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Is your Story strong enough to save all others?

"Will you be a Champion of Order, prepared to set the world to right? Will you be an Emissary of Reason, to give the madness meaning? Or are you a Agent of Chance, swept up into the Book of Stories by luck alone?"

The Book of Stories (TBoS) is an Original Character Tournament hosted by RobinRone along with a group of four judges. The story is about the Twins, ancient guardians of an object called The Book of Stories, which contains every story of every world ever written and is said to whisk anyone who reads its words inside its pages. Said guardians, Lady Ink and Mudd, maintained the Book for a long time with their respective powers of structure and purpose and as they developed more character and personality, the differences between them pushed them apart and eventually lead to the gradual downfall and eventually the Unwriting of the Book.

Said downfall is now threatening the fate of every World and the two guardians have reunited to fix the problem. Though they can no longer enter the Book to find the root of the problem, they opt to recruit individuals to enter the Book on their behalfs, since only mortals can safely enter inside. In addition, the Unwriting has made the Book teleport to every World, pulling in its share of unwitting mortals with its magic pages.

TBoS has a few things setting it apart from other OCTs, aside from allowing any media to be used, from comics to flash to prose or any mix in between. It puts very little emphasis on the characters fighting each other as the bigger focus is the mystery of the Book itself and the characters' influences on said book, allowing a great deal of flexibility for the contestants when it comes to writing their entries. Instead, each round is themed on a genre, where contestants aspire to write as little or as much of the genre as they want in their entry. The last round has no genre involved, fittingly enough.

The tournament opened auditions on March 1, 2011 and Round 1 began on June 12, 2011 with 64 competitors, chosen out of the 113 auditioners by a group of five judges. Round 1 ended on July 12th and Round 2 began on August 2nd with 32 competitors. Then Round 2 ended on September 5th and Round 3 began on September 26th with 16 competitors. Round 3 ended on November 4th and Round 4 started on November 24th with 8 competitors (where coincidentally, single OCs were pitted against couple OCs).

In addition, a mini-OCT called "The Lost Stories" was hosted on November 18th for the competitors who lost in previous rounds but wished to participate again. The deadline for them is offset by one week from the official rounds' deadline.

NPC Tropes:

The Book of Stories:

  • Ancient Artifact: The Book of Stories is as old as time and holds every Story ever told in every World. It's on its way of becoming an Artifact of Doom due to a mistake Lady Ink made.
  • Fisher Kingdom: Due to its Genre Roulette nature, the Book can change the setting and archetypes inside on a whim. It's implied in some entries that the Book might start to affect some of the contestants as well in this manner.
  • Genius Loci: The Book being somewhat of a location that other people can enter, it falls under this due to having a mind of its own.

General Tropes:

  • Apocalypse How: The worst outcome of the Book's Unwriting could be classified as Class X-5 or even Z, though it's not as much destroying as it is making everything nonexistent.
  • Got Volunteered: Lady Ink and Mudd pretty much do this to their recruits if they're unwilling.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lady Ink, unable to handle the Book by herself, tries to write her way out of responsibility, which results in the Book Unwriting itself and every World in danger.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. Among the 64 who made the final cut, we have Anna Smith, Annabelle Roads, and Annabelle Greyson. Among the original 113 auditioners, we have two Anna's and three Annabelle's.
  • The Call Has Bad Reception: The Book indiscriminately chooses anyone who so much as gazes into it, leaving them more ill-equipped about the overall situation than anyone who has been chosen by the Twins.
  • The Call Left a Message: Some auditions had the Book leaving its pages to those who would coincidentally come across it.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Lady Ink and Mudd had a falling out over their methods of taking care of the Book.

The 64 Contestants

Aileen-Kailum's Entries

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  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Hazel has shades of this, due to having her mind being systematically screwed in the past.
  • Light 'em Up: Hazel is all about manipulating light, though she needs a light source.

AlecVastor's Entries

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  • De-power: Being a musician, he can normally use his power of music to great, nearly godlike extents, but being inside the Book has neutered his abilities to just creating small objects, hovering and disrupting others' magical abilities.
  • Living Shadow: Somehow the Musician has complete control over his shadow, though its uses are rather situational.

AndMyShadow's Entries

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  • Empathic Shapeshifter: Swiftsure is this to some extent by accident, due to having been an Imaginary Friend fully realized.
  • Happily Adopted: Played with in Aella's case. She liked her foster family well enough, though she'd still like to know about her real parents.
  • Imaginary Friend: Swiftsure used to be this before being dragged into the Book.

AndreaHarper's Entries

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  • Mind Hive: Alice has two other souls inside her called Grace and Verity.

Ariskari's Entries

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  • Badass Preacher: If he has no other options, Sinclair won't hesitate to use his rosary as a makeshift garrote.

awisha-teh-ninja and Xakriuth's Entries

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  • Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: Tishni and Zevran are a race of sheepy birds, supposedly.
  • Psychic Link: Their link is a variant, where one can sense the other's emotions and sometimes their physical location as well.

BagnaTheSupervillain's Entries

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  • He Who Fights Monsters: Played with, as James starts to exhibit some superhuman abilities due to having hunted nonhumans for so long. Inverted in that he's slowly sympathizing for the monsters he's hunting down, though he won't admit it.
  • Knight Templar: James believes that all nonhumans should be exterminated because they're beyond redemption.

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da-kasha's Entries

  • Character: Alan Audition
  • Gift: Construct
  • Opponent(s): Jaya Ferox

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  • All of the Other Reindeer: Alan was ostracized for his mixed bloodline early on. What makes it worse that they keep him around instead of letting him go for fear of him causing trouble if he wasn't under supervision.

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DigiDayDreamer's Entries

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  • Accidental Misnaming: Played with in Round 2 with Ygsthrall, whose name is a bit of a mouthful. Ricco repeatedly gets his name wrong - even in writing - Bobu nicknames him Iggy for convenience, and Qwerty calls him Yogi. Only Anna gets his name right, which isn't surprising, considering the possibility of Interspecies Romance.
  • Alternate Timeline: Unknowingly, Bobu enters into one of these into Round 2, where she briefly encounters Sian in SaffyLailo's Round 1 entry.
    • Exaggerated in Round 3 when Bobu and company go through several of these throughout Round 3 via the ARVs.
  • Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Bobu lampshades this in Round 2 when Sian and Ricco are replaced by Ygsthrall and Anna Claw early on.
  • Bag of Holding: Bobu and Ricco supposedly have this in the form of inventory tablets, which are inexplicably stored in their digital bodies, at least when they were in the video game Box Bug.
  • Bag of Spilling: In an non-video game example, this happens to both Bobu and Ricco when they leave the video game Box Bug and enter the Book, finding themselves stripped of their video game inventories in a crucial situation not too long afterwards.
  • Bifauxnen: It doesn't help that Bobu sometimes gets mistaken as a guy due to the androgynous voice and the lack of female features. This becomes an unexpected plot point in Round 2.
  • Bubble Gun: Bobu's water spell in her RPG mode is this.
  • Camp Straight: Despite enjoying a fair deal of feminine activities and wearing females' clothing, Ricco hits on girls and once stated that he's "totally straight".
  • Chekhov's Skill: Played with in Round 2, as the pivotal knowledge in question is retroactively introduced in a mid-battle flashback, though the flashback itself was justified by Bobu's earlier comment about how Ricco just "babbles inane details about [Box Bug]".
  • Chivalrous Pervert: Ricco's a bit less perverted than other examples, usually going for flowery, romantic language.
  • Dare to Be Badass: When Qwerty questions Bobu on why they have to go out of their way to save complete strangers in the Book, Bobu goes all contemplative and gives this speech:
    Bobu: ...because true heroes never want to live with regrets, mistakes they could have avoided if they had been more vigilant. That's what the Book of Stories wants out of us, I think. And I can bet it has a good reason for making us go through all this insanity and that it would be totally worth it that we gave our all to tell the best story we possibly can.
  • Distress Ball: Somewhat justified early in Round 2, when Ricco left the party early to seek some help as Bobu insisted she didn't care if he slowed them down, even if it did end up with him being captured.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Big Bad of Round 2 reprimands one of his minions in this manner:
    "Wish I could've taught you not to hold small, round objects so tight; otherwise you'd be a perfect match for her."
  • Dream Spying: Played with in Round 2, where Bobu ends up watching scenes of other people when she's not pushing the plot forward, particularly Qwerty, and Anna and Ygsthrall in the climax.
  • Dream Within a Dream: Bobu ended up Dream Spying from Qwerty's perspective in the first dream, then woke up and ended up having a surprise encounter with a person from Box Bug. Then she woke up from that, as that turned out to be a dream as well.
  • Drives Like Crazy: Ricco is this all the way in Round 1.
  • Drunk on Milk: Subverted in Round 2, where it's heavily implied Ricco was tricked into drinking some alcoholic beverage when it was presented as milk.
  • Drunken Master: Subverted and lampshaded in Round 2, where Ricco's sudden increase in skill isn't due to alcohol, but rather due to the Big Bad of Round 2 pulling some strings.
  • Evil Counterpart: Inverted and played for drama when Qwerty encounters an archetype who resembled his unlikable master with a suspiciously similar-sounding name, but is otherwise the polar opposite in personality.
  • Expy: Played with when an archetype from Round 1 reappears in Round 2 as a younger version of herself. Also, a few archetypes bear resemblance to some of the author's original characters.
  • First-Person Smartass : Bobu's story is narrated from her perspective, snarkiness and all.
  • Flashback Nightmare: A variation occurs in Round 2: Bobu's first dream was of a scene prior to the start of Round 2, before it devolved into a nightmare where she was hounded by one of her enemies from Box Bug while the world around her faded away to oblivion, thus dooming her to fall in an everlasting void.
  • Gay Cowboy: Played straight with one character in Round 2, as well as discussed by Ricco in his defense of his heterosexuality.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Bobu has shades of this, though it's more that her Berserk Button is usually any illogical, nonsensical situation and she's just keeps running into them.
  • Harmless Electrocution: Played with when this is used to conclude the second fight of Round 2, where it's implied the doctor suffered a lot.
  • Heroic Second Wind: Bobu gets this in Round 2 during the climax after receiving a helpful flashback.
  • Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Played straight with Ricco, if Bobu's remarks are of any indication. Subverted where he manages a lullaby good enough to lull children to sleep, in which Bobu calls him out on his singing quality and competence.
  • Hot Pursuit: Justified during Round 1, as Bobu and Ricco snuck a zombie illegally inside a city that's prejudiced against zombies.
  • Hyperspace Arsenal: In Round 1, Bobu orders Ricco to use one of their 99 "Strength Deodorants".
  • Hypocritical Humor: After Bobu risks her life trying to prevent the van they're on from tipping over by using her weight as a counterbalance, the van uprights itself without warning. Bobu nearly falls off the van before Ricco grabs her and pulls her in, scolding her for doing a crazy stunt. Thing is, it was Ricco's crazy driving that caused the van to tilt absurdly in the first place.
  • Imagined Innuendo: Ricco blushes when the Big Bad of Round 2 asks him to join his posse. In a Western-themed setting.
  • Instant Armor: Exaggerated in Round 1, where a villain pulls this off with some highly advanced technology disguised as a walker, tennis balls and all.
  • Interspecies Romance: Lampshaded by Bobu in Round 1:
    Bobu: Maybe I should have been more bothered by the fact that this enormous anthropomorphic fish was striking up a romance with a medieval woman with possibly a real sword, but at this point, I've seen Ricco flirt with weirder (and presumably female) things in Box Bug. I mean, who could forget the budding love story of him and a 50-foot, snow-breathing llama?
    • Further lampshaded when Ricco brings up the llama incident as his excuse for helping Ygsthrall in his first appearance rather than running away, and when Bobu notices Ygsthrall and Anna Claw seem to have bonded behind the scenes.
  • It May Help You on Your Quest: Played with in Round 1, where Ricco borrowed some of Tom's needles and thread to help stitch Tom's arm together after it was torn off. Doubly subverted, where Ricco threw said needles at one of the antagonists in a pointless attempt at distraction, and later on, Bobu found one of the needles stuck on her person, which helped her and Sian get past a fairly major obstacle.
    • Subverted in Round 2. Ricco brings a backpack full of papers and pens, thinking it would somehow help them figure out how to get out of the Book, but it ultimately serves to worsen Bobu and Ricco's situation than either could have anticipated.
  • I Shall Return: Ricco asks Bobu to promise to come back for him, after throwing her to safety.
  • I Will Only Slow You Down: Near the start of Round 2, the duo are stranded in the middle of a desert wasteland. Ricco tells Bobu to go ahead, since she can find civilization much faster in her Platformer Mode, but she won't have any of it since they had just lost Sian somehow. He does it again when she rescues him from prison and he gets disabled in the process.
  • Just a Machine: Bobu views Ricco as this, since he's just a video game character.
  • Ladykiller in Love: It's rather obvious Ricco has a thing for Bobu. He only hits on other girls because that's what SpoonyBards are supposed to do, at least in Box Bug.
  • Multiform Balance: Bobu's Alternate Modes, which manifests in the forms of various video game genres.
  • Never Split the Party: Bobu tries to invoke this sentiment in Round 2, when she and Ricco had been unknowingly separated from Sian.
  • No One Gets Left Behind: Bobu is fiercely determined not to lose Ricco again during the prison breakout, going so far as to stay with him when he gets disabled. Ricco had other ideas, though...
  • Organic Technology: Featured a bit in Round 2, where the guns are more like hybrids of animals and actual guns and are generally treated like pets and partners.
  • Ow, My Body Part!: Ricco tends to say this early on when Bobu hurts him.
    Ricco: Ow! My large obtuse chark face! Again!
  • Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females: Painfully inverted with Bobu wearing only boxing gloves, while Ricco is fully dressed in women's clothing.
  • Pensieve Flashback: Notably Bobu gets one in Round 2 amidst her Dream Spying, from the perspective of the Book of Stories.
  • The Plan: The antagonists Bobu and Ricco face so far seem rather fond of doing this.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Bobu's reluctance to confess to her eavesdropping of Ricco's secret from Round 1 eventually leads to the intense, emotional climax of Round 2.
  • Powers as Programs: Bobu's Alternate Modes are literally this, since they were into programmed into her status as a video game protagonist.
  • Prisoner Exchange: The Big Bad of Round 2 asks Bobu to come alone for "negotiations", implying this.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Played straight with Waffledorp out of all people: "I! AM! WAFFLEDORP!"
  • Relationship Upgrade: After some rather harrow circumstances derived from Poor Communication Kills, Bobu and Ricco finally level up in their relationship.
  • The Rest Shall Pass: Sian does this in the second doctor fight in Round 1, giving Bobu time to run away and get help. Subverted when the villain has accounted for that and rigged the only exit to keep Sian and Bobu trapped inside.
  • Schizo Tech: Played straight during Round 1, particularly the second doctor fight and the climax.
  • Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Bobu is randomly shuffled and stuck in one of her Alternate Modes, due to escaping her video game too early.
  • Shark Man: Ricco is a positive example of this. Bonus points for being part whale shark, which is rather tame for a shark due to being a filter feeder.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: Both Bobu and Sian say something along the lines when the subject in question is Ricco.
  • Sherlock Scan: In Round 2, Bobu pulls this off twice. The first time she did it, she was trying to speed up the Infodump using what she was told so far and any other details she gained from Dream Spying on Qwerty (and thus annoying the local Mr. Exposition with her seemingly omniscient knowledge). The second time was done to persuade one of the Mooks to appeal to the Big Bad's code of Thou Shalt Not Kill for a high-stakes boxing match.
  • Smash Cut: Used in Round 1, where they're in a fairy tale and details are usually sparse and concise, necessitating this trope. Exaggerated, as even Bobu and Ricco are completely clueless like the reader as to what happened during the Smash Cut, forcing them to ask their fictional companion, who happens to be the protagonist of the fairy tale, to help fill them in the details. Defied when Bobu attempts to stall the upcoming Smash Cut with immediately pertinent questions before making progress with the narrative of the fairy tale.
  • Sneaky Departure: Ricco does this early in Round 2 in the middle of the night to find civilization ahead of the others. It does get explained in Round 3.
  • Tertiary Sexual Characteristics - Averted with Bobu as she wears only red boxing gloves and her carapace is colored in various shades of blue.
  • The Coats Are Off: Bobu tries to pull this off with a scarf in Round 2. It's played for laughs when the scarf gets blown back into her face, ruining any semblance of coolness she would have gotten from shedding her scarf.
  • The Snark Knight: Bobu. This is most apparent whenever she talks to Ricco, who's a bit lacking in smarts and thus is always a source of her frustration in general.
  • Transformation Sequence: Whenever Bobu switches from one Mode to another.
  • Unusual Euphemism: Bobu is stuck with this as a side effect of leaving Box Bug unexpectedly, later on cursing in terms of food.
  • We Need a Distraction: Played straight in Round 1. Played even further when Bobu failed the first distraction and Ricco ended up as a second impromptu distraction, which gave Bobu enough time for her Transformation Sequence to kick in.
  • Wham Line: From Round 1: "...I'm not fictional."
  • What Would X Do?: Played straight in Round 2, where Bobu based her reasons for striving to get a Happy Ending on what Ricco would want.
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Ricco's a straight example, as he's wearing the clothes out of comfort and possibly for style.
  • Willfully Weak: In Round 2, Bobu pondered if Ricco was this during the climax, given that he exhibits raw power greater than what he normally has under duress. Then again, he was drunk out of his mind.

Dragonendalia and DemonLordOnigawa's Entries

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  • Anti-Magic: Inverted with Aldech, who can't use magic at all, and is still vulnerable to the likes of fire and lightning.
  • Our Vampires Are Different: Nadia is a Dhampir, which is basically a lesser version of a vampire: no weaknesses to sunlight and garlic, but lacking the super-strength or speed most associated with vampires. However, Dhampirs have greater potential to cast magic in comparison.

Elliejae's Entries

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Fantasyfreak18's Entries

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  • Broken Bird: Sparrow is experimented on and tested by scientists, and tormented for years by Valentine.
  • Foil: Sparrow's despising her powers against Valentine's embracing his.
  • Information Wants to Be Free: Played with. Sparrow just wants to be free, but Valentine thinks she would expose government secrets associated with her powers if left alone.
  • Moral Event Horizon: In-universe, Valentine crossed the line when he made Dr. Allen, the man responsible for his psychic powers, "disappear" after hearing one too many lectures from him.

FJTrickster58's Entries

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  • Death Seeker: Zig-Zagged. Terri has a terminal illness kept under control by highly advanced medicine, so she lives her life to the fullest...by doing death-defying stunts. It's not so much as her seeking death as she is more keen on overcoming her fears of death by facing them head-on.

Gamekrazy's Entries

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  • Cast from Hit Points: In Hyde's world, Spark is the power of one's soul and using Spark enables the user to give life to inanimate objects. But using the Spark too much or to perform strenuous tasks could put said user into a coma.
  • Deceased Parents Are the Best / Missing Mom: Hyde's mom instilled the good value of reading in him and was quite supportive of him before passing away from a weak heart.

gsppcrocks10's Entries

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  • Eye Scream: How Deb got her glass eye. Welding torch to the face.
  • The Speechless: Deb becomes one after accepting a drink from Rupert.
  • Wrench Wench: Deb does work with boat engines, after all.

hardcore-introvert's Entries

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  • Rebel Prince: Llimsey ran away to avoid his responsibilities, and saw his solution in Artego, who was his half-brother and thus be eligible as the new heir.

hisiheyah and FlamebloodQuickblade's Entries

  • Characters: Reinald Todorov and Anna Smith Audition
  • Gift: Construct/Function
  • Opponent(s): Dmitri Ellisand, Hazel Maddon, Jerek and Garner, James Englehart, Flume and Smarmadine, Campren "Charley Campbell" McMillin

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  • Becoming the Mask: Staying in the Book for an extended period of time appears to be slowly turning Reinald and Anna into Archetypes themselves.
  • Dark Action Girl: Anna, inasmuch as a woman of thirty-six is considered a "girl."
  • Grand Theft Me: Anna and Reinald are having some problems with the Archetypes along these lines.
  • Hammerspace: Anna and Reinald each have a personalized, realistic version of this called "whitezone". It's mainly used to avert Magic Pants, as it's where their clothes and other items go when they transform into animals. Apparently time also passes by within the whitezone as well and the amount they store is no more than what a handbag or a backpack can handle.
  • Jane Austen: Parodied in Round 3.
  • Klingon Promotion: How Reinald got to be CEO of a MegaCorp in the first place.
  • Light 'em Up: Anna's Function uses light to illuminate the answers to puzzles. Subverted somewhat in that Anna is anything but heroic.

HyenaBonzly's Entries

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  • Animate Inanimate Object: Craven's jacket, which was accidentally brought to life by Craven's unwitting use of the Function given to him.
  • The Fashionista: Played with, as Craven's more interested in designing clothes than wearing them.

inktress's Entries

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  • Muse Abuse: The last guy Hazel dated imprisoned her for 3 years when she told him the truth, partly so he couldn't get art block when she was close.

Jared-hai's Entries

  • Characters: Nair and Pura Audition
  • Gift: Page
  • Opponent(s): Antagonist, James Engelhart, Jackal and Hyde, Campren.

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  • Berserk Button: Although Nair isn't really a fighter, seeing other people harmed because of her, or seeing Pura threatened sends her into a rage, although she lacks the strength to use it to any effect.
  • Break the Cutie: Kidnapped and almost sacrificed, trying to save worlds only to see them wholly destroyed, almost killed, attacked by a dragon and hunted down by a increasingly powerful villain. It couldn't get worse, could it? Sure can.
  • Designated Hero: Inverted, Nair likes to make it known that she and Pura are the heroes of the story, whether she believes anyone is watching her or not.
"We're the heroes." She told herself out loud. "We're going to face whatever we must. Even if one of us is asleep right now..."
  • Dramatic Stutter: Something that Pura suffers heavily from, most often when talking to strangers, or when she is without Nair.
  • Elemental Embodiment: Nair and Pura as embodiments of clouds and streams respectively.
  • Making a Splash: Pura's varied albeit limited abilities as a Stream Elemental.
  • No Biological Sex: Water and Air based Elementals take female forms, but do not reproduce, as they are incarnations tied to the planet, not separate life forms. This results in a lack of cultural taboo in otherwise homosexual relationships, and also more emphasis on emotions and feelings over desires and procreation.
  • Unusual Ears: A trait of their kind, Nair's ears are clustered with feathers, whereas Pura's ears are completely replaced with webbed growths.

JoTyler's Entries

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  • Barefoot Loon: Alex goes barefoot whenever she can, and is pretty quirky.
  • That Was Not a Dream: Alex's reaction when she realizes she's in the Book for real.
  • Writer's Block: Alex was hit hard with this during the audition and assumed the appearance of the Book was just a hallucination of her inner-self journey.

Khyansaria's Entries

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Madican's Entries

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  • Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Regis once started as a hero, but gradually after living several lifetimes of failures where his story is repeated in some cycle, he pretty much went into full villain mode.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Somewhat justified in Regis' case, where all he ever got for his heroism was pain and suffering and a continuous cycle at that.

MeTaLSliVeR's Entries

  • Character: Paige Audition
  • Gift: Function
  • Opponent(s): Alexandra Hutton

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  • Bulletproof Vest: Exagerrated as Paige has a bulletproof overcoat.
  • Hyper-Awareness: Paige is pretty much like Sherlock Holmes when it comes to deductive reasoning.

mpark6288's Entries

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Oreramar's Entries

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  • Animal Motifs: Jaya's motif is a hawk, corresponding to her mask.

pandyras-paradox's Entries

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  • Jack of All Stats: Knives has been known to handle a variety of jobs from cooking to music, though subverted when she specializes in fighting for the most part.
  • Lotus-Eater Machine: She gets temporarily trapped in one of these during Round 1.

ratscout's Entries

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Raxion's Entries

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  • Light Is Good: Lightbenders like Mirasis are essentially powered up by sunlight, enhancing their abilities.
  • Weakened by the Light: Inverted for Mirasis, as she's weakened by lack of sunlight if she doesn't get exposed enough to it.

Rosemarri's Entries

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SaffyLailo's Entries

  • Character: Sian Audition
  • Gift: Page
  • Opponent(s): Bobu and Ricco

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  • Cool Sword: Her sword Water can generate icicles out of its blade during times of great duress and only after she's stabbed someone with it.
  • Ranger: Her specialty is dealing with realized fairy tales and legends.

SephirothsFlamedWing's Entries

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  • Internalized Categorism: Vin has internalized many of the stigmas placed on him, seeing himself as fundamentally inferior. He deals with this by putting up a front of indifference and striving to prove himself despite his stigmas as being the best of the best.
  • It's All My Fault: Adante has a borderline Guilt Complex, borderline only in that he only blames himself if he was actually involved.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: Adante’s more logical and intellectual than Vin, but he also more cynical.
  • Ladykiller in Love: Vin is truly in love with Merai. So, despite his flirtatiousness, he would never seriously consider another woman. This has not stopped her from dumping him for his flirtatiousness with other women.
  • Military Academy: Adante and Vin entered together and graduated in the same year, even though Vin is a year older.
  • Nice Guy: For all his flaws, Vin's a pretty nice guy. But don't think you can treat him any way you want to.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Vin's not book-smart, and he and pretty much everyone else knows that. He doesn't care too much about learning the facts. But Vin is actually nowhere near as dumb as he sometimes acts.
  • Officer and a Gentleman: Played mostly straight, though Adante subverts this in some ways. He cusses, not heavily but on occasion. He will be Combat Pragmatist when the situation calls for it. Of course, if his opponent will fight fair, then he’d be all too willing to fight like a gentleman as he has a distaste for fighting dirty, but he knows when not allow honor to overshadow something more important.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: In reality, Vin’s more of a Sad Clown who puts on a brave face to cope with his insecurities.
  • Psycho Supporter: Adante can become this (although it's not worshipful.) He'd do the Dirty Business to spare his friends from having to. If he's called out on it he'll tell them and himself I Did What I Had to Do, though he may internally ask himself My God, What Have I Done?.
  • Raised by Natives: As Vin is obviously of foreign ancestry in a country where some consider his particular ethnicity, Satevidan, to be bad, it is possible his parents left him because they believed that it would spare him from living as a foreigner. If so, it was ill thought-out plan, perhaps due to Culture Clash, as in Isbetean culture, being a Whitecrest (a person with no family history and therefore no family crest) is almost as bad as being a foreigner. Even as an adult, he still has people who look down on him for his ancestry.

Setsune-Hoshiko's Entries

  • Character: LIA Audition
  • Gift: None
  • Opponent(s): Hyde and Jackal

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  • Sherlock Scan: LIA is programmed to do this trope when it comes to people, being made to be a therapist after all.

ServantofSHEVAL's Entries

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ShadowSchnauzer's Entries

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  • Meaningful Name: Errant and Damzel, since they were personifications of the Book's archetypes to begin with.

silverdreamdancer's Entries

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  • Green-Eyed Monster: Antagonist is jealous because he's not exactly real like the mortals who entered the Book of Stories and is very much bound to it.

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Splitcat's Entries

  • Character: AzraelAudition
  • Gift: Function
  • Opponent(s): Dahnnae Marfinn and Bechen K’vette

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Star-Seal's Entries

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  • Cranky Neighbor: Smarmadine may as well be this to Flume. To be fair, all his kind are naturally this due to being made up of two incompatible creatures.
  • Sour Supporter: As much as Smarmadine hates a lot of things, he hates Flume a lot less, and has a sense of loyalty towards her.
  • You Are Number 6: Flume's other name is 2.4.6.1.4.

supernova8041's Entries

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Tirrih's Entries

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  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Fred does this to avoid getting too much into trouble, as people in his society don't take kindly to intelligent zombies.
  • Our Zombies Are Different: Type M. In Fred's case, zombies start out as mindless, harmless and easy to please. But upon intake of salt, they temporarily turn into Type R, minus the memories of their previous lives.

topios's Entries

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  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: Subverted as GrimGrin will always be missing a lower jaw or another body part regardless of his form, which tends to make people feel uncomfortable and maybe even afraid.
  • Emotion Eater: GrimGrin (as well as his kin) pretty much sustains himself on people's fears, but it's not as detrimental or noticeable to the victim as most examples.
  • Floating Limbs: GrimGrin's default form has this going on.
  • No Biological Sex: GrimGrin identifies to being male himself most of the time. Gender isn't important anyway due to the way his kin reproduce.
  • Never Learned to Read: GrimGrin can't read or write, which makes him getting a page of the Book rather ironic.
  • Running Gag: A creator example. This is the second time someone has forfeited against Topios in the first round of an OCT (the first time was during Project Minotaur).
  • Shapeshifter Default Form: GrimGrin's default form is a Shetland pony-sized canine.

tweedandtea's Entries

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  • Minored In Ass Kicking: Geoffrey used to be a Squadron Leader (and Ace Pilot) in the Royal Air Force and is currently a history professor.
  • Really 700 Years Old: 5000 years old
  • Stiff Upper Lip: Isn't all that phased with the weird stuff going on and generally acts pretty calm about it. Just don't mess with the violin.
  • Time Abyss: Is pretty damn old and remembers nearly all of it (just not what happened before he woke up in the desert).

Umi-No-Tenshi's Entries

  • Character: Eulalia Audition
  • Gift: Construct
  • Opponent(s): Qwerty Finklewater

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  • Good Samaritan: Eulalia shows shades of this when she finds an injured enemy soldier who's only a teenager and removes his identification tags so she could get him medical attention without rousing suspicion.

variablenature's Entries

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  • The Alcoholic: Jennifer is a recovering alcoholic when she first enters the book, and during the second round it seems as though she will fall off the wagon after the fight at the very end
  • Cast from Hit Points: Jack's powers can exhaust him if used too much.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Despite the darkness-based powers, Jennifer's an overall good, if not heroic person.
  • Jumped at the Call: Jennifer was initially excited to be like the superheroes she always admired from comic books.
  • Mr. Fixit: Jack is excellent with vehicles and, to an extent, other machines.
  • Noodle Incident: According to Word of God, something happened on May 19th that the two of them agreed to forget and never speak of. All that is known is that a large amount of alcohol was involved, and Jennifer's husband eventually got back together with her after he found out.

WarAdmiral's Entries

  • Character: Irial Audition
  • Gift: Function
  • Opponent(s): Errant and Damzel

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  • Rule of Cool: As the artist said herself in the first part of the audition:
    "A Gypsy Vanner horse would, in reality, have no business being in Ireland in 1740, but I couldn't help myself."

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