History Fanfic / FourWalkingDisasters

* IHaveYourWife: While no one's wife, this is what the Silver-Bloods do to Margret. [[spoiler: The tables are later turned when Hjar is put in the same position as a bargaining chip against Margret.

** [[spoiler: If it wasn't for Xander, Julius and his allies would've never learnt how to trap a dragons soul.]]

** [[spoiler: Hircine for Hjar, as he gave her lycanthropy in order to make her a more effective hunter.]]
** [[spoiler: Nocturnal for L’laarzen as she needed the power of the Nightingales to defeat Mercer Frey after he crippled her a previous fight.]]
* TheDreaded: The Dragonborn. [[spoiler: Because of the sheer number of dragons he's killed, the rest of the Dov fear him, some even worrying he means to consume all of them for the sake of it.]] [[spoiler: DB later proves them wrong.]]

%%* IHaveYourWife: While no one's wife, this is what the Silver-Bloods do to Margret. [[spoiler: The tables are later turned when Hjar is put in the same position as a bargaining chip against Margret.

%%* OddFriendship: Two examples among the main cast, Hjar with Margret, [[spoiler:An imperial spy and a Forsworn]] and Elisif with Dulurza, [[spoiler:Dulurza intended to kill her]].

* ArmorIsUseless: Hjar to an extent. [[spoiler: Because of her ability to transform into a werewolf, any clothes she wears usually get shredded. Xander eventually enchants some for her that manage to stay in one piece after her transformations.]]

* BrokenPedestal: Julius Meteuse is charismatic, intelligent, powerful, everything Alexander wanted to be. [[spoiler: But he becomes a broken pedestal for Xander after he reveals his true plans of destroying Mundus, as well as poisoning his friends. After Xander finds his resolve, he faces his older brother in battle.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:Hjar does this to the [[spoiler:Reach when she kills the Jarl, Madanach, and Thonar, pretty much leaving each of the factions leaderless and the region in chaos. Her story in arc four and onwards revolves around fixing the mess she created.]]

%%* NoodleIncident: Every time Alexanders childhood is brought up. "The Chicken Feathers Incident" is a recurring case.

** Julius Meteuse is the oldest of Xander's siblings and possibly the most impressive. Skilled in all fields of magic, but specialised in one school, Alteration, he shows off his talents by easily [[spoiler:defeating Xander in a duel, and even killing a dragon.]] Xander admits that Julius is good at everything he tries, and praises him as a genius.[[spoiler: This becomes a substantial problem when the heroes need to defeat him]].

* BadassNormal: In a world of magic and monsters you’d have to be pretty tough to take it on. Enter Alexander, with stunted magicka reserves, unremarkable strength and barely any combat experience. However, with his bravery and genius mind, he continuously takes on powerful foes and triumphs, such as a skeletal dragon in Labyrinthian, as well as [[spoiler:Morokei the dragon priest. He goes from nearly getting killed by a single bandit to taking on his older siblings and winning in the span of months.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Julius Meteuse is charismatic, intelligent, powerful, everything Alexander wanted to be. But he becomes a broken pedestal for Xander after he reveals his true plans of destroying Mundus, as well as poisoning his friends. After Xander finds his resolve, he faces his older brother in battle.]]

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler:This happens to Dulurza and Hjar, the former as she soon falls in love with Elisif the Fair (who she is meant to kill), and the latter as Hjar soon learns that the Forsworn she considers a family are at the behest of the Silver-Bloods, falling more in love with Margret, an Imperial spy.]]

** [[spoiler: Xander eventually becomes a 'conduit', able to channel the consciousness and power of a Daedric prince through himself. Shown off when he lets Azura temporarily take over his body, and the results are spectacular.]]

* GlassCannon: [[spoiler:Hjar can kick some serious ass, even when she's not in her werewolf form, but she does risk harming herself much more easily than the average human would with her Weakmarrow, which is basically brittle bones. For example, when she punches an orc in the face, she breaks her knuckles early in the story. Thankfully, transforming into a werewolf cures her accumulated damage, though it doesn't cure her condition. Xander later provides her with some flesh spells, allowing her to take more hits.]]

* ThirdPersonPerson: Like most Khajit, L’Laarzen speaks in third person, though she has switched into first on more than one occasion (often when it would make her sentence more dramatic).

* DysfunctionJunction: Each and every one of the damn heroes.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Alexander does this with a staff, but instead of using it for a spell, he breaks it and releases the magic energies inside, killing a skeletal dragon via the explosion.

%%* NoodleIncident: Happened to Alexander when he was at the Synod, it somehow involved fish soup.
%%* OddFriendship: Two examples among the main cast, Hjar with Margret, [[spoiler:An imperial spy and a Forsworn]] and Elisif with Dulurza [[spoiler:the woman who intended to kill her]].