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''Character Capital'' is the twenty-fifth installment of the main-series ''Roleplay/CharacterDevelopmentThread''.
Set in a large metropolis with connections to many realities, this thread is meant to focus on different forms of interaction between characters, and it is recommended that characters come with a specific goal in mind.
The thread can be found [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14248981950A88250400 here]]. In started in February of 2015 and came to a stop at the end of the year.
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!!''Character Capital'' contains examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted, but barely. When ''Godsgift'' gains sentience, his ''first action'' is to go berserk and try to kill Whistler, and he almost succeeds. As it turns out, the only reason he went haywire was because the programmers who created him screwed up, and he fixed ''himself'' to prevent another episode.
%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Rose. It can get her into trouble.
* BadassLongcoat: Ulrich and Ulf both quip about the density, and Echo saddles Kommissar with "Trenchcoat" as a nickname until she warms up to him.
%%* CompensatingForSomething: Commenting on his mech, Echo accuses Sabaoth of this.
* CurbStompBattle: Samantha dishes one of these out to Kiyumi during their duel, [[CurbStompCushion though Kiyumi manages to land a good enough hit on her]] that makes her decide to just end the fight there.
* EverybodySmokes: Well, maybe not ''everybody'', but still quite a few - Kevin (cigars), Sylvia (a ''really sinister'' cigar), Ulf, Gwion, a random angry man at a bus stop, Sito, all six of the group from Terra Nova and others - and not just outdoors. In Zan's diner and on buses, too.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: As far as it's known, the Captain is simply called the Captain. His name is revealed later: [[spoiler:Lieutenant Joshua Snow]].
%%* FlatWhat:
%%** Samantha's response upon meeting David.
%%** Seon has some mild difficulties with the concept of "Party Ninjas."
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Downplayed in ''Godsgift''; supposedly, he's no longer unstable and/or crazy, but he is apparently a ''big'' fan of BlackComedy, to the point where some characters wonder how many of his jokes are actually jokes.
%%* HeroicSecondWind: Samantha seems to enjoy bringing these out when testing a potential ally's combat abilities. It's most notable during her duel with Midori.
* HubCity: The Capital is a hub for travel, diplomacy, and other activities across multiple dimensions.
* {{Irony}}: Nero and Roderick unknowingly attempt to hire Echo to help them catch an anti-government terrorist. Which is exactly what Echo herself was before the Equalist movement dissolved and she became a vigilante. The difference being that Nero and Roderick's case is [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters currently ambiguous]], while Echo's group [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized was less so]].
* TheKlutz: Ulf's impulsiveness often gets him in trouble.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Seon realizes he's being hunted by someone with the power to know where he is at all times, he immediately decides to call off his mission and flees the city through the interdimensional portal. His superiors seem perfectly fine with this.
%%* MacGuffin: The pendant, for Ulrich.
* MarryThemAll: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Qrlil, who decides to ''not'' decide between her attraction to both Garkin and Angua after it turns out they're both okay with polyamory and/or open relationships. Qrlil herself isn't entirely comfortable with the decision, but is seeing how things go for the moment.
* MultipleNarrativeModes: While all other characters use one form or another of third-person point of view as is more standard for the Character Development Threads, The Captain's posts are all in second-person point of view.
* OmnicidalNeutral: Echo, deciding between [[StateSec Nero and Roderick]] or [[LaResistance Lydia]], decides to try and just capture the three of them, intending to interrogate them herself and [[VigilanteMan play judge, jury, and executioner]] after hearing each side. It doesn't quite work out.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: On the Earth Gwion comes from, "Lycanthropes" do not ''physically'' transform. The "change" is internal - psychological or spiritual or merely psychosis, BerserkerRage and adrenaline, depending on who you're talking to. His assumption is that Ulf is like this - so he's probably in for a bit of a shock.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Many a character finds themselves here, sometimes revealing unexpected complexities.
** Echo is a WrongGenreSavvy AntiVillain in her hometown, but the West Side actually does fit her worldview enough to give her a temporary push over to the AntiHero side.
** Felix is from a sci-fi/action world where the answer is usually MoreDakka. Solving things through actually ''sitting down and talking to people'' is a little on the new side for him.
* PapaWolf: Felix and Gwion are both like this when it comes to threats against their chosen "young".
* PlatonicLifePartners: Although the deepest nature of their relationship is unknown, Rani and Foster are this, having known each other since childhood.
* PlayingWithFire: Three—count them—''three'' characters posses fire-related powers. Lampshaded by Felix by saying, "That's ''three'' people I know with fire."
* PostCyberpunk:
** Powerful technology, but life goes on, and goes on reasonably well.
** Also the version of Earth that Gwion comes from, so he finds this place very "home-like".
%%* PostModernMagick: Outside of the Old City, most magic native to the Capital takes this form.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The Rani (red) and Foster (blue) duo have this dynamic to them, although it's not exactly cut and dry.
* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: After Whistler's shipboard AI ''Godsgift'' goes haywire and starts to repair itself, it has frequent verbal glitches, the most common of which is the rapid repetition of a syllable. It claims that this should clear up once it finishes fixing itself in a few days.
-->"Please excu-cu-cuse any irregularit-t-t-ties in my speech. I am reload-oad-oad-oading from an onboard backup, but at my current rate of progress, it will ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-take several days before I am fully operational."
* SamusIsAGirl: Echo is a woman, but the addition of some armor to her outfit and the acoustics of her mask leave her assumed male.
%%* SeenItAll: Felix is more or less unfazable.
%%* ShiningCity: This is the intended overall look and feel of the Capital, with a few exceptions.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Ulf's eyes turn yellow when his beast is close to the surface.
%%* TeamMom: Marie is this for the [[RunningGag "Not-Chaos-Hunters"]] team.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: The "Group from Terra Nova" consists of four men, two women, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Robot]].
%%* WhenItRainsItPours: The first day's thunderstorm starts this way.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: The Commonwealth Office of Special Inquest agents all wear white porcelain masks, which add to their sinister presence. Angua is initially extremely unnerved by Kommissar because his mask reminds her of one.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Felix apparently thinks he's in a SpaceWestern.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: At least three characters - Echo, Lydia, and Seon - are part of morally ambiguous anti-government organizations, and the latter two are referred to by pursuing authorities from their homeworlds as "terrorists". Echo pretty clearly falls under TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, while Seon and Lydia's cases are more unclear.
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''Character Capital'' is the twenty-fifth installment of the main-series ''Roleplay/CharacterDevelopmentThread''.
Set in a large metropolis with connections to many realities, this thread is meant to focus on different forms of interaction between characters, and it is recommended that characters come with a specific goal in mind.
The thread can be found [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14248981950A88250400 here]]. In started in February of 2015 and came to a stop at the end of the year.
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!!''Character Capital'' contains examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted, but barely. When ''Godsgift'' gains sentience, his ''first action'' is to go berserk and try to kill Whistler, and he almost succeeds. As it turns out, the only reason he went haywire was because the programmers who created him screwed up, and he fixed ''himself'' to prevent another episode.
%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Rose. It can get her into trouble.
* BadassLongcoat: Ulrich and Ulf both quip about the density, and Echo saddles Kommissar with "Trenchcoat" as a nickname until she warms up to him.
%%* CompensatingForSomething: Commenting on his mech, Echo accuses Sabaoth of this.
* CurbStompBattle: Samantha dishes one of these out to Kiyumi during their duel, [[CurbStompCushion though Kiyumi manages to land a good enough hit on her]] that makes her decide to just end the fight there.
* EverybodySmokes: Well, maybe not ''everybody'', but still quite a few - Kevin (cigars), Sylvia (a ''really sinister'' cigar), Ulf, Gwion, a random angry man at a bus stop, Sito, all six of the group from Terra Nova and others - and not just outdoors. In Zan's diner and on buses, too.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: As far as it's known, the Captain is simply called the Captain. His name is revealed later: [[spoiler:Lieutenant Joshua Snow]].
%%* FlatWhat:
%%** Samantha's response upon meeting David.
%%** Seon has some mild difficulties with the concept of "Party Ninjas."
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Downplayed in ''Godsgift''; supposedly, he's no longer unstable and/or crazy, but he is apparently a ''big'' fan of BlackComedy, to the point where some characters wonder how many of his jokes are actually jokes.
%%* HeroicSecondWind: Samantha seems to enjoy bringing these out when testing a potential ally's combat abilities. It's most notable during her duel with Midori.
* HubCity: The Capital is a hub for travel, diplomacy, and other activities across multiple dimensions.
* {{Irony}}: Nero and Roderick unknowingly attempt to hire Echo to help them catch an anti-government terrorist. Which is exactly what Echo herself was before the Equalist movement dissolved and she became a vigilante. The difference being that Nero and Roderick's case is [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters currently ambiguous]], while Echo's group [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized was less so]].
* TheKlutz: Ulf's impulsiveness often gets him in trouble.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Seon realizes he's being hunted by someone with the power to know where he is at all times, he immediately decides to call off his mission and flees the city through the interdimensional portal. His superiors seem perfectly fine with this.
%%* MacGuffin: The pendant, for Ulrich.
* MarryThemAll: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Qrlil, who decides to ''not'' decide between her attraction to both Garkin and Angua after it turns out they're both okay with polyamory and/or open relationships. Qrlil herself isn't entirely comfortable with the decision, but is seeing how things go for the moment.
* MultipleNarrativeModes: While all other characters use one form or another of third-person point of view as is more standard for the Character Development Threads, The Captain's posts are all in second-person point of view.
* OmnicidalNeutral: Echo, deciding between [[StateSec Nero and Roderick]] or [[LaResistance Lydia]], decides to try and just capture the three of them, intending to interrogate them herself and [[VigilanteMan play judge, jury, and executioner]] after hearing each side. It doesn't quite work out.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: On the Earth Gwion comes from, "Lycanthropes" do not ''physically'' transform. The "change" is internal - psychological or spiritual or merely psychosis, BerserkerRage and adrenaline, depending on who you're talking to. His assumption is that Ulf is like this - so he's probably in for a bit of a shock.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Many a character finds themselves here, sometimes revealing unexpected complexities.
** Echo is a WrongGenreSavvy AntiVillain in her hometown, but the West Side actually does fit her worldview enough to give her a temporary push over to the AntiHero side.
** Felix is from a sci-fi/action world where the answer is usually MoreDakka. Solving things through actually ''sitting down and talking to people'' is a little on the new side for him.
* PapaWolf: Felix and Gwion are both like this when it comes to threats against their chosen "young".
* PlatonicLifePartners: Although the deepest nature of their relationship is unknown, Rani and Foster are this, having known each other since childhood.
* PlayingWithFire: Three—count them—''three'' characters posses fire-related powers. Lampshaded by Felix by saying, "That's ''three'' people I know with fire."
* PostCyberpunk:
** Powerful technology, but life goes on, and goes on reasonably well.
** Also the version of Earth that Gwion comes from, so he finds this place very "home-like".
%%* PostModernMagick: Outside of the Old City, most magic native to the Capital takes this form.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The Rani (red) and Foster (blue) duo have this dynamic to them, although it's not exactly cut and dry.
* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: After Whistler's shipboard AI ''Godsgift'' goes haywire and starts to repair itself, it has frequent verbal glitches, the most common of which is the rapid repetition of a syllable. It claims that this should clear up once it finishes fixing itself in a few days.
-->"Please excu-cu-cuse any irregularit-t-t-ties in my speech. I am reload-oad-oad-oading from an onboard backup, but at my current rate of progress, it will ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-take several days before I am fully operational."
* SamusIsAGirl: Echo is a woman, but the addition of some armor to her outfit and the acoustics of her mask leave her assumed male.
%%* SeenItAll: Felix is more or less unfazable.
%%* ShiningCity: This is the intended overall look and feel of the Capital, with a few exceptions.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Ulf's eyes turn yellow when his beast is close to the surface.
%%* TeamMom: Marie is this for the [[RunningGag "Not-Chaos-Hunters"]] team.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: The "Group from Terra Nova" consists of four men, two women, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Robot]].
%%* WhenItRainsItPours: The first day's thunderstorm starts this way.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: The Commonwealth Office of Special Inquest agents all wear white porcelain masks, which add to their sinister presence. Angua is initially extremely unnerved by Kommissar because his mask reminds her of one.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Felix apparently thinks he's in a SpaceWestern.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: At least three characters - Echo, Lydia, and Seon - are part of morally ambiguous anti-government organizations, and the latter two are referred to by pursuing authorities from their homeworlds as "terrorists". Echo pretty clearly falls under TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, while Seon and Lydia's cases are more unclear.
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