History Fanfic / CreateYourOwnFate

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Eleya to [[spoiler:the Undine masquerading as Commander Lastagee, after it drops the racial {{catchphrase}} "The weak will perish."]]

* KindaBusyHere: A RunningGag, {{discussed}}: Eleya remarks that Admiral Alcott used to joke that Starfleet probably gets a bonus for calling you in the middle of "a nice bath, about to have a romantic dinner, or otherwise at the worst, and most inconvenient time". Eleya is actually ''not'' busy the first time Lieutenant Commander Jackson calls her to Hathon, but the second time [[spoiler:she's in bed with Gaarra]]. The third time, K'Ragh returns a call [[NobodyPoops while Eleya is on the toilet]] (he calls back). Another time, Eleya herself catches her JAGO in the middle of a bowl of spaghetti.

-->'''Eleya:''' [[spoiler:Remind me, which one of us is on the ''inside'' of the cell? You know what defeated you, you ugly assfuck? Your own arrogance. You were just so convinced that us ‘weak’ races would just roll over for your [[AirQuotes "strong"]] race. You're not ''strong'' enough to convincingly steal Commander Lastagee's form: that man had a distinguished twenty-year career in Starfleet, he was decorated six times for valor in extracting high-value assets from foreign territory. More to the point, he ''understood'' the concepts of a chain of command and civilian control of the military, even did his Academy dissertation on it. You not only blew your own cover and that Circle cell you'd ingratiated yourself with, you also blew the cover of your mole in the Foreign Affairs Office: he was arrested by Starfleet Security two hours before you launched your attack. The real Lastagee would’ve used proper channels and probably won. So tell me, which of us is really the weak one? The physically weaker one? Or the one who panicked when things didn't go his way?]]

* {{Epigraph}}: Multiple songs are used as section headers in the story. In order, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQSClUcrCpY "Fortunes of War"]] by Music/IronMaiden, [[https://youtu.be/g-X-9UNu3Nw "April Rain"]] by Music/{{Delain}} (which also provides the title of the story), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhmHSAClG1c "To Hell and Back"]] and [[https://youtu.be/oPHKn1JYHcA "The Carolean's Prayer"]] by Music/{{Sabaton}}, [[https://youtu.be/Nl8Ko5POLPI "Lost in Wars"]] by Music/BattleBeast, and finally [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRJ_csyXosU "Planet Hell"]] by Music/{{Nightwish}}.

* RealityEnsues: Commander Lastagee attempts to use secret orders to justify seizing materials from the MCDS ''Yoann Teena'' crash site. However, Eleya's orders (which come indirectly from Captain James Kurland, the base commander of Deep Space 9 and therefore positionally the ranking Starfleet officer in the star system) conflict with his, and he refuses to either allow Eleya to see the text of his orders or identify his superior officer. Which means that [[LoopholeAbuse she has no proof his orders actually exist]], and as the ranking officer on scene is therefore legally allowed to order him to back off. [[spoiler:Lastagee's orders in fact [[IfOnlyYouKnew DON'T exist]], because he's a shapeshifted Undine.]]

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The native-born Bajorans in the story draw in a variety of influences, ranging from American "red states" (fairly agrarian, nationalistic, religious, suspicious of the national government) to religious/nationalist extremists in the form of the Circle. There's a particular point made that unlike the Federation at large, the Bajoran constitution guarantees [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics the right to bear arms]] (though it's not completely unrestricted: the Bajorans ban depleted uranium ammo for environmental reasons and some locales don't allow open carry).

* FantasticSlurs: Sheri is called a Bajoran word that literally means "bland hasperat". In context, "Bajoran on the outside only".

* RealityEnsues: Commander Lastagee attempts to use secret orders to justify seizing materials from the MCDS ''Yoann Teena'' crash site. However, Eleya's orders (which come indirectly from Captain James Kurland, the base commander of Deep Space 9 and therefore positionally the ranking Starfleet officer in the star system) conflict with his, and he refuses to either allow Eleya to see the text of his orders or identify his superior officer. Which means that [[LoopholeAbuse she has no proof his orders actually exist]], and as the ranking officer on scene is therefore legally allowed to order him to back off.

* InsanityDefense: {{Reconstructed}}. Sheri Walford gets into a fight at a religious school and the police are called; she's ultimately charged with six counts of assault and battery and two of assault on a law enforcement officer. At her arraignment, her defense attorney enters a plea of "not guilty, due to reason of self-defense and traumatic mental impairment" (she was defending herself when the fight started, and afterwards got caught up in a flashback to her military career). The prosecutor, citing consultation with the defense, partially concurs, recommending Sheri's charges be reduced to misdemeanor assault. The judge accepts a psych eval submitted by the defense and briefly interviews Sheri, who can't even accurately count or describe her attackers, and agrees with the prosecutor, sentencing her to community service and mandatory psychiatric counseling. It's strongly implied this is a fairly standard practice for the Bajoran criminal justice system.

* CitizenshipMarriage: A variant. While the Federation citizenship of the Moab kids on Bajor is in question due to the secession, Eleya abuses the fact that the child of a citizen is a citizen to get Coxswain Pamela Bentine's six-year-old twins transported from Moab III to Bajor to reunite them with their mother. Their father is a currently incarcerated ex-Starfleet officer who fathered them on Bentine when she was a child prostitute.

* FantasticLegalWeirdness: Liberties are taken in the courtroom scenes with two justifications: one, these are Bajoran courts rather than American or even human, and therefore don't always follow a totally realistic protocol, and two, the setting allows for such things things like telepathic examination of witnesses. It's mentioned that a warrant is needed to force the latter on an unwilling witness. [[spoiler:Eleya also talks the judge into letting her telepathic examiner (her Vulcan operations officer, Lieutenant Commander T'Var) replace the witness on the stand after said witness, Amanda Nung, is proven by the examiner to have perjured herself.]]

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The native-born Bajorans in the story draw in a variety of influences, ranging from American "red states" (fairly agrarian, nationalistic, religious, suspicious of the national government) to religious/nationalist extremists in the form of the Circle. There's a particular point made that unlike the Federation at large, the Bajoran constitution guarantees the right to bear arms (though it's not completely unrestricted: the Bajorans ban depleted uranium ammo for environmental reasons and some locales don't allow open carry).

* JustFollowingOrders: {{Subverted}}. Eleya is a master of the chain of command, shutting down Commander Lastagee by pointing out his refusal to provide her with the text of his orders means she has no proof they actually exist, and since she outranks him that means she can tell him to pound sand. Later he returns claiming to have orders from Starfleet to take custody of materials, but she takes one look and points out that what he ''actually'' has is a request that should be delivered to Bajor's ministry of state, and in the same remark tells the Starfleet crewmen Lastagee brought with him to contact their line [=COs=] and request clarification of their orders. [[spoiler:It turns out Lastagee is actually a shapeshifted Undine, and after Eleya and the Moab kids capture him, she remarks that the ''real'' Lastagee had written a paper at Starfleet Academy on this very topic.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Eleya to [[spoiler:the Undine masquerading as Commander Lastagee, after it drops the racial {{catchphrase}} "The weak will perish.]]

* RealityEnsues: Commander Lastagee attempts to use secret orders to justify seizing materials from the MCDS ''Yoann Teena'' crash site. However, Eleya's orders (from Captain James Kurland, the base commander of Deep Space 9 and therefore positionally the ranking Starfleet officer in the star system) conflict with his, and he refuses to either allow Eleya to see the text of his orders or identify his superior officer. Which means that [[LoopholeAbuse she has no proof his orders actually exist]], and as the ranking officer on scene is therefore legally allowed to order him to back off.

* RealityEnsues:
** {{Discussed}} with gun rights. It's explicitly stated in the second segment that while the Bajoran constitution includes the right to bear arms, the Bajorans don't consider it or any other civil right to be an absolute. In particular, they have registration, training, and safe storage requirements, depleted uranium rounds are banned for health and safety reasons, many locales ban open carry, and minors aren't allowed to own weapons (Sheri's uncle registers her service weapons in his own name).
** Commander Lastagee attempts to use secret orders to justify seizing materials from the MCDS ''Yoann Teena'' crash site. However, Eleya's orders (from Captain James Kurland, the base commander of Deep Space 9 and therefore positionally the ranking Starfleet officer in the star system) conflict with his, and he refuses to either allow Eleya to see the text of his orders or identify his superior officer. Which means that [[LoopholeAbuse she has no proof his orders actually exist]], and as the ranking officer on scene is therefore legally allowed to order him to back off.

** {{Enforced}} as the story was intended to pick up an AbortedArc from ''Fanfic/FacesInTheFlames''. The story opens with Eleya returning to Bajor in the aftermath of the Battle of Goralis and observing the carnage wrought in the Federation-Cardassian border fleet in which she's stationed. Later she's woken up by Bajoran Militia [[AntiAir anti-orbital weapons]] destroying a Fek'Ihri warship that escaped the battle. Other important characters include the survivors of MCDS ''Yoann Teena'', which ended up crashing on Bajor in ''FITF'', and Sheri Walford, who was placed in her biological uncle's custody after being outed as underage.

* InventedLinguisticDistinction: Eleya notes that Reshek Gaarra has a Dahkuri accent.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Eleya mentions that she was named after one of Kern Dara's followers, Prylar Sheran Eleya, who discovered a cure to a plague.

* RedSkiesCrossover: The story takes place around the time of the Old!Masterverse story "Fanfic/TheOnlyWayToGo", but doesn't reference it beyond repeating its RememberTheNewGuy explanation of Eleya's absence from Goralis due to being embroiled in a border spat with the Tzenkethi.

* UniversalUniverseTime: Averted, as the story takes place in at least two different time zones on Bajor itself: Eleya's apartment in Kendra City is on the other side of the planet from the main action in Ashalla and Hathon, and is in late morning when it's after midnight in Hathon.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Alluded to, as the Occupation still exerts a strong influence over current Bajoran society. The Bajorans in TheVerse are hardly unified in support of the Federation: Eleya notes that they have a fairly strong pro-secession movement and is strongly indicated to be somewhat sympathetic to the Moab Confederacy. At the same time, while Eleya is somewhat notorious in Starfleet for having fought the Klingons with [=IEDs=] on Gamma Hromi IV during the war, she openly refers to the Circle as terrorists, describing them as "the unholy trinity: religious extremists, ultranationalists, and bigots". Meanwhile, Sheri's long-deceased biological father was a member of the ''[[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Kohn-Ma Kohn-Ma]]'' and fled to Moab with his lover to escape the authorities; she herself is aware of it but seems to have no opinion.