LoK AU: Hero-Verse [Open to All! Let's build this verse!]

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Legend of Korra: Hero-Verse



The Setting: Republic City, in another place, and a few years ahead of where it normally is...



Once, a long time ago, a normal world gifted the world with something known as Bending - a very rare power to use one's own energy to manipulate the elements. There were many who feared these powers, which came together in him - so he took on a mask and the name of Avatar, becoming a masked hero.

As centuries, and then millennia passed, the mysterious hero's mantle was passed on from generation to generation through reincarnation, someone chosen from each of the Four Nations in turn and from among the very rare ranks of those with the ability to bend the elements.

Flash forward to Republic City, circa the 1930s. For the first time, those who distrust the powers of the benders believe that technology will come to replace them. As the city towers higher and higher, and technological achievement rises even further, it looks like the hero known as Avatar may become obsolete; and there are many sinister forces who are eager to make that tomorrow into today.

Meanwhile, some Benders have taken up mantles of their own - both for good and for ill, while others seek to hide their powers, existing every day with perfectly normal jobs. In the increasingly Art Deco city, there is room for absolutely everyone - and challenges around every corner.

As President Raiko takes an increasingly anti-bending stance, the stage is set for conflicts, challenges, and opportunities to simply erupt...

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Korra - the Hero known as "Avatar"

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In this incarnation, much like The Phantom, the mantle of 'Avatar' is passed down from generation to generation. The costume changes, as does the personality, but the core remains the same - a simple oath to protect those who need protection, and to keep the world in balance, safe from the perils of the dark. Trained by a knowledgeable mentor, the secrets have been maintained a long, long time - but so many want to find them out.

And it's a lot harder from a girl fresh from the Polar sticks, as it were, just trying to make her way in the big city. While by night she's a mighty hero, mild-mannered Korra is, in daylight, just like anybody else. She takes her responsibilities seriously, but she also wants to be a normal, every-day girl living in the city and all its lights. In her years of secret training, after all, nobody told her about dancing and the pictures...

She's even found somewhere to live - an apartment in the basement of her new job at the city's biggest newspaper - where she works as the janitor. Everybody wonders how she gets the whole building sparkling like she does, but gosh it's easy to clean those floors when you can waterbend.

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Wu's working late, something he hates doing, but he got some amazing shots that he needs to get processed before the run tomorrow. He's just finished in the dark room, hanging up the last of his photos, before he heads out into the office to collect his things when he spots her, the janitor who really shouldn't be a janitor.

He tells her as much, "what's a dame like you doing working a job like this?"

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If there's one thing she hates? It's the "dames". Not the concept - ok, maybe that - but being called one. It's right up there with 'kid' as guaranteed to put her back up a little bit. Her instinct is to round on him with a 'listen here, buster...' but mild-mannered Korra doesn't do things like that.

Things like that attract suspicion. So she makes a show of fumbling her broom, looking over at him.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

And she's glad she does, in the moment. Those photographs look interesting as all get out.

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Wu's lips quirk in a smile and he waves a hand.

"You're too pretty to be mopping floors! A girl like you? You should be in the papers," he takes a step back, holding up his fingers like a picture frame, centering her in them. "The right clothes, a nice background. No mop, you'd look hotsy-totsy."

Not that Wu does fashion photography, but he would if he could. One thing he loves almost as much as benders is fashion, and he can just imagine a gorgeous gown draping off of this woman.

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She looks down at the overalls she's wearing, then back up at him, adjusting the kerchief she's wearing on her head. Despite herself, she blushes, just a little bit. Geez, the boys here really do move fast. Her parents had warned her about that.

"What," she said, with a slight giggle, "even is hotsy-totsy?"

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"Hotsy-totsy! The cat's pajamas! Aces! You know," He laughs, dropping his arms. "Really, even in that getup, you look great! Would you want to do a photoshoot? If we got them in any rags, I'd give you a cut."

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"I..."

The idea of a cut is tempting. The newspaper is footing her rent - mainly because she's living in the building - but it didn't exactly pay well besides. And, she also has to admit, the fame component of it isn't...repulsive.

She blushed, though, shaking her head.

"Nobody wants to see me in magazines. You want somebody like...like Ginger, or someone. You could flatter your way in there."