Line #4 Fanfic/SemperParatus


1	-->''We’re always ready for the call, we place our trust in Thee. Through surf and storm and howling gale, high shall our purpose be. [[TitleDrop '''Semper Paratus''']] is our guide, Our fame, Our glory, too. […] To sink the foe or save the maimed, Our mission and Our pride.''
2	-->'''++From “Semper Paratus (Always Ready)”, Fight Song of the United States Coast Guard.++'''
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4	''[[http://marcoasalazarm.deviantart.com/art/SEMPER-PARATUS-A-CORELINE-STORY-476459686 Semper Paratus: A CORELINE Story]]'' is a one-shot story that occurs on the ''Fanfic/CoreLine'' SharedUniverse, following the actions in a single day-long patrol (which occurs during the Fourth Of July) of a Florida-based United States UsefulNotes/CoastGuard team.
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8	!!This story has the following Tropes:
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10	* AdaptationalBadass: The team includes a version of [[Anime/{{Free}} Haruka Nanase]] which has changed ([[HadToBeSharp because of appearing on The Line and needing to adapt]]) from "disorder-laden swim-happy [[MrFanservice pretty boy]]" to "Post-TrainingFromHell-to-withstand-borderline-DeathWorld-conditions-and-insane-situations-including-amphibious-combat Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer (who still happens to be a pretty-boy, but it's the way he was drawn)". The climactic rescue scene has him getting hit over the head ''with a fire extinguisher'' by [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] and [[MadeOfIron keeping on carrying his duties with no loss in effectiveness]].
11	* AnArmAndALeg: An Alternate of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Waylon Smithers]] (one of the handful of survivors of the mega-yacht explosion) ended up losing an arm.
12	* BittersweetEnding: The team manages to see some wonders throughout the day and save some people from the wreck of an exploding mega-yacht... however, every single one of those people have been maimed or greatly traumatized by the disaster and the man who performed it (an Alternate of Peter Griffin) will most probably be unapologetic about his actions (as many of his Alternates are wont to do).
13	* ClusterFBomb: From ''[[TheBore Seymour Skinner]]'', of all people (then again, he's trying his best to kill Peter Griffin with his bare hands and he just survived a disaster, so who can blame him?).
14	* CoolBoat: The mega-yacht is mentioned to have probably been one before the story, being (among other luxuries) [[MileLongShip absurdly big]]. Unfortunately, that was ''[[StuffBlowingUp before]]'' [[LethallyStupid Peter Griffin]] came aboard...
15	* FridgeHorror: InUniverse case: it is noted that said mega-yacht is a near-literal MileLongShip which was probably full of people and devastated with explosions hard enough for pieces of it to be ''melting'' into the ocean and the initial explosion was strong enough to have been heard from many miles away. There were only '''four''' survivors.
16	* IdiotHoudini: All of the other survivors of the mega-yacht explosion are maimed and/or visibly shell-shocked. Griffin (much to ''everybody's'' disgust) only sports whatever bruises he got from everybody else beating him up (although it is obvious that he will be arrested and maybe even ''lynched'' for his actions).
17	* LowerDeckEpisode: The story follows a simple team of UsefulNotes/CoastGuard members through their day-which has its pretty chaotic big surprise, but it's not potentially world-changing.
18	* OriginalGeneration: The entire Coast Guard team (Adcox Gorman, Gerald [=DeFalco=], Joseph Hunt) is a bunch of Fictions which have a basis on other Fandoms (''Franchise/XMen'' for Hunt, ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' for Gerald) and one Real. The only character who is not "original" happens to be an Alternate of [[Anime/{{Free}} Haruka Nanase]].
19	* TakeThat: This story carries a pretty brutal one towards ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': it's mentioned that InUniverse Alternates of Peter Griffin have been hunted to near-extinction, so much he has pissed off people with his general {{Jerkass}}ery... and the stupidity and rudeness of one of them was the reason [[DoomedHometown Quahog has been destroyed]] (and his destructive impulsiveness is the reason of the story's climactic disaster as well).
20	* TitledAfterTheSong: After ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_C7m_5aZXQ Semper Paratus]]"''-the RealLife UsefulNotes/CoastGuard's fight/marching song.
21	* TheRealHeroes: Never explicitly stated in-story, but written within this vein. After all, [[Series/DirtyJobs it's a dirty job, but]] ''[[Series/DirtyJobs somebody's]]'' [[Series/DirtyJobs got to do it]]...
22	* TwoFaced: One of the survivors of the mega-yacht explosion is an Alternate of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]] with half of her body burnt (one of the team members even explicitly compares her looks to [[ComicBook/TwoFace Harvey "Two-Face" Dent]])

Context Fanfic / SemperParatus