Death Stranding : Alaska
is a fanfiction written by DANNYGROM on Archive of Our Own — set in the Death Stranding Universe, its story's from the point of view from an agent of the Alaskan Government.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Villainy: Die Hard-man - while in the original game, he commit some bad deeds including a murder, in the fanfiction is a full blown dictator, limiting freedom and involved in corruption.
- Bilingual Bonus: There is lot of untranslated phrases in Russian.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: The main supporters of Die Hard-man
- Crapsack World: While the world is described as still existing (as opposed to the original Death Stranding), it's also as almost the return of the dark ages, in which many countries' fates are still a mystery.
- Day of the Jackboot: Die Hard-man's main objective according to the FASA.
- Death Seeker: David after the Timefall make his face age, probably stealing years of his life.
- Divided States of America: After the Death Stranding, the states of Alaska and Hawaii alongside Puerto Rico were isolated from the Lower 49, thus becoming independent.
- Good Guns, Bad Guns: Played with - the main character use an AR-15 and the bad guys of the first part of the fiction use the Kalashnikov AK-12; also subverted as the other enemy faction uses American-made Wellmax WM 556.
- Hero of Another Story: Sam Porter Bridges is mentioned in a line, but doesn't affect the story much.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Subverted Vladimir Putin is mention by name and so is of one the bad guys, Irina Filatova, which is shared with the Minister of Culture in the breakaway state of Luhansk People's Republic.
- Shout-Out: A lot to Metal Gear Solid, one of which is even Lampshaded by the protagonist; also, there's plenty with one about Snowpiercer and another video game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
- Throw-Away Country: Russia is revealed to have been destroyed by Voidouts.
- Vodka Drunkenski: Petrov is the embodiment of this trope.
- Western Terrorists: The antagonist of the first part of the fic, The Russian Alaskan Republic's Army, The Alaskan New Russia's Army and the terrorists from the original game.
