History Roleplay / TheVelvetKey

* BonusBoss: Nobody has to fight the bosses, but they give extra levels if you participate.

%%* DisabledHottie: April, full stop. Mention should also go to Mila, who is definitely more "disabled" than "HollywoodCyborg" (which is the entire reason her cybernetic implants got past Prospero's normalcy test in the first place).

* AffablyEvil: [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke]] made a post asking about the feasibility of getting a kitten on the same day that he killed [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Kaito]].

* BaddieFlattery: [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke]] could fall into a number of categories - CombatSadomasochist, InLoveWithYourCarnage - but what's for certain is that it took only a few comments upon his revival to start praising the person who killed him as awesome. Lancer was a little weirded out.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Theoretically [[LightNovel/FateZero Lancer]] doesn't have his curse anymore, but considering his involvement in the love polyhedron includes [[Manga/DGrayMan Neah]], [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke]], and [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Issei]], you'd be forgiven for thinking it had gotten stronger.

* GoKartingWithBowser: Even the evil characters need jobs. [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke]] is a local bartender and happily chats up people he recognizes.

** [[LightNovel/FateZero Sola-Ui]] did this to Saber very soon after her arrival.
** [[LightNovel/FateZero Waver Velvet's]] shadow during the Personal Shadow event tried to do this to [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Issei Ryudo]]. The reason? He was upset that [[UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat Rider]] had taken Issei as a vassal and thought that he was being replaced.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted with ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' Cu Chulainn and the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' Cu Chulainn, even though they are nothing alike - [[LightNovel/FateZero Diarmuid]] has the former as his Persona, while the other cast members have encountered the latter.

** [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke for Lancer and Saber]] because it freaks them out and it's funny, and also because he genuinely likes them.

* CasualDangerDialog:

%%* BikerBabe: Extra Rider. Vriska would like to think she is one.

* RealityEnsues: One of [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Edgeworth's]] many sources of frustration is discovering that in ''this'' world, learning a single fact can take months of investigation.

%%* {{Adorkable}}: April.

A panfandom JournalRoleplay on Dreamwidth that [[http://tvk.dreamwidth.org/ ran]] from 2011 to 2013, before fizzling out.

Its premise sees the characters brought Prospero, a city that looks relatively normal, until midnight. Then, the Dark Hour, straight from ''VideoGame/Persona3'', emerges. Normal people turn into coffins and monsters called Shadows flood the city. To fight these Shadows and learn why they were brought here, the characters must use their new powers of Persona.

!! This game provides examples of:

* ActorAllusion: On the mun side. For the masquerade ball, [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Kaoru]] wore a plain white eye mask with a few rhinestones glued onto each corner. [[Fanfic/FutariWaPrettyCureBlueMoon Remind you of anybody?]]

* AxCrazy: The current character roster includes a pile of mass murderers. There hadn't been a murder for ten years before the characters came - suffice it to say that it's going to get a lot worse.
** Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] with [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin Kisaragi]]. He's taken from the end of ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]'', so he's resistant to Yukianesa's influence. Not that it matters here, of course...

%%* BecomingTheMask/[[spoiler: RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething]]: [[VideoGame/FateExtra Rider]], Rider, ''[[http://tvklogs.dreamwidth.org/39200.html?thread=2629152#cmt2629152 Rider]]''.

* BizarreInstrument: Bunny in the Box will take *anyone* into its rotating membership, resulting in the need to write rock songs for the harp and other such things.

** BonusBoss: Nobody has to fight the bosses, but they give extra levels if you participate.

* CannotSpitItOut: Saori on confessing her feelings for Kaiji until the Personal Shadow event where she clocked her own Shadow and tells it not to touch 'her man'. Kaiji takes it rather well.
** April on her feelings towards [[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Ledah]], mainly due to how she doesn't want to make things awkward betweem them. But she later manages to spit it out.

* CasualDangerDialog: [[Literature/{{Mahabharata}} Karna]], when asked on how he felt if his life was in danger upon arrival, and basically shrugs off the thought. Granted, he's seen a lot in his time, so it's no wonder.

* AChatWithSatan: Albedo would always try to break V/V's spirit this way when they were in-game. Not that it ever worked, which just intensified his [[FoeYay hatecrush]].
** TheCorrupter: Failed miserably and repeatedly.

* [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless Guy]]: [[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Ledah]] actually has emotions now, though he tries not to show them much.

* EvilCounterpart: V/V views Kaoru as hers to an extent. The feeling's mutual.

* FailedASpotCheck: Sakurako and Madoka, during the Ace of Swords event. They had *no clue* that the suddenly-appearing unfriendly version of Misa wasn't really her. When she only ever showed up during the Dark Hour. During an event where everyone was facing Shadows impersonating their friends and relations.

* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: ...well, Kaoru can't really say she loves much of anything, but she possesses a [[Film/ConAir small pink stuffed bunny]] that John gave her while she was in the hospital. She's confused by it and later asks what it's for. [[TearJerker By the time she's out of the hospital, he's fallen victim to the mass disappearance]] [[ObliviousToLove and she never really understood why he gave it to her]].
* GoKartingWithBowser / VillainsOutShopping: Even the evil characters need jobs. [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke]] is a local bartender and happily chats up people he recognizes.
* GratuitousGerman / ForeignCussWord: Asuka is a real pottymouth in her native language. She also orders her Persona around with German phrases since she thinks in German, refers to her Persona with the modern German spelling (Brünnhilde as opposed to Brynhildr) and occasionally just throws in an honorific or greeting in German because her player feels like it.

* HeroKiller: Kiritsugu and Maiya went on a Servant-killing spree (including people closely related to the Servants in question) in April 2012.

%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] and [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Enkidu]]. [[HoYay Or are they]]?

** MoralityChain:
** Given Gilgamesh's rampage when Naoya killed V/V...
** Also [[VideoGame/BreathofFireIV Ryu]] for [[Videogame/{{Xenosaga}} Albedo]].
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[LightNovel/FateZero Sola-Ui]] did this to Saber very soon after her arrival.

%%* NeverMessWithGranny: Ingrid.

** [[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Ledah Rozwelli]], presumably as the celestial sort of flame

** TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin]] ''tried'' to do this, only to get attacked by Shadows ''way'' too close to the hotel.

* ShipperOnDeck: [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke for Lancer and Saber]] because it freaks them out and it's funny, and also because he genuinely likes them.
** [[OriginalCharacter Saori]] for [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Klaus]] and [[OriginalCharacter Ingrid]] but she hasn't made it public yet and it doesn't help they all live on the same hotel floor.

* TimeStandsStill: The Dark Hour, by nature.

* VitriolicBestBuds: several. [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] and [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]] are notable for their sheer apparent enjoyment in barraging each other with insults and arrogant assertions of their own superiority.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Characters under a certain age are supposed to go to school in between fighting Shadows.
** CompulsorySchoolAge: Even if they just ''look'' that age.

%%* WithFriendsLikeThese: No wonder Edgeworth's frustrated. The captives can be as bad as the captors, and ''they're'' there all the time.

* {{Yandere}}: Vriska during the Reversed portion of the Lovers event. She kidnapped all the people closest to her, calling them her property and only able to be slowed down by the failsafe built into the event, until she had to be stopped by Nepeta.
** Saori, during the same event, was ''worse''.
** [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Affected with an F in Yandere]]: Elsie. The object of her "affection" was, as in canon, [[CargoShip fire trucks]], and she couldn't bring herself to destroy even a toy one when the arcana reversed.
** [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]], on the other hand, [[{{Tsundere}} was more or less]] [[NoSocialSkills "Reversed" the entire time]].
** Looking away from the Lovers event for a moment, [[http://tvk.dreamwidth.org/194219.html here's an example]] of being yandere for your ''kid''. Uh...

[[http://tvk.dreamwidth.org/ A panfandom Dreamwidth roleplay]] that ran from 2011 to 2013. The characters have been brought into Prospero, a city that looks relatively normal, until midnight. Then, the Dark Hour, straight from ''VideoGame/Persona3'', emerges. Normal people turn into coffins and monsters called Shadows flood the city. To fight these Shadows and learn why they were brought here, the characters must use their new powers of Persona.

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* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: Not really taken overboard in-story or out, at least not any more than any other [[SelfDemonstratingArticle LJ/DWRP]] does, but the game's LJ community was called thevelvetkey whereas its DW community is just called tvk.
* ActionGirl: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]] and both [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Saber]] and [[VideoGame/FateExtra Saber Extra]], of course.
* ActionSurvivor: Issei, though he's trying to build himself up as a combatant.

* {{Adorkable}}: April.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Anyone who isn't human ''at all'', outside of the Dark Hour. [[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Ein]] gets special mention for also being this ''during'' the Dark Hour.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Regarding the triple goddess. Let's see, we have actual deities on the taken list, and then there's the whole Persona thing.
* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Kayneth during the Empress event, when he suddenly had a bunch of children he didn't know what to do with -- none of whom were particularly into it, nor did they know what to do.

* BecomingTheMask/[[spoiler: RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething]]: [[VideoGame/FateExtra Rider]], Rider, ''[[http://tvklogs.dreamwidth.org/39200.html?thread=2629152#cmt2629152 Rider]]''.
* BeingWatched: The December 2012 event had a paranoia plague around the town.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: ''Everyone'', during the Empress Arcana event.
* BikerBabe: Extra Rider. Vriska would like to think she is one.

* BornLucky: [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] should just be banned from the casino.
* BonusBoss: Nobody has to fight the bosses, but they give extra levels if you participate.

* BreakTheCutie: Happened to [[VideoGame/BreathofFireIV Ryu]] as a result of his canon update, and happened ''again'' when he came across [[Videogame/{{Xenosaga}} Albedo]] mutilating a corpse.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Half-literally, when Rider's persona turned on her. The other half is that Cthulhu busted up her ship, not her arm.

* CardboardPrison: Well, for Persona users, it is.

* DemotedToExtra: Happens to anyone apped from the actual Persona series. Poor [[VideoGame/Persona3 Minato]].
* DieOrFly: The most common way to awaken your Persona.
* DisabledHottie: April, full stop. Mention should also go to Mila, who is definitely more "disabled" than "HollywoodCyborg" (which is the entire reason her cybernetic implants got past Prospero's normalcy test in the first place).

* ExpansionPackWorld: Players are encouraged to make places up.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: With anyone re-apped and rebooted, like Medea.

* GreatEscape: Well, the locals think that's what Ryuunosuke did. [[CardboardPrison He actually just walked right out of jail.]]

* HatePlague: The second half of the Lovers event.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] and [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Enkidu]]. [[HoYay Or are they]]?
* HomeBase: Saori's tea house.
* HypocriticalHumor
** '''Shirou:''' You're in love with her, YOU DENSE IDIOT!

* InsufferableGenius: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]].

* {{Jerkass}}: A few characters, including [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]], [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]], and [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin]].

* KinkMeme: Periodically!
* LetMeGetThisStraight: New characters tend to react to the summary of the situation kind of like this. It is a pretty weird situation, at least.
* LoveDodecahedron: Within a few months of beginning.
* LoveIsInTheAir: The first half of the Lovers event.

* MeaningfulName: Trey Matre.
* MegaCrossover

* NakedOnArrival: Enkidu. Because he's [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Enkidu]].
* NamesTheSame: The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' Cu Chulainn and the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' Cu Chulainn look nothing alike - [[LightNovel/FateZero Diarmuid]] has the former as his Persona, while the other cast members have encountered the latter.

* NeverRecycleABuilding: The original Caliban. (It's now city hall, averting this.)
* NeverMessWithGranny: Ingrid.
* OntologicalMystery: Both played straight ''and'' subverted. While characters can't return home, they can leave Prospero. And there's a whole world out there, too.

* ReiAyanamiExpy: Well, Asuka called Kaoru "Wonderlessgirl".
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Ingrid.
* SerialKiller: There were two such plots in short succession.

* ShockAndAwe: Electricity-using Personae, plus April back home.
* SternTeacher: Ingrid.
* SummonMagic: Persona. Also the player characters, possibly.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: [[VideoGame/FateExtra Hakuno]] seemed lucky enough to have this during her intro.
* SuspiciouslyVagueAge: Averted. Character ages are listed on the application, and smut involving minors is not permitted on game-controlled grounds (that is, in the game's communities).
* TarotMotifs: It's a game based on ''VideoGame/Persona3''. What did you expect?

* TrappedInAnotherWorld
* {{Tsundere}}: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]].

* WeirdMoon: It's a ''Persona 3'' game. Come on.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: No wonder Edgeworth's frustrated. The captives can be as bad as the captors, and ''they're'' there all the time.
* WhenIWasYourAge: Ingrid.
* WhiteMagicianGirl: Lucia, complete with actual staff.

* NamesTheSame: The ShinMegamiTensei Cu Chulainn and the VisualNovel/FateStayNight Cu Chulainn look nothing alike - [[LightNovel/FateZero Diarmuid]] has the former as his Persona, while the other cast members have encountered the latter.

* GenreSavvy: [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Klaus Wulfenbach]] figured out pretty quickly that space/time shenanigans were afoot re: his arrival. Being a Mad Scientist pays off sometimes.

* ActionGirl: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]] and both [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Saber]] and [[FateExtra Saber Extra]], of course.

* BecomingTheMask/[[spoiler: RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething]]: [[FateExtra Rider]], Rider, ''[[http://tvklogs.dreamwidth.org/39200.html?thread=2629152#cmt2629152 Rider]]''.

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: [[FateExtra Hakuno]] seemed lucky enough to have this during her intro.