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If it's an inherent trait of the character's family, then it does count. Examples that specifically refer to characters inheriting evil traits were moved to a new subtrope, Villainous Lineage, via a Trope Transplant.
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In the first example, many members of a family have issues with addiction, mental illness, etc, and the character hypothesized that it might be a family trait.
In the second example, a character's mischievous streak is attributed to him being descended from The Fair Folk.
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I would say that that first on is It Runs in the Family (which is when insanity, mental illness, or “quirkiness” is a trait that is passed down the family tree) and the second one is In the Blood.
Edited by MacronNotes on May 9th 2021 at 5:31:55 AM
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I guess I should note that I've been hacking away at the wicks the last few days. I've put a pretty decent dent in the wicks; but I'm apparently the only one working on it after taking Macron Notes' place.
I'm using the Sandbox to keep track of what needs to be done, since I tend to jump around to prevent too much monotony. I just blitzed all the Pantheon and Recap pages a few mins ago.
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I was burnt out and dealing with IRL stuff so I decided to step away from wick cleaning. I didn't do what I said I was going to do last time I posted here buut I finished the rest of Characters/ D today (updated the sandbox as well) and will try to do more later.
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Dealt with Characters E, F, and about half of G, as well as Series/ and Sandbox/
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Webcomics, Web Original/ and Visual Novel/ are done.
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Video Games and Characters G-J and some of K are done.
OK, now all of the Characters/ are done up to the beginning of R, and all of the namespaces past Literature/ are dealt with.
The Characters/ namespace is FINALLY finished. the only major namespaces left are Comic Book, Fanfic, and Literature.
The wick cleaning is complete, so I think this is about ready to wrap up.
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Good to hear. Time to close.
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So question, since I just found this TRS - would traits like psychological issues or mischief count for this trope? I have a few examples in mind that may be misused.
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