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* ''Fanfic/DaughterNature'': Luz chooses to stay in the Boiling Isles because it easily allows for this trope. Unlike on Earth, where she can't use her godly abilities out of fear of discovery, here she can freely use her powers since most people will just assume its magic. In addition, while she has no qualms telling the island's residents that she's a god if they ask, she finds that everyone just assumes she's a normal human if they don't witness her performing more advanced techniques like shapeshifting, due to witches having little frame of reference for what humans should be capable of.



** ''[[Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]'' introduces a race of HumanAliens called the Lanthanites, who, if not actually immortal, are certainly extremely LongLived (the one met so far claims to have met Pythagoras), and who lived undetected on Earth among humans for centuries. ([[MeaningfulName Appropriately enough]], the Greek word "lanthánō" means "to go unnoticed").

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** ''[[Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]'' introduces a race of HumanAliens called the Lanthanites, who, if not actually immortal, are certainly extremely LongLived (the one met so far claims to have met Pythagoras), and who lived undetected on Earth among humans for centuries. ([[MeaningfulName Appropriately enough]], the Greek word "lanthánō" "lanthánō" means "to go unnoticed").

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Flint of [[Recap/StarTrekS3E19RequiemForMethuselah "Requiem for Methuselah"]] was born 6,000 years ago and played the part of numerous famous historical figures. However, in Captain Kirk's time, he's long since left the spotlight: essentially, he's an interstellar {{Hikikomori}} who bought a remote uninhabited world to live on, and he's remained there ever since -- right up until Kirk and company show up looking for a cure for Rigellian Fever.

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** ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]]'':
Flint of [[Recap/StarTrekS3E19RequiemForMethuselah "Requiem for Methuselah"]] was born 6,000 years ago and played the part of numerous famous historical figures. However, in Captain Kirk's time, he's long since left the spotlight: essentially, he's an interstellar {{Hikikomori}} who bought a remote uninhabited world to live on, and he's remained there ever since -- right up until Kirk and company show up looking for a cure for Rigellian Fever.
** ''[[Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]'' introduces a race of HumanAliens called the Lanthanites, who, if not actually immortal, are certainly extremely LongLived (the one met so far claims to have met Pythagoras), and who lived undetected on Earth among humans for centuries. ([[MeaningfulName Appropriately enough]], the Greek word "lanthánō" means "to go unnoticed").
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** The Lady Knight purposefully dropped off the radar to a certain extent in the 16th century, then more or less entirely a century later. While [[UsefulNotes/JulieDAubigny her]] [[Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries lives]] following that weren't exactly ''inconspicuous'', they were relatively discreet and avoiding her previous pattern of legendary swordswoman and EternalHero, throwing others who might be looking for her off the scent. Since even Loki and Heimdall couldn't track her down when she decided to hide, she was probably onto something.
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* In ''Fanfic/ResonanceDays'', everyone is already dead and immortal, so the trope doesn't really fit, but most characters spend their eternal lifetimes pretty unremarkably. Mami and Charlotte harvest seaweed, Oktavia is offered a job as a music instructor, etcetera.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Downplayed. Celty is a dullahan, a [[TheFairFolk headless Irish fairy]] and can heal from even fatal damage. She's the OnlySaneMan in the entire cast and lives with Shinra in an apartment while working as a courier, though her clients tend to be sketchy. Outside of her quest for her missing head, Celty doesn't typically go looking for adventure and usually has to be forced into becoming involved in the random chaos around her. When said chaos resolves, she likes to go back to her routine.

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* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': Downplayed. Celty is a dullahan, a [[TheFairFolk headless Irish fairy]] and can heal from even fatal damage. She's the OnlySaneMan in the entire cast and lives with Shinra in an apartment while working as a courier, though her clients tend to be sketchy. Outside of her quest for her missing head, Celty doesn't typically go looking for adventure and usually has to be forced into becoming involved in the random chaos around her. When said chaos resolves, she likes to go back to her routine.
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* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'':

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* Myth/ClassicalMythology: minor sea gods Proteus is one of the few Graeco-Roman deities who hasn't had any adventures of his own, doesn't involve himself in any of the innumerable conflicts, and doesn't appear interested in living it up like his father Poseidon. Instead, he prefers the life of a hermit, spending his days shepherding seals and his afternoons dozing alone on a beach; even [[VoluntaryShapeshifting his famous shapeshifting powers]] are used mainly at work or in emergencies, while his prophetic abilities are only used by heroes who are out to wrestle him for information... and even then, Proteus is so deliberately obscure that, in the ''Literature/TheOdyssey,'' Menelaus had to be told about him by the sea god's own daughter before he could even try to capture Proteus.

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* Myth/ClassicalMythology: minor sea gods god Proteus is one of the few Graeco-Roman deities who hasn't had any adventures of his own, doesn't involve himself in any of the innumerable conflicts, and doesn't appear interested in living it up like his father Poseidon. Instead, he prefers the life of a hermit, spending his days shepherding seals and his afternoons dozing alone on a beach; even [[VoluntaryShapeshifting his famous shapeshifting powers]] are used mainly at work or in emergencies, while his prophetic abilities are only used by heroes who are out to wrestle him for information... and even then, Proteus is so deliberately obscure that, in the ''Literature/TheOdyssey,'' Menelaus had to be told about him by the sea god's own daughter before he could even try to capture Proteus.
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* Myth/ClassicalMythology: minor sea gods Proteus is one of the few Graeco-Roman deities who hasn't had any adventures of his own, doesn't involve himself in any of the innumerable conflicts, and doesn't appear interested in living it up like his father Poseidon. Instead, he prefers the life of a hermit, spending his days shepherding seals and his afternoons dozing alone on a beach; even [[VoluntaryShapeshifting his famous shapeshifting powers]] are used mainly at work or in emergencies, while his prophetic abilities are only used by heroes who are out to wrestle him for information... and even then, Proteus is so deliberately obscure that, in the ''Literature/TheOdyssey,'' Menelaus had to be told about him by the sea god's own daughter before he could even try to capture Proteus.
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