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What tropes relate to your characters/roleplays?

In case you've never poked around the TV Tropes site before, a trope is a storytelling device that conveys a concept to the audience through familiarity. They aren't inherently good or bad. Many have been around since the dawn of fiction. They're a narrative tool. Like anything else, how you use them is what makes them either interesting or dull.
Loren

Oh man oh man oh man I love TV Tropes! It's the best. I might even have a page there as a Troper.

I've actually made a few trope lists for some of my characters. (Others had waaay too many tropes applied to them so I didn't put them in their profile.) I'll start with Mary Collins:

Herr Doktor
Germanic Efficiency
Germanic Depressives
Jade Coloured Glasses
Stern Teacher
Deadpan Snarker
Passive-Agressive Kombat
Good Smoking Evil Smoking
Ritual Magic
Functional Magic.
Full (fake) Name Basis
Character Name Alias
Action Mom
Mama Bear.
Tough Love
Improbable Weapon User
Yersinia Topic Starter

Loren wrote:
Oh man oh man oh man I love TV Tropes! It's the best. I might even have a page there as a Troper.

I've actually made a few trope lists for some of my characters. (Others had waaay too many tropes applied to them so I didn't put them in their profile.) I'll start with Mary Collins:

Herr Doktor
Germanic Efficiency
Germanic Depressives
Jade Coloured Glasses
Stern Teacher
Deadpan Snarker
Passive-Agressive Kombat
Good Smoking Evil Smoking
Ritual Magic
Functional Magic.
Full (fake) Name Basis
Character Name Alias
Action Mom
Mama Bear.
Tough Love
Improbable Weapon User
What an interesting character! Her tropes fit so nicely.
For some of my characters, I make a TV-Tropes section with applicable tropes. The one with the most completed profile that has these to hand that I can use immediately for an example is Goober.

Goober has; Almost Normal Animal, Extreme Omnivore, Genetic Engineering Origin, Ridiculously Cute Critter, Mix and Match Critter, Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies, Unusual Traits, Other Names, and Unpicky Eater so far. I then go into detail on the pages how these tropes apply to my character.
I love TVTropes! And am surprised I haven't made a listo f tropes for my oc's before XD

Jackie, Jenny, and Feral

Wall Crawl All are capable of this, Feral to a lesser degree than Jenny and Jackie.
An Ice Person All three to some degree, Jackie's the best at it though.
Bizarre Alien Biology Jackie and Jenny have most of their vital organs shoved up into their rib cage, or pelvis, and to make up for their very small lungs can breath through their skin. Feral's a hybrid and has a mish mash of human and Zordite biology.
Humanoid Alien All three of 'em.
Gadgeteer Genius Mostly Jenny, Jackie has some skills with tech but to a far lesser degree than Jenny.
Mind over Matter Really only Feral.
Applied Phlebotinum Not directly to these characters, but it's how Jackie and Jenny's species have their Thermokinesis, and how Feral has her telekinesis. It's called Nutranium and causes mutations in organic matter.
Artificial Limbs Jackie eventually gets a cybernetic arm.

Asroc

I kind of like this.

I really should add tropes to my GV muses.
Well some of my characters are based off Ace Attorney characters. I'll need some time to poke around the wiki. I also joined TvTropes recently

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