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Note: This document is inspired by the Trope Talk video of the same name by Overly Sarcastic Productions. I highly recommend watching that video before reading this doc. In fact, you should watch some of their other videos too. They're all great! What’s the best way to tell that you’ve been magically transported to a fictional universe? Well, besides everyone being staggeringly beautiful and never using filler words, your first clue will probably be that stuff starts happening in 3’s. Three trials, three characters, three brothers, three great gods, three tries to make something work, three Holmes siblings. Stuff just keeps happening in 3’s. What’s up with that? This trope is so old and widespread that we can’t even really call it a trope. It’s a rhythm in fiction to the degree that it feels natural for stuff to happen in 3’s. We talk with three sets of three examples or descriptors, we repeat ourselves three times, we make trios of protagonists and put them through three acts in

Note: This document is inspired by the Trope Talk video of the same name by Overly Sarcastic Productions. I highly recommend watching that video before reading this doc. In fact, you should watch some of their other videos too. They're all great! This may come as a surprise, but...tournament arcs are one of my favorite anime arcs. For those of you not in the know, the Tournament Arc is an anime staple, most commonly found in Shonen anime, which is mostly anime designed to appeal to young men (and also me). Shonen anime tends to put a hefty focus on action, heroics, friendship, having to get stronger, stuff like that. Shonen anime protagonists are frequently modeled on the original Shonen hero, Son Goku, who is in turn modeled after the Monkey King himself, Sun Wukong. So the typical Shonen hero is correspondingly an impulsive goofball with ludicrous power and an admirable devotion to their friends. Dragon Ball Z is a Shonen anime, as is Naruto, Fairy Tail, Yu Yu Hakusho, My Hero

Note: This document is inspired by the Trope Talk video of the same name by Overly Sarcastic Productions. I highly recommend watching that video before reading this doc. In fact, you should watch some of their other videos too. They're all great! Stop me if you heard this one before. Ahem! Everyone say hello to our new protagonist! They’re such a goofball that you gotta wonder if they even know where they are half the time. They’re so silly and yet their stupidity is strangely endearing. But oh no! Plot is happening around them and something dangerous is threatening our idiot hero. How on earth will they cope? But wait, what’s this? Our idiot hero seems to be much less of an idiot now than they were a second ago. How are they beating this guy so effortlessly? What just happened?! Congratulations! You’ve just met the Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, a popular character across all genres of literature who’s pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. This character looks and acts like

Note: This post is inspired by a video not from Overly Sarcastic Productions, but one from a YouTuber named Liam Carter. I still recommend watching it, though. Hello, fellow fanfic nuts. My name is David Ishihara. You may know me as the leader of the Brave Adventurers in the Dimensional Heroes series, and believe it or not, I’m a huge JRPG fan, to the point where the basic structure of my group is assembled like a JRPG party. Especially since I’ve been playing JRPGs for as long as I can remember, but it’s easily one of my favorite genres, due to the dynamics there were made throughout the team and everyone around them. And while I’m not exactly an expert on the genre by any means, I thought I’d take a moment to talk about the recurring tropes I’ve seen crop up from everything I’ve seen from them. Basically, I wanted to talk about the classic JRPG party. More specifically, the types of characters seen in them, and how they affect the party as a whole. Now when I say classic, I mean a

Note: This document is inspired by the Trope Talk video of the same name by Overly Sarcastic Productions. I highly recommend watching that video before reading this doc. In fact, you should watch some of their other videos too. They're all great! ‘The Hero’s Journey’ as a codified concept was initially coined by Joseph Campbell in his 1949 book, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”. After examining a large number of stories and myths from various cultures around the world, Campbell analyzed the common threads he recognized and came to the conclusion that he had identified the fundamental components of an archetypal hero’s journey. The idea is that this formula, this ‘monomyth’ as he confidently calls it, covers everything from Gilgamesh to the Buddha, all the way up to modern-day and can be identified in a large number of stories in-between. Now while it’s cool that so many stories have shared common threads- (Which you may note, is the definition of a trope in the first place) -Campbell

Note: This document is inspired by the Trope Talk video of the same name by Overly Sarcastic Productions. I highly recommend watching that video before reading this doc. In fact, you should watch some of their other videos too. They're all great! Man, villains are great, aren't they? I mean, what's not to love? They provide constant conflict, drive the plot, spark at least three unnecessary ship wars each, not to mention how evil they tend to be. They can be cruel and sadistic if that’s your thing, or working towards what they believe is a necessary evil, or just a misunderstood puppy dog with a load of personal trauma, the possibilities are endless here. The only requirement that makes a character a villain is that they oppose the hero, although if you want to get nitpicky, that technically makes them antagonists. But beyond that characteristic, you got a whole sandbox of possibilities. But do you know what’s even better than a villain? A reformed villain! Because everyone likes a

Note: This document is inspired by the Trope Talk video of the same name by Overly Sarcastic Productions. I highly recommend watching that video before reading this doc. In fact, you should watch some of their other videos too. They're all great! Yo. Who here plays tabletop RPGs? Show of hands? Alright! Good stuff! Alright, for those of you that don’t, the main gist is that you and a bunch of friends made characters and play around in a premade world where plot developments and major story decisions are determined by the Game Master. It’s like the GM is writing a story around you, and you and your friends are working stuff out and providing character interactions in the context provided. Now, the unique thing about an RPG is that even though you’re constructing a story, there is no main character. You’re ALL PCs and therefore all equally main characters. But because it would be boring if you were all playing the same protagonist, or even if one of you could carry the entire team

Name: David Ishihara Age: 17 Species: Half-Human, Half-Lunarian Eye Color: Bluish-Gray (Right eye is a crystallized blue) Hair Color: Blonde Clothing of Choice: Navy blue male school uniform with a yellow tie Other outfits- -A black motorcycle jacket with black leather pants and boots. -A blue yukata. -A light blue short-sleeved shirt with light blue shorts and a tennis visor. -A black vest over a gray shirt with black leather pants and a chain belt. -A blue shirt under a black jacket with blue pants, sneakers, white gloves, and a black fedora Height: 5'10" Weight: 140lbs. Skin Color: Tanned -Weapons and Combat Abilities- Weapons: Twin Pistols resembling "Ebony & Ivory" from the "Devil May Cry" series, along with a broadsword usually a replica of Soul Calibur, A god-slaying sword called Masakado, and a demon-slaying sword called Blizzard Edge. Magic: High amount of magic, though mostly proficient with ice. Combat Knowledge: Fighting style is self-taught. He knows the