History Roleplay / HatchlingQuest

[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hatchling-quest-worm-metroid.22540/ Hatchling Quest]] is a PlayByPostGame created by Immortal's Blade for Sufficient Velocity. Beginning in September 2015, the story has been on hiatus since 2017.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Samus, technically. A lot of her actions can be explained away by her being from the far-future of another dimension and thus naturally confused about how everything on present-day Earth Bet functions, and what can't comes down her just being socially awkward due to having no peers growing up. Regardless, many characters (both those that know she's an alien and don't) tend to treat her as if she's autistic or mentally deficient, though none of them outright say it. That said, Samus ''is'' properly diagnosed as having PTSD (naturally) by psychologists on Earth Bet, while her childhood medical files from her world state that she would develop ADHD by her teenage years.

[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hatchling-quest-worm-metroid.22540/ Hatchling Quest]] is a PlayByPostGame created by Immortal's Blade for Sufficient Velocity.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Samus, technically. A lot of her actions can be explained away by her being from the far-future of another dimension and thus naturally confused about how everything on present-day Earth Bet functions, and what can't comes down her just being socially awkward due to having no peers growing up. Regardless, many characters (both those that know she's an alien and don't) tend to treat her as if she's autistic or mentally deficient, though none of them outright say it. That said, Samus ''is'' properly diagnosed as having PTSD (naturally) by psychologists on Earth Bet, while her childhood medial files from her world state that she would develop ADHD by her teenage years.

* AncientAstronauts: It turns out [[spoiler:the Chozo have visted Earth Bet from as early as 2400 BCE and have left relics for Samus to discover.]]

** Samus goes through this during [[spoiler:the battle with Leviathan]] when she scans it [[spoiler:and finds out that the Endbringer is actually a projection, meaning that millions were killed by, essentially, an illusion.]] She goes through it ''again'' [[spoiler: when she realizes that she can't cause any meaningful damage to Leviathan or the Pirate HumungousMecha, driving her to wipe both of them off the face of Earth Bet with the [[WaveMotionGun Zero Laser]]]].

* {{Adorkable}}: ''Samus''. When she's not in full OneManArmy mode, she's the sweetest, most adorable BountyHunter you will ever meet.

** Samus goes through this [[spoiler:the bsttle with Leviathan]] when she scans it [[spoiler:and finds out that the Endbringer is actually a projection, meaning that millions were killed by, essentially, an illusion.]] She goes through it ''again'' [[spoiler: when she realizes that she can't cause any meaningful damage to Leviathan or the Pirate HumungousMecha, driving her to wipe both of them off the face of Earth Bet with the [[WaveMotionGun Zero Laser]]]].

* AlternateUniverse: Earth Bet is this to Samus’ home dimension. [[spoiler: It turns out that the setting is this to canon Literature/{{Worm}} even before Samus [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hatchling-quest-worm-metroid.22540/page-388#post-6699213 showed up]].]]

-->'''Taylor''': “I looked the girl over. [[UnkemptBeauty Her waist-long blonde hair was an unbrushed mess, and she wasn't wearing any make-up]]. Still, if Emma could be called ‘attractive’ enough for modeling this girl was stunning, she even had a natural beauty mark under her lip. Not only that but from [[ItMakesSenseInContext when she was hanging]] I knew she was [[HeroicBuild ripped]], her shirt had fallen enough to reveal abs most of the jocks would kill for.”
* AncientAstronauts: It turns out [[spoiler: the Chozo have visted Earth Bet from as early as 2400 BCE and have left relics for Samus to discover.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Samus uses the Zero Laser to kill Leviathan.]]

--->'''Manic Dogma''': “I find it hilarious that the image used for the most utter prey animal I've ever seen...is a component of the most absolute apex predator of an entire setting.”

* MysteriousAntarctica: Antarctica became this after The Simurgh [[spoiler: made her second appearance there and just vanished]]. Since then, any attempt to gather information about the continent has failed. Satellites show nothing, anyone sent there are never seen again, even capes with flight and teleportation powers vanish without a trace.
** We find out why this is in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hatchling-quest-worm-metroid.22540/page-471#post-7854636 15.16]] [[spoiler: the Space Pirates had a base there where they were studying '''Metroids!!!''' They somehow escaped, the base was abandoned, and the continent was quarantined]].

** Mouse Protector’s full name in this story is Karren Petersen.
** Circus’ full name in this story is Arleen Haley Quinzel.

* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler: The Space Pirates are an ''[[AlwaysChaoticEvil entire species]]'' of these.]]

* WhamEpisode: In [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hatchling-quest-worm-metroid.22540/page-345#post-6388034 12.7]] we finally learn the identity of the HiddenVillain it’s the [[spoiler: '''SPACE PIRATES!''']]

* ThankYouPrey: Samus, having never eaten real meat, asks the rest of the Wards to offer a brief prayer for the animals who died for the pepperoni in their pizza.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After Vista receives minor wounds, Samus hurries to get her to a Restore Station. Once it's done, Samus comments how brave Vista is, for being a hero when she has such crippling genetic issues. A nonplussed Vista asks what issues she's talking about, and Samus explains that she lacks standard Federation genetic improvements, like she's... some kind of primitive from millennia before the Federation came into existence...

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Circus’ full name in this story is Arleen Haley Quinzel.

** Samus herself underwent this. She was born a normal human then she was altered into [[HalfHumanHybrid chozo/human hybrid]].

* AlternateUniverse: Earth Bet is this to Samus’ home dimension. [[spoiler: It turns out that the setting is this to canon worm even before Samus [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hatchling-quest-worm-metroid.22540/page-388#post-6699213 showed up]].]]

-->'''Taylor''': “I looked the girl over. [[UnkemptBeauty Her waist-long blonde hair was an unbrushed mess, and she wasn't wearing any make-up]]. Still, if Emma could be called ‘attractive‘ enough for modeling this girl was stunning, she even had a natural beauty mark under her lip. Not only that but from [[ItMakesSenseInContext when she was hanging]] I knew she was [[HeroicBuild ripped]], her shirt had fallen enough to reveal abs most of the jocks would kill for.”

-->'''Taylor''': “I looked the girl over. [[UnkemptBeauty Her waist-long blonde hair was an unbrushed mess, and she wasn't wearing any make-up]]. Still, if Emma could be called "attractive" enough for modeling this girl was stunning, she even had a natural beauty mark under her lip. Not only that but from [[ItMakesSenseInContext when she was hanging]] I knew she was [[HeroicBuild ripped]], her shirt had fallen enough to reveal abs most of the jocks would kill for.”

* Adolescent Llyngyr are based on [[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Abyssal Worms]], while the adults are based on [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Lava Worms]].