History PlayingWith / HopeIsScary

* '''Played For Laughs''': Gerard the GrumpyBear pours cold water on every cheerful sign -- down to the observation that the clouds are clearing and so the rain might break -- with grim predictions of how things could still go wrong and crush their hopes.

* '''Discussed''': "[[NiceGuy Nice, earnest people]] like you... I can't help it. When I'm around you, you make me start to think that people aren't all that bad. That's why, more than anyone else, I DETEST people like you the most. You're dangerous: a threat to [[JerkassFacade the armor I've forged]], as it were. So die screaming."

** Orlando has trusted no one since he fell in love with a DecoyDamsel, whose treachery killed his brother. When Angelica hires him to escort her, he thinks it just a job, but when he finds himself falling in love again, he is unnerved and tries to draw back from her, and find someone else to take on the job.
** After the king treacherously blamed Jack for a dragon's rampage, when someone else roused the beast and Jack killed it, Jack has worked at various jobs, demanding money in advance, and mistrusting all who praised him. When a queen hires him and the job starts getting out of hand, her brave confidence inspires him to follow her without his money in hand. He almost flees when he realizes this.
** Enslaved, Romilly refuses to join an escape plan because being dragged back would be too crushing.

** Orlando realizes he is falling in love and gibbers in terror.
** Orlando is physically hurt from falling in love again.
* '''Downplayed''': Orlando is startled to realize he is falling in love again.
* '''Justified''': Orlando's experiences have caused anxiety, and despair-inducing [[TheFatalist fatalism]] is the primary thing he gets to see direction in life.

** Georgiana loses hope after she is betrayed by the man she loves, and finds that the numbness can indeed be comfortable.
** Angelica is a HopeBringer and Orlando immediately volunteers [[LadyAndKnight to be her personal knight]] because he desperately wants to believe in her and hope again.
* '''Subverted''': Boris has his heart broken, but his aunt introduces him to the lovely Esmeralda to help him get over it, and he acts afraid to hope -- to trick Esmeralda into believing he was recovering, so he could get the knowledge of his aunt's plot out of her.

* '''Exploited''': The villainous Theodote realizes that Orlando is falling in love and ObliviousToLove, so points it out to unnerve him.

* '''Discussed''': "Nice, earnest people like you...I can't help it. When I'm around you, you make me start to think that people aren't all that bad. That's why, more than anyone else, I DETEST people like you the most. You're dangerous: a threat to the armor I've forged, as it were. So die screaming."

** Orlando's fear of hope makes him a very unproductive person.
** So much so that [[NoPlaceForMeThere Heaven is dead to him]], and Orlando is far too masochistic to turn down Hell itself.
** Orlando's fear of hope means he has to sabotage his chances of potential happiness or has formed a mask of snarky cynicism to protect himself.

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* '''Discussed''': ???

** So much so that [[NoPlaceForMeThere Heaven is dead to him]], and Orlando is far too masochistic to turn down Hell itself.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Orlando's fear of hope makes him a very unproductive person.

* '''Deconstructed''': Orlando's fear of hope makes him a very unproductive person.

* '''Exaggerated''': Orlando realizes he is falling in love and gibbers in terror.

* '''Inverted''': Georgiana loses hope after she is betrayed by the man she loves, and finds that the numbness can indeed be comfortable.

* '''Inverted''': Angelica is a HopeBringer and Orlando immediately volunteers [[LadyAndKnight to be her personal knight]] because he desperately wants to believe in her and hope again.

* '''Inverted''': Georgiana loses hope after she is betrayed by the man she loves, and finds that the numbness can indeed be comfortable.

* '''Straight''': Orlando has trusted no one since he fell in love with a DecoyDamsel, whose treachery killed his brother. When Angelica hires him to escort her, he thinks it just a job, but when he finds himself falling in love again, he is unnerved and tries to draw back from her, and find someone else to take on the job.

* Enslaved, Romilly refuses to join an escape plan because being dragged back would be too crushing.

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Defied''': Orlando refuses to hope again so that he will not be hurt.

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