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What tropes define your character? - Xireidi - Jan 27 2017
Warning: this post contains links to TV Tropes. This site hs been known to cause massive distraction and tab explosion
Had a bit of time to kill on the computer before I'd be able to set aside the kind of block of time needed to post actual replies so I decided to see how well I could describe my characters using TV Tropes. Figured it would make for a pretty fun forum game type-thing so here's the results I came up for myself (including one character in the works). Feel free to look through and see if any of your characters fit a standard model too!
Xireidi
Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can
Wrong Genre Savvy
Entertainingly Wrong
Yuma
The Sociopath
Uncanny Valley
It Amused Me
Zeno
Contemplate Our Navels
The World Is Just Awesome
Power Glows
Amras (not yet made, next character on queue)
Addictive Magic
Our Gryphons Are Different
Training Montage
RE: What tropes define your character? - Fira - Jan 27 2017
If Fira were allowed to be her true self on Origin, she would be The Fourth-Wall Observer. Normally, a BIG part of her character is that she is at all times aware of the Fourth Wall, she knows that I exist, she knows that the world(s) she's in is not real to the Audience, etc. She CAN die, but in a normal setting (not Origin), she knows that if she dies, she's just gonna "respawn" either back into the world she was in, or she'll "come back to life" in a new world.
EDIT: In Origin, to maintain fairness, Fira's not allowed to know that the world is fake, but her basic character is the same, including a strange lack of fear in dangerous situations. She still feels pain, and, as I said, she can still die, but she is much better at blocking pain that others, and her survival instincts, while still intact, are much weaker than most other characters.