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* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: No matter how nice the world you end up in, during the pre-install period...it's going to die to meteors, and soon. Most Replayers try not to think about it, but have developed a very loose moral code when it comes to acquiring the things they feel are needed to survive their next session.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Literally a part of her physical description.
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* AlternateTimelines: Splinter timelines. Of course, Splinter timelines are also *doomed* timelines by default. No one except the Time player is likely to emerge from them in one piece, and not even the Time player will survive for very long.
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* AlternateTimelines: AlternateTimeline: Splinter timelines. Of course, Splinter timelines are also *doomed* timelines by default. No one except the Time player is likely to emerge from them in one piece, and not even the Time player will survive for very long.
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* AlternateTimelines: AlternateTimeline: Splinter timelines, by default. Of course, Splinter timelines are also *doomed* timelines by default. No one except the Time player is likely to emerge from them in one piece, and not even the Time player will survive for very long.
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* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is low and even, and she’s a tried-and-true badass
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* BadassInCharge: Before the game, at least.
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** DeterminedWidow: Until [[HeroKiller Heries Croton]] killed him. She was keeping herself together as much through use of psybuffs and wanting to find him in the bubbles as her own moral fiber and responsibilities to the community. Unfortunately, the psybuffs didn't hold, and now she's on a determined RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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* MonsterIsAMommy: An interesting case; as a Speaker, Skye's rampages actually have a reason: whenever someone starts shooting at her, or otherwise attacking her while she's in transit, they invoke her wrath ''because Shrike is clinging to her at all times''. MamaBear instincts kick in and she ''immediately'' works to keep her child safe... [[KillEmAll in the most extreme manner possible]].
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* MonsterIsAMommy: An interesting case; as a Speaker, Skye's rampages actually have a reason: whenever someone starts shooting at her, or otherwise attacking her while she's in transit, they invoke her wrath ''because Shrike is clinging to her at all times''. MamaBear instincts kick in and she ''immediately'' works to keep her child safe... [[KillEmAll in the most extreme manner possible]].possible.
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* PipePain: His WeaponOfChoice
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* KnifeNut: Razorkind wielder.
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* SkunkStripe: Interestingly enough, ''not'' a result of the traumas and cataclysm of her first session, but rather a result of early-graying kicking in from stress around session twenty.
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** Birdbros are {{Funny Animal}}s that are mostly avian in shape. They have wings instead of arms, with a claw on each wing-end like a bat's. They have short, "chirpy" names and are very likely to be ConspiracyTheorists.
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** Birdbros are {{Funny Animal}}s that are mostly avian in shape. They have wings instead of arms, with a claw on each wing-end like a bat's. They have short, "chirpy" names and are very likely to be ConspiracyTheorists.{{Conspiracy Theorist}}s.
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[[folder: Dove's Characters]]
!!Zeimah Dalyce / Cyma Dalyce (patchworkDoll)
An [[HalfHumanHybrid ectobiological hybrid]] that came out of a mixed native session, she's a Native [[UnreliableNarrator Mage]] of [[TimeMaster Time]] who has struggled to fix her hybrid status because of [=SBURB=]'s reaction to it. She has, slowly, begun building a group of her own from people she's met, and is learning how to become an adult.
* AllergicToEvil: Due to an incident during her first session, she now gets "ear-bleedy" whenever she's exposed to more than a few words of [[BlackSpeech broodfester]] or [[LightIsNotGood angeltongue]], whether written or spoken.
* BlessedWithSuck: She's a human-troll hybrid...who rarely looks the way she wants to, experiences uncontrollable appearance shifts that can affect what's safe for her to eat and how she percieves the world, and occasionally even loses parts of her body that she's quite firmly attached to. And due to her text colour, she doesn't even get cool psychic powers out of it.
* CulturalCringe: The fact that she's a hybrid would have gotten her killed, back in the Alternian Empire. She's not a big fan of the hemospectrum, or most of the Alternian way of life, as a result.
* FreakinessShame: Cyma rarely ever looked "normal" for either species and is painfully aware of it. As much as she keept getting told that she looked fine just the way she was, she wanted nothing more than to be able to "fix" whatever was causing her appearance to keep shifting around like this.
** FreakyIsCool: Probably a part of why others find her attractive. It did not significantly help her self-esteem.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Unwillingly, and it causes her a lot of problems. Among other things, the game does *not* like that it can't slot her neatly into one species and will shuffle her genetics around from one session to the next in its efforts to do so. Her appearance - and sometimes her gender - is a lot more fluid than she'd like and she's rarely ever happy with what she sees in the mirror. She's also keenly aware that she wouldn't even exist if it weren't for ectobiology. While the appearance issues have been fixed, she's still a hybrid and this still causes problems such as Replay Flu lingering longer with her than it does for others - and her body working as a vector to spread illness from humans to trolls and vice versa.
* IAmNotPretty: She will insist this until she's blue (or purple) in the face. Tossing psybuffs at her will make her stop...at least until it wears off.
** She's getting better about this, now that her appearance has been stabilized in a form she's happy with.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes / IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: She's a sweet girl, really, but she had no sense of style or taste when she initially entered the game. Her idea of "stylish" involved unlimited access to a Bedazzler and far too much embroidery.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Or at least as close as anyone can get in the Game. She's sure she'd be much happier if she could just get her species issue to resolve itself in a manner that keeps her from bouncing all over the place. This is probably a reason why the game assigned her the [[VaguenessIsComing Mage Class]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Needlekind and [[PaperFanOfDoom fankind]] are her preferred weapons.
* OrphansOrdeal: Not that any other Replayer *isn't* an orphan.
* PrecociousCrush: She's more than willing to flirt back with Nagdra when he's around, not to mention getting ''very'' upset when people call him creepy.
* RaisedByWolves: Her lusus was a direwolf. She has nothing but fond memories of "direwolfmom".
* RiddleMeThis: Her native class is Mage. She solved the "cannot spit it out" issue by using annoying riddles.
* TimeMaster: Her native Aspect.
!!Bethany Roseclere (victorianaRegnant)
A young woman from a world where colour theory is far more important than in our world. A modestly successful child actress and model, currently employed as a Lady Companion to The White. Most notable for her employment and her being a "truehue" - that is, her eyes are actually the colour she's supposed to be most aligned with. As a Dark Red, she is supposed to embody Maturity.
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[[folder: KarrinBlue‘s Characters]]
!!Adhara Bayer (blueEpsilon)
!!Nemain Feanan (riastradSidhe)
!!Iridie Arazir (entanglingPoise)
!!Melevi Arazir (arabesqueFatality)
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[[folder: Keleviel's Characters]]
!!Khavah Kirbir (guillotineGladiator)
* ActionGirl
* AFriendInNeed: She sacrifices a lot if it'll help anyone.
* AnAxeToGrind Her weapon of choice
* AncestralWeapon: Possesses the [[HeroesPreferSwords Laelapsian]] [[CoolSword Hellrazer]], although it’s [[BFS too big for her right now]].
* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Her sign is Canis Major, her horns look like dog ears, and she has Bane as her native
* BigEater: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; she works out a lot, and needs a lot of energy
* BlackSpeech: Can fluently speak the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angeltongue]].
* BlueBlood: A [[OurTrollsAreDifferent literal]] one. She's not a huge fan of the cultural baggage that comes with it, or how people think of her because of it, and tries to distance herself.
* BrutalHonesty
* TheChampion: As in line with her native class
* ClosetGeek: You wouldn’t know from looking at her, but she plays a lot of video games
* CombatPragmatist: Her tutoring of Afiqah in unarmed combat revealed a fondness for KneeCapping
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is low and even, and she’s a tried-and-true badass
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh yeah
** SnarkKnight
* FragileSpeedster: Compared to other trolls of her caste, she's very thin and fragile. She doesn't have the padding to take a lot of hits, nor does she have the muscle to hit extremely hard. She is, however, very agile and fast.
** LightningBruiser: Although, that's mainly compared to trolls and the skewed [[SuperStrength physical]] [[MadeOfIron expectations]] trolls of Khavah's caste are compared to. Compared to regular humans, she's extremely strong, extremely durable, and extremely fast.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large scar on her face, among others
** CoveredWithScars: A LOT of others
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one, when she found out that Laelah Kirbir existed, Laelah Kirbir also being the name of her FamousAncestor, [[ShroudedInMyth Justicar]] [[TheDreaded Barghest]]
* HeroicWillpower: Invoked; due to her [[UnstoppableRage highblood rage]] and [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angelic]] problems, she’s specifically worked on willpower and self-control
* HotBlooded
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She's killed a lot, to save herself and her coplayers, and doesn't regret it. [[MyGreatestFailure Mostly.]]
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Her belief, backed up by experience, and the reason she strives to perfect herself
* IronWoobie
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartialPacifist: Attempts to be one, at least
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch
* NervesOfSteel
* NoSocialSkills
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Laelah's red
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Practically her defining feature
* SpaceMaster: A Space native
* TheStoic
* UnkemptBeauty: Does not put any time or attention into how attractive she looks at all. Despite this, she's regularly seen as very attractive.
* UnstoppableRage: As a [[OurTrollsAreDifferent highblood]], naturally. She keeps it under lock and key as much as she can.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When a coplayer attacked her for being a [[FantasticRacism highblood while he was a lowblood and usually stepped on by highbloods]], Khavah spared his life and healed his wounds when his attacks caused him to get hurt, despite knowing that she could kill him and no one would bat an eye
!!Laelah Kirbir (tacitTenacity)
* BigGuy: She's a large woman, tall and muscular. She's the one who did the heavy lifting for server construction
* GentleGiant
* GeniusBruiser: A tall woman, with noticeable muscles...who also coded, at least in part, the server that the setting mostly takes place on, as well as heading its repair
* HeroesPreferSwords: Her weapon of choice
* NiceGirl: An honestly cheerful and friendly woman who just wants everyone to get along
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Khavah's blue. While she isn't very boisterous or wild, she's a lot more extroverted, people-oriented, and expressive than Khavah is.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's an adult troll, who stands at six foot six.
* TeamMom: For the Founders, at the very least. She frets over all of them and offers to solve disputes as needed
!!"Narath" (narqouisAthymia)
-->NA: I don't trust people.
-->NA: Period
* AccentuateTheNegative
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: She has no illusions on her skill in handling people, or how well people like her
* BrutalHonesty
* CastingAShadow: As a native Law player
** DarkIsNotEvil
* DarkAndTroubledPast: From what she hints at, she’s got a doozy of one
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Her actual name is something she’s hiding. Her nickname is based off of the first three letters of each word in her handle
* GoodIsNotNice
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn’t take a lot to get her hostile
* HatesBeingTouched
* HatesSmallTalk
** SociallyAwkwardHero
* InsufferableGenius
!!Zeimah Dalyce / Cyma Dalyce (patchworkDoll)
An [[HalfHumanHybrid ectobiological hybrid]] that came out of a mixed native session, she's a Native [[UnreliableNarrator Mage]] of [[TimeMaster Time]] who has struggled to fix her hybrid status because of [=SBURB=]'s reaction to it. She has, slowly, begun building a group of her own from people she's met, and is learning how to become an adult.
* AllergicToEvil: Due to an incident during her first session, she now gets "ear-bleedy" whenever she's exposed to more than a few words of [[BlackSpeech broodfester]] or [[LightIsNotGood angeltongue]], whether written or spoken.
* BlessedWithSuck: She's a human-troll hybrid...who rarely looks the way she wants to, experiences uncontrollable appearance shifts that can affect what's safe for her to eat and how she percieves the world, and occasionally even loses parts of her body that she's quite firmly attached to. And due to her text colour, she doesn't even get cool psychic powers out of it.
* CulturalCringe: The fact that she's a hybrid would have gotten her killed, back in the Alternian Empire. She's not a big fan of the hemospectrum, or most of the Alternian way of life, as a result.
* FreakinessShame: Cyma rarely ever looked "normal" for either species and is painfully aware of it. As much as she keept getting told that she looked fine just the way she was, she wanted nothing more than to be able to "fix" whatever was causing her appearance to keep shifting around like this.
** FreakyIsCool: Probably a part of why others find her attractive. It did not significantly help her self-esteem.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Unwillingly, and it causes her a lot of problems. Among other things, the game does *not* like that it can't slot her neatly into one species and will shuffle her genetics around from one session to the next in its efforts to do so. Her appearance - and sometimes her gender - is a lot more fluid than she'd like and she's rarely ever happy with what she sees in the mirror. She's also keenly aware that she wouldn't even exist if it weren't for ectobiology. While the appearance issues have been fixed, she's still a hybrid and this still causes problems such as Replay Flu lingering longer with her than it does for others - and her body working as a vector to spread illness from humans to trolls and vice versa.
* IAmNotPretty: She will insist this until she's blue (or purple) in the face. Tossing psybuffs at her will make her stop...at least until it wears off.
** She's getting better about this, now that her appearance has been stabilized in a form she's happy with.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes / IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: She's a sweet girl, really, but she had no sense of style or taste when she initially entered the game. Her idea of "stylish" involved unlimited access to a Bedazzler and far too much embroidery.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Or at least as close as anyone can get in the Game. She's sure she'd be much happier if she could just get her species issue to resolve itself in a manner that keeps her from bouncing all over the place. This is probably a reason why the game assigned her the [[VaguenessIsComing Mage Class]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Needlekind and [[PaperFanOfDoom fankind]] are her preferred weapons.
* OrphansOrdeal: Not that any other Replayer *isn't* an orphan.
* PrecociousCrush: She's more than willing to flirt back with Nagdra when he's around, not to mention getting ''very'' upset when people call him creepy.
* RaisedByWolves: Her lusus was a direwolf. She has nothing but fond memories of "direwolfmom".
* RiddleMeThis: Her native class is Mage. She solved the "cannot spit it out" issue by using annoying riddles.
* TimeMaster: Her native Aspect.
!!Bethany Roseclere (victorianaRegnant)
A young woman from a world where colour theory is far more important than in our world. A modestly successful child actress and model, currently employed as a Lady Companion to The White. Most notable for her employment and her being a "truehue" - that is, her eyes are actually the colour she's supposed to be most aligned with. As a Dark Red, she is supposed to embody Maturity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: KarrinBlue‘s Characters]]
!!Adhara Bayer (blueEpsilon)
!!Nemain Feanan (riastradSidhe)
!!Iridie Arazir (entanglingPoise)
!!Melevi Arazir (arabesqueFatality)
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Keleviel's Characters]]
!!Khavah Kirbir (guillotineGladiator)
* ActionGirl
* AFriendInNeed: She sacrifices a lot if it'll help anyone.
* AnAxeToGrind Her weapon of choice
* AncestralWeapon: Possesses the [[HeroesPreferSwords Laelapsian]] [[CoolSword Hellrazer]], although it’s [[BFS too big for her right now]].
* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Her sign is Canis Major, her horns look like dog ears, and she has Bane as her native
* BigEater: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; she works out a lot, and needs a lot of energy
* BlackSpeech: Can fluently speak the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angeltongue]].
* BlueBlood: A [[OurTrollsAreDifferent literal]] one. She's not a huge fan of the cultural baggage that comes with it, or how people think of her because of it, and tries to distance herself.
* BrutalHonesty
* TheChampion: As in line with her native class
* ClosetGeek: You wouldn’t know from looking at her, but she plays a lot of video games
* CombatPragmatist: Her tutoring of Afiqah in unarmed combat revealed a fondness for KneeCapping
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is low and even, and she’s a tried-and-true badass
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh yeah
** SnarkKnight
* FragileSpeedster: Compared to other trolls of her caste, she's very thin and fragile. She doesn't have the padding to take a lot of hits, nor does she have the muscle to hit extremely hard. She is, however, very agile and fast.
** LightningBruiser: Although, that's mainly compared to trolls and the skewed [[SuperStrength physical]] [[MadeOfIron expectations]] trolls of Khavah's caste are compared to. Compared to regular humans, she's extremely strong, extremely durable, and extremely fast.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large scar on her face, among others
** CoveredWithScars: A LOT of others
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one, when she found out that Laelah Kirbir existed, Laelah Kirbir also being the name of her FamousAncestor, [[ShroudedInMyth Justicar]] [[TheDreaded Barghest]]
* HeroicWillpower: Invoked; due to her [[UnstoppableRage highblood rage]] and [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angelic]] problems, she’s specifically worked on willpower and self-control
* HotBlooded
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She's killed a lot, to save herself and her coplayers, and doesn't regret it. [[MyGreatestFailure Mostly.]]
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Her belief, backed up by experience, and the reason she strives to perfect herself
* IronWoobie
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartialPacifist: Attempts to be one, at least
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch
* NervesOfSteel
* NoSocialSkills
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Laelah's red
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Practically her defining feature
* SpaceMaster: A Space native
* TheStoic
* UnkemptBeauty: Does not put any time or attention into how attractive she looks at all. Despite this, she's regularly seen as very attractive.
* UnstoppableRage: As a [[OurTrollsAreDifferent highblood]], naturally. She keeps it under lock and key as much as she can.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When a coplayer attacked her for being a [[FantasticRacism highblood while he was a lowblood and usually stepped on by highbloods]], Khavah spared his life and healed his wounds when his attacks caused him to get hurt, despite knowing that she could kill him and no one would bat an eye
!!Laelah Kirbir (tacitTenacity)
* BigGuy: She's a large woman, tall and muscular. She's the one who did the heavy lifting for server construction
* GentleGiant
* GeniusBruiser: A tall woman, with noticeable muscles...who also coded, at least in part, the server that the setting mostly takes place on, as well as heading its repair
* HeroesPreferSwords: Her weapon of choice
* NiceGirl: An honestly cheerful and friendly woman who just wants everyone to get along
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Khavah's blue. While she isn't very boisterous or wild, she's a lot more extroverted, people-oriented, and expressive than Khavah is.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's an adult troll, who stands at six foot six.
* TeamMom: For the Founders, at the very least. She frets over all of them and offers to solve disputes as needed
!!"Narath" (narqouisAthymia)
-->NA: I don't trust people.
-->NA: Period
* AccentuateTheNegative
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: She has no illusions on her skill in handling people, or how well people like her
* BrutalHonesty
* CastingAShadow: As a native Law player
** DarkIsNotEvil
* DarkAndTroubledPast: From what she hints at, she’s got a doozy of one
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Her actual name is something she’s hiding. Her nickname is based off of the first three letters of each word in her handle
* GoodIsNotNice
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn’t take a lot to get her hostile
* HatesBeingTouched
* HatesSmallTalk
** SociallyAwkwardHero
* InsufferableGenius
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[[folder: Dove's Characters]]
!!Zeimah Dalyce / Cyma Dalyce (patchworkDoll)
An [[HalfHumanHybrid ectobiological hybrid]]Founders]]
!! Cole (tungstenTinkerer)
--> tungstenTinkerer: When I say thatcame out of a mixed native session, she's a Native [[UnreliableNarrator Mage]] of [[TimeMaster Time]] who has struggled to fix her hybrid status because of [=SBURB=]'s reaction to it. She has, slowly, begun building a group of her own from people she's met, and is learning how to become an adult.
* AllergicToEvil: Due to an incident during her first session, she now gets "ear-bleedy" whenever she's exposed to more than a few words of [[BlackSpeech broodfester]] or [[LightIsNotGood angeltongue]], whether written or spoken.
* BlessedWithSuck: She's a human-troll hybrid...who rarely looks the way she wants to, experiences uncontrollable appearance shifts that can affect what's safe for her to eat and how she percieves the world, and occasionally even loses parts of her body that she's quite firmly attached to. And due to her text colour, she doesn't even get cool psychic powers out of it.
* CulturalCringe: The fact that she's a hybrid would have gotten her killed, back in the Alternian Empire. She's not a big fan of the hemospectrum, or most of the Alternian way of life, as a result.
* FreakinessShame: Cyma rarely ever looked "normal" for either species and is painfully aware of it. As much as she keept getting told that she looked fine just the way she was, she wanted nothing more than to be able to "fix" whatever was causing her appearance to keep shifting around like this.
** FreakyIsCool: Probably a part of why others find her attractive. It did not significantly help her self-esteem.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Unwillingly, and it causes her a lot of problems. Among other things, the game does *not* like that it can't slot her neatly into one species andI will shuffle her genetics around from one session submit this to the next in its efforts to do so. Her appearance - and sometimes her gender - is a lot more fluid than she'd like and she's rarely ever happy with what she sees in the mirror. She's also keenly aware that she wouldn't even exist if it weren't for ectobiology. While the appearance issues have been fixed, she's still a hybrid and this still causes problems such as Replay Flu lingering longer with her than it does for others - and her body working as a vector to spread illness from humans to trolls and vice versa.
* IAmNotPretty: She will insist this until she's blue (or purple) in the face. Tossing psybuffs at her will make her stop...at least until it wears off.
** She's getting better about this, now that her appearance has been stabilized in a form she's happy with.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes / IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: She's a sweet girl, really, but she had no sense of style or taste when she initially entered the game. Her idea of "stylish" involved unlimited access to a Bedazzler and far too much embroidery.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Or at least as close as anyone can get in the Game. She's sure she'd be much happier if she could just get her species issue to resolve itself in a manner that keeps her from bouncing all over the place. This is probably a reason why the game assigned her the [[VaguenessIsComing Mage Class]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Needlekind and [[PaperFanOfDoom fankind]] are her preferred weapons.
* OrphansOrdeal: Not that any other Replayer *isn't* an orphan.
* PrecociousCrush: She's more than willing to flirt back with Nagdra when he's around, not to mention getting ''very'' upset when people call him creepy.
* RaisedByWolves: Her lusus was a direwolf. She has nothing but fond memories of "direwolfmom".
* RiddleMeThis: Her native class is Mage. She solved the "cannot spit it out" issue by using annoying riddles.
* TimeMaster: Her native Aspect.
!!Bethany Roseclere (victorianaRegnant)
A young woman from a world where colour theory is far more important than in our world. A modestly successful child actress and model, currently employed as a Lady Companion to The White. Most notable for her employment and her being a "truehue" - that is, her eyes are actually the colour she's supposed to be most aligned with. As a Dark Red, she is supposed to embody Maturity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: KarrinBlue‘s Characters]]
!!Adhara Bayer (blueEpsilon)
!!Nemain Feanan (riastradSidhe)
!!Iridie Arazir (entanglingPoise)
!!Melevi Arazir (arabesqueFatality)
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Keleviel's Characters]]
!!Khavah Kirbir (guillotineGladiator)
* ActionGirl
* AFriendInNeed: She sacrifices a lot if it'll help anyone.
* AnAxeToGrind Her weapon of choice
* AncestralWeapon: Possesses the [[HeroesPreferSwords Laelapsian]] [[CoolSword Hellrazer]], although it’s [[BFS too big for her right now]].
* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Her sign is Canis Major, her horns look like dog ears, and she has Bane as her native
* BigEater: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; she works out a lot, and needs a lot of energy
* BlackSpeech: Can fluently speak the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angeltongue]].
* BlueBlood: A [[OurTrollsAreDifferent literal]] one. She's not a huge fan of the cultural baggage that comes with it, or how people think of her because of it, and tries to distance herself.
* BrutalHonesty
* TheChampion: As in line with her native class
* ClosetGeek: You wouldn’t know from looking at her, but she plays a lot of video games
* CombatPragmatist: Her tutoring of Afiqah in unarmed combat revealed a fondness for KneeCapping
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is low and even, and she’s a tried-and-true badass
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh yeah
** SnarkKnight
* FragileSpeedster: Compared to other trolls of her caste, she's very thin and fragile. She doesn't have the padding to take a lot of hits, nor does she have the muscle to hit extremely hard. She is, however, very agile and fast.
** LightningBruiser: Although, that's mainly compared to trolls and the skewed [[SuperStrength physical]] [[MadeOfIron expectations]] trolls of Khavah's caste are compared to. Compared to regular humans, she's extremely strong, extremely durable, and extremely fast.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large scar on her face, among others
** CoveredWithScars: A LOT of others
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one, when she found out that Laelah Kirbir existed, Laelah Kirbir also being the name of her FamousAncestor, [[ShroudedInMyth Justicar]] [[TheDreaded Barghest]]
* HeroicWillpower: Invoked; due to her [[UnstoppableRage highblood rage]] and [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angelic]] problems, she’s specifically worked on willpower and self-control
* HotBlooded
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She's killed a lot, to save herself and her coplayers, and doesn't regret it. [[MyGreatestFailure Mostly.]]
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Her belief, backed up by experience, and the reason she strives to perfect herself
* IronWoobie
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartialPacifist: Attempts to be one, at least
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch
* NervesOfSteel
* NoSocialSkills
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Laelah's red
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Practically her defining feature
* SpaceMaster: A Space native
* TheStoic
* UnkemptBeauty: Does not put any time or attention into how attractive she looks at all. Despite this, she's regularly seen as very attractive.
* UnstoppableRage: As a [[OurTrollsAreDifferent highblood]], naturally. She keeps it under lock and key as much as she can.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When a coplayer attacked her for being a [[FantasticRacism highblood while he was a lowblood and usually stepped on by highbloods]], Khavah spared his life and healed his wounds when his attacks caused him to get hurt, despite knowing that she could kill him and no one would bat an eye
!!Laelah Kirbir (tacitTenacity)
* BigGuy: She's a large woman, tall and muscular. She's the one who did the heavy lifting for server construction
* GentleGiant
* GeniusBruiser: A tall woman, with noticeable muscles...who also coded, at least in part, the server that the setting mostly takes place on, as well as heading its repair
* HeroesPreferSwords: Her weapon of choice
* NiceGirl: An honestly cheerful and friendly woman who just wants everyone to get along
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Khavah's blue. While she isn't very boisterous or wild, she's a lot more extroverted, people-oriented, and expressive than Khavah is.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's an adult troll, who stands at six foot six.
* TeamMom: For the Founders, at the very least. She frets over all of them and offers to solve disputes as needed
!!"Narath" (narqouisAthymia)
-->NA:Sage HQ I don't trust people.
-->NA: Period
* AccentuateTheNegative
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: She has no illusions on her skill in handling people, or how wellmean this people actually will care about whether you are ok or not. I mean they will want to solve the problem because it /challenges/ them.
--> tungstenTinkerer [=PMs=] ventricularPipefitter: (unspoken implication: and I am totally a member of the Sage HQ lol) - #ultimatereward 9/10
Native [[OmniscientHero Sage]] of [[{{Shapeshifter}} Mist]].
* ActionSurvivor: Started likeher
this and evolved into:
*BrutalHonesty
BadassBookworm: One of the most brilliant Replayers and an expert Mist Player.
*CastingAShadow: As FantasticallyIndifferent: Does this from time to time. It's been generally speaking observed that his empathy could use some improvement.
* NothingButSkinAndBones: Cole is thin as anative Law player
** DarkIsNotEvil
rail, even if he eats regularly. The effect is somewhat made more evident by his disconcerting height (a good 6'9'')
*DarkAndTroubledPast: From OrphanageOfLove: Despite being raised by several dozen scientists in lieu of a parent, he was not mistreated and turned out surprisingly well.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Mist defensive powers work this way. When Cole [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters]] his "pieces" are usually bolts, nuts, screws and other small stuff made of metal. Puns ensue.
--> <specificNihilism> after all
--> <specificNihilism> you are nuts
--> <tungstenTinkerer> Damn right I am
--> <tungstenTinkerer> There is nobody as nuts as me
--> <specificNihilism> you are the nuttiest - #ultimatereward 9/10
* PowerOfRock: He has a preference to giving the Secret Consort the tools needed to become a Secret Rocker, and then rocking out on the underlings.
* {{Shapeshifter}}: Mist powers manifest as this. In effect, to the point where he will sometimes forget he is not the person (or thing) he is shapeshifting as.
* StuffBlowingUp
--> <tungstenTinkerer> Your computing devices all suck
--> <tungstenTinkerer> I have an explodoputer
--> <tungstenTinkerer> it's a computer that is also an explosion - #ultimatereward 9/10
* TheNicknamer: A Mist trait; everyone gets a nickname. (Including himself, "Cogs".)
!! Myra [=LeJean=] (enturbulatedOccupation)
--> ventricularPipefitter: "[[HypocriticalHumor Didn't put her on a]] [[BrokenPedestal pedestal]]."
--> ventricularPipefitter: "She. She. Myra--" He stops. Composes himself. Continues with careful pronounciation on every word. "Myra [=LeJean=] was a god-damn, Skaia-blessed, genius. There was no way around amazement at what shehints at, she’s got a doozy could accomplish. But I didn't." - #reminisce 8/20
A native [[PersonOfMassDestruction Waste]] ofone
[[TheStrategist Mi]][[ShockAndAwe nd]] and PosthumousCharacter, Myra [=LeJean=] began her Sburb career as a teenage [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters freedom fighter/militant]] in a TwentyMinutesInTheFuture New York City.
*EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: AsianAndNerdy: Explicit comparison made by writer(s), despite the fact that ectobiology prevents a direct connection.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Heractual name is something she’s hiding. Her nickname is based off [[http://hesperidia.deviantart.com/art/HS-Sprite-Edits-enturbulatedOccupation-322460111 suit]].
%%* DrivenToSuicide
* FosteringForProfit: Extensive victim of.
* HollywoodHacking: Less Hollywood and more [[ShownTheirWork Showing Their]] {{Technobabble}}, but can more than keep up with the more technobabbly kind.
* KnifeNut: Razorkind wielder.
** WaifFu: Surprisingly effectively for her size.
* KnightInSourArmor: She was already this way early on, and only more so as time passed.
--> "Your attitude was one that I, even today, still aspire to - you knew the world, in its full dinginess and horror, you knew your odds were long, you knew why nobody else fought, and yet you fought for the chance to make it better anyway." - [[http://sburbunofficial.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=inmemoryof&action=display&thread=524 Myra's memorial thread]]
* MentorOccupationalHazard
* ShellShockedVeteran: Frighteningly competent and severely broken, even before the beginning of the game.
** BrokenBird
** StepfordSnarker: A rather [[ButIDigress long-winded one]].
* ShockAndAwe: Mind native.
* PosthumousCharacter: Hasn't been seen since the beginning of the roleplay. Her firstthree letters of each word in and only on-screen appearance is her handle
VideoWill.
*GoodIsNotNice
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn’t take a lotVideoWill: [[http://pastebin.com/hFyteBTP adieu_tout_le_monde.avi]] (and [[http://pastebin.com/hFyteBTP additional_homework_for_overachievers.avi]])
!! Ross Eberhardt (ventricularPipefitter)
--> "I have this exasperatingly stupid habit where someone crawls up inside my skull and says, 'Hey, Ross, you're going toget her hostile
care about my well-being,' and it's got a nasty habit of happening for only the most desperate of sessions, the loneliest of players, and the most dire of straits. [...] And my track record, when this happens, is inexplicably less shitty than it should be. So let's keep talking while I find a better reason [for you to live] than 'Ross Eberhardt has decided you're not going to die.'" - ventricularPipefitter, #ultimatereward 9/1
A native [[ItemCrafting Smith]] of [[SoulPower Heart]], old veteran, and inexplicably the most socially adept of the Founders.
*HatesBeingTouched
AmbiguouslyBi: Half-closeted. Has girlfriends but refuses to acknowledge that Vitt is his ClosetKey. Future iterations of Ross, however, seem to be considerably more comfortable with the notion...
*HatesSmallTalk
** SociallyAwkwardHero
* InsufferableGeniusFirstGrayHair: Aelfrida points it out to him. He engages in [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks soulfingering]] to hide it.
!!Zeimah Dalyce / Cyma Dalyce (patchworkDoll)
An [[HalfHumanHybrid ectobiological hybrid]]
!! Cole (tungstenTinkerer)
--> tungstenTinkerer: When I say that
* AllergicToEvil: Due to an incident during her first session, she now gets "ear-bleedy" whenever she's exposed to more than a few words of [[BlackSpeech broodfester]] or [[LightIsNotGood angeltongue]], whether written or spoken.
* BlessedWithSuck: She's a human-troll hybrid...who rarely looks the way she wants to, experiences uncontrollable appearance shifts that can affect what's safe for her to eat and how she percieves the world, and occasionally even loses parts of her body that she's quite firmly attached to. And due to her text colour, she doesn't even get cool psychic powers out of it.
* CulturalCringe: The fact that she's a hybrid would have gotten her killed, back in the Alternian Empire. She's not a big fan of the hemospectrum, or most of the Alternian way of life, as a result.
* FreakinessShame: Cyma rarely ever looked "normal" for either species and is painfully aware of it. As much as she keept getting told that she looked fine just the way she was, she wanted nothing more than to be able to "fix" whatever was causing her appearance to keep shifting around like this.
** FreakyIsCool: Probably a part of why others find her attractive. It did not significantly help her self-esteem.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Unwillingly, and it causes her a lot of problems. Among other things, the game does *not* like that it can't slot her neatly into one species and
* IAmNotPretty: She will insist this until she's blue (or purple) in the face. Tossing psybuffs at her will make her stop...at least until it wears off.
** She's getting better about this, now that her appearance has been stabilized in a form she's happy with.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes / IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: She's a sweet girl, really, but she had no sense of style or taste when she initially entered the game. Her idea of "stylish" involved unlimited access to a Bedazzler and far too much embroidery.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Or at least as close as anyone can get in the Game. She's sure she'd be much happier if she could just get her species issue to resolve itself in a manner that keeps her from bouncing all over the place. This is probably a reason why the game assigned her the [[VaguenessIsComing Mage Class]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Needlekind and [[PaperFanOfDoom fankind]] are her preferred weapons.
* OrphansOrdeal: Not that any other Replayer *isn't* an orphan.
* PrecociousCrush: She's more than willing to flirt back with Nagdra when he's around, not to mention getting ''very'' upset when people call him creepy.
* RaisedByWolves: Her lusus was a direwolf. She has nothing but fond memories of "direwolfmom".
* RiddleMeThis: Her native class is Mage. She solved the "cannot spit it out" issue by using annoying riddles.
* TimeMaster: Her native Aspect.
!!Bethany Roseclere (victorianaRegnant)
A young woman from a world where colour theory is far more important than in our world. A modestly successful child actress and model, currently employed as a Lady Companion to The White. Most notable for her employment and her being a "truehue" - that is, her eyes are actually the colour she's supposed to be most aligned with. As a Dark Red, she is supposed to embody Maturity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: KarrinBlue‘s Characters]]
!!Adhara Bayer (blueEpsilon)
!!Nemain Feanan (riastradSidhe)
!!Iridie Arazir (entanglingPoise)
!!Melevi Arazir (arabesqueFatality)
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Keleviel's Characters]]
!!Khavah Kirbir (guillotineGladiator)
* ActionGirl
* AFriendInNeed: She sacrifices a lot if it'll help anyone.
* AnAxeToGrind Her weapon of choice
* AncestralWeapon: Possesses the [[HeroesPreferSwords Laelapsian]] [[CoolSword Hellrazer]], although it’s [[BFS too big for her right now]].
* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Her sign is Canis Major, her horns look like dog ears, and she has Bane as her native
* BigEater: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; she works out a lot, and needs a lot of energy
* BlackSpeech: Can fluently speak the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angeltongue]].
* BlueBlood: A [[OurTrollsAreDifferent literal]] one. She's not a huge fan of the cultural baggage that comes with it, or how people think of her because of it, and tries to distance herself.
* BrutalHonesty
* TheChampion: As in line with her native class
* ClosetGeek: You wouldn’t know from looking at her, but she plays a lot of video games
* CombatPragmatist: Her tutoring of Afiqah in unarmed combat revealed a fondness for KneeCapping
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is low and even, and she’s a tried-and-true badass
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh yeah
** SnarkKnight
* FragileSpeedster: Compared to other trolls of her caste, she's very thin and fragile. She doesn't have the padding to take a lot of hits, nor does she have the muscle to hit extremely hard. She is, however, very agile and fast.
** LightningBruiser: Although, that's mainly compared to trolls and the skewed [[SuperStrength physical]] [[MadeOfIron expectations]] trolls of Khavah's caste are compared to. Compared to regular humans, she's extremely strong, extremely durable, and extremely fast.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large scar on her face, among others
** CoveredWithScars: A LOT of others
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one, when she found out that Laelah Kirbir existed, Laelah Kirbir also being the name of her FamousAncestor, [[ShroudedInMyth Justicar]] [[TheDreaded Barghest]]
* HeroicWillpower: Invoked; due to her [[UnstoppableRage highblood rage]] and [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angelic]] problems, she’s specifically worked on willpower and self-control
* HotBlooded
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She's killed a lot, to save herself and her coplayers, and doesn't regret it. [[MyGreatestFailure Mostly.]]
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Her belief, backed up by experience, and the reason she strives to perfect herself
* IronWoobie
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartialPacifist: Attempts to be one, at least
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch
* NervesOfSteel
* NoSocialSkills
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Laelah's red
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Practically her defining feature
* SpaceMaster: A Space native
* TheStoic
* UnkemptBeauty: Does not put any time or attention into how attractive she looks at all. Despite this, she's regularly seen as very attractive.
* UnstoppableRage: As a [[OurTrollsAreDifferent highblood]], naturally. She keeps it under lock and key as much as she can.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When a coplayer attacked her for being a [[FantasticRacism highblood while he was a lowblood and usually stepped on by highbloods]], Khavah spared his life and healed his wounds when his attacks caused him to get hurt, despite knowing that she could kill him and no one would bat an eye
!!Laelah Kirbir (tacitTenacity)
* BigGuy: She's a large woman, tall and muscular. She's the one who did the heavy lifting for server construction
* GentleGiant
* GeniusBruiser: A tall woman, with noticeable muscles...who also coded, at least in part, the server that the setting mostly takes place on, as well as heading its repair
* HeroesPreferSwords: Her weapon of choice
* NiceGirl: An honestly cheerful and friendly woman who just wants everyone to get along
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Khavah's blue. While she isn't very boisterous or wild, she's a lot more extroverted, people-oriented, and expressive than Khavah is.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's an adult troll, who stands at six foot six.
* TeamMom: For the Founders, at the very least. She frets over all of them and offers to solve disputes as needed
!!"Narath" (narqouisAthymia)
-->NA:
-->NA: Period
* AccentuateTheNegative
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: She has no illusions on her skill in handling people, or how well
--> tungstenTinkerer [=PMs=] ventricularPipefitter: (unspoken implication: and I am totally a member of the Sage HQ lol) - #ultimatereward 9/10
Native [[OmniscientHero Sage]] of [[{{Shapeshifter}} Mist]].
* ActionSurvivor: Started like
*
*
* NothingButSkinAndBones: Cole is thin as a
** DarkIsNotEvil
*
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Mist defensive powers work this way. When Cole [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters]] his "pieces" are usually bolts, nuts, screws and other small stuff made of metal. Puns ensue.
--> <specificNihilism> after all
--> <specificNihilism> you are nuts
--> <tungstenTinkerer> Damn right I am
--> <tungstenTinkerer> There is nobody as nuts as me
--> <specificNihilism> you are the nuttiest - #ultimatereward 9/10
* PowerOfRock: He has a preference to giving the Secret Consort the tools needed to become a Secret Rocker, and then rocking out on the underlings.
* {{Shapeshifter}}: Mist powers manifest as this. In effect, to the point where he will sometimes forget he is not the person (or thing) he is shapeshifting as.
* StuffBlowingUp
--> <tungstenTinkerer> Your computing devices all suck
--> <tungstenTinkerer> I have an explodoputer
--> <tungstenTinkerer> it's a computer that is also an explosion - #ultimatereward 9/10
* TheNicknamer: A Mist trait; everyone gets a nickname. (Including himself, "Cogs".)
!! Myra [=LeJean=] (enturbulatedOccupation)
--> ventricularPipefitter: "[[HypocriticalHumor Didn't put her on a]] [[BrokenPedestal pedestal]]."
--> ventricularPipefitter: "She. She. Myra--" He stops. Composes himself. Continues with careful pronounciation on every word. "Myra [=LeJean=] was a god-damn, Skaia-blessed, genius. There was no way around amazement at what she
A native [[PersonOfMassDestruction Waste]] of
*
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Her
%%* DrivenToSuicide
* FosteringForProfit: Extensive victim of.
* HollywoodHacking: Less Hollywood and more [[ShownTheirWork Showing Their]] {{Technobabble}}, but can more than keep up with the more technobabbly kind.
* KnifeNut: Razorkind wielder.
** WaifFu: Surprisingly effectively for her size.
* KnightInSourArmor: She was already this way early on, and only more so as time passed.
--> "Your attitude was one that I, even today, still aspire to - you knew the world, in its full dinginess and horror, you knew your odds were long, you knew why nobody else fought, and yet you fought for the chance to make it better anyway." - [[http://sburbunofficial.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=inmemoryof&action=display&thread=524 Myra's memorial thread]]
* MentorOccupationalHazard
* ShellShockedVeteran: Frighteningly competent and severely broken, even before the beginning of the game.
** BrokenBird
** StepfordSnarker: A rather [[ButIDigress long-winded one]].
* ShockAndAwe: Mind native.
* PosthumousCharacter: Hasn't been seen since the beginning of the roleplay. Her first
*
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn’t take a lot
!! Ross Eberhardt (ventricularPipefitter)
--> "I have this exasperatingly stupid habit where someone crawls up inside my skull and says, 'Hey, Ross, you're going to
A native [[ItemCrafting Smith]] of [[SoulPower Heart]], old veteran, and inexplicably the most socially adept of the Founders.
*
*
** SociallyAwkwardHero
* InsufferableGenius
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!!Aesura Imilic (peerlessPitfighter)
* ActionGirl
* AmazonianBeauty
** CuteBruiser: Shorter than most examples, at 5'2"
* BoisterousBruiser: Quite cheerful, and quite the bruiser
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Her preferred method of fighting
* HotBlooded
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Her love for fighting might seem like it’s in line with being a troll, but she’s a very friendly individual who likes fighting but not killing.
* PluckyGirl
* SmarterThanYouLook: She looks like she’d be DumbMuscle, but she’s not. Not to say that she’s a GeniusBruiser, just not dumb
* SuperStrength: Not only is she a [[BlueBlood purple blooded]] [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll]], which are known for being pretty damn strong, she's also a weightlifter and has highly defined muscles, and she's ALSO a native [[MakingASplash Might]] player, an aspect that gives people super strength. It's safe to say she's pretty strong.
to:
*
** CuteBruiser: Shorter than most examples, at 5'2"
*
* TheNicknamer
* PapaWolf: Especially if Logica is concerned
* PipePain: His WeaponOfChoice
* [[RaginCajun Ragin' Cajun]]: To be entirely fair, he didn't learn to speak French until after he got into the Game and
* SoulPower: His native Heart powers.
* {{Steampunk}}: Influenced by.
* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Vitt.
** VitriolicBestBuds: What he'll say his [[ShipTease relationship (or lack thereof)]] with Vitt is.
** LikeAnOldMarriedCouple / BelligerentSexualTension: What everyone else thinks his relationship (or lack thereof) with Vitt is.
!! Skye Ringling (specificNihilism)
--> "spen h has pl yed tw nty even ses ions of [s urb]
--> rol ed [v ] for a fair fract on of them
--> [t e nul ] do sn't seem to le ve her now" - [[http://www.sburbunofficial.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=hello&thread=127&post=687 specificNihilism]]
Native [[SpannerInTheWorks Grace]] of [[PowerOfTheVoid Void]]. A (generally) sweet-hearted, sweet-tempered woman, Skye Ringling often acts as the
* AccidentalPun: Her last name, Ringling, was chosen because of the sounds. It can alternatively be interpreted as "of the Ring" or "little Ring". With her long-running [[TheCorruption corruption]] problem...
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Literally a part of her physical description.
* TheAntiNihilist: Notably in making sure that no one is alone.
* BadassAdorable
* [[spoiler:BeingEvilSucks: She does not enjoy her time as a Speaker, if her conversations with Ross are any indication....]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheQuietOnes: You wouldn't like Skye when she's angry. Even her sad disappointment makes those close to her cringe, much less her fury.
* BlackSpeech: Broodfester.
* CooldownHug: Gives and receives these on a regular basis, due to the corruption-thwarting properties of hugs.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Black hair, black eyes.
* TheDeadHaveNames: The "memorizes all their names" variant, judging by the memorial thread she uses on the Forums.
* [[spoiler:DealWithTheDevil: She asked [[EldritchAbomination James]] for the power she needed to ''take care'' of Heries. She got it - [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil at great cost.]]]]
* GoodOldFisticuffs:
*
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Her love for fighting might seem like it’s in line with being a troll, but she’s a very friendly individual who likes fighting but not killing.
* PluckyGirl
* SmarterThanYouLook:
** DeterminedWidow: Until [[HeroKiller Heries Croton]] killed him. She
* SuperStrength: Not only is she a [[BlueBlood purple blooded]] [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll]], which are known for being pretty damn strong,
* TheHeart
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[JustifiedTrope Justified,]] in that the Void [[LimitBreak Berserk Trigger]], [All You Do Not Know], functions in exactly this manner. She only half-remembers the barest of snippets from her pre-game life and has
* LongLostRelative: Ectobiologically Ross's genetic mother.
* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil: Or at least [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope barrel full-bore into corruption.]]]]
* MamaBear / BerserkButton: Especially to Void Players or her adoptive children. Hurt them and she will make you suffer.
* MonochromaticEyes: The rare black-eyed heroic example.
* MonsterIsAMommy: An interesting case; as a Speaker, Skye's rampages actually have a reason: whenever someone starts shooting at her, or otherwise attacking her while she's
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: InUniverse; her smile emoticon is accompanied by this, according to the other Players
--> specificNihilism: uwu
--> * tandemCruficix has uploaded "anotherspenihcutesound.mp3" to the memo (#replaystuck 8-14)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Except for a
* OrpheanRescue: Raided the bubbles and, through exploiting a Doom Cataclysm, restored life not only to her husband Mornei, but also to her two adopted daughters, Sibica and Timris, and a handful of other dreaming dead.
* ParentalSubstitute / HappilyAdopted: Adopted Cyma, Mareya/Maria, and Shrike and plays TeamMom to the Cataclysm and Void players. Generally mothers all the "little ones", or especially young or new replayers.
* PowerOfTheVoid: Void Powers manifest as this. Being that
* {{Sleepwalking}}: Just ask Ross and Violet what they had to do to keep her on Derse or in the [[CoolSpaceship Pondskipper]]. Or Cyma and Epi, when they found her wandering dreamself.
* SkunkStripe: Interestingly enough, ''not'' a result of the traumas and cataclysm of her first session, but rather a result of early-graying kicking in from stress around session twenty.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: screamingNothing.
* TeamMom
* ThirdPersonPerson: It is implied that her first-session cataclysm involved (among other things) wiping out her ability to use first-person pronouns.
* TraumaCongaLine: For a while she went through one: First, she had a session with first-session kids that was overrun by her [[HumanoidAbomination Saccharine Doppelganger]]. During that session, her sister-in-disaster Myra announced her suicide through her VideoWill, along with Skye accidentally helping a [[HeroKiller serial murderess]] and being tormented by her. Rocky interpersonal problems between the Founders didn't help, either. After that, she was a Muse of Space and had to live with cripplingly painful headaches because of the World. While she had a HopeSpot in her [[HappilyMarried marriage]] to Mornei, things took a turn for the worse less than a month later when he was murdered by the same PK who had been tormenting her. She finally crossed the DespairEventHorizon when she realized that no one was going to be able to stop [[HeroKiller Heries]], because she was preserved by the alpha timeline.
** [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Of course, most people don't run to James when they finally give in to despair. She's already massacred an entire session, and is slated to continue her rampage until Heries is no longer a threat. ItsTheOnlyWay.]]
* YouAreNotAlone: It has become Spenih's life goal to make sure that no other Replayer feels unloved or isolated.
* YouAreWorthHell: The other Founders, Mornei, and her children.
!! Vitt Maria Bokun (genesisArtificer)
--> genesisArtificer: many '''World''' problems could be fixed with a well placed dinosaur
Native [[OmniscientHero Seer]] of [[RealityWarper Space]]
* TheAlcoholic: of the DrowningMySorrows variety. To the point where other characters use "Vitt impression" as slang for getting very drunk.
** VodkaDrunkenski
* AtomicHate: Fissionkind specibus filled with nukes.
* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Out of character, the player freely admits his dearth of knowledge in the matter. At least Cole's player is a particle physicist.
* BadassBeard
* BlueBlood: High enough on social pole to be considered as a Tzar Consort to reinging Empress of his world
* TheBigGuy: of the GeniusBruiser variety
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Competent and certainly not dumb, but prone to extreme silliness
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Big amounts of mangrit due to childhood training by his mother and inhospitable climate he lived in pre-game
* Cloudcuckoolander: His earth was... a bit weird and it shows
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Averted. Vitt is not ashamed of his second name, it is his [[EmbarrassingFirstName first FULL name]] that fills him with shame
* FaustianBargain: With Glogoroth. Obviously, it backfired terribly.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: more specifically fancy santas. Even more specifically [[LethalJokeItem Father Nuclear Winter]], a fancy santa alchemized with a nuclear weapon.
* MadScientist: Consciously casts himself as this, complete with the cackle. This entirely aside from his knowledge of how to build nuclear weapons with his bare hands and create fusion reactors that can provide indefinite free power.
--> [[http://pastebin.com/4CCu8eTg futuregenesisArtificer]]: two months to breed a Frog and finish all the quests
--> futuregenesisArtificer: while [[HumanoidAbomination Zalgo fucker]] will try to kill my Dame of Space
--> futuregenesisArtificer: why am I optimistic
--> futuregenesisArtificer: B]
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Adopted by a genderbent version of Stalin.
* OmniscientHero: Seer Powers manifest like this.
* ShipTease: Extensive, with Ross. (To the point where other Replayers have not only commented on it, but conspired with Consorts to get the two "married" to each other.)
* StalkerWithACrush: Played for laughs.
--> [[http://pastebin.com/gAw4qZbe genesisArtificer]]: I have fond memories
--> genesisArtificer: and fond camera snapshots [of Ross]
--> genesisArtificer: lots of snapshots
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Minor example. Implied to be fault of his weird childhood
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Space Powers manifest as this
** SpaceMaster
** PowerOfCreation: when he is at his most powerful, he can create non-euclidian explosion/implosion of new space. That his trademark move of sorts.
* TrainingFromHell: His mother believed in this
!! Violet Faulkner (artisticHourglass)
Native Witch of Void, the only Founder who didn't reroll her native Mythological Role.
* GenkiGirl: Because she has all the maturity of the Muse and can talk to Echidna. Otherwise, she would be insane from isolation.
** There is now a robot toddler companion with long hair and princess curls. Named ''Conan''.
* MissionControl
* ScarsAreForever: Her face is deeply scarred. Though theoretically there would be the possibility of removing them, she's kept them anyway.
* TakeAThirdOption: You either play the game, or you die. Or, if you're Vi, you Take A Third Option and tend the servers.
* TimeMaster: Time Powers manifest as this.
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!!Snaplock Sunblood / Lanian Oniare (snaplockSunblood)
A proud and casually violent yellowblood warlord and native Muse of Time.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* BadassInCharge: Before the game, at least.
* BawdySong: Is very fond of these.
* CultureClash: With both humans ''and'' trolls, due to time displacement.
* CultureJustifiesAnything: Tries to claim this, but only in regards to ''her'' culture.
* CulturalPosturing
* DisproportionateRetribution: Considers it merciful to only take one life in retaliation for the killing of a horde member.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has no qualms about torture and murder, but you do ''not'' zombify your coplayers.
* FantasticRacism: Against seadwellers.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She's from pre-Empire, pre-industrial times and is playing a computer game. She's still trying to get used to it.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her crude, violent exterior, she's surprisingly levelheaded. She frequently takes command when emergencies arise on the chat, and knows the right things to ask and say even if the details of the presession issue or game mechanic of the day elude her.
* TheHorde: Ruled one of these before she played the game. Wishes she still did.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Her homeland's main religion seems to be a trollish mix of Celtic, Norse, and other beliefs.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: More specifically, Medieval [[AnotherDimension Alternian]] Fantasy.
* TheLeader: Oddly enough, it turns out that leading a raiding horde requires something other than pure intimidation. She's ''good'' at figuring out what needs doing and how to get people to go along with it.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: If you reference something around her, expect her to ask what it means.
* TheStoryteller: One of her few redeeming values.
* TailorMadePrison: Did this to her own past self to stop her from trying to kill Icemount and Glasseye.
** GoMadFromTheIsolation: There's a ''reason'' Abel stepped in to stop that.
* ToThePain: Has an alarming tendency to start describing torture techniques when Heries pisses her off. Generally has to be shouted down by everyone else in the memo when this happens.
!!Arsonist (arsonIst)
A redblooded, low-ranking member of Snaplock's horde and native Bard of Space. Is a mild pyrokinetic, but most people just assume he's really good at setting fires.
* DumbIsGood: Subverted. He seems innocent and harmless at first, but then he'll wonder out loud about raiding Consort villages or something equally cruel.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Solved with speech-to-text software.
* PlayingWithFire: To a very mild extent. He never even realized he had powers, instead assuming he was just talented and starting and keeping a fire going.
* PyroManiac: Why else would he have chosen that name?
* WildChild: As a child, was exiled from his hometown for arson. He and his lusus lived wild for sweeps before Snaplock recruited him.
!!Eminence Glasseye (eminenceGlasseye)
The greenblood ruler of a wealthy coastal city-state and native Page of Mind. Owned a sizeable collection of seadwellers before the game killed most of them. He's being really hard to trope so if you can think of any that actually work for him please add them in or at least bring it up in the chat so I know what to do.
* BlueBlood: Notably, considering he's a troll, ''not'' literally.
* DecadentCourt: Is quite experienced in navigating these.
!!Icemount (eminenceGlasseye)
A seadweller in Glasseye's collection. Forcefully replaced Arsonist as the Bard of Space as part of a Denizen deal and now has the dubious distinction of being the oldest player.
* DissonantSerenity: Casually discussed who to kill and replace in order to save more of his fellows. Wasn't any more emotional ''after'' the killing, either.
* CoveredWithScars
* FantasticRacism: A victim of it.
* FishPeople
* HappinessInSlavery: Can come across as this, but...
** StepfordSmiler: At least part of it's an act.
* RapeAsBackstory: Implied
* StoicWoobie: He's been a a slave for at least a hundred sweeps, has the scars to show it, yet doesn't show any signs of caring about it.
!!Snaplock Sunblood / Lanian Oniare (snaplockSunblood)
A proud and casually violent yellowblood warlord and native Muse of Time.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* BadassInCharge: Before the game, at least.
* BawdySong: Is very fond of these.
* CultureClash: With both humans ''and'' trolls, due to time displacement.
* CultureJustifiesAnything: Tries to claim this, but only in regards to ''her'' culture.
* CulturalPosturing
* DisproportionateRetribution: Considers it merciful to only take one life in retaliation for the killing of a horde member.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has no qualms about torture and murder, but you do ''not'' zombify your coplayers.
* FantasticRacism: Against seadwellers.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She's from pre-Empire, pre-industrial times and is playing a computer game. She's still trying to get used to it.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her crude, violent exterior, she's surprisingly levelheaded. She frequently takes command when emergencies arise on the chat, and knows the right things to ask and say even if the details of the presession issue or game mechanic of the day elude her.
* TheHorde: Ruled one of these before she played the game. Wishes she still did.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Her homeland's main religion seems to be a trollish mix of Celtic, Norse, and other beliefs.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: More specifically, Medieval [[AnotherDimension Alternian]] Fantasy.
* TheLeader: Oddly enough, it turns out that leading a raiding horde requires something other than pure intimidation. She's ''good'' at figuring out what needs doing and how to get people to go along with it.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: If you reference something around her, expect her to ask what it means.
* TheStoryteller: One of her few redeeming values.
* TailorMadePrison: Did this to her own past self to stop her from trying to kill Icemount and Glasseye.
** GoMadFromTheIsolation: There's a ''reason'' Abel stepped in to stop that.
* ToThePain: Has an alarming tendency to start describing torture techniques when Heries pisses her off. Generally has to be shouted down by everyone else in the memo when this happens.
!!Arsonist (arsonIst)
A redblooded, low-ranking member of Snaplock's horde and native Bard of Space. Is a mild pyrokinetic, but most people just assume he's really good at setting fires.
* DumbIsGood: Subverted. He seems innocent and harmless at first, but then he'll wonder out loud about raiding Consort villages or something equally cruel.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Solved with speech-to-text software.
* PlayingWithFire: To a very mild extent. He never even realized he had powers, instead assuming he was just talented and starting and keeping a fire going.
* PyroManiac: Why else would he have chosen that name?
* WildChild: As a child, was exiled from his hometown for arson. He and his lusus lived wild for sweeps before Snaplock recruited him.
!!Eminence Glasseye (eminenceGlasseye)
The greenblood ruler of a wealthy coastal city-state and native Page of Mind. Owned a sizeable collection of seadwellers before the game killed most of them. He's being really hard to trope so if you can think of any that actually work for him please add them in or at least bring it up in the chat so I know what to do.
* BlueBlood: Notably, considering he's a troll, ''not'' literally.
* DecadentCourt: Is quite experienced in navigating these.
!!Icemount (eminenceGlasseye)
A seadweller in Glasseye's collection. Forcefully replaced Arsonist as the Bard of Space as part of a Denizen deal and now has the dubious distinction of being the oldest player.
* DissonantSerenity: Casually discussed who to kill and replace in order to save more of his fellows. Wasn't any more emotional ''after'' the killing, either.
* CoveredWithScars
* FantasticRacism: A victim of it.
* FishPeople
* HappinessInSlavery: Can come across as this, but...
** StepfordSmiler: At least part of it's an act.
* RapeAsBackstory: Implied
* StoicWoobie: He's been a a slave for at least a hundred sweeps, has the scars to show it, yet doesn't show any signs of caring about it.
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!!Snaplock Sunblood
!!Zeimah Dalyce /
A proud and casually violent yellowblood warlord and
An [[HalfHumanHybrid ectobiological hybrid]] that came out of a mixed native
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* BadassInCharge: Before the game, at least.
* BawdySong: Is very fond
* CultureClash: With both humans ''and'' trolls, due
* CultureJustifiesAnything: Tries to claim this, but only in regards to ''her'' culture.
* CulturalPosturing
* DisproportionateRetribution: Considers it merciful to only take one life in retaliation for the killing
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has no qualms about torture
*
*
* HiddenDepths: Underneath
* TheHorde: Ruled one of these before she played the game. Wishes she still did.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Her homeland's main religion seems to be a trollish mix of Celtic, Norse, and other beliefs.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: More specifically, Medieval [[AnotherDimension Alternian]] Fantasy.
* TheLeader: Oddly enough, it turns out that leading a raiding horde requires something other than pure intimidation. She's ''good'' at figuring out what needs doing and how to get people to go along with it.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: If you reference something around her, expect her to ask what it means.
* TheStoryteller: One of her few redeeming values.
* TailorMadePrison: Did this
** GoMadFromTheIsolation: There's a ''reason'' Abel stepped in to stop that.
* ToThePain: Has an alarming tendency to start describing torture techniques when Heries pisses her off. Generally has to be shouted down by everyone else in the memo when this happens.
!!Arsonist (arsonIst)
A redblooded, low-ranking member of Snaplock's horde and native Bard of Space. Is a mild pyrokinetic, but most people just assume he's really good at setting fires.
* DumbIsGood: Subverted. He seems innocent and harmless at first, but then he'll wonder out loud about raiding Consort villages or something equally cruel.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Solved with speech-to-text software.
* PlayingWithFire: To a very mild extent. He never even realized he had powers, instead assuming he was just talented and starting and keeping a fire going.
* PyroManiac: Why else would he have chosen that name?
* WildChild: As a child, was exiled from his hometown for arson. He and his lusus lived wild for sweeps before Snaplock recruited him.
!!Eminence Glasseye (eminenceGlasseye)
The greenblood ruler of a wealthy coastal city-state and native Page of Mind. Owned a sizeable collection of seadwellers before the game killed most of them. He's being really hard to trope so if you can think of any that actually work for him please add them in or at least bring it up in the chat so I know what to do.
* BlueBlood: Notably, considering he's a troll, ''not'' literally.
* DecadentCourt: Is quite experienced in navigating these.
!!Icemount (eminenceGlasseye)
A seadweller in Glasseye's collection. Forcefully replaced Arsonist as the Bard of Space as part of a Denizen deal and now has the dubious distinction of being the oldest player.
* DissonantSerenity: Casually discussed who to kill and replace in order to save more of his fellows. Wasn't any more emotional ''after'' the killing, either.
* CoveredWithScars
* FantasticRacism: A victim of it.
* FishPeople
* HappinessInSlavery: Can come across as this, but...
** StepfordSmiler: At least part of it's an act.
* RapeAsBackstory: Implied
* StoicWoobie: He's been a a slave for at least a hundred sweeps, has the scars to show it, yet
* CulturalCringe: The fact that she's a hybrid would have gotten her killed, back in the Alternian Empire. She's not a big fan of the hemospectrum, or most of the Alternian way of life, as a result.
* FreakinessShame: Cyma rarely ever looked "normal" for either species and is painfully aware of it. As much as she keept getting told that she looked fine just the way she was, she wanted nothing more than to be able to "fix" whatever was causing her appearance to keep shifting around like this.
** FreakyIsCool: Probably a part of why others find her attractive. It did not significantly help her self-esteem.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Unwillingly, and it causes her a lot of problems. Among other things, the game does *not* like that it can't slot her neatly into one species and will shuffle her genetics around from one session to the next in its efforts to do so. Her appearance - and sometimes her gender - is a lot more fluid than she'd like and she's rarely ever happy with what she sees in the mirror. She's also keenly aware that she wouldn't even exist if it weren't for ectobiology. While the appearance issues have been fixed, she's still a hybrid and this still causes problems such as Replay Flu lingering longer with her than it does for others - and her body working as a vector to spread illness from humans to trolls and vice versa.
* IAmNotPretty: She will insist this until she's blue (or purple) in the face. Tossing psybuffs at her will make her stop...at least until it wears off.
** She's getting better about
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes / IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: She's a sweet girl, really, but she had no sense of style or taste when she initially entered the game. Her idea of "stylish" involved unlimited access to a Bedazzler and far too much embroidery.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Or at least as close as anyone can get in the Game. She's sure she'd be much happier if she could just get her species issue to resolve itself in a manner that keeps her from bouncing all over the place. This is probably a reason why the game assigned her the [[VaguenessIsComing Mage Class]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Needlekind and [[PaperFanOfDoom fankind]] are her preferred weapons.
* OrphansOrdeal: Not that any other Replayer *isn't* an orphan.
* PrecociousCrush: She's more than willing to flirt back with Nagdra when he's around, not to mention getting ''very'' upset when people call him creepy.
* RaisedByWolves: Her lusus was a direwolf. She has nothing but fond memories of "direwolfmom".
* RiddleMeThis: Her native class is Mage. She solved the "cannot spit it out" issue by using annoying riddles.
* TimeMaster: Her native Aspect.
!!Bethany Roseclere (victorianaRegnant)
A young woman from a world where colour theory is far more important than in our world. A modestly successful child actress and model, currently employed as a Lady Companion to The White. Most notable for her employment and her being a "truehue" - that is, her eyes are actually the colour she's supposed to be most aligned with. As a Dark Red, she is supposed to embody Maturity.
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!!Quotes
[[folder:Quotes]]
!!RV Classic
->18:31 Krat ''wait ''
->18:31 Krat ''did something ''
->18:31 Krat ''like ''
->18:31 Krat ''actually, unqualified good happen? ''
->18:31 mislaidLullaby ''Yes ''
->18:31 Krat ''i'm scared ''
->18:31 Zuki ''Ahahahaa ''
->18:31 Krat ''I want it to be good but you've hurt me before, RV''
-->-Krat, #replayvalue
->''TENTHE!''
->''TACT!''
-->-Far too many people
!!RV Chuubo's
->''“I will spare you, on one condition. You will raise no hand against me, and the same for any child of your blood. Promise me this.”''
->''“You know I cannot promise that.”''
->''The Deathless Queen’s expression twisted up into either a smile or a snarl, I couldn’t tell which. “Then I will have to kill you.”''
->''I looked her in the eyes. “The prophecy will not help you. I would like to see you try.”''
-->''[[StoryWithinAStory The Infinite Castle]]'', [[EncyclopediaExposita dryadTornado]] (from the ''A User's Guide'' book)
!!Quotes
[[folder:Quotes]]
!!RV Classic
->18:31 Krat ''wait ''
->18:31 Krat ''did something ''
->18:31 Krat ''like ''
->18:31 Krat ''actually, unqualified good happen? ''
->18:31 mislaidLullaby ''Yes ''
->18:31 Krat ''i'm scared ''
->18:31 Zuki ''Ahahahaa ''
->18:31 Krat ''I want it to be good but you've hurt me before, RV''
-->-Krat, #replayvalue
->''TENTHE!''
->''TACT!''
-->-Far too many people
!!RV Chuubo's
->''“I will spare you, on one condition. You will raise no hand against me, and the same for any child of your blood. Promise me this.”''
->''“You know I cannot promise that.”''
->''The Deathless Queen’s expression twisted up into either a smile or a snarl, I couldn’t tell which. “Then I will have to kill you.”''
->''I looked her in the eyes. “The prophecy will not help you. I would like to see you try.”''
-->''[[StoryWithinAStory The Infinite Castle]]'', [[EncyclopediaExposita dryadTornado]] (from the ''A User's Guide'' book)
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!!Quotes
[[folder:Quotes]]
!!RV Classic
->18:31 Krat ''wait ''
->18:31 Krat ''did something ''
->18:31 Krat ''like ''
->18:31 Krat ''actually, unqualified good happen? ''
->18:31 mislaidLullaby ''Yes ''
->18:31 Krat ''i'm scared ''
->18:31 Zuki ''Ahahahaa ''
->18:31 Krat ''I want it to be good but you've hurt me before, RV''
-->-Krat, #replayvalue
->''TENTHE!''
->''TACT!''
-->-Far too many people
!!RV Chuubo's
->''“I will spare you, on one condition. You will raise no hand against me, and the same for any child of your blood. Promise me this.”''
->''“You know I cannot promise that.”''
->''The Deathless Queen’s expression twisted up into either a smile or a snarl, I couldn’t tell which. “Then I will have to kill you.”''
->''I looked her in the eyes. “The prophecy will not help you. I would like to see you try.”''
-->''[[StoryWithinAStory The Infinite Castle]]'', [[EncyclopediaExposita dryadTornado]] (from the ''A User's Guide'' book)
!!Adhara Bayer (blueEpsilon)
!!Nemain Feanan (riastradSidhe)
!!Iridie Arazir (entanglingPoise)
!!Melevi Arazir (arabesqueFatality)
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!!YMMV
[[folder:YMMV]]
!!The Game
* NightmareFuel: Being that this universe involves the Sgames, there's going to be plenty of this.
** Just about anyone can agree that both corruption sources are this.
*** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angels']] AssimilationPlot-like tendencies are horrifying, not to mention the BodyHorror that characters like Rick (majesticInstability) have suffered while under the influence of the Host.
*** That [[EldritchAbomination an Other]] can turn the kind-hearted, fairly-gentle Skye into a mass-murdering Speaker isn't exactly fun, either.
** Saccharine Doppelgangers are walking versions of this. There are people who still refuse to talk or think about their encounters with sugarplumNonplussed - and it still has a terrible legacy out-of-character.
** [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/887975 Brainwashing, Torture, and the World of Sburb]]: in which [[BrokenBird Myra]] [[DrivenToSuicide LeJean]] explains how, exactly, Sburb is set up as a [[MoreThanMindControl brainwashing system]].
!!RV Classic
* BrokenBase: Due to many reasons, the classic form of RV fell prey to toxicity, cliquishness and there was a major falling out over some pretty controversial decisions and events. The roleplay became a shell of itself for the brief time it was rebooted, becoming increasingly abandoned. While there were many fingers pointed, in the end everyone had a hand in it getting as bad as it got, ranging from untreated mental illness, dealing with terrible home situation, jealousy, using the roleplay as an outlet for trauma and other such not healthy things for roleplay. This troper just hopes that everyone was able to move on and better their lives.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Being that the roleplay heavily focuses on character interactions, these are inevitable and highly prized.
** The Founders, as the core of the community, have been a tightly-knit family since their initial voyage into the Ring. Through thick and thin, they've kept each other together. Simply watching three or more of them interact together on a good day can give anyone warm fuzzies, much less when they band together to support a member who's struggling.
!!''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's)
* {{Anvilicious}}: You can't go twenty pages in the book without bumping into a discussion of how the setting is an {{Allegory}} for child abuse. The author wrote it this way because there are few other resources or narratives about how to survive abuse while it is happening to you.
--> "Replayers are an itinerant, persecuted culture: they’re told that they implicitly approve of their own abuse, and at the same time they know that this abuse is institutionalized and supported by ancient law. The only thing that keeps them sane is to connect to other people, over the Internet - and though the Replayer internet is an eternal font of drama and frivolities, it is still what keeps them sane.
-->
--> That isn’t even a metaphor. That’s literally what happened [to me]."
---> — the afterword
* MemeticMutation: There's a list of suggested Replayer memes to use, such as a fifteen-bottle set of gourmet grubsauce, or the wrist-mounted alchemiter, or throwing ice cubes into the Forge, or putting [[{{Squick}} genetic material that is]] ''[[{{Squick}} not]]'' [[{{Squick}} paradox slime]] into the ectobiology machines...
!!YMMV
[[folder:YMMV]]
!!The Game
* NightmareFuel: Being that this universe involves the Sgames, there's going to be plenty of this.
** Just about anyone can agree that both corruption sources are this.
*** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angels']] AssimilationPlot-like tendencies are horrifying, not to mention the BodyHorror that characters like Rick (majesticInstability) have suffered while under the influence of the Host.
*** That [[EldritchAbomination an Other]] can turn the kind-hearted, fairly-gentle Skye into a mass-murdering Speaker isn't exactly fun, either.
** Saccharine Doppelgangers are walking versions of this. There are people who still refuse to talk or think about their encounters with sugarplumNonplussed - and it still has a terrible legacy out-of-character.
** [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/887975 Brainwashing, Torture, and the World of Sburb]]: in which [[BrokenBird Myra]] [[DrivenToSuicide LeJean]] explains how, exactly, Sburb is set up as a [[MoreThanMindControl brainwashing system]].
!!RV Classic
* BrokenBase: Due to many reasons, the classic form of RV fell prey to toxicity, cliquishness and there was a major falling out over some pretty controversial decisions and events. The roleplay became a shell of itself for the brief time it was rebooted, becoming increasingly abandoned. While there were many fingers pointed, in the end everyone had a hand in it getting as bad as it got, ranging from untreated mental illness, dealing with terrible home situation, jealousy, using the roleplay as an outlet for trauma and other such not healthy things for roleplay. This troper just hopes that everyone was able to move on and better their lives.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Being that the roleplay heavily focuses on character interactions, these are inevitable and highly prized.
** The Founders, as the core of the community, have been a tightly-knit family since their initial voyage into the Ring. Through thick and thin, they've kept each other together. Simply watching three or more of them interact together on a good day can give anyone warm fuzzies, much less when they band together to support a member who's struggling.
!!''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's)
* {{Anvilicious}}: You can't go twenty pages in the book without bumping into a discussion of how the setting is an {{Allegory}} for child abuse. The author wrote it this way because there are few other resources or narratives about how to survive abuse while it is happening to you.
--> "Replayers are an itinerant, persecuted culture: they’re told that they implicitly approve of their own abuse, and at the same time they know that this abuse is institutionalized and supported by ancient law. The only thing that keeps them sane is to connect to other people, over the Internet - and though the Replayer internet is an eternal font of drama and frivolities, it is still what keeps them sane.
-->
--> That isn’t even a metaphor. That’s literally what happened [to me]."
---> — the afterword
* MemeticMutation: There's a list of suggested Replayer memes to use, such as a fifteen-bottle set of gourmet grubsauce, or the wrist-mounted alchemiter, or throwing ice cubes into the Forge, or putting [[{{Squick}} genetic material that is]] ''[[{{Squick}} not]]'' [[{{Squick}} paradox slime]] into the ectobiology machines...
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!!YMMV
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!!The Game
!!Khavah Kirbir (guillotineGladiator)
*
* AFriendInNeed: She sacrifices a lot if it'll help anyone.
* AnAxeToGrind Her weapon of choice
* AncestralWeapon: Possesses the
* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Her sign is Canis Major, her horns look like dog ears, and she has Bane as her native
* BigEater: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; she works out a lot, and needs a lot of
** Just about anyone can agree that both corruption sources are this.
***
* BlackSpeech: Can fluently speak the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent
* BlueBlood: A [[OurTrollsAreDifferent literal]] one. She's not
*** That [[EldritchAbomination an Other]] can turn the kind-hearted, fairly-gentle Skye into a mass-murdering Speaker isn't exactly fun, either.
** Saccharine Doppelgangers are walking versions of this. There are
* BrutalHonesty
* TheChampion: As in line with
* ClosetGeek: You wouldn’t know from looking at her, but she plays a lot of video games
* CombatPragmatist: Her tutoring of Afiqah in unarmed combat revealed a fondness for KneeCapping
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is low and
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh yeah
**
* FragileSpeedster: Compared to other trolls of her caste, she's very thin and fragile. She doesn't have the padding to take a lot of hits, nor does she have the muscle to hit extremely hard. She is, however, very agile and fast.
** LightningBruiser: Although, that's mainly compared to trolls and the
!!RV Classic
* BrokenBase: Due
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large scar on her face, among others
** CoveredWithScars: A LOT of others
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one, when she found out that Laelah Kirbir existed, Laelah Kirbir also being the
* HeroicWillpower: Invoked; due to
* HotBlooded
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She's killed a lot, to save herself and her coplayers, and doesn't regret it. [[MyGreatestFailure Mostly.]]
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Her belief, backed up by experience, and the reason she strives to perfect herself
* IronWoobie
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartialPacifist: Attempts to be one, at least
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch
* NervesOfSteel
* NoSocialSkills
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Laelah's red
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Practically her defining feature
* SpaceMaster: A Space native
* TheStoic
* UnkemptBeauty: Does not put any time or attention into how attractive she looks at all. Despite this, she's regularly seen as very attractive.
* UnstoppableRage: As a [[OurTrollsAreDifferent highblood]], naturally. She keeps it under lock and key as much as she can.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When a coplayer attacked her for being a [[FantasticRacism highblood while he was a
!!Laelah Kirbir (tacitTenacity)
* BigGuy: She's a
* GentleGiant
* GeniusBruiser: A tall woman, with
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Being that the roleplay heavily focuses on character interactions, these are inevitable and highly prized.
** The Founders, as the core of the community, have been a tightly-knit family since their initial voyage into the Ring. Through thick and thin, they've kept each other together. Simply watching three or more of them interact together on a good day can give anyone warm fuzzies, much less when they band together to support a member who's struggling.
!!''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's)
* {{Anvilicious}}: You can't go twenty pages in the book without bumping into a discussion of how
* HeroesPreferSwords: Her weapon of choice
* NiceGirl: An honestly cheerful and friendly woman who just wants everyone to get along
* RedOniBlueOni: The
--> "Replayers are an itinerant, persecuted culture: they’re told that they implicitly approve of their own abuse,
* StatuesqueStunner: She's an adult troll, who stands at six foot six.
* TeamMom: For the Founders, at the
!!"Narath" (narqouisAthymia)
-->NA: I don't trust people.
-->NA: Period
* AccentuateTheNegative
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: She has no illusions on her skill in handling people,
* BrutalHonesty
* CastingAShadow: As a native Law player
** DarkIsNotEvil
* DarkAndTroubledPast: From what
-->
--> That isn’t even
---> —
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Her actual name is something she’s hiding. Her nickname is based off of the
* MemeticMutation: There's a list
* GoodIsNotNice
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn’t take a lot to
* HatesBeingTouched
* HatesSmallTalk
** SociallyAwkwardHero
* InsufferableGenius
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
!!Aesura Imilic (peerlessPitfighter)
* ActionGirl
* AmazonianBeauty
** CuteBruiser: Shorter than most examples, at 5'2"
* BoisterousBruiser: Quite cheerful, and quite the
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Her preferred method of fighting
* HotBlooded
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Her love for fighting might seem like it’s in line with being a troll, but she’s a very friendly individual who likes fighting but not killing.
* PluckyGirl
* SmarterThanYouLook: She looks like she’d be DumbMuscle, but she’s not. Not to say that
* SuperStrength: Not only is she a [[BlueBlood purple blooded]] [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll]], which are known for being pretty damn strong, she's also a weightlifter and has highly defined muscles, and she's ALSO a native [[MakingASplash Might]] player, an aspect that gives people super strength. It's safe to say she's pretty strong.
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!!Snaplock Sunblood / Lanian Oniare (snaplockSunblood)
A proud and casually violent yellowblood warlord and native Muse of Time.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* BadassInCharge: Before the game, at least.
* BawdySong: Is very fond of these.
* CultureClash: With both humans ''and'' trolls, due to time displacement.
* CultureJustifiesAnything: Tries to claim this, but only in regards to ''her'' culture.
* CulturalPosturing
* DisproportionateRetribution: Considers it merciful to only take one life in retaliation for the killing of a horde member.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has no qualms about torture and murder, but you do ''not'' zombify your coplayers.
* FantasticRacism: Against seadwellers.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She's from pre-Empire, pre-industrial times and is playing a computer game. She's still trying to get used to it.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her crude, violent exterior, she's surprisingly levelheaded. She frequently takes command when emergencies arise on the chat, and knows the right things to ask and say even if the details of the presession issue or game mechanic of the day elude her.
* TheHorde: Ruled one of these before she played the game. Wishes she still did.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Her homeland's main religion seems to be a trollish mix of Celtic, Norse, and other beliefs.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: More specifically, Medieval [[AnotherDimension Alternian]] Fantasy.
* TheLeader: Oddly enough, it turns out that leading a raiding horde requires something other than pure intimidation. She's ''good'' at figuring out what needs doing and how to get people to go along with it.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: If you reference something around her, expect her to ask what it means.
* TheStoryteller: One of her few redeeming values.
* TailorMadePrison: Did this to her own past self to stop her from trying to kill Icemount and Glasseye.
** GoMadFromTheIsolation: There's a ''reason'' Abel stepped in to stop that.
* ToThePain: Has an alarming tendency to start describing torture techniques when Heries pisses her off. Generally has to be shouted down by everyone else in the memo when this happens.
!!Arsonist (arsonIst)
A redblooded, low-ranking member of Snaplock's horde and native Bard of Space. Is a mild pyrokinetic, but most people just assume he's really good at setting fires.
* DumbIsGood: Subverted. He seems innocent and harmless at first, but then he'll wonder out loud about raiding Consort villages or something equally cruel.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Solved with speech-to-text software.
* PlayingWithFire: To a very mild extent. He never even realized he had powers, instead assuming he was just talented and starting and keeping a fire going.
* PyroManiac: Why else would he have chosen that name?
* WildChild: As a child, was exiled from his hometown for arson. He and his lusus lived wild for sweeps before Snaplock recruited him.
!!Eminence Glasseye (eminenceGlasseye)
The greenblood ruler of a wealthy coastal city-state and native Page of Mind. Owned a sizeable collection of seadwellers before the game killed most of them. He's being really hard to trope so if you can think of any that actually work for him please add them in or at least bring it up in the chat so I know what to do.
* BlueBlood: Notably, considering he's a troll, ''not'' literally.
* DecadentCourt: Is quite experienced in navigating these.
!!Icemount (eminenceGlasseye)
A seadweller in Glasseye's collection. Forcefully replaced Arsonist as the Bard of Space as part of a Denizen deal and now has the dubious distinction of being the oldest player.
* DissonantSerenity: Casually discussed who to kill and replace in order to save more of his fellows. Wasn't any more emotional ''after'' the killing, either.
* CoveredWithScars
* FantasticRacism: A victim of it.
* FishPeople
* HappinessInSlavery: Can come across as this, but...
** StepfordSmiler: At least part of it's an act.
* RapeAsBackstory: Implied
* StoicWoobie: He's been a a slave for at least a hundred sweeps, has the scars to show it, yet doesn't show any signs of caring about it.
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!!Snaplock Sunblood / Lanian Oniare (snaplockSunblood)
A proud and casually violent yellowblood warlord and native Muse of Time.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* BadassInCharge: Before the game, at least.
* BawdySong: Is very fond of these.
* CultureClash: With both humans ''and'' trolls, due to time displacement.
* CultureJustifiesAnything: Tries to claim this, but only in regards to ''her'' culture.
* CulturalPosturing
* DisproportionateRetribution: Considers it merciful to only take one life in retaliation for the killing of a horde member.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has no qualms about torture and murder, but you do ''not'' zombify your coplayers.
* FantasticRacism: Against seadwellers.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She's from pre-Empire, pre-industrial times and is playing a computer game. She's still trying to get used to it.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her crude, violent exterior, she's surprisingly levelheaded. She frequently takes command when emergencies arise on the chat, and knows the right things to ask and say even if the details of the presession issue or game mechanic of the day elude her.
* TheHorde: Ruled one of these before she played the game. Wishes she still did.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Her homeland's main religion seems to be a trollish mix of Celtic, Norse, and other beliefs.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: More specifically, Medieval [[AnotherDimension Alternian]] Fantasy.
* TheLeader: Oddly enough, it turns out that leading a raiding horde requires something other than pure intimidation. She's ''good'' at figuring out what needs doing and how to get people to go along with it.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: If you reference something around her, expect her to ask what it means.
* TheStoryteller: One of her few redeeming values.
* TailorMadePrison: Did this to her own past self to stop her from trying to kill Icemount and Glasseye.
** GoMadFromTheIsolation: There's a ''reason'' Abel stepped in to stop that.
* ToThePain: Has an alarming tendency to start describing torture techniques when Heries pisses her off. Generally has to be shouted down by everyone else in the memo when this happens.
!!Arsonist (arsonIst)
A redblooded, low-ranking member of Snaplock's horde and native Bard of Space. Is a mild pyrokinetic, but most people just assume he's really good at setting fires.
* DumbIsGood: Subverted. He seems innocent and harmless at first, but then he'll wonder out loud about raiding Consort villages or something equally cruel.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Solved with speech-to-text software.
* PlayingWithFire: To a very mild extent. He never even realized he had powers, instead assuming he was just talented and starting and keeping a fire going.
* PyroManiac: Why else would he have chosen that name?
* WildChild: As a child, was exiled from his hometown for arson. He and his lusus lived wild for sweeps before Snaplock recruited him.
!!Eminence Glasseye (eminenceGlasseye)
The greenblood ruler of a wealthy coastal city-state and native Page of Mind. Owned a sizeable collection of seadwellers before the game killed most of them. He's being really hard to trope so if you can think of any that actually work for him please add them in or at least bring it up in the chat so I know what to do.
* BlueBlood: Notably, considering he's a troll, ''not'' literally.
* DecadentCourt: Is quite experienced in navigating these.
!!Icemount (eminenceGlasseye)
A seadweller in Glasseye's collection. Forcefully replaced Arsonist as the Bard of Space as part of a Denizen deal and now has the dubious distinction of being the oldest player.
* DissonantSerenity: Casually discussed who to kill and replace in order to save more of his fellows. Wasn't any more emotional ''after'' the killing, either.
* CoveredWithScars
* FantasticRacism: A victim of it.
* FishPeople
* HappinessInSlavery: Can come across as this, but...
** StepfordSmiler: At least part of it's an act.
* RapeAsBackstory: Implied
* StoicWoobie: He's been a a slave for at least a hundred sweeps, has the scars to show it, yet doesn't show any signs of caring about it.
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!!Awesome Music:
Among music used in storytelling events, characters themselves have fantastic soundtracks and playlists. Spotlight your favorites here.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA181A6FA7B0BEC5D Grace of Void]]: Skye Ringling's official playlist.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22BF76D91651CB17 Grace of Void v2]]: An auxiliary playlist with other music that fits.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSlSqAh42ArOjRKH9fXjvk6I9jLyAriP Speaker]]: A playlist for screamingNothing.
Among music used in storytelling events, characters themselves have fantastic soundtracks and playlists. Spotlight your favorites here.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA181A6FA7B0BEC5D Grace of Void]]: Skye Ringling's official playlist.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22BF76D91651CB17 Grace of Void v2]]: An auxiliary playlist with other music that fits.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSlSqAh42ArOjRKH9fXjvk6I9jLyAriP Speaker]]: A playlist for screamingNothing.
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[[folder:Quotes]]
!!RV Classic
->18:31 Krat ''wait ''
->18:31 Krat ''did something ''
->18:31 Krat ''like ''
->18:31 Krat ''actually, unqualified good happen? ''
->18:31 mislaidLullaby ''Yes ''
->18:31 Krat ''i'm scared ''
->18:31 Zuki ''Ahahahaa ''
->18:31 Krat ''I want it to be good but you've hurt me before, RV''
-->-Krat, #replayvalue
->''TENTHE!''
->''TACT!''
-->-Far too many people
!!RV Chuubo's
->''“I will spare you, on one condition. You will raise no hand against me, and the same for any child of your blood. Promise me this.”''
->''“You know I cannot promise that.”''
->''The Deathless Queen’s expression twisted up into either a smile or a snarl, I couldn’t tell which. “Then I will have
* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA181A6FA7B0BEC5D Grace of Void]]: Skye Ringling's official playlist.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22BF76D91651CB17 Grace of Void v2]]: An auxiliary playlist with other music that fits.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSlSqAh42ArOjRKH9fXjvk6I9jLyAriP Speaker]]: A playlist for screamingNothing.
->''I looked her in the eyes. “The prophecy will not help you. I would like to see you try.”''
-->''[[StoryWithinAStory The Infinite Castle]]'', [[EncyclopediaExposita dryadTornado]] (from the ''A User's Guide'' book)
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[[folder:YMMV]]
!!The Game
* NightmareFuel: Being that this universe involves the Sgames, there's going to be plenty of this.
** Just about anyone can agree that both corruption sources are this.
*** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angels']] AssimilationPlot-like tendencies are horrifying, not to mention the BodyHorror that characters like Rick (majesticInstability) have suffered while under the influence of the Host.
*** That [[EldritchAbomination an Other]] can turn the kind-hearted, fairly-gentle Skye into a mass-murdering Speaker isn't exactly fun, either.
** Saccharine Doppelgangers are walking versions of this. There are people who still refuse to talk or think about their encounters with sugarplumNonplussed - and it still has a terrible legacy out-of-character.
** [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/887975 Brainwashing, Torture, and the World of Sburb]]: in which [[BrokenBird Myra]] [[DrivenToSuicide LeJean]] explains how, exactly, Sburb is set up as a [[MoreThanMindControl brainwashing system]].
!!RV Classic
* BrokenBase: Due to many reasons, the classic form of RV fell prey to toxicity, cliquishness and there was a major falling out over some pretty controversial decisions and events. The roleplay became a shell of itself for the brief time it was rebooted, becoming increasingly abandoned. While there were many fingers pointed, in the end everyone had a hand in it getting as bad as it got, ranging from untreated mental illness, dealing with terrible home situation, jealousy, using the roleplay as an outlet for trauma and other such not healthy things for roleplay. This troper just hopes that everyone was able to move on and better their lives.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Being that the roleplay heavily focuses on character interactions, these are inevitable and highly prized.
** The Founders, as the core of the community, have been a tightly-knit family since their initial voyage into the Ring. Through thick and thin, they've kept each other together. Simply watching three or more of them interact together on a good day can give anyone warm fuzzies, much less when they band together to support a member who's struggling.
!!''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's)
* {{Anvilicious}}: You can't go twenty pages in the book without bumping into a discussion of how the setting is an {{Allegory}} for child abuse. The author wrote it this way because there are few other resources or narratives about how to survive abuse while it is happening to you.
--> "Replayers are an itinerant, persecuted culture: they’re told that they implicitly approve of their own abuse, and at the same time they know that this abuse is institutionalized and supported by ancient law. The only thing that keeps them sane is to connect to other people, over the Internet - and though the Replayer internet is an eternal font of drama and frivolities, it is still what keeps them sane.
-->
--> That isn’t even a metaphor. That’s literally what happened [to me]."
---> — the afterword
* MemeticMutation: There's a list of suggested Replayer memes to use, such as a fifteen-bottle set of gourmet grubsauce, or the wrist-mounted alchemiter, or throwing ice cubes into the Forge, or putting [[{{Squick}} genetic material that is]] ''[[{{Squick}} not]]'' [[{{Squick}} paradox slime]] into the ectobiology machines...
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!!Awesome Music:
Among music used in storytelling events, characters themselves have fantastic soundtracks and playlists. Spotlight your favorites here.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA181A6FA7B0BEC5D Grace of Void]]: Skye Ringling's official playlist.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22BF76D91651CB17 Grace of Void v2]]: An auxiliary playlist with other music that fits.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSlSqAh42ArOjRKH9fXjvk6I9jLyAriP Speaker]]: A playlist for screamingNothing.
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[[folder:YMMV]]
!!The Game
* NightmareFuel: Being that this universe involves the Sgames, there's going to be plenty of this.
** Just about anyone can agree that both corruption sources are this.
*** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angels']] AssimilationPlot-like tendencies are horrifying, not to mention the BodyHorror that characters like Rick (majesticInstability) have suffered while under the influence of the Host.
*** That [[EldritchAbomination an Other]] can turn the kind-hearted, fairly-gentle Skye into a mass-murdering Speaker isn't exactly fun, either.
** Saccharine Doppelgangers are walking versions of this. There are people who still refuse to talk or think about their encounters with sugarplumNonplussed - and it still has a terrible legacy out-of-character.
** [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/887975 Brainwashing, Torture, and the World of Sburb]]: in which [[BrokenBird Myra]] [[DrivenToSuicide LeJean]] explains how, exactly, Sburb is set up as a [[MoreThanMindControl brainwashing system]].
!!RV Classic
* BrokenBase: Due to many reasons, the classic form of RV fell prey to toxicity, cliquishness and there was a major falling out over some pretty controversial decisions and events. The roleplay became a shell of itself for the brief time it was rebooted, becoming increasingly abandoned. While there were many fingers pointed, in the end everyone had a hand in it getting as bad as it got, ranging from untreated mental illness, dealing with terrible home situation, jealousy, using the roleplay as an outlet for trauma and other such not healthy things for roleplay. This troper just hopes that everyone was able to move on and better their lives.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Being that the roleplay heavily focuses on character interactions, these are inevitable and highly prized.
** The Founders, as the core of the community, have been a tightly-knit family since their initial voyage into the Ring. Through thick and thin, they've kept each other together. Simply watching three or more of them interact together on a good day can give anyone warm fuzzies, much less when they band together to support a member who's struggling.
!!''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's)
* {{Anvilicious}}: You can't go twenty pages in the book without bumping into a discussion of how the setting is an {{Allegory}} for child abuse. The author wrote it this way because there are few other resources or narratives about how to survive abuse while it is happening to you.
--> "Replayers are an itinerant, persecuted culture: they’re told that they implicitly approve of their own abuse, and at the same time they know that this abuse is institutionalized and supported by ancient law. The only thing that keeps them sane is to connect to other people, over the Internet - and though the Replayer internet is an eternal font of drama and frivolities, it is still what keeps them sane.
-->
--> That isn’t even a metaphor. That’s literally what happened [to me]."
---> — the afterword
* MemeticMutation: There's a list of suggested Replayer memes to use, such as a fifteen-bottle set of gourmet grubsauce, or the wrist-mounted alchemiter, or throwing ice cubes into the Forge, or putting [[{{Squick}} genetic material that is]] ''[[{{Squick}} not]]'' [[{{Squick}} paradox slime]] into the ectobiology machines...
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!!Awesome Music:
Among music used in storytelling events, characters themselves have fantastic soundtracks and playlists. Spotlight your favorites here.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA181A6FA7B0BEC5D Grace of Void]]: Skye Ringling's official playlist.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22BF76D91651CB17 Grace of Void v2]]: An auxiliary playlist with other music that fits.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSlSqAh42ArOjRKH9fXjvk6I9jLyAriP Speaker]]: A playlist for screamingNothing.
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The Replay Value AU RP was a slice-of-life roleplay set in an existential horror setting. It was based around the FanFic/{{Sburb Glitch FAQ}} written by [=GodsGiftToGrinds=] (also known as grindinglyGodliest [=ICly=]). In this world, Sburb's Ultimate Reward is broken - it just kicks people into another session of Sburb, over and over and over again until they die. The players of this buggy, horrifying version of Sburb, known as Replayers, keep themselves going by making connections to each other through servers in the Ring. Some of these servers have IRC channels, and that's where most of Replay Value AU took place...
Nothing here is spoiler-tagged because there's no archive to go through; this is just a description of a setting. (In fact, this Wiki/TVTropes page ''was'' the documentation of the setting for most of RV AU's existence.)
Replay Value [[http://fanlore.org/wiki/Replay_Value_AU has had many iterations]]. An attempt at a [[http://sburbunofficial.proboards.com/ forum]] rapidly diverged from an IRC channel established to coordinate events on said forum. The original Replay Value AU, held in a small set of IRC channels, eventually failed. There was an attempt at a reboot. Many of the people from the original Replay Value eventually set up shop in a [[http://orngjce223.net/gaming/chat/ Discord chat]], and there is a low-key character-focused roleplay there. There is an uncurated [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Replay%20Value%20AU/works AO3 tag]]. A [[BigNameFan particularly prolific]] Replay Value AU writer is writing a conversion of classic (pre-reboot) Replay Value AU to a TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine campaign and setting fan-supplement, called [[http://eternity-braid.tumblr.com/ A User's Guide to the Apocalypse]]. And there is now a [[http://sburbunofficial.boards.net/ new iteration of the forum]]. An attempt to straighten out the resulting ContinuitySnarl is found [[http://eternity-braid.tumblr.com/post/123587917531/would-the-rv-characters-have-to-be-alive-as-of here]].
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!!Characters
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!!Zeimah Dalyce / Cyma Dalyce (patchworkDoll)
An [[HalfHumanHybrid ectobiological hybrid]] that came out of a mixed native session, she's a Native [[UnreliableNarrator Mage]] of [[TimeMaster Time]] who has struggled to fix her hybrid status because of [=SBURB=]'s reaction to it. She has, slowly, begun building a group of her own from people she's met, and is learning how to become an adult.
* AllergicToEvil: Due to an incident during her first session, she now gets "ear-bleedy" whenever she's exposed to more than a few words of [[BlackSpeech broodfester]] or [[LightIsNotGood angeltongue]], whether written or spoken.
* BlessedWithSuck: She's a human-troll hybrid...who rarely looks the way she wants to, experiences uncontrollable appearance shifts that can affect what's safe for her to eat and how she percieves the world, and occasionally even loses parts of her body that she's quite firmly attached to. And due to her text colour, she doesn't even get cool psychic powers out of it.
* CulturalCringe: The fact that she's a hybrid would have gotten her killed, back in the Alternian Empire. She's not a big fan of the hemospectrum, or most of the Alternian way of life, as a result.
* FreakinessShame: Cyma rarely ever looked "normal" for either species and is painfully aware of it. As much as she keept getting told that she looked fine just the way she was, she wanted nothing more than to be able to "fix" whatever was causing her appearance to keep shifting around like this.
** FreakyIsCool: Probably a part of why others find her attractive. It did not significantly help her self-esteem.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Unwillingly, and it causes her a lot of problems. Among other things, the game does *not* like that it can't slot her neatly into one species and will shuffle her genetics around from one session to the next in its efforts to do so. Her appearance - and sometimes her gender - is a lot more fluid than she'd like and she's rarely ever happy with what she sees in the mirror. She's also keenly aware that she wouldn't even exist if it weren't for ectobiology. While the appearance issues have been fixed, she's still a hybrid and this still causes problems such as Replay Flu lingering longer with her than it does for others - and her body working as a vector to spread illness from humans to trolls and vice versa.
* IAmNotPretty: She will insist this until she's blue (or purple) in the face. Tossing psybuffs at her will make her stop...at least until it wears off.
** She's getting better about this, now that her appearance has been stabilized in a form she's happy with.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes / IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: She's a sweet girl, really, but she had no sense of style or taste when she initially entered the game. Her idea of "stylish" involved unlimited access to a Bedazzler and far too much embroidery.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Or at least as close as anyone can get in the Game. She's sure she'd be much happier if she could just get her species issue to resolve itself in a manner that keeps her from bouncing all over the place. This is probably a reason why the game assigned her the [[VaguenessIsComing Mage Class]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Needlekind and [[PaperFanOfDoom fankind]] are her preferred weapons.
* OrphansOrdeal: Not that any other Replayer *isn't* an orphan.
* PrecociousCrush: She's more than willing to flirt back with Nagdra when he's around, not to mention getting ''very'' upset when people call him creepy.
* RaisedByWolves: Her lusus was a direwolf. She has nothing but fond memories of "direwolfmom".
* RiddleMeThis: Her native class is Mage. She solved the "cannot spit it out" issue by using annoying riddles.
* TimeMaster: Her native Aspect.
!!Bethany Roseclere (victorianaRegnant)
A young woman from a world where colour theory is far more important than in our world. A modestly successful child actress and model, currently employed as a Lady Companion to The White. Most notable for her employment and her being a "truehue" - that is, her eyes are actually the colour she's supposed to be most aligned with. As a Dark Red, she is supposed to embody Maturity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: KarrinBlue‘s Characters]]
!!Adhara Bayer (blueEpsilon)
!!Nemain Feanan (riastradSidhe)
!!Iridie Arazir (entanglingPoise)
!!Melevi Arazir (arabesqueFatality)
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Keleviel's Characters]]
!!Khavah Kirbir (guillotineGladiator)
* ActionGirl
* AFriendInNeed: She sacrifices a lot if it'll help anyone.
* AnAxeToGrind Her weapon of choice
* AncestralWeapon: Possesses the [[HeroesPreferSwords Laelapsian]] [[CoolSword Hellrazer]], although it’s [[BFS too big for her right now]].
* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Her sign is Canis Major, her horns look like dog ears, and she has Bane as her native
* BigEater: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; she works out a lot, and needs a lot of energy
* BlackSpeech: Can fluently speak the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angeltongue]].
* BlueBlood: A [[OurTrollsAreDifferent literal]] one. She's not a huge fan of the cultural baggage that comes with it, or how people think of her because of it, and tries to distance herself.
* BrutalHonesty
* TheChampion: As in line with her native class
* ClosetGeek: You wouldn’t know from looking at her, but she plays a lot of video games
* CombatPragmatist: Her tutoring of Afiqah in unarmed combat revealed a fondness for KneeCapping
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is low and even, and she’s a tried-and-true badass
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh yeah
** SnarkKnight
* FragileSpeedster: Compared to other trolls of her caste, she's very thin and fragile. She doesn't have the padding to take a lot of hits, nor does she have the muscle to hit extremely hard. She is, however, very agile and fast.
** LightningBruiser: Although, that's mainly compared to trolls and the skewed [[SuperStrength physical]] [[MadeOfIron expectations]] trolls of Khavah's caste are compared to. Compared to regular humans, she's extremely strong, extremely durable, and extremely fast.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large scar on her face, among others
** CoveredWithScars: A LOT of others
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one, when she found out that Laelah Kirbir existed, Laelah Kirbir also being the name of her FamousAncestor, [[ShroudedInMyth Justicar]] [[TheDreaded Barghest]]
* HeroicWillpower: Invoked; due to her [[UnstoppableRage highblood rage]] and [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angelic]] problems, she’s specifically worked on willpower and self-control
* HotBlooded
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She's killed a lot, to save herself and her coplayers, and doesn't regret it. [[MyGreatestFailure Mostly.]]
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Her belief, backed up by experience, and the reason she strives to perfect herself
* IronWoobie
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartialPacifist: Attempts to be one, at least
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch
* NervesOfSteel
* NoSocialSkills
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Laelah's red
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Practically her defining feature
* SpaceMaster: A Space native
* TheStoic
* UnkemptBeauty: Does not put any time or attention into how attractive she looks at all. Despite this, she's regularly seen as very attractive.
* UnstoppableRage: As a [[OurTrollsAreDifferent highblood]], naturally. She keeps it under lock and key as much as she can.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When a coplayer attacked her for being a [[FantasticRacism highblood while he was a lowblood and usually stepped on by highbloods]], Khavah spared his life and healed his wounds when his attacks caused him to get hurt, despite knowing that she could kill him and no one would bat an eye
!!Laelah Kirbir (tacitTenacity)
* BigGuy: She's a large woman, tall and muscular. She's the one who did the heavy lifting for server construction
* GentleGiant
* GeniusBruiser: A tall woman, with noticeable muscles...who also coded, at least in part, the server that the setting mostly takes place on, as well as heading its repair
* HeroesPreferSwords: Her weapon of choice
* NiceGirl: An honestly cheerful and friendly woman who just wants everyone to get along
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Khavah's blue. While she isn't very boisterous or wild, she's a lot more extroverted, people-oriented, and expressive than Khavah is.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's an adult troll, who stands at six foot six.
* TeamMom: For the Founders, at the very least. She frets over all of them and offers to solve disputes as needed
!!"Narath" (narqouisAthymia)
-->NA: I don't trust people.
-->NA: Period
* AccentuateTheNegative
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: She has no illusions on her skill in handling people, or how well people like her
* BrutalHonesty
* CastingAShadow: As a native Law player
** DarkIsNotEvil
* DarkAndTroubledPast: From what she hints at, she’s got a doozy of one
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Her actual name is something she’s hiding. Her nickname is based off of the first three letters of each word in her handle
* GoodIsNotNice
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn’t take a lot to get her hostile
* HatesBeingTouched
* HatesSmallTalk
** SociallyAwkwardHero
* InsufferableGenius
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
!!Aesura Imilic (peerlessPitfighter)
* ActionGirl
* AmazonianBeauty
** CuteBruiser: Shorter than most examples, at 5'2"
* BoisterousBruiser: Quite cheerful, and quite the bruiser
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Her preferred method of fighting
* HotBlooded
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Her love for fighting might seem like it’s in line with being a troll, but she’s a very friendly individual who likes fighting but not killing.
* PluckyGirl
* SmarterThanYouLook: She looks like she’d be DumbMuscle, but she’s not. Not to say that she’s a GeniusBruiser, just not dumb
* SuperStrength: Not only is she a [[BlueBlood purple blooded]] [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll]], which are known for being pretty damn strong, she's also a weightlifter and has highly defined muscles, and she's ALSO a native [[MakingASplash Might]] player, an aspect that gives people super strength. It's safe to say she's pretty strong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Whilim's Characters]]
!!Snaplock Sunblood / Lanian Oniare (snaplockSunblood)
A proud and casually violent yellowblood warlord and native Muse of Time.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* BadassInCharge: Before the game, at least.
* BawdySong: Is very fond of these.
* CultureClash: With both humans ''and'' trolls, due to time displacement.
* CultureJustifiesAnything: Tries to claim this, but only in regards to ''her'' culture.
* CulturalPosturing
* DisproportionateRetribution: Considers it merciful to only take one life in retaliation for the killing of a horde member.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has no qualms about torture and murder, but you do ''not'' zombify your coplayers.
* FantasticRacism: Against seadwellers.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She's from pre-Empire, pre-industrial times and is playing a computer game. She's still trying to get used to it.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her crude, violent exterior, she's surprisingly levelheaded. She frequently takes command when emergencies arise on the chat, and knows the right things to ask and say even if the details of the presession issue or game mechanic of the day elude her.
* TheHorde: Ruled one of these before she played the game. Wishes she still did.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Her homeland's main religion seems to be a trollish mix of Celtic, Norse, and other beliefs.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: More specifically, Medieval [[AnotherDimension Alternian]] Fantasy.
* TheLeader: Oddly enough, it turns out that leading a raiding horde requires something other than pure intimidation. She's ''good'' at figuring out what needs doing and how to get people to go along with it.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: If you reference something around her, expect her to ask what it means.
* TheStoryteller: One of her few redeeming values.
* TailorMadePrison: Did this to her own past self to stop her from trying to kill Icemount and Glasseye.
** GoMadFromTheIsolation: There's a ''reason'' Abel stepped in to stop that.
* ToThePain: Has an alarming tendency to start describing torture techniques when Heries pisses her off. Generally has to be shouted down by everyone else in the memo when this happens.
!!Arsonist (arsonIst)
A redblooded, low-ranking member of Snaplock's horde and native Bard of Space. Is a mild pyrokinetic, but most people just assume he's really good at setting fires.
* DumbIsGood: Subverted. He seems innocent and harmless at first, but then he'll wonder out loud about raiding Consort villages or something equally cruel.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Solved with speech-to-text software.
* PlayingWithFire: To a very mild extent. He never even realized he had powers, instead assuming he was just talented and starting and keeping a fire going.
* PyroManiac: Why else would he have chosen that name?
* WildChild: As a child, was exiled from his hometown for arson. He and his lusus lived wild for sweeps before Snaplock recruited him.
!!Eminence Glasseye (eminenceGlasseye)
The greenblood ruler of a wealthy coastal city-state and native Page of Mind. Owned a sizeable collection of seadwellers before the game killed most of them. He's being really hard to trope so if you can think of any that actually work for him please add them in or at least bring it up in the chat so I know what to do.
* BlueBlood: Notably, considering he's a troll, ''not'' literally.
* DecadentCourt: Is quite experienced in navigating these.
!!Icemount (eminenceGlasseye)
A seadweller in Glasseye's collection. Forcefully replaced Arsonist as the Bard of Space as part of a Denizen deal and now has the dubious distinction of being the oldest player.
* DissonantSerenity: Casually discussed who to kill and replace in order to save more of his fellows. Wasn't any more emotional ''after'' the killing, either.
* CoveredWithScars
* FantasticRacism: A victim of it.
* FishPeople
* HappinessInSlavery: Can come across as this, but...
** StepfordSmiler: At least part of it's an act.
* RapeAsBackstory: Implied
* StoicWoobie: He's been a a slave for at least a hundred sweeps, has the scars to show it, yet doesn't show any signs of caring about it.
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!!Quotes
[[folder:Quotes]]
!!RV Classic
->18:31 Krat ''wait ''
->18:31 Krat ''did something ''
->18:31 Krat ''like ''
->18:31 Krat ''actually, unqualified good happen? ''
->18:31 mislaidLullaby ''Yes ''
->18:31 Krat ''i'm scared ''
->18:31 Zuki ''Ahahahaa ''
->18:31 Krat ''I want it to be good but you've hurt me before, RV''
-->-Krat, #replayvalue
->''TENTHE!''
->''TACT!''
-->-Far too many people
!!RV Chuubo's
->''“I will spare you, on one condition. You will raise no hand against me, and the same for any child of your blood. Promise me this.”''
->''“You know I cannot promise that.”''
->''The Deathless Queen’s expression twisted up into either a smile or a snarl, I couldn’t tell which. “Then I will have to kill you.”''
->''I looked her in the eyes. “The prophecy will not help you. I would like to see you try.”''
-->''[[StoryWithinAStory The Infinite Castle]]'', [[EncyclopediaExposita dryadTornado]] (from the ''A User's Guide'' book)
[[/folder]]
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!!YMMV
[[folder:YMMV]]
!!The Game
* NightmareFuel: Being that this universe involves the Sgames, there's going to be plenty of this.
** Just about anyone can agree that both corruption sources are this.
*** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angels']] AssimilationPlot-like tendencies are horrifying, not to mention the BodyHorror that characters like Rick (majesticInstability) have suffered while under the influence of the Host.
*** That [[EldritchAbomination an Other]] can turn the kind-hearted, fairly-gentle Skye into a mass-murdering Speaker isn't exactly fun, either.
** Saccharine Doppelgangers are walking versions of this. There are people who still refuse to talk or think about their encounters with sugarplumNonplussed - and it still has a terrible legacy out-of-character.
** [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/887975 Brainwashing, Torture, and the World of Sburb]]: in which [[BrokenBird Myra]] [[DrivenToSuicide LeJean]] explains how, exactly, Sburb is set up as a [[MoreThanMindControl brainwashing system]].
!!RV Classic
* BrokenBase: Due to many reasons, the classic form of RV fell prey to toxicity, cliquishness and there was a major falling out over some pretty controversial decisions and events. The roleplay became a shell of itself for the brief time it was rebooted, becoming increasingly abandoned. While there were many fingers pointed, in the end everyone had a hand in it getting as bad as it got, ranging from untreated mental illness, dealing with terrible home situation, jealousy, using the roleplay as an outlet for trauma and other such not healthy things for roleplay. This troper just hopes that everyone was able to move on and better their lives.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Being that the roleplay heavily focuses on character interactions, these are inevitable and highly prized.
** The Founders, as the core of the community, have been a tightly-knit family since their initial voyage into the Ring. Through thick and thin, they've kept each other together. Simply watching three or more of them interact together on a good day can give anyone warm fuzzies, much less when they band together to support a member who's struggling.
!!''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's)
* {{Anvilicious}}: You can't go twenty pages in the book without bumping into a discussion of how the setting is an {{Allegory}} for child abuse. The author wrote it this way because there are few other resources or narratives about how to survive abuse while it is happening to you.
--> "Replayers are an itinerant, persecuted culture: they’re told that they implicitly approve of their own abuse, and at the same time they know that this abuse is institutionalized and supported by ancient law. The only thing that keeps them sane is to connect to other people, over the Internet - and though the Replayer internet is an eternal font of drama and frivolities, it is still what keeps them sane.
-->
--> That isn’t even a metaphor. That’s literally what happened [to me]."
---> — the afterword
* MemeticMutation: There's a list of suggested Replayer memes to use, such as a fifteen-bottle set of gourmet grubsauce, or the wrist-mounted alchemiter, or throwing ice cubes into the Forge, or putting [[{{Squick}} genetic material that is]] ''[[{{Squick}} not]]'' [[{{Squick}} paradox slime]] into the ectobiology machines...
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!!Awesome Music:
Among music used in storytelling events, characters themselves have fantastic soundtracks and playlists. Spotlight your favorites here.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA181A6FA7B0BEC5D Grace of Void]]: Skye Ringling's official playlist.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22BF76D91651CB17 Grace of Void v2]]: An auxiliary playlist with other music that fits.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSlSqAh42ArOjRKH9fXjvk6I9jLyAriP Speaker]]: A playlist for screamingNothing.
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!!Examples (split up by medium):
[[folder: The Game]]
* AdventureFriendlyWorld: Sburb, by design and definition, is designed to facilitate a ComingOfAgeStory.
* AlternateTimelines: Splinter timelines. Of course, Splinter timelines are also *doomed* timelines by default. No one except the Time player is likely to emerge from them in one piece, and not even the Time player will survive for very long.
* ArtificialLimbs: Fairly common. Most are [[OrganicTechnology troll biotech]].
* BlackSpeech:
** Broodfester is a straight example.
** Can also count for Angelic singing, though that's more of a, well, [[VoiceOfTheLegion group performance]].
** People who do not share the same flavor of corruption, or people who are not corrupted, [[StarfishLanguage are unable to decipher either type of corrupted speech]]. The IRC in RV Classic was coded to be able to do so, due to history with corruption.
* BreakTheCutie: Any new player is going to be broken, *hard*, by the time they hit their second session - if not sooner.
* ButThouMust: Many of the game's cruelest moments are forced on the player with no alternative or active punishment for resisting. The Denizen stands out as the prime example.
* ChaosArchitecture: The Magicant's layout does not make physical sense, and the doors randomly reshuffle what rooms they point to.
* ComfortFood: Replayers do not, technically, need to eat (the 'food' Sprites generate when healing their players, as well as the light produced by Crystalanths, is sufficient to both heal and take care of hunger) but they do so anyways. Real food that tastes good is highly prized by them, as a result.
* ContinuityDrift: From the original forums, which were considered entirely non-canon for the reboot.
* CooldownHug: Used often and to great effect; the cure of choice for ''many'' ailments.
* TheCorruption: Angels and Others and Saccharine Doppelgangers, oh my!
* CrapsackWorld: What SBURB actually is, although it manages to pass as a CrapsaccharineWorld on good days.
--> "Kids and fun."
* CrazyPrepared: Always have a pillow/towel with you. And at least five computers. Otherwise you're the worst kind of Sboob.
* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: No matter how nice the world you end up in, during the pre-install period...it's going to die to meteors, and soon. Most Replayers try not to think about it, but have developed a very loose moral code when it comes to acquiring the things they feel are needed to survive their next session.
* CultureClash: Trolls and humans (never mind all the ''other'' species that show up) have as many rough patches as they do spots where the two get along quite well.
* DealWithTheDevil:
** Bargaining with the Beast is a downplayed example - while it is technically a deal that usually requires you to trade something important in response, it is part of the Game itself and often helps make one's session winnable.
** Also, Horrorterror deals, which play this trope straight.
* DeadPersonConversation: Dreambubbles.
* DeathIsCheap: Between godtier, dreamselves, and everything else, you're not likely to stay down for long when you die.
** Though KilledOffForReal is also a frequent occurrence and one they do have to deal with, and in theory AnyoneCanDie. Players will generally know within a day or two whether a death was permanent or not, and the only method of getting back someone who's truly dead is inherently temporary.
* DeathIsDramatic: In the case of God Tiers and their conditional immortality.
* DecapitationRequired: Decapitation results in an instant permadeath. Nine times out of ten, anyways.
* DeusAngstMachina: The entirety of Sburb.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: For Horrorterror deals, in some cases. (At least one instance of dealing with P'Shorshasa in RV Classic has ''actually'' involved having tea with her.)
* DividedWeFall: Working with other Replayers and being very clear about what's going on is a ''big deal''. The game will ''kill you'' if you try to go it alone.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: As in Homestuck, Prospit dreamers can see the future in the clouds of Skaia.
* DueToTheDead: Death may be cheap, but sometimes it's permanent. When that happens, Replayers find ways of grieving. Due to the nature of their world, however, there is rarely anything officially organized nor is there any actually formalized ritual to go by.
* EldritchAbomination:
** The Others, also known as the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Horrorterrors]].
** And the Angels.
** There are some arguments that Sburb itself might qualify.
* EldritchLocation: The Furthest Ring's space and time are twisted and warped.
* EverythingIsOnline: Nearly all game constructs can be hacked using a sprite pendant, session CD, or other gamebreaking tricks. Doing so is rarely a good idea, however, unless you're trying to fix something that was already broken - as in, making your session unwinnable - to begin with.
* ExactWords: When you make a [[DealWithTheDevil Horrorterror deal]], make sure to pay very careful attention to the wording...
* ExoticWeaponSupremacy: The weirder and more oddly specific a 'kind is, the more damage it seems to do. Not that this stops jokerkind from being considered OP in some circles.
* FireForgedFriends: When you're faced with death daily, there's no shortage of situations in which to face death together.
* GenreSavvy: Necessary prerequisite for long-term survival.
* GoodBadBugs: InUniverse, finding bugs in Sburb that can be exploited for players' benefit is [[ExploitedTrope a popular hobby]].
* HarmfulToMinors: First-time players are most likely to be teens and pre-teens. The Game will force them to kill underlings...and [=PKers=]...and maybe their friends, too, if they're unlucky enough to roll a Cataclysm class. When they allow themselves to think about it, the older vets are horrified by the fact that this thing gets aimed at ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids children]]''.
* HeroicBSOD: Every Replayer's been through at least one of these.
--> "Sburb Mental Disorder: Aggrievance. Also known as "I have enough of this stupid game just leave me alone". Maybe with a touch of "Why don't you just go and win this pointless session while I just stand there and weep forever". [...] "It usually stems from [[BreakTheCutie emotional trauma]] or from a minor disorder that has been left unchecked for too long." - FanFic/{{Sburb Glitch FAQ}} [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/340777/chapters/585147 Chapter 14]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Heroic deaths are permanent, according to Skaia.
* HeroicSafeMode: Many Replayers spend increasing amounts of time stuck in survival mode, to the point where it [[BecomingTheMask becomes normal]]. It's perceived as "better" than [=BSODing=] or slipping into a Berserk Trigger, but it has its own problems.
* HeroKiller:
** Player killers, most of whom are AxCrazy.
** Several classes - most notably the cataclysm classes - have an event coded into their myth arc which has a ''very'' high chance of causing them to kill one or even several coplayers, though these are generally held to be "not their fault".
* HiveMind: The Angels. [[AssimilationPlot They can bring Players into it, too.]]
* HumanoidAliens:
** Hobs are fur-covered dinosaurs, "like a squirrel crossed with a [[TheReptilians troodon]]". Their [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is that they live in clans and, when displaced from them (such as when forced to play Sburb), [[FamilyOfChoice will build themselves another clan]].
** Birdbros are {{Funny Animal}}s that are mostly avian in shape. They have wings instead of arms, with a claw on each wing-end like a bat's. They have short, "chirpy" names and are very likely to be ConspiracyTheorists.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul
** Heroic version: "Psybuffs" can be used to alleviate some game-trauma. This ''doesn't'' substitute for a real psychological therapy.
** Those thoroughly corrupted by the Angels will also often seem quite "happy", and attempt to spread this "happiness".
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Replayers tend to use weird weaponry with a preference for what works.
* ItGetsEasier: Yes, your second Denizen is going to be easier than your first. Yes, you will have to kill Player Killers before they kill you. That's just how it works. There is no veteran who has not killed sentients in order to survive. And that's before you start getting into the whole "are imps and other underlings intelligent" argument.
* KnightInSourArmor: The vast majority of veterans. The morally sound veterans, that is.
* LightIsNotGood: The Angels. [[DarkIsEvil But the Others are almost as dangerous.]]
* LongDistanceRelationship: Inevitable, over the longer term.
* MadeOfExplodium: Computers explode. All the time. This is {{Discussed}} in the Chuubo's sourcebook; a guest writer says that this is why you shouldn't ever implant computers.
* MagicMusic: If you don't already know an instrument or have some basic skill at singing, you're going to have to pick it up and ''fast'' if you want to use fraymotifs and player commands.
* MeaningfulName: Pesterchum/Trollian handles usually are [[MeaningfulRename pretty meaningful]]. Some trolls have names with meaning as well.
** A troll's eight-eight is ''always'' intended to be meaningful.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: The premise. Unfortunately for those who try to WinToExit, the Door is broken.
* MultiMookMelee: The mad dash to the first Gate is this.
* NonLinearCharacter:
** Unlike in Homestuck, this is mostly averted, thanks to timetrav encryption (which enforces linearity of communication).
** Time players have the ability to rewind and skip around in their timelines, creating both [[StableTimeLoop stable]] and [[CuttingOffTheBranches unstable]] time loops. Their time shenanigans usually stay quarantined to the sessions they're in, though.
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** Everyone who isn't still in the process of aging out of the awkward "puberty" stage does not, physically, get much older than "mid-to-late twenties", between Life players, dreamself revivals, and god-tiering. This is at least partially because physically older players have a higher tendency to get killed "dramatically" by the Game.
** Some aliens live a lot longer (and age much slower) than humans do.
** Averted if you have been Doom for long enough; god-tier Doom players age at the normal rate, unlike every other god-tier.
* OrganicTechnology: As in Homestuck itself, this is the aesthetic of most Alternian technology.
* OrphansOrdeal: Every Replayer has lost their guardian or lusus. [[BondingOverMissingParents It's a frequent topic of conversation.]]
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: The "Shiny" that Heart Players can manipulate is present in every Player, being, object, or game abstraction. The only known exception is [[HumanoidAbomination Saccharine]] [[TheSoulless Doppelgangers]].
* PeopleJars: You can find these in the Veil Labs holding carapace warriors.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Some data points of the fic were changed to suit roleplay and to balance things.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: PlayedWith, with trolls. Many troll replayers are [[CulturalCringe glad]] that the game freed them from their oppressive, martial-focused civilisation. Some, however, still [[CulturalPosturing believe]] in the ideas preached by the Empire.
* QuestGiver: Consorts are the "unmarked so you will need to talk to everyone" version. Players tend to find ways of marking the consorts who give quests, to make it easier on themselves when it comes time to turn them in.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Replayees will often have the most bizarre things written on their walls...
* RubberForeheadAliens: Alternian and Beforan trolls, as in Homestuck.
* SeenItAll: Played with. The longer you are in the game, the less things will suprise you. However, there still are situations that leave even the most experienced veteran slack-jawed.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Angels are inside the Underworld, sealed behind indestructible bedrock. Until you go through the quest chain to open the Underworld.
* SentientCosmicForce: Whisperings all have agendas and personalities, although they are very subtle.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Varies wildly, but contains a darker blend of comedy/horror than in ''Homestuck''.
* SophisticatedAsHell: The favored speech pattern of most intelligent characters in this world, as inherited from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' proper.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: There are some horrorterrors, such as P'shorshasa in RV Classic, that will come to the memo when their name is spoken. Less sinisterly, there are many players who have pings set up that will alert them when their names or handles are mentioned.
* StarfishAliens:
** The Angels, [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei as in one of their inspirations]].
** Hoppers/hoofdogs are an Sburb-playing species that are vaguely dog-shaped, with hooves on their back feet. They communicate almost exclusively through telepathy, which stunted the development of their language - when they try to write or speak, [[VerbalTic they use the word "thing" in place of almost every noun]], which makes it very difficult to communicate with them.
** The book speculates that other StarfishAliens could have their own versions of Sburb, with incomprehensible goals and game mechanics.
* TheStarsAreGoingOut: Inverted. The end of the session, and encroaching session decay, is signaled by stars ''appearing'' - instead of stars, they're actually ''Horrorterror eyes''.
* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Averted. [=SGAMEs=] generally don't warn for truly dangerous situations, and one can meander into an Atomyk Ebonpyre with almost no health. Played straight with pre-session situation - a player is destined to start the game, and circumstances will ensure they would survive. Then again, they don't arrange for survival in one piece, and some players that try to exploit the probability are in for a nasty shock.
* TechnicolorEyes: Eye color, matches text color, matches player pendant and crystalanth color.
* TheMultiverse: Countless Earths, slightly less countless Alternias, and a smattering of other alien species.
* TotalPartyKill: Many veterans have been the SoleSurvivor of a sessionwipe.
* UnreliableNarrator: The players have to scrape and struggle for every scrap of information about big things like the setting, the game's rules, etc, and their knowledge is both limited and imperfect. Unless they want to make a DealWithTheDevil for knowledge, of course.
* WeaksauceWeakness: In the [=RP=]'s canon, trolls are allergic to cinnamon.
* WeirdnessCensor: Replayers end up replacing other players who failed. This means that people who do not fit the description of the replaced individuals end up needing to fill their shoes. To facilitate this, apparently no one notices the fact that someone's teen son has been replaced by an adult alien woman.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: After you've been replaying long enough, nothing about the Game is surprising anymore. Giant monster-thing that looms over you and insults you? Normal. Wacky zany critters that tell you to behold their robes? Whatever. Bashing imps' heads in with a fancy santa? Yawn.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The [[EldritchAbomination Others]]. It fits their general Lovecraftian-horror aesthetic.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: The Reckoning will ''always'' happen and the game will ''always'' destroy the civilization that's reigning on the planet the players enter from.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Individual Classpects]]
Certain Classes and Aspects have their own ElementalPowers and associated tropes.
* BlindSeer: Frequently [[InvokedTrope invoked]]. Sburb tries to ensure that almost all Seers end up sightless. As such, many Seers voluntarily wear blindfolds so Sburb won't destroy their eyeballs.
* BlowYouAway: Breath
* CastingAShadow: {{Downplayed}} for Law players; it's a secondary power.
* CompellingVoice: Rage (note that Rage is ''not'' UnstoppableRage)
* CrypticConversation: Cryptic classes ''cannot'' be clear about anything important. They really, really can't. Other players (mostly) forgive them for it, although it's generally acknowledged as being really annoying to deal with on both sides. It's even worse for Cryptics who also rolled Time or Mind.
* DishingOutDirt: Life players can telekinetically manipulate dirt, among other things.
* DontThinkFeel: The only advice it is possible to give to Fate players.
* ExtraOreDinary: Lower-level Coins abilities.
* TheFettered: Law players get powers by creating rules to restrict themselves and others.
* FightsLikeANormal: Dust
* GreenThumb: Part of a Life player's abilities; they will eventually be able to grow strangling vines out of the ground in a matter of seconds (to use as an attack).
* TheHeart: Sburb forces both Life and Blood players to act this way, although Life is TeamMom to Blood's CoolBigSis (or the genderflipped equivalents thereof).
* AnIcePerson: Rhyme
* LifeEnergy: Blood players' ElementalPower.
* LightEmUp: Part of a Light player's abilities.
* LuckManipulationMechanic: Also part of a Light player's abilities. Sometimes to [[ExaggeratedTrope extreme levels]], such as taking so much luck from someone that a cliff crumbles out from underneath them.
* MakingASplash: Might
* MentalWorld: Sight
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Built into Seers' and Sages' character arc, which means it is ''guaranteed'' to happen at least once in the session no matter how smart they think they're being.
* OmniscientHero: High-level Seers and Sages can become this, though their knowledge is filtered by the lens of their Aspect. But see also NotSoOmniscientAfterAll.
* PlayingWithFire: Flow
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Wastes and Graces tend to be this, as Classes with the strongest offensive magic. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds It's because Sburb is trying to "fix" their tendency to hide from the spotlight.]]
* ThePowerOfCreation:
** Dreams allows you to make large quantities of glass objects, but they're only powerful as attacks if you come up with something new every time.
** The highest-level Coins abilities eventually let you do this.
* PowerOfTheVoid: Void, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally]].
* ShockAndAwe: Part of a Mind player's abilities.
* SoulPower: Heart
* TechnoWizard: While Mind doesn't actually require this, the natural thinking habits that Mind encourages often lead to native Mind players being good at technology - and Mind provides an ability that lets you manipulate things that you have a detailed mental framework for, which can easily include computers.
* UltimateBlacksmith: Smiths and Muses command grander mastery of punchcard alchemy than any other Class.
* UnreliableNarrator: Sand players are notorious liars.
* WalkingWasteland: Doom
* WordsCanBreakMyBones: Higher-level offensive Rage abilities
!!!Rain
* LaughingMad
* LethalHarmlessPowers: Much of becoming a good Rain player is learning how to use seemingly ridiculous powers in a useful way.
* RealityIsOutToLunch
* RealityWarper
* PowerBornOfMadness
!!!Space
* BerserkButton: Harming Frogs is a good way to get Space Players angry.
* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: Space players love making the Genesis Frog (and the new universe it embodies).
* OffWithHisHead: A Space FinishingMove, down to the name.
* PortalCut: The signature Space offensive ability.
* RealityWarper
!!!Time
* AlternateTimelines: Splinter timelines, by default. Of course, Splinter timelines are also *doomed* timelines by default. No one except the Time player is likely to emerge from them in one piece, and not even the Time player will survive for very long.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: There are many timelines. Only one is Alpha.
* ExpositionBeam: The Time player can touch one of their doomedselves (dead or otherwise) to get the memories of what happened in the Splinter timeline.
* MySkullRunnethOver: What happens if you use [[ExpositionBeam certain Time abilities]] to acquire memories from a Splinter timeline without the psybuffs needed to cope with them. It's why Mist players are ''strongly'' discouraged from fogging their Time players or "samming" Time abilities.
* NonLinearCharacter: Time players don't *do* linearity. Even if they start out wanting to, the game makes it so that they have to do loops and shenanigans in order to make sure things work out 0kay (or as 0kay as anything gets in this game).
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Time players get a passive ability that allows them to get the memories of their deceased doomed selves. This includes the memories of how the doomed self died.
* RetroactivePreparation
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: One of the Time player's Duties, if things go badly. Deliberately engaging in behaviour that causes Splinter timelines is will make them extremely displeased with you; some Time players have been known to react by tossing timecorpses at the offender until he or she knocks it off.
* StableTimeLoops
* TimeMaster: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Well, duh.]]
* TimeStandsStill: An endgame ability.
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast
* YouCannotChangeTheFuture
[[/folder]]
[[folder: RV Classic]]
* AerithAndBob: By necessity, given so many players. Exacerbated further by troll names.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: [[spoiler: Zeimah, through a [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Deal with P'Shorshasa]] caused the details of everything Benedict did - and details about Ben himself - to become forgotten and blurred. This means that no one in the session he died in clearly recalls him, and the effect is rigged so that it slowly spreads and makes sure that everyone eventually forgets Benedict.]]
* CreatingLifeIsBad: Thinking about getting pregnant (or otherwise acquiring children of your blood) will get you screamed at by most of the community for being sadistic.
* HealingPotion: [[SupremeChef ballisticSpectacle]], in tandem with [[TheCracker integratedInfiltrator]], came up with lifeshakes (as well as a whole host of ghost-imaged goodies for Replayers to eat). These items have saved lives, since the only other reliable means of healing one's self is to go to a Crystalanth or appeal to one's Sprite (which has usually [[MentorOccupationalHazard vanished]] a couple months into the game (and generally can't get down to your land anyways)).
* ManaPotion: Pluckshakes, created by the same people who made Lifeshakes. [[ManaMeter Pluck]] regenerates slowly, so this is very valuable.
* MiseryPoker: A favorite pastime.
* PowerOfTrust: Major heartwarming moments, including the time a Player was reclaimed from [[TheCorruption Angels]] by their [[MoralityChain moirail]].
** Backfired ''horribly'' when a [[LoveMakesYouDumb girl with a crush went down to the Underworld]] to try to meet the focus of her affection.
* RuleOfEmpathy: Those who argue for Heries [=ICly=] will often conveniently gloss over her high body count, since many of the ones she killed weren't part of the Sburb.org community.
* SacrificialLion: Stan, twenty-seven session veteran, Myra's best friend, and died a DeathByDespair (well, a death by having cratered his roleplay coefficient, which is very closely linked to stats effectiveness but also emotions). Not originally brought in to demonstrate that AnyoneCanDie.
* {{Scandalgate}}: The cracking open of the Seer Network (courtesy of epinephrineElectrified leaking their entire archives) was immediately dubbed Seergate by everyone else.
* WorldOfSnark: Too many examples to cite on this page.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: ''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's, "the book")]]
* TheAlternet: An extensive "Replayernet" of servers in the Ring.
* AnachronismStew: The author likes the aesthetics of 1990s computing, which means that old-style [=BBSes=], IRC chats, and modern websites coexist.
* BrandX: On the Replayer internet, there is a knockoff {{Image Board}}, a knockoff of {{Website/Reddit}}, a knockoff of {{Website/Tumblr}}, a knockoff of [[Blog/LessWrong Internet rationality]]...
* CaptainErsatz: A few characters have been replaced due to the writer not having permission to use them.
* CosmicHorrorStory: The book uses cosmic horror themes as an {{Allegory}} for child abuse. Oddly enough, this isn't because of the Others or Angels (even though both are classic Lovecraftian monsters). The cosmic horror is actually built into the structure of Sburb itself - because Sburb threatens to kill you if you [[BlueAndOrangeMorality don't adhere to the behavior expected of your Classpect]], and ''will'' break you if you try to escape.
* DeconReconSwitch: First, the bleakness of the setting of Sburb is introduced and hammered in. Then, the book goes on to explain how people manage to live in the CrapsackWorld anyway - by making social connections and finding PurposeInLife. Where it ultimately ends up on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism is... ambiguous.
* DontTryThisAtHome: The educational section about how to use roleplay to explore emotions contains a disclaimer that doing so could result in unearthing destabilizing amounts of emotion, and thus could be too dangerous to attempt from inside the abuse. Then the author points out that she is in no position to actually demand this, having done so herself, and provides a different set of safety rules for those circumstances.
* EncyclopediaExposita: There is a quote for nearly every chapter and section heading. While some are drawn from various real-world literature (quite a few are from ''Literature/{{HitherbyDragons}}'' actually), most are fictional. "Sources" for these fictional quotes include in-character blog posts, a "Gamebreaker's Glossary", various self-help guides in the style of game [=FAQs=], and even [[StoryWithinAStory an in-universe novel series]] written by one dryadTornado.
* ETGaveUsWiFi: Apparently Skaianet produced almost every computer operating system and computing device since the 1980s. In every universe.
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: ZigZagged.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in terms of size; [=PrototypeTowers=] archives large swathes of presession Internets, and while the size of this archive is never actually stated outright, it's large enough that a "swarm" of hundreds of thousands of servers is needed to hold it all.
** On the other hand, the population of the "Replayernet" is [[PlayedStraight only about 2,000 people]].
* FootnoteFever: Inherited from [[TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine the game it's a sourcebook for]].
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: For the most part, the book is "written" by two characters from inside the universe. However, the author is directly credited for a few entries that would be impossible for the characters to write (because of Corruption risk or what-have-you).
* PragmaticAdaptation: There are a few notable differences between RV Chuubo's and the original Replay Value/Glitch FAQ, to make it more playable. For example, Sand is now an Aspect focusing on {{Rules Lawyer}}ing, rather than lying, so that having a PC roll Sand doesn't make the party explode.
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: ''[[InvertedTrope Inverted]]'' [[PlayedForDrama to horrific effect]]. If you become a DeathSeeker, you will be unable to die. It is only those who don't want to die, or who accept death as a simple inevitability, who end up dying.
* RecursiveFanfiction: Based on RV Classic, which in turn was based on ''Fanfic/SburbGlitchFAQ'', which in turn was based on ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.
* RestrainingBolt: The Ancient Law, which prevents many of the more intelligent and powerful {{Non Player Character}}s (including Derse carapaces, the Denizens, and the Horrorterrors) from interfering with normal, functioning sessions of Sburb. (If it weren't for this, for example, Derse would murder the Dreamers in their sleep.) If your session of Sburb is no longer "normal" and/or "functioning", many of these restrictions are removed. The results are... unpleasant.
* SpaceWhale: Ringbeasts, which float through the Furthest Ring and are immune to Corruption. They are a very rare sight, but you do ''not'' want to bump into one when you're traveling the Ring.
* {{Technobabble}}: Be honest. Did you understand the InfoDump on timetrav encryption?
[[/folder]]
Nothing here is spoiler-tagged because there's no archive to go through; this is just a description of a setting. (In fact, this Wiki/TVTropes page ''was'' the documentation of the setting for most of RV AU's existence.)
Replay Value [[http://fanlore.org/wiki/Replay_Value_AU has had many iterations]]. An attempt at a [[http://sburbunofficial.proboards.com/ forum]] rapidly diverged from an IRC channel established to coordinate events on said forum. The original Replay Value AU, held in a small set of IRC channels, eventually failed. There was an attempt at a reboot. Many of the people from the original Replay Value eventually set up shop in a [[http://orngjce223.net/gaming/chat/ Discord chat]], and there is a low-key character-focused roleplay there. There is an uncurated [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Replay%20Value%20AU/works AO3 tag]]. A [[BigNameFan particularly prolific]] Replay Value AU writer is writing a conversion of classic (pre-reboot) Replay Value AU to a TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine campaign and setting fan-supplement, called [[http://eternity-braid.tumblr.com/ A User's Guide to the Apocalypse]]. And there is now a [[http://sburbunofficial.boards.net/ new iteration of the forum]]. An attempt to straighten out the resulting ContinuitySnarl is found [[http://eternity-braid.tumblr.com/post/123587917531/would-the-rv-characters-have-to-be-alive-as-of here]].
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!!Characters
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder: Dove's Characters]]
!!Zeimah Dalyce / Cyma Dalyce (patchworkDoll)
An [[HalfHumanHybrid ectobiological hybrid]] that came out of a mixed native session, she's a Native [[UnreliableNarrator Mage]] of [[TimeMaster Time]] who has struggled to fix her hybrid status because of [=SBURB=]'s reaction to it. She has, slowly, begun building a group of her own from people she's met, and is learning how to become an adult.
* AllergicToEvil: Due to an incident during her first session, she now gets "ear-bleedy" whenever she's exposed to more than a few words of [[BlackSpeech broodfester]] or [[LightIsNotGood angeltongue]], whether written or spoken.
* BlessedWithSuck: She's a human-troll hybrid...who rarely looks the way she wants to, experiences uncontrollable appearance shifts that can affect what's safe for her to eat and how she percieves the world, and occasionally even loses parts of her body that she's quite firmly attached to. And due to her text colour, she doesn't even get cool psychic powers out of it.
* CulturalCringe: The fact that she's a hybrid would have gotten her killed, back in the Alternian Empire. She's not a big fan of the hemospectrum, or most of the Alternian way of life, as a result.
* FreakinessShame: Cyma rarely ever looked "normal" for either species and is painfully aware of it. As much as she keept getting told that she looked fine just the way she was, she wanted nothing more than to be able to "fix" whatever was causing her appearance to keep shifting around like this.
** FreakyIsCool: Probably a part of why others find her attractive. It did not significantly help her self-esteem.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Unwillingly, and it causes her a lot of problems. Among other things, the game does *not* like that it can't slot her neatly into one species and will shuffle her genetics around from one session to the next in its efforts to do so. Her appearance - and sometimes her gender - is a lot more fluid than she'd like and she's rarely ever happy with what she sees in the mirror. She's also keenly aware that she wouldn't even exist if it weren't for ectobiology. While the appearance issues have been fixed, she's still a hybrid and this still causes problems such as Replay Flu lingering longer with her than it does for others - and her body working as a vector to spread illness from humans to trolls and vice versa.
* IAmNotPretty: She will insist this until she's blue (or purple) in the face. Tossing psybuffs at her will make her stop...at least until it wears off.
** She's getting better about this, now that her appearance has been stabilized in a form she's happy with.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes / IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: She's a sweet girl, really, but she had no sense of style or taste when she initially entered the game. Her idea of "stylish" involved unlimited access to a Bedazzler and far too much embroidery.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Or at least as close as anyone can get in the Game. She's sure she'd be much happier if she could just get her species issue to resolve itself in a manner that keeps her from bouncing all over the place. This is probably a reason why the game assigned her the [[VaguenessIsComing Mage Class]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Needlekind and [[PaperFanOfDoom fankind]] are her preferred weapons.
* OrphansOrdeal: Not that any other Replayer *isn't* an orphan.
* PrecociousCrush: She's more than willing to flirt back with Nagdra when he's around, not to mention getting ''very'' upset when people call him creepy.
* RaisedByWolves: Her lusus was a direwolf. She has nothing but fond memories of "direwolfmom".
* RiddleMeThis: Her native class is Mage. She solved the "cannot spit it out" issue by using annoying riddles.
* TimeMaster: Her native Aspect.
!!Bethany Roseclere (victorianaRegnant)
A young woman from a world where colour theory is far more important than in our world. A modestly successful child actress and model, currently employed as a Lady Companion to The White. Most notable for her employment and her being a "truehue" - that is, her eyes are actually the colour she's supposed to be most aligned with. As a Dark Red, she is supposed to embody Maturity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: KarrinBlue‘s Characters]]
!!Adhara Bayer (blueEpsilon)
!!Nemain Feanan (riastradSidhe)
!!Iridie Arazir (entanglingPoise)
!!Melevi Arazir (arabesqueFatality)
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Keleviel's Characters]]
!!Khavah Kirbir (guillotineGladiator)
* ActionGirl
* AFriendInNeed: She sacrifices a lot if it'll help anyone.
* AnAxeToGrind Her weapon of choice
* AncestralWeapon: Possesses the [[HeroesPreferSwords Laelapsian]] [[CoolSword Hellrazer]], although it’s [[BFS too big for her right now]].
* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Her sign is Canis Major, her horns look like dog ears, and she has Bane as her native
* BigEater: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; she works out a lot, and needs a lot of energy
* BlackSpeech: Can fluently speak the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angeltongue]].
* BlueBlood: A [[OurTrollsAreDifferent literal]] one. She's not a huge fan of the cultural baggage that comes with it, or how people think of her because of it, and tries to distance herself.
* BrutalHonesty
* TheChampion: As in line with her native class
* ClosetGeek: You wouldn’t know from looking at her, but she plays a lot of video games
* CombatPragmatist: Her tutoring of Afiqah in unarmed combat revealed a fondness for KneeCapping
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is low and even, and she’s a tried-and-true badass
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh yeah
** SnarkKnight
* FragileSpeedster: Compared to other trolls of her caste, she's very thin and fragile. She doesn't have the padding to take a lot of hits, nor does she have the muscle to hit extremely hard. She is, however, very agile and fast.
** LightningBruiser: Although, that's mainly compared to trolls and the skewed [[SuperStrength physical]] [[MadeOfIron expectations]] trolls of Khavah's caste are compared to. Compared to regular humans, she's extremely strong, extremely durable, and extremely fast.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large scar on her face, among others
** CoveredWithScars: A LOT of others
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one, when she found out that Laelah Kirbir existed, Laelah Kirbir also being the name of her FamousAncestor, [[ShroudedInMyth Justicar]] [[TheDreaded Barghest]]
* HeroicWillpower: Invoked; due to her [[UnstoppableRage highblood rage]] and [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angelic]] problems, she’s specifically worked on willpower and self-control
* HotBlooded
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She's killed a lot, to save herself and her coplayers, and doesn't regret it. [[MyGreatestFailure Mostly.]]
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Her belief, backed up by experience, and the reason she strives to perfect herself
* IronWoobie
* KnightInSourArmor
* MartialPacifist: Attempts to be one, at least
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch
* NervesOfSteel
* NoSocialSkills
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Laelah's red
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Practically her defining feature
* SpaceMaster: A Space native
* TheStoic
* UnkemptBeauty: Does not put any time or attention into how attractive she looks at all. Despite this, she's regularly seen as very attractive.
* UnstoppableRage: As a [[OurTrollsAreDifferent highblood]], naturally. She keeps it under lock and key as much as she can.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When a coplayer attacked her for being a [[FantasticRacism highblood while he was a lowblood and usually stepped on by highbloods]], Khavah spared his life and healed his wounds when his attacks caused him to get hurt, despite knowing that she could kill him and no one would bat an eye
!!Laelah Kirbir (tacitTenacity)
* BigGuy: She's a large woman, tall and muscular. She's the one who did the heavy lifting for server construction
* GentleGiant
* GeniusBruiser: A tall woman, with noticeable muscles...who also coded, at least in part, the server that the setting mostly takes place on, as well as heading its repair
* HeroesPreferSwords: Her weapon of choice
* NiceGirl: An honestly cheerful and friendly woman who just wants everyone to get along
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Khavah's blue. While she isn't very boisterous or wild, she's a lot more extroverted, people-oriented, and expressive than Khavah is.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's an adult troll, who stands at six foot six.
* TeamMom: For the Founders, at the very least. She frets over all of them and offers to solve disputes as needed
!!"Narath" (narqouisAthymia)
-->NA: I don't trust people.
-->NA: Period
* AccentuateTheNegative
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: She has no illusions on her skill in handling people, or how well people like her
* BrutalHonesty
* CastingAShadow: As a native Law player
** DarkIsNotEvil
* DarkAndTroubledPast: From what she hints at, she’s got a doozy of one
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Her actual name is something she’s hiding. Her nickname is based off of the first three letters of each word in her handle
* GoodIsNotNice
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn’t take a lot to get her hostile
* HatesBeingTouched
* HatesSmallTalk
** SociallyAwkwardHero
* InsufferableGenius
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
!!Aesura Imilic (peerlessPitfighter)
* ActionGirl
* AmazonianBeauty
** CuteBruiser: Shorter than most examples, at 5'2"
* BoisterousBruiser: Quite cheerful, and quite the bruiser
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Her preferred method of fighting
* HotBlooded
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Her love for fighting might seem like it’s in line with being a troll, but she’s a very friendly individual who likes fighting but not killing.
* PluckyGirl
* SmarterThanYouLook: She looks like she’d be DumbMuscle, but she’s not. Not to say that she’s a GeniusBruiser, just not dumb
* SuperStrength: Not only is she a [[BlueBlood purple blooded]] [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll]], which are known for being pretty damn strong, she's also a weightlifter and has highly defined muscles, and she's ALSO a native [[MakingASplash Might]] player, an aspect that gives people super strength. It's safe to say she's pretty strong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Whilim's Characters]]
!!Snaplock Sunblood / Lanian Oniare (snaplockSunblood)
A proud and casually violent yellowblood warlord and native Muse of Time.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority
* BadassInCharge: Before the game, at least.
* BawdySong: Is very fond of these.
* CultureClash: With both humans ''and'' trolls, due to time displacement.
* CultureJustifiesAnything: Tries to claim this, but only in regards to ''her'' culture.
* CulturalPosturing
* DisproportionateRetribution: Considers it merciful to only take one life in retaliation for the killing of a horde member.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has no qualms about torture and murder, but you do ''not'' zombify your coplayers.
* FantasticRacism: Against seadwellers.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She's from pre-Empire, pre-industrial times and is playing a computer game. She's still trying to get used to it.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her crude, violent exterior, she's surprisingly levelheaded. She frequently takes command when emergencies arise on the chat, and knows the right things to ask and say even if the details of the presession issue or game mechanic of the day elude her.
* TheHorde: Ruled one of these before she played the game. Wishes she still did.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Her homeland's main religion seems to be a trollish mix of Celtic, Norse, and other beliefs.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: More specifically, Medieval [[AnotherDimension Alternian]] Fantasy.
* TheLeader: Oddly enough, it turns out that leading a raiding horde requires something other than pure intimidation. She's ''good'' at figuring out what needs doing and how to get people to go along with it.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: If you reference something around her, expect her to ask what it means.
* TheStoryteller: One of her few redeeming values.
* TailorMadePrison: Did this to her own past self to stop her from trying to kill Icemount and Glasseye.
** GoMadFromTheIsolation: There's a ''reason'' Abel stepped in to stop that.
* ToThePain: Has an alarming tendency to start describing torture techniques when Heries pisses her off. Generally has to be shouted down by everyone else in the memo when this happens.
!!Arsonist (arsonIst)
A redblooded, low-ranking member of Snaplock's horde and native Bard of Space. Is a mild pyrokinetic, but most people just assume he's really good at setting fires.
* DumbIsGood: Subverted. He seems innocent and harmless at first, but then he'll wonder out loud about raiding Consort villages or something equally cruel.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Solved with speech-to-text software.
* PlayingWithFire: To a very mild extent. He never even realized he had powers, instead assuming he was just talented and starting and keeping a fire going.
* PyroManiac: Why else would he have chosen that name?
* WildChild: As a child, was exiled from his hometown for arson. He and his lusus lived wild for sweeps before Snaplock recruited him.
!!Eminence Glasseye (eminenceGlasseye)
The greenblood ruler of a wealthy coastal city-state and native Page of Mind. Owned a sizeable collection of seadwellers before the game killed most of them. He's being really hard to trope so if you can think of any that actually work for him please add them in or at least bring it up in the chat so I know what to do.
* BlueBlood: Notably, considering he's a troll, ''not'' literally.
* DecadentCourt: Is quite experienced in navigating these.
!!Icemount (eminenceGlasseye)
A seadweller in Glasseye's collection. Forcefully replaced Arsonist as the Bard of Space as part of a Denizen deal and now has the dubious distinction of being the oldest player.
* DissonantSerenity: Casually discussed who to kill and replace in order to save more of his fellows. Wasn't any more emotional ''after'' the killing, either.
* CoveredWithScars
* FantasticRacism: A victim of it.
* FishPeople
* HappinessInSlavery: Can come across as this, but...
** StepfordSmiler: At least part of it's an act.
* RapeAsBackstory: Implied
* StoicWoobie: He's been a a slave for at least a hundred sweeps, has the scars to show it, yet doesn't show any signs of caring about it.
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!!Quotes
[[folder:Quotes]]
!!RV Classic
->18:31 Krat ''wait ''
->18:31 Krat ''did something ''
->18:31 Krat ''like ''
->18:31 Krat ''actually, unqualified good happen? ''
->18:31 mislaidLullaby ''Yes ''
->18:31 Krat ''i'm scared ''
->18:31 Zuki ''Ahahahaa ''
->18:31 Krat ''I want it to be good but you've hurt me before, RV''
-->-Krat, #replayvalue
->''TENTHE!''
->''TACT!''
-->-Far too many people
!!RV Chuubo's
->''“I will spare you, on one condition. You will raise no hand against me, and the same for any child of your blood. Promise me this.”''
->''“You know I cannot promise that.”''
->''The Deathless Queen’s expression twisted up into either a smile or a snarl, I couldn’t tell which. “Then I will have to kill you.”''
->''I looked her in the eyes. “The prophecy will not help you. I would like to see you try.”''
-->''[[StoryWithinAStory The Infinite Castle]]'', [[EncyclopediaExposita dryadTornado]] (from the ''A User's Guide'' book)
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!!YMMV
[[folder:YMMV]]
!!The Game
* NightmareFuel: Being that this universe involves the Sgames, there's going to be plenty of this.
** Just about anyone can agree that both corruption sources are this.
*** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angels']] AssimilationPlot-like tendencies are horrifying, not to mention the BodyHorror that characters like Rick (majesticInstability) have suffered while under the influence of the Host.
*** That [[EldritchAbomination an Other]] can turn the kind-hearted, fairly-gentle Skye into a mass-murdering Speaker isn't exactly fun, either.
** Saccharine Doppelgangers are walking versions of this. There are people who still refuse to talk or think about their encounters with sugarplumNonplussed - and it still has a terrible legacy out-of-character.
** [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/887975 Brainwashing, Torture, and the World of Sburb]]: in which [[BrokenBird Myra]] [[DrivenToSuicide LeJean]] explains how, exactly, Sburb is set up as a [[MoreThanMindControl brainwashing system]].
!!RV Classic
* BrokenBase: Due to many reasons, the classic form of RV fell prey to toxicity, cliquishness and there was a major falling out over some pretty controversial decisions and events. The roleplay became a shell of itself for the brief time it was rebooted, becoming increasingly abandoned. While there were many fingers pointed, in the end everyone had a hand in it getting as bad as it got, ranging from untreated mental illness, dealing with terrible home situation, jealousy, using the roleplay as an outlet for trauma and other such not healthy things for roleplay. This troper just hopes that everyone was able to move on and better their lives.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Being that the roleplay heavily focuses on character interactions, these are inevitable and highly prized.
** The Founders, as the core of the community, have been a tightly-knit family since their initial voyage into the Ring. Through thick and thin, they've kept each other together. Simply watching three or more of them interact together on a good day can give anyone warm fuzzies, much less when they band together to support a member who's struggling.
!!''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's)
* {{Anvilicious}}: You can't go twenty pages in the book without bumping into a discussion of how the setting is an {{Allegory}} for child abuse. The author wrote it this way because there are few other resources or narratives about how to survive abuse while it is happening to you.
--> "Replayers are an itinerant, persecuted culture: they’re told that they implicitly approve of their own abuse, and at the same time they know that this abuse is institutionalized and supported by ancient law. The only thing that keeps them sane is to connect to other people, over the Internet - and though the Replayer internet is an eternal font of drama and frivolities, it is still what keeps them sane.
-->
--> That isn’t even a metaphor. That’s literally what happened [to me]."
---> — the afterword
* MemeticMutation: There's a list of suggested Replayer memes to use, such as a fifteen-bottle set of gourmet grubsauce, or the wrist-mounted alchemiter, or throwing ice cubes into the Forge, or putting [[{{Squick}} genetic material that is]] ''[[{{Squick}} not]]'' [[{{Squick}} paradox slime]] into the ectobiology machines...
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!!Awesome Music:
Among music used in storytelling events, characters themselves have fantastic soundtracks and playlists. Spotlight your favorites here.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA181A6FA7B0BEC5D Grace of Void]]: Skye Ringling's official playlist.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22BF76D91651CB17 Grace of Void v2]]: An auxiliary playlist with other music that fits.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSlSqAh42ArOjRKH9fXjvk6I9jLyAriP Speaker]]: A playlist for screamingNothing.
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!!Examples (split up by medium):
[[folder: The Game]]
* AdventureFriendlyWorld: Sburb, by design and definition, is designed to facilitate a ComingOfAgeStory.
* AlternateTimelines: Splinter timelines. Of course, Splinter timelines are also *doomed* timelines by default. No one except the Time player is likely to emerge from them in one piece, and not even the Time player will survive for very long.
* ArtificialLimbs: Fairly common. Most are [[OrganicTechnology troll biotech]].
* BlackSpeech:
** Broodfester is a straight example.
** Can also count for Angelic singing, though that's more of a, well, [[VoiceOfTheLegion group performance]].
** People who do not share the same flavor of corruption, or people who are not corrupted, [[StarfishLanguage are unable to decipher either type of corrupted speech]]. The IRC in RV Classic was coded to be able to do so, due to history with corruption.
* BreakTheCutie: Any new player is going to be broken, *hard*, by the time they hit their second session - if not sooner.
* ButThouMust: Many of the game's cruelest moments are forced on the player with no alternative or active punishment for resisting. The Denizen stands out as the prime example.
* ChaosArchitecture: The Magicant's layout does not make physical sense, and the doors randomly reshuffle what rooms they point to.
* ComfortFood: Replayers do not, technically, need to eat (the 'food' Sprites generate when healing their players, as well as the light produced by Crystalanths, is sufficient to both heal and take care of hunger) but they do so anyways. Real food that tastes good is highly prized by them, as a result.
* ContinuityDrift: From the original forums, which were considered entirely non-canon for the reboot.
* CooldownHug: Used often and to great effect; the cure of choice for ''many'' ailments.
* TheCorruption: Angels and Others and Saccharine Doppelgangers, oh my!
* CrapsackWorld: What SBURB actually is, although it manages to pass as a CrapsaccharineWorld on good days.
--> "Kids and fun."
* CrazyPrepared: Always have a pillow/towel with you. And at least five computers. Otherwise you're the worst kind of Sboob.
* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: No matter how nice the world you end up in, during the pre-install period...it's going to die to meteors, and soon. Most Replayers try not to think about it, but have developed a very loose moral code when it comes to acquiring the things they feel are needed to survive their next session.
* CultureClash: Trolls and humans (never mind all the ''other'' species that show up) have as many rough patches as they do spots where the two get along quite well.
* DealWithTheDevil:
** Bargaining with the Beast is a downplayed example - while it is technically a deal that usually requires you to trade something important in response, it is part of the Game itself and often helps make one's session winnable.
** Also, Horrorterror deals, which play this trope straight.
* DeadPersonConversation: Dreambubbles.
* DeathIsCheap: Between godtier, dreamselves, and everything else, you're not likely to stay down for long when you die.
** Though KilledOffForReal is also a frequent occurrence and one they do have to deal with, and in theory AnyoneCanDie. Players will generally know within a day or two whether a death was permanent or not, and the only method of getting back someone who's truly dead is inherently temporary.
* DeathIsDramatic: In the case of God Tiers and their conditional immortality.
* DecapitationRequired: Decapitation results in an instant permadeath. Nine times out of ten, anyways.
* DeusAngstMachina: The entirety of Sburb.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: For Horrorterror deals, in some cases. (At least one instance of dealing with P'Shorshasa in RV Classic has ''actually'' involved having tea with her.)
* DividedWeFall: Working with other Replayers and being very clear about what's going on is a ''big deal''. The game will ''kill you'' if you try to go it alone.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: As in Homestuck, Prospit dreamers can see the future in the clouds of Skaia.
* DueToTheDead: Death may be cheap, but sometimes it's permanent. When that happens, Replayers find ways of grieving. Due to the nature of their world, however, there is rarely anything officially organized nor is there any actually formalized ritual to go by.
* EldritchAbomination:
** The Others, also known as the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Horrorterrors]].
** And the Angels.
** There are some arguments that Sburb itself might qualify.
* EldritchLocation: The Furthest Ring's space and time are twisted and warped.
* EverythingIsOnline: Nearly all game constructs can be hacked using a sprite pendant, session CD, or other gamebreaking tricks. Doing so is rarely a good idea, however, unless you're trying to fix something that was already broken - as in, making your session unwinnable - to begin with.
* ExactWords: When you make a [[DealWithTheDevil Horrorterror deal]], make sure to pay very careful attention to the wording...
* ExoticWeaponSupremacy: The weirder and more oddly specific a 'kind is, the more damage it seems to do. Not that this stops jokerkind from being considered OP in some circles.
* FireForgedFriends: When you're faced with death daily, there's no shortage of situations in which to face death together.
* GenreSavvy: Necessary prerequisite for long-term survival.
* GoodBadBugs: InUniverse, finding bugs in Sburb that can be exploited for players' benefit is [[ExploitedTrope a popular hobby]].
* HarmfulToMinors: First-time players are most likely to be teens and pre-teens. The Game will force them to kill underlings...and [=PKers=]...and maybe their friends, too, if they're unlucky enough to roll a Cataclysm class. When they allow themselves to think about it, the older vets are horrified by the fact that this thing gets aimed at ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids children]]''.
* HeroicBSOD: Every Replayer's been through at least one of these.
--> "Sburb Mental Disorder: Aggrievance. Also known as "I have enough of this stupid game just leave me alone". Maybe with a touch of "Why don't you just go and win this pointless session while I just stand there and weep forever". [...] "It usually stems from [[BreakTheCutie emotional trauma]] or from a minor disorder that has been left unchecked for too long." - FanFic/{{Sburb Glitch FAQ}} [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/340777/chapters/585147 Chapter 14]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Heroic deaths are permanent, according to Skaia.
* HeroicSafeMode: Many Replayers spend increasing amounts of time stuck in survival mode, to the point where it [[BecomingTheMask becomes normal]]. It's perceived as "better" than [=BSODing=] or slipping into a Berserk Trigger, but it has its own problems.
* HeroKiller:
** Player killers, most of whom are AxCrazy.
** Several classes - most notably the cataclysm classes - have an event coded into their myth arc which has a ''very'' high chance of causing them to kill one or even several coplayers, though these are generally held to be "not their fault".
* HiveMind: The Angels. [[AssimilationPlot They can bring Players into it, too.]]
* HumanoidAliens:
** Hobs are fur-covered dinosaurs, "like a squirrel crossed with a [[TheReptilians troodon]]". Their [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is that they live in clans and, when displaced from them (such as when forced to play Sburb), [[FamilyOfChoice will build themselves another clan]].
** Birdbros are {{Funny Animal}}s that are mostly avian in shape. They have wings instead of arms, with a claw on each wing-end like a bat's. They have short, "chirpy" names and are very likely to be ConspiracyTheorists.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul
** Heroic version: "Psybuffs" can be used to alleviate some game-trauma. This ''doesn't'' substitute for a real psychological therapy.
** Those thoroughly corrupted by the Angels will also often seem quite "happy", and attempt to spread this "happiness".
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Replayers tend to use weird weaponry with a preference for what works.
* ItGetsEasier: Yes, your second Denizen is going to be easier than your first. Yes, you will have to kill Player Killers before they kill you. That's just how it works. There is no veteran who has not killed sentients in order to survive. And that's before you start getting into the whole "are imps and other underlings intelligent" argument.
* KnightInSourArmor: The vast majority of veterans. The morally sound veterans, that is.
* LightIsNotGood: The Angels. [[DarkIsEvil But the Others are almost as dangerous.]]
* LongDistanceRelationship: Inevitable, over the longer term.
* MadeOfExplodium: Computers explode. All the time. This is {{Discussed}} in the Chuubo's sourcebook; a guest writer says that this is why you shouldn't ever implant computers.
* MagicMusic: If you don't already know an instrument or have some basic skill at singing, you're going to have to pick it up and ''fast'' if you want to use fraymotifs and player commands.
* MeaningfulName: Pesterchum/Trollian handles usually are [[MeaningfulRename pretty meaningful]]. Some trolls have names with meaning as well.
** A troll's eight-eight is ''always'' intended to be meaningful.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: The premise. Unfortunately for those who try to WinToExit, the Door is broken.
* MultiMookMelee: The mad dash to the first Gate is this.
* NonLinearCharacter:
** Unlike in Homestuck, this is mostly averted, thanks to timetrav encryption (which enforces linearity of communication).
** Time players have the ability to rewind and skip around in their timelines, creating both [[StableTimeLoop stable]] and [[CuttingOffTheBranches unstable]] time loops. Their time shenanigans usually stay quarantined to the sessions they're in, though.
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** Everyone who isn't still in the process of aging out of the awkward "puberty" stage does not, physically, get much older than "mid-to-late twenties", between Life players, dreamself revivals, and god-tiering. This is at least partially because physically older players have a higher tendency to get killed "dramatically" by the Game.
** Some aliens live a lot longer (and age much slower) than humans do.
** Averted if you have been Doom for long enough; god-tier Doom players age at the normal rate, unlike every other god-tier.
* OrganicTechnology: As in Homestuck itself, this is the aesthetic of most Alternian technology.
* OrphansOrdeal: Every Replayer has lost their guardian or lusus. [[BondingOverMissingParents It's a frequent topic of conversation.]]
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: The "Shiny" that Heart Players can manipulate is present in every Player, being, object, or game abstraction. The only known exception is [[HumanoidAbomination Saccharine]] [[TheSoulless Doppelgangers]].
* PeopleJars: You can find these in the Veil Labs holding carapace warriors.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Some data points of the fic were changed to suit roleplay and to balance things.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: PlayedWith, with trolls. Many troll replayers are [[CulturalCringe glad]] that the game freed them from their oppressive, martial-focused civilisation. Some, however, still [[CulturalPosturing believe]] in the ideas preached by the Empire.
* QuestGiver: Consorts are the "unmarked so you will need to talk to everyone" version. Players tend to find ways of marking the consorts who give quests, to make it easier on themselves when it comes time to turn them in.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Replayees will often have the most bizarre things written on their walls...
* RubberForeheadAliens: Alternian and Beforan trolls, as in Homestuck.
* SeenItAll: Played with. The longer you are in the game, the less things will suprise you. However, there still are situations that leave even the most experienced veteran slack-jawed.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Angels are inside the Underworld, sealed behind indestructible bedrock. Until you go through the quest chain to open the Underworld.
* SentientCosmicForce: Whisperings all have agendas and personalities, although they are very subtle.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Varies wildly, but contains a darker blend of comedy/horror than in ''Homestuck''.
* SophisticatedAsHell: The favored speech pattern of most intelligent characters in this world, as inherited from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' proper.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: There are some horrorterrors, such as P'shorshasa in RV Classic, that will come to the memo when their name is spoken. Less sinisterly, there are many players who have pings set up that will alert them when their names or handles are mentioned.
* StarfishAliens:
** The Angels, [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei as in one of their inspirations]].
** Hoppers/hoofdogs are an Sburb-playing species that are vaguely dog-shaped, with hooves on their back feet. They communicate almost exclusively through telepathy, which stunted the development of their language - when they try to write or speak, [[VerbalTic they use the word "thing" in place of almost every noun]], which makes it very difficult to communicate with them.
** The book speculates that other StarfishAliens could have their own versions of Sburb, with incomprehensible goals and game mechanics.
* TheStarsAreGoingOut: Inverted. The end of the session, and encroaching session decay, is signaled by stars ''appearing'' - instead of stars, they're actually ''Horrorterror eyes''.
* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Averted. [=SGAMEs=] generally don't warn for truly dangerous situations, and one can meander into an Atomyk Ebonpyre with almost no health. Played straight with pre-session situation - a player is destined to start the game, and circumstances will ensure they would survive. Then again, they don't arrange for survival in one piece, and some players that try to exploit the probability are in for a nasty shock.
* TechnicolorEyes: Eye color, matches text color, matches player pendant and crystalanth color.
* TheMultiverse: Countless Earths, slightly less countless Alternias, and a smattering of other alien species.
* TotalPartyKill: Many veterans have been the SoleSurvivor of a sessionwipe.
* UnreliableNarrator: The players have to scrape and struggle for every scrap of information about big things like the setting, the game's rules, etc, and their knowledge is both limited and imperfect. Unless they want to make a DealWithTheDevil for knowledge, of course.
* WeaksauceWeakness: In the [=RP=]'s canon, trolls are allergic to cinnamon.
* WeirdnessCensor: Replayers end up replacing other players who failed. This means that people who do not fit the description of the replaced individuals end up needing to fill their shoes. To facilitate this, apparently no one notices the fact that someone's teen son has been replaced by an adult alien woman.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: After you've been replaying long enough, nothing about the Game is surprising anymore. Giant monster-thing that looms over you and insults you? Normal. Wacky zany critters that tell you to behold their robes? Whatever. Bashing imps' heads in with a fancy santa? Yawn.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The [[EldritchAbomination Others]]. It fits their general Lovecraftian-horror aesthetic.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: The Reckoning will ''always'' happen and the game will ''always'' destroy the civilization that's reigning on the planet the players enter from.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Individual Classpects]]
Certain Classes and Aspects have their own ElementalPowers and associated tropes.
* BlindSeer: Frequently [[InvokedTrope invoked]]. Sburb tries to ensure that almost all Seers end up sightless. As such, many Seers voluntarily wear blindfolds so Sburb won't destroy their eyeballs.
* BlowYouAway: Breath
* CastingAShadow: {{Downplayed}} for Law players; it's a secondary power.
* CompellingVoice: Rage (note that Rage is ''not'' UnstoppableRage)
* CrypticConversation: Cryptic classes ''cannot'' be clear about anything important. They really, really can't. Other players (mostly) forgive them for it, although it's generally acknowledged as being really annoying to deal with on both sides. It's even worse for Cryptics who also rolled Time or Mind.
* DishingOutDirt: Life players can telekinetically manipulate dirt, among other things.
* DontThinkFeel: The only advice it is possible to give to Fate players.
* ExtraOreDinary: Lower-level Coins abilities.
* TheFettered: Law players get powers by creating rules to restrict themselves and others.
* FightsLikeANormal: Dust
* GreenThumb: Part of a Life player's abilities; they will eventually be able to grow strangling vines out of the ground in a matter of seconds (to use as an attack).
* TheHeart: Sburb forces both Life and Blood players to act this way, although Life is TeamMom to Blood's CoolBigSis (or the genderflipped equivalents thereof).
* AnIcePerson: Rhyme
* LifeEnergy: Blood players' ElementalPower.
* LightEmUp: Part of a Light player's abilities.
* LuckManipulationMechanic: Also part of a Light player's abilities. Sometimes to [[ExaggeratedTrope extreme levels]], such as taking so much luck from someone that a cliff crumbles out from underneath them.
* MakingASplash: Might
* MentalWorld: Sight
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Built into Seers' and Sages' character arc, which means it is ''guaranteed'' to happen at least once in the session no matter how smart they think they're being.
* OmniscientHero: High-level Seers and Sages can become this, though their knowledge is filtered by the lens of their Aspect. But see also NotSoOmniscientAfterAll.
* PlayingWithFire: Flow
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Wastes and Graces tend to be this, as Classes with the strongest offensive magic. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds It's because Sburb is trying to "fix" their tendency to hide from the spotlight.]]
* ThePowerOfCreation:
** Dreams allows you to make large quantities of glass objects, but they're only powerful as attacks if you come up with something new every time.
** The highest-level Coins abilities eventually let you do this.
* PowerOfTheVoid: Void, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally]].
* ShockAndAwe: Part of a Mind player's abilities.
* SoulPower: Heart
* TechnoWizard: While Mind doesn't actually require this, the natural thinking habits that Mind encourages often lead to native Mind players being good at technology - and Mind provides an ability that lets you manipulate things that you have a detailed mental framework for, which can easily include computers.
* UltimateBlacksmith: Smiths and Muses command grander mastery of punchcard alchemy than any other Class.
* UnreliableNarrator: Sand players are notorious liars.
* WalkingWasteland: Doom
* WordsCanBreakMyBones: Higher-level offensive Rage abilities
!!!Rain
* LaughingMad
* LethalHarmlessPowers: Much of becoming a good Rain player is learning how to use seemingly ridiculous powers in a useful way.
* RealityIsOutToLunch
* RealityWarper
* PowerBornOfMadness
!!!Space
* BerserkButton: Harming Frogs is a good way to get Space Players angry.
* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: Space players love making the Genesis Frog (and the new universe it embodies).
* OffWithHisHead: A Space FinishingMove, down to the name.
* PortalCut: The signature Space offensive ability.
* RealityWarper
!!!Time
* AlternateTimelines: Splinter timelines, by default. Of course, Splinter timelines are also *doomed* timelines by default. No one except the Time player is likely to emerge from them in one piece, and not even the Time player will survive for very long.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: There are many timelines. Only one is Alpha.
* ExpositionBeam: The Time player can touch one of their doomedselves (dead or otherwise) to get the memories of what happened in the Splinter timeline.
* MySkullRunnethOver: What happens if you use [[ExpositionBeam certain Time abilities]] to acquire memories from a Splinter timeline without the psybuffs needed to cope with them. It's why Mist players are ''strongly'' discouraged from fogging their Time players or "samming" Time abilities.
* NonLinearCharacter: Time players don't *do* linearity. Even if they start out wanting to, the game makes it so that they have to do loops and shenanigans in order to make sure things work out 0kay (or as 0kay as anything gets in this game).
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Time players get a passive ability that allows them to get the memories of their deceased doomed selves. This includes the memories of how the doomed self died.
* RetroactivePreparation
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: One of the Time player's Duties, if things go badly. Deliberately engaging in behaviour that causes Splinter timelines is will make them extremely displeased with you; some Time players have been known to react by tossing timecorpses at the offender until he or she knocks it off.
* StableTimeLoops
* TimeMaster: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Well, duh.]]
* TimeStandsStill: An endgame ability.
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast
* YouCannotChangeTheFuture
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[[folder: RV Classic]]
* AerithAndBob: By necessity, given so many players. Exacerbated further by troll names.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: [[spoiler: Zeimah, through a [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Deal with P'Shorshasa]] caused the details of everything Benedict did - and details about Ben himself - to become forgotten and blurred. This means that no one in the session he died in clearly recalls him, and the effect is rigged so that it slowly spreads and makes sure that everyone eventually forgets Benedict.]]
* CreatingLifeIsBad: Thinking about getting pregnant (or otherwise acquiring children of your blood) will get you screamed at by most of the community for being sadistic.
* HealingPotion: [[SupremeChef ballisticSpectacle]], in tandem with [[TheCracker integratedInfiltrator]], came up with lifeshakes (as well as a whole host of ghost-imaged goodies for Replayers to eat). These items have saved lives, since the only other reliable means of healing one's self is to go to a Crystalanth or appeal to one's Sprite (which has usually [[MentorOccupationalHazard vanished]] a couple months into the game (and generally can't get down to your land anyways)).
* ManaPotion: Pluckshakes, created by the same people who made Lifeshakes. [[ManaMeter Pluck]] regenerates slowly, so this is very valuable.
* MiseryPoker: A favorite pastime.
* PowerOfTrust: Major heartwarming moments, including the time a Player was reclaimed from [[TheCorruption Angels]] by their [[MoralityChain moirail]].
** Backfired ''horribly'' when a [[LoveMakesYouDumb girl with a crush went down to the Underworld]] to try to meet the focus of her affection.
* RuleOfEmpathy: Those who argue for Heries [=ICly=] will often conveniently gloss over her high body count, since many of the ones she killed weren't part of the Sburb.org community.
* SacrificialLion: Stan, twenty-seven session veteran, Myra's best friend, and died a DeathByDespair (well, a death by having cratered his roleplay coefficient, which is very closely linked to stats effectiveness but also emotions). Not originally brought in to demonstrate that AnyoneCanDie.
* {{Scandalgate}}: The cracking open of the Seer Network (courtesy of epinephrineElectrified leaking their entire archives) was immediately dubbed Seergate by everyone else.
* WorldOfSnark: Too many examples to cite on this page.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: ''A User's Guide to the Apocalypse'' (RV Chuubo's, "the book")]]
* TheAlternet: An extensive "Replayernet" of servers in the Ring.
* AnachronismStew: The author likes the aesthetics of 1990s computing, which means that old-style [=BBSes=], IRC chats, and modern websites coexist.
* BrandX: On the Replayer internet, there is a knockoff {{Image Board}}, a knockoff of {{Website/Reddit}}, a knockoff of {{Website/Tumblr}}, a knockoff of [[Blog/LessWrong Internet rationality]]...
* CaptainErsatz: A few characters have been replaced due to the writer not having permission to use them.
* CosmicHorrorStory: The book uses cosmic horror themes as an {{Allegory}} for child abuse. Oddly enough, this isn't because of the Others or Angels (even though both are classic Lovecraftian monsters). The cosmic horror is actually built into the structure of Sburb itself - because Sburb threatens to kill you if you [[BlueAndOrangeMorality don't adhere to the behavior expected of your Classpect]], and ''will'' break you if you try to escape.
* DeconReconSwitch: First, the bleakness of the setting of Sburb is introduced and hammered in. Then, the book goes on to explain how people manage to live in the CrapsackWorld anyway - by making social connections and finding PurposeInLife. Where it ultimately ends up on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism is... ambiguous.
* DontTryThisAtHome: The educational section about how to use roleplay to explore emotions contains a disclaimer that doing so could result in unearthing destabilizing amounts of emotion, and thus could be too dangerous to attempt from inside the abuse. Then the author points out that she is in no position to actually demand this, having done so herself, and provides a different set of safety rules for those circumstances.
* EncyclopediaExposita: There is a quote for nearly every chapter and section heading. While some are drawn from various real-world literature (quite a few are from ''Literature/{{HitherbyDragons}}'' actually), most are fictional. "Sources" for these fictional quotes include in-character blog posts, a "Gamebreaker's Glossary", various self-help guides in the style of game [=FAQs=], and even [[StoryWithinAStory an in-universe novel series]] written by one dryadTornado.
* ETGaveUsWiFi: Apparently Skaianet produced almost every computer operating system and computing device since the 1980s. In every universe.
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: ZigZagged.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in terms of size; [=PrototypeTowers=] archives large swathes of presession Internets, and while the size of this archive is never actually stated outright, it's large enough that a "swarm" of hundreds of thousands of servers is needed to hold it all.
** On the other hand, the population of the "Replayernet" is [[PlayedStraight only about 2,000 people]].
* FootnoteFever: Inherited from [[TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine the game it's a sourcebook for]].
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: For the most part, the book is "written" by two characters from inside the universe. However, the author is directly credited for a few entries that would be impossible for the characters to write (because of Corruption risk or what-have-you).
* PragmaticAdaptation: There are a few notable differences between RV Chuubo's and the original Replay Value/Glitch FAQ, to make it more playable. For example, Sand is now an Aspect focusing on {{Rules Lawyer}}ing, rather than lying, so that having a PC roll Sand doesn't make the party explode.
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: ''[[InvertedTrope Inverted]]'' [[PlayedForDrama to horrific effect]]. If you become a DeathSeeker, you will be unable to die. It is only those who don't want to die, or who accept death as a simple inevitability, who end up dying.
* RecursiveFanfiction: Based on RV Classic, which in turn was based on ''Fanfic/SburbGlitchFAQ'', which in turn was based on ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.
* RestrainingBolt: The Ancient Law, which prevents many of the more intelligent and powerful {{Non Player Character}}s (including Derse carapaces, the Denizens, and the Horrorterrors) from interfering with normal, functioning sessions of Sburb. (If it weren't for this, for example, Derse would murder the Dreamers in their sleep.) If your session of Sburb is no longer "normal" and/or "functioning", many of these restrictions are removed. The results are... unpleasant.
* SpaceWhale: Ringbeasts, which float through the Furthest Ring and are immune to Corruption. They are a very rare sight, but you do ''not'' want to bump into one when you're traveling the Ring.
* {{Technobabble}}: Be honest. Did you understand the InfoDump on timetrav encryption?
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