fhplotterywheel | upcoming event: tropes weekend!

upcoming event: tropes weekend!

So the last BDE threw some trauma at our kids, and now there are new characters since then, so why don't we lighten things up again? That's right, it's time for...

!!!!!!! TROPES WEEKEND !!!!!!!

Next Friday, September 20, alumni and ex-pats will be able to come to town for an event on Saturday... by mistake. There is no event. Oops! But you might as well stay now, and from September 21-22, Fandom will be all tropes, all the time. It'll work like other theme weekends of the past: anyone on island can be affected by tropes from fanfic/movies/books/TV that they probably would never have to deal with in their (fictional) real lives. Do you want your character and someone else's character to go undercover as a married couple? Want to bet with another character on whether you can make a(n already hot) girl hot by simply taking off her glasses? Now's your chance! Are you having conflict with another character and want to be literally locked in a closet with them instead of just mentioning in email that you should totally lock them in a closet together sometime? Not that I have ever done that! Do you want random amnesia due to a bump on the head that can only be cured by another bump on the head? Oh boy, do you ever!

Here are the rules:

*Characters' situations are up to their players, and anyone affected by the weekend will believe all these situations are true. (If someone's in the warehouse district fighting a bunch of goons in an open post, you can ping in to be a goon. Do not mod anyone else into it without permission, though.)

*If the owner of a place wants to change it for the weekend, they can. If you want you dorm room or apartment to be the size it is on TV, it can be. NPC businesses can be changed at will.

*However the Perk is absolutely a coffee shop AU all weekend, first come, first serve to whoever posts. I don't make the rules ~~oh wait~~.

*Feel free to combine tropes for your characters! If you want your character to basically be Hermione Sue who also is living a Lifetime movie and has to have a makeover, there's nothing stopping you.

*However if your character is affected by the weekend, they can't be normal again midway through, and vice versa.

*If you want to either subvert a trope your character already embodies, or just lean into it extra hard, why not.

*If any of your sex scenes this weekend are normal, why?

*Fandom itself is a trope-a-palooza by nature, therefore, if there's a common FH trope (genderswap, sex pollen, de-aging) that you want to use, go for it. We are in fact turning the island into more of a crackfic than normal.

*Any marriages that take place over this weekend are not legally binding.

*Anything that would bring NPCs to the island is however off-limits (no AU kids or self-insert OCs, for instance).

*Everyone will wake up Monday totally normal, all the places will go back to normal, and everyone will remember every detail of the weekend.

If you need inspiration, you can get lost reading about fanfic tropes, or maybe romcom tropes, action tropes, fantasy tropes, soap opera tropes, or random overused tropes, etc. etc. etc.

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I'm sure there will be some! Some might be serious!

Okay, show of hands, how many apartments/dorm rooms/houses will suddenly only have one bed this weekend?

OR PERHAPS THERE IS ONLY ONE BED ON THE ENTIRE ISLAND!

*coughs*

Listen, I am being real, I want SO MANY "there was only one bed!" posts that I get sick of it.

Also people having to check into the hotel and share a one-bed room.

Got an idea? Need an idea? Throw it out here.

Okay I don't have a plan yet but it's been too long since Jaina's gotten married.

I mean, I could bring Tahiri back for the weekend . . . *coughs*

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW HARD I JUST CACKLED

I so need ideas for Evie...

She could try to woo someone on a dare! (that was the first teen movie trope I could think of after makeovers)

Ooo! And/or drag race someone dangerously, leading to a Very Special Episode about being reckless!

It's Duke's first weird weekend! WE MUST BREAK HIM.

ETA: So I'm currently thinking a Princess Diaries thing where Duke finds out he's an actual duke. Possibly with bonus prince-and-pauper shenanigans with one of his doppelgangers?

Edited 2019-09-12 03:01 (UTC)

Well, geez. Now I just want long-lost brothers.

You know. With the one randomly Japanese.

YES PILE IT ON.

I definitely considered whether someone should be the Evil Twin. Possibly not Kanan, because he has no mustache to twirl. . . .

Long! Lost! Brothers!

And really, Kanan had a weird enough upbringing (ascetic monk, GIANT PALACE-LIKE TEMPLE HOME), he could absolutely bring on some pauper OR some prince as need be.

I feel like the best way to make Rey hate me is to make her a plucky romcom heroine who can help everyone else but not herself. Anyone need to be matchmakered? A floral arrangement made? A house interior designed?

And she trips over absolutely nothing everywhere she goes.

If she doesn't fall over a couch at least once I've done my job badly.

Someone suggested a makeover montage for Jack. I'd be open to putting her into dithering can't-find-love mode if you want to make her over and matchmake her with someone.

Looks like Rey's in a slightly different direction- don't suppose you need a wedding planned?

Not unless someone wants to be the hapless other half of it..

I have so many terrible ideas, and I should probably be talked down from all of them.

Also, I am so open to many, many more.

Also also, ROSA DIAZ IS A TSUNDERE, I HAVE BEEN DREAMING OF A TROPE WEEKEND TO EXPLOIT THIS AND I WILL.

If anyone wants to do horror tropes, I volunteer Mae to be the random "cat" that just so happens to make noise in the middle of things. . . .

Possibly going to throw Hernando into some H.P. Lovecraftian stuff for Hernando so Breq can rescue him, you are welcome to show up as the random black cat for ambiance!

Breq needs to completely overdo her canon thing of rescuing people repeatedly and getting injured. Volunteers are most welcome.

Tip volunteers as tribute!

Yay! Anything in particular she needs to be saved from?

No idea yet! We can work on that. :P

My first idea was going overly French noir, but there's also the lure of bad vampire fiction to play with.

Listen someone needs to be the sassy best friend who has no life but lets everyone else talk about their relationship problems. Bonus stars if you're best friend to EVERYONE.

I was 100% thinking of offering Prompto up as totally a one-dimensional catch-phrase spewing side-kick sort of character, soooooo....

Except the whole "long distance relationship, you wouldn't know her, she doesn't go here" trope, OBVS.

Shuri does love to fix broken white boys...

None of my girls have to share a bed yet. Does anyone need something to do and want to fix that?

Wrong journal, but Tip has nothing planned so far. She and Janet could get stuck sharing one?

(And if we want to go with the RIGHT journal, it'd be kinda funny throwing Duke and Rey into one together, what with how the radio's decided they've already knocked boots. . . .)

I am down for either or both! *goes to email*

I have no ideas for Jack. That is tragic. Help?

How mean do you want to be?

I'm open to suggestions.

Breq needs people to rescue while seriously injure herself. I realize that might be too mean.

Hm. That might not work for Jack but might work for Hernando. I was thinking about priest-ifying him to take advantage of The Exorcist icons I have for his PB. I was going to go with 'he's not in danger he's just slowly going insane' but I COULD CHANGE THAT and damsel in distress him to some sort of H.P. Lovecraft type eldritch horror!

How hurt are we talking here? I wouldn't want to traumatize him with Breq dying but 'super hurt and then they took her to the clinic or got help' would be fine.

I'm going with over the top canon Breq, which means getting injured while doing some reckless rescuing and refusing to obey doctor's orders. She's probably going to break her leg later, and she does have Radchaai armor, but have her knocked out by a huge tentacle and taken to the clinic, and then she just walks out? Minor concussion at this point? Or some broken fingers?

As much as I would like to torture Eleanor?

I think having her be the normal person this weekend would fork her up more than being weird.

Look. Sometimes you just need to see a game full of characters be insane.

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