History Characters / Duolingo

* ControlFreak: Downplayed, but present. In addition to "The Taxi" mentioned above, in "The List", she insists on only going to the destinations on her list, even when Lin wants to go other places. In "But I'm Driving!", Bea insists on driving Lin's motorcycle, and Lin calls her out for always wanting to control everything.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: [[https://blog.duolingo.com/content/images/2021/06/Bea-Duo---Finger-Guns.png Her old design]] has her hair down and wearing a sweater. Her new design has her hair put up, a sleeveless shirt and high-waisted pants. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in the story "Did the Recipe Change?" about how grown up Bea is; the icon of which featuring Bea's new design reminiscing about her old one.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: [[https://blog.duolingo.com/content/images/2021/06/Bea-Duo---Finger-Guns.png Her old design]] has her hair down and wearing a sweater. Her new design has her hair put up, a sleeveless shirt and high-waisted pants. Lampshaded in the story "Did the Recipe Change?" The story is about how grown up Bea is, featuring Bea's new design reminiscing about her old design.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In "The Cat Law", Junior uses the excuse of a cat sitting on his lap to get out of doing anything. At the end, Eddy orders pizza, and proceeds to go and eat it all himself because Junior can't get up. Then Junior has to lend his dad 20 bucks to pay for the pizza... and, in "Eddy's Household Chores", expects Eddy to do more housework until he can pay it back.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Oscar once mooches off of his cousin Osman for [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave three weeks]] in Los Angeles, consuming all of Osman's food and ripping a hole through his wallet going to expensive restaurants. Osman responds by giving him the possibly [[{{Revenge}} worst day of his life]]--taking him to the beach (which he hates), having his lunch get stolen by seagulls, and getting his eyes splashed with salt water.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In "The Cat Law", Junior uses the excuse of a cat sitting on his lap to get out of doing anything. At the end, Eddy orders pizza, and proceeds to go and eat it all himself because Junior can't get up. Then Junior has to lend his dad 20 bucks to pay for the pizza... and expects Eddy to do more housework until he can pay it back.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In "The Cat Law", Junior uses the excuse of a cat sitting on his lap to get out of doing anything. At the end, Eddy orders pizza, and proceeds to go and eat it all himself because Junior can't get up.

* HappilyMarried: He has been married to Priti for many years. According to Vikram, they never spend more than five dollars with each other's anniversary presents, because their love is enough.

* InsufferableImbecile: She has been shown to do a great deal of obnoxious things in late stories, such as disturbing others in the cinema, destroying laptops to use warranty, or inviting her friends to others' places without permission.

* LazyBum: Her unwillingness to do things and tendency to be late is abundant throughout stories.

* BarelyChangedDubName: She's Lilli in the German course.

* UltimateJobSecurity: Justified. In "I'm the Manager", Lily's boss says that she never tidies up the store, always puts on some loud music so she won't hear the customers, and is overall mean to them. Then he says that he doesn't know why, but all the buyers love her. They think that she's great and love her music, and buy many things because of her. So, instead of being fired, she gets promoted to manager. Lily's first act as the new manager is [[spoiler:to go home, because she, as the manager, decided that she is not going to work that day]].

%%* KidHasAPoint

* LaserGuidedKarma: Oscar once mooches off of his cousin Osman for [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave three weeks]] in Los Angeles, consuming all of Osman's food and ripping a hole through his wallet going to expensive restaurants. Osman responds by giving him the worst day of his life--taking him to the beach (which he hates), having his lunch get stolen by seagulls, and getting his eyes splashed with salt water.

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* SportsDad: Being a gym teacher, he's really into sports, and tries to get his son, Junior, interested about them too. When Eddy asks Junior about what sport he wants to practice, the boy reluctantly answers that he wants to try dancing. Instead of being disappointed like his son was expecting him to be, Eddy cheerfully says that dancing is a sport too. Then, he starts to dance in public, [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents much to Junior's embarrassment]].

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