The Wii Fit Trainer has spent almost her entire life in the Wii Fit Center. Within four white walls, she has done nothing but spend her days aiding various guests with physical improvement. When Wuhu Island is bought out by WarioWare Inc, the Trainer is forced to finally leave her home and journey into the world around her.
Unfortunately, her attempts to understand the world are significantly hampered by how people misunderstand her.
Being Fit
is a Super Smash Bros. story from Nerdiethings, focusing on the Wii Fit Trainer. Inspired by Being There, the fanfic drops the Trainer into the wider Nintendo universe and outlines the various conflicts that emerge from how all those different canons interact within one setting.
- Adaptational Villainy: Played with. Link and Zelda remain dedicated heroes and the latter maintains a friendship with Peach established in Brawl. Unfortunately, their hatred of Ganondorf drives them to increasingly violent acts to prevent his rise to power, with various innocent lives caught in the crossfire. Its also suggested that the Triforce itself acts as a negative influence to its wielders, rather than a benevolent cosmic power.
- Alternate History: With nearly every Nintendo property existing alongside each other, various events have been nudged from another country's interference. Chapter 28 reveals that Soma Cruz succumbed to his Bad Ending, resulting in numerous off-screen deaths and wars.
- Ambiguously Human: Exactly what the Trainer may be is unclear. She appears human, but she survived in her training room without food or water for presumed decades and she was initially dismissive of the very idea of sleeping. On the other hand, its explicitly stated that alcohol hits her like a truck because she's never had any food to supplement it.
- Becoming the Mask: Played with. As she begins to understand the world around her, Trainer begins to intentionally play the role of the messiah-like figure the public has attributed to her. However, she's still woefully unable to fully grasping just what people expect of her.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Ashley and the Inkling.
- The Cameo: Fitting a Massive Multiplayer Crossover, numerous Nintendo characters make brief appearances throughout the story.
- Mr. Carpainter and Minch Industries are among a variety of groups who latch onto the Trainer's popularity, with Pokey in particular using her image to promote Happy Boxes.
- Senator Armstrong briefly appears on a call with Snake, taunting the soldier for more information. Colonel Campbell, Otacon, and Sunny also call up Snake's Codec at varying points.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Ganondorf happily potrays himself as the King of Darkness and only hides it as part of his wider interest in power. Gradually deconstructed: once Ganondorf gains popularity under Isabelle's campaign management compared to his normal violent tactics, his self-identity as a villain begins to spiral.
- Central Theme: Mascots. How people are influenced by a figure, how becoming that figure helps or hinders someone's psychology, and makes up a significant part of Trainer's rise in power.
- Composite Character: To an organizational level. The Galactic Federation of Metroid and the F-Zero universes are established to be the same governmental body.
- Driving Question: Where did the Trainer come from?
- Fish out of Water: The Trainer has no understanding of what the ocean is upon leaving her room, much less the wider political forces she's fallen into. This lessens as she begins to learn more about the world.
- Future Shadowing: Half of Chapter 28 is dedicated to outlining the various consequences of Simon Belmont's death, as well as emphasizing how the Trainer's actions would help or hinder the nations she's been advising.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Andross is established to be dead prior to the story's events, but he used to own Wuhu Island, the Lylat Wars is cited as the main reason the Smash Tournament was formed, and retrieving his technology is a motivation behind several political factions.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Fitting a Smash fic.
- Mistaken for Profound: Trainer's statements on "balance" and "proper exercise" is completely misinterpreted as political rhetoric and helps propel her international acclaim.
- Odd Friendship: Several emerge over the course of the tournament.
- The naive, straight-forward Trainer and the evasive, war-weary Samus Aran end up forging a Ship Tease filled bond.
- The Mii Gunner builds one with Ridley, if largely because the space pirate is too chained up to hurt her and the Mii Gunner is too oblivious to realize he's trying to.
- Isabelle and Ganondorf. Despite the latter's attempt to brush her off, her insistence on helping his "political campaign" ends up pushing down a much more noble path.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Trainer is presumed as "Traynor" as no one expects her name to be so literal.
- Phoneaholic Teenager: The Inkling, perpetually obsessed with followers and freshness. When the Trainer asks if the obsession makes her happy, the Inkling is baffled by the idea.
- The Pollyanna: Isabelle, smiling her way through the conspiracies around her with just a jingle and a notebook.
- Red Herring: Zelda and Ganondorf spend much of the early story under the belief that Trainer is a "Shiekah Warrior" who will obey any command. The Mii Gunner displays much of these characteristics as she dutifully visits Ridley's cage after hearing his roars. Its revealed that the Sheikah Warrior is an advanced Guardian still trapped in a Sheikah Temple and has no presence on the remaining story.
- Running Gag: An empty lot in Toad Town is continuously destroyed and built over the story. It starts as Club 64, burned down and rebuilt into the Cranky Kong Memorial Garage, and later becomes the Pasta Pit after Simon Belmont is buried in the cement.
- Sanity Slippage: The entire Hyrule cast becomes increasingly more frustrated and confused as the Trainer unwittingly smashes through their different schemes and manipulations.
- The Sociopath: Link is portrayed as this, acting more as a agent of Zelda's will than display any real heroism or empathy. He's occasionally concerned by how little he seems to feel about his missions anymore, only to brush off the feeling and continue with his work.
- Tonight, Someone Dies: Chapters 23 onward hypes up the death of a character at Peach Castle, with numerous figures plotting the Trainer's death and innocent parties arriving or leaving the Castle at various points. Its Simon Belmont who dies by Link's hand after he sees Link sneaking out of Trainer's room.
- Uncanny Valley: In-universe. The Miis visibly annoy or upset anyone talking to them. They're so baffling to anyone that encounters them, a security AI willingly lets the Mii Gunner into Ridley's cage because it can't recognize the Miis as any kind of human, much less a human threat.
