RotETropes
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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...
- Satori
- 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.
- Except when GIR puts them in whatever those angle brackets are called, because GIR puts foriegn languages GIR can't be arsed to write out in italics.
- 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.
- StockholmSyndrome See OppressionIsLove, particularly in the case of Pilot/Dragon and Mordecai/Mage.
- For an extreme example, see DragonSexIsReal.
- Could possibly be argued for Andromedian humans toward Draconians.
- 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 Gabriel 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
- 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.
- 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)
- Sarah (At least, Ari seems to think so)
- 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.