History Creator / Vathara

*** Hiko and Kenshin in ''Walk Through the Valley''. Hiko may fit the requirements for the Badass almost to a T (he's implied to be at least fifty, if not sixty at the beginning of the story, though), but Kenshin is a boy who was savvy enough to know that he wouldn't be taken in because of his red hair and command of Federation Standard (the tongue of the enemy), was not regarded as valuable enough to worth trying to snatch from Hiko [[spoiler:at first]] and Hiko began teaching him Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu very shortly after his EmergencyTransformation was finished. Kenshin was not a ReplacementGoldfish. In fact, Hiko was a ChildHater until he came along. [[spoiler:Hiko walks the ''galaxy'', though, after Kenshin is lured off-planet by the bastard who almost killed him five years earlier and a man who turned out to be a military recruiter.]]
** BadassGrandpa: Hiko in ''Walk Through the Valley'' was still practicing Hiten Mitsurugi into his old age over the objections of his superiors.
** EmpoweredBadassNormal:
*** Shunsui, Yumichika and Ikkaku in ''Fanfic/ProjectTatterdemalion. [[spoiler:Sgt. Petrillo and Gen. Yamamoto are this as of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7432275/1/Project_Thoughts Project Thoughts]] , as well.]]
*** Daniel in ''Upon a Fiery Steed'' caught a BeneficialDisease, underwent an EmergencyTransformation as a result and gained a killer instinct that he is going to need lessons to control.
*** Kenshin in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2434630/1/Blades_of_Blood Blades of Blood]]'' can really think on his feet even before he started sharing headspace with a Bakumatsu assassin in a SoulJar.
*** Hiko in ''Walk Through the Valley'' was already a master swordsman, a master scout explorer and a gene-tech. Kenshin in the same story was more of an ActionSurvivor before he transformed.
** HeartbrokenBadass:
*** Kenshin and Kaoru in the Urban Legends verse, where they lost their last child to the Illuminati, who wanted to extend their lives, in spite of their RoaringRampageOfRescue.
*** Hiko after the smuggling ship carrying Kenshin off of Kwannon cleared the atmosphere.
** MamaBear: Angel, the {{Tulpa}} inside Series/{{Airwolf}}, counts, as do Michael Coldsmith-Briggs III's mother, Ariella, [[Manga/RurouniKenshin Kaoru Kamiya and Misao]].
** PregnantBadass: Kaoru in ''All I Need is a Miracle'', but it's only the first trimester and it's not divulged until the last chapter.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11231872/1/Thrower-of-the-Dart Thrower of the Dart]] an Artemis Fowl/Avengers cross that picks up right at the end of The Lost Colony and immediately takes a hard right straight into the MCU. How the hell did Atlantis lose a Bio Bomb? And just what is Doom, of all people, up to?

* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: [[Series/StargateSG1 Daniel]] does this to Jack twice in a letter he sends to SG-1 after being rescued by [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Duo]] in ''Upon a Fiery Steed''. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Stop strangling the paper Jack."]]

** She ''loves'' '''[[DefiedTrope defying]]''' CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: JustFollowingOrders is commonly praised, with the obedient EasilyForgiven and their detractors "[[RetCon revealed]]" to be [[RonTheDeathEater far worse than those they despise]]. She's a big fan of this last one even ''in RealLife'' -- for example, she believes the Kent State shootings were '''[[YouRebelScum justified]].'''

* AuraVision: Kenshin in every fic of hers, along with the rest of the Kenshingumi in Urban Legends. In ''Blades of Blood'', it's just Sanosuke and Kenshin.

*** She's a big fan of this last one even ''in RealLife'' -- for example, she believes the Kent State shootings were '''[[YouRebelScum justified]].'''
--->...you might want to do more research on Kent State than Wikipedia has up. And on the Sixties in general, and the so-called anti-war movement in particular. A lot of those people were not pacifists. You're not a pacifist if you throw rocks at firemen and police; you're an ''idiot'', depending on someone else to act in a much more civilized manner than you are. Also note that at the same time said shootings occurred, groups like the Weather Underground and others claiming to be part of the anti-war movement were busily wreaking havoc, inflicting property damage, and murdering people across the country. And there were all kinds of rumors and noises about people like that being in the crowd. Potentially with ''[[BombThrowingAnarchists bombs]].''\\
Context, people. Know your [[FairForItsDay historical context]].

** JustFollowingOrders is commonly praised, with the obedient EasilyForgiven and their detractors "[[RetCon revealed]]" to be [[RonTheDeathEater far worse than those they despise]].

** She's a big fan of this last one even ''in RealLife'' -- for example, she believes the Kent State shootings were '''[[YouRebelScum justified]].'''

** AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
*** The Tok'ra of Series/StargateSG1 are presented as exploitative allies NotSoDifferent from the Goa'uld who have no exit strategy and terrible spies.
*** The Air Nomads of WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender are presented as a mind-controlling regime which takes all children from their mothers at age two to be placed with airbending masters -- and those who aren't airbenders are adopted out of the Nation; the swordsman who trained Aang's biological father was one such.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Whenever HistoricalDomainCharacter Hajime Saitou of TheShinsengumi appears, he's not human. But the Urban Legends and Blades of Blood Verses are especially notable in that they are UrbanFantasy.

--->'''WordOfGod''': ''Katara is not honest. Katara is sweetness and confidence and "we're going to help Aang save the world!" Until she runs into [[BerserkButton something she doesn't like]], at which point the Sugar Queen cracks, and a lot of nastiness oozes out. ...Yeah. That relationship is going to end ''[[SarcasmMode so well]]''. I think I'll take my chances with [[LawfulEvil Azula]]....''

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy -- Whenever HistoricalDomainCharacter Hajime Saitou of TheShinsengumi appears, he's not human. But the Urban Legends and Blades of Blood Verses are especially notable in that they are UrbanFantasy.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Vathara portrays [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara]] as this in ''Embers'' -- as much as she loves Kenshin for being "a peaceable guy until [he has] a target" and Unohana for letting her temper fly when the situation calls for it and still keeping it under control, she does not like Katara.
--->'''WordOfGod''': ''Katara is not honest. Katara is sweetness and confidence and "we're going to help Aang save the world!" Until she runs into [[BerserkButton something she doesn't like]], at which point the Sugar Queen cracks, and a lot of nastiness oozes out. ...Yeah. That relationship is going to end ''[[SarcasmMode so well]]''. I think I'll take my chances with [[LawfulEvil Azula]]....''

* ForgottenRealms -- at least, in a oneshot that hasn't been followed up on.

** In ''Walk Through the Valley'', he's a kiryuu alterant thanks to LegoGenetics. Unlike the Hiko of ''Ethan Rayne's Very Bad Day'' and Urban Legends, this one possesses AbsurdlySharpClaws and InnateNightVision so acute that he is [[BlindWithoutEm blind without]] his CoolShades, along with alien physical features like [[AlienHair sensory tendrils]] that allow this [[AlternateUniverse AU's]] answer to ki-sense to work and KaleidoscopeEyes that go from blue in the daytime to [[GlowingEyes amber]] at night or low light. His ki-sense consists of sensing [[{{EMP}} electromagnetic radiation]] and something else that was never explained. Details regarding the consequences can be found below at TerribleTicking. Oh, and he went from ChildHater to KnightTemplarParent.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11231872/1/Thrower-of-the-Dart Thrower of the Dart]] an Artemis Fowl, Avengers cross that picks up after the Lost Colony and takes hard right into MCU. And just how did Atlantis loose a bio Bomb? And what is Doom up to?

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10365222/1/Change-of-Fate Change Of Fate]], a standalone (so far) fusion between StarWars and SwordArtOnline.

* Vathara portrays [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara]] as this in ''Embers'' -- as much as she loves Kenshin for being "a peaceable guy until [he has] a target" and Unohana for letting her temper fly when the situation calls for it and still keeping it under control, she does not like Katara.

* AdaptationDyeJob: [[Series/StargateSG1 Daniel Jackson]] is blond (brown in the original). [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Duo Maxwell]] has violet eyes (official website says Prussian blue).

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4236712/1/Project_Tatterdemalion Project Tatterdemalion]] and its sequels, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5201930/1/Project_Asclepius Project Asclepius]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7432275/1/Project_Thoughts Project Thoughts]], a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' sci-fi/horror AU. This series also has [[FanFic/ProjectTatterdemalion its own TV Tropes page.]]

* [[BewareTheNiceOnes/FanWorks Beware The Nice Ones]]:
** Every Manga/RurouniKenshin story except ''Walk Through the Valley'' makes Kenshin this. As Bobby Goren in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3218251/4/Witchy-Woman Witchy Woman]]'' put it, he's a really peaceable guy until he has a target.
** [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Unohana]] in Fanfic/ProjectTatterdemalion is this in a way that her canon counterpart isn't. It was unavoidable given how little fandom knew of her when it was written. Instead of being a reformed SerialKiller, ''this'' Unohana is a mild-mannered doctor who was willing to put her claws to Urahara's during his non-drug-related intervention.
** Vathara portrays [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara]] as a {{Deconstruction}} of this in ''Embers'' -- in her view, a "nice person" capable of concealing a powerful capacity for violence isn't really a nice person, but a StepfordSmiler.
--->'''WordOfGod''': ''Katara is not honest. Katara is sweetness and confidence and "we're going to help Aang save the world!" Until she runs into [[BerserkButton something she doesn't like]], at which point the Sugar Queen cracks, and a lot of nastiness oozes out. ...Yeah. That relationship is going to end ''[[SarcasmMode so well]]''. I think I'll take my chances with [[LawfulEvil Azula]]....''

** AwesomenessIsAForce: [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]], [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender benders]], [[PsychicPowers psychics]] - Vathara ''really'' likes the concept of "perfect leaders" who can walk into a rabble and instantly cow them, inspire them, and turn them into an army. Often becomes an AccidentalAesop as this phenomena is repeatedly demonstrated to not just rally the masses into victories over evil, but is often the ''cause'' of [[WarIsHell hellish conflicts]] that annihilate populations; it took a "perfect leader" to defeat the tyrant, but the tyranny '''began''' with a "perfect leader."

Her first original work, Sandbox/ANetOfDawnAndBones, is [[http://www.amazon.com/Net-Dawn-Bones-C-Chancy/dp/1514759837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437835797&sr=8-1&keywords=a+net+of+dawn+and+bones available]] on Amazon.

A long-time fanfiction writer who started out in fanzines and is now found on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~Vathara fanfiction.net]], '''Vathara''' is often referred to as the {{Crossover}} [[BigNameFan Queen]]. Despite that, her most famous work, FanFic/{{Embers}}, is not a crossover, although it contains a large number of [[{{Expy}} expies]]. Her largest series, the Urban Legends universe, is based off of and views as series canon [[http://home.arcor.de/helgastaebler/godzilla/godzilla.html a fanfic by another author.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes:

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2434630/1/Blades_of_Blood Blades of Blood]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3218251/1/Witchy-Woman Witchy Woman]], a series of two novel-length fics (so far) combining Manga/RurouniKenshin and the {{NightLife}} RPG.