Line #57 Roleplay/FightForTheLost


1	[[http://fightforthelost.proboards.com/index.cgi/ Fight for the Lost]] is a collaborative roleplaying community set in the universe of ''Franchise/MassEffect'', specifically during the events of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. 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.
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3	As in most roleplays, players create characters and set up plots for them. Usually, the stories are self contained, but there will be huge story arcs that will involve the vast majority of the players.
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5	Has a [[Characters/FightForTheLost character sheet]].
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8	!!Tropes:
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10	%%* ActionGirl: Most of the female characters.
11	%%* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene
12	* AlternateContinuity: Diverges slightly from canon. Here, Fem Shep has BelligerentSexualTension with [[AcePilot Joker]]. On top of that, some of the actions of the protagonists will wind up inadvertently affecting the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' 'verse.
13	** The OC's, for various reasons or another, inadvertently wind up helping Garrus and Shepard escape the Blood Pack, Blue Suns and Eclipse.
14	%%* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Vorcha and batarian slavers get no sympathy.
15	* AwesomeButImpractical: [[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.]]
16	* BadassBoast: Marlowe has an impressive one [[spoiler: that he delivers to [[LadyofWar Aria.]]]]
17	--> '''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. But I'd make you work at it."\
18	%%* BadGuyBar: Afterlife.
19	%%* BashBrothers: [[PrivateDetective Marlowe]] and [[ProfessionalKiller Trant.]]
20	* BigBad: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. 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.
21	** In recent developments, a shadowy businessman is seen assuming the mantle...
22	%%* BigGood: Commander Shepard is seen as an icon by the other characters.
23	%%* BioPunk
24	* BlackAndGrayMorality: 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]].
25	%%* BreakTheCutie: {{Naive Newcomer}}s are frequently victim to this the longer they stay on Omega.
26	* BullyingADragon: 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.]]
27	%%** [[AllTheOtherReindeer Krevan Opas]] has this as his backstory. [[BerserkButton There's a reason he has a short fuse.]]
28	* CharacterAlignment: Slowly, but surely, there are examples of all nine alignments appearing everywhere.
29	%% This is a Zero context example. Please do not uncomment until further context has been added.* CityNoir: Omega.
30	* TheComicallySerious: [[PsychoForHire Trant.]] His brushes with human culture, [[CulturalRebel despite being human himself,]] are hilarious.
31	%%* CorruptTheCutie: See BreakTheCutie.
32	%%* CrapsackWorld: Omega. Go figure.
33	%%* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: [[SuperSoldier Wraith]] treats [[BadassNormal Marlowe]] with one of these in their first encounter.]]
34	%%** This also occurs to anyone who isn't a main character... and comes across [[BloodKnight Lhi Trant]] or [[SuperSoldier Wraith]].
35	%%* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: {{Averted\|Trope}} with HollywoodCyborg Cyric.
36	%%* CyberPunk
37	* DealWithTheDevil: [[PrivateDetective Marlowe]] makes a deal with [[NecessarilyEvil Aria]] to free the love of his life. In exchange for her freedom, he will have to be Aria’s human agent on Omega.
38	* {{Deconstruction}}: The SuperSoldier gone rogue known as Wraith serves as a vehicle to dismantle [[MediaNotes/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.
39	%%* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: How Marlowe views his meeting with Aria.
40	* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: There are way more instances of melee combat here than in the source material.
41	* {{Fetish}}: [[TheBigGuy Trant]] has a thing for female turians.
42	* FilmNoir: The stories set on Omega have shades of this, particularly whenever [[PrivateDetective Marlowe's]] one of the characters.
43	%%* TheFutureIsNoir
44	%% This is a Zero context example. Please do not uncomment until further context has been added.* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: The roleplay is hinged on this trope.
45	* HeroicNeutral: Many of the characters would prefer going about their business. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome But they can't help it when they hear a cry for help.]]
46	* InterspeciesRomance: 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.]]
47	* LeeroyJenkins: 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 HairTriggerTemper.
48	%% This is a Zero context example. Please do not uncomment until further context has been added.* OddFriendship: A couple. For example, [[TheHero Marlowe]] and [[BloodKnight Trant.]]
49	* 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 StepfordSmiler who desperately strives to [[IJustWantToBeNormal conform to turian standards]], all the while vainly masking UnstoppableRage.
50	* 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.
51	* ShoutOut: Loads.
52	** "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/TheRollingStonesBand Rape and murder were just a shout away."]]
53	** One story thread was called [[Anime/CowboyBebop "Farewell Blues."]]
54	** Another ''Anime/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.]]
55	%%* WorldHalfFull
56	%%* WorldOfBadass: A bit of a given.
57	%%* WretchedHive: Omega, natch.

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