Lilac Alyssa Halliwell / Tropers

Hi! This my pseudonym for all of my fanfiction. I've been writing since 2003. Although, back then my writing was So Bad, It's Horrible.

Tropes applied to works I've written—-

The Unwinding Circle is a The Hunger Games fanfic.

Character Sheet

Clove Holloway

Action Girl - And how.
Affectionate Nickname - "Clovey" by Cato, "Clo" by Dicey, and "Loey" or "Lo" by Nelly. Also referred to as "H" by Felix. Nicknames are her trade.
Beneath the Mask
Babies Ever After
Big Sister Instinct
Blood Lust
Childhood Friend Romance
Defrosting Ice Queen
Debt Detester: Felix calls her out for being unreasonable about this concept, asking who actually keeps score.
The Drag-Along
Establishing Character Moment - Clove gives Cato a bag of trail mix, only to threaten him if he steals from her ever again.
Girl Next Door - To Dicey, actually, who lives on the street behind her.
Hates Small Talk - Doesn't stop Marvel from trying.
I Just Want to Have Friends - Early on.
Jerkass Has a Point
Knight in Sour Armor - Big time.
Knife Nut | Long-Range Fighter
The Lancer - to Nero, being fiercely loyal to her family and valuing honesty more than anything.
Loony Friends Improve Your Personality
I Miss Mom
Mad Artist
Military Brat
Parents as People
Rightly Self-Righteous
Self-Induced Allergic Reaction
Tsundere
Undying Loyalty
Vitriolic Best Buds - Intensely, with Felix.
Violently Protective Girlfriend
You Are Not Alone - At the very end of the alternative ending, Cato, Dicey, and Felix are loyally by her side after she kills Coin and Boggs.

Cato Elroy

Always Someone Better: By the time he gets to the games, you'd have never known he was an underdog
Amnesiac Lover: Drags Clove through the ringer their whole games.
Arc Symbol: Trail mix plays a key role many times in his life.
Badass Bookworm
Big Brother Worship - So, so much.
Big Ego, Hidden Depths
Chaste Hero - Straight, then subverted.
Childhood Friend Romance
Closet Geek - Well, at least until Nero tells him he's not fooling anyone by playing dumb.
Comfort Food - M&Ms.
Cuteness Proximity - Has an soft for cute things.
Denied Food as Punishment - Not so much a punishment, but as a training tool. One of the foundations of his friendship with Clove.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!
Driven by Envy
Genius Ditz - generally intelligent, but Wrong Genre Savvy due to not training in strategy.
Hair-Trigger Temper
Hates Being Alone
Hidden Heart of Gold: Can be a very reasonable friend in the right circumstances.
Madness Mantra
My Sibling Will Live Through Me / Proud Warrior Race Guy - Is this for his older brother.
Sweet Tooth - Loves color-coated chocolate.
Victorious Childhood Friend | Babies Ever After
Wrong-Name Outburst - Cato almost calls Marvel "Dicey"
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil / Abusive Parents / Mommy Issues - Poor Cato.

Felix Grey

Alone Among the Couples - Initially.
The Ace | Because I'm Good At It - Felix is ranked #1 for cohort 63 from the first time they're ranked until he leaves for the games, which is ten years.
Affectionate Nickname | Ironic Nickname - Lix, by Nero. And spoiler: [["Felici," by his sister, which means happy.]]
Ambition Is Evil - At first.
Babies Ever After - In a expansion of the canon ending (49), he adopts two children Aven and Briza.
Bi The Way: He has the hots for both D1 male and D4 female during his games. He later reaffirms that he’s more focused on people than gender.
Blood Brothers - with Nero.
Break the Haughty | Broken Ace - Winning does little good for Felix.
The Call Knows Where You Live - In the canon ending, Finnick convinces Haymitch that Felix would be a worth adversary on their work in District Two. Felix is less than enthused.
Catchphrase: “The prime of life is the worst place to be because it’s the highest point from which to fall.”
Cry into Chest - Felix to Nero or Cato, since they’re both over five inches taller than him.
Consummate Liar -> You Dirty Rat!: Which does him no good when he tries to tell Nero what Snow has done to him.
Dashing Hispanic - Not that ethnicity is specially referenced in the Hunger Games, but I do imagine him as Latino.
Dead Little Sister - Well, dead older sister and little niece, but it works the same.
Dark Is Not Evil - Eventually
Don't You Dare Pity Me! - when Clove addresses his forced prostitution.
Forgets to Eat / Deep Sleep / Hikikomori - Defense mechanisms.
Fairweather Friend | The Friend Nobody Likes - He’s constantly battling between his pride and being vulnerable enough for anyone to trust him.
Good with Numbers - talented at mathematics, acceptable at every other subject.
Hates Being Touched - After being forced into sexual slavery, initially. He has to work through this, as he always connected to people through touch.
Hidden Heart of Gold
Improbable Age - He wins the games against five other careers, all eighteen, at age sixteen.
Jerkass Woobie // Sour Outside, Sad Inside - Reacts pretty badly to Clove going into his deceased niece's room, then asking him to go to the Capitol with her. He’s also pretty awful to Aniston when he first returns from his victory tour.
Despair Event Horizon / The Atoner / Survivor Guilt
Parental Substitute / Morality Pet - to Brooke, who he finds himself very protective of.
Pet the Dog - After finding out Lieutenant Holloway sponsored his medical care for nearly a decade, he decides to sponsor the medical care of the poorest three students of each cohort to pay it forward. He later helps save Seraphina and Brooke, the abused wife and daughter of another tribute.
Poisonous Friend - Felix recognizes he is the sort of person who will sell his soul to protect his friends. In fact, Nero counts on this in his death, asking Felix to kill President Snow, even though it's a rather traumatic experience for Felix, and is his final kill.
The Powerof Friendship - things get better for Felix when he learns to rely on his friends.
Rascally Rabbit - Catches a rabbit for his niece and it ends up being his best companion. He names it Vega.
Shell-Shocked Veteran - Felix takes the events of the multiple games and the revolution much harder than anyone else.
Smug Snake - In the beginning.
Sex Slave
Street Urchin
Trauma Conga Line - Felix loses both of his parents in 65, his sister and niece in 73, is forced into sexual slavery shortly after, and then loses Nero in 75. He takes each of these events incredibly hard.

Dicey Wilder

Apologises a Lot / Guilt Complex: to Clove’s annoyance.
Babies Make Everything Better- Big "NO!"!!
Better as Friends - Dicey stops himself from sleeping with Clove eventually, recognizing the potential harm it’d cause their friendship.
Beware the Nice Ones - Well, as nice as you can get in this universe. Dicey is definitely kinder than his classmates, but also twice as quick to anger.
Chivalrous Pervert
Dark Secret - Dicey is a type 1 diabetic, and only tells Clove's father.
Deadpan Snarker - One of the first signs he likes you is that he relentlessly teases you. See: Clove accepting Cato's proposal.
Defeat Means Friendship - Basically how Dicey makes friends; He beats the shit out of you, feels bad (or maybe not), and decides he wants you to be his friend.
Disappeared Dad / Promotion to Parent: His dad bounced after Halle was born, leaving his mother 23 with three children.
Embarrassing Nickname - "Princess"
Free-Range Children - He and his siblings find creative ways to exploit adults around them for money to survive.
Fiery Redhead
Fragile Speedster - Benefit of being small.
The Heart
The Hedonist
Hot-Blooded
Knight Templar Big Brother - Despite being well-meaning, he can come off as this towards Callan and Halle, but also to Cato and Clove to a similar extent.
Momma's Boy
Mouthy Kid
Papa Wolf
Rebellious Spirit - Rebellious to the rebellion.
Sex as Rite-of-Passage - Dicey sees losing his virginity to Clove as this, but then obtains a massive guilt complex from having sex with a vulnerable 12 year old. To be fair, he was only thirteen.
Skilled, but Naive
Spear Carrier
Token Good Teammate - Tries to save a semiconductor in District 6 during a raid
Took a Level in Kindness - After he "defects" to rebellion
The Atoner / These Hands Have Killed - Dicey kills the mother of his child after begging her to get rid of the child. Naturally, this does not end well for him and his massive guilt complex.
Those Two Guys - With Nero, mostly during the games and the canon ending.
The Optimist

Nero Holloway Kaiser

Affectionate Nickname - "Nee" by Felix and just once by Clove.
Bookworm
Blood Brothers
Bruiser with a Soft Center
Cain and Abel - with Clove
The Conscience
Conditioned to Accept Horror - Which makes him a very unsympathetic ear at times.
Disappeared Dad - His father died in the 56th games two months before Nero was born.
The Fundamentalist - in his loyalty to the Capitol.
Heel–Face Turn - As he dies, he tells Felix he believes him, apologizing, and asks him to kill President Snow to protect Clove.
Honor Before Reason
The Medic
Only Sane Man
Parental Substitute - His uncle in place of his father.
Sibling Yin-Yang - Well, more like cousin yin yang with Clove. But after her mother dies they’re more like siblings because they’re essentially raised like siblings.
Static Character — Of all the characters he grows the slowest.
Team Dad
Those Two Guys - With Dicey, mostly during the games.
Sacrificial Lion / Tearful Smile / Tragic Bromance
"Well Done, Son" Guy

Magnilda "Nelly" Holloway

Affectionate Nickname - "Nelle" by Cato and rarely "Magnie" by Clove.
Annoying Younger Sibling - Has shades of this to the point that Clove says she doesn't want to compete in the games until she's eighteen so she doesn't have to share a house with her sister, completely baffling Felix, who couldn't imagine not bringing his family with him.
Badass Adorable // Cute Bruiser
Deliberately Cute Child - And isn't afraid to reap the benefits.
Little Miss Snarker - Nelly figured out that C + C were destined to be together years before they did and made sure to bitch and groan about the mistakes they made along the way.
Morality Pet - Is this for Cato until the steroids he's taken have warped his sensibilities
Tagalong Kid
Yandere - Sort of? She's one in the sense that she will ruin anyone who dares to get between her aspiration for Cato and Clove to get married.

Keeps Getting Better is a Charmed fanfic.

Character Sheet

Prudence Emily Halliwell - "Emma"

Acceptable Feminine Goals - Emma, herself, is a tomboy but she reveals to her brother that her eventual goal is to be an elementary school teacher.
Action Girl
Afraid of Needles
All a Part of the Job - Played straight with Emma, mostly. Subverted with Rachel and Jacob.
An Ice Person
Beautiful All Along - One scene has Rachel addressing Emma as beautiful in a "tomboy way"
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn - Brawn
Cool Loser
Dark and Troubled Past - Her other universe counterpart.
Fireballs
Friend to All Children
Hot-Blooded
Lawful Good
Little Miss Snarker
Pink Is For Girls - Emma does not like Pink.
Tomboy
Tsundere

Rachel Patricia Halliwell

Advice From Libby - Rachel usually plays the role of the libby in conversations with Emma.
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn - Beauty
Bratty Teenage Daughter
Chaotic Good
Cuteness Proximity
The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry - with Emma.
Hot-Blooded
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Lovable Libby // The Libby
Rich Bitch
Telepathy
Twin Telepathy
Girly Girl
Valley Girl

Jacob B. Halliwell -

The Charmer - Played this role in his younger days to the chagrin of his cousin Emma.
Closer to Earth
Cynical Mentor - He'd probably develop this way eventually.
Dark Is Not Evil - Jacob is selfish, but not in anyway evil.
The Dutiful Son - He hates every second of it.
If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... - He is this way about Kaylee, his sister's best friend.
I Just Want to Be Normal
Life of the Party - I could see Jacob as a frat boy almost as much as I could see Rachel in a sorority.
Sour Supporter
Tall, Dark, and Snarky
Trickster Twins - In his youth.
Twin Telepathy
You Are What You Hate - Jacob hates irresponsibility... but he is pretty forgetful himself.

Alana A. Halliwell (nee Thompson) -

Actual Pacifist
Belated Backstory - Alana's friendship with the Halliwells helps to establish her personality as distinct from her wall-flower behavior.
Cute Clumsy Girl
Cool Big Sis
Healing Hands
Muggle Foster Parents - Her parents are human, she is a whitelighter.

Michael Joshua Halliwell -