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"SHUT THE FUCK UP SOME OF US HAVE A FUCKING HANGOVER, ALRIGHT?!" -RPD
"May I remind you that I am not a person?... I am a god!" - Albert Wesker
"For mezhods, I razher enjoy hamstringing or kneecapping." - Bertha

This is a rather trope-heavy Alternate Universe Resident Evil RP group found on Tumblr. It should be noted that there are Resident Evil: Revelations spoilers being posted there on a regular basis.

Due to how there have been roleplayers who've left and their characters got reset, the plotline summary is being rewritten. The tropes relating to the characters who have been now taken out of the story be reset, since the roleplayers in question may not go with the different interpretations of the character.

     The plotline 
The main storyline starts out in August. Wesker is searching for more viral samples and has recruited the Wolfpack to help him. Several BSAA members get involved in the story (though it should be noted that Chris and Jill, despite being two of the main characters in the main series, have avoided most of this conflict). Parker ends up switching sides due to a deal.

Meanwhile, RPD, a sentient bipedal chain-smoking alcoholic licker, had recently been released from testing and is now being used as a weapon, being sent on missions. He and HUNK are sent off to a tanker (in is what is dubbed "The Tanker incident") to retrieve a viral sample. Parker ends up getting sent in as backup, along with Lupo, but Lupo leaves early due to her orders. After they end up in the hospital, it's revealed that RPD had a mind control device placed on him. Parker and HUNK (the latter weakened due to a gunshot wound that ends up getting reopened) get the device off of him. They then do some digging and it's revealed that Umbrella is planning on using that sort of technology on other BO Ws to form an army.

In November, Parker and HUNK get sent in to deal with Theta-Med, a rival pharmaceutical company. During the course of the incident, both end up hallucinating due to a serum both of them received and Parker ends up infected with the T-Abyss Virus.

Due to a one-night stand, Excella is revealed to have become pregnant with Wesker's children (fraternal twins). Her character arc includes how she's adjusting to what's going on.

Leon ends up in a fight with Lupo. During it, she poisons him with a rare poison that requires one to constantly keep one's heart rate up, otherwise one will die. It is then later revealed that Claire is pregnant with his child. Claire later ends up kidnapped after she and Leon have a spat and is subjected to some experiments that cause her to mutate. She's eventually given the cure and reverts back to normal.

Alfred ends up revealing that he's placed cameras everywhere. This causes everyone to panic, because Alfred put any footage of sexual acts up on the internet for people to watch. This ends up resulting in a fight between Sergei and Nicholai, who were involved with one another. Parker ends up mutating into an Oozelike creature. Raymond and Charlotte end up taking care of him for the duration and Parker's subjected to several. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Harold spend their time getting to know one another.

RPD is still working directly for Wesker, given stabilizing shots for his mutation when he completes a mission. He's mutating slowly and worried that he's going to lose his mind.

Alex Wesker, Jake Mueller, and Sherry Birkin end up involved with the main storyline, along with Jessica Sherawat. Alex spends their time probing around, trying to get RPD to join their side with promises of a cure. They also offer HUNK a position as a mercenary, despite how little they would pay HUNK when compared to Umbrella. Jessica generally angers people, especially Jill, Raymond, and Parker, due to the events of Revelations.

RPD ends up running around the city, his mask off so everyone can see he's a Licker, while in full uniform. Eventually, Wesker catches up to him and captures him, subjecting him to procedures that make RPD mutate into a mindless monster that is described as being like a cross between a Licker and a Tyrant. As it turns out, though, RPD is not completely mindless, but his memories are buried.

Meanwhile, Forest is worried about possibly being infected, so he contacts Excella. Excella, meanwhile, is getting prepared to have her children soon.

This roleplay gives examples of:

  • Actor Allusion: There are references to other characters the roleplayers has played in the past/is currently playing [even in other groups] or the players themselves.
  • A Day in the Limelight: The Wolfpack, Parker, HUNK, Forest, and Rebecca are not main characters in the series by any means, but they're more of the main characters than some of the main characters.
  • Affably Evil: Several of the Anti Villains.
  • Affectionate Nickname: (For the sake of brevity, the character is listed, then all the nicknames they've gotten.)
    • Parker: Gramps, Parky, Parker the Penguin, Mr. Chubby, Hippie, Hippie-Trucker, bear...
    • Chris: Steriods
    • Lupo: Wolfmother, Momma Wolf, Lupa Madre, Wolfmutter
    • Four Eyes: Science Geek, Nerd
    • Quint: Jackass
    • Keith: Grinder
    • Raymond: Regina, caro, tesoro, tsuntsun, cadet
    • Charlotte: Charlie, Charmander, Chaz
    • Norman: Mr. Mask
  • All There in the Manual: This shows up on occasion, due to details that aren't terribly important or would squick people out being left out for simplicity's sake. The information then sometimes shows up in out of character posts, the roleplayer's personal blogs, or when asked questions.
  • Alternate Universe: The only way to explain Umbrella still around after Resident Evil 5, how only a few of the characters know about very famous events, Raccoon City still being around, all of the ages of the characters being off (28 year old Four Eyes and Party Girl, but Raymond, Parker, and Wesker have aged normally, for example)...
  • A Match Made in Stockholm: Four Eyes and Parker first meet when she's his guard when he's the Wolfpack's prisoner. They end up together for a time.
  • Ambiguous Situation:
    • HUNK and Parker's mission in a Theta-Med facility. What's real and what's hallucination can occasionally be hard to tell. Other times, it's rather obvious.
    • Whether or not Claire is pregnant. At first.
  • Am I Just a Toy to You?: Claire to Leon in response to a comment he made during intimacy.
  • Anachronism Stew: STARS and Umbrella still existing as of 2009-2011 (?), people not remembering major bioterror incidents that should remember, character ages being off...
  • The Anons Made Me Do It!: Occurs frequently whenever the players play games like Truth or Dare or ask for anonymous questions. Invoked word-for-word by Bertha when she was dared to lick Keith.
  • Anti-Hero: As time goes by, several of the good characters end up cutting deals with unsavory characters or interacting closely with villains if they don't out and out switch sides.
  • Anti-Villain: The Wolfpack, HUNK, Excella, and RPD.
  • Bigger Is Better in Bed: It is normally a non-issue, because other characters having sex don't mention any specific sizes, though there's at least one or two references Excella makes to Wesker being on the larger side, because the condoms Charlotte was handing out for Valentine's Day were "too small," and Alfred mentioned that Parker is "well-endowed."
  • Bilingual Backfire: RPD knows Italian, so he understands what Parker says. This ends up a problem, because he understands what "ora" means. ("Now.") HUNK and Parker were getting ready to rip the mind control device off of RPD.
  • Bilingual Dialogue: Beltway lapses into Spanish, Four Eyes into Japanese, Lupo into French, Sergei into Russian, Bertha into German, Rachel into Swedish, and Parker, Excella, and Charlotte into Italian.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: "Roleplayer versus Character" debates, along with questions about what the character thinks of certain qualities about their roleplayer.
  • Bystander Syndrome: Parker lying on the sidewalk, dealing with a fever and losing consciousness, gets completely ignored by passersby. This would be based off of Truth In Television examples of the trope.
  • Canon Discontinuity: Any interactions between the characters in the RP group and other RP groups are non-canon by default.
    • Due to roleplayers changing, certain things are reset, to be fair to the newer players that come along.
    • Crack RPs, like Jill and Wesker going to Disney Land, are also considered this.
  • Can't Have Sex, Ever: Excella cockblocking Parker for a period of time.
  • Can't Hold His Liquor: Parker seems to be an odd case. He became an alcoholic after the Terragrigia Panic in-canon. Justified in that he gets infected with the t-Abyss virus during the Theta-Med thread. Alcohol is a diuretic and those infected with the t-Abyss virus have a different water balance than normal humans...
  • Carpet of Virility: Parker as Type 2. He's described as being like a big, cuddly teddy bear. By HUNK.
  • Cat Fight: The group seems prone to having these. The men in the group always watch in amusement.
  • Cerebus Rollercoaster: You will see a lot of mood-whiplash if you read all the posts in real time.
  • Continuity Drift: Wesker being able to take the form of a small child does not happen anymore, for the obvious reasons.
  • Continuity Nod: Depending on the Writer, naturally. Some writers throw in quite a few references, while others keep it to a minimum. This includes both nods to the roleplay storyline and nods to the games.
  • Cooldown Hug: Quint gives Keith one of these after he fights with and tries to attack someone.
  • Crosscast Role: HUNK, Jake, Parker, Nicholai, Chris, Leon, Quint, Sergei, Wesker, Harold, and Il Veltro are all played by women.
  • Cry into Chest: Parker does this with HUNK. He just hallucinated that Four Eyes was dead and didn't know it was a hallucination.
  • Death Is Cheap: What with all the viruses that can bring back the dead.
  • Depending on the Writer: Due to how it has multiple authors, quality and style vary quite a lot.
    • There are also some instances of different people playing the same character, changing their interpretation in certain ways.
    • Horror, action, romance, comedy, drama, or a mix of some? Depends on the writer, too.
    • The style of roleplaying: Script, in the tags, or story?
    • Length of the posts: One line, a few, a paragraph or two, or half a page? Depends both on the writer and the thread.
    • And the emphasis on the Myth Arcs of the story in the roleplays. Certain characters are heavily involved (such as HUNK, RPD, Parker, Excella, and Wesker), while others are less so (such as Brad, Keith, and Nemesis).
  • Destructive Savior: Wesker thinking of himself as a savior, while him and his subordinates causing quite a bit of destruction, would fall under this.
  • Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Rachel warns Hunnigan of this when the latter threatens to kill Parker, Chris, Lupo, and Keith, all of whom are professional soldiers.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: How HUNK feels about Quint talking to him out of pity.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: Just ask about the plotline before the reboot. Or early into the main storyline. Wesker turning into a small child at random is one of the more egregious examples.
  • Enemy Mine: The BSAA, STARS, and members of Umbrella, including the USS team, fighting against Wesker.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: This is precisely why RPD cannot leave Umbrella.
  • Evil Feels Good: Beltway and Rebecca think so when they go off killing a whole bunch of civilians for no reason other than boredom.
  • Evil Tastes Good: Parker beheading a Hunter, ripping it apart, and eating it raw seems to think so, at least.
  • Extremely Short Timespan: A plot thread with RPD, HUNK, Krauser, and Parker took almost two months to write. In the story's timeline, it takes up roughly a day and a half.
    • The plot thread involving HUNK and Parker has taken seven months to write and it's still not done yet. It has taken up a few hours, in-story time. Maybe.
  • Eye Scream: Forest lost his eyes to the crows.
  • Fan Disservice: Shirtless Parker.
  • Feed It a Bomb: An new BOW type described as a cross between a licker and an Ooze with extra arms and extremely thick armor is defeated in this manner. It then gets named a Dodongo.
  • Fingore: Parker ends up jamming a grenade in a BOW's mouth. In the process, its teeth ripped up his hand badly enough to require stitches.
  • First-Name Basis: Excella is the only one to call Wesker by his first name, Albert, and Excella is the only ones who calls Four Eyes by her given name, Christine.
  • Flashback: Many, including:
    • The members of Spec-Ops.
    • Tweed and Rebecca in Raccoon City.
    • Wesker and Charlie meeting before Charlie joined the BSAA.
    • RPD and Leon in Raccoon City.
    • RPD and Birkin.
    • A strange example is any thread that lasts longer than a day or two. It technically all becomes a flashback after a week, due to how the story is written in real time, where a normal day passing equals a day in-game. This includes, but is not limited to the Tanker incident and the Theta-Med incident.
  • For Science!: Four Eyes' modus operandi.
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Sergei alludes to it at one point, likening himself to War and Wesker to Pestilence, wondering who Famine and Death are.
  • Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: The anons asking the characters things function as this sometimes. It also affects the characters in-story. Including the whole mess involving Alfred putting footage up on porn sites of characters who'd had sex.
  • Friendly Enemy: HUNK, Lupo, Parker, Norman, RPD, and other characters display this trait.
  • Genre Roulette: On any given day, there can be comedy, drama, horror, action, romance, or a mixture.
  • Gentleman and a Scholar: Parker. Between the Divine Comedy quotes on occasion, fondness for opera, and multiple literary allusions, the politeness, and the fighting, he's both this and a Cultured Warrior.
    • Raymond also falls under this, due to his fondness for opera and books.
  • Get Back in the Closet: Averted. Some people outside of the group took issue with Raymond/Parker. Both the Raymond and Parker roleplayers responded to the questions and then continued writing the pairing anyway. They still get a few bothersome anons, but they are normally dealt with quickly.
  • Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter: Excella says this at one point.
  • Hallucinations:
    • Parker due to his infection. The hallucinations become more subtle and it's harder for him to tell what's real and what is fake (moreso than before) when he's injected with a Psycho Serum.
    • HUNK, due to a mix-up with the Super Serum that's being tested and the placebo.
  • Hangover Sensitivity: See the first quote on this page. RPD may exemplify it and make it hilarious, but other characters have also had problems with this, including Wesker. Other times, it is never brought up.
  • Heel–Face Turn: RPD and HUNK, sort of.
    • Subverted when Wesker forces RPD to stay, in order to control his mutation.
  • Incompatible Orientation: Brad is gay and has a crush on Joseph. Joseph is completely straight.
  • Indy Ploy: Umbrella sending HUNK and Parker to find out information on Theta-Med.
  • Insecurity Camera: When the guards in facilities fail to notice people sneaking in.
  • In-Series Nickname: Lupo being called "Wolfmother," Jack Norman being called "Veltro," and Raymond being called "Cadet."
  • Invincible Villain: Wesker; A major problem many of the characters have is that they are trying to find a way to permanently kill him.
  • In Vino Veritas: In both alcohol and muscle relaxant variations!
  • Lady Macbeth: Excella uses her influence over Wesker and her years of manipulative strategy to get him to do things for her - specifically punishing Jill when she threatens Excella and her unborn child, and even Steve later on in the story when he insults Excella and makes snide remarks about her pregnancy.
  • Lady of War: Most of the female characters.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sheva Alomar at one point. She gets better, though.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: A lot of the stuff is spoiler tagged on here. Certain spoilers are even revealed in characters' profiles and descriptions.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "Seems that everyone keeps disappearing." A nod to how the roleplayers' schedules affect how often the characters are around, thus characters keep disappearing.
    • The Parker roleplayer also puts trope names in the tags at random in story-style roleplays.
    • The Excella roleplayer even mentioned Morality Chain in the story text.
  • Living Lie Detector: Wesker can hear the slight changes in heart rate that could be indicative of lying.
  • Logical Weakness:
    • Inverted with characters not being able to use flashbangs on Wesker, since he's wearing sunglasses. The same goes with RPD, since he has no eyes.
    • After Parker's infection, his hearing is extremely sensitive. This includes problems with loud music and high pitches. He also loses his night vision, much like Wesker during the boss fight in Resident Evil 5 in the hanger, so he starts stumbling around and has problems when it's dark out. None of the other characters have taken advantage of this, though.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • RPD used to be a member of the RPD. He took on the name in honor of the officers he killed while out of control.
    • Four Eyes has a licker named Chujitsuna, which means "loyal."
    • Theta-Med is named after the Greek symbol Theta, referring to "time decay" in scientific shorthand.
    • Rachel and Parker both have names that are connected to the Divine Comedy: Rachele and Lucia (both saints) respectively
    • Bertha's last name is Heinzwaffen with "Waffen" meaning "Weapon" in German
    • Charlotte's last name is a shout-out to the David Bowie song "The Bewlay Brothers" and her first name means "free man"
    • Mentiroso means "liar" in Spanish.
  • Mind-Control Device: A P-30 injector being used on Rebecca (who gets hers' removed). An odd sort of headband used on RPD, which turns out to be a major plot point for the Myth Arc. And now an internal control device in RPD.
  • Mythology Gag: Harold ends up getting Chujitsuna deciding to cuddle up to him and not let go. It's both this and an Actor Allusion. Chujitsuna was extremely protective and cuddly toward Four Eyes. Guess who originally played Four Eyes?
  • Nature Abhors a Virgin: Rebecca thinks being a virgin makes her a loser. Others say she will find the 'right one' eventually.
  • New-Age Retro Hippie: Parker gets a lot of jokes pertaining to it. It has a lot to do with the long hair and the flower incident.
  • The Nicknamer: Quint and Party Girl
  • Ninja Zombie Pirate Robot: RPD- A sentient, bipedal Licker with genitalia who chain-smokes, drinks heavily, and is a total smartass.
  • No Control Group: Zig-zagged. Due to a mix-up, both Parker (who is supposed to get the real serum) and HUNK (who was supposed to get a placebo) end up getting the serum. This is implied to be a complete accident.
  • No Periods, Period: Despite the story going on for several months in the timeline, many of the female characters don't make reference to them being on their periods. It's justified with Excella, since she's pregnant. This is averted with Bertha and Lupo, though.
  • Overranked Soldier: Parker is a zig-zagged case. He's a normal soldier, but he's normally assigned to higher-priority missions. It's played straighter by him starting to lose his sanity, yet still being sent out on missions.
  • Professor Guinea Pig: Parker sites this as the reason he infected himself to Wesker. In reality, he was doing it to preserve a sample of the virus so they could finally kill Wesker by making a cure.
  • Psycho Serum: The serum tested on Parker and HUNK causes hallucinations.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: Subverted with Lupo. Like in Canon, she works for Umbrella so she can provide for her family.
  • Real Time: Aside from certain story arcs, the whole roleplay falls under this. There has been talk of stopping this, so that there aren't problems with certain storylines.
  • Reluctant Mad Scientist:
    • Four Eyes. This is a reference to her ORC profile, in which she just cares about researching For Science!, to the point that she'll end up impeding missions in the Canon.
    • Obviously, Birkin was one of these also. Slightly subverted in his case due to the fact that he no longer wished to work on any vaccines for Umbrella.
  • The Resenter: Four Eyes resents how Wesker limits her research. Wesker doesn't want her studying and learning about one of his weaknesses, thus why he limited her in the first place.
  • Reset Button: Certain characters have gotten reboots (such as Chris, due to certain plotline issues; others are rebooted due to characters changing writers [Wesker is the exception, due to how involved he was with many of the plotlines]). The plotline catalogued here is actually a reboot itself.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Rachel invokes this when she states outright that she refuses to take part in the plan to kill Wesker.
  • Screw Yourself: Alfred literally does this with a clone of himself.
  • Secret Relationship: Parker's relationship with Four-Eyes. They decide to keep it a secret so she won't be harassed by Anons or the rest of the Wolfpack. Later, he and Raymond seem to have the same thing going for them, since they're both in the closet about their actual sexualities. (Raymond is gay and Parker is bisexual.)
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Parker and whoever he's with. This gets lampshaded a lot. Despite this, though, he's still the guy that eats Hunters.
  • Sex God: According to Alfred, who put footage of Parker and Raymond having sex up on the internet, Parker is this and even has a cult following.
  • Spooky Silent Library: Despite it normally being deserted and can be spooky, it's actually a good place to catch one's breath.
  • Squad Nickname: The Wolfpack is the nickname for USS Delta Team, like in Canon.
  • Team Prima Donna: Excella and Hunnigan (Rachel is almost always on the receiving end).
  • Through the Eyes of Madness: It's hard to tell what is real and what is hallucinations in a plotline between HUNK and Parker, where both characters are hallucinating due to a serum.
  • Timey-Wimey Ball: Non-time travel example. Depending on who you ask, the timeline will be different in certain places and in overall length (how many days passed between specific events). Chat RPs are normally considered canon, but it's hard to place them on the canon timeline.
  • Trademark Favorite Food:
    • RPD loves jello. He even steals some from HUNK when HUNK was in the hospital due to gunshot wounds.
    • Four Eyes eats tacos. Justified in-story as Lupo being the only member of the Wolfpack who can cook and tacos being the only thing Four Eyes can prepare without burning it.
    • Excella really loves waffles.
    • Hunnigan and ice cream and/or alcohol.
    • HUNK mentions that after missions, he likes to have chinese food.
    • Raymond loves Nutella.
    • Wesker prefers more sophisticated alcoholic drinks, such as various wines.
    • Rebecca prefers Whiskey.
    • Parker prefers beer.
  • Universal Driver's License: Averted. Parker does not have an international or US drivers' license. (It was implied by the roleplayer, since he walks everywhere or occasionally accepts rides to places.)
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Certain roleplayers use this trope, while other roleplayers bring up how civilians would act, making this both played straight and averted.
  • Wacky Fratboy Hijinks: Several characters go out drinking together and all hell breaks loose: Vector sets up a stripper pole in Hunnigan's bedroom; Rachel ends up on a fire escape, being sprayed by her neighbor; Keith gets picked up by Quint before things get out of hand; Forest wakes up in his own bed for once, and Hunnigan does unmentionable things with Vector and her new pole.
  • What Measure Is a Mook?: Played straight, particularly with most of the Umbrella affiliated characters. They don't care about killing civilians or guards. Averted with several characters, notably RPD and Parker (due to moral reasons, because of their former professions) and HUNK (due to how hard it is to hide the bodies on a mission).
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: RPD has problems with this. Certain people he regularly interacts with, like HUNK and Parker, treat him as human. Others, such as several of the scientists and Wesker, treat him as nothing more than an experiment and a weapon.
  • Wicked Cultured: Both Excella and Wesker exemplify this, but mainly Excella. Being raised in Milan, Excella has an extensive knowledge of classical Italian literature, art, and music. This adds to her charm and makes her manipulative powers even more effective. She has also been credited to wearing expensive designer clothing and always having a professional, yet elegant appearance.
    • Sergei Vladimir has a very poetic internal monologue, hinting at this.
    • Veltro has Divine Comedy references throughout his dialogue.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Parker is slowly losing his mind due to an infection that increases his strength.

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