Dire Straits (fanfic)

Dire Straits is a Robotech fanfic written, in first person point of view, by Michael2, about a soldier serving as a hovertank pilot during the Robotech Masters saga.


 * Ace Pilot: Nina.
 * Shelby Porter is this as well.
 * Action Girl: Rebekah Avital and Nina Washington.
 * Alien Invasion
 * Big Brother Mentor: Lupon Kravshera is this to his subordinate officers. Avital is a Big Sister Mentor to the enlistees under Jack's command,.
 * Tomas Cabon was this to the enlistees of the battalion.
 * Character Development: The protagonist gets this, as his experiences in the war clearly changed him. Those changes were noticeable when he came home to Jamaica for Christmas vacation.
 * Jack Emerson gets this too, as he was simply an officer who was initially Only in It For the Money while wanting to be a rap star, and later developed as a leader,.
 * Colonel Badass: Lupon Kravshera
 * Composite Character: Jack is a composite of Bowie Grant and Dana Sterling, and after some Character Development, Lisa Hayes as well.
 * Kravshera is a composite of his Macross namesake and Henry Gloval.
 * Corrupt Bureaucrats: They.
 * Earth Is a Battlefield
 * Elsewhere Fic
 * Expy: Mike is this to Dana Sterling.
 * Rebekah Avital is this to Lisa Hayes.
 * External Retcon:.
 * The Corrupt Bureaucrat example above also counts as this.
 * The navy of the United Nations is known as the Ocean Patrol.
 * The protoculture matrix the SDF-3 had in the Shadow Chronicles was the same one featured in this story.
 * Fan Verse: This fic is in the same one as Scoop, Valkyrie Nights, Spreading Their Wings, and Another New World.
 * Foregone Conclusion: Anyone who watched the Robotech Masters saga would know that
 * Also what would happen.
 * Invisible President: Averted, as the protagonist sees the United Nations Secretary General in news broadcasts.
 * Military Brat: Jack and Nina were these.
 * No Name Given: the protagonist/narrator
 * Also the, who are known only by the color of the dresses that they wear.
 * Number Two:, to Kravshera,.
 * Mike was this to Jack.
 * Related to the sub note above,.
 * Original Character: the fic focuses on original characters, though they meet the canon characters at various points in the story.
 * Only in It For the Money: most of the servicemen in the United Earth Forces fit this trope. This is plainly demonstrated when.
 * Jack was this, initially.
 * Put on a Bus: This happens to  after.
 * boards the bus.
 * The protagonist himself is put on a bus.
 * Senseless Sacrifice: Supreme Commander Leonard sends a massive attack force against the Robotech Masters, which fails spectacularly.  was among those who were killed.
 * Sergeant Rock: Avital
 * Shell-Shock Silence: The scene where the protagonist.
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: the protagonist becomes this.
 * Lupon's father-in-law is this.
 * Shown Their Work: the descriptions of the geography of the western Mediterranean Sea and Jamaica are accurate, as are the descriptions of Jamaican cuisine.
 * Shout-Out: several to both the canon material as well as the author's other Robotech fanfics.
 * Angus Beckett, a general who appears in this story, was a prominent character in Scoop and Valkyrie Nights.
 * Mike is from a colony on Planet Glorie. Glorie was the name of the planet where Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross took place.
 * In addition, Mike mentions reptile people living on his planet. This is a reference to the planet visited in Another New World.
 * Michael Meyers Enough written
 * One of the main characters, Jack, is the son of General Rolf Emerson. In Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross the son of Emerson's counterpart was Bowie's counterpart.
 * the protagonist/narrator is unnamed, just like the protagonist/narrator in Scoop
 * Lupon Kravshera's surname and physical description is taken from Quamzin Kravshera, an antagonist from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross.
 * Glenn La Belle is the same person who had been born on the SDF-1 in Scoop
 * In the story, he, and happens to share a surname with a certain New Generation character who would have been born around the time of the Robotech Masters saga. Coincidence?
 * After the mission to infiltrate an enemy mothership, the ship U.E.S. Henry J. Gloval picked up the protagonist and some of the other soldiers.
 * Isamu Shirogane was named after two of the pilots in Beast King Golion..
 * The Robotech Masters capture Earth residents and use them to pilot bioroids. The same thing happened with the Zor using captured Glorie citizens in their mecha.
 * Space Is Noisy: Averted.
 * Justified whenever the protagonist rides in a transport ship, as the rocket engines are noisy, and anything that hits the ship (and does not destroy it) would generate sound within the ship.
 * Spanner in the Works: After the war, the United Nations . But  . Furthermore,.
 * Tear Jerker: The.
 * The General's Daughter: Nina, whose father is a general and Chief of Staff of the Air Force, . Jack never mentions to the protagonist any problems her father might have had with their relationship..
 * Transforming Mecha
 * The Captain: Jack to his troop, even though the name of his rank is first lieutenant..
 * You Are in Command Now: This happens to  after