Daisuke Namikawa - Same as his younger self. Yes, really. Heard here at 11:32. Chaotic Neutral - Arguably Type 2. Guile Hero - Practically makes it an art form. Combat Pragmatist - Other magi are glass cannons focused on straight magic vs. magic fights. Solution: teach self basic martial arts. Blue Collar Warlock - He's the equivalent of a normal college professor. A magic one. The Professor - And prefers to be called as much over his full title. Insistent Terminology - Which is Lord El-Melloi the second, thank you very much. Unfortunate Name - Waver. Velvet. Yes it's real, no do not ask him otherwise or you're gonna have a bad time. Making A Splash - His elemental affinity. Leads into... An Ice Person - Occasionally in personality as well as function. Tall, Dark, and Snarky - You'd be forgiven for thinking his secondary affinity is 'sarcasm'. Broken Ace - Again, debatably Type 2. Insurrectionist Inheritor - Twisted slightly, in the 'your predecessor is rolling in his grave' sort of way. Hot Teacher - Legitimately has a devoted fanclub. Jerk With A Heart Of Gold - His heart's in the right place, he's just kind of a dick about it. Ties into... Tsundere - In grand fashion. Smoking Is Cool - Slightly more understated cigarettes as opposed to his canon self's cigars. Don't smoke, kids. Cool Shades - Never actually wears them except on his head. Hahaha he thinks he's cool. Memento MacGuffin - See above. He also wears the catalyst used to summon Lancer as a pendant. Guy's got problems. Slipknot Ponytail - Justifiable; somewhere in Fate/stay night there's a mention to the effect of magi with longer hair usually tie it up or take it down to restrict/improve prana flow respectively. Blah blah Nasubabble, it's a slight powerup far as I can recall.
Badass: So did I mention he kills God. Badass Normal: May not be one by the Tower's standards, but on his own world, he's not a demon and learns no magic. The Beast Master: Demon summoning. Chaotic Good: Aleph's alignment is set to Light, and this one chose to screw the rules and follow Lucifer. Clone Jesus: Aleph is an artificial Messiah created by the Messians after they got bored waiting for the real Second Coming. Dancing Is Serious Business: Not only does it feature into the plot (you have to win a disco competition at one point, whereupon it's revealed Aleph is damn good at dancing), it is also one of Aleph's most successful demon recruitment options, to the point demons are so impressed how much style he puts into his dancing that that alone will convince them to join on the spot. Designer Babies Dreadful Musician: Aleph trying to sing will instantly drive demons into incoherent rage, many believing it being an attempt to kill them. Expy: Jesus Fate Worse Than Death: Promised one. Of coures, the Tower screws with that... a little. Guns Akimbo: His art has him wielding two guns. He only has one in the Tower. Heroic Mime: Silent protagonist whose options are limited to 'yes' and 'no'. Katanas Are Just Better: All his concept art depict him with a katana and two guns. Kill The God: Yep. Making a Spectacle of Yourself: His enormous visor/shades/thing. The Messiah: Created as one. One-Man Army: Regarded as one by all sides by the end of the game. Rage Against The Heavens: Yeeep.
Animal Motif: of a Hunting Dog much like his counterpart, but he is more closely to a Wolf (even wears a protective amulet in shape of a wolf's head with a crescent moon in its mouth). Anti-Villain: Still a friendly guy who gets to put up with shitty orders Badass: Mythological hero, enough said. The Beastmaster: He has excellent compatibility with the canine familiars that Misaya creates. Berserk Button: Comparing him to a dog or traitors and liars Blade on a Stick: Gae Bolg Boisterous Bruiser/Blood Knight: This guy is in it for the parties and the fights Born Unlucky: His D rank luck is a lie... The Casanova/The Charmer: He really loves ladies Celtic Mythology: Cu Chulainn Expy: Mostly unchanged from his Fate/stay night counterpart, but he is somewhat a bit similar to Shirou, as he's not mature enough to admit the world’s injustices and the values of good and evil. Fighting Irish: He's just one big walking drunk belligerent Irish stereotype, isn't he? The Gadfly: Busy being annoying and trying to tease people when he's not being dumb Friendly Enemy: Willing to be pretty civil up to the point when he kills you Geas: He has, what, half a million? One of these says he can't eat dog meat. Heel-Face Turn: Eventually contracts with Ayaka when his Master dies. Honor Before Reason: He's sort of dumb about this Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's an idiot with no brain to mouth filter, but he has good intentions. Lawful Neutral: The "law" is his own code of honor Normally, I would be Dead Now: Battle Continuation Semi-Divine: Gets divinity from being a demigod Tall, Dark, and Snarky/Black Irish: Tall, dark haired Irishman who likes to jibe at his opponents. Unfortunately, sometimes his material isn't very good. Other times, he mouths off to people like Archer. Wound that will not Heal, Slice and Dice Swordsmanship, Spam AttackSpam Attack: All parts of his fighting style, with some help of instant runes Offing the Offspring: Accidentally killed his son
Ax-Crazy: He starts out the story as a serial killer and exits the story as a serial killer. To illustrate just how fucked up Ryuunosuke's brain is, his Servant has a skill called "Mental Pollution" that is based on his insanity and prevents Caster from getting along with anyone whose mind is not equally twisted, and Ryuunosuke and Caster understand each other perfectly well. Badass Boast: Delivers a truly epic speech after Rider and Waver destroy their "art studio" on the subject of how God appreciates both benevolent and evil actions. Bishōnen: In text especially. Card-Carrying Villain: He really delights in being evil. Catch Phrase: "Cool!" Caster picks it up later on thanks to him. Evil Duo: With Caster. Evil Is Not Well Lit: Well, they couldn't show everything... Evil Redhead: Self-explanatory. For the Evulz: He thinks murdering women and children is fascinating and "cool". Freaky Is Cool: Ryuunosuke is incredibly happy to be friends with someone who shares his unique hobby. Go Out with a Smile: In Volume 3, when Kiritsugu snipes him. Even though his entire head above the nose had been blown away without a trace, his lips still traced a smile of total bliss. Hypocrite: In an almost funny way after Rider burns up their lair. Ryuunosuke: "How could someone do that and call themself a human?!" *sob* In Love with Your Carnage: He's fascinated by how inventive his Servant can be when it comes to murder. Irony: In spite of being one of the most amoral Master/Servant duos, they get along far better than all the other servants, especially the ones with higher moral standards. Laughably Evil: Despite being a completely amoral person, his gushing over evil is too Played for Laughs to be taken seriously compared to the heinous acts of his partner. Luminescent Blush: In the anime, Bluebeard's sadistic shenanigans often make Ryuunosuke's face turn pink in excitement. Psychopathic Manchild: Ryuuonsuke's view of his actions is roughly equal to a six year old burning ants with a magnifying glass. Rousing Speech: Delivers a long and coherent speech on his thoughts on the role of evil and God in the universe after Rider burns down the duo's art studio, which succeeds at getting Caster out of his slump and accept his role as a villain in God's great narrative. Slasher Smile: Could probably scare small children even if they weren't tied up. The Sociopath: By far. Strange Minds Think Alike: As explained under Ax-Crazy, Caster is a Servant with insanity leagues beyond human standards, and Ryuunosuke is equally messed up, meaning the two are perfect partners. Villainous Friendship: He and his Servant seem to be genuinely fond of each other; making them ironically best Master/Servant relationship in the entire series including Fate/stay night as most of the servants and their masters have ideals that contrast each other too much to have a functioning bond that doesn't require bantering. You Monster!: He is called by the news services as a demon. Not that he minds though. His introduction has him giving a little speech casually contemplating whether he likes that title. Uryuu: "'Sup! I'm Uryuu Ryuunosuke, and I'm a demon! I don't know if that's how I should be introducing myself..." Your Head Asplode: Kiritsugu's second bullet takes off the top of his head, though the anime downgrades the violence somewhat and obscures the damage down.
Ambiguously Brown: Demons don't have racial lines, they have species lines. Big Damn Heroes: Does this a lot in anime-verse. Bonus Boss: As he would like to remind you, his level is higher than Lucifer's in this game. The Chessmaster: While a lot of his characterization is taken from the anime, the overall plot is from the game, and his major goal is to keep Earth from getting 'sploded by the angels. Defector From Decadence: Sorta. Life's complicated for a split personality. The Dragon: Second-in-command to his Lucifer. Heel-Face Turn: He was never really a Heel, but he does turn against his original personality. I Know You Are In These Somewhere Fight: Thanks to Setsuna being a shounen hero, Zett manages to escape being absorbed by Zebul. Literal Split Personality: Split off by Zebul to help find energy to bring the main body back. Noble Demon: Most of the time he doesn't even act like anything demonic. Pointy Ears: Under the hat! Sealed Good In A Can: Later on in Fire/Ice Book he'll become this. Three Amigos: With Setsuna and Mirai.
Well Intentioned Extremist - He started out wanting to help his people, or so he claims. He just went overboard to do it then got mad with power. Wicked Cultured - He was already smart in his youth, but hundreds of years sealed away gave him more than enough time to become a perfectly refined person. Villainous Breakdown - When everything is lost... Full Boar Action - Self-Explanatory . Evil Overlord - That's his full time job. Badass Beard - He's the picture defining that trope, nuff said. Beard of Evil - See above. Hellish Horse - Take two minute to observe how badass his horse is. Has Two Mommies - Koume and Kotake. Evil Tower of Ominousness - His base is one both in Hyrule and the Dark World. He'd like to make Animus his next one tbh. I mean, really. Dying Curse - Defeating Ganon means you're getting cursed one way or another. And he'll come back in a hundred years anyway. The Chessmaster - Most of his plans in the adult timeline are slow and involve manipulating the hero to get the Triforce. Tennis Boss - He's practically the trope codifier of this trope. Taking You With Me - Defeating Ganon generally means he'll use his last breath to destroy whatever you're currently in. He's that spiteful. Sealed Evil in a Can - His eternal fate. PigMan - When he turns into his demon form, he looks like a demonic pig. This form is actually the reflect of his heart, so. Omnicidal Maniac - He once tried to exterminate three entire species just because they refused to submit to his rule. And he would actually have succeeded if not for Link's intervention. Obviously Evil - Only the King of Hyrule is foolish enough not to realize it. Night Invulnerability - Thanks to the Triforce, only the Master Sword, Light Arrows and his Own Magic can harm him. In Animus, magical weapons and powerful magics can harm him as well. Leitmotif - His music theme and you'll hear it often if you visit the music floor. Hijacked by Ganon - A bad habit of his is to suddenly steal the Big Bad role to the current Big Bad, when nobody knew he even existed minutes ago. Sinister Schnoz - "My nose!...You pug, you knob, you button-head, know that I glory in this nose of mine, for a great nose indicates a great man – genial, courteous, intellectual, virile, courageous – as I am." The Power of Hate - Is an incarnation of hatred and literally has his powers grow stronger from the hatred of others. Large Ham - Did you ever hear one of his speech? Also as the TV trope page remark-- He's as close to a literal example of this trope as you'll ever get. Honor Before Reason - At some point he makes sure not to kill Tetra even though she does try to kill him. God in Human Form - Or rather Demon-- As the reincarnation of Demise, the source of all evil. Evil Laugh - Used to be a verbal tic of his. It got better but he still tends to laugh and smile a bit too much when his plans go as expected. Dimension Lord - He is the Emperor of the Evil Realm, aka the Dark World, which used to be the Sacred Realm before he corrupted it. Demonic Possession - He never pulled it off in this timeline, but he is capable of possessing people if he wants. The Starscream - Specific to the tower, he only wants to take out the administrators and pull a Hijacked by Ganon on them. You Killed My Father - One of the many reasons Zelda has to despise him. He had sworn allegiance to him too. Big Bad - In every game he appears in. Bigger Bad - In a couple game Ganon doesn't appear and is even dead or sealed but his evil / minions trying to resurrect him are the driving force behind the plot.
Big Brother Instinct: Towards Xion and Sora Badass: In canon and after almost two years with less than seven deaths definitely in the tower too Badass Longcoat: He still wears the Black Coat the majority of times when he's expecting a fight Black Knight: Has shades of this Blind Weaponmaster: Formerly, since he has shed the blindfold. Though he can still fight without seeing, if the need arises. Casting A Shadow: Though he's been learning more elemental magic from Terra, Darkness is still his primary affinity and he is most comfortable falling back on this element Flash Step: Some of his Dark moves have shades of this Incorruptible Pure Pureness: After having once been down the road of The Corrupted (and learned from it), and mastering his own Darkness, he has at least shades of this Dark Is Not Evil: kind of a personification of this Jerk With A Heart Of Gold: Can be kind of Stand-Off-ish with new people and tries to keep others on distance, but is utterly loyal and protective once won over Not Good With People: Mix of both types really. He may or may not have unlearned his people skills during his time working for DiZ. The tower hasn't been much help in regaining them The Nose Knows: Being able to sense the Darkness/Light of a person's Heart is still his most useful ability Take The Third Option: Done so in canon, and will continue the Road of Dawn Thinking Up Portals: Darkness Corridors are his second most useful ability
Anti-Magic - Her Magic Resistance Rank is EX, which pretty much makes her immune to anything but the highest possible holy magic. Flaming Sword - Her Noble Phantasm, La Pucelle, turns her sword into this. Identical Stranger - Not identical, but this is sort of why Caster mistook Saber for her. Jeanne D'Archetype - ... Well. She is Jeanne d'Arc. Jumped at the Call - It took only one conversation with Princess Zelda to get her to join in the Tower's resistance group. Kill it With Fire - Applies to her... a lot. It's how she died in her first life, how she died in her first (and so far only) tower death, and how she defeats her enemies with her Noble Phantasm. Lady and Knight - the Knight to Zelda's Lady. Lawful Good - I repeat: she is Jeanne d'Arc. This alignment is sort of required. Lightning Bruiser - All her stats, save Luck, are B rank or higher, with special note to her A-Rank Agility. Morality Pet - Veeeery likely going to attempt to be Caster's, now that he's in the Tower. Never Learned to Read - Even as a Servant, she's illiterate, having been born a peasant in her first life. Nice Girl - To her friends and allies, she shows quite the soft side. Reasonable Authority Figure - Hell, even when it's time to get down to business, she's still pretty nice. It truly takes a lot to piss her off. Romantic Two-Girl Friendship - Totally doesn't have this going on with Zelda NOPE Thou Shalt Not Kill - Takes this very seriously. Even in the tower, she will absolutely refuse to kill another person. Too Awesome to Use - La Pucelle is a Rank A++ flaming holy sword, putting it on the same level as Saber's Excalibur. However, the flames are actually the manifested flames of her execution pyre, so after using this Noble Phantasm, Ruler herself will die.
I was on the fence about doing this since I don't TVTropes but then Claudia had Hot Mom listed on her page and I laughed so now I guess I have to.
SADLY most of her canon things don't fit for the AU version, but...
Love Martyr at the very least in the past Ill Girl, though thanks to magical healing, she isn't as sick as she used to be RELATEDLY, Bandage Babe/Scars Are Forever/other scar-related tropes, I guess?? I don't know how these things work. Light Feminine, Dark Feminine with her Servant Determined Widow because duh Has shades of Stepford Smiler, particularly of the Type A sort, but the environment of the Tower has worn down her bright exterior. Whoops! This tendency, of course, stems from her Guilt Complex
Mostly just copying from the actual TVTropes page, but I'm leaving out the ones relevant to CCC only. Unitalicized comments are mine!
And You Thought It Was a Game: He doesn't realize it until his defeat and death at the hands of the protagonist. Child Prodigy Disappeared Dad: Or rather, one he never met, since his mother used a sperm donor. Genre Savvy: In trying to keep the identity of his Servant secret, he destroyed all books and evidence that points to Francis Drake, except for one book that had too strong a seal to break. He settled for hiding it in the 2nd Floor Arena. I Don't Want to Die: He has an emotional breakdown, contrasting with his Servant. Justified, since he's only eight years old and thought it really was just a game. It's All About Me: Justified. He thinks everything is a game during Extra and doesn't realize the danger him and the others face. There's also the fact that he's really only eight years old, and children at that age are still rather self-engaged. Jerk with a Heart of Gold: According to the playable Archer, he's this. Considering that he thinks it's all a game and he's only eight years old, its very possible that he's sincere about his offer (which you cannot accept) before the Elimination Battle, rather than just being a condescending jerk. Loose Lips: LAUGHSHe tends to brag (and drop info in the process) about his Servant a lot. Justified, since he's an eight year old kid, and kids at that age tend to brag a lot. His overconfidence doesn't help either. Never My Fault: All the time. But let's face it, most people at eight years old do the same thing. Mythology Gag: He's arrogant, has quite a few female classmates fawning over him and is somehow friends with the main character, just like his Fate/stay night counterpart. Also relevant to Animus, with Shinji and ProtoGil's Master/Servant relationship. Younger Than They Look: Despite only being eight years old in real life, the avatar he uses to participate in the Grail War appears to be a teenager, because "he's bluffing, saying, 'I'm no longer a child!'"
Royal Brat: Self-explanatory Bad Deams: Has them frequently, mostly about his family. Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Emphasis on the 'jerk' part, unless you're Ion Tsundere: See above Afraid of Blood: Sort of. He won't faint at the sight of blood, but he's very likely to try to stay a safe distance from it and/or make distressed sounds. Ass in Ambassador: Used to be, but his power as Ambassador is useless in the Tower, as he quickly figured out Angsty Surviving Twin Thou Shall Not Kill: Might make an exception for Ruana.
Fake Memories: Still thinks he's Riku, yup. Butt Monkey: Thinks he's one of these to the Tower admins. Other Me Annoys Me: Sort of. He's generally ambivalent to OU!Riku and Ira, it's the third one that bothers him. Badass Longcoat: Nearly always wears it Friendship Denial: In regards to AU!Riku.
Just going off the game page, so... SO MANY SPOILERS. New Transfer Student: How Ryoji is introduced into the game on November 9th. Wham Episode: Ryoji finds out the truth of what he is on December 2nd. Amnesiac Dissonance: Ryoji Mochizuki, AKA Pharos remembers that he's the one who's supposed to bring about The End of the World as We Know It - something he really doesn't want to do. Anti-Antichrist: After spending the last 10 years stuck in the protagonist, Ryoji/Pharos learned about The Powerof Friendship, and thus didn't really want to be the harbinger the Apocalypse. Too bad he doesn't get a choice in the matter. Redemption Equals Death: Ryoji tries to get Minato to kill him to make up for what he is on December 31st, and then does die in a sense or at least gets Sealed (as the Nyx Avatar, so this is kind of subverted) on January 31st. In Animus, however, he's still got a bit of The Atoner in him. Barrier Change Boss: Nyx Avatar, as well as the Empress and Emperor bosses. Break the Cutie: December 2nd, again. And this happens to him a lot in Animus as well. Chick Magnet:Ryoji. A bit of Fridge Brilliance on where he learned it from too. Creepy Child: As Pharos. The Dragon: Nyx Avatar AKA Ryoji Mochizuki AKA Pharos, though he's unaware of it at first. Eldritch Abomination: As Nyx Avatar. The Final Temptation: Ryoji's request for you to kill him. Ho Yay: And don't forget Minato and Ryoji, which is the most popular Ho Yay ship in P3 for Japan. Episode Luck Seems to be hinting Minato/Ryoji. In the female path of the game, Ryoji reveals that he would like you even if you were a boy. Don't Fear The Reaper: He is the Anthropomorphic Personification of Death, but he isn't such a bad guy. Handsome Lech: Need I say more? Heroic Sacrifice: What he plans to do by requesting Minato kill him. Let Them Die Happy: Essentially the motivation behind Ryoji's request to kill him — doing so would erase everyone's memories of the Dark Hour and their knowledge of their own doom. Marathon Boss: The final boss, which consists of 13 "forms" (or, more accurately, 13 distinct attack patterns pertaining to a particular Arcanum, each with its own HP bar) with no breaks. 14, if you count the very first (Fool), but it doesn't attack you while in that one. Playing With Syringes: How he was created. Akira Ishida/Yuri Lowenthal: Shares his VA with Pharos and Minato, which is ~symbolic~. Turns Red: A few bosses do this, but most notably, the Final Boss, on its last form, begins using a technique that grants it "Repel" status against everything (including the supposedly unblockable Almighty spells) for a few turns, and then That One Attack, Night Queen, does damage to all characters and has a chance of inflicting a random ailment. If that ailment happens to be Charm, Nyx Avatar can have all of its life bars replenished. Spirit Advisor: As Pharos. Tragic Monster: Do I need to explain this one... Amnesiac God: Ryoji is the Nyx Avatar and in a way Nyx itself. He doesn't remember this, though and just goes to school, where he becomes the protagonist's friend. Humanoid Abomination: Probably the nicest one you'll ever meet, though. Hair Antennae: Yes, he does have the Idiot Hair, which sort of explains why he's made some less than intelligent decisions in Animus. Meaningful Name: "Mochizuki" is written with characters meaning "aspire to/expect/desire" and "moon". Nice Guy: His flirting aside, he's pretty genuinely nice to everyone. Especially after he finds out who he is: despite essentially being the avatar of the Big Bad, his one concern is that the members of SEES don't suffer, and he still considers them friends right until the end. That Man Is Dead: When he descends as the Nyx Avatar, he quite calmly states that yes, he was once known as Ryoji. His human personality has clearly vanished by this point, and he claims to essentially be Nyx, making the choice of pronoun for this entry questionable. What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Tries to invoke this when attempting to convince the protegonist to kill him. After they refuse the first time, he takes a form resembling Thanatos, complete with Voice of the Legion, hoping that reminding the protagonist he isn't human will make his/her decision easier. Younger Than They Look: The human side of him is ten years old at most. As Nyx's herald, he's almost ageless. Horrible Judge of Character: Being 'friends' with Ganondorf and Nesir among others probably wasn't the best idea, huh? My God, What Have I Done?: Comes up a lot. Secret Project Refugee Family: With Diarmuid.
Oh god I spent a couple days lost in these tropes.
No Biological Sex: Technically Lorelei is genderless as a fonon cloud. Thanks to Asch and Luke being born male, Lorelei currently is male. Meaningful Name: Lorelei is named for a creature that lured people to their deaths via song. Lorelei made the Score, which is a prophetic song that, if followed, leads ... an entire world to its death. Holy Is Not Safe: Although well intentioned and by Auldrant at least seen as some sort of benevolent god, Lorelei is by his very nature as much a being of sheer destruction as he is healing and song. He actively hides this because he knows it makes humans nervous. Horrible Judge of Character: He considers Gilles/Caster and Ryuunosuke to be good people and worthwhile friends. Nuff said. Elemental Embodiment: Lorelei is the Seventh Fonon, the Fonon of Sound; when harnessed it can teleport users, heal, resurrect, predict the future, destroy and recreate anything, control minds... He doesn't just represent it, he is it. The Omniscient: Which means, as the Fonon that encompasses memory, he remembers everything that has happened on Auldrant. Everything. And everything that ever will happen on Auldrant.. Stop Worshiping Me: Not keen on the Order of Lorelei. He predicted, and made sure it was in writing, the entire end of the world and death of everything on it, and humanity thinks he's amazing. Language Drift: Lorelei speaks and thinks in Ancient Ispanian, when he thinks and speaks in words at all. Ancient Ispanian is a dead language, the current Ispanian has enough lingual drift to cause serious plot issues when he translates everything he's saying into modern Ispanian. Beneath The Mask: Mostly. He goes out of his way to try to be happy and friendly and not let any number of things upset him for long. It's a lie. He just doesn't want to upset other people. Good Is Not Soft Exact Words: The Score is more or less a musical history book for the future, complete with dates, times and battle descriptions. It is not cryptic, Lorelei did not sing it to be cryptic.. and people often treat it as if it were cryptic anyway. Undying Loyalty: Once he decides someone's a good person and that they're his friend, there really isn't ... anything ... that will shake Lorelei's view of them or his loyalty to them. Be they good or bad in truth. Save The Villain: Compelled to by the Grand Fonic Hymn. Good Is Not Dumb: Lorelei frequently comes across as a good-intentioned idiot. He isn't. Older Than He Looks: He looks somewhere between 25 and 35. He's existed for most of Auldrant's existence, on the order of billions of years.
Lord El-Melloi II | Fate [AU6] | i missed a few
Chaotic Neutral - Arguably Type 2.
Guile Hero - Practically makes it an art form.
Combat Pragmatist - Other magi are glass cannons focused on straight magic vs. magic fights. Solution: teach self basic martial arts.
Blue Collar Warlock - He's the equivalent of a normal college professor. A magic one.
The Professor - And prefers to be called as much over his full title.
Insistent Terminology - Which is Lord El-Melloi the second, thank you very much.
Unfortunate Name - Waver. Velvet. Yes it's real, no do not ask him otherwise or you're gonna have a bad time.
Making A Splash - His elemental affinity. Leads into...
An Ice Person - Occasionally in personality as well as function.
Tall, Dark, and Snarky - You'd be forgiven for thinking his secondary affinity is 'sarcasm'.
Broken Ace - Again, debatably Type 2.
Insurrectionist Inheritor - Twisted slightly, in the 'your predecessor is rolling in his grave' sort of way.
Hot Teacher - Legitimately has a devoted fanclub.
Jerk With A Heart Of Gold - His heart's in the right place, he's just kind of a dick about it. Ties into...
Tsundere - In grand fashion.
Smoking Is Cool - Slightly more understated cigarettes as opposed to his canon self's cigars. Don't smoke, kids.
Cool Shades - Never actually wears them except on his head. Hahaha he thinks he's cool.
Memento MacGuffin - See above. He also wears the catalyst used to summon Lancer as a pendant. Guy's got problems.
Slipknot Ponytail - Justifiable; somewhere in Fate/stay night there's a mention to the effect of magi with longer hair usually tie it up or take it down to restrict/improve prana flow respectively. Blah blah Nasubabble, it's a slight powerup far as I can recall.
Aleph | Shin Megami Tensei II
Badass Normal: May not be one by the Tower's standards, but on his own world, he's not a demon and learns no magic.
The Beast Master: Demon summoning.
Chaotic Good: Aleph's alignment is set to Light, and this one chose to screw the rules and follow Lucifer.
Clone Jesus: Aleph is an artificial Messiah created by the Messians after they got bored waiting for the real Second Coming.
Dancing Is Serious Business: Not only does it feature into the plot (you have to win a disco competition at one point, whereupon it's revealed Aleph is damn good at dancing), it is also one of Aleph's most successful demon recruitment options, to the point demons are so impressed how much style he puts into his dancing that that alone will convince them to join on the spot.
Designer Babies
Dreadful Musician: Aleph trying to sing will instantly drive demons into incoherent rage, many believing it being an attempt to kill them.
Expy: Jesus
Fate Worse Than Death: Promised one. Of coures, the Tower screws with that... a little.
Guns Akimbo: His art has him wielding two guns. He only has one in the Tower.
Heroic Mime: Silent protagonist whose options are limited to 'yes' and 'no'.
Katanas Are Just Better: All his concept art depict him with a katana and two guns.
Kill The God: Yep.
Making a Spectacle of Yourself: His enormous visor/shades/thing.
The Messiah: Created as one.
One-Man Army: Regarded as one by all sides by the end of the game.
Rage Against The Heavens: Yeeep.
V/V | Angel Notes
Kaiju: Giant monster sent to destroy civilization, check.
Our Angels Are Different: Well, this one's not technically an angel.
Ultimate Life Form: Of Venus.
Winged Humanoid: Self-explanatory.
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Animal Motif: of a Hunting Dog much like his counterpart, but he is more closely to a Wolf (even wears a protective amulet in shape of a wolf's head with a crescent moon in its mouth).
Anti-Villain: Still a friendly guy who gets to put up with shitty orders
Badass: Mythological hero, enough said.
The Beastmaster: He has excellent compatibility with the canine familiars that Misaya creates.
Berserk Button: Comparing him to a dog or traitors and liars
Blade on a Stick: Gae Bolg
Boisterous Bruiser/Blood Knight: This guy is in it for the parties and the fights
Born Unlucky: His D rank luck is a lie...
The Casanova/The Charmer: He really loves ladies
Celtic Mythology: Cu Chulainn
Expy: Mostly unchanged from his Fate/stay night counterpart, but he is somewhat a bit similar to Shirou, as he's not mature enough to admit the world’s injustices and the values of good and evil.
Fighting Irish: He's just one big walking drunk belligerent Irish stereotype, isn't he?
The Gadfly: Busy being annoying and trying to tease people when he's not being dumb
Friendly Enemy: Willing to be pretty civil up to the point when he kills you
Geas: He has, what, half a million? One of these says he can't eat dog meat.
Heel-Face Turn: Eventually contracts with Ayaka when his Master dies.
Honor Before Reason: He's sort of dumb about this
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's an idiot with no brain to mouth filter, but he has good intentions.
Lawful Neutral: The "law" is his own code of honor
Normally, I would be Dead Now: Battle Continuation
Semi-Divine: Gets divinity from being a demigod
Tall, Dark, and Snarky/Black Irish: Tall, dark haired Irishman who likes to jibe at his opponents. Unfortunately, sometimes his material isn't very good. Other times, he mouths off to people like Archer.
Wound that will not Heal, Slice and Dice Swordsmanship, Spam AttackSpam Attack: All parts of his fighting style, with some help of instant runes
Offing the Offspring: Accidentally killed his son
Tropes that sprang up in the Tower are
Angst? What Angst?: This is what his mindset should be if the Tower wasn't putting him through a Trauma Conga Line
Sir Swears-a-lot: A big potty mouth
Iron Woobie/The Chew Toy: BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO HIM
Death is a slap on the wrist: He sucks at keeping himself alive. Good thing he always comes back
Blood Brothers: With Zero Lancer
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Also with Zero Lancer
Big Brother Instinct: This acts up every time he meets a younger kid, but he's got a little bro instinct for Zero Lancer
I let Gwen Stacy Die: He let Misaya die and let Ayaka disappear
Ryuunosuke Uryuu | Fate/Zero | I'm just copying stuff from character pages first
Badass Boast: Delivers a truly epic speech after Rider and Waver destroy their "art studio" on the subject of how God appreciates both benevolent and evil actions.
Bishōnen: In text especially.
Card-Carrying Villain: He really delights in being evil.
Catch Phrase: "Cool!" Caster picks it up later on thanks to him.
Evil Duo: With Caster.
Evil Is Not Well Lit: Well, they couldn't show everything...
Evil Redhead: Self-explanatory.
For the Evulz: He thinks murdering women and children is fascinating and "cool".
Freaky Is Cool: Ryuunosuke is incredibly happy to be friends with someone who shares his unique hobby.
Go Out with a Smile: In Volume 3, when Kiritsugu snipes him.
Even though his entire head above the nose had been blown away without a trace, his lips still traced a smile of total bliss.
Hypocrite: In an almost funny way after Rider burns up their lair.
Ryuunosuke: "How could someone do that and call themself a human?!" *sob*
In Love with Your Carnage: He's fascinated by how inventive his Servant can be when it comes to murder.
Irony: In spite of being one of the most amoral Master/Servant duos, they get along far better than all the other servants, especially the ones with higher moral standards.
Laughably Evil: Despite being a completely amoral person, his gushing over evil is too Played for Laughs to be taken seriously compared to the heinous acts of his partner.
Luminescent Blush: In the anime, Bluebeard's sadistic shenanigans often make Ryuunosuke's face turn pink in excitement.
Psychopathic Manchild: Ryuuonsuke's view of his actions is roughly equal to a six year old burning ants with a magnifying glass.
Rousing Speech: Delivers a long and coherent speech on his thoughts on the role of evil and God in the universe after Rider burns down the duo's art studio, which succeeds at getting Caster out of his slump and accept his role as a villain in God's great narrative.
Slasher Smile: Could probably scare small children even if they weren't tied up.
The Sociopath: By far.
Strange Minds Think Alike: As explained under Ax-Crazy, Caster is a Servant with insanity leagues beyond human standards, and Ryuunosuke is equally messed up, meaning the two are perfect partners.
Villainous Friendship: He and his Servant seem to be genuinely fond of each other; making them ironically best Master/Servant relationship in the entire series including Fate/stay night as most of the servants and their masters have ideals that contrast each other too much to have a functioning bond that doesn't require bantering.
You Monster!: He is called by the news services as a demon. Not that he minds though. His introduction has him giving a little speech casually contemplating whether he likes that title.
Uryuu: "'Sup! I'm Uryuu Ryuunosuke, and I'm a demon! I don't know if that's how I should be introducing myself..."
Your Head Asplode: Kiritsugu's second bullet takes off the top of his head, though the anime downgrades the violence somewhat and obscures the damage down.
Zett Takajo | Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children
Big Damn Heroes: Does this a lot in anime-verse.
Bonus Boss: As he would like to remind you, his level is higher than Lucifer's in this game.
The Chessmaster: While a lot of his characterization is taken from the anime, the overall plot is from the game, and his major goal is to keep Earth from getting 'sploded by the angels.
Defector From Decadence: Sorta. Life's complicated for a split personality.
The Dragon: Second-in-command to his Lucifer.
Heel-Face Turn: He was never really a Heel, but he does turn against his original personality.
I Know You Are In These Somewhere Fight: Thanks to Setsuna being a shounen hero, Zett manages to escape being absorbed by Zebul.
Literal Split Personality: Split off by Zebul to help find energy to bring the main body back.
Noble Demon: Most of the time he doesn't even act like anything demonic.
Pointy Ears: Under the hat!
Sealed Good In A Can: Later on in Fire/Ice Book he'll become this.
Three Amigos: With Setsuna and Mirai.
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Tropes that sprang up here
Eldritch Abomination: Even more so than the original series
Who Wants to Live Forever: Has started craving an end to the constant death/resurrection thing
Big Sister Instinct: Shows hints of this toward her friends
Apocalypse Maiden: Tried to kill everyone as an Angel thing
Light Feminine, Dark Feminine: With Nesir. She's the Light.
The Philosopher: Started developing a little into this over the network. Makes her seem more like canon Rei
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Wicked Cultured - He was already smart in his youth, but hundreds of years sealed away gave him more than enough time to become a perfectly refined person.
Villainous Breakdown - When everything is lost...
Full Boar Action - Self-Explanatory .
Evil Overlord - That's his full time job.
Badass Beard - He's the picture defining that trope, nuff said.
Beard of Evil - See above.
Hellish Horse - Take two minute to observe how badass his horse is.
Has Two Mommies - Koume and Kotake.
Evil Tower of Ominousness - His base is one both in Hyrule and the Dark World. He'd like to make Animus his next one tbh. I mean, really.
Dying Curse - Defeating Ganon means you're getting cursed one way or another. And he'll come back in a hundred years anyway.
The Chessmaster - Most of his plans in the adult timeline are slow and involve manipulating the hero to get the Triforce.
Tennis Boss - He's practically the trope codifier of this trope.
Taking You With Me - Defeating Ganon generally means he'll use his last breath to destroy whatever you're currently in. He's that spiteful.
Sealed Evil in a Can - His eternal fate.
PigMan - When he turns into his demon form, he looks like a demonic pig. This form is actually the reflect of his heart, so.
Omnicidal Maniac - He once tried to exterminate three entire species just because they refused to submit to his rule. And he would actually have succeeded if not for Link's intervention.
Obviously Evil - Only the King of Hyrule is foolish enough not to realize it.
Night Invulnerability - Thanks to the Triforce, only the Master Sword, Light Arrows and his Own Magic can harm him. In Animus, magical weapons and powerful magics can harm him as well.
Leitmotif - His music theme and you'll hear it often if you visit the music floor.
Hijacked by Ganon - A bad habit of his is to suddenly steal the Big Bad role to the current Big Bad, when nobody knew he even existed minutes ago.
Sinister Schnoz - "My nose!...You pug, you knob, you button-head, know that I glory in this nose of mine, for a great nose indicates a great man – genial, courteous, intellectual, virile, courageous – as I am."
The Power of Hate - Is an incarnation of hatred and literally has his powers grow stronger from the hatred of others.
Large Ham - Did you ever hear one of his speech? Also as the TV trope page remark-- He's as close to a literal example of this trope as you'll ever get.
Honor Before Reason - At some point he makes sure not to kill Tetra even though she does try to kill him.
God in Human Form - Or rather Demon-- As the reincarnation of Demise, the source of all evil.
Evil Laugh - Used to be a verbal tic of his. It got better but he still tends to laugh and smile a bit too much when his plans go as expected.
Dimension Lord - He is the Emperor of the Evil Realm, aka the Dark World, which used to be the Sacred Realm before he corrupted it.
Demonic Possession - He never pulled it off in this timeline, but he is capable of possessing people if he wants.
The Starscream - Specific to the tower, he only wants to take out the administrators and pull a Hijacked by Ganon on them.
You Killed My Father - One of the many reasons Zelda has to despise him. He had sworn allegiance to him too.
Big Bad - In every game he appears in.
Bigger Bad - In a couple game Ganon doesn't appear and is even dead or sealed but his evil / minions trying to resurrect him are the driving force behind the plot.
[OU] Riku | Kingdom Hearts
Badass: In canon and after almost two years with less than seven deaths definitely in the tower too
Badass Longcoat: He still wears the Black Coat the majority of times when he's expecting a fight
Black Knight: Has shades of this
Blind Weaponmaster: Formerly, since he has shed the blindfold. Though he can still fight without seeing, if the need arises.
Casting A Shadow: Though he's been learning more elemental magic from Terra, Darkness is still his primary affinity and he is most comfortable falling back on this element
Flash Step: Some of his Dark moves have shades of this
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: After having once been down the road of The Corrupted (and learned from it), and mastering his own Darkness, he has at least shades of this
Dark Is Not Evil: kind of a personification of this
Jerk With A Heart Of Gold: Can be kind of Stand-Off-ish with new people and tries to keep others on distance, but is utterly loyal and protective once won over
Not Good With People: Mix of both types really. He may or may not have unlearned his people skills during his time working for DiZ. The tower hasn't been much help in regaining them
The Nose Knows: Being able to sense the Darkness/Light of a person's Heart is still his most useful ability
Take The Third Option: Done so in canon, and will continue the Road of Dawn
Thinking Up Portals: Darkness Corridors are his second most useful ability
Patrick Dawn | OC
Here are the ones that I've managed to find:
Apologises a Lot: Do I really need to explain this.
Extreme Doormat: Still a problem, although moving quickly towards Teach Him Anger thanks to Ruana being a jerk
Nice Guy: TOO MUCH
Hidden in Plain Sight: Shapeshifter!
The Power of Love: And just as frequently The Power of Friendship, with varying results of stupidity
There are so many to chose from I don't even *__* Throw more appropriate ones at me!
[OU] Sealand | Axis Powers Hetalia
Cheerful Child Almost Always.
Annoying Younger Sibling hahaha england
Keet
Kiddie Kid he likes games and being a child, however much he also wants to grow up
Made of Iron steel, actually
Nice Hat look at it!
Pint Sized Powerhouse yeah. he can take on a full grown adult with his rocket punch and win!
Sentai power rangers
Super Strength rocket punch!
And sometimes back at home, he's
The Hero in the
Five Man Band
[AU] Ruler | Fate/Apocrypha
Flaming Sword - Her Noble Phantasm, La Pucelle, turns her sword into this.
Identical Stranger - Not identical, but this is sort of why Caster mistook Saber for her.
Jeanne D'Archetype - ... Well. She is Jeanne d'Arc.
Jumped at the Call - It took only one conversation with Princess Zelda to get her to join in the Tower's resistance group.
Kill it With Fire - Applies to her... a lot. It's how she died in her first life, how she died in her first (and so far only) tower death, and how she defeats her enemies with her Noble Phantasm.
Lady and Knight - the Knight to Zelda's Lady.
Lawful Good - I repeat: she is Jeanne d'Arc. This alignment is sort of required.
Lightning Bruiser - All her stats, save Luck, are B rank or higher, with special note to her A-Rank Agility.
Morality Pet - Veeeery likely going to attempt to be Caster's, now that he's in the Tower.
Never Learned to Read - Even as a Servant, she's illiterate, having been born a peasant in her first life.
Nice Girl - To her friends and allies, she shows quite the soft side.
Reasonable Authority Figure - Hell, even when it's time to get down to business, she's still pretty nice. It truly takes a lot to piss her off.
Romantic Two-Girl Friendship - Totally doesn't have this going on with Zelda NOPEThou Shalt Not Kill - Takes this very seriously. Even in the tower, she will absolutely refuse to kill another person.
Too Awesome to Use - La Pucelle is a Rank A++ flaming holy sword, putting it on the same level as Saber's Excalibur. However, the flames are actually the manifested flames of her execution pyre, so after using this Noble Phantasm, Ruler herself will die.
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Lady And Knight with like half the tower.
It's All My Fault DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE GUILT COMPLEXES
Nice Job Breaking It, Heroine ... oops.
Royals Who Actually Do Something Making up for her mistakes, though!
Properly Paranoid ... yep.
The Wise Princess, again, obvs.
Aaand Sweet Polly Oliver on occasion.
[AU9] Claudia Hortensia | Fate/etc
I was on the fence about doing this since I don't TVTropes but then Claudia had Hot Mom listed on her page and I laughed so now I guess I have to.
SADLY most of her canon things don't fit for the AU version, but...
Love Martyr at the very least in the past
Ill Girl, though thanks to magical healing, she isn't as sick as she used to be
RELATEDLY, Bandage Babe/Scars Are Forever/other scar-related tropes, I guess?? I don't know how these things work.
Light Feminine, Dark Feminine with her Servant
Determined Widow because duh
Has shades of Stepford Smiler, particularly of the Type A sort, but the environment of the Tower has worn down her bright exterior. Whoops!
This tendency, of course, stems from her Guilt Complex
[OU] Shinji Matou | Fate/Extra
And You Thought It Was a Game: He doesn't realize it until his defeat and death at the hands of the protagonist.
Child Prodigy
Disappeared Dad: Or rather, one he never met, since his mother used a sperm donor.
Genre Savvy: In trying to keep the identity of his Servant secret, he destroyed all books and evidence that points to Francis Drake, except for one book that had too strong a seal to break. He settled for hiding it in the 2nd Floor Arena.
I Don't Want to Die: He has an emotional breakdown, contrasting with his Servant. Justified, since he's only eight years old and thought it really was just a game.
It's All About Me: Justified. He thinks everything is a game during Extra and doesn't realize the danger him and the others face. There's also the fact that he's really only eight years old, and children at that age are still rather self-engaged.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: According to the playable Archer, he's this. Considering that he thinks it's all a game and he's only eight years old, its very possible that he's sincere about his offer (which you cannot accept) before the Elimination Battle, rather than just being a condescending jerk.
Loose Lips:
LAUGHSHe tends to brag (and drop info in the process) about his Servant a lot. Justified, since he's an eight year old kid, and kids at that age tend to brag a lot. His overconfidence doesn't help either.Never My Fault: All the time. But let's face it, most people at eight years old do the same thing.
Mythology Gag: He's arrogant, has quite a few female classmates fawning over him and is somehow friends with the main character, just like his Fate/stay night counterpart. Also relevant to Animus, with Shinji and ProtoGil's Master/Servant relationship.
Younger Than They Look: Despite only being eight years old in real life, the avatar he uses to participate in the Grail War appears to be a teenager, because "he's bluffing, saying, 'I'm no longer a child!'"
Other things!
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Doing things like asking Bittyroth if he's from an RPG after having materia explained to him. I mean, he's an internet/video game nerd, come on.
Tsundere: So much so that Tamamo gave him the nickname Tsunji.
Veronica / Franken fran
Adorkable: Not the most socially graceful.
Artifical human: 100% human... just with used parts.
Badass Adorable/Little Miss Badass: Fifteen years old, can still kick your ass.
Blade below the shoulder: Carries hundreds of sharp blades under her cloak.
Butt Monkey: Bad things generally happen to her.
Covered With Scars: While the most obvious ones are on her face, her entire body is covered in pretty gruesome ones.
Cute Monster Girl: It's... subjective, but yeah.
Nice Hat: It's a fedora.
One Woman Army: Not as much as her older sister, but yes.
Not Good With People: She's an assassin. She's also an incredibly shy young girl.
Luke fon Fabre (AU) | Tales of the Abyss
Bad Deams: Has them frequently, mostly about his family.
Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Emphasis on the 'jerk' part, unless you're Ion
Tsundere: See above
Afraid of Blood: Sort of. He won't faint at the sight of blood, but he's very likely to try to stay a safe distance from it and/or make distressed sounds.
Ass in Ambassador: Used to be, but his power as Ambassador is useless in the Tower, as he quickly figured out
Angsty Surviving Twin
Thou Shall Not Kill: Might make an exception for Ruana.
And pretty much most of his section of the character sheet page, minus the cloning stuff.
Riku Replica (AU) | Kingdom Hearts
Butt Monkey: Thinks he's one of these to the Tower admins.
Other Me Annoys Me: Sort of. He's generally ambivalent to OU!Riku and Ira, it's the third one that bothers him.
Badass Longcoat: Nearly always wears it
Friendship Denial: In regards to AU!Riku.
Ryoji Mochizuki | Persona 3
New Transfer Student: How Ryoji is introduced into the game on November 9th.
Wham Episode: Ryoji finds out the truth of what he is on December 2nd.
Amnesiac Dissonance: Ryoji Mochizuki, AKA Pharos remembers that he's the one who's supposed to bring about The End of the World as We Know It - something he really doesn't want to do.
Anti-Antichrist: After spending the last 10 years stuck in the protagonist, Ryoji/Pharos learned about The Powerof Friendship, and thus didn't really want to be the harbinger the Apocalypse. Too bad he doesn't get a choice in the matter.
Redemption Equals Death: Ryoji tries to get Minato to kill him to make up for what he is on December 31st, and then does die in a sense or at least gets Sealed (as the Nyx Avatar, so this is kind of subverted) on January 31st. In Animus, however, he's still got a bit of The Atoner in him.
Barrier Change Boss: Nyx Avatar, as well as the Empress and Emperor bosses.
Break the Cutie: December 2nd, again. And this happens to him a lot in Animus as well.
Chick Magnet:Ryoji. A bit of Fridge Brilliance on where he learned it from too.
Creepy Child: As Pharos.
The Dragon: Nyx Avatar AKA Ryoji Mochizuki AKA Pharos, though he's unaware of it at first.
Eldritch Abomination: As Nyx Avatar.
The Final Temptation: Ryoji's request for you to kill him.
Ho Yay: And don't forget Minato and Ryoji, which is the most popular Ho Yay ship in P3 for Japan. Episode Luck Seems to be hinting Minato/Ryoji. In the female path of the game, Ryoji reveals that he would like you even if you were a boy.
Don't Fear The Reaper: He is the Anthropomorphic Personification of Death, but he isn't such a bad guy.
Handsome Lech: Need I say more?
Heroic Sacrifice: What he plans to do by requesting Minato kill him.
Let Them Die Happy: Essentially the motivation behind Ryoji's request to kill him — doing so would erase everyone's memories of the Dark Hour and their knowledge of their own doom.
Marathon Boss: The final boss, which consists of 13 "forms" (or, more accurately, 13 distinct attack patterns pertaining to a particular Arcanum, each with its own HP bar) with no breaks. 14, if you count the very first (Fool), but it doesn't attack you while in that one.
Playing With Syringes: How he was created.
Akira Ishida/Yuri Lowenthal: Shares his VA with Pharos and Minato, which is ~symbolic~.
Turns Red: A few bosses do this, but most notably, the Final Boss, on its last form, begins using a technique that grants it "Repel" status against everything (including the supposedly unblockable Almighty spells) for a few turns, and then That One Attack, Night Queen, does damage to all characters and has a chance of inflicting a random ailment. If that ailment happens to be Charm, Nyx Avatar can have all of its life bars replenished.
Spirit Advisor: As Pharos.
Tragic Monster: Do I need to explain this one...
Amnesiac God: Ryoji is the Nyx Avatar and in a way Nyx itself. He doesn't remember this, though and just goes to school, where he becomes the protagonist's friend.
Humanoid Abomination: Probably the nicest one you'll ever meet, though.
Hair Antennae: Yes, he does have the Idiot Hair, which sort of explains why he's made some less than intelligent decisions in Animus.
Meaningful Name: "Mochizuki" is written with characters meaning "aspire to/expect/desire" and "moon".
Nice Guy: His flirting aside, he's pretty genuinely nice to everyone. Especially after he finds out who he is: despite essentially being the avatar of the Big Bad, his one concern is that the members of SEES don't suffer, and he still considers them friends right until the end.
That Man Is Dead: When he descends as the Nyx Avatar, he quite calmly states that yes, he was once known as Ryoji. His human personality has clearly vanished by this point, and he claims to essentially be Nyx, making the choice of pronoun for this entry questionable.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Tries to invoke this when attempting to convince the protegonist to kill him. After they refuse the first time, he takes a form resembling Thanatos, complete with Voice of the Legion, hoping that reminding the protagonist he isn't human will make his/her decision easier.
Younger Than They Look: The human side of him is ten years old at most. As Nyx's herald, he's almost ageless.
Horrible Judge of Character: Being 'friends' with Ganondorf and Nesir among others probably wasn't the best idea, huh?
My God, What Have I Done?: Comes up a lot.
Secret Project Refugee Family: With Diarmuid.
Lorelei | Tales of the Abyss | AU
No Biological Sex: Technically Lorelei is genderless as a fonon cloud. Thanks to Asch and Luke being born male, Lorelei currently is male.
Meaningful Name: Lorelei is named for a creature that lured people to their deaths via song. Lorelei made the Score, which is a prophetic song that, if followed, leads ... an entire world to its death.
Holy Is Not Safe: Although well intentioned and by Auldrant at least seen as some sort of benevolent god, Lorelei is by his very nature as much a being of sheer destruction as he is healing and song. He actively hides this because he knows it makes humans nervous.
Horrible Judge of Character: He considers Gilles/Caster and Ryuunosuke to be good people and worthwhile friends. Nuff said.
Elemental Embodiment: Lorelei is the Seventh Fonon, the Fonon of Sound; when harnessed it can teleport users, heal, resurrect, predict the future, destroy and recreate anything, control minds... He doesn't just represent it, he is it.
The Omniscient: Which means, as the Fonon that encompasses memory, he remembers everything that has happened on Auldrant. Everything. And everything that ever will happen on Auldrant..
Stop Worshiping Me: Not keen on the Order of Lorelei. He predicted, and made sure it was in writing, the entire end of the world and death of everything on it, and humanity thinks he's amazing.
Language Drift: Lorelei speaks and thinks in Ancient Ispanian, when he thinks and speaks in words at all. Ancient Ispanian is a dead language, the current Ispanian has enough lingual drift to cause serious plot issues when he translates everything he's saying into modern Ispanian.
Beneath The Mask: Mostly. He goes out of his way to try to be happy and friendly and not let any number of things upset him for long. It's a lie. He just doesn't want to upset other people.
Good Is Not Soft
Exact Words: The Score is more or less a musical history book for the future, complete with dates, times and battle descriptions. It is not cryptic, Lorelei did not sing it to be cryptic.. and people often treat it as if it were cryptic anyway.
Undying Loyalty: Once he decides someone's a good person and that they're his friend, there really isn't ... anything ... that will shake Lorelei's view of them or his loyalty to them. Be they good or bad in truth.
Save The Villain: Compelled to by the Grand Fonic Hymn.
Good Is Not Dumb: Lorelei frequently comes across as a good-intentioned idiot. He isn't.
Older Than He Looks: He looks somewhere between 25 and 35. He's existed for most of Auldrant's existence, on the order of billions of years.