1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character behaves like he/she comes from a different time and place. Compare DiscoDan. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice wears a dress comparable to what a medieval PrincessClassic would wear, and is enamored with the idea of CourtlyLove with a KnightInShiningArmor. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Alice speaks in Olde English, and does not use modern technology. She also rides a horse everywhere, instead of a car. She believes everything made after the Renaissance, and modern [[ValuesDissonance values]] and practices just plain suck. |
5 | ** Alice acts like a cavewoman. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice wears modern clothes and technology, but repeatedly stresses on the superiority of old-fashioned values over modern decadence and selfishness. Whether she is right, [[ValuesDissonance or simply not seeing the bad in the old ways]], is not determined. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** Alice is a FishOutOfTemporalWater, obsessed with antiques and old history. |
9 | ** In a form on inverse ValuesDissonance, Alice abhors the more modern-day morality as decadent and crude, focusing on antiquated values that [[ValuesResonance have stood the test of time.]] |
10 | * '''Inverted''': |
11 | ** Alice uses only the speech patterns, technology, and style of the modern era. |
12 | ** Or of the future. |
13 | ** EvilReactionary |
14 | * '''Subverted''': Alice only wears her PrincessClassic dress to a medieval fair. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': Only to [[JustForFun/OneOfUs participate in]] a {{LARP}} on the way home...that begins to take on a life of its own. |
16 | * '''Parodied''': ??? |
17 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
18 | * '''Averted''': Alice does not dress, speak, or behave like a noblewoman of the MiddleAges, but a regular woman of the modern era. |
19 | * '''Enforced''': |
20 | ** RuleOfFunny |
21 | ** Alternatively, [[WriterOnBoard trying to show that]] [[LuddWasRight modern technology and values have ruined society]], by using Alice as a {{Foil}}. |
22 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Alice looks like a fairy-tale princess, like she just stepped out of an Myth/ArthurianLegend or something." |
23 | * '''Invoked''': Alice participates in a really hardcore {{LARP}}, and one of its rules is not to break character at ''any'' time for ''any'' reason, even after going back home. |
24 | * '''Exploited''': In a FishOutOfTemporalWater situation:\ |
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26 | A) One mimics the GoodOldWays to not upset the "fish."\ |
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28 | B) The fish tries to mimic the way every else is acting to blend in. |
29 | * '''Defied''': Alice refuses to go anywhere without her cellphone, thinks CourtlyLove is a bunch of malarkey, [[RealWomenDontWearDresses never wears a dress of any kind]], and drives a car. She can't imagine ''not'' living in modern times! |
30 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
31 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
32 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
33 | ** Everyone thinks Alice is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, and she's thus alienating herself from others. She could also be missing out on a lot of good things of the modern era...like modern medicine. |
34 | ** Alice's idolization of the past, intentionally or not, includes [[DeliberateValuesDissonance its more unsavory elements]]. |
35 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
36 | ** Alice learns that there's a time and a place for everything, and that modern stuff isn't all bad. She still likes the MiddleAges, but is able to channel that interest into something like studying medieval literature, or becoming a better DM. And because she isn't speaking in Olde English all the time, people understand her and get to know her, instead of staring and whispering. |
37 | ** Alice asks herself the hard questions about the time period she idolizes. Her love for it still endures but it's tempered by a more thorough understanding of it. |
38 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is a DiscoDan figure. |
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40 | I do say, be a good sport and click this GoodOldWays virtual travel machine! |
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42 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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44 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
45 | %%* '''Intended Audience Reaction''': ??? |
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