Weekend Entertainment: the TV Tropes edition

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Does your character fit a particular or several TV Tropes? How about their canon and/or plot and/or character arc? Any subversions you think are interesting? How many tabs do you end up with while answering?

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[student_of_impossibility]

ETA:Ashie, I seriously hate you. *SULK*

These are mostly copy-pasted from the character sheets, with some changes made.

Amy Pond:
* Accidental Murder: Oh, Rory.
* British Accents: She's Scottish.
* Broken Bird/Break The Cutie: Most obviously in "The Eleventh Hour"
* The Call Put Me On Hold: I think I have a fondness for pups with this one...
* Heroes Want Redheads
* Hidden Depths: She really loves van Gogh's work.
* Jumped At The Call: She was seven when she asked to come along.
* Laser Guided Amnesia: Done to her memories of Rory courtesy of the time-crack. And, it later turns out, to her memories of her parents as well.
* Ms Fanservice: Dude, she's a stripper Kissogram.
* Nightmare Fetishist: Aren't all the Companions?
* Not So Imaginary Friend: The Doctor
* Pajama Clad Hero: In "The Beast Below".
* Redheaded Hero
* Ripple Effect Proof Memory
* Scarf Of Ass Kicking: occasionally wears one. I LOVE IT.
* Stepford Smiler
* Strange Girl: "Mad, impossible Amy Pond"
* Will They Or Wont They: With Rory, but with interesting twists.
* The Woobie: See here.
o Iron Woobie
* Yank The Dogs Chain: Episode 12
* You Have Waited Long Enough: Said word for word, even.

Tavi's list coming up in another tag, because AUGH too long.

[student_of_impossibility]

Tavi of Calderon, a.k.a. Rufus Scipio, a.k.a. Gaius Octavian, a.k.a. Gaius Tavarus Magnus

* Bad Ass
* Badass Bookworm: While not as much as Ehren, he's really clever.
* Badass Normal: By Aleran standards, this makes him almost a Handicapped Badass. Although he becomes less normal as the series progresses.
* Battle Couple: With Kitai.
* The Call Put Me On Hold for which we blame you, Isana.
* The Captain: The fourth book is called Captain's Fury for a reason. However, it is pointed out on the Alera page that The Colonel might be closer.
* The Combat Pragmatist: Well, when everybody can rip you to shreds with their bare hands, playing fair doesn't seem very important.
* Crazy Awesome: I mean, good lord. He stops in the middle of a battle to sit in front of the gates and play chess with the enemy commander. Also, everything else ever.
* Crazy Enough To Work: The majority of Tavi's plans are this. So much so that Kitai can correctly surmise where Tavi chose to have the Final Battle by thinking of the one place only a lunatic would go willingly. It's pretty much his motto. And then he keeps wondering why everyone thinks he's insane, and even claims he hasn't lost his mind quite yet. Other times he actually is acutely aware of how utterly nuts he's gone.
* Cute Shotaro Boy: When the story begins, he's 15, small for age, and quite attractive.
* Guile Hero
* The Hero
* I Just Want To Be Special: Although less and less so as the books go on.
o Actually it's I Just Want To Be Normal in this world.
* I Shall Taunt You
* Like Father Like Son: although Tavi's smarter thanks to the Badass Normality.
* Meaningful Name: more than is obvious, even. Tavi is "good" in Aramaic, and is actually short for Octavian, making him a reference to Caesar Augustus Gaius Octavian--Emperor of Rome. And then he takes a new name, which leads us to the next point...
* Names To Run Away From Really Fast: Gaius Tavarus Magnus - Lord Wolverine the Great.
* Neutral Good - TV Tropes adds a "-->Lawful Good," but I just edited in a rebuttal to that. Tavi's good. Sometimes the law is convenient for it, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes he makes it convenient.
* Nice Job Breaking It Hero
* Older Than They Look: Mainly in the first book.
* Person Of Mass Destruction: Although it takes... well. A lot of spoilery things. But he is this.
* Rags To Royalty
* Refuge In Audacity: Everything he does. Ever. No, seriously. He's a lunatic genius in his way.
* Secret Legacy
* Smart People Play Chess: Or the local equivalent, ludus.
* Tall Dark And Handsome: He's a bit of a late bloomer (what with Isana slowing his growth and all), but by Captain's Fury, he's repeatedly mentioned to be quite tall and rather attractive. It runs in the family.
* Warrior Therapist
* Xanatos Gambit: Several in the last three books.

Also, although it is not shown in canon specifically, Tavi does eventually become a Chessmaster in his own right. He's pretty good at Xanatos Speed Chess as it is, but he hasn't had the opportunity yet to do serious Chessmastering. But, as noted above, he's got the potential for it. He just needs time, age, and opportunity. Also, he's got potential to be a Manipulative Bastard, too.
ETA: Starting as Captain, he begins to add another facet he'll grow into. Eventually he also will take on Reasonable Authority Figure as one of his tropes. He'll get there, post-canon.

It should also be noted that the whole of Codex Alera is a World of Badass, written literally on The Bet.

As paraphrased and imagined by this mun:
"A good story requires a good idea."
Jim Butcher: "A good story can come from a bad idea."
"No, it can't. Take one and do it."
JB: "I'll take two."
"...Two?"
JB: "How does a Lost Roman Legion wielding Pokemon sound to you?"
"...That's insane. You're insane. It can't possibly work."
JB: "Bet you it can."

And, of course, it did.