I can't see any Audience Reaction here, not in the examples at least. I don't feel like this is Audience Reaction, but it definitively needs a new name.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI didn't say it was an AR, I said that the description describes one in part. I don't believe anyone has made the claim that this is an AR.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
If the description implies Audience Reaction, there's cause to mention that we don't see it in how the trope should be, or is used.
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Those descriptions are somewhat different from your first ones, and more along with how I see it. To summarise those into what I think would be a good definition (well, if rewritten):
Character goes to great lengths not to wear the uniform. This trope is used to demonstrate something about the character, such as a metaphor for not fitting into the group, or having an unusual personality for the group.
Additionally, it's not a custom variation of the standard uniform, but a completely different one. Often, it's simply the uniform or dress code of the old position of the character, or it can just be something the character feels comfortable in, without necessarily being a deliberate attempt at subversion or displaying nonconformity.
May overlap with Custom Uniform. Somewhat related to Transfer Student Uniforms, Still Wearing the Old Colors. Probably always separate from Non-Uniform Uniform.
edited 21st Sep '12 11:27:53 AM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!That's because those definitions were modified in further posts based on feedback I got after posting them.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.Well, I can't see that.
Then please be clear what you refer to, and that you don't mean a single post, but several I have to look for.
edited 21st Sep '12 3:41:58 PM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!I said so in post 9.
edited 21st Sep '12 12:31:31 PM by ccoa
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.Personally, I just don't see the point in turning this into something its not, and renaming it, all in one fell swoop. If the all-too-vague definition makes you think of something that is a trope, you can just take that to YKTTW. You can even take along any examples you see that happen to fit.
As it stands, what this describes is too vague and all-over-the-place to really be described as a trope. As ccoa points out, it's possible to see at least two different tropes and one audience reaction in this.
Cutting it, and allowing people to YKTTW any actual tropes they may think they see, will clear up a TRS slot, and with only six examples, which don't all match any particular actual-trope definition, nothing of value will be lost.
But we can do this the hard way if that's what people prefer. The results should be exactly the same, so I don't see why it matters so much which approach we use. I'm not volunteering for YKTTW duty this time, though, because I've already got several in the air.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.Bump for more votes. Also, if we're really going to make this into a trope, we need to decide on a definition. The option "make this a trope" may be easy to vote for, but unless you've got some idea of what it might be, it's not a very useful thing to vote for.
edited 29th Sep '12 1:53:10 AM by Xtifr
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.I have an idea
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Not a lot of votes, but redefine and rename are both above 2.3 : 1 ratio.
edited 29th Sep '12 2:09:05 AM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!Well, cut is back in the lead. I still think that's the best solution. This is simply too vague, and doesn't have enough examples of anything we might try to define it as to justify saving it. If someone really wants to make a trope of some of the concepts we've discussed, YKTTW is the place to go, and you don't need to preserve this stub for that.
Oh, and bump for more votes.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.This has been cut. Let's lock.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Crown Description:
The trope has an unclear, non-indicative name, an unclear description, and may not even be a trope. Note that the options below are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

And 1) We are not about bitching about things we don't like in works. And 2) we are about tropes first. Works are on-mission because they have tropes. Audience reactions are NOT TROPES. They're something we keep around for fun and for legacy reasons. If they cause problems, like Accidental Nightmare Fuel, they go. Why would we want to salvage the Audience Reaction portion of this trope? Why go to the work?
edited 21st Sep '12 10:00:35 AM by ccoa
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.