For the solemn few reading this, I am Vapour Soul OS. My appearances here aren't permanent.
Tropes that apply to Vapour Soul OS
A to C
- Age-Gap Algebra: Due to a bad experience in high school where I developed an attraction to a girl younger than me (and never acted on it out of fear), I'm very mindful of age differences. Bloom Seymour and I had an 8 year ago which made things quite difficult, so I believed that any "relationship" between us was doomed to failure. As it turned out, my feelings were actually platonic all along. Fortunately Bloom wasn't real and her creator Cibryll is 2 years older than me.
- Artists Are Attractive: I'm artistically talented and can be considered attractive. I've also noticed that some of women I was attracted to tended to also have artistic talent and creativity.
- Useful Notes/Anarchism: I'm an Anarcho-Individualist who believes in my own power and doing things through my own force of will. I've also embraced Anarcha-Feminism which I believe is the logical conclusion of feminism's goals and is everything feminism should be.
- Celibate Hero: As I've learnt, my life is actually far better when I engage in abstinence and avoid sex and romance. To this end, I'm an asexual man who also believes in antisexuality because it is against a lot of things I consider wrong with sexualized culture.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: I tend use a lot of colours in my work so I'll often use colour tropes either consciously or unconsciously.
- Child Hater: I do not like children. At all. I cannot stand their crying and whining and I find them utterly repulsive. As such, I go out of my way to avoid them or if physical avoidance is impossible at refuse to engage with them.
- CloudCuckoolander: My humour is crazy enough that I either come off as really strange. Hell, it was one of the reasons I ended up being friends with Bloom Seymour, a sockpuppet of Cibryll's. However, this facet of my personality rarely has chance to manifest itself due to my serious demeanour.
D to F
- Defeat Means Friendship: Ever since ending The Aeonian Night, I've been on far better terms with Cibryll. Granted I was already friends with some of her sockpuppets and I still trusted her even back then.
- Useful Notes/Depression: Due to my traumatic experiences during high school, I may've developed this at some point. I definitely did have it during my college days and while it's mostly gone, I do think it's possible that my general apathy towards life may've stemmed from depressive tendencies.
- Determinator: When I want to get something done, I'll do my damnedest to get it done.
- The Aeonian Night and my willingness to lead my friends to victory took several years but it was ultimately worth it and I never gave up.
- Dream Reality Checks: I'll look at all of my fingers on both sides, poke a finger through my palm and try to read text. It'd help if I were to do this more often to increase my lucid dream chances. As it turns out, learning to ask myself "Am I dreaming, right now" is proving to be more helpful.note
- Dream Weaver: I'm hoping that I can learn how to lucid dream, and I've had a few successful attempts of semi-lucidity but not the full on experience.
- Evil Overlord: I had a phase during my high-school days where I pretended to be one to cope with my frustration with my powerlessness. I eventually got over it.
G to L
- Game Mod: I'm been working on one called Gun which involves a budding Villain Protagonist fighting giant machines in order to join their uprising. Aside from that, I've been hoping to make my own ROM Hacks soon as well as playing Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS mods.
- Knight Templar: As much as I want to do right, sometimes I have to take less than stellar methods to do the right thing.
- Last Lousy Point: My stance when it comes to finishing work near the end of the year. Also obtaining things in certain video games.
- Like Brother and Sister: My friendship with Tropers/Cibryll is much like this though this was after coming to grips with understanding platonic love and relationships. If anything, it can be considered an evolution of my friendship with Bloom Seymour though it seems to have become it's own wonderful thing.
- Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Again, Tropers{{/Cibryll}}. Also my other friends at the forums. As it turns out, this might end up being the case for any female friends I may have in the future.
M to T
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: As I've said, some of my humor tends to make me come off as strange, I also like dark material (on the Psychological Horror or Surreal Horror side of things) and it does show to some degree.
- Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: If people start asking about my job, I will try to avoid the conversation because it's none of their business and I don't want anything I do being traced back to my workplace.
- Odd Friendship: During the Aeonian Night, I've been friends (and had feelings for a few of) with some of Cibryll's sockpuppets. Bloom Leigh Seymournote was one particular example that has made quite the impact on me, enough so that I wish to meet an attractive woman like her in terms of personality and interests. It's thanks to her that I seem to have an idea of what I'd want in a real flesh and blood woman.
- Pretty Boy: I've grown more into this archetype, though I tend to mix this with Carpetof Virility.
- Path of Most Resistance: When it comes to video games with multiple endings or secret levels/ true final levels, I'll end up doing those routes first.
- PeekABangs: My hair is long enough that it tends to cover both of my ears and the left side of my head.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: I dress in red and depict myself in red armour, yet I'm the Blue Oni to Troper/Cibryll's Red Oni.
- Rule-Abiding Rebel: I tend to follow the rules of my superiors though I much prefer to do my own thing. I'll only rebel when I've had enough of it all.
- Sampling: I've taken an interest in trying to "create" music tracks by cobbling together various parts of different tracks. So far I've done this for mods I've been working on. Sometimes it goes differently than I expected (such as it becoming an unintentional remix)
- Silent Treatment: Since I dislike using violence unless nessessary, the best way for me to deal with people that I hate or whom are in my bad books are to avoid them like the plague and flat out refuse to engage with them at all. For example I ended up doing this to my work supervisor after she rejected me because she already had a boyfriend and I felt that it would be manipulative and disingenuous to form a friendship with the ulterior motive of getting her to reciprocate my feelings for her at a later date.
- Surreal Horror: Some of my Photoshop creations tend to be the end result of this. The same could said of some of my drawings; when it comes to designing them for game concepts, I try to save them for endgame or postgame dungeons. (Unless of course the entire game has horror elements)
- Terse Talker: In the real world, I'm far less verbose because I'm not interested in talking to others and dislike small talk. At worst, this tendency becomes a case of Empty Shell.
- The Comically Serious: Due to my serious demeanour combined with some of the things I say, this tends to be the end result.
- The Quiet One: Most of the time, I tend to stay silent while thinking to myself. I cannot stand small talk because I simply do not see the point in it and it gets on my nerves.
- Took a Level in Kindness: I was a major edgelord during my high-school days due to it being horrible. As a result, I took it out on internet denizens before joining the Vresun Ciraian Ruins Forums.
Pages I've Contributed to
- Brave Dungeon
- Danny Phantom Urban Jungle
- Desolo Zantas
- Feel the Magic
- Flawed Crystals
- Player Two Start
- The Force Unleashed
- Blue Dragon
- Inverted Fate
- Jet Ion GP
- Kirby Star Allies
- Robot Warlords
- Sonic Mania
- The Denpa Men
- The Iconoclasts
- The Legendof Dark Witch
- The Legendof Dark Witch 2
- The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
- The Property of Hate
- Freefonix
- Mega Man Star Force DX
- Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo
- Xtreme Express
Page Ideas
- A Useful Notes for Antisexualism.
- A Useful Notes for Limerence.
- Limerence might be connected to seperation anxiety and intrusive thoughts.
Trope Ideas
- Absentee Main Character': The titular main character is absent during most of the work, despite the work having their name on it.
- Examples: X
- Anarcho Darwinism aka Straw Anarchist: A work conflates Anarchy with Social Darwinism.
- Examples: Infernal Tokyo, Steven Armstrong
- Elemental Angel: Angels that use or are associated with elemental powers other than holy light.
- Examples: Shin Megami Tensei (general), Religious theology
- Compare: Angelic Abomination, Elemental Embodiment, Elemental Hair Colors, Elemental Nation, Elemental Shapeshifting, Elemental Speed
- Contrast: Non-Elemental
Freezing Brimstone Hell: Instead of the typical Fire and Brimstone Hell, Hell is portrayed as a cold place where Evil Is Deathly Cold is in full effect.
- Examples:
- Contrast:
- Main Character Syndrome: A character's belief that they are the main character of a story or game causes them to dehumanize others and engage in selfish, if not outright sociopathic behavior.
- Multi-Phase Music: Instead of separate tracks, a song may done as a movement (i.e a set self-contained tracks played in succession), as if to convey the grandiosity of the situation by portraying it as a continuous, unbroken event rather than split into several distictive parts.
- New Game Minus aka Nightmare New Game Plus: A second playthrough of a game is far more difficult because your enemies get stronger but you're back at square one.
- Examples: games (Shinya Kumazaki era) (various Extra modes), (Hard Mode)
- Compare: Harder Than Hard
- Contrast: New Game Plus
- Multi-Incarnation Antagonist: An antagonist who has multiple incarnations representing different stages of their lives, and can either represent their gradual descent into villainy or their personal issues, or a form of symbolism such as growing up. Depending on the work, the antagonist in question may actually interact with their previous selves though most of them never do.
- Examples: Akio Ohtori and Prince Dios, Dr Robotnik (Classic) and Dr Eggman (Modern), Master Xehanort, Ansem - Seeker of Darkness, Xemnas, and Young Xehanort Flowey and Asriel Dreemurr, Tom Riddle and Voldemort, Phillip Wittibane and Emperor Belos
- Compare: Decomposite Character, Evil Evolves, Future Self Reveal, Literal Split Personality, Multi-Slot Character, My Future Self and Me
- Contrast: Composite Character, Jekyll & Hyde, Two Aliases, One Character
- NOTE: This might run the risk of being seen as Two Aliases, One Character but more specific.
- Manosphere Menace: A redo of Involuntary Celibate Villain. An antagonist who has traits reminiscent of either incels, MGTOW, red-pillers, black-pillers, Pick-Up Artists or Men's Right Activists. Comes in two types: Characters based off of Manosphere types or Manosphere coded characters
- Examples (Manosphere Referenced): Frank, Intelligencia, Tony, Holden March, Eric Foster, Sebastian Lewis
- Examples (Manosphere Coded): Master Org, Harold Lauder, Severus Snape, Frederick Clegg, Tohru Adachi, Gregory Sallinger, Prince Ludwig the Indestructible, Tighten
- Compare: Dogged Nice Guy, Entitled to Have You, Con Man, Misanthrope Supreme
- Contrast: Straight Edge Evil, No Love for the Wicked
- NOTE: Alternate name could be Straw Manosphere to tie it in with Straw Feminist and Straw Misogynist.
- Mercy Mode Boss: A specifically easy boss fight becomes available if the player either takes the easier path or if they're bad enough at the game that it takes decides to take pity on them. (Alternate Names: Pity Boss, Jobber Boss
- Examples: Mokuba(Yu-Gi-Oh Nightmare Troubadour, Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2004, Yu-Gi-Oh!: Stairway to the Destined Duel), Robot Andross, Nought Celeritas (Solar Shadow 2)
- Compare: Easier Than Easy, Easy-Mode Mockery, Mercy Mode, Zero-Effort Boss
- Contrast: Hard Mode Perks, Harder Than Hard, Superboss, True Final Boss
- NOTE: I'm not even sure if this is an actual thing or if this isn't already covered in Mercy Mode.
- Minimalist Horror: A type of horror that relies on minimalist descriptions and visuals, relying mostly on audience imagination to do the work.
- Examples: Perfect Crystal
- Compare: Nothing Is Scarier, Jumpscare, Alone with the Psycho, Psychological Horror
- NOTE:
- Perverse Puritan: Puritan coded characters are often portrayed as dour serious individuals who are also morally corrupt or sexually perverted and are generally unpleasant people. Not to be confused them with antisexuals who hate sex in general.
- Examples: Claude Frollo, Severus Snape, Gargamel
- Compare: Creepy Gym Coach, Creepy Uncle, Dirty Old Monk, Enlightened Antagonist, Naughty Nuns, Pedophile Priest, Seemingly-Wholesome '50s Girl, Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny, Sinister Minister
- Contrast: Celibate Hero, Good Shepard, Nun Too Holy
- NOTE:
- Real Monsters Are Mundane: A villain whose is far scarier than any monster despite their mundane appearance, reflecting how you don't have to look like a monster to be one.
- Examples: Hallucination!Dr Starline, Forrest Kaysen, Judge Claude Frollo, Sofia Lamb, Dolores Umbridge
- Compare: Bishōnen Line, Complete Monster, Jerks Are Worse Than Villains, Mundanger, Realism-Induced Horror, Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
- Contrast: Evil Makes You Monstrous, One-Winged Angel, Scaled Up
- NOTE:
- Union of Opposites: A special type of fusion where two or more completely opposing characters (e.g The Hero and the Big Bad)
- Examples: Takutanuva, Satan,] Abraxas (Gnostic religion, Demian)
- Compare: Combining Mecha, Commie Nazis, Elemental Fusion, Fusion Dance, Hailfire Peaks, Oxymoronic Being, Sibling Fusion and Yin-Yang Bomb.
- Contrast: Body Horror, Born of Heaven and Hell, Merging Mistake, Yin-Yang Clash
- NOTE:
- Version Exclusive Boss: A boss or a Superboss is added to a different version of the game/is a One Game for the Price of Two deal/is added to an Updated Re-release or a Reformulated Game or may play out differently depending on which version of the game you're playing.
- Examples: Grolem 13 and Boss Biditank, Akuma, Chief Chilly, [[Video Game/Puggsy The Beach Boss, Darkskull Castle Boss and Racrock Forge (SEGA CD Version)]] Ice Titan, Sephiroth and Kurt Ziza (International ver), Unknown (Final Mix), Death Egg Robot, Perfect Chaos and Egg Dragoon (Consoles) Big Arms, Biolizard and Egg Emperor (3DS), Digimon World Dawn/Dusk, Mega Man Battle Network
- Version Exclusive Final Boss: The Final Boss and/or True Final Boss fight is different in some versions of a game either due to the game being a One Game for the Price of Two kind of deal, a Reformulated Game that is different to the original or because the fight was changed in an Updated Re-release.
- Examples: Admiral Razorbeard (PS1 version), Time Eater, Death Egg Robot, The Arsenal aka Last Defence System, III Ragna aka Xagor, Magolor Soul (True Arena), Mr Dark (Rayman GBC), Egg Nega Wisp, Sin of Odio
- Compare: Final Boss, Reformulated Game, Two Games For The Price Of One, True Final Boss, Updated Re-release
- Contrast:
Trope Launch
- Friendship-Hating Antagonist SUCCESS
- Involunatary Celibate Villain FAILIURE (Reason: Despite getting a lot of examples from different tropers, the community hated the draft enough to decide it deserved to be bombed)
- Main Character Final Boss SUCCESS
- Individuality Index SUCCESS
- Straw Individual FAILURE (Reason: Nuked it myself because there was no demand for it)
- Community Index
Scrapped Trope Ideas
- Final Hour Protagonist: A character who is either not related to the protagonists or is an antagonist is now the protagonist of the last episode/chapter/few minutes of the story.
- Examples: Fark
- Compare: Giant Space Flea from Nowhere, And Now for Someone Completely Different
- NOTE (08/10/23) Now that I think about it, this is basically just And Now for Someone Completely Different but more specific though who knows, I might be wrong about this.
- Referencing Old Antagonists: A boss or a character that the protagonists fight tends to have a reference or two to older antagonists in the series.
- Examples: Void Termina and Void, Soul bosses, Calasmos, Dragovian Lord (Ultimate Dragon)
- Compare: All Your Powers Combined, Call-Back, Expy, Reused Character Design
- Contrast: Breaking Old Trends
- NOTE: Is this really trope worthy? It just seems like Continuity Nod but more specific.
- NOTE 2 (18/10/23): This idea is literally Meet the New Boss.
- NPC Promoted To Enemy: Side characters end up used by an arc villain as one off antagonists or as part of their agenda, which often gives these characters more development.