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...

Comments

Mako—the reporter with something to hide

[arclightning]

Mako, as a rule, is bad at keeping secrets.

He's been told he has an honest face, has worked most of his life to try and change that but has never managed it.

Which is really a shame, because he has a big secret to keep. He throws himself into his work to avoid thinking about it, and that mostly works except when his work intersects with what he's trying to hide. It happens more and more these days. In his beginning days as a reporter on the beat, he'd mostly covered crime, the doings of various Triads in the city, the kind of sensational stuff that sold papers and got eyeballs on pages, but ever since Avatar showed up in the city he's been covering more and more of her stuff, and that's dangerous, especially since his boss told him to try and figure out who exactly is behind that mask. His work is getting a little too close to home.

Still, he gets the stories because he's good at what he does, and he likes the work. Mako knows there are stories out there no one is telling, voices that aren't being heard, and he doesn't have delusions of grandeur or anything like that but he'd like to make a difference and get paid doing it. He likes being good at things.

Who cares if, technically, he's a bender?

Nobody needs to know that. All they have to see is Mako, reporter, trying just like everyone else to get a byline and a bit of notoriety.