History Roleplay / Eldarstuck

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Starting with at least twelve Eldar protagonists, twelve sprites, twelve guardians, twelve denizens, and plenty more.

Twelve young Eldar, each just ten cycles; or sixty five terran years old, just starting adolescense, have come together to play a game called SPELF in the grim darkness of the year 41,017. As the galaxy's civilizations and monsters tear each other apart in ever escalating and ever increasing wars, the twelve find themselves caught in a battle of their own to claim the ultimate reward. However, as Armageddon at last descends on the long suffering galaxy, it seems that the old world is not quite as ready to accept its demise as once thought, and the twelve children are caught up in not just a battle for the ultimate reward; but a struggle between the order of Paradox Space and the chaos of the Warhammer metaverse.

* AlienKudzu: With the Orks and Tyranids in play, this is bound to pop up as a problem given their tendency to change ecosystems to suit their needs.

* BadBoss: Varaxar kills one of his cultists delivering him the news of his forces' first encounter with the Eldar kids for groveling too much. Though by Chaos standards, this level of malevolence towards one's own soldiers is rather par the course.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Generally averted when Warhammer itself tends to zig zag around with the trope DependingOnTheAuthor where in one work faiths like the Imperial Cult or the Cult mechanicus are holding humanity back while in others they are humanity's best hope against the darkness, while Andrew Hussie is himself an open atheist who has expressed criticisms of the world's major religions, Mental Omega is a spiritualistic Neo-Pagan and the more spiritualistic Eldar have not been portrayed as being any less clever than their more secular team mates.
* BigBadEnsemble: You have the Dersite Black King and Queen, the Chaos Lord and possible Warmaster Varaxar the Annihlator, Imperial Warmaster Konrad von Werner, Tau Ethereal Aun'O'Res'Ka, the Ork Warlord Teefsmasha Gutrippa, Demiurge Clanmaster Hreld Ironbane, the Skaven, the Undead, the Ogres, and the Tyranid Swarmlord all vying for the spot. Hints of Necron involvement have been dropped, and the name of Phaeron Rahamutep has also been mentioned.
** Rahamutep seems to have some personal grudge against Skaia, recognizing and hating its iconography. It is mentioned that his family disappeared in an unusual meteor shower.
** Current consensus is that currently; Chaos is the largest and most unreasonable threat facing the setting.
* BilingualBonus: Knightsprite speaks entirely in French, and oh boy oh boy does he swear a lot.
* {{BFG}}: Idaliryn's main weapon of choice is the Wraithcannon, an Eldar weapon that deals damage by tearing open a small hole in reality to suck in (parts) of the target into the warp like a small black hole. In 40k canon, these weapons are simply too big and dangerous to be wielded by normal Eldar, and it's easily the most damaging weapon seen in the hands of the cast so far.
* {{BFS}}: Kaeliyae's preferred weapon. As she's not using a shield and neither is she dual wielding (while also so far, being the physically strongest of the cast short of Idaliryn's wraith body), she adopted the use of zweihander swords. Her current blade combines a power weapon, a witchblade, a chainblade and other cutting implements to allow her to hack through most enemies she's met with ease, even decapitating six people at once without any resistance. It does struggle with heavy armour though.
* CoolVersusAwesome: The entirety of the first intermission is essentially a sequence of these, from our first looks at the eight way war on the battlefield, to the Midnight Crew clearing out an apartment complex of a Chaos Cult, to taking on Sarthorael the Everwatcher, the BigBad of Total War Warhammer and a fucking greater daemon of Tzeentch and ''winning.'' Don't mess with the agents of Derse indeed.
* CloudCuckooLander: hierarchalGuardian has a bizarre way of speaking where he divides his words into two roughly equally syllable halves, an unexplained and ''very'' British accent and in his one appearance so far, seemed to ramble on almost entirely incoherently. ZigZagged in his second appearance where he seems to be all there, but still definitely the strangest member of the session.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Virtually all of the Dark Eldar shown so far have some issue with Dark Eldar society. Drakonik is a spineless wimp who chafes at the high value on emotion and passion Dark Eldar society has over "Necron like" logic and reason. Zarathos likes the dog eat dog social darwinistic authority of Dark Eldar society, but is revealed to actually be rather squeamish around blood and gore; a hidden shame of his. Perhaps most extreme though is Eviscera, who has a romantic soul and wants to love and be loved in a society that tries to hide the very idea that Dark Eldar can even fall in love and wishes she were born in a less cruel society.
* DoubleEntendre: magnanimousGlory is clearly unappreciative of these directed at her. To quote her in the 34th chatlog
->''"MG: "Another of the initiates laughed in my face when I missed a strike and said I "should take off your hands from that spear and consider other spears to join yourself to" and I felt an overpowering urge to "join" my clenched fist to his smug face."''
->''"TI: Did you, though?"''
->''"MG: I just told him that he would "need a spear for me to join to in the first place" and I think that made him see Khaine before the Exarch came and broke up the confrontation."''
* EveryoneIsBi: By word of Mental Omega, Eldar range between 1 and 3 on the Kinsey scale, making them all heterosexual leaning bisexuals or pure bisexuals. No word on where everyone is on that scale though.

* EvilVersusEvil: The conflict between the forces of Chaos, Tyranids, Orks, and Derse is definitely this, though Derse isn't quite as extreme in this regard as the other three. The conflicts between the above and the Tau, Demiurge, and Imperium are arguably this depending on how favorably you view factions such as the Tau and the Imperium, though from the perspective of the game those three are ultimately as harmful as the more malevolent factions.
* ExpositionFairy: Carried over from Homestuck proper, sprites serve as these as part of their overall role in helping players navigate through a session of SBURB/SGRUB/SPELF. Alyrsero's Kavralasprite in particular is his primary contender for the most verbose character yet seen.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: The main cast has six girls and six boys as per homestuck tradition, though there are some imbalances elsewhere, such as Alyrsero breaking with Homestuck tradition by having both a genetic father and a step-mother; potentially skewing the Guardian cast with an added female; while all the Warhammer villains save for one or two are either male or genderless. Though canonically, only a single Imperial woman has ever made it to the rank of Lady General in eleven thousand years of history nevermind Warmaster, no female Chaos Lords made from Astartes stock are known at all, the Orks are a male MonogenderedRace that reproduces by sporing, leaving only Tau Ethereal Aun'O'Res'ka and Clanmaster Hreld Ironbane whose genders are unmentioned.
* GodOfEvil: The C'tan and the Chaos Gods remain as such.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: ZigZagged, by raw stats Kaeliyae is a much better melee fighter than Alyrsero was at her level while Alyrsero has more capacity for direct damage at a distance with his chosen warpcrafts. Zarathos and Eviscera are both melee oriented (with Zarathos being more focused on range and Eviscera more on tanking and brute force) while Lelianna and Idaliryn are range and support specialists.
* HumansAreBastards: Alyrsero is very much of this opinion after the human attack on craftworld Alaitoc described in the Path of the Eldar trilogy killed many of his classmates, and would be glad to see them all wiped out, even having the symbol of Craftworld Biel'Tan, whose hat is being the most xenophobic of the craftworld Eldar; flying in his bedroom, to his Father's concern. Of course, given that the two most prominent representations of humanity in Warhammer are the xenophobic and fascistic Imperium of Man and the AxeCrazy and LaughingMad Legions of Chaos his position isn't entirely without merit.
** The first Imperial viewpoint characters we see order a nerve gas artillery strike to be carried out on the largely defenseless consorts and some Prospitans helping them to hunt better, and WordOfGod stepped in to remind us that even the "nicer" Space Marine chapters are still highly indoctrinated transhuman killing machines who would be considered sociopathic by normal human standards.

* {{Jerkass}}: Zarathos Malefact is quite the arrogant bastard, though both Kaeliyae and Alyrsero have had moments where they were incredibly rude and mean to other people, with Kaeliyae barely even flinching when she visibly hurt her teacher's feelings.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Alyrsero is often extremely caustic in his speech but he seems to genuinely try to be a good friend. Zarathos similarly is crass, arrogant, and self centered but he's displayed a surprising amount of concern for the well being of his friends, with Mental Omega noting that Zarathos' online friends are essentially his only real friends despite his power and status, due to his high social status and the nature of Dark Eldar culture making it nearly impossible for him to have a real peer group.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to mainstream Warhammer 40,000 the story has so far been this, with less of Warhammer's infamous soul crushing despair on display here, though its worth noting that the perspective has so far been seen from the eyes of children who are far removed from the darkest aspects of the setting and as Eldar, have access to far better civilian technology than most other factions; and the Midnight Crew who aren't native to Warhammer 40,000 and thus don't have much room to see the darkest aspects of the enemies of Derse.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Zarathos is immensely wealthy, born into power and luxury, acts as the second in command of his mother's sprawling raider empire, and has had a silver spoon in his mouth the whole time. And yet he is desperately short on real friends due to the cut throat nature of Dark Eldar society for those at its top and the status imbalance he has with nearly everyone he interacts with in person. He's not even particularly good at recognizing altruistic social cues due to Dark Eldar culture being built on paranoia and backstabbing.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Starting with at least twelve Eldar protagonists, twelve sprites, twelve guardians, twelve denizens, twelve (original) Warhammer 40,000 villains, and the black and white kings and queens; and that's just the bare minimum.
* MacabreMothMotif: Subverted with Lelianna, she loves Moths and Butterflies and the rebirth and transformation that they undergo, but she's a very lively MotorMouth GenkiGirl and garden enthusiast.

* MommasBoy: The selected background for Zarathos has him noted for being highly devoted to his mother to the point of being entrusted to be her second in command of the Archoness' kabal. The choice was even labeled by this trope's very name. This has lead to something of an internal conflict between his ambition to one day claim what he sees as his inheritance, and his loyalty to his mother.

* OffWithHisHead: Kaeliyae decapitates *six* chaos cultists and traitor guardsmen in a single swing of her two handed sword, and even this early into the story there are already a rather substantial number of decapitations or head mutilations.

* TrainingFromHell: Zarathos' mother for some reason believes that Tesla coils, Killa Kans, missile launchers and unnannounced sparring sessions started with a knife thrown at the back are the best way to train her son into being the best possible warrior.
* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: Played around with. The Black Queen remains explicitly noted for being more revealingly dressed than the White Queen, but Kaeliyae's guardian wears a much more skin tight (if fully concealing) outfit than Zarathos' mother who is bedecked in PowerArmor, though Zarathos' mother is much more likely to appear out of it than Kaeliyae's teacher given that Shadowseers aren't supposed to reveal their faces to anyone else after becoming a full Shadowseer (though nothing is said about the rest of their clothes).

* ShoutOut: So far Metroid, Command and Conquer, and Godzilla have all received shoutouts, with what's implied to be a Samus Aran amiibo being owned by Alyrsero's father, a Nod avatar warmech being in the possession of the Thirmoak dynasty (and implications that the Emperor was Kane), and a triple headed golden mutant dragon being created by the ectobiology devices in Kaeliyae's troupe's home base; and implications that something like Mothra is worshiped as an aspect of Isha by the Exodite Eldar and Lelianna.
* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: Warhammer canon tends to lean much more strongly towards the Free Will end, using the Skeins of Fate to see the future only lets you see possibilities and probabilities, and as the present changes, these possibilities and probabilities can change or even collapse and be replaced by new ones; and time travel when done is allowed to change the present without stable time loops. Homestuck however leans quite strongly towards the Fate end of the scale, with an Alpha Timeline that must be followed to avoid dooming a timeline (though if Lord English is gone, timeline rules might be relaxed), and this is briefly touched upon in Alyrsero's first conversation with Kavralasprite where he points out that it is a known fact that fate can be changed in Warhammer. Kavralasprite simply responds by noting that her mind is filled with contradicting information right now.

* TheMatchmaker: Eviscera shows some rather significant shades of this with her passion for...passion and her lament that pastDealings is currently a dead person contained in a soulstone, feeling he would make a good couple with Kaeliyae.
* TheNecromancer: The Undead of course, though a mysterious teal texted benefactor has pointed Zarathos to a copy of one of the nine books of Nagash.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Even by the standards of Warhammer 40000 the Dark Eldar are cruel and selfish in the extreme and the Dark Eldar characters notably seem less friendly, more antisocial, and less stable than their Harlequin and Craftworld counterparts.

* WeHaveReserves: In full force by the armies of Prospit, Derse, the Imperium, Chaos, the Orks, the Skaven, the Thyrrus, the Ogres, the Rak'Gol, the Undead, the Tyranids, the Tau, and the Demiurge. After an engagement that costs him nine in ten soldiers in a very pyrrhic victory, the Draconian Dignitary just sends in the order for more troops with all the care for the lives lost of an RTS player.

* [[spoiler:WhamLine: "However, this universe does not fit the standard." as said by Kavralasprite, revealing to Alyrsero that the Warhammer setting's own factions have invaded the session beforehand.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Two are underway but somewhat contained as a result of the Necromancy of the Undead under a powerful Vampire Lady and from Nurgle's plagues. However the Warhammer factions are well used to the spread of such plagues or the usage of Necromancy and there has been mention that none of the cast ever gets sick.

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!!Tropes Applying strictly to the 2.0 version include

* ZombieApocalypse: Two are underway but somewhat contained as a result of the Necromancy of the Undead under a powerful Vampire Lady and from Nurgle's plagues. However the Warhammer factions are well used to the spread of such plagues or the usage of Necromancy and there has been mention that none of the cast ever gets sick.

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Generally Averted when Warhammer itself tends to zig zag around with the trope DependingOnTheAuthor where in one work faiths like the Imperial Cult or the Cult mechanicus are holding humanity back while in others they are humanity's best hope against the darkness, while Andrew Hussie is himself an open atheist who has expressed criticisms of the world's major religions, Mental Omega is a spiritualistic Neo-Pagan and the more spiritualistic Eldar have not been portrayed as being any less clever than their more secular team mates.
* BigBadEnsemble: You have the Dersite Black King and Queen, the Chaos Lord and possible Warmaster Varaxar the Annihlator, Imperial Warmaster Konrad von Werner, Tau Ethereal Aun'O'Res'Ka, the Ork Warlord Teefsmasha Gutrippa, Demiurge Clanmaster Hreld Ironbane,a nd the Tyranid Swarmlord all vying for the spot. Hints of Necron involvement have been dropped, and the name of Phaeron Rahamutep has also been mentioned.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: The main cast has six girls and six boys as per homestuck tradition, though there are some imbalances elsewhere, such as Alyrsero breaking with Homestuck tradition by having both a genetic father and a step-mother; potentially skewing the Guardian cast with an added female; while all the Warhammer villains are either male or genderless. Though canonically, only a single Imperial woman has ever made it to the rank of Lady General in eleven thousand years of history nevermind Warmaster, no female Chaos Lords made from Astartes stock are known at all, the Orks are a male MonogenderedRace that reproduces by sporing, leaving only Tau Ethereal Aun'O'Res'ka and Clanmaster Hreld Ironbane whose genders are unmentioned.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Starting with at least twelve Eldar protagonists, twelve sprites, twelve guardians, twelve denizens, six (original) Warhammer 40,000 villains, and the black and white kings and queens; and that's just the bare minimum.

* WeHaveReserves: In full force by the armies of Prospit, Derse, the Imperium, Chaos, the Orks, the Tyranids, the Tau, and the Demiurge. After an engagement that costs him nine in ten soldiers in a very pyrrhic victory, the Draconian Dignitary just sends in the order for more troops with all the care for the lives lost of an RTS player.

* [[spoiler:WhamLine: "However, this universe does not fit the standard." as said by Kavralasprite, revealing to Alyrsero that the Warhammer setting's own factions have invaded the session beforehand.]]

** Horrorterrors: The Gods of the Furthest Rings are stereotypical monsters of the HPLovecraft variety, residing in the dark abyss between universes where time, space, and all other aspects of existence fail to act consistently. It is not really possible to place their morality in any meaningful context comparable to human morality, but compared to the likes of the C'tan or the Chaos Gods, their actions in canon are vastly more benevolent overall and they seem content to let sessions unfold without too much interference.

* {{Crossover}}: Between ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Inverted, by raw stats Kaeliyae is a much better melee fighter than Alyrsero was at her level while Alyrsero has more capacity for direct damage with his warp craft.
* HumansAreBastards: Alyrsero is very much of this opinion after the human attack on craftworld Alaitoc described in the Path of the Eldar trilogy killed many of his classmates, and would be glad to see them all wiped out, even having the symbol of Craftworld Biel'Tan, whose hat is being the most xenophobic of the craftworld Eldar; flying in his bedroom, to his Father's concern. Of course, given that the two most prominent representations of humanity in Warhammer are the xenophobic and fascistic Imperium of Man and the AxeCrazy and LaughingMad Legions of Chaos his position isn't entirely without merit.

* TheMatchmaker: terribleAttentions shows some rather significant shades of this with her passion for...passion and her lament that pastDealings is currently a dead person contained in a soulstone, feeling he would make a good couple with Kaeliyae.

* CloudCuckooLander: hierarchalGuardian has a bizarre way of speaking where he divides his words into two roughly equally syllable halves, an unexplained and ''very'' British accent and in his one appearance so far, seemed to ramble on almost entirely incoherently.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Even by the standards of Warhammer 40000 the Dark Eldar are cruel and selfish in the extreme and the Dark Eldar characters notably seem less friendly, more antisocial, and less stable than their Harlequin and Craftworld counterparts.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted, if the theory about the gibberish spewing chat partners being trolls and "normal" humans holds true, then the reason that their words come off as gibberish is that we're seeing the story from the perspective of Eldar from the far future; where the English language has disappeared with only trace elements surviving as part of the Imperium's Gothic language.

* SophisticatedAsHell: The Eldar don't often resort to swearing, so when it does happen it's quite noticeable, particularly from the more verbal and formal examples of their kind. The descriptions can veer into this when Mental Omega decides to start being a bit more flowery than normal.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Inverted, by raw stats Kaeliyae is a much better melee fighter than Alyrsero was at her level while Alyrsero has more capacity for direct damage with his warp craft.

* HumansAreBastards: Alyrsero is very much of this opinion after the human attack on craftworld Alaitoc described in the Path of the Eldar trilogy killed many of his classmates, and would be glad to see them all wiped out, even having the symbol of Craftworld Biel'Tan, whose hat is being the most xenophobic of the craftworld Eldar; flying in his bedroom, to his Father's concern.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Naturally this is how virtually all the Eldar speak to begin with, though Alyrsero is probably the wordiest by a good margin who likes to talk to degrees that even other Eldar can find a bit tiresome in informal contexts.

''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' don't often interact with each other very much fandom wise given the differences in demographic. However, SV user Mental Omega has decided to cross over two of the Internet's more high profile fandoms at last into a Quest known as '''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/eldarstuck-warhammer-40000-x-homestuck.36176/ Eldarstuck]]''' based off of the characters a friend of his created for Pesterchum role plays. Starting off with the young seer in training Alyrsero Ardanesh on the day of his tenth cycle, the players must guide the young Eldar through a session of SPELF that has been heavily afflicted by the influence of their home universe while also confronting their own inner problems.

* BadassBookworm: Despite being a child and mostly focused on indoorsy activities and spends most of his time learning the Eldar witchpath, Alyrsero has displayed considerably more competence in his first fight than most new players have. Justified in that he's older than all four of the canon beta kids put together at the start of their respective stories and has had plenty of time to squeeze in combat training; a required part of the Eldar seer path.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: As per 40k standard, many characters have very malicious sounding names. The cake has to go to Varaxar the Annihilator; a Chaos Lord who's said to be one of the best candidates to replace Abaddon the Despoiler. On the hero's side of thing, tyrannicalIntent's chat handle is already menacing enough, but his actual name? Zarathos Malefact, as in the name of a demon and a truncated version of the word "Malefactor", yikes!

* {{Jerkass}}: tyrannicalIntent is quite the arrogant bastard, though both Kaeliyae and Alyrsero have had moments where they were incredibly rude and mean to other people.

* FloatingContinents: Kaeliyae Eltravii's land; the land of Storm and Games has these floating between two layers of storm clouds.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Starting with at least twelve Eldar protagonists, twelve sprites, twelve guardians, twelve denizens, and the black and white kings and queens; and that's just the bare minimum.

* {{Badass}}: It's Warhammer 40000, everyone is going to be kicking ass to some degree or the other.

* {{Crossover}}: Between ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''Webcomic/Homestuck''

* [[Spoiler:WhamLine: "However, this universe does not fit the standard." as said by Kavralasprite, revealing to Alyrsero that the Warhammer setting's own factions have invaded the session beforehand.]]

* {{Spoiler: WhamLine: "However, this universe does not fit the standard." as said by Kavralasprite, revealing to Alyrsero that the Warhammer setting's own factions have invaded the session beforehand.}}

''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''Webcomic/Homestuck'' don't often interact with each other very much fandom wise given the differences in demographic. However, SV user Mental Omega has decided to cross over two of the Internet's more high profile fandoms at last into a Quest known as '''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/eldarstuck-warhammer-40000-x-homestuck.36176/ Eldarstuck]]''' based off of the characters a friend of his created for Pesterchum role plays. Starting off with the young seer in training Alyrsero Ardanesh on the day of his tenth cycle, the players must guide the young Eldar through a session of SPELF that has been heavily afflicted by the influence of their home universe while also confronting their own inner problems.

* [[Spoiler: WhamLine: "However, this universe does not fit the standard." as said by Kavralasprite, revealing to Alyrsero that the Warhammer setting's own factions have invaded the session beforehand.]]

* [[Badass]]: It's Warhammer 40000, everyone is going to be kicking ass to some degree or the other.

* [[Crossover]]: Between ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''Webcomic/Homestuck''

* SpaceElves: What the Eldar ultimately are, even noting to be capable of interbreeding with humans despite the Eldar being many tens of millions of years older.