| 1 | [[http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/608792 House of Cards]] is {{Tropers/Regiment}}'s 2009 UsefulNotes/{{NaNoWriMo}}-winning novel. It may seek publishing in the future. |
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| 3 | Character sheet and some kind of actual blurb possibly forthcoming. |
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| 5 | '''This troper work provides examples of:''' |
| 6 | %%* AffablyEvil (Nocens, sometimes) |
| 7 | * AngstWhatAngst (Messus had a terrible childhood, but pointedly doesn't complain about it) |
| 8 | %%* AntiHero (Edward sort of approaches this) |
| 9 | %%* AnyoneCanDie |
| 10 | * {{Arc}} (three of them; a cut fourth is mentioned in the afterword) |
| 11 | * AscendedExtra (In original drafts, Cyrus Requiam was a very minor character) |
| 12 | * AuthorAppeal (All the characters have interesting swords, and the unambiguously evil villain lies) |
| 13 | %%* AuthorAvatar (Cyrus Requiam) |
| 14 | * BatmanGambit (Nocens is a mediocre planner, but he's adaptive) |
| 15 | * BavarianFireDrill (How Nocens always gets what he wants) |
| 16 | * BerserkButton (Don't [[spoiler:hurt]] Nocens) |
| 17 | * BewareTheNiceOnes ([[spoiler:Nocens pushes Messus a little too far]]) |
| 18 | * BilingualBonus (Several minor characters who are killed by Nocens have last names that translate to "[[spoiler:expendable]]" in various languages. Also, about half of the cast anyway, including Samuel [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nocens]] and Messus [[TheWoobie Lache]]) |
| 19 | * BittersweetEnding ([[spoiler:The Instructor and Edward are killed, but Messus's life, at least, looks like it could turn out all right]]) |
| 20 | * BondOneLiner (Nocens, when he feels like it, but most noticeably when he kills [[spoiler:Edward]]) |
| 21 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday (Nocens doesn't remember Edward's first teacher at all [[spoiler:until the end, when he uses it to distract Edward]]) |
| 22 | * ChandlersLaw (when the story starts to slow down, Nocens will usually get the plot moving in his own [[AnyoneCanDie distinctive way]]) |
| 23 | * ChaoticEvil (Nocens, made very clear in his MotiveRant) |
| 24 | * CoincidenceMagnet (Edward's teacher is killed by a lunatic, and he ends up living with a new teacher who's marked for death by the same lunatic, so he's sent off to live with a man that [[spoiler:works for the same lunatic]]) |
| 25 | * ConvenientlyAnOrphan (Edward) |
| 26 | * CoolOldGuy (Auras Haimon, although he's probably not all that old) |
| 27 | * CoolSword (Everyone) |
| 28 | * SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome (for the author, anyway- the existence of this book) |
| 29 | * CrystalDragonJesus (Barely mentioned, but Regiment- yes, [[{{Regiment}} this one]]) |
| 30 | * DefiantToTheEnd ([[spoiler:The Instructor]], who goes out with a PrecisionFStrike) |
| 31 | * DrillSergeantNasty (The Instructor, through and through) |
| 32 | * DrivenToSuicide (Beatrice is so disapproving of her sister's marriage that she drives her brother- in- law away, leading to her sister's suicide. [[spoiler:After pawning Messus off on the Instructor, Beatrice kills herself]].) |
| 33 | * EarnYourHappyEnding ([[spoiler:All of Messus's friends except Auras die, but Messus might be all right]]) |
| 34 | * EndOfAnAge (maybe, since [[spoiler:most of the Khalmise die, and Messus's life, at least, is greatly changed]]) |
| 35 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep (the Instructor, who insists on being called that even once the other characters learn his real name) |
| 36 | ** Parodied with [[EvilMatriarch Beatrice Warthensol]], who insists on calling him "''Mr.'' The Instructor". |
| 37 | * EvilMatriarch (Beatrice Warthensol, Messus's aunt, who broke up his parents's marriage, drove off his father, and unintentionally drove his mother to suicide) |
| 38 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath (Nocens [[BerserkButton gets]] [[UnstoppableRage angry]] at Tarah and cuts her to ribbons. Also [[spoiler:Nocens's death, which involves a rapier getting ''broken off in his brain'']]) |
| 39 | ** Averted with [[spoiler:Edward]], who is killed instantly- see FinalSpeech below |
| 40 | * FauxAffablyEvil (Nocens is clearly having a lot of fun killing people) |
| 41 | * FinalSpeech (Averted with [[spoiler:Edward]], who is killed instantly) |
| 42 | %%* FlawExploitation (why Nocens is so dangerous) |
| 43 | %%* ForTheEvulz (Nocens, pretty much) |
| 44 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble |
| 45 | ** [[AntiHero Edward]] is a cynical Choleric |
| 46 | ** [[TheWoobie Messus]] is an upbeat Melancholic |
| 47 | ** [[DrillSergeantNasty The Instructor]] is an angry Sanguine |
| 48 | ** [[CoolOldGuy Auras]] is the Phlegmatic voice of reason |
| 49 | * GrammarNazi (Edward) |
| 50 | * [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]] (The ending) |
| 51 | * ICallItVera (Everyone. Parodied with Messus, who calls his sword Crystal Edge, even when Edward points out that it's trimmed with ivory, not crystal) |
| 52 | * InformedAbility (The Khalmise are supposed to be the greatest fighters in the world, among other things; despite this, two are killed [[spoiler:and a third defeated and made into TheMole]] before the first chapter, [[spoiler:Ille Haido Lorian is killed in her sleep]], [[spoiler:The Light and The Instructor]] are surprisingly easily defeated, and [[spoiler:Masod Chamnisborgh dies of ''old age'']]. Perhaps somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that the Khalmise are explicitly not only the best ''fighters''- Masod Chamnisborgh and Cyrus Requiam are Khalmise because they're smart, and Iono Milias got in because he kept pestering them) |
| 53 | ** Also the Instructor, somewhat, since he only gets into one actual fight throughout the book, and [[spoiler:he loses and dies]]. |
| 54 | * InsistentTerminology (Their names are ''Edward'' and ''the Instructor'', not ''Ed'' and [[spoiler:''Adrian James'']]) |
| 55 | ** And for a while, after the Instructor [[spoiler:loses his temper and stops speaking to]] his friend Auras, Auras calls him a "pompous, self- important jackass". [[OverlyLongGag A lot.]] |
| 56 | * InsultBackfire (Edward calls Nocens [[YoureInsane insane]]. [[CaptainObvious Nocens already knows this]]) |
| 57 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold (The Instructor, despite his constant demeaning and criticism, is willing to take in people with nowhere else to go) |
| 58 | %%* JumpedAtTheCall (Edward) |
| 59 | * KarmicDeath ([[spoiler:Dorian, Edward, and Nocens]]- basically everyone who dies) |
| 60 | * TheLancer (Messus is cheery and naive, while Edward is increasingly cynical and world- weary) |
| 61 | * LightIsNotGood [[spoiler:(In the last act)]] |
| 62 | %%* LowFantasy |
| 63 | * MadnessMantra (Very briefly: "Lost") |
| 64 | * TheMole ([[spoiler:Dorian Sloasar]]) |
| 65 | * MotiveRant (Nocens is building a [[TitleDrop house of cards]]) |
| 66 | * Nakama (Edward and Messus seem to hate the Instructor, and he appears to hate them, but it's obvious they support each other) |
| 67 | * UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo (Written during [=NaNoWriMo=] 2009) |
| 68 | * NoHuggingNoKissing (The author claims that all the characters are too mental for any kind of romantic relationship, and he quotes [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]'s complaint about shoehorned love stories in the epigraph) |
| 69 | * NoNameGiven (The Instructor, originally, although his name ([[spoiler:Adrian James]]) is revealed fairly early on) |
| 70 | * OldMaster (The Instructor, naturally. Arguably Auras as well, although his age is unclear) |
| 71 | * OrphanedPunchline ("The spiders don't wear red", the punchline from a joke about "the spider and the nuns". In the afterword, the author threatens to smack silly anyone who makes an actual joke with that as the punchline) |
| 72 | * OverlyLongGag (Everyone calling the Instructor a "pompous self-important jackass", and the references to the Light's school by its full title) |
| 73 | * PrecisionFStrike ([[spoiler:The Instructor]]'s last words, and a concept embraced and explained in the afterword) |
| 74 | * [[PretentiousLatinMotto Pretentious French Motto]] (The Light's school has one that translates to "for the eyes of magnificent men".) |
| 75 | %%* ProductionNickname ("Plotline") |
| 76 | * RedRightHand (inverted, in that it's [[spoiler:Edward]] whose right hand is broken and deformed [[spoiler:eventually]]) |
| 77 | * RuleOfThree ([[spoiler:Edward is hurt by Nocens three times before Nocens kills him]]) |
| 78 | * ScarsAreForever (Edward's [[spoiler:broken right hand and, later, his right shoulder, both of which are never expected to heal properly]]; also, the Light's scar across his face [[spoiler:which he got during his FaceHeelTurn]]) |
| 79 | ** [[spoiler:Of course, both men are killed before their scars could even begin to heal]] |
| 80 | * ShoutOut (to everything from ''VideoGame/BioShock'' to [[DeathMetal Dimmu Borgir]]) |
| 81 | * ShutUpKirk ([[spoiler:Nocens]] to [[spoiler:Edward]]) |
| 82 | %%* SourSupporter (The Instructor) |
| 83 | * SdrawkcabName (Cyrus Requiam's original name in early drafts was very close to this) |
| 84 | * TalkToTheFist ([[spoiler:''Messus'']], of all people, to [[spoiler:Nocens. With a sword]].) |
| 85 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou (Edward's personal vendetta against Nocens. [[spoiler:Subverted when his zealousy gets him killed, and Messus finishes off Nocens]]) |
| 86 | * TitleDrop (part of Nocens's MotiveRant) |
| 87 | * TwoLinesNoWaiting (Edward and Messus's journeys, and Samuel Nocens's murder spree) |
| 88 | * VerbalTic (Nocens uses people's names almost every sentence. He also [[TheNicknamer shortens everyone's name to a single syllable]]) |
| 89 | * WaifFu (Pointedly averted; the only female character to get into a fight punches her opponent ([[spoiler:Nocens]]) in the face. [[BerserkButton Bad idea]]) |
| 90 | * TheWoobie (Messus, possibly) |
| 91 | * YoureInsane (Edward tells Nocens this after his MotiveRant. [[InsultBackfire Nocens agrees, and says he's fine with that]]) |
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