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One of the largest Proboards in existence, the NTWF—short for "Neopian Times Writers' Forum"—is a place in which one discusses Neopets, writes and reviews, abandons their sanity at the door, gloats and rants, debates matters of Serious Business, forms 'bloidal family trees, chats and clicks some clickables, and hugs a white weewoo.

For a bit of a historical backstory: the forum was created in early October 2002 by Shidi, who later relinquished the role of head admin to Patjade.

While a Neopets fansite, that's but one section of the forum as a whole. Other parts include The Editor's Mark, for discussion of writing in general; Artist's Alley for artistry; General for off-topic, talk of Real Life, all that; Games and Interactive, having the Discussions and Debates boards and the forever insane 'bloids. The members are much of a big, happy family. NaNoWriMo is a huge event here, leaving the other areas dead the whole month of November.

Another noteworthy event of the forums are the Guild Wars play-by-post roleplays (no, not that one), where members create their own characters (often based on their real life selves) and collectively write a Troperiffic fantasy story based around seven guilds: Pirates, Ninjas, Mages, Knights, Mercenaries, Spacefleet, and Steampunk.

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     NTWF as a whole 

  • Ambiguous Gender: Sarn and Kit. The knowledge of Kit's true gender is said to trigger the implosion of the universe.
  • Artifact Title: Doesn't have nearly as much to do with Neopets nowadays as it used to. The fact that a number of its members don't play Neopets anymore is a factor.
  • Brain Bleach: Azzie once got amnesia due to being forced to drink too much, all because she learned Kit's true gender.
  • Break the Cutie: Hayati trapped Lizzie in a bouncy box with their husband, Draco, with a lot of beach balls. Ever since then, Lizzie has never been the same.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: In numerous roleplays, if there is a fourth wall to begin with, it's likely to be shattered at one point or another.
  • Cat Girl: Leoness, Elycien, Yuka, Kitty, Vyt (a catboy)—the list goes on.
  • Comic Trio: There are different Comic Trios around the NTWF.
  • Deconstruction: As writers, the NTWF can deal precision blows to any idea in fiction. See this post and onwards for an idea.
  • Doomsday Device: Parodied with a device that takes all the light beams that fall on the earth and convert them into heat for marshmallows.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Correction- Everyone is Scarlett and Giselle for Rider.
  • First Law of Resurrection: Everything from Phoenix Down to Soul-Exchange. We figure there's no NTWF afterlife, just one big revolving door.
  • Funny Animal: A common character type. The NTWF itself doesn't count, though, as these characters interact with humans.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun:
    • NTWFers often *brick'd* themselves over these.
    • Icon. He's KNOWN for his horrid puns, and his custom text and diary even STATE that he makes bad puns.
  • Karma Houdini: Any winner of Karmageddon fits under this trope. Lie, smite people, backstab your allies, use any means necessary and... win the game.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: Vyt once used this phrase in a game of Above, Self, Below. PFA has been his daughter ever since.
  • Too Funny to Be Evil: Fang's take on Hubrid Nox, The late Chia warlock, is played as a Laughably Evil expy of the French Taunter. He has no redeeming aspects otherwise, though.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Well, it's just one member's individual case - Fang really dislikes the Faeries on Neopets being portrayed as (mostly) the Big Goods - he likes to write them as The Fair Folk - the goodest ones view common Neopets like we would a beloved pet; the neutral ones (most of them) are vain and shallow creatures, caring mostly for their own selves; and the evil ones range from being Fantastic Racists towards "inferior" Neopets to just ruining the lives of Neopets For the Evulz.
  • Troll: Fang of the Dead isn't one, but, in-universe, his Hissi character Fang is one.
  • Troperiffic: This should come as no surprise, since most of the members are creative writers and a handful of them are avid Tropers.
  • Unexplained Recovery:
  • Hayati, everytime he gets eaten.
  • Unusual Euphemism: Aside from whatever gets QM'd, some users have come up with their own euphemisms.
    • The Forum's filters gave us the brilliance that is "cooking".
  • Weasel Mascot: Zylaa, who has a weasel persona, fits the personality type to an extent. She does have an army of weasel sidekicks, but they've got the personality of ADD magpies.
  • Winged Humanoid: Quite a lot of forumers and characters.
  • Worldbuilding: Fang of the Dead REALLY likes doing this to Neopia - when he gets to writing a story, he likes to explore the sociopolitcal states of Neopia's lands.
  • Worthy Opponent: Celestial and Zylaa's ongoing rivalry.
  • Youkai: Specifically Kitsunes. (e.g. Wandy, Ikkin and Thundy)

     The Guild Wars Roleplays 
  • the Librarian of the mage manor is an Underdeepling, who is deeply into books. He mainly keeps as a human, but during guild wars 4, let his true self out.
  • Drives Like Crazy: The Spacefleet version of Zari (there's two of them) has two speed settings: fast and too fast.
  • Easily Forgiven: Pretty much any Guild Wars character by the end of a particular roleplay.
  • Extremely Short Timespan: All wars take place over the course of a few days.
  • Fainting Seer: Kat can often perform extraordinary magical feats, but will just as often crumple into a heap soon after.
  • Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The Guildverse has everything from medieval villages to a massive space station on the moon.
  • Fluffy the Terrible: The Blarf, at least at first. It got to be a lovable giant really, really quick.
  • Forced into Evil:
    • During guild wars 4, Anyone who was killed by the zombies was turned into a zombie.
    • Krisseh is a notable example, who was turned into an Underdeepling by the librarian after nearly dying, then dying for real after a zombie ate her brains.
  • Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Hunty made her own batch. There's Death, War, Famine, and Too Many Connections.
  • Karma Houdini:
    • Leraye. Plain and simple. I doubt anything could kill that dog-kicking godmode-in-a-box.
    • In retrospect, he's pretty much responsible for everything that happened in Guild Wars II, and, to a different extent, the following plot named "Redemption." And he gets away without a single scratch.

     The Icy Taco 

  • Action Girl: Where do we begin? Kay Faraday, Ruby Burns, Andrea Bluestone, and Himi are notable examples, but there are many others.
  • All There in the Manual: Reading the Taco alone would only give you part of the picture. Many of the characters' backstories and other information are found in scrapbooks, Dramatis Personae threads, mini-arcs, and in diary threads.
  • Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain: Morality in the Tacoverse is fairly complicated. Very few villains do anything simply for the evulz, and many heroes are much more neutral than they are truly heroic.
  • Applied Phlebotinum: Averted. If magic is the explanation for something, it almost always falls into Magic A Is Magic A territory- except where Rule Of Funny or Rule Of Cool come into play. Which, to be fair, is quite often.
  • Ax-Crazy: Jakie can fit this trope, as can Doctor Lylin and most Brainwashed and Crazy characters. In addition most of Bettyming's historicalbots have displayed these qualities- they aren't exactly crazy, but their reactions when faced with someone they really don't like do not exactly vouch for their mental stability.
  • Badass Adorable: Glinc, Guella, Maggie, Lucas, Ness, Shadow, Jupiter.... The list goes on.
  • Berserk Button: Many characters have one. It's generally not too hard to figure out what sets a character off, and it's a very, /very/ bad idea to do so.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Starla, as well as basically anybody whose friends have been threatened. See Berserk Button.
  • Beyond the Impossible: Writer powers tend to make things go in this direction since they can break internal logic. Rule Of Funny and Rule Of Cool can cause similar effects. (The smallest moon has been exploded something like five times now.)
  • Big Bad: Each individual Taco-related story arc has one.
    • Turnabout Inn had Revenge
    • The Mirror Arc had several
    • The Price Of Justice had The Three
    • Ace Attorney Investigations had Yew and Shikoba
    • The Big Bad of the Icy Taco Stories arc was King Escritor
    • Turnabout Kin had The Three
    • Crumbled Taco's was Tion, though as that arc is not over, it's unlikely she will be the arc's actual Big Bad.
    • Icy Taco Ace Attorney's is Lucius Wayne
  • Big Damn Heroes: Happens very often. A classic example exists in Turnabout Tiger, where AJ!Nick and Evilworth rush in to help Furio Tigre in court. (It Makes Sense in Context). Also in Turnabout Inn, where Lee falls onto Manfred von Karma.(That makes sense in context, too.)
  • Bittersweet Ending: Turnabout Inn. Also the Mirror Arc, to the point where the 'sweet' part is questionable. Also discussed (and played straight) in Crumbled Taco.
  • Blatant Lies: Show up fairly frequently, often coupled with Suspiciously Specific Denial. Usually, though not always, Played For Laughs.
  • Body Horror: Can happen as a result of Bettyming's SCIENCE. It usually wears off.
  • Brainwashed: Evilworth, for a long time. Also revealed to be the reason the NPC Army was attacking in Crumbled Taco
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Evilworth, Kristoph, the NPC Army from Crumbled Taco.
  • Break the Cutie: Has happened several times, notably to Lizzie, Iris, and Kay.
  • Buffy Speak: Certain Tacoers use this a lot, especially the children.
  • Butt-Monkey: Doctor Lupe tends to be this.
  • Call to Adventure: For any character not born in NTWF, their arrival tends to be this. Many of them are simply characters being summoned by writers and not knowing why until they find them, but there are other, more plottish cases as well. Due to the nature of the NTWF, almost all cases are literal calls or direct teleports, as well.
    • Fon calling people during Ice Mage's Icy Taco Story 2 and 3
    • Gray setting Xue on the path to finding Caelestis in Xue Blanche: Ace Attorney
  • Canon: It exists. It's tangled up at times, but it's there.
  • Catchphrase: Many characters and writers have these.
    • Doc has “I need a drink”
    • Stalinbot has “GLORIOUS MOUSTACHE”
    • Bettyming has “I can see you” (previously “GO TO SLEEP”)
    • Franziska and Manfred both have variations on the word “fool”
    • Kay has “The Great Thief Yatagarasu”
    • In general most characters from other media retain their catchphrases from that franchise.
  • Character Check: In Kindleflare, PFA tried to explain the titular character's drastic drift in personality over the years. It only kind of worked.
  • Characterization Marches On: The Character Waiting Room is an attempt to avert this by letting writers get to know their characters better. It's still inevitable, especially if you keep track of the Waiting Room and figure out who's who. Doctor Lupe and Kristoph are more obvious examples, due to their stories spanning several years of real-time.
  • Chekhov's Gun: There are a lot of them, some of them coming up in entirely different stories and some of them not yet fired.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Jinzo, Mike, and Miles Hatchett. In the case of the former, it's unsure how much of this is obfuscation. In the case of the latter, it's almost certainly entirely an act. Mike is probably the Taco's straightest example.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Writers and Genre Savvy characters tend to be prone to this.
  • Crapsack World: The Bad Future in Crumbled Taco.
  • Damsel in Distress: Happened once to Lizzie. More often, however, this is played with.
  • Darker and Edgier: The mini-arcs and stories, in comparison to the regular Taco. Also the Hard Taco, in comparison to the Soft Taco, when there were separate threads.
  • Deader than Dead: Comes up a lot, due to how many spirit characters there are.
  • Deal with the Devil: Anybody that joins the Ring Of Darkness.
  • Deconstruction: The Taco as a whole tends to deconstruct its own No Fourth Wall nature, and each story tends to deconstruct different aspects of the Taco. (The main two examples being: Ice Mage's Icy Taco Story 3 deconstructs I Just Write the Thing, and Crumbled Taco deconstructs Author Powers and Mooks.)
  • Department of Redundancy Department: Foolishly foolish fools.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Jakie has one as a character. The NPC army from Crumbled Taco also controlled one, though it's now deceased. It had a baby, who is a friendly version of this trope.
  • The End of the World as We Know It: Almost happened in Crumbled Taco. Actually happened, albeit temporarily, in The Darker Side Of The Mirror 2.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Frequently, anti-heroes and villains team up to defeat greater evils in the Taco.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Some of the stories and mini-arcs, such as Apollo in the Icy Taco and The Taco Express.
  • Fighting a Shadow: This is essentially the system fights against Writers run on, since it's explicitly stated they're not truly from the NTWF world. Escritor could come back any time he wanted, he just has no interest in doing so.
  • Fourth Wall: There is none; it was Deconstructed.
  • Freudian Excuse: Almost all Taco villains have one. There are very few exceptions (The Three being the only ones who jump to mind.)
  • From Bad to Worse: Crumbled Taco. The heroes reach the final villain, realize he's being controlled by a Personification, prepare to fight an already very strong foe... and then Sgt. Guy turns on them.
  • Hand Wave: Writer Powers used to be this until stories fleshed them out and explained them more.
  • Heroic BSoD: A lot of characters have undergone these, usually as a result of a villain's actions, but sometimes not.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: Used a lot. According to Glinc, the puns Icon used as weapons were these.
  • Ironic Hell: At the end of Icy Taco Ace Attorneys, Lucius Wayne is trapped in his own prison.
  • Jerkass: Alex can be one of these. As can any villain (or even hero) who shows up and pushes others' buttons.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Several. Doc was a very obvious example; he denied any goodness at all quite vehemently, but nobody believed him (due to him really not doing anything very evil) and he eventually gave up any pretense of villainy in the end.
  • Just Between You and Me: Lucius Wayne at the end of Icy Taco Ace Attorneys.
  • Living Relic: Several characters are hundreds of years old. (Or older!)
  • The Mob Boss Is Scarier: In Icy Taco Ace Attorneys, the Duplicates are terrified of Lucius Wayne. Unfortunately for them, being caught by the law is what causes him to turn on them...
  • Riddle for the Ages: Some things, like Hobo's real name or whether or not he really is a hobo.
  • Tailor-Made Prison: From Icy Taco Ace Attorneys, Lucius Wayne's spirit cage was specifically designed to trap spirits for a very, very long time. Only he has the power to open the doors... which ultimately backfires on him when he himself gets trapped in it.
  • There Are No Therapists: Though several characters could really benefit from it.
  • Trapped in Villainy: Implied to be the case for the Duplicates in Icy Taco Ace Attorneys.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Happens in most Taco stories with a Big Bad.
    • In Crumbled Taco, Tion experiences this after Narra reminds her of her past, causing her to pull a Heel Face Turn.
    • In Icy Taco Ace Attorneys, Lucius Wayne loses his calm demeanor the instant Apollo manages to do the impossible and mirror his Tainted magic.

     NTWF Medieval Roleplay 
  • Actual Pacifist: Ambrose, due to all the horrific things he has seen in his visions, always tries to find another way to resolve conflicts without making people suffer.
  • Agony Beam: Frederick's torture of Kirin involves this.
  • All Crimes Are Equal: It doesn't matter who you are or what you did, the Vigilante is sending you to jail for it. Subverted however by bail being different for different crimes, with lesser crimes costing less and greater crimes costing more.
  • Almost Kiss:
    • During Xavier and Elin's conversation at the festival, they wind up standing VERY close together... before pulling apart and parting ways.
    • Rosie and Laurie can also never get a kiss in until Round 11.
  • Anachronism Stew: There are a LOT of anachronisms. Most notably the character of Tony Rayne, who is literally from the future.
  • The Anti-Nihilist: Ambrose again, who despite of, or because of, the horrors he has seen in the future, believes in making those in the present suffer as little as possible.
  • Anyone Can Die: Many characters who were considered important, if not the focus of the plot, such as Kelcey, Ilaria, Destiney and Malik ended up dead. Subverted, however, because unlike Mafia, no player characters died.
  • Ascended Extra: Many of the NPC characters fit this trope as over the course of the roleplay, many became fleshed-out characters instead of just props or background information. Special mention, however, goes to the entire kingdom of Courdon for going from a detail in Xavier's backstory to a major plot point, with conflict between it and Kyth driving a lot of the tension for the last few rounds.
  • The Archmage: One of the roles, which belongs to Leif Jade.
  • Arranged Marriage: Destiney's marriage to the suitor of the house that wins the game, or it would have been if Destiney had not died at the end.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: Laurie, who looks good as both a girl and a guy.
  • Back-to-Back Badasses: Sieg and Leif end up surrounded in a narrow hallway during the final battle, and instinctively do this to divide up the enemies between them.
  • Badass Adorable: Ilaria, who is sweet, innocent and will kick your butt in the name of justice.
  • Bail Equals Freedom: Necessary due to game mechanics.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Alain towards Ambrose. Becomes particularly apparent when Ambrose is targeted by the Thief and again when Duval insults Ambrose.
  • The Big Damn Kiss:
    • Lief and Kirin get one in Round Nine, finally resolving the sexual tension that had been building between them since round three.
    • Elin and Xavier in a flashback to Round 10, also finally kiss after Xavier was led to believe Elin was killed.
    • Rosie and Laurie get one too in Round 11.
  • Blessed with Suck: Ambrose gets visions of the future but he cannot control when they come or what he sees, resulting in them severely limiting his life. They are the result of being "blessed" with the power of a dead deity as a way of punishment for his father's sins, since no human could control a god's power.
  • Blue Blood: The noble houses.
  • Brainless Beauty: Princess Destiney. At least until, through plot progression, she starts to mature.
  • Break Them by Talking: Played with. Alain recognized the Guilt Complex that Sieg is suffering from based on painful personal experience. So in the span of a relatively short conversation he used his experience to almost completely break Sieg- but out of a sincere desire to help the young knight. Alain simply wanted to force him to confront his guilt instead of hiding and nurturing it. Alain also discussed this trope with Sieg, pointing out that someone else with negative intentions could do to Sieg exactly what he just did and take advantage of the knight.
  • Captive Date: Laurie ties Garrick to a bed, puts a spider on his mouth to keep him from screaming, and then proceeds to massage him and feed him treats.
  • Cardboard Prison: The Jade jail is very easy to get out of.
  • Casual Danger Dialogue: When surrounded by three Courdonian soldiers in a narrow hallway, Sieg and Leif had this exchange.
    Sieg: "Master Leif, we might just be in trouble."
    Leif: "Oh Good, I was thinking this had all been too easy."
    Sieg: *Grinning* "I redact my statement- when you've neither the breath nor the will for sarcasm, then I will consider us in trouble."
  • Cerebus Syndrome: Began after the feast round and just continued on throughout the rounds.
  • Chained to a Bed: Laurie does this to Garrick at one point.
  • Charm Person: Frederick, a trained mage, uses glamours to recruit spies for his racket and generally mess with people's heads.
  • Clark Kenting:
    • Orrin Ironbeard did this to hide his role as the Knight.
    • Also Alain, when he disguised himself as a peasant.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Kelcey Kidde definately counts as one, with his penchant for falling in love with random girls and acting out that love in... weird ways. Rosalie Dylas might also count, given that her idea of a "sales pitch" is a touch literal. Watch out for flying keys!
  • Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: Morgaine occasionally does this for Rosalie.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: Frederick was horrifically tortured by Lord Melvin when he was young, which left him covered in scars and missing an arm. He now tortures people for information, including torturing Kirin after spying on him for days.
  • Continuity Nod: There are several references to events that happen in the distant future, namely the Mafia roleplays.
  • Cooldown Hug: Rosalie provides this to Sieg when he very nearly has a completely meltdown over Morgaine being attacked and almost killed by a Courdonian.
  • Cool Key: Some of Rosalie Dylas' keys are pretty nifty, especially the ornate ones.
  • Cool Old Guy: Ambrose and Alain Stallion, a pair of brothers in their 50s, both fit this trope.
  • Covered with Scars: Sieg is covered with burn and combat scars, while Frederick is covered by scars left from being tortured with a knife.
  • Crystal Dragon Jesus: Wooism, the equivalent of Christianity in Kyth, which is worship of the Lord 'Woo, a bird creature which is really the Weewoo.
  • Dating Catwoman: Xavier, the Jade vigilante and Elin, a Shadow rebel.
  • Death of the Old Gods: Ambrose's power stems from an old Bernian deity, Cebeline, who passed on her power to him before she died as a way to curse him.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: The Shadows win but all three factions come together in order to improve and build up the kingdom together.
  • Defrosting Ice King: Leif, towards Kirin.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: Kaldora comforts a dying Ilaria by holding her in her arms, after her efforts to stop the bleeding prove futile.
  • Dream Sequence: Several of them. Some meaningful, some just for the 'shipping.
  • Drinking on Duty: Gareth is framed as having been doing this by Davorin. Poor guy can't get anyone to believe he's innocent.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Laurie, aka Lawrence.
  • Eleven O'Clock Number: The pottery in Aldrich's shop sing a rousing number in Round 12 (the round right before the story's climax) which sums up almost every major event in the roleplay up to that point. It ends on a note that perfectly captures the mood going into said climax.
  • 11th-Hour Superpower: When Ambrose is hit by an enemy spell during the final battle, in triggers his time magic- which up until now has only served to plague him with uncontrollable visions of the future- in a way he never imagined possible. It completely stops time.
  • Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Xavier tends to get this way in emotionally charged situations.
  • Enemy Mine: Members from House Jade, House Stallion and the Shadows all come together to defend Xavier from his former Courdonian master.
  • Expy:
    • Jeniver Jade is based off of one of PFA's original characters, Larissa Jeniver.
    • Standorf and Waller also count, being expies of Statler and Waldorf from The Muppets.
  • Eye Scream: Morgaine when attacked by the Courdonian thief gets her eye slashed.
  • Fast-Forward to Reunion: After the Bloody Coronation, most of the characters who aren't native to Medieville go to their respective homes, while the natives of the city and the visitors who've decided to stay remain behind. The epilogue takes place nine months later, when most of the characters return to Medieville for the wedding of Joffery Jade and Princess Hope.
  • Final Battle: In round 12.5 everything goes nuts. The Courdonians are attacking, the Shadows are running through Raven's Keep trying to secure their victory, and the noble houses and unaffiliated peasants are just trying to stay alive. It gets about as chaotic as you'd expect.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Leif and Sieg meet for the first time during the Bloody Coronation, and through the battle they fight side by side and take it in turn to save each other's lives. They bond over the mutual life-saving and a shared talent for mid-fight deadpan snark. Post nine month epilogue time-skip, they remain good friends and Leif even gets Sieg into Joffery's wedding.
  • Flowery Elizabethan English: Lord Joffery Jade uses this in his first post.
  • Free-Fall Fight: Destiney and Malik have one at the story's climax. Neither survives.
  • The Gadfly: Alain loves to mess with people for his own amusement, though he's usually good-natured about it.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Ambrose Stallion, the Inventor.
  • Genre Savvy: Alain, once the plot starts to focus on him over Ambrose. Granted, he does trip up a bit by making himself too obvious while trying to infiltrate the Shadows. But he rebounds fairly quickly, and proves to not only be intelligent and crafty, but also to possess something of a sixth sense for plot tokens.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Aldrich tries to bring to life a statue of a beautiful woman he created and it works. Unfortunately, she does not love him back and leaves. Except he forgets to stop the incantation, resulting in ALL of his statues coming to life and running amuck.
  • Gratuitous Princess: The entire family of House Ascension is nothing but young princesses.
  • Grief Song:
    • Joffery gets one, played largely for laughs, when he stumbles across one of the assassin's NPC victims.
    • Sieg plays this trope more seriously when he sings a song lamenting his father's death and the guilt he feels over it.
  • Guyliner: Kirin rocks his eye makeup.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Sieg Braham, Morgaine's elf/human hybrid son.
  • Hated Hometown: Xavier is not fond of Courdon.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: How Belial died in the backstory.
  • "The Hero Sucks" Song: Aines gets to witness a random bard singing an unflattering song about him. His response is hilarious and an adorable character moment for the previously uptight royal advisor.
  • Held Gaze: Xavier and Elin when they each start to realize their feelings for the other.
  • Hidden Backup Prince: The true heir, Galateo Owl Ascension AKA Aldrich Finnegan.
  • "I Am" Song: Sieg gets one which is used to reveal that he is not as easygoing and carefree as he initially appears.
  • I Choose to Stay: A number of the characters visiting Medieville for the king's funeral opt to stay there after the story ends, including Ambrose, Leif, Kirin, and Orrin.
  • Identity Amnesia:
    • Happens to Kelcey Kidde after he inadvertently insults Ruth by being a clingy wierdo (and calling her a giantess) and she whacks him on the head.
    • Also, the role the Amnesiac who is the lost Ascension prince.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: Rosalie is in her late teens, while Morgaine is forty-seven. They butt heads a lot, but really do care about each other. Xavier, who is hardly twenty, and Ambrose, a man in his fifties, form a heartwarming friendship over the course of the roleplay. Ilaria, in her mid teens, also befriends Aldrich while bodyguarding him, who is over two decades older than her.
  • Interspecies Romance: In Morgaine's backstory, she (a human) was married to an elf.
  • Kill the Cutie: Ilaria dies by Ancel's sword during the battle with Courdon
  • King Incognito: Alain attempts this to infiltrate the Shadows. It doesn't pan out for him, so he resorts to more direct methods. He also does this regularly in Bern, a trait inherited from his father.
  • King on His Deathbed: The plot kickstarts with King Starmey's death, summoning the Houses who seek the throne.
  • Let's Get Dangerous!: In the final battle with the Courdonians, several characters demonstrate this, most notably Aldrich and Xavier.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Kirin, Frederick, and Garrick. Frederick and Kirin have mid-back length hair, Garrick's is shoulder length.
  • Magic Versus Science: House Jade, the magic House, is rivals with House Stallion, the technology House.
  • Mama Bear: Morgaine, who goes ballistic on Kelcey (passing as a foreign prince) when he gets too flirtatious with Rosalie.
  • Manchild: Garrick, as result of being coddled by his mother for most of his life, is an airhead who cares only for dancing. And being worshiped.
  • Medieval European Fantasy: Takes place in a general Medieval Europe setting but with magical elements.
  • Medieval Morons: Surprisingly averted, in part thanks to Politically Correct History.
  • Mêlée à Trois: The final battle in round 12.5 quickly devolves into this, with Loyalists (AKA nobles and unaffiliated peasants) VS Rebels (the Shadows) VS Foreign Interlopers (the Courdonians). Perhaps subverted in that the Shadows claim they are "helping" the rest of the Kythians by taking advantage of the chaos to assume power. However, the loyalists don't really see it that way or appreciate their methods.
  • Middle Ages: It's called 'Medieval', what do you expect?
  • Mind Rape: Part of what Frederick does to Kirin to interrogate him.
  • Mistaken Identity: When Kelcey is disguised as Prince Joram of Courdon, several bounty hunters kidnap him, believing him to be the real Prince Joram, who was missing. This leads to the biggest Wham Episode of the entire roleplay.
  • Mutual Kill: Ancel's and Ilaria's sword fight ends with death for both. He lands a fatal blow on her, but she runs him through with the last of her strength.
  • Negated Moment of Awesome: Sieg comes very close to defeating Cornelio and soundly intimidating him into leaving Rosalie alone... then Cornelio summons a gryphon to knock Sieg over a cliff and walks away.
  • Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: Orrin, the half-dwarf, half-four armed gorilla creature.
  • Not What It Looks Like: When Kaldora, Jeniver, and Lucinda open a closet door during the feast, they see Ilaria giggling on Kirin's lap and draw the conclusion something scandalous had happened.In actuality, they both had just fallen in and had the door shut on them.
  • Parental Substitute:
    • Ambrose is this to Xavier, becoming a father-figure for him over the course of the roleplay.
    • Ambrose and Alain are also this to Karma
  • Polar Opposite Twins: Aura, the sweet, loving twin, and Karma, the borderline sociopath.
  • Politically Correct History: Many things which would have been seen as unacceptable in the real Middle Ages are presented as okay and acceptable. Of course, since this is a Medieval European Fantasy instead of actual history, nobody really minds.
  • Poor Communication Kills:
    • For the first few rounds of his recruitment, Xavier was convinced that the Jades had taken him as a slave. He never stated this to anyone in House Jade, and they never bothered to ask why he was acting so subservient and skittish. Thankfully the trope was eventually subverted when Leif finally confronted Xavier and cleared up the issue.
    • A lot of heartache could have been avoided if Kelcey had just explained to the bounty hunters that he wasn't really Joram before they got to Courdon.
    • Averted after Kelcey's death. Aines wanted to conceal the knowledge of what had happened from Destiney, worried she would have a complete meltdown over it and leave Kyth vulnerable. But when Aines was convinced to trust Destiney with the truth, it led to a surprisng turnaround for her character and a cute little bonding moment between the two.
  • Professional Killer: Davorin Silverkin, the Assassin.
  • Pygmalion Plot: Deconstructed with Aldrich; he brings his statue to life but she does not love him back and leaves.
  • Quarreling Song: Joffery and Garrick get one, arguing over which house/suitor is better during the funeral.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: Alain Stallion, Grand Duke of Bern, veteran of two wars and very proficient swordfighter.
  • Rebellious Rebel: Laurie, who criticizes the Shadows a lot, though for usually silly reasons.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Ilaria is killed, Kaldora is enraged and goes on a destructive spree against Courdon in her dragon form
  • Running Gag:
    • Ilsa's inn being mutilated. Twice by Jeniver's rogue magic, once by demongoat, and once by a rather messy fight between Davorin and several assassin NPCs.
    • The entire point of Demongoat's existence is as a running gag.
  • Sanity Slippage Song: Ancel, who gets to sing a rendition of "Hellfire" when he realizes he's falling in love with Ilaria.
  • Say My Name: CEEEEEREEEEES
  • Scarpia Ultimatum: Ancel attempts this on Ilaria during their last fight. His ultimatum is for her to become his bride or for him to slaughter Kaldora and her. Forutnately, Ilaria is not defenseless.
  • Security Cling: Princess Karma does this to Ambrose after the death of her sister, Destiney.
  • Seers: One of the roles, which is Jeniver Jade. Also, Ambrose Stallion gets visions of the future.
  • Serenade Your Lover: Joffery Jade's plan for courting Destiney.
  • Serial Romeo: Kelcey, who falls in love with girls on a whim all while believing that his current beloved is the one.
  • Siblings in Crime: Briar Kidde and Laurie Kidde, who are both members of the Shadows.
  • Slave Brand: Xavier has one, being an escaped slave. He takes great pains to hide it.
  • Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The kingdom of Courdon to the south uses slaves and most of its subjects who are not slaves are portrayed in a particularly negative light.
  • So Crazy, It Must Be True: Why Sieg believes Alain when the Grand Duke reveals the truth about Ambrose's visions.
  • Smug Snake: Xavier's former master, Lord Duval, who treats everyone with equal disdain and is positivly livid when anybody treats him similarly.
  • Stepford Smiler: Sieg is Type A; his cheerful, sunny disposition is largely at attempt on is part to hide a massive Guilt Complex, and make the people around him happy. He sees it as a sort of atonement for failing to save his father's life, and being unable to pull Morgaine out of her depression following Belial's death.
  • Summon Backup Dancers:
    • Joffery does this in round two, calling on Magerage and several other unnamed Jades to help him in a musical battle with Garrick.
    • Happens again when Marson gets most if not all of the serving staff of Marson Manor to back him up in his performance of Be Our Guest.
  • Sweet Tooth: Kirin, who ate nothing but sweets for the whole roleplay, and Arthur, whose love of ginger candy is a running in-joke.
  • Swiss-Cheese Security: The noble manors are very easy to break into. Lampshaded by Alain after the Shadows broke in and destroyed the Stallion gauntlet.
  • Sword Cane: Both Alain and Orrin's mother, Aira, have one.
  • Talking Animal: Aines, advisor to House Ascension, is a raven.
  • Talking Is a Free Action: Happened surprisingly a lot in the final battle, where characters would be surrounded by an inexplicable plot bubble to discuss character-arc related things with none of the enemy trying to attack until they were finished with the conversation.
  • Talk to the Fist: Elin does this to Duval when he tries to take back Xavier.
  • Time Travel: Tony gets a ride back in his car, a la Back to the Future.
  • The Patriarch: Everett Jade and Alain Stallion, the heads of House Jade and House Stallion respectively.
  • Through His Stomach: Laurie does this with Rosalie a lot, most egregiously at the Feast where she kept sending the keymaker special treats throughout the meal.
  • Trapped in the Past: Tony Rayne was just minding his own business in Cleaveland, Ohio, when a bored wizard named Steve Magerage decided to transport him 700 years into the past.
  • Truth Serum: Used on Elin by the Jades. Technically a truth spell but nevertheless fits the trope.
  • Twice Shy: Kirin and Lief were both too polite and socially awkward to do more then exchange polite conversation with each other despite the painfully obvious sexual tension. It ended up taking Kirin being tortured and left in an alleyway unconscious- where Lief found and healed him- for them to get over their shyness with each other.
  • Unstoppable Rage: Kaldora goes absolutely berserk after Ilaria's death.
  • Upper-Class Twit: Garrick Stallion.
  • Unplanned Crossdressing: How Laurie first dressed as a girl.
  • Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Ancel, when he's actually right about the species of what he kills including Kaldora's original team.
  • Velvet Revolution: Almost literally. While the final battle with Courdon is intense, the Shadow victory is completely bloodless, despite them being rebels and implied to have sinister intentions. When their time comes, they reunite the true heir to the throne, Galateo Owl, with his mother, and he becomes king after the sudden death of Queen Destiney. It helps that the nobles almost completely support this change of regime.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: Elin is this for Xavier, especially when it comes to Duval.
  • Weak-Willed: It is established that Xavier is hopelessly easy to manipulate with magic.
  • Wham Episode: Round 9 where it turns out that Kelcey has been executed in Courdon due to him being mistaken for a spy. Now Courdon is on the war path with Kyth and King Malik and his entourage are coming.
  • White Shirt of Death: Ilaria's beautiful white coronation gown is covered in blood upon her death.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Everett had a habit of being this, at least in the early rounds. It was once remarked that he was in Game of Thrones while everyone else was in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Cerebus Syndrome in the later rounds eased this up a bit.
  • Yandere: Laurie towards Garrick...or anybody she considers her 'territory'.
  • Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Generally averted by the roleplay. Most of the english is regular modern english.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Sieg is given one of these moments, courtesy of Rosalie.
  • You Are Not Alone: When Xavier's former master, Lord Duval, finds him and decides to take him back, the friends he had made from all three factions come to rally around him and defend him from Duval.

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