Dragon Warriors AU

Dragon Warriors AU (also known as Martial-Arts AU, Ninja/Samurai AU, Kimono AU and China/Korea/Japan/Asian AU) is an AU in the fandom where the Big Four are warriors of Martial-Arts, Kung Fu and Karate or otherwise featured in an Asian setting.

About the AU
Spawning from fanart, this AU places the Big Four, and other such characters as masters of Martial-Arts, Kung Fu, Karate and other fighting skills from China or Japan. The four are also dressed in Kimonos, Ninja and Samurai getup.

Some fans use/make Chinese RotBTD styled fanart to mark the new year. With the animal characters in the fandom, like Toothless, Bolt, Bunnymund, Maximus and Heihei, to serve as the Chinese Zodiac animal of that year, while the human characters (like the Big Four) are placed in Chinese clothing. Sometimes beside the Zodiac cast animal character.

Popular AUs

 * Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra
 * Batman Ninja
 * Chinese Zodiac Miraculouses and Kwamis
 * Final Fantasy
 * InuYasha
 * Kung Fu Panda
 * Mulan
 * Naruto
 * Ninjago
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Hiccup learned his skills from ancient scrolls from an old temple he used to play in as a kid with his friends and befriends a 'Chinese' dragon. Hiccup is sometimes portrayed as the Karate Kid and his Zodiac animal sigh can be a Dragon (Element: Earth and stands for Lucky, eccentric, imaginative, artistic and spiritual) or Tiger (the year of the first How to Train Your Dragon film came out, while second film came out on the year of the Horse, third film on the year of the Pig/Boar and the first book came out on the year of the Goat/Sheep/Ram).

Jack Frost
Jack is trained by the guardians to protect men from the dark and fetch old scrolls and powerful artifacts that cannot fall into the wrong hands, like Pitch and his Night Ninjas. His CZ sigh is sometimes a Monkey (Element: Metal and stands for Quick-witted, charming, lucky, adaptable, bright, versatile and lively) or the Dragon (the year Rise of the Guardians came out).

Merida DunBroch
Merida wears a Kimono by day and places her samurai gear on at night. Fans like to place Merida in the year of the Horse (Fire and Adaptable, loyal, courageous, ambitious, intelligent, adventurous and strong) or Dragon (the year Brave came out).

Rapunzel Corona
Rapunzel wears her Kimono (with Sun, Flower or Lantern patterns) while serving tea to her gests and when she's alone she works on her Tai-chi in the garden. Her CZ birth sigh is the Rat (Fire and Intelligent, adaptable, quick-witted, charming, artistic and sociable) or Tiger (the year Tangled came out).

Queen Elsa
Elsa wears a blue (sometimes a winter) Kimono with white and blue flowers or snowflake patterns. Elsa sometimes wears a flower or snowflake hairpin/clip in her hair. The flowers on her kimono or in her hair are sometimes the pink flowers she wears in Frozen Fever. Sometimes when fans switch Elsa's ice powers for fire powers in Elements AU, she is sometime given an Asian appearance and heritage, when her hair color is turned to black and is placed in a red Chinese dress.

A Frozen 2 styled Chinese New Year poster was made to mark the year that the film was coming out.

Princess Anna
While Elsa wears a blue kimono, Anna wears a green or pink one with flower patterns. The flower patterns are sometimes the sunflowers from Frozen Fever, Arendelle's crest or the flowers that are on Anna's dresses in the film. since Anna is shown to be good with her fists, for when she punched attack Hans for his treachery towards the royal family of Arendelle, could have her learning Asian fighting styles, like Kung Fu and Karate.

A Frozen 2 styled Chinese New Year poster was made to mark the year that the film was coming out.

Momakase
The AU allows fans to focus on the Ninja side of Momakase, along with the skills that she uses in the thieving side of her life. As some ninjas are presented as thieves. As well as her cooking side, for when it focuses on her civilian self as a sushi chef.

Hiro Hamada
Because of Hiro's half Japanese heritage (that is mixed with his American one), as well as the fact that there are some Japanese themes in both the Big Hero 6 film and its follow-up TV series, fans commonly use, focus and involve Hiro in the Japanese side of this AU.

Tadashi Hamada
Because of Tadashi's half Japanese heritage (that is mixed with his American one), as well as the fact that there are some Japanese themes in both the Big Hero 6 film and its follow-up TV series, fans commonly use, focus and involve Tadashi in the Japanese side of this AU.

GoGo Tomago
GoGo is of Korean descent, which might be why fans place her in this AU with the Hamada brothers and the rest of the Big Hero 6 team. When fans have them embrace the Japanese theme that is used in both the film and TV series, as well as the Marvel comic team that they are based on.

Fanfiction

 * RotBT Xiaolin Dragons- First Impressions by GeminiEarthDragon
 * RotBT Xiaolin Dragons- Beverages by GeminiEarthDragon
 * RotBTXD- Here There Be Dragons by GeminiEarthDragon
 * Stars Above Edo by Thunderbolt Blast
 * 1000 Nights and a Day of Snowfall and Moonlight by stormy raindrops

Videos

 * Kubo and the Two Strings Non/Disney Trailer by Charlotteblue12