Second Arc; Forlorn, and it continues to go strong more than a year later.

* AcePilot: [[InformedAttribute While he hasn't gotten a chance to show it off yet]], Arne is noted to be a fantastic pilot. Samus is also regarded as one to a lesser degree.

''Saga'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' AlternateUniverseFic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6256920/Mental-Omega Mental Omega]] (aka Phantasmal Fantasy on Spacebattles and Spartakrod on Sufficient Velocity)

* {{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 Arne gets from his father.

* 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 complicated 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.

* AcePilot: While he hasn't gotten a chance to show it off yet, Arne is noted to be a fantastic pilot. Samus is also regarded as one to a lesser degree.

* RedOniBlueOni: Samus and Arne have a rather classic example of this dynamic, with Samus being the more energetic and proactive Red Oni to Arne's more cautious and reactive Blue Oni; which also fits their respective helmet colours.

* {{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 Arne gets from his father.

* StateSec: The Galactic Federation's Central Intelligence Network has a Rapid Armed Intelligence Division (RAID) which is a top-secret black operations outfit that has its own army and navy and completely separate technological capabilities from the wider Federation. Their basic line infantry are Astartes-esque {{super soldier}}s who stand nearly three meters tall and make use of automatic mini-missile launchers as their primary weapons and every indication is that they're no less brutal than the Space Pirates. WordOfGod from the Discord is that they also end up being the inventors of the Sylux suit based on Alimbic technology.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted, the story leans strongly towards a very constructivist view of society and morality with most people being products of their circumstances and societies. A three year old Samus on K-2L is notably spared by a space pirate penal legionary who due to being on the bottom of the social ladder themselves, can't bring themselves to hurt something so defenseless.

* 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, put the likes of Lex Luthor or Iron Man to shame. Casually designing very complicated 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.

* AnIcePerson: Numerous characters have these abilities, but most prominently Viper and Rundas.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Averted. Arne and his parents may have White Hair but are genuinely kind and sweet people. WordOfGod is that after descending into becoming Sylux following a tremendous deal of tragedy, Arne still remains an intrinsically good person; just one fighting for a cause that frequently puts him at odds with Samus due to keeping what he's learned a secret.

The story follows Samus Aran and Arne Skjoldr (aka Sylux) in their quest for justice to the darkness of the universe.

* SpaceFantasy: With so much emphasis on magic, mysticism, and the supernatural, ''Saga'' presents a blending of the aesthetics and sensibilities of the Fantasy and Science Fiction genres.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Subverted. Omega is fully aware of the scale of the universe, the tech really just is that advanced and the characters really just are that powerful.

* SpaceFantasy: With so much emphasis on magic, mysticism, and the supernatural, Saga presents a blending of the aesthetics and sensibilities of the Fantasy and Science Fiction genres.

* AnIcePerson: Numerous characters but most prominently Viper and Rundas.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted, the story leans strongly towards a very constructivist view of society and morality with most people being products of their circumstances and societies. A three year old Samus on K-2L is notably spared by a space pirate penal legionary who due to being on the bottom of the social ladder themselves, can't bring themselves to hurt something so defenceless.

* 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, Samus could easily shift boulders due to the universal genetic augmentations present in the 50,000s.
** 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.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Subverted, Omega is fully aware of the scale of the universe, the tech really just is that advanced and the characters really just are that powerful.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Averted, Arne and his parents may have White Hair but are genuinely kind and sweet people. WordOfGod is that after descending into becoming Sylux following a tremendous deal of tragedy, Arne still remains an intrinsically good person; just one fighting for a cause that frequently puts him at odds with Samus due to keeping what he's learned a secret.

''Saga'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' AlternateUniverseFic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6256920/Mental-Omega Mental Omega]] (aka Phantasmal Fantasy on Spacebattles)

''Saga'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' AlternateUniverseFic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6256920/Mental-Omega Mental Omega]]