Favorite tropes you like to see in characters?

What tropes, or patterns, do you like to see in other people's characters when roleplaying? Which ones do you like to use?

Discuss.

Berserk Buttons. Especially when they're played for laughs.

My characters tend to be tsunderes... =_= Or completely fucking mental. I need to break that...

Suvi, the thing about a Tsundere, is that there has to be a Dere side, not just a Tsun side.

/shot /jk

Anyways, I like it when characters actually try to think and rationalize, instead of jumping to the first assumption. After the first time, it stops being funny, and I believe it's a must have trait if you want to make an intellectual character.

Heidi's type A, where the tsun outweighs the dere. So is Quil.
The problem with your reasoning is A.) few people actually stop to think all but a few important decisions through, B.) people aren't logical by nature, and C.) not everyone is smart. If everyone had the same degree of intelligence, that would be a lameass RP. Also, being smart doesn't always mean logically thinking. There are more than one ways to be smart.

quackers are yummylicious wrote:Heidi's type A, where the tsun outweighs the dere. So is Quil.
The problem with your reasoning is A.) few people actually stop to think all but a few important decisions through, B.) people aren't logical by nature, and C.) not everyone is smart. If everyone had the same degree of intelligence, that would be a lameass RP. Also, being smart doesn't always mean logically thinking. There are more than one ways to be smart.

Agreed.
There is book smart, logic smart, and street smart, and maybe a few other things. I'm crap at street smart, and I'm crappier at logic smart, but I will kick ass at book smart.

Thanks, Rose. Book never replies when we get into these discussions. It makes me sad when he won't admit that I'm right. D; [jk, I'm not always right. Just usually. 8D]

Haha, no problem.

Suvi, I choose not respond to these kinds of things, cause I hate arguing with you and the others from TiNa. All it does is bring me grief, even when I'm the one who's right.

So do not expect me to respond to any reply you come up with.

Book, you fail to realize that you shouldn't believe you're right unless you can argue your point. Plus, I'm a big girl, and I can be mature about arguments. I don't really give a fuck if you prove me wrong, as long as I understand why I am and it makes sense. Until you explain your points, I will continue to treat everything you say that I don't agree with like bullshit, simply because you have given me no reasons as to why I am wrong. Just saying you're right proves nothing, and also reduces my respect for you as a person.
So defend your opinion and actually gain some respect. Hiding from the world won't make your opinion right, you giving logical reasons for it makes your opinion right.

I'm a terrible admin for posting this, right, Mayari?

Rose wrote:I'm a terrible admin for posting this, right, Mayari?

-pats- It's okay.

...I think I enjoy making my characters go Ax Crazy.

I enjoy invoking Big Damn Heroes.

I also have a tendency to use Beats a lot.

I like Purple Eyes and Red Oni/Blue Oni.

A lot of my characters have Blue Eyes, and what I've seen is that in certain cases people either respect them more than other characters or hate their guts.

Attention Whores are fun. I am one.

I'm using Four Temperament Ensemble in a book I'm writing.

I know this derives from the threads usual... but Paul reminds me of The Gunslinger trope.

We have tvtropes pages for RPs in the OOC threads.

Unless that RP doesn't have one yet, in which case, you can make one.

Hmmm.... There's quite a list for my characters. Tsundere, Kuudere, Dandere, Yandere, Yangire, Red/Blue Oni, Big Fat Sword (or other weapons...), Berserk Buttons, Deadpan Snarker, For Me It Was Tuesday, Idiot Hero... There was too many to remember; I spend a lot of time on the site. It's awesome.

Trolling Creator FTW.

@ Quackers: It could be easily argued on either side the tendency for logic that humans have, which gives us an entire plethora of philosophical debate topics.

For instance: due to the nature of the human survival instinct we do act in logical manners, concerning baser instincts.
You are hungry? Fix it with food? Get food, not hungry.
I'm not well versed in the arguing of the inherent logic of people, but I know it can be made, because humans are rational organisms, we can categorize mathematically and qualify things beyond whimsy.

However, I personally side on the Nietzsche side of human irrationality, and how we value things based on want rather than actual logical success, ambition, or requirement.



On Topic:
I personally like characters that fall under 2 kinds generally:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoveableRogue, Loveable Rogues, and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Swashbuckler
Swashbucklers, or the Rationalist kind of person that tends to fall to being the Stoic (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStoic), and are very orderly, distant, and often also, the Sage and the Philosophers, and hyper philosophical and religious characters (due to my lack there of)

I've never really thought about survival instincts as part of "logic," but I can see where that would come from. No one would really say that a fly is logical. but it has survival instincts, too.

Maybe at the base of it all, humans are rational creatures, but that seems to buried very deep. After all, look at the world today. If people thought things through more, then we would probably have a cleaner environment.

/totally off topic ;-;

No need to worry, it still applies to characters and their ramifications on the worlds they are present in at large ;D.

How to get away with things:
Make it sound like it applies, and be smart doing it .

I'll do more research and post a better argument for it, it is one of the general assumptions of Kantian theory, that we Can think through things.

Can and Do are different phrases entirely, and can optimize our decisions for the best possible out come. However, (as Nietzsche advocated) often don't. This idea that they Can reach these conclusions is the argument for the logical nature of people, in that we can reach the best possible end result.

Simple enough