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Tropes about Lintian Wintermist, my WoW RP character:

• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: With pale blue skin, dark blue hair, and her personality, she was as this at first, for most of her life even.
• Amplifier Artifact: Owns an amulet of spell power.
• And the Adventure Continues: Immediately after celebrating the end of the War on Magic campaign, with the future of Dalaran and arcane practice secured, she was whisked away to help defend Amirdrassil in the Emerald Dream. Ultimately averted after that, though; she declared herself done fighting and opted to just settle down under the new World Tree after it emerged on Azeroth.
• Angst? What Angst?: You'd think the Burning of Teldrassil and seeing all her hopes for world peace shattered would affect her more profoundly. Ultimately several factors combined to help her avoid falling completely into despair, but even so, there are some hints that her positive and diplomatic demeanor is some sort of Stepford Smiler act, and she does crack under pressure.
• The Anti-Nihilist: "There is much suffering in the world; there's no need for us to add to it."
• Antiquated Linguistics: Downplayed example; she mostly speaks normal Common, but avoids colloquialisms in favor of more formal vocabulary. She actually can speak Common the way common people do, but prefers not to.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Since the Battle of Hyjal, Lintian has encountered previously unknown cultures, unbelievably ancient ghosts, scientific discoveries that overturned the night elves' former beliefs about their world (including the revelation that night elves themselves are descended from trolls), long-forgotten continents and a direct divine intervention by Elune... and yet she dismisses all accounts of people claming to have been to the literal afterlife as mere tall tales. The Doylist reason is that most of the Argent Dawn community chose to ignore Shadowlands and focus on creating their own plots on Azeroth during that expansion instead.
• Archer Archetype: As expected from a night elf with a hunter background. Less rugged than many examples of the trope, but nonetheless a loner, trying to be self-sufficient, and an individualist with disdain for organizations in general (her recent history with them doesn't help).
• Barrier Warrior: Aims to eventually become this as part of her magic training, not because she wants to fight, but to increase her chance of survival through conflicts yet to come.
• Berserk Button: Do not mock the tragedy of Teldrassil in her presence.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Is fond of phrases of this kind.
  "At the very least, it is right next to [the Aspects'] domain — and is going to incur their wrath if anyone else has any bright ideas involving azerite-laden catapults. Or mad elementals. Or mad dragons. Or mad elemental dragons."
• Break the Cutie: The Burning of Teldrassil, N'Zoth's invasion of the Vale, the void vision of an authoritarian Pandaria where she and the Fallen Leaf were trapped as a result, and finally, the change in the Leaf's official goals all eventually piled up to cut off her ties with basically everyone. It took her months of isolation and immersion in study to get better after that.
• Character Catchphrase: "By the Goddess!" and "Unfortunate".
• Constantly Curious: Likes asking questions about everything — and one of the best ways to win her approval is to ask her questions about everything.
• Crazy-Prepared: A running theme is Lintian making preparations for all kinds of unlikely circumstances (see Ragnarök Proofing and Trust Password, below).
• Crippling Overspecialization: Completely useless in close combat, which has bitten her in the back a few times.
• Cunning Linguist: Has a knack for languages and has published a few papers on Elvish languages in particular.
• Defector from Decadence: Has a pattern of doing this. Eventually she just swore off proclaiming loyalty to any organizations whatsoever.
• Exact Words: Rarely if ever outright lies, but is not above lying by omission.
• Face Your Fears: She was originally afraid of heights, panicking whenever someone carried her along on a flying mount. Naturally, she eventually came to the pressing need of flying one herself.
• Family of Choice: Being somewhat of a pariah to her birth family, she embraced the Fallen Leaf as her family of choice, which meant that her disagreements with the order's new direction hit her hard.
• Fatal Flaw: Lack of ambition and courage to take responsibility. She is quick to criticize everyone and everything that doesn't live up to her high standards (including herself), but she doesn't even try to actually be proactive in bringing the change she wants — say, by becoming a leader of like-minded cultural rebels like Shuang did.
  • Part of that is her ascribing to the Perfect Solution Fallacy. During the Fourth War, she did think the Horde needed to be stopped, but thought it would be better for her to just do nothing about it than fighting the Horde if that meant compromising her moral principles.
• Fighting for a Homeland: From her perspective, the War on Magic campaign was her and others fighting for the future of Dalaran, her adopted home. However, unexpectedly to her, she was soon called to fight for her real homeland to be: Amirdrassil.
• Former Teen Rebel: Alludes to having been more headstrong and conflict-prone at a younger age, when she was "only" 100 or so years old.
• God Before Dogma: Lintian worships Elune like most of her people, but rejects what she sees as the outdated dogma of the Sisterhood of Elune.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: "Dodged that arrow^note bullet." "Get off your high saber^note horse."
• The Idealist: Believes that every free-willed race has an inherent right to exist, and every oppressive society can eventually be reformed.
• I Choose to Stay: After the Fourth War ended, she had the choice of going back to her kin in Kalimdor, but decided to stay in Pandaria, being too invested in the idea of starting her new life there. This went to bite her in the backside later when N'Zoth invaded the Vale.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: After the War of Thorns, she claims that she just wants to settle down and enjoy life, but the world keeps throwing her in harms way. It's debatable how sincere she is, considering she has joined various dangerous expeditions entirely out of her own accord.
• Immigrant Patriotism: Lintian has far more loyalty to Dalaran, its people and ideals than she ever did to the kaldorei nation even at the best of times.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Her go-to excuses for abruptly leaving an event that's not to her liking are that she needs to pray to Elune or feed her hippogryph. Once she mixed up the two.
  "I need to go feed Elune— I mean, Laravel."
• Inherent in the System: Generally, she goes on about how there are no easy solutions to most of Azeroth's political problems. Her problem is that it disincentivizes her to do anything about them.
• Insistent Terminology: Prefers the endonym "kaldorei" to the exonym "night elves", considering the latter an inaccurate Alliance invention, and points out that a more accurate translation would be "star elves" or "starborne".
  • Also, she's not a mage, she's a student of magic. And she certainly doesn't intend to do something as crazy as living in Dalaran — she's staying there for the near future.
• Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Her mother was a strict, duty-bound and staunchly traditionalist Sentinel. Lintian herself is... anything but, and this was the source of much of her tension with her family in the past.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: Genuinely believes this and takes pity on short-lived races.
• Magi Babble: This comes naturally to her, fittingly for a Dalaran student.
  "Comprehensible magic is when you manipulate the thermodynamic gradient of the environment to produce a controlled combustion in a spherical volume centered on specific X, Y and Z coordinates".
• Missing Mom: Her mother, Riena Wintermist, died during the Third War, among other Sentinels fighting against Archimonde's assault on Hyjal, while Lintian and her father hid and ran — leaving them both with Survivor's Guilt.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Originally, her defining trait was simply being an intellectual night elf eager to learn about other races and their cultures. Fast forward to early Shadowlands, and she has cast off many traits of her native culture and embraced things that her people outright hate (including arcane magic and neutrality towards the Horde), to the point she thinks other night elves wouldn't accept her if she returned to Kalimdor.
• Naturalized Name: When writing in the Pandaren language, she transcribes her last name with the Pandaren characters for "winter" and "mist". Of course, as with almost all night elves, "Wintermist" is itself presumed to be a Common translation from the original Darnassian.
• Nature Lover: She's a night elf, so that's almost a given. One of the reasons she dislikes staying in big cities for too long.
• Not So Stoic: Briefly went into a complete meltdown after her Hearthstone deck was stolen in Dalaran, compared to far worse things that had happened to her in the past. Both because she associated it with the start of a new, more pleasant life for her, and because she didn't expect something like that to happen in Dalaran.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: Her reaction to learning that the Primalists are trying to burn down Amirdrassil.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lintian almost never swears, so when she delivers the very rare Precision F-Strike, it really means that she's that frustrated by the situation.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Nathaniel Hawthorne, and later, with Arian Pryce — coincidentally both Elune-worshiping afflicted Gilneans. Her friendship with the latter was outright Mistaken for Romance among Legerdemain Lounge regulars.
• Ragnarök Proofing: Along the lines of one of her inspirations, put a sealed collection of historical records in a hidden cave in Ashenvale.
  • Note to Self: Nearby, she keeps a collection of written notes detailing her most treasured memories, just in case she loses her memories. However, she didn't actually have a plan for remembering the location of the notes.
• Refreshingly Normal Life-Choice: After everything Lintian went through, with Amirdrassil's emergence, she decides to become a teacher in the new city of Bel'ameth, helping train the next generation of night elf mages and adventurers.
• Reluctant Warrior: Not quite Technical Pacifist levels, as she does kill when she thinks not doing so would make things worse. But she really would rather not kill, and is quick to point out that War Is Hell.
• Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything: Believes night elf society is deeply flawed and needs to be reformed, but never actually attempts to change the status quo, mostly out of fear.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Her reaction to the start of the Fourth War.
• Tagalong Chronicler: Her involvement in the Frozen Heart campaign in Northrend began as this. She joined as a chronicler, having no intention to do any fighting herself. Circumstances turned out differently.
• Team Switzerland: Is committed to neutrality and has spent part of Legion and most of BfA in the Fallen Leaf, a neutral order.
• The Teetotaler: Never touches any kind of alcohol. Again, Author Appeal.
• Theme Naming: Lintian, her entire family, and her animal companions are named after software, mostly of the open source kind.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Her actual on-screen contributions to the Fallen Leaf mostly consisted of shooting things, but once in a blue moon, some kind of very specific situation actually called for the use of her other skills — such as a couple of recently revived ancient pandaren warriors who couldn't communicate in modern Pandaren, but did know Ancient Elvish.
• Trademark Favorite Drink: Moonberry juice.
• True Blue Femininity: Blue is her color motif, from hair color to skin color to many of her clothes, including robes and dresses. Part Author Appeal, as blue is my favorite color.
  • Blue Means Cold: Blue-haired and hailing from Winterspring.
• Trust Password: After all the Time Travel shenanigans the Fallen Leaf has been through, she has made one of these to be able to tell a past, future, or alternate universe version of her from an impostor.
• Unluckily Lucky: Survived four invasions of her homeland: two by the Burning Legion and two by the Horde. This could be considered lucky, except that she was unlucky to be caught in them in the first place. Finally she had enough of it and fled to Pandaria, only to eventually have that place invaded by N'Zoth.
  • In fact, she views all of Azeroth is Unluckily Lucky, considering how many wars and existential threats the world has endured over the last three decades alone. In her words, whatever cosmic force is behind this evidently wants Azeroth to suffer, but not too badly.
• Unusual Euphemism: Uses "Fel!" as an expletive.
• Written by the Winners: Her suspicion that official kaldorei history was this was what led her to seek alternate sources on it, including Suramar and exploring Kaldorei Empire ruins by herself.

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Tropes about Vielle Janlenoux, my FFXIV RP character:

• Book Dumb: Her parents tried to give her an arcanist's education, but she utterly failed at that and overall has no interest in scholarly matters.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Not exactly a sequel, of course, except in the sense that quite a few WoW roleplayers migrated to FFXIV, so there's a lot of "oh, it's that character's player" recognition behind the scenes. Still, Vielle was deliberately designed to contrast with Lintian in some aspects. Both are elves (kinda, in Vielle's case), trained in archery, Constantly Curious, and fairly nice and compassionate people, but:
  • Lintian was a scholar; Vielle is not at all academically inclined.
  • Lintian was a quiet introvert; Vielle is social and outgoing.
  • Lintian was reluctant to act, afflicted by analysis paralysis; Vielle is an "act first, think later" type.
  • Lintian had a dead mother and a disapproving father; both of Vielle's parents are alive and supportive of her.
  • Lintian was borderline asexual; Vielle shamelessly flirts with both men and women.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Sometimes wears a pair of aviator goggles for no reason other than "because they look dashing".
• Internalized Categorism: Raised in an environment with relatively few Elezen, she tends to take a jaded, stereotypical view of other Elezen, not helped by her disdain of the places where they usually dwell (see Mistaken Nationality). This didn't stop her from dating the Butterfly Man, who is also an Elezen, albeit a very unconventional one.
• The Lad-ette: Has shades of this. She's an adventurer, often gets her hands dirty and drinks a lot; she also doesn't wear makeup and doesn't dress particularly feminine.
• Mistaken Nationality: Since most Elezen in the setting come from either Gridania or Ishgard, other characters tend to assume she's from one of these places (while she loathes the cultures of both of them). She's actually from Limsa Lominsa, being a daughter of Gridanian immigrants.
• The Münchausen: Loves telling improbable tales about her adventures — sometimes true, sometimes implied embellished.
• Signature Headgear: Wide-brimmed black hat and, when without it, a flower in her hair, by Wesliaux "Butterfly Man" as a tribute to his nickname for her, "Flower".
• Sophisticated as Hell: Usually speaks in unsophisticated, vernacular language, but sometimes a "big word" or two from her haphazard education slips through.
• Weapon for Intimidation: Wears a rapier in civilian context mostly to deter robbers. By her admission, she doesn't really know how to use rapiers beyond "stab them with the pointy end".
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: The merchant company Kryst Kontor, her former employer in backstory.