History Characters / Erfworld

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: After being introduced as something of a fop at the bridge negotiations, the next thing he does is almost immediately see through one of Parson's tactics, which had completely taken in his chief warlord brother. A comment from Ossomer that indicates this is nothing new.

* KnightTemplar: Reacts with frothing-at-the-mouth ''rage'' to any suggestion that royalty isn't better than everyone else. However, deep down he actually felt that Parson had a point, a trait that the Arkenpliers magnify upon his decryption.

* TooMuchAlike: One of the reasons that Jillian and Stanley hate each other so much is ''because'' they are so much alike. Both are selfish, both are blood knights, both hate Charlie, both are extremely direct, and they both obsessed with power in one form or another.

** Subverted in one sense, though it may be an accident. [[spoiler:Due to the nature of their forced fusion, all of their G-string were heavily damaged (except Isaac's) due to them having to flee their bodies and shelter in Isaac's. Their strings were basically cut in half before they made the journey. They vote Isaac out very specifically because he was the only one with the chance to be decrypted ([[ItsAllUpToYouNow and because they had a mission for him]]). It pays off in the end when they bring the Arkenpliers to life. The Pliers accidentally kills them with the force of its birth, leaving the isolated Isaac (now trapped in a Doll's body) to find the Pliers and get himself revived.]]

* DropTheHammer: His WeaponOfChoice is an artifact called the Arkenhammer.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: To emphasize her "princess with the soul of a barbarian" nature, she has darkly tanned skin contrasting the traditionally royal blond hair.

* ShesGotLegs: During his conversation with Janis, Parson realizes that Maggie's legs caught his attention.

* ShoutOut[=/=]CaptainErsatz: He's {{Superman}}.

* UnfortunateImplications: In-universe, Parson is disturbed by the implications of his command authority. His troops are incapable of understanding the meaning of choice or consent, which means that a simple proposition to one of his troops might as well be MindControl rape. Parson was surprised by himself about this. (If you [[FreezeFrameBonus look]] at [[http://archives.erfworld.com/Book+1/14 his favorites on his computer]], which includes a link to a site devoted to, erhm, literature, of just that kind of scenario.) A few workarounds have been proposed in-universe (hooking up with someone not from his side or giving a unit who already wanted him his own consent), but he hasn't made any attempt to use them.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Her new raiment in Book 3, made for her by Bill, bares a ''very'' generous amount of cleavage.

* SimpleStaff: Her WeaponOfChoice is a quarterstaff prior to acquiring the Arkenpliers, after which point she only wields said Tool.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She pretends to be charming on the surface, but only as a tool to manipulate people. She inevitably poisons and destroys everyone around her, [[PyrrhicVillainy even when it would serve no practical purpose]]. [[spoiler:She was originally in service to a side called el-Efbaum and is in fact Charlie's daughter. She successfully murdered at least 10 of her siblings, attempted to murder her father, and ultimately betrayed the side to Haffaton.]] While in service to Haffaton, she used false parleys to destroy many of her enemies. [[spoiler:She also betrayed Haffaton itself by murdering Lex Doothis, attempting to murder his heir, reducing its final ruler to a drug addicted PuppetKing, and killing off all of its casters with her heroine buds.]]

* PyrrhicVillainy:

* NiceHat: His typical ensemble once broken from his mind-linked state and restored to somewhat-near full functionality includes an attractive top hat.

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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Caesar used to be Don's favorite warlord and Designated Heir (based on merit) until Don got the Royalist "religion" and decided to try to pop another Royal heir. Now, the in-fighting between the two threatens to poison their side. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the end in the sense that Casar never even ''[[UndyingLoyalty considers]]'' betraying Don, [[spoiler:but the conflict still drives Don to try to disband him anyway, leading to his death and Caesar's promotion]].

** [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven when the actions she takes in order to carry out Parson's orders to get an Archon corpse and the stolen guns to the Charlescomm portal result in a penalty that hits Gobwin Knob so severely that the only way Parson can see out is to [[TakeMeInstead offer HIMSELF to Charlie in compensation]]. The fallout from that results in Marie's croaking, Wanda losing the Arkenpliers, and an assault by Charlie's forces that shatters the neutrality of the Magic Kingdom.]] The good news is that she gave as good as she got: [[spoiler:heavy structural damage to Charlescomm that left Charlie unable to spy on the outside world for three days, plus 40 ''million'' schmuckers straight out of Charlie's coffers to Gobwin Knob's.]]

* RoyalBrat: From his appearance and his inner monologues on his debut, [[UpToEleven he seems even more unrefined and possibly prone to anger than Jillian]] if that's possible. [[CharacterDevelopment He is trying to better himself, however, if only to get his mom's approval.]]

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Her impulsiveness, unpredictability, secretiveness and refusal to play by the rules of royal etiquette work together to convince [[spoiler:first Caesar and later Don King himself that she's betrayed them. Transylvito ends up launching a first strike on Faq, taking the capital and the two production cities. The side only survives because she had ''actually'' been preparing for a strike on Gobwin Knob.]]

* KnifeNut: Was granted an archery specialization with knives at popping. Seconds after he pops, "he knew he could put a knife in an enemy's eye socket from across a courtyard, and he itched to do it soon." His personal crest is three knives arranged into an anarchy A.

* HalfHumanHybrid[=/=]{{Dhampyr}}: He has some Transylvitan Signamancy, such as the gray skin. If Erfworld units actually had two parents, he'd be Vinny's kid. However, he lacks other vampiric traits such as the eyes, ears and most especially teeth. While he does have the flying special, he does not have the drain life ability.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad: In a symbolic sense, if nothing else. Vinny isn't actually considered Albert's true dad, but they do have a StrongFamilyResemblance, as explained below. Also, Vinny was shagging Jillian around the time FAQ began preparing to pop him.

* BookDumb: Has all the strategic ability of a pancake.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: In book 3, Stanley doesn't do much except hanging out with his Jed Eye Knights, relaxing in his bath tub and downing a lot of cocktails, while his whole side is in serious trouble due to numerous reasons acutely listed by Bonnie ([[http://archives.erfworld.com/Book%203/220 Book 3, page 220]]). This trope is [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] between his very annoyed underlings and him, with Jed straight up telling him that he is too mellow and that he needs to do something.

* AxCrazy: He croaks a fellow unit of Faq out of anger at being hit during an exercise.

* BaldOfAwesome: He lacks any hair, and serves as Jillian's warlord.

* ReplacementScrappy: In-universe. Ace popped shortly after Jetsone's original Dollamancer, [[{{Expy}} Holly Shortcake]] croaked. The people of Jetstone were very fond of Holly and her penchant for making cloth golems and raiment. By contrast, King Slately saw Ace Hardware as a punishment from the Titans for being careless with Holly's life.

* AndThatsTerrible: [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools A rare positive example of the trope.]] When Ossomer is killed, he makes the report that the process was "vile". You can see Tramennis' pained expression and a warlord crying in the background.