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Author: Ironeye

Feb 23rd 2013 at 3:25:14 PM

PersonalityPowers seems way over-lumped to me. It needs at least a dozen subtropes to bring focus on various aspects. The Hestia-like examples connecting fire and warmth could go on a subtrope there.

I think what we've got here, then, is are a few tropes:
* Characters actively avoiding the mindset one would expect from PersonalityPowers because it doesn't make a good mix. (The pyro tries to avoid giving in too much to passion, the aeromancer fights impulsiveness, the wizard tries not to let the power to go his head and make him pompus, the ninja is boisterous, etc.) The character is aware of the stereotype and realizes just how bad it is to fall into it.
* Inverting PersonalityPowers on one character to draw attention to and accentuate the personality traits from the inversion. e.g. There are several flighty people, but the flighty geomancer seems the flightiest of them all ''because'' that's not what we expect from geomancers.
* Subverting PersonalityPowers on one character or one faction as AnAesop about stereotypes. The characters are aware of PersonalityPowers being in full force, and thus assume, say that wizards are all stuffy academics...until they meet a hands-on, free-spirited wizard to break them of their preconceptions.

Inverting and subverting in general...is just inverting and subverting.