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''Tumblrfort'' is a series of Tumblr stories based on ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', only connected by the [[https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblrfort titular tag]]. It was known for being a fairly close knit, yet somewhat drama prone, group. However, it's been years since their peak, and many stories fell to account rot/Tumblr rule changes and are now impossible to verify.
In the stories, the cast interact both on the classic battlefields like 2Fort, Coldfront, Moutainlab, Fastlane, Sawmill, and Dust Bowlm and inter-base via teleporter, train, and correspondence.
See ''DarthWiki/YaBoyNetwork'' for a similar group of ''Team Fortress 2'' roleplayers on Website/{{Twitter}}, and their equally unverifiable stories.
!!Tropes present in this work:
%%* AbusiveParents: J.D., hooboy. Krimhilde.
%%* AFatherToHisMen: Walter, especially since the 'Snow In' event.
* AnachronismStew: The roleplay take place in the late 60s, but "fudging" of the time period is fairly common.
* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Wren, and claims much more when inebriated.
* AffablyEvil: The Agents of the 'Static' event seem like an interesting (and in the case of Tri and Pyat, even loveable) bunch. Too bad they're out to kidnap, torture, and murder.
* AgentPeacock: Hilderich in spades. He’s even associated with peacocks.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Self-imposed by Karl as a form of self-punishment. (He gave his word to Aldous that he'd stop.)
* AngerBornOfWorry: Most of the tsundere characters in Tumblrfort have this trait.
* AnimalMotifs: Several charas are associated with different animals and birds (J.D.- Eagle, Aldous- Goat, Hilderich- Peacock, Karl- Swan, just to name a few).
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: A mutual one- this was how Abel and J.D. professed their feelings for one another.
* ArtificialLimbs:
** In addition to the Engineers with Gunslingers, Alexei has a truly badass robot arm to replace the one he lost to frostbite.
** Jerry has three prosthetic fingers.
** Faris is one of the generic Gunslinger Engineers.
** Jason has an entire robotic arm.
* {{Asexual}}: Some characters are. Although anons tend to dislike this.
%%* AttemptedRape: Has happened to many character in the community.
* BadassBookworm: Several of the more literate characters. Markov stands out due to his Ph D and his several hundred books.
%%* BadassFamily: The Haswell twins and all of their adopted children.
%%* BadassGay: Especially for a time period when gays were under a lot of derision.
%%* BadassInANiceSuit: Spies.
%%* BadassNormal: Adrian.
%%* BaldOfAwesome: Several of the Heavies.
%%* BattleCouple: Most, or all couples in the game, given the setting.
* BerserkButton:
** NEVER mention to Maurice that you've harmed a child or call Abel a monster.
** Never harm anyone Ming loves.
** Never make Cole angry.
** Never EVER call J.D. a civilian or otherwise infer that he's not a real Soldier.
** Calling Amadour fat. Most people call him that deliberately just to piss him off.
** Russell is easily set off by 'greyfaces' (anons) insulting, hurting, or upsetting anyone he cares about.
** Speaking Russian in front of Diethelm is a one-way ticket to hell.
** Let's just shorten the list and say that there's a lot of things that can piss the mercs off.
** Spycrab Marcel has a soft spot for kids, and heaven help you if you've hurt one of any species.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Everyone is a mercenary after all. No matter how nice they look or act.
%%* BigFun:
%%** A lot of the Heavies, if they’re in a good mood.
%%** Wren can be fun when she's acting childish.
* BigBrotherInstinct:
%%** Dell towards most of his female friends, but especially Hotaru.
%%** The spycrabs: Anatole towards both Destan and Marcel.
%%** JJ with Miles or Adam.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Brighton, though perhaps not in the way intended - her extended 'therapy session' left her unable to smoke without becoming nauseous.
* BrattyHalfPint:
** Allison can come off as this, though there's a hidden reason for her behavior.
** Many of the Scouts act this way as well.
%%* BreakTheCutie: Recent plot developments seem to be determined to do this to Tess.
* BrilliantButLazy:
** Well, not so much lazy as psychotic, but Aldous has almost a miraculous talent for healing- you'd never know, though, because he rarely uses it.
** Mstislav keeps his knowledge to himself in order to avoid trouble altogether (which includes keeping his mouth shut in any case).
* BrokenBird:
** Tess is a borderline case, her past as a juvenile delinquent contributing to her current cynical attitude.
** Hotaru's abusive childhood has led her to expect the worst of people and to her paranoid, withdrawn personality.
* BuffySpeak: Louis, the BLU medic uses this when trying to explain things, or when she's trying to be deliberately vague. Her clone does too, to a lesser extent.
* BunnyEarsLawyer:
** Kar. She's an extremely competent Sniper, she just goofs off a lot.
** Nikki also is a much more competent doctor than his naive and childish demeanor would suggest.
** Louis, the BLU medic. Though she's often engaging in shenanigans, she still manages to show she knows what she's doing when needed.
%%* ButchLesbian: Brighton, to an extent.
* ChildhoodFriends: Leroy and Tess, the Little Shits from Southie.
* CloneDegeneration:%% Poor, poor Yivon.
** Inverted with Alois, who infected himself with a virus made from Diethelm's DNA to give himself vampirism, thus avoiding the inevitable degeneration.
%%* ClusterFBomb: A lot of the characters, particularly the scouts.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Francis, who collects/hoards boxes.
%%* CombatMedic: Some medics are this.
%%* CombatSadomasochist: Brighton. Boy howdy.
%%* CombatTentacles: The Tentas.
* ComedicSociopathy: Candice [[NoSympathy thinks your pain is funny]].
%%* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: A few characters are this.
%%* CoolUncle: Aldous and/or Abel. YMMV.
* {{Crossover}}: Happens occasionally with other Tumblr RP communities - within Tumblrfort itself, there’s Kar, a Mandalorian Sniper.
%%* CryCute: ''Candice.''
%%* CulturedWarrior: Several examples. Spies usually fit into this group.
%%** Markov is joining the group as well.
%%** Mstislav tends to fit in this group.
%%** So does JJ.
* CuteBruiser: Short, adorable Tess has got one mean left hook.
%%* CuteMonsterGirl: Fyura.
%%** Miriam Treble the Tentaspy.
%%** Allison, given her recent mutations.
%%** YMMV on the hybrids in general, but Jax is certainly a Cute Monster Boy.
%%* TheCutie: Nikki.
* {{Dandere}}: Hotaru is withdrawn and speaks little even with her friends, but start talking about ghosts and try to get her to shut up.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Nearly everyone.
* DeathIsCheap: Due to respawn chip technology, almost everyone has "died" at least once, but few stay dead. There are, of course, exceptions.
* DefrostingIceKing: Karl's friendship with the Haswells and his relationship with Niklaus have had this effect on him.
%%* DepravedBisexual: FIACRE. He seems to have mellowed out as of late though. A little.
%%* DespairEventHorizon: There is a lot of this.
%%* DirtyOldMan: There are a lot of these in Tumblrfort.
%%* DrJerk: Aldous, Krimhilde, Jason and ''definitely'' Streak.
%%* DrivenToSuicide: RED demolition’s woman Enda McLoughlin.
* {{Eagleland}}: Most of the Soldiers fall into Type 1.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Many of the characters who have a hard time speaking English.
* EmergencyTransformation: Ansel, a BLU Medic, asked a vampire he knew to turn him, so he wouldn't die of an illness that would have otherwise been fatal.
* EmotionlessGirl: Hotaru tries to pass herself off as this.
* EruditeStoner: Willie. It's best just to assume she's stoned unless informed otherwise.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Maurice only kills pedophiles and kidnappers when The Monster isn't in control. When it is, it doesn't matter who the target becomes.
** Krimhilde resists killing those who cannot respawn (and who have kissed up properly).
** JJ mostly kills when he's enraged or under the influence of Sally, causing him to kill anything that's in front of him, when not enraged or under the influence of Sally, he just pulls pranks.
%%* EverybodySmokes
* EveryScarHasAStory: Aldous’ one on his eye, given to him by Hilderich as revenge for giving Markov his two scars.
** Jerry has a mass of scarring on his throat.
** Diethelm has a swastika carved into his chest, over his heart from when he was a child. His over zealous father gave it to him to usher in his life with the Nazis.
** Half of Hotaru's body is heavily scarred from becoming caught in the fire while burning down her high school.
** Pyro Miriam has burn scars of varying sizes, some from fire poi practice mishaps in her youth and others from reckless handling of fire and homemade weaponry later in her adolescence.
** Several of the mercs at Mountain Lab have acquired new scars due to the animal attacks that occurred near the end of the Snow In event.
* EvilRedhead: Brighton, no doubt. Also falls under the FieryRedhead trope, though less so.
* FantasticRacism: In addition to instances of regular racism and homophobia, some mercs are prejudiced against hybrids.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Tess and Zach started out as just FriendsWithBenefits, but just about everyone could see their deeper feelings for each other.
* EvilTwin: Aldous comes across as being Abel's- however he's far deeper than that.
* FatalAttraction: Notably Sulo and Mikhail, being on opposite teams and prejudiced against each other's country of origin at first.
%%* FauxAffablyEvil: Dimitri. Don't let the fez and the goofy demeanor fool you.
%%* FunetikAksent: Nearly all the characters.
%%* FlirtingUnderFire: Happens fairly often, considering the setting.
* FoodPorn: The culinary skilled mercs will often post delicious looking meals and desserts. It's enough to make you want to lick your screen.
%%* ForScience[=/=]ForTheEvulz: Chase's dual motivations to do... well, anything he does. Jason Chambers also.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Leroy and Tess were best friends as children, but didn't remember when they met again as adults. For quite a while they hated each other, till Jean brought their connection to light.
* FourthWallObserver: Some characters often interact with the mods of other characters, or vice versa.
%%* FragileSpeedster: Many of the Scouts, naturally.
* FriendlyEnemy: A lot of RED[=/=]BLU relationships are like this.
* FriendlyWar: All of Tumblrfort could be seen as this; cross-faction relationships, both romantic and platonic, are pretty common.
%%* FunSize: Patch.
%%** Also, the bugs.
%%** The spycrabs.
%%* {{Gayngst}}: Walter and Heinrich, so very very much.
%%* GentleGiant: Several of the Heavies.
%%** Alexei and Markov stand out.
%%** And Mstislav.
%%** Elsie is this.
* GoodBadGirl: Tess has a somewhat "slutty" past, but is very loyal once in a relationship.
%%* GranolaGirl: Willie.
* GraveMarkingScene: Walter building markers for Jean and Erika, as well as one for Redford (with Tess to help him). Flint has a notable scene sitting by the grave of his father.
* GreenThumb: Alexei. He got a garden to not only grow in the desert, but FLOURISH. He's currently working on growing one in Coldfront of all places (Katya built him a greenhouse).
** Krimhilde typically grows plants in cellars or her dorm and can keep a large garden in great condition.
%%* HalfHumanHybrid: There are quite a few actually. Emmerich says hello.
%%* HappilyAdopted: Fyura by Aldous.
%%** A lot of the younger characters by Abel.
%%** Chibz by Ellie and Streak.
%%* HappilyMarried: Hilderich and Markov.
%%** Aldous and Deltrese are Happily Engaged.
* HeadbuttOfLove: Zach and Tess did this a lot.
* HeroicBSOD: Happens to Nikki upon witnessing Hotaru's suicide by saw blade.
** Jane had one of these when he thought Abel had been killed for good.
** Alexei after beating Nazarov nearly to death out of anger.
%%* HerrDoktor: Most medics on either team.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Tavish and J.D. are these, even though J.D. himself is bi.
** Aldous and Alexei - both are straight with girlfriends, but they are also very devoted and caring towards one another.
%%** The spycrabs, more or less.
* HiddenDepths: Hardly anyone is as uncomplicated as they appear on the surface - Aldous in particular is far from the bloodthirsty monster he appears to be at first glance. Krimhilde really isn't too willing to get in touch with her non-existent sentimental side and will rarely act any other way besides her usual self. When Diethelm gets hurt or sad, he usually covers this up with anger and hatred.
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: Carlton, but he'd never admit it.
%%* HospitalHottie: Most of the medics.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: 6'4" pyro Gino Matthews and 5'1" pyro Miriam Ko'olau'uhane.
** 6'2" scout Zach Aaronson and 5'2" scout Tess Mac Namara.
* HumbleHero: Many mercenaries fit this trope.
* IAmAMonster: Comes up often both in hybrids and in the regular mercs.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Diethelm had this talk with Friedrich Strauss in reference to Louis, the BLU medic.
** Dell hinted at this talk with pyro Gino when he started dating pyro Miriam.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Louis, the BLU medic thinks she did this when she walked in on Diethelm performing a ritual to give Etienne wings.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Part of Dell's reasoning for choosing to not pursue his romantic feelings.
* IllBeInMyBunk: Occasionally, this happens. (Ask Abel about Karl and a carton of milk.)
* ImportantHaircut: Tess attacks her hair with a pair of scissors during a low point after Zach is transferred away and the stress of losing so many loved ones finally gets to her.
** As part of Brighton's punishment/therapy[=/=]MindRape, Justine cuts her trademark bushy red hair off. All of it.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Autumn. In a world of murderers, thieves, madmen, and generally not-nice people, Autumn remains ever sweet, kind, and as innocent as someone in [=2Fort=] can be. Also, Chibz.
%%* TheInsomniac: Louis, the BLU medic, fits as a type A.
%%* IrrationalHatred: There's hate for several classes in character, or people, for no blatant reason.
%%* JerkassFacade: Carlton. Also falls under the JerkWithAHeartOfGold trope to an extent.
%%** Tess is a little bit of this as well. Her bitchy demeanor is largely an act.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Diethelm, to the people who know him.
%%** Spycrab Destan.
%%** JJ with the ones he really trusts on.
* KnifeNut: Many people qualify but Maurice has a nice collection to himself.
** JJ's hunting knife, named Sally, it's always with him, also he has a large collection of knives in the workshop.
* LackOfEmpathy: Candice recognizes your sadness but will not share it.
* LightningBruiser: Brighton, of the Hard-Hitting Speedster variety, being a scout. Admittedly, she's not as speedy as most of her class, but she still has the skill in speed necessary, and as a former amateur boxer, she can land a mean blow and take it just as hard.
%%* LikeASonToMe: Tess to Walter, though it's more correctly Like a DAUGHTER To Me (Though maybe not, with her new haircut. Bazinga!).
%%* LikeBrotherAndSister: Dell and Hotaru.
%%** Vance and Candice.
%%** J.D. and Dolly.
%%** JJ and Miles.
%%** Also Fyura and Autumn.
%%** Tess and Leroy.
%%** Louis and Alois, despite one being a clone.
%%** The spycrabs: Anatole and Destan; and Anatole and Marcel.
%%** Ivis and Xavier.
* LethalChef: J.D., to the point that he's more or less forbidden from cooking.
** His ribs and barbecue sauce, however, turn out amazingly well.
** Jason, as he cooks with gunpowder, his cooking sessions are rather 'explosive'.
* LittleMissSnarker: Sarcasm is just one of the many services Tess freely offers.
%%* LongLostRelative: Streak and Ritter are brothers.
* LoveAcrossBattlelines: Played straight in any RED-BLU relationship.
* MechanicalLimbs: Eli has an ever-so-fashionable pair of steel legs.[[BerserkButton He isn't amused when people mock them.]]
* MediumAwareness[=/=]/BreakingTheFourthWall: Some characters, in non plot-relevant conversations, will make reference to their players or even converse with their players (Never mind Magic Anons SWITCHING their players with the character.)
%%* MeetCute: Autumn and Yiv. (He was hiding under her bed.)
%%* MoralityPet / MoralityChain : Alexei is this to Aldous, big time. So is Deltrese.
%%** Tess is this to Walter, though he's far from a villain.
%%** Avery, to an extent, is a morality pet for Brighton. It... Doesn't often do much to hold Brighton back.
%%* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Some medics fall into this category.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Pretty much every Russian character.
%%* TheNapoleon: "Hot-blooded, aggressive, and short" describes Tess to a T.
%%* NoSell: Anti-Magic-pills.
%%* NobleBirdOfPrey:
** Dain, Dom's hawk.
** Runi, Kar's hawk.
** Dinah, Yiv's hawk.
* OneOfTheBoys: Most of the female characters, considering the setting.
* OoCIsSeriousBusiness: Lakresha, refering to others by their real name, instead of a nickname.
* OppositeSexClone: Louis with Alois, and Yiv with Yivon.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: JJ as the bad ghost, Jacob as the good one.
** Enda is neither confirmed nor denied to be a ghost.
** Hectate is still hanging around Dominik.
%%* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Alois, Diethelm, Etienne, Yivon, and Sinnian
%%* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jason, Tavish
* PlayingWithFire: A lot of Pyros, for obvious reasons.
* PowerOfFriendship: This, along with the PowerOfLove, is pretty much the only thing keeping J.D. from giving into Shovel and becoming a full time antisocial, murderous psychopath.
* PrecisionFStrike: You know it's just gotten real when Dell starts using the F-word.
%%* PureMagicBeing: The Magic Anons. Diethelm had taken up necromancy, and now wields dark magic.
%%* PyroManiac: Any Pyro.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Louis' grandfather played a much larger role in her early upbringing than either of her parents.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The Haswell twins.
%%** Also J.D.(red) and Tavish (blue), [[DontExplainTheJoke which is funny because J.D. is BLU and Tavish is RED.]]
%%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: A lot of the base pets are this.
* RollerbladeGood: Tess is a former derby girl and wears skates in battle.
* RunningGag: Aldous is a dolphin. Hilderich is a peacock. Ming CONSTANTLY getting anonymous deliveries of fried rice (which she doesn't even like). Allison humping any couch she comes across. Amadour being called fat (even though he isn't). Fastlane being called Fatlane.
%%* SanitySlippage: Many of the mercenaries at Mountain Lab are experiencing degrees of this.
* SatisfiedStreetRat: Tess spent her teen years running with a gang.
** Brighton spent the majority of her childhood in Youngstown, Ohio during the years that saw the peak of its gang-related high crime rates. She takes pride in her roots in "Murdertown, USA."
* ScarsAreForever: Jerry's scarring on his throat from when he was attacked by a dog.
** The scar on Krimhilde's face from a fight when she was a roaming adolescent.
** JJ has many scars, one covering his whole arm from a encounter with a Pyro, and some burn scars lines across his face from the curse that fell onto him.
** Candice's burns scars from her [[PlayingWithFire high school shenanigans]] and [[EveryScarHasAStory the other one]].
%%* SharpDressedMan: Spies.
* ShipperOnDeck: Rather Shippers on Deck. Hotaru and Lakresha. Hotaru keeps a chart. Anons.
* SerialKillerKiller: Maurice again, except it's with those who would hurt children; JJ.
* SlasherSmile: Candice upon getting a revenge kill [[AxCrazy with her axe]].
** JJ when he considers you're bothering him.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Markov. He’s a novelist and has literally hundreds of books, not to mention the Ph D. Randall can act brash and look stupid, but he loves science-y things.
** JJ, he may look like the normal mindless Soldier but he has actually almost gotten a medical license.
%%* SmokingIsCool: A good chunk of the characters.
* TheSociopath: Brighton, though not always apparent; she has spells where the sociopath really bleeds through, though.
** Candice is one, but it's rather mild, and she's not actively malicious about it.
%%* {{Southies}}: Several of the Scouts.
%%* SouthernFriedGenius: Most of the engineers. Jason.
* TheSpeechless: Jerry is mute.
** As is Ike, who also happens to be albino.
* StepfordSmiler: Abel, at times. He tries to keep a cheerful mood even when he’s tearing apart inside.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Carlton. He's condescending and he knows it.
%%* TeamMom: Abel, to Coldfront in general
* TeenGenius: Back when Louis, the BLU medic, was a teen she was this; having graduated high school several years early.
** Willie entered college at the University of Texas at sixteen.
%%* TooKinkyToTorture: Emmerich. Big time.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Aldous and Gummy Bears (and plums), J.D. and ribs, Abel and cherries, Kooky and apples, Ming and eggrolls, Candice and bacon, JJ and caramelized apples.
* TrueCompanions: Several close-knit groups of mercs within the game, especially those that have fought together for months or years.
%%* {{Tsundere}}: There are ''quite'' a few of these.
%%* UndyingLoyalty: Dolly, to J.D.
%%** J.D. himself to Dolly, Tavish, and Abel
%%** Tess, to Walter
* VampireBitesSuck: Louis, the BLU medic was bitten by Diethelm, she didn't like it as it had sent her to respawn. Inverted with Alois and Yivon, in that Alois was careful in minimizing pain.
* ViralTransformation: This is how Diethelm's vampirism was passed to Alois.
%%* VitriolicBestBuds: Nikki and Hotaru are a Type 2 at times.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Same as in the canon. Most characters are also aware of this.
%%* WeirdnessMagnet: Louis, the BLU medic.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: J.D.'s most defining (and according to him, ONLY) attractive feature- they are very, VERY blue, described as being 'like a cloudless sky on a perfect Fourth of July afternoon'.
** JJ's eyes are totally grey, with some shiny part that make people think they're a pair of pearls.
** Etienne's eyes are two tones, consisting of off silver or grey, and golden brown.
* WhenHeSmiles: It takes something (or someone) really special to make him do it, but if you can get Aldous to give a genuine, non wicked or sarcastic smile, he looks just as sweet as his twin.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Peter. He even wears dresses into battle when he can get away with it.
* WickedCultured: Karl was a professional ballet dancer back in Stuttgart.
** Markov and his [=PhD=] in Literature.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Several of the male characters have this outlook. Justified as it takes place in the late 60s, though averted because nearly every woman they meet is a mercenary of one form or another and should be capable of giving as good as she gets.
%%* WrenchWench: Katya, the female Engineers.
%%* {{Yandere}}: Nikki shows the occasional disturbing hint at being an Obsessive version of this.
%%** Spycrab Anatole, at one point.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Elsie the RED Soldier, and Manfried her Pocket Medic husband.
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In the stories, the cast interact both on the classic battlefields like 2Fort, Coldfront, Moutainlab, Fastlane, Sawmill, and Dust Bowlm and inter-base via teleporter, train, and correspondence.
See ''DarthWiki/YaBoyNetwork'' for a similar group of ''Team Fortress 2'' roleplayers on Website/{{Twitter}}, and their equally unverifiable stories.
!!Tropes present in this work:
%%* AbusiveParents: J.D., hooboy. Krimhilde.
%%* AFatherToHisMen: Walter, especially since the 'Snow In' event.
* AnachronismStew: The roleplay take place in the late 60s, but "fudging" of the time period is fairly common.
* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Wren, and claims much more when inebriated.
* AffablyEvil: The Agents of the 'Static' event seem like an interesting (and in the case of Tri and Pyat, even loveable) bunch. Too bad they're out to kidnap, torture, and murder.
* AgentPeacock: Hilderich in spades. He’s even associated with peacocks.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Self-imposed by Karl as a form of self-punishment. (He gave his word to Aldous that he'd stop.)
* AngerBornOfWorry: Most of the tsundere characters in Tumblrfort have this trait.
* AnimalMotifs: Several charas are associated with different animals and birds (J.D.- Eagle, Aldous- Goat, Hilderich- Peacock, Karl- Swan, just to name a few).
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: A mutual one- this was how Abel and J.D. professed their feelings for one another.
* ArtificialLimbs:
** In addition to the Engineers with Gunslingers, Alexei has a truly badass robot arm to replace the one he lost to frostbite.
** Jerry has three prosthetic fingers.
** Faris is one of the generic Gunslinger Engineers.
** Jason has an entire robotic arm.
* {{Asexual}}: Some characters are. Although anons tend to dislike this.
%%* AttemptedRape: Has happened to many character in the community.
* BadassBookworm: Several of the more literate characters. Markov stands out due to his Ph D and his several hundred books.
%%* BadassFamily: The Haswell twins and all of their adopted children.
%%* BadassGay: Especially for a time period when gays were under a lot of derision.
%%* BadassInANiceSuit: Spies.
%%* BadassNormal: Adrian.
%%* BaldOfAwesome: Several of the Heavies.
%%* BattleCouple: Most, or all couples in the game, given the setting.
* BerserkButton:
** NEVER mention to Maurice that you've harmed a child or call Abel a monster.
** Never harm anyone Ming loves.
** Never make Cole angry.
** Never EVER call J.D. a civilian or otherwise infer that he's not a real Soldier.
** Calling Amadour fat. Most people call him that deliberately just to piss him off.
** Russell is easily set off by 'greyfaces' (anons) insulting, hurting, or upsetting anyone he cares about.
** Speaking Russian in front of Diethelm is a one-way ticket to hell.
** Let's just shorten the list and say that there's a lot of things that can piss the mercs off.
** Spycrab Marcel has a soft spot for kids, and heaven help you if you've hurt one of any species.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Everyone is a mercenary after all. No matter how nice they look or act.
%%* BigFun:
%%** A lot of the Heavies, if they’re in a good mood.
%%** Wren can be fun when she's acting childish.
* BigBrotherInstinct:
%%** Dell towards most of his female friends, but especially Hotaru.
%%** The spycrabs: Anatole towards both Destan and Marcel.
%%** JJ with Miles or Adam.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Brighton, though perhaps not in the way intended - her extended 'therapy session' left her unable to smoke without becoming nauseous.
* BrattyHalfPint:
** Allison can come off as this, though there's a hidden reason for her behavior.
** Many of the Scouts act this way as well.
%%* BreakTheCutie: Recent plot developments seem to be determined to do this to Tess.
* BrilliantButLazy:
** Well, not so much lazy as psychotic, but Aldous has almost a miraculous talent for healing- you'd never know, though, because he rarely uses it.
** Mstislav keeps his knowledge to himself in order to avoid trouble altogether (which includes keeping his mouth shut in any case).
* BrokenBird:
** Tess is a borderline case, her past as a juvenile delinquent contributing to her current cynical attitude.
** Hotaru's abusive childhood has led her to expect the worst of people and to her paranoid, withdrawn personality.
* BuffySpeak: Louis, the BLU medic uses this when trying to explain things, or when she's trying to be deliberately vague. Her clone does too, to a lesser extent.
* BunnyEarsLawyer:
** Kar. She's an extremely competent Sniper, she just goofs off a lot.
** Nikki also is a much more competent doctor than his naive and childish demeanor would suggest.
** Louis, the BLU medic. Though she's often engaging in shenanigans, she still manages to show she knows what she's doing when needed.
%%* ButchLesbian: Brighton, to an extent.
* ChildhoodFriends: Leroy and Tess, the Little Shits from Southie.
* CloneDegeneration:%% Poor, poor Yivon.
** Inverted with Alois, who infected himself with a virus made from Diethelm's DNA to give himself vampirism, thus avoiding the inevitable degeneration.
%%* ClusterFBomb: A lot of the characters, particularly the scouts.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Francis, who collects/hoards boxes.
%%* CombatMedic: Some medics are this.
%%* CombatSadomasochist: Brighton. Boy howdy.
%%* CombatTentacles: The Tentas.
* ComedicSociopathy: Candice [[NoSympathy thinks your pain is funny]].
%%* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: A few characters are this.
%%* CoolUncle: Aldous and/or Abel. YMMV.
* {{Crossover}}: Happens occasionally with other Tumblr RP communities - within Tumblrfort itself, there’s Kar, a Mandalorian Sniper.
%%* CryCute: ''Candice.''
%%* CulturedWarrior: Several examples. Spies usually fit into this group.
%%** Markov is joining the group as well.
%%** Mstislav tends to fit in this group.
%%** So does JJ.
* CuteBruiser: Short, adorable Tess has got one mean left hook.
%%* CuteMonsterGirl: Fyura.
%%** Miriam Treble the Tentaspy.
%%** Allison, given her recent mutations.
%%** YMMV on the hybrids in general, but Jax is certainly a Cute Monster Boy.
%%* TheCutie: Nikki.
* {{Dandere}}: Hotaru is withdrawn and speaks little even with her friends, but start talking about ghosts and try to get her to shut up.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Nearly everyone.
* DeathIsCheap: Due to respawn chip technology, almost everyone has "died" at least once, but few stay dead. There are, of course, exceptions.
* DefrostingIceKing: Karl's friendship with the Haswells and his relationship with Niklaus have had this effect on him.
%%* DepravedBisexual: FIACRE. He seems to have mellowed out as of late though. A little.
%%* DespairEventHorizon: There is a lot of this.
%%* DirtyOldMan: There are a lot of these in Tumblrfort.
%%* DrJerk: Aldous, Krimhilde, Jason and ''definitely'' Streak.
%%* DrivenToSuicide: RED demolition’s woman Enda McLoughlin.
* {{Eagleland}}: Most of the Soldiers fall into Type 1.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Many of the characters who have a hard time speaking English.
* EmergencyTransformation: Ansel, a BLU Medic, asked a vampire he knew to turn him, so he wouldn't die of an illness that would have otherwise been fatal.
* EmotionlessGirl: Hotaru tries to pass herself off as this.
* EruditeStoner: Willie. It's best just to assume she's stoned unless informed otherwise.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Maurice only kills pedophiles and kidnappers when The Monster isn't in control. When it is, it doesn't matter who the target becomes.
** Krimhilde resists killing those who cannot respawn (and who have kissed up properly).
** JJ mostly kills when he's enraged or under the influence of Sally, causing him to kill anything that's in front of him, when not enraged or under the influence of Sally, he just pulls pranks.
%%* EverybodySmokes
* EveryScarHasAStory: Aldous’ one on his eye, given to him by Hilderich as revenge for giving Markov his two scars.
** Jerry has a mass of scarring on his throat.
** Diethelm has a swastika carved into his chest, over his heart from when he was a child. His over zealous father gave it to him to usher in his life with the Nazis.
** Half of Hotaru's body is heavily scarred from becoming caught in the fire while burning down her high school.
** Pyro Miriam has burn scars of varying sizes, some from fire poi practice mishaps in her youth and others from reckless handling of fire and homemade weaponry later in her adolescence.
** Several of the mercs at Mountain Lab have acquired new scars due to the animal attacks that occurred near the end of the Snow In event.
* EvilRedhead: Brighton, no doubt. Also falls under the FieryRedhead trope, though less so.
* FantasticRacism: In addition to instances of regular racism and homophobia, some mercs are prejudiced against hybrids.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Tess and Zach started out as just FriendsWithBenefits, but just about everyone could see their deeper feelings for each other.
* EvilTwin: Aldous comes across as being Abel's- however he's far deeper than that.
* FatalAttraction: Notably Sulo and Mikhail, being on opposite teams and prejudiced against each other's country of origin at first.
%%* FauxAffablyEvil: Dimitri. Don't let the fez and the goofy demeanor fool you.
%%* FunetikAksent: Nearly all the characters.
%%* FlirtingUnderFire: Happens fairly often, considering the setting.
* FoodPorn: The culinary skilled mercs will often post delicious looking meals and desserts. It's enough to make you want to lick your screen.
%%* ForScience[=/=]ForTheEvulz: Chase's dual motivations to do... well, anything he does. Jason Chambers also.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Leroy and Tess were best friends as children, but didn't remember when they met again as adults. For quite a while they hated each other, till Jean brought their connection to light.
* FourthWallObserver: Some characters often interact with the mods of other characters, or vice versa.
%%* FragileSpeedster: Many of the Scouts, naturally.
* FriendlyEnemy: A lot of RED[=/=]BLU relationships are like this.
* FriendlyWar: All of Tumblrfort could be seen as this; cross-faction relationships, both romantic and platonic, are pretty common.
%%* FunSize: Patch.
%%** Also, the bugs.
%%** The spycrabs.
%%* {{Gayngst}}: Walter and Heinrich, so very very much.
%%* GentleGiant: Several of the Heavies.
%%** Alexei and Markov stand out.
%%** And Mstislav.
%%** Elsie is this.
* GoodBadGirl: Tess has a somewhat "slutty" past, but is very loyal once in a relationship.
%%* GranolaGirl: Willie.
* GraveMarkingScene: Walter building markers for Jean and Erika, as well as one for Redford (with Tess to help him). Flint has a notable scene sitting by the grave of his father.
* GreenThumb: Alexei. He got a garden to not only grow in the desert, but FLOURISH. He's currently working on growing one in Coldfront of all places (Katya built him a greenhouse).
** Krimhilde typically grows plants in cellars or her dorm and can keep a large garden in great condition.
%%* HalfHumanHybrid: There are quite a few actually. Emmerich says hello.
%%* HappilyAdopted: Fyura by Aldous.
%%** A lot of the younger characters by Abel.
%%** Chibz by Ellie and Streak.
%%* HappilyMarried: Hilderich and Markov.
%%** Aldous and Deltrese are Happily Engaged.
* HeadbuttOfLove: Zach and Tess did this a lot.
* HeroicBSOD: Happens to Nikki upon witnessing Hotaru's suicide by saw blade.
** Jane had one of these when he thought Abel had been killed for good.
** Alexei after beating Nazarov nearly to death out of anger.
%%* HerrDoktor: Most medics on either team.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Tavish and J.D. are these, even though J.D. himself is bi.
** Aldous and Alexei - both are straight with girlfriends, but they are also very devoted and caring towards one another.
%%** The spycrabs, more or less.
* HiddenDepths: Hardly anyone is as uncomplicated as they appear on the surface - Aldous in particular is far from the bloodthirsty monster he appears to be at first glance. Krimhilde really isn't too willing to get in touch with her non-existent sentimental side and will rarely act any other way besides her usual self. When Diethelm gets hurt or sad, he usually covers this up with anger and hatred.
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: Carlton, but he'd never admit it.
%%* HospitalHottie: Most of the medics.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: 6'4" pyro Gino Matthews and 5'1" pyro Miriam Ko'olau'uhane.
** 6'2" scout Zach Aaronson and 5'2" scout Tess Mac Namara.
* HumbleHero: Many mercenaries fit this trope.
* IAmAMonster: Comes up often both in hybrids and in the regular mercs.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Diethelm had this talk with Friedrich Strauss in reference to Louis, the BLU medic.
** Dell hinted at this talk with pyro Gino when he started dating pyro Miriam.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Louis, the BLU medic thinks she did this when she walked in on Diethelm performing a ritual to give Etienne wings.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Part of Dell's reasoning for choosing to not pursue his romantic feelings.
* IllBeInMyBunk: Occasionally, this happens. (Ask Abel about Karl and a carton of milk.)
* ImportantHaircut: Tess attacks her hair with a pair of scissors during a low point after Zach is transferred away and the stress of losing so many loved ones finally gets to her.
** As part of Brighton's punishment/therapy[=/=]MindRape, Justine cuts her trademark bushy red hair off. All of it.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Autumn. In a world of murderers, thieves, madmen, and generally not-nice people, Autumn remains ever sweet, kind, and as innocent as someone in [=2Fort=] can be. Also, Chibz.
%%* TheInsomniac: Louis, the BLU medic, fits as a type A.
%%* IrrationalHatred: There's hate for several classes in character, or people, for no blatant reason.
%%* JerkassFacade: Carlton. Also falls under the JerkWithAHeartOfGold trope to an extent.
%%** Tess is a little bit of this as well. Her bitchy demeanor is largely an act.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Diethelm, to the people who know him.
%%** Spycrab Destan.
%%** JJ with the ones he really trusts on.
* KnifeNut: Many people qualify but Maurice has a nice collection to himself.
** JJ's hunting knife, named Sally, it's always with him, also he has a large collection of knives in the workshop.
* LackOfEmpathy: Candice recognizes your sadness but will not share it.
* LightningBruiser: Brighton, of the Hard-Hitting Speedster variety, being a scout. Admittedly, she's not as speedy as most of her class, but she still has the skill in speed necessary, and as a former amateur boxer, she can land a mean blow and take it just as hard.
%%* LikeASonToMe: Tess to Walter, though it's more correctly Like a DAUGHTER To Me (Though maybe not, with her new haircut. Bazinga!).
%%* LikeBrotherAndSister: Dell and Hotaru.
%%** Vance and Candice.
%%** J.D. and Dolly.
%%** JJ and Miles.
%%** Also Fyura and Autumn.
%%** Tess and Leroy.
%%** Louis and Alois, despite one being a clone.
%%** The spycrabs: Anatole and Destan; and Anatole and Marcel.
%%** Ivis and Xavier.
* LethalChef: J.D., to the point that he's more or less forbidden from cooking.
** His ribs and barbecue sauce, however, turn out amazingly well.
** Jason, as he cooks with gunpowder, his cooking sessions are rather 'explosive'.
* LittleMissSnarker: Sarcasm is just one of the many services Tess freely offers.
%%* LongLostRelative: Streak and Ritter are brothers.
* LoveAcrossBattlelines: Played straight in any RED-BLU relationship.
* MechanicalLimbs: Eli has an ever-so-fashionable pair of steel legs.[[BerserkButton He isn't amused when people mock them.]]
* MediumAwareness[=/=]/BreakingTheFourthWall: Some characters, in non plot-relevant conversations, will make reference to their players or even converse with their players (Never mind Magic Anons SWITCHING their players with the character.)
%%* MeetCute: Autumn and Yiv. (He was hiding under her bed.)
%%* MoralityPet / MoralityChain : Alexei is this to Aldous, big time. So is Deltrese.
%%** Tess is this to Walter, though he's far from a villain.
%%** Avery, to an extent, is a morality pet for Brighton. It... Doesn't often do much to hold Brighton back.
%%* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Some medics fall into this category.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Pretty much every Russian character.
%%* TheNapoleon: "Hot-blooded, aggressive, and short" describes Tess to a T.
%%* NoSell: Anti-Magic-pills.
%%* NobleBirdOfPrey:
** Dain, Dom's hawk.
** Runi, Kar's hawk.
** Dinah, Yiv's hawk.
* OneOfTheBoys: Most of the female characters, considering the setting.
* OoCIsSeriousBusiness: Lakresha, refering to others by their real name, instead of a nickname.
* OppositeSexClone: Louis with Alois, and Yiv with Yivon.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: JJ as the bad ghost, Jacob as the good one.
** Enda is neither confirmed nor denied to be a ghost.
** Hectate is still hanging around Dominik.
%%* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Alois, Diethelm, Etienne, Yivon, and Sinnian
%%* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jason, Tavish
* PlayingWithFire: A lot of Pyros, for obvious reasons.
* PowerOfFriendship: This, along with the PowerOfLove, is pretty much the only thing keeping J.D. from giving into Shovel and becoming a full time antisocial, murderous psychopath.
* PrecisionFStrike: You know it's just gotten real when Dell starts using the F-word.
%%* PureMagicBeing: The Magic Anons. Diethelm had taken up necromancy, and now wields dark magic.
%%* PyroManiac: Any Pyro.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Louis' grandfather played a much larger role in her early upbringing than either of her parents.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The Haswell twins.
%%** Also J.D.(red) and Tavish (blue), [[DontExplainTheJoke which is funny because J.D. is BLU and Tavish is RED.]]
%%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: A lot of the base pets are this.
* RollerbladeGood: Tess is a former derby girl and wears skates in battle.
* RunningGag: Aldous is a dolphin. Hilderich is a peacock. Ming CONSTANTLY getting anonymous deliveries of fried rice (which she doesn't even like). Allison humping any couch she comes across. Amadour being called fat (even though he isn't). Fastlane being called Fatlane.
%%* SanitySlippage: Many of the mercenaries at Mountain Lab are experiencing degrees of this.
* SatisfiedStreetRat: Tess spent her teen years running with a gang.
** Brighton spent the majority of her childhood in Youngstown, Ohio during the years that saw the peak of its gang-related high crime rates. She takes pride in her roots in "Murdertown, USA."
* ScarsAreForever: Jerry's scarring on his throat from when he was attacked by a dog.
** The scar on Krimhilde's face from a fight when she was a roaming adolescent.
** JJ has many scars, one covering his whole arm from a encounter with a Pyro, and some burn scars lines across his face from the curse that fell onto him.
** Candice's burns scars from her [[PlayingWithFire high school shenanigans]] and [[EveryScarHasAStory the other one]].
%%* SharpDressedMan: Spies.
* ShipperOnDeck: Rather Shippers on Deck. Hotaru and Lakresha. Hotaru keeps a chart. Anons.
* SerialKillerKiller: Maurice again, except it's with those who would hurt children; JJ.
* SlasherSmile: Candice upon getting a revenge kill [[AxCrazy with her axe]].
** JJ when he considers you're bothering him.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Markov. He’s a novelist and has literally hundreds of books, not to mention the Ph D. Randall can act brash and look stupid, but he loves science-y things.
** JJ, he may look like the normal mindless Soldier but he has actually almost gotten a medical license.
%%* SmokingIsCool: A good chunk of the characters.
* TheSociopath: Brighton, though not always apparent; she has spells where the sociopath really bleeds through, though.
** Candice is one, but it's rather mild, and she's not actively malicious about it.
%%* {{Southies}}: Several of the Scouts.
%%* SouthernFriedGenius: Most of the engineers. Jason.
* TheSpeechless: Jerry is mute.
** As is Ike, who also happens to be albino.
* StepfordSmiler: Abel, at times. He tries to keep a cheerful mood even when he’s tearing apart inside.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Carlton. He's condescending and he knows it.
%%* TeamMom: Abel, to Coldfront in general
* TeenGenius: Back when Louis, the BLU medic, was a teen she was this; having graduated high school several years early.
** Willie entered college at the University of Texas at sixteen.
%%* TooKinkyToTorture: Emmerich. Big time.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Aldous and Gummy Bears (and plums), J.D. and ribs, Abel and cherries, Kooky and apples, Ming and eggrolls, Candice and bacon, JJ and caramelized apples.
* TrueCompanions: Several close-knit groups of mercs within the game, especially those that have fought together for months or years.
%%* {{Tsundere}}: There are ''quite'' a few of these.
%%* UndyingLoyalty: Dolly, to J.D.
%%** J.D. himself to Dolly, Tavish, and Abel
%%** Tess, to Walter
* VampireBitesSuck: Louis, the BLU medic was bitten by Diethelm, she didn't like it as it had sent her to respawn. Inverted with Alois and Yivon, in that Alois was careful in minimizing pain.
* ViralTransformation: This is how Diethelm's vampirism was passed to Alois.
%%* VitriolicBestBuds: Nikki and Hotaru are a Type 2 at times.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Same as in the canon. Most characters are also aware of this.
%%* WeirdnessMagnet: Louis, the BLU medic.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: J.D.'s most defining (and according to him, ONLY) attractive feature- they are very, VERY blue, described as being 'like a cloudless sky on a perfect Fourth of July afternoon'.
** JJ's eyes are totally grey, with some shiny part that make people think they're a pair of pearls.
** Etienne's eyes are two tones, consisting of off silver or grey, and golden brown.
* WhenHeSmiles: It takes something (or someone) really special to make him do it, but if you can get Aldous to give a genuine, non wicked or sarcastic smile, he looks just as sweet as his twin.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Peter. He even wears dresses into battle when he can get away with it.
* WickedCultured: Karl was a professional ballet dancer back in Stuttgart.
** Markov and his [=PhD=] in Literature.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Several of the male characters have this outlook. Justified as it takes place in the late 60s, though averted because nearly every woman they meet is a mercenary of one form or another and should be capable of giving as good as she gets.
%%* WrenchWench: Katya, the female Engineers.
%%* {{Yandere}}: Nikki shows the occasional disturbing hint at being an Obsessive version of this.
%%** Spycrab Anatole, at one point.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Elsie the RED Soldier, and Manfried her Pocket Medic husband.
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