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resolved The narrator gets a bit cheeky Literature
"Aerith was facing against 100 of the kingdom's best troops, armed to the teeth with the best armor and horses available." "Truly, those soldiers stood no chance."
"Bob thought he could jump off a 50-storey building and survive with a few bruises. As the poor crowd below found out a couple seconds later, he was dead wrong."
I guess sarcastic narration is related to this somehow?
Edited by tuatramxo5resolved Tricked into Investigating for Evildoer Literature
To paraphrase, I am looking for relevant TV tropes for the following situation a few of us had come up in a LARP recently (put it under literature because it feels like something that might happen as a plot twist in a book and didn't see a category quite fitting LARP):
A group of people breaks into the office of someone they suspect is a spy for a major enemy to the kingdom, looking for information, while one person plays decoy. The decoy gets identified as part of the group because one of them blurts out something blowing the decoy's cover of pretending to not be part of the group. The baddie lets the decoy leave with the group (knowing that their cover is blown)- for the moment.
Baddie then goes to the secretly invading group to let them know what happen. They hire a PI- who is generally a decent, "lawful good" type and cite the various minor laws the group of people that did the break-in violated, say the decoy was a co-conspirator, and ask the PI to investigate the decoy and find out who is linked to them and who might've been one of the intruders in the office. PI provides information on the decoy and identifies 2 other people.... and unwittingly ends up enabling the kidnapping and torture of the decoy and those two with their information, making the three innocent people trying to stop baddies victims of far worse crimes than the few they committed (breaking-and-entering, vandalism, theft, trespassing)
What trope or tropes is that?
resolved Rambling Wall of Clues, or something Literature
When a character, especially an elderly one, rambles on so much that the other characters (and the readers) gloss over the rambling, but it turns out if you do pay attention is has important clues to the mystery.
Two examples I can think of off hand are Miss Bates from Emma, and one of the older monks the The Name of the Rose.
Wall of Text and Rambling Old Man Monologue are often part of this, and it results in clues that are Hidden in Plain Sight, but I am not aware of a trope where the rambling is the method of obscuring the clues.
Edited by aerojockey

Hi
What's a good trope for a character who is retiring, shy, doesn't leave much of an impression on people around her, just gets on with things in the background, doesn't stand out in a crowd or indeed at all, and once she's out of the scene, other people struggle to remember her face and general appearance? The Faceless doesn't really seem to fit, and I'm looking for something that conveys an ides of "The Anonymous" or "The Inconspicuous". Thanks!