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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"Hey, Wu," Mako calls as he heads around the corner, on-edge. "You have to keep up if you want the shot. She could show up any minute. You want a blurry picture of her leaving?"

Mako is, maybe, on-edge. This is the biggest lead they've gotten in a while—a place where Avatar's been spotted more than once, possibly coming and going—and he's never worked with this photographer before. Mako needs this story. The pressure's getting intense to break something on Avatar and every reporter at the RC Daily is trying to get the scoop. Mako's rent is due soon and he's gotten exactly squat, which means he's gotta break this or go hustle doing street tricks or something again and he'd really rather not.

So: he's out, following a source he hopes no one else has (thank you, Skoochy, for being easy to bribe but very observant) with a photographer who seems more interested in being his friend than doing his job. Dusk has fallen quietly around them, and there's not a soul in sight except for a few raccooncrows cawing softly on the looming edges of the buildings they're slipping between.