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Character Tropes! - Asyria - 07-02-2013
So, Eva said we could do a thread trope but wouldn't take responsibility for wasting people's time...
I'm totally willing to take responsibility for making fellow RPers waste hours and hours on this!
On a more serious note, hunting for Tropes can actually help flesh out a character and can be a good RP aid.
I'll do mine later.
RE: Character Tropes! - Naunet - 07-02-2013
Hnnngh. I hate TV Tropes with a fiery passion, especially when people try to reduce a character to a TV Tropes link. @.@
RE: Character Tropes! - Alothia - 07-02-2013
Oooh! This will be fun! I will update my list of Alothia tropes here:
RE: Character Tropes! - Eva - 07-02-2013
These are fun but waaaaaaay time-consuming. Â I'm glad I've already done this cuz it's kind of a busy day. Â I'll post them here, if you want to take it out of the quote in the OP Asyria:
RE: Character Tropes! - Martiallais - 07-02-2013
I have a day off coming up next week...I'll be back here to list Zarek's then.
RE: Character Tropes! - Asyria - 07-02-2013
Ok some tropes for Azyria...
Cat Girl >.>
Chaotic Good Type 4. She's a vigilante, after all!
Action Girl duh
Faux Action Girl Before she went vigilante, she got into a few scrapes and managed very well, which is part of where the whole vigilante idea came from. However, since putting on her mask and haunting the roofs of Ul'dah, she's been pretending in order to maintain her cover...
Let's Get Dangerous could happen if civilian Azyria is caught in a bad situation and has no choice but to fight to the best of her abilities.
Waif Fu with a spear
Blades On A Stick are her Weapons Of Choice
Heroic Resolve she got it
Cool Mask for serious
You Gotta Have Blue Hair she got that too
And some for Agata...
Destructive Saviour She'll put that rampaging monster down, but she'll rampage just as much as it would while doing so. >.>
Boisterous Bruiser cause pirate-ish Roegadyn pugilistÂ
Amazonian Beauty all female Roegadyn should get this one, at least if they're fighter types
Action Girl duh
Lightning Bruiser Fast, strong AND tough. Her weakness is she's neither particularly smart or careful...
Glory Seeker
Blood Knight FF = Fighting Fun
More another time, I guess!
(07-02-2013, 12:57 PM)Naunet Wrote: Hnnngh. I hate TV Tropes with a fiery passion, especially when people try to reduce a character to a TV Tropes link. @.@
It's not about reducing a character to them, it's about having fun associating them to characters! That and it can help define a character and be a RP aid, just like archetypes, definining characteristics, and keywords in pen&paper RPGs.
You don't have to participate if you don't like it, anyway. ^^:
RE: Character Tropes! - ArmachiA - 07-02-2013
Loki
- Action Girl - pretty much describes Loki to a tee.
- Lady of Black Magic - Happens during 2.0, she slowly becomes an Summoner due to hearing the Primals in her head.
- Deadpan Snarker - obviously
- Ethical Slut - Yup.
- Good Bad Girl
- Kuudere - Cool on the outside, sweet on the inside.
- Unkempt Beauty
Armi
- Strange Girl - Especially in 1.0 but a bit of that remains in 2.0. Her personality is more interesting, but she still has an underlying strangeness to her.
- Small Steps Hero - Armi has been demoted from a Martyr Without a Cause to a Small steps hero. She is no longer looking to die for a righteous cause, but it still a good person who wants to be righteous. This varies in success.
- The Heart - Always.
- Lady of War - She is a graceful, stoic bard. Also very, very good with a bow.
- Drowning My Sorrows - Armi will have a hard time adjusting to the 5 year skip in the beginning (I PLAN on having this just be a temporary thing, but who knows). Honestly, this is my excuse for getting her into taverns where everyone and their dog likes to RP.
RE: Character Tropes! - moody - 07-02-2013
Not planned, but I admit I have tendencies towards Heroic Sacrifice, Bittersweet Endings, and Pyrrhic Victory
I'm trying to resist them though.
RE: Character Tropes! - Akki-Chan - 07-02-2013
Let's see then...
Hiname Dawnpride
Action Girl
Stone Wall
Mightly Glacier
Wrench Wench
Refusal of the Call
Badass Bystander
... Any questions? *grins*
RE: Character Tropes! - Torvhan - 07-02-2013
This thread is relevant to my interests!
I love TVtropes...totally wasted an hour looking thru them just now XD
Unfortunately Torvhan is a wee baby pretty much and hasn't done much of anything yet so only a few generic tropes apply till I flesh him out more and more stuff happens to him.
We Help the Helpless
Knight in Shining Armor
Chronic Hero Syndrome
Bully Hunter
I saw a few more I figure will probably be added but as of yet can't really justify them as applying.
RE: Character Tropes! - Rhio - 07-02-2013
Well, I had time.
The Greatest Story Never Told - Rhio may not be a spy any longer, but the mindset sticks.
Metaphorically True
Exact Words
Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
Mathematician's Answer
Always Second Best - At least, in her mind.
Despair Event Horizon - Well, not quite. But she's come damn close.
Love Hurts
Weak, but Skilled
Deadly Dodging
Combat Pragmatist
Professional Killer - Again, not really any more. But it sticks.
A Lady and A Scholar
Bi the Way
RE: Character Tropes! - Dogberry - 07-02-2013
Dogberry's tropes!
Boisterous Bruiser
Bruiser With A Soft Center
The Ahab
The Dragonslayer
Real Men Wear Pink
Erudite Stoner
RE: Character Tropes! - Gerik - 07-02-2013
Gerik Tropes!
Gentle Giant
Dumb Muscle
Men Can't Keep House
The Slacker
Gym Bunny
Straight Gay
Born Lucky
Constantly Curious
Cordon Bleugh Chef
I Just Want to Have Friends
Lover, Not a Fighter
Mr. Imagination
RE: Character Tropes! - Uther - 07-02-2013
Uther's tropes! This took me forever so stand by for Wart tropes
Florence Nightingale Effect -- Igraine
Honor Before Reason
Knight in Shining Armor
Heroic Resolve
Bad Ass Family -- The Skystriders
Big Good
The Paragon
Undying Loyalty
Mutual Kill -- Spoilers: Uther and Bedivere
Nice Guy
Evil Counterpart -- Bedivere
Death by Origin Story -- Igraine
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever -- Dragons. Always dragons.
The Drifter
Chaotic Good
The Dragonslayer -- ...Obviously
Good Scars, Evil Scars
RE: Character Tropes! - Seohyun - 07-02-2013
Oh man~ Here we go.
Seohyun Iyasu