I think you should move this to Yack Fest
Art Museum Curator and frequent helper of the Web Original deprecation projectMoved it.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 7th 2024 at 3:06:14 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.I have a soft spot for well written examples of Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure PurenessMe too! It's why the Near Future chapter of Live A Live is my absolute favourite: its protagonist, Akira, is a very good example of a well written Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Although this could just be me being incredibly biased towards him because I love him so much
FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Fate/Samurai RemnantDoes Sophisticated as Hell count as a character trope?
If so, it's one of my favorites.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.When done well, almost nothing beats a Tragic Villain. It's really neat to see the circumstances, systems and social forces that would cause someone to believe they have no real choice but to be evil, and usually leads to a lot of self reflection (for both the audience and the characters).
What fate a slugcat...I really like the Evil All Along trope. To me, those characters are far more interesting than Obviously Evil characters in Black-and-White Morality works.
I also like the Jerk with a Heart of Gold trope, the Villain Protagonist trope (along with Hero Antagonist).
Also, I like a lot of More than Meets the Eye tropes.
Edited by BeautifulEevee on Feb 2nd 2024 at 1:12:03 PM
I know this isnt really a trope, more of a nebulous concept, but Good Dads. Any sort of unironic good faith awesome dad. Not like a god on earth but a really kind, sweet, warm and gentle dad, and even better if he can still give grounding or not over coddle and raise his kids right. It's gotten to the point I am actually attracted to good dads lol.
I ALSO love Good Moms, and that's beautiful too, good Parenting in general is just SO APPEALING TO ME.
Discord: Waido X 255#1372 If you cant contact me on TV Tropes do it here.I really like...humanized parents in media. Like with plots you'd see with characters that aren't parents, and their flaws are treated similarly (unless it's an explicitly different situation ie abusive parents). Just a real "regular person" energy you'd expect from non-parent characters.
As for my favorite character tropes in general...those pertaining to otherness, maybe. Particularly characters with completely alien minds, things within the sphere of Bizarre Alien Psychology and Blueand Orange Morality. Anybody can make something that's alien in form but I feel like something that's alien in how it perceives, feels, thinks, etc is what's really interesting.
Inversely with more out and out villains sometimes I really like villains that might not be sympathetic exactly but still somebody you can (distressingly) see actually existing or somewhat follow their train of thought. Villains that make you ask yourself if you would do the same in their shoes, or even if you don't you can still follow why they're doing the things they do. Doesn't work with prejudiced villains though, since that's inherently irrational.
I've seen some threads on multiple sites about "What's your least favorite character trope?" or "What type of character do you hate whenever you read about them?" I wanna hear the opposite side of the spectrum. What's the type of character that always seems to end up being your favorite? I always seem to favor cheerful mcs with Chronic Hero Syndrome and the Genki Girl, mostly because they're fun to project onto (and traumatize in my writing, hehe)
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