History Fanfic / VaultHuntersWanted

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9483792/1/Vault-Hunters-Wanted Vault Hunters Wanted]]'' is a Borderlands fic, placed five years after the events of VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} took place. With Lilith as the main leader of the Crimson Raiders and tons of new characters, this story follows the adventures of the newest generation of Vault Hunters and their conflicts with Bellum, the newest ObviouslyEvil antagonist of the main series.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership / AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: Subverted with the CEO's of the weapons corporations. None of them are implied to be able to fight at all, though it's unlikely they'd need to do to their resources and bodyguards.
** Played completely straight with [[spoiler:Lilith, as it turns out she's still the leader of the Crimson Raiders due to being the strongest. She proves this by soundly whooping Mockingbirds ass in a CurbStompBattle]].
* AxCrazy: Oh boy, this is gonna take a while...

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority / AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Subverted with the CEO's of the weapons corporations. None of them are implied to be able to fight at all, though it's unlikely they'd need to do to their resources and bodyguards.

* BadassAdorable: Aurai, as many characters (''[[UpToEleven even the narrators]]'') comment on. She still is a Vault Hunter though, and a damn dangerous one at that, as Masher figured out really quickly.

** Daedalus from the second DLC counts. He defines research as incinerating people with his [[FrickinLaserBeams laser beams]], and he apparently did experiments on himself as evidenced by the huge eye that's used for reconnaissances and the stitches across his real body.

* BadassGay: Masher, even with his {{Jerkass}}-ness factored in, is still a good example of this. It took having a roof collapsed onto his body, both arms being severed, an eye gouged out, and ''being set on fire'' in order to be put down the first time.

* BadassGrandpa: Saprus is ''62'' years old, yet manages to be just as effective (one might argue more effective) as his comrades, many of whom are half his age. Wolfenstein counts too, being in his 50's, though being a wereskag probably makes him age differently from humans.

* GeniusBruiser: [[GadgeteerGenius Baldemar]] and [[LadyOfWar Taika]] are the first examples of this, as they both made their own technology for their Action Skills (an exact [[DoppelgangerAttack clone]] of the user and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent a flying wyvern that breathes laser beams respectively]]).

** Played completely straight with [[spoiler:Lilith, as it turns out she's still the leader of the Crimson Raiders due to being the strongest. She proves this by soundly whooping Mockingbirds ass in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome and CurbStompBattle]].

* GenreSavvy: Holy crap, Jackal Cash. He does not pause when he attacks, he hits like a ton of bricks with BeamSpam, and will do everything in his power to make sure you don't come back up. He never explains his powers in the slightest, leaving his enemies to guess and predict their limitations (there aren't many), and he knew instantly that [[spoiler:that Dion was his main nuisances in the last fight and disposed of him properly, then changed to Aurai when he saw how pissed off she was watching Dion get brutalized]]. The man knows how to fight, which probably explains his rank as top man in the Carnival.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9483792/1/Vault-Hunters-Wanted Vault Hunters Wanted]] is a Borderlands fic, placed five years after the events of VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} took place. With Lilith as the main leader of the Crimson Raiders and tons of new characters, this story follows the adventures of the newest generation of Vault Hunters and their conflicts with Bellum, the newest ObviouslyEvil antagonist of the main series.

* {{Badass}}: Being trained military forces to some degree, damn close to everyone in this story is this to some degree. Top mention would be Lilith, who turns out to be the strongest of all of the Crimson Raiders even after all this time, which explains why she so effortlessly leads the rest of them around.

Has two [=DLCs=] out currently, which more or less act as sequels for the story, adding on new characters and continuing the main storyline. The first, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9923100/1/Mr-Vangorium-s-Wonder-Gunporium Mister Vangorium's Wonder Gunporium]], introduces the Carnival, a Franchise/{{Pokemon}} style competition, with a Vault being the main prize. The second, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10296433/1/Grave-Lord-Arlon-s-Revengathon Grave Lord Arlon's Revengathon]], introduces Cassius Hardy and his Grave Lord Army, with the Crimson Raiders backing Grave Lord Arlon.

* BodyHorror: Let's just get this out of the way. You should not be able to morph your entire body into a liquid-like state with claws and teeth everywhere, shoot your own blood from your hands, havea festering acidic disease hosted inside your body that ''eats at your temples and under your eyes'', or being legitimately dead with a limited blood supply. Those are the '''''heroic examples'''''.
* BreakTheBadass: Dion used to be the main tank and fighter of the group during the orignal story and first DLC, being able to take a crapton of damage and dish it back out just as effectively. However, upon meeting Jackal Cash, he got '''utterly owned''', [[spoiler:nearly dying from his injuries and being HalfTheManHeUsedToBe. During that fight he got so pissed off about his failure to save Aurai he nearly killed himself with his effort, with ''tears of plasma'' running down his face from trying so hard.]]

** Lilith gets one when [[spoiler:Aurai is kidnapped and Mr. Vangorium called, going into a long rant at him and blasting the phone out of an airlock]].and [[CreepyChild Rosalign Rubity]] are the best examples of this.

** Mortem is this as well, as her quotes heavily hint at.

* AntiVillain: All over the place.

** Lilith gets one when [[spoiler:Aurai is kidnapped and Mr. Vangorium called, going into a long rant at him and blasting the phone out of an airlock]].
* DarkActionGirl: Because feminism is alive and well on Pandora and the surrounding universe, many examples of this exist. [[MadDoctor Marie Winter]] and [[CreepyChild Rosalign Rubity]] are the best examples of this.

** Cassius's Grave Knight army seem to avoid this, as each one is introduced only after the last one dies or bites the dust.