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openWhat tropes would you associate with these characters, personality-wise? Literature
COURT OF POSEIDON PERSONALITIES
Solon Vardalos: •For a gangster, he was a very warm and compassionate man who has the misfortune of catching Poseidon’s with his abilities. •Looked out for Nixie, protecting her from the wrath of Irving and anyone else who would pose a threat. •A highly skilled mage who taught Nixie how to control and master her water ability. •Was known to talk about his family. •Like Nixie, he also had dreams of escaping just so he could be back with his family.
Gerald Aspiotis: •A highly sadistic and perverted centaur who takes pleasure in violating any woman in his presence, regardless if they’re human or not. •Easily flattered, but can be cruel. •Sometimes prone to killing his victims depending if they make the mistake of fighting back. •Downright obnoxious and overall idiotic. •Resents Nixie for what she did to his face (ignoring what he did to deserve it.) •Constantly kissing up to Irving despite the latter having no love for him whatsoever. •Has a racist streak towards mortals and especially nymphs, claiming that it’s in their nature to be promiscuous. •Prone to egging on Nixie and Irving’s rivalry.
Kyriakos: •A loyal but dim-witted cyclops and follower of Poseidon. •Had a low opinion on “half-breeds” like Marsh. •Impulsive, short-tempered, and always itching for a fight.
Tasia Soulakiotis: •A harpy who is equally depraved and sadistic like Gerald. •Highly arrogant, thinks that because she’s in the Court of Poseidon, she can do what she wants without consequences. •Likes “pretty things.” •Has a disturbing fascination with eyes.
Note: This is all for a story I’m doing.
Edited by Anchor173openDon't use that nickname to be polite to him Literature
In the local police department, the big Yeshiva was generally called "Jewtown". However, since one of the officers there became involved with the Yeshiva, the others stopped calling it that in his presence.
openMeeting of unknown relatives Literature
Two people see each other for the first time, and independently of each other they realize they're related.
openBlame the witness Literature
A person is put on trial (or some other type of hearing before a judge, which includes witnesses). The primary defense is to accuse one of the witnesses of planting the primary evidence.
openEmotional manifestation Literature
Is there a specific trope for when someone's emotion takes a visible form? The book I'm reading features a man's intense grief become a dangerous wraith.
openFriends to lovers Literature
I thought this would be in the romance tropes, but I couldn't find it. Is a similar trope listed under another name?
Edited by karynp6openMaking Someone a Meal to Murder Them as They Eat Literature
On Food Tropes, the description for No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine is "Feeding someone before killing them." except this is for when the villain treats the hero to a meal instead of killing them right away.
What's the trope for when someone makes someone a meal to lull them into a false sense of security before murdering them?
In The Storm (making the page, link is here), the wife murders her abusive husband by making him his favourite dinner and cutting him at the throat with a knife during his meal.
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenUnconscious, believed to be dead Literature
A person is shot in the head, rendered unconscious, and believed to be dead. However, at some later point, once the attacker is gone, he regains consciousness and goes to seek help. This is not Faking the Dead, as the person is not doing this intentionally.
Edited by Someone1981openBig Brain Literature
Intelligence is represented in media by the size of a person's brain.
Example: Alice's brain is big because she is smart, and Bob's brain is small because he is dumb.
openI never knew you came to visit Literature
Looking for that trope where two people are estranged following person A experiencing an injury (or something else traumatic) and holding a grudge for person B abandoning them. Person A later finds out that person B DID come to see them but was turned away and their visit kept a secret.
openMagic was stronger back in the old days. Literature
Is there a trope for how magic in fantasy stories tends to always have been stronger in the distant past. And by the time the story takes place things have degraded or powerful spells have been lost to time?
open"There is no such place as London" Literature
Is there any particular trope for situation where, for any given reason, characters declare a real, existing place to be non-existing or have no clue where it could possibly be, despite its obvious nature (to the audience)? Yes, I know there is Eskimos Aren't Real, but that feels like stretching it to the point of breaking.
The specific example that I have in mind is The Guns of the South, where the up-time travellers deliver guns from such places as "Yugoslavia" or "People's Republic of China". The readers know they are real and know what's up, but the down-time characters are puzzled where those places even are, after doing an extensive search through the books and maps they have access to, since none of the post-Cold War arsenals they are given access to won't be created for a next century.
openObsessed with research career or rival? Literature
Are there alternatives to Ambition Is Evil ?
I'm thinking of Frankenstein prior to activating the corpse collage, but that it can apply to anybody getting intense about their career or research. Detectives, even, maybe? Obsession with a case, and paranoia?
openSince the dawn of time... Literature
It's a pretty stock opening in non-fiction books, films, and shows about space exploration and it goes a little something like this...
"Since the dawn of time, humans have looked at the stars..."
Variants include have dreamed of traveling to the heavens, gazed at the stars with longing, etc. The general idea is that humans have wanted to go to space since the stone age.
openRevenge for a price Literature
What tropes are likely to apply to a person who contacts rich people who had family members murdered, and kills these murderers for pay? This person is extremely careful not to hurt innocent people directly, although at one point he staged what appeared to be a shark attack causing some people to get injured when escaping the water onto the beach. (I'm aware of Make It Look Like an Accident, don't need that trope mentioned here.)
openRehearsal Fan Fiction is Film Fic, or no? Literature
Let's say that the canon setting is a high school or maybe a university for the performing arts, and the canon characters of [insert media blahblah here] decide to answer a call for auditioning for a stageplay. The stageplay that they will be rehearsing for is [insert media soandso here].
The fanfiction is about their lives between and during rehearsals, but scenes from the thing they are rehearsing will be a major part of the plot of the fanfiction as they act it out.
What is this called?
If it's like...two canon episodes, two currently-nonexistent fanfictions as examples:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters rehearsing Oedipus Rex
Marge Simpson starring in A Streetcar Named Desire
A modern-day Alternate Universe fanfiction in that Neil Perry from the Dead Poets Society movie stars in bare: a Pop Opera
If We Were Villains characters getting cast after graduation in a production of Patrick Hamilton's stageplay Rope's End
openMC is God Literature
The MC of these stories are God. And act as Gods should do, being worshipped. Delivering upon prayers while dealing with their own share of problems.
I cannot seem to find this trope anywhere
small-town romance