History Roleplay / FightForTheLost

* ActionGirl: Most of the female characters.
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene
* AlternateContinuity: Diverges slightly from canon. Here, Fem!Shep has {{Belligerent Sexual Tension}} with [[AcePilot Joker]]. On top of that, some of the actions of the protagonists will wind up inadvertently affecting the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' 'verse.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Vorcha and batarian slavers get no sympathy.

* BadGuyBar: Afterlife.
* BashBrothers: [[PrivateDetective Marlowe]] and [[ProfessionalKiller Trant.]]
* BigBad: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] While Aria is a constant presence in the Omega stories, and while the characters certainly fear her, she isn't treated as the main antagonist. Exactly as in canon, she's a NecessarilyEvil AntiVillain

* BigGood: Commander Shepard is seen as an icon by the other characters.
* BioPunk

* {{Break the Cutie}}: {{Naive Newcomer}}s are frequently victim to this the longer they stay on Omega.
* {{Bullying a Dragon}}: A gang of Eclipse mercs threaten to smash an innocuous hobo into paste. Said hobo is a [[AxCrazy homicidal]] PsychoPrototype SuperVillain. [[TooDumbToLive This goes about as well as you'd expect.]]
** [[AllTheOtherReindeer Krevan Opas]] has this as his backstory. [[BerserkButton There's a reason he has a short fuse.]]

* CorruptTheCutie: See BreakTheCutie.
* CrapsackWorld: Omega. Go figure.
** WorldHalfFull
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: [[SuperSoldier Wraith]] treats [[BadassNormal Marlowe]] with one of these in their first encounter.]]
** This also occurs to anyone who isn't a main character... and comes across [[BloodKnight Lhi Trant]] or [[SuperSoldier Wraith]].
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with HollywoodCyborg Cyric.
* CyberPunk
* DealWithTheDevil: [[PrivateDetective Marlowe]] makes a deal with [[NecessaryEvil Aria]] to free the love of his life. In exchange for her freedom, he will have to be Aria's human agent on Omega.

* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: How Marlowe views his meeting with Aria.

* TheFutureIsNoir

* PlanetOfHats: Following the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' tradition of subverting the concept, some of the characters avert the stereotypes of their species. A noticeable play on this trope is the turian OC Krevan Opas, a {{Stepford Smiler}} who desperately strives to [[IJustWantToBeNormal conform to turian standards]], all the while vainly masking UnstoppableRage.
* RuleofCool: The world of ''Fight For The Lost'' is not afraid to dip into this. Take note, Cyric, the cyborg turian. Or the detective slash martial artist slash swordsman in the Badass Longcoat.

* WorldOfBadass: A bit of a given.
* WretchedHive: Omega, natch.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The SuperSoldier gone rogue known as Wraith serves as a vehicle to dismantle [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeofComicBooks gritty, ultra-violent nineties-style heroics]], showing exactly how insane and sociopathic a person like that would truly be. To put it one way, placing someone like [[NinetiesAntiHero him]] into the more {{Grey and Gray Morality}} world of Franchise/MassEffect is going to cause friction.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: [[BadassNormal Sammo Marlowe.]]
** TheLancer: [[MagicKnight Krevan Opas]].
** TheBigGuy: [[BloodKnight Lhi Trant.]] Also the TokenEvilTeammate.
** TheSmartGuy: [[HollywoodCyborg Cyric Vergal]], [[NaiveNewcomer Rebekah Welch]].
** TheChick: [[CuteBruiser Auralia T'Lan.]] Also doubles as a secondary {{Lancer}}.

** "Omega knew neither day nor night. But it was always under a perpetual darkness of its own. A darkness of poverty and despair, crime and death, hate and bigotry. [[Music/TheRollingStones Rape and murder were just a shout away."]]

%% This is a Zero context example. Please do not uncomment until further context has been added. * MentorShip: Marlowe and Aura. Also a MayflyDecemberRomance.

* CityNoir: [[CaptainObvious Omega.]]

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: The roleplay is hinged on this trope.

* MentorShip: Marlowe and Aura. Also a MayflyDecemberRomance.
* OddFriendship: A couple. For example, [[TheHero Marlowe]] and [[BloodKnight Trant.]]

--> '''Marlowe''': [[ArrogantKungFuGuy "I'm easily a better fighter than these fine gentlemen put together.]] I'm easily better at [[ScarilyCompetentTracker tracking dead beats and the lost]] than your best agents and I can out-maneuver your best hackers. Someone embezzling your income and they're covering their tracks? I can find them out in five minutes. Rumours of assassination attempts? Give me a single night and I'll deliver the source to your doorstep. [[TheStarscream One of your own plotting a coup?]] I'll have forwarded the memo to you the moment he tries to get a secret meeting together in your own club. All of this I can do, and more. True, you could just ignore my offer and kill me. [[CrowningMomentofAwesome But I'd make you work at it."]]\\

* {{Badass}}: Almost everyone, in some form or another.

** One story thread was called [[CowboyBebop "Farewell Blues."]]
** Another CowboyBebop reference. Marlowe's fight with [[spoiler: Wraith]] has a similar premise to the fight between Spike and [[PsychopathicManchild Tongpu/Mad Pierrot]]. A BadassNormal comes across a PsychoPrototype SuperSoldier after he's finished a fresh hit, they get into a fight, the former is [[CurbStompBattle soundly trounced.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: The SuperSoldier gone rogue known as Wraith serves as a vehicle to dismantle [[TheDarkAgeofComicBooks gritty, ultra-violent nineties-style heroics]], showing exactly how insane and sociopathic a person like that would truly be. To put it one way, placing someone like [[NinetiesAntiHero him]] into the more {{Grey and Gray Morality}} world of Franchise/MassEffect is going to cause friction.

[[http://fightforthelost.proboards.com/index.cgi/ Fight for the Lost]] is a collaborative roleplaying community set in the universe of ''{{Mass Effect}}'', specifically during the events of ''{{Mass Effect 2}}''. The basic premise? While everyone knows about the escapades of [[BigGood Commander Shepard]], who else knows about the [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold other heroes who fight to make their own little corners of the galaxy safe]]? Who will cast the spotlight on them? Will anyone ever know their sacrifices? These are eponymous lost, the unsung forgotten and unknown. Fight for the Lost is primarily set on [[CityNoir Omega]], so you know it's [[CrapsackWorld not a land of sunshine and unicorns]] for those who have to live there.

* {{Action Girl}}: Most of the female characters.
* {{Action Film Quiet Drama Scene}}
* {{Alternate Continuity}}: Diverges slightly from canon. Here, Fem!Shep has {{Belligerent Sexual Tension}} with [[AcePilot Joker]]. On top of that, some of the actions of the protagonists will wind up inadvertently affecting the ''{{Mass Effect}}'' 'verse.

* {{Always Chaotic Evil}}: Vorcha and batarian slavers get no sympathy.
* {{Awesome but Impractical}}: [[BattleCouple Marlowe and Aura]] are swordsmen... in a world where everyone uses high powered guns. [[SubvertedTrope Doesn't stop them from succeeding in kicking serious ass.]]

* {{Badass Boast}}: Marlowe has an impressive one [[spoiler: that he delivers to [[LadyofWar Aria.]]]]

* {{Bad Guy Bar}}: Afterlife.
* {{Bash Brothers}}: [[PrivateDetective Marlowe]] and [[ProfessionalKiller Trant.]]
* {{Big Bad}}: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] While Aria is a constant presence in the Omega stories, and while the characters certainly fear her, she isn’t treated as the main antagonist. Exactly as in canon, she’s a {{Necessarily Evil}} {{Anti Villain}}

* {{Big Good}}: Commander Shepard is seen as an icon by the other characters.
* {{Bio Punk}}
* {{Black and Gray Morality}}: Even the most heroic characters can be outright bastards, and some of the villains can be reasoned with. However, there are the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil batarian slavers and vorcha]].

* {{Bullying a Dragon}}: A gang of Eclipse mercs threaten to smash an innocuous hobo into paste. Said hobo is a [[AxCrazy homicidal]] {{Psycho Prototype}} {{Super Villain}}. [[TooDumbToLive This goes about as well as you'd expect.]]

* {{Character Alignment}}: Slowly, but surely, there are examples of all nine alignments appearing everywhere.
* {{City Noir}}: [[CaptainObvious Omega.]]
* {{The Comically Serious}}: [[PsychoForHire Trant.]] His brushes with human culture, [[CulturalRebel despite being human himself,]] are hilarious.
* {{Corrupt the Cutie}}: See {{Break the Cutie}}.
* {{Crapsack World}}: Omega. Go figure.
** {{World Half Full}}
* {{Curbstomp Battle}}: [[spoiler: [[SuperSoldier Wraith]] treats [[BadassNormal Marlowe]] with one of these in their first encounter.]]

* {{Cybernetics Eat Your Soul}}: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with {{Hollywood Cyborg}} Cyric.
* {{Cyber Punk}}
* {{Deal with the Devil}}: [[PrivateDetective Marlowe]] makes a deal with [[NecessaryEvil Aria]] to free the love of his life. In exchange for her freedom, he will have to be Aria’s human agent on Omega.
* {{Deconstruction}}: The {{Super Soldier}} gone rogue known as Wraith serves as a vehicle to dismantle [[TheDarkAgeofComicBooks gritty, ultra-violent nineties-style heroics]], showing exactly how insane and sociopathic a person like that would truly be. To put it one way, placing someone like [[NinetiesAntiHero him]] into the more {{Grey and Gray Morality}} world of {{Mass Effect}} is going to cause friction.

* {{Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting}}: There are way more instances of melee combat here than in the source material.

* {{Film Noir}}: The stories set on Omega have shades of this, particularly whenever [[PrivateDetective Marlowe's]] one of the characters.
* {{Five Man Band}}:
** {{The Hero}}: [[BadassNormal Sammo Marlowe.]]
** {{The Lancer}}: [[MagicKnight Krevan Opas]].
** {{The Big Guy}}: [[BloodKnight Lhi Trant.]] Also the {{Token Evil Teammate}}.
** {{The Smart Guy}}: [[HollywoodCyborg Cyric Vergal]], [[NaiveNewcomer Rebekah Welch]].
** {{The Chick}}: [[CuteBruiser Auralia T'Lan.]] Also doubles as a secondary {{Lancer}}.
* {{The Future Is Noir}}
* {{The Greatest Story Never Told}}: The roleplay is hinged on this trope.
* {{Heroic Neutral}}: Many of the characters would prefer going about their business. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome But they can't help it when they hear a cry for help.]]
* {{Interspecies Romance}}: There are many examples, in ways not shown in the canon series. Trant has a fetish for turian females, and one scene [[CrackPairing implies a relationship between a human woman and an elcor.]]
* {{Leeroy Jenkins}}: Krevan Opas. For someone who's supposed to be [[TheCaptain a good leader]] and [[TheStrategist a good strategist]], his own anger management issues tend to result in military blunders and compromise his crew. Laps over with {{The Pesci}}.
* {{Mentor Ship}}: Marlowe and Aura. Also a {{Mayfly December Romance}}.
* {{Odd Friendship}}: A couple. For example, [[TheHero Marlowe]] and [[BloodKnight Trant.]]
* {{Planet of Hats}}: Following the ''{{Mass Effect}}'' tradition of subverting the concept, some of the characters avert the stereotypes of their species. A noticeable play on this trope is the turian OC Krevan Opas, a {{Stepford Smiler}} who desperately strives to [[IJustWantToBeNormal conform to turian standards]], all the while vainly masking {{Unstoppable Rage}}.
* {{Rule of Cool}}: The world of {{Fight For The Lost}} is not afraid to dip into this. Take note, Cyric, the cyborg turian. Or the detective slash martial artist slash swordsman in the {{Badass Longcoat}}.
* {{Shout Out}}: Loads.

** Another {{CowboyBebop}} reference. Marlowe's fight with [[spoiler: Wraith]] has a similar premise to the fight between Spike and [[PsychopathicManchild Tongpu/Mad Pierrot]]. A {{Badass Normal}} comes across a {{Psycho Prototype}} {{Super Soldier}} after he's finished a fresh hit, they get into a fight, the former is [[CurbStompBattle soundly trounced.]]
* {{World of Badass}}: A bit of a given.
* {{Wretched Hive}}: Omega, natch.

* {{Break the Cutie}}: {{Naive Newcomers}} are frequently victim to this the longer they stay on Omega.

* {{Les Yay}}: There's a bit of this going on between [[BigGood Shepard]] and [[KleptomaniacHero Kasumi Goto.]]

* {{Bash Brothers}}: [[PrivateDetective Marlowe]] and [[CareerKiller Trant.]]

'''Tropes:'''

** "Omega knew neither day nor night. But it was always under a perpetual darkness of its own. A darkness of poverty and despair, crime and death, hate and bigotry. [[TheRollingStones Rape and murder were just a shout away."]]

* {{Fetish Fuel}}: In-universe example, [[TheBigGuy Trant]] has a thing for female turians.