Dark Lioness is a fanfiction written by Evannakita
, based on the setting and series of paintings made by Matthew Huntley. The series have four chapters released currently, with the first released on September 28, 2021.
Dark Lioness provides examples of:
- Action Girl: The series revolves around giant-sized women fighting Kaiju, and they're good at what they do.
- Amazon Brigade: The Vigilant Lionesses are a group of many women, all of which are powerful fighters who can grow into giants to combat any Kaiju threat.
- Artistic License – Physics: As always, the giants and Kaiju in this setting give the square-cube law a royal middle finger.
- Badass Normal: The central human characters, Xeni and Yvette, are both very competent and adventurous mercenaries.
- Behemoth Battle: Chapter 2 revolves around a fight between Uraya, a Vigilant Lioness and a ray-like kaiju.
- Character Title: 'Dark Lioness' referring to a title given to Waverly.
- Citywide Evacuation: Chapter 2 shows an example of this while Xena and Waverly are on their way to find Uraya.
- Collateral Damage: When giants fight, this is inevitable.
- Colossus Climb: Xena and Yvette attempt to scale Waverly on her way to her first mission.
- Creature Hunter Organisation: The entire purpose of the Vigilant Lioness organisation is to combat the Kaiju threat with their own giant warriors.
- Giant Flyer: The kaiju in Chapter 2 is a giant, flying sting ray. Crosses over with Sea Monster.
- Giant Woman: The Lionesses are all women.
- Kaiju: The primary threat in this setting.
- Mission Briefing: Valerie gives Waverly one of these in Chapter Four.
- Not-So-Abandoned Building: The Dark Lioness organisation renovated an abandoned Vigilant Lioness building for their purposes.
- Science Fiction: The giants are made through scientific means and Kaiju are a classic sci-fi trope.
- Transformation Sequence: Waverly gets a descriptive growth sequence in Chapter 3.
- Sea Monster: A giant, flying sting ray. All kaiju also come from the water.
