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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She made her way back down into the earth, seeking out Iroh again. She found him by the machine, frowning behind her mask and regarding that...thing.

"What is this..." she said, half to herself, calling up some flames to her hand to look at closer details.

It looked like it was cobbled together, but there were a lot of Sato components in it. Interesting. That could be something, couldn't it? Some of them looked really specialized. She gently removed a small assembly, which looked like it handled coolant of some sort. It was unusual enough it might be something she could trace.

She made her way back to the workshop, turning it over in her hands.

"Well that's a thing I've never seen before. I didn't even know there were underground machines, let alone whatever that is."

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In the workshop, Iroh hooked up one of the parts to a power source and began flipping all the tiny switches at the base, watching as the globular portion swelled and shrunk. "This is like something I found left behind in the tea shop," he said. "My nephew broke it trying to get it to do something more. But there were hundreds of them back there..."

He unhooked that part and considered the next, in turn. "Isn't ingenuity wonderful? When it's not being used to kill you, of course."

It didn't look like he knew any more about it than that, though. He glanced at Korra. "What have you found?"

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[Hey, I've been basically running on fumes for this thread for a while and I think I need to step away. If you want to ping me in a month or two and see how I feel about it, that would be fine, or if you want to get someone else to go from here with you that's cool too. Feel free to use the stuff I PMed you about background and how the stuff I've been dropping in fits together and was going, or feel free to go in a completely different direction. It's all cool. Thanks and sorry!]

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[It's been fun enough I can wait, or we can move on to other things in other places. Your Iroh is great, and I certainly hope I get future opportunities. If it returns, it returns. :) If not, hope for new things down the road - I play a lot of characters, so non-zero chance we just run into each other. Good luck, and no apologies necessary.]