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*CuteBlondPilot: Generally cheerful, innocent, and subversive in a cuddly way. Watching these types get chastised by stern authority figures may give the average reader just a bit of a prurient thrill.
- Gabe may be the Ur-example of this trope.
- Blaine, who's also got a bit of /can't/BreaktheCutie.
- Alesku is blond and blushes easily, but may not really be an example of this trope.
- Almost Alaric...
MentorsAreLove: The Mentor/Candidate relationship usually turns romantic.
- Gabe/Roman is, once again, the Ur-example. Sure, it hasn't happened yet, but it's only a matter of time.
- Remi/Alaric is also only a matter of time.
- Marshal/Satori, if you define love... loosely.
MentorsAreHate: And then you've got less pleasant situations.
- Roman and his sledgehammer...
- Marshal may be one to watch.
- Liv/Hasdrubal even disturbs Sam.
AbuseIsLove: Let's not lie, it's there. And it links up MentorsAreLove and MentorsAreHate so well, too.
- Nika/Vaughan! Can anyone say Nika/Vaughan?
- Liv/Hasdrubal... hey, this troper didn't plan it... oh wait, she did.
- Liv/Loki- sort of?
EveryoneLovesGabe: They do. There is no need to list them. See CuteBlondPilot. See also EveryoneIsGayForGabe.
EveryoneIsGayForGabe: Well, all the males, anyway. Really, it may be better to list exceptions to this one. Or list them all for the lulz. Of course, considering EveryoneIsGay...
- I have it on good authority that even Marshal is gay for Gabe.
EveryoneIsGay: And yet they rag on Gabe for it all the time... for greater accuracy see EveryoneIsPansexual.
EveryoneIsPansexual: Makes sense. MoreSexInTheFuture. See RhiStartedIt.
- See everyone.
RhiStartedIt: See everything. See TalStartedIt.
- See CuteBlondPilot.
- See toe socks. See pie. See InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons.
TalStartedIt: She did.
- Plot Ninjas.
OpenThreadsAreWin: Even though they never end.
ThoughtsGoInItalics: Usually.
- Sam can break these rules because she's cool.
- Rhi does this too, to good effect.
TheNiceOnesDieAlone:
- Bart
- Christopher/Kit
- Blaine
TelepathyGoesInItalicsWithQuotes: It should! Rawr!
OppressionIsLove: It seems to be a theme--the unequal power relationships, the benevolent dictatorships...
- Mordecai/Mages are pretty much premised on this, it seems.
- So are Dragons/Psychics, you know...
- The Citizen
- Alesku/Calliope, Bryn and Nomenere--any Pilot with a close Dragon relationship.
EveryoneIsaGospel: Just count them.
EveryoneIsAPilot: You won't be able to hold out for long. Aedolis is the place to be, and everyone knows it.
TheMatrixHasYou:
- Pilots will always need the Network. They will never, ever betray their country because their addiction depends on it.
- Subverted! Gospels. Because SufferingIsFun.
SufferingIsFun: See OppressionIsLove.
'"FightingSolvesEverything:"' Especially Pilot relationships
- See Liv/Loki
- See Liv with anyone
PilotAngst: Because it's hard to be a Pilot.
- Sometimes your Gospel wife is killed. Remi.
- Sometimes you and your Mentor want each other, but because you're Gabe and Roman...
- Sometimes you're a hermaphrodite and people are bigots...
- Sometimes you're a Gospel and can't talk about it.
CandidateAngst: Because they think it's hard to be a Candidate.
- Sometimes you get your vocal cords cut.
- Sometimes you get raped.
- Sometimes you get hammered to deal with it all.
- Sometimes you just get hammered.
RomanWillHammerYouAndYouWillLikeIt: See CandidateAngst, OppressionIsLove.
TechnologyIsEvil: Sort of.
- Aedolis destroys the world with it. The Network takes over people's minds.
TechnologyIsAwesome: See EvilIsAwesome.
AxisPointDoesn'tWork: We all know it.
LeadRoomsDon'tWork: Did you hear about that Sade dude?
- HowWereTheLeadRoomsSupposedtoWorkAnyway?
- "Psychic suppression"?
- I think that only means they can't communicate with the Dragons or people /outside/ the LRs.
- Clarity would be nice. Call Rhi to deliver the WordOfGod. Or Tal.
- *Stares at Tal* She set it up that way.
- It only deals with thoughts as far as I know. xP
PilotsLieALot: Self-explanatory.
PilotsPieALot: Mmm... pie.
PilotsStillHaveConvenientSocialLives: Seriously, you'd expect them to be the most messed-up, weird ... oh wait, never mind.
- Liv. Subverted. Alesku: subverted. Hm... Remi? Subverted?
- Bryn. Subverted.
WeAreAllAdorkable: Do not deny.
HappyOnTheOutside: We all know, deep down, we're fucked.
- See (not)PilotAngst.
- See Edani Mages, probably.
- See PieIsTheOnlyEscape
- See NetworkAddiction
SamHasTooManyIdeas: It's like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, but more If You Give a Sam a Site.
- Alaina does not have enough.
- Sam shares. In return, hot, hot, Bryn/Liv... philosophical argument.
- Sexy. Philosophy. *eyeroll*
PhilosophyIsSexy: Aleph. Alaina and Sam.
- Actually this is true keep it up.
- If I'm reading Kierkegaard, baby, I can.
- Wow.
- Well, IfYouKnowWhatIMean.
- WinkNudge.
TheyProbablyHookedUp: But we don't know for sure. Fade-to-black.
- They all probably hooked up.
- All Pilots ever? :P
- Yes. Ever.
InnuendoIsUniversal: Read the Pilot Blog. Or any thread. Or the cbox.
- ExceptionProvesRule.
AlainaNeverFinishesThreads:
- This trope needs subverting.
CommonExcuse: When you say you'd love to post, but can't think of any ideas.
- See FanficTrumpsPlot.
FanficTrumpsPlot: You will never, ever finish an actual plot post if there is Pilot-on-Candidate Hermaphrodite Slash to be had.
- Resku OTP.
LivIsBadAtSex: He just is. See Abuseis[n't]LoveAndScrewsYouUpaLot.
IMRPIsGod: Many a past relationship has been sorted via IM RP. It is God.
- See Draco. A lot.
- It's a good thing!
EvilIsAwesome: Arguably every badass nation (okay, Seruna's not that terrible) is fairly evil.
- Edanith has Mage slavery.
- Aedolis has... Aedolis.
CelibateIsSexy: The lure of the unattainable
- Gabe
- Kit
- Alesku (sort of, see DragonSexIsReal)
- Alaric (sort of, see PilotAngst)
MentorSyndrome: It's real. The persistent question of whether you're becoming your mentor, optionally because there's been banging. Of some kind.
DragonSexIsReal: The scalefic writers would be so proud.
- Alesku/Calliope. Alliope.
EveryoneLovesHair: Nearly every character has cool hair/thinks too much about their hair/has symbolically important hair.
- See CuteBlondPilot.
- See Alaric and Taras! for FauxHawksAreCool and Kit and Keziah for MulletsAreCool. And Taras rocks a mullethawk. She has /both./
- Vaughan for UndyedEyebrowsAreCool. Shiloh for OrangeHairIsCool.
- Just a few of those who care way too much about hair: Gabe, Blaine, Liv, Dermut Gottschalk...
CompanionCube: Pilots become attached to silly things.
- Bowl banditry, ceiling tea, vests, hair.
- WoW. Just... WoW.
- Teaspons and toesocks.
- See ThisIsARealTropeAndWe'reCheating.
IrrelevantComparedToTheBigPicture: Pilots do it all the time.
IfTalPlaysThereTheyWillCome: When Tal plays somewhere, people flock to it.
PilotsLoveHair: Especially Pilots. Hedonistic Aedolians!
AedolisIsGay: Well, it is. Especially according to Libra.
LibraIsMacho: They are, it's weird. And kind of funny.
- See all of Squad 77.
CancerAreWeasels Same general premise.
- See the quasi-legitimate pirates.
YouCannotEscapeCrudeBanter: Squadron 77 loves it. They're a proper military!
- And many of them can't seem to type or speak proper English, but that's why we love 'em.
- Riot, Raf.
- Altogether the Librans vastly overuse the apostrophe allotment. Talkin' like this.
- You cannot escape this by moving to Cancer, as lots of pirates are ex-Libra.
LibranMilitarySlang: And acronyms. If you can't understand half of a post... if you're getting bombarded with dick jokes... you've probably wandered into a Libran military zone.
- Eddies: Edanis or Aedolians.
- Bugs: pirates.
- Tackies: Tactical Officers.
- Tops and ozzies: two-person fighter craft and one-person fighter craft.