History Literature / TheLegendaryMoonlightSculptor

** The {{Sculptor|s}} class. High-level sculptures can not only grant long-lasting buffs to anyone in the vicinity, they can literally change the world around them, such as permanently weakening monsters in the area or stopping rivers from flooding and eventually grants highly utilitarian unique skills that allow the player to create NPC followers, temporarily change into almost any race or class, control the weather through sculpting, and so on. Sculpting also allows Weed to constantly increase his stats little by little through hard work, making him stronger than characters dozens and later even hundreds of levels higher than him, and max out other production-related skills with their own unique benefits (since blacksmithing, sewing, painting, etc. can be part of making a sculpture).

** The {{Sculptor}} class. High-level sculptures can not only grant long-lasting buffs to anyone in the vicinity, they can literally change the world around them, such as permanently weakening monsters in the area or stopping rivers from flooding and eventually grants highly utilitarian unique skills that allow the player to create NPC followers, temporarily change into almost any race or class, control the weather through sculpting, and so on. Sculpting also allows Weed to constantly increase his stats little by little through hard work, making him stronger than characters dozens and later even hundreds of levels higher than him, and max out other production-related skills with their own unique benefits (since blacksmithing, sewing, painting, etc. can be part of making a sculpture).

* AntiHero: Weed walks the thin line between this and being a PragmaticHero, as while he's somewhat well meaning, he's also driven by a near infinite greed, and generally only sees being "good" as useful tool to trick people into helping him get more wealth.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Averted. While there are a number of girls crushing on Lee Hyun (even though they are aware he's a money grubbing miser and a scammer), the reason they like him is because despite his bad qualities he's the ultimate family man who's willing to sacrifice anything for his loved ones, knows how to cook, clean, repair appliances and houses, and do all other household chores, and is always ready to help his friends in a pinch.

** Later, depending who you ask, he is either an OmnicidalManiac or TheParagon. The {{Non Player Character}}s in particular venerate him due to his reputation and selfless acts even if most of those acts are just him [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretending to be a good samaritan.]]
** Regularly played for laughs as well, as Weed's close friends are regularly shown figuring out among each other just how the latest altruistic action everyone is praising Weed for is clearly actually a plot to trick the massses out of money, loot or free work.

*** Weed is a solo-player who is overly-suspicious of all other players. He won't join a guild for help in completing truly large quests, but the game seems to leave hidden ways for players like Weed who take complete advantage of everything the game has given them to succeed in these quests.
* BackFromTheDead: As a reward for completing an epic serial-quest, Weed unlocks the [[spoiler: {{Necromancer}}]] class for players, and is rewarded with a high-level, as of yet unknown power called [[spoiler: "The Power to Reject Death" [[labelnote:"What it does", you ask?]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It allows him to resurrect]] as a random member of TheUndead with new stats and powers until he either dies again or 24 hours have passed and he returns to being human. He actually does die, and suffers all the setbacks of death except for the forced logout and normal 24-hour ban.[[/labelnote]]]]

* BadassNormal : Lee Hyun is this in real life due to extensive martial arts training. Weed starts out as this in the game until he [[EmpoweredBadassNormal gets his unique profession with its extra perks]]. Also, [[MemeticBadass Geomchi.]]
* BattleCry: Lion's Roar, a skill Weed gains from completing the Beginner Training Hall. It is decent for scaring off weaker monster, but it really shines in large-scale battles, where it boosts his comrades and pushes Weed's leadership stats through the roof, allowing him to command entire armies.
* TheBerserker : Seoyoon has the Berserker class, which makes her stronger and stronger the longer she fights, and gives greater and greater buffs the lower her health becomes, until she's become a completely uncontrollable killing machine.

* BitchInSheepsClothing : If Lee Hyun / Weed is being nice to you, and you are not his family or one of his close friends, you better get ready for being ripped off, exploited and then discarded at his earliest convenience... assuming he doesn't decide he wants to exploit you even more later. And the worst part? [[MAnipulativeBastard You probably won't even notice until after the fact.]]
* BloodKnight: Weed and [[spoiler:Geomchi's group]] are the most prominent, as they constantly want to find life and death battles in Royal Road. Even [[spoiler:Cha Eunhee, a psychiatrist,]] and Seoyoon, an actual {{berserker}} think they are abnormal.

* {{Determinator}}: [[{{Munchkin}} Weed]], full stop. He spends a month bashing scarecrows at level 1 for the free stat points just to get a leg up on other players, regularly fights enemies way stronger than him in solo for the extra experience and does so while at critical health for even more free stat points.
** His companions to a lesser degree; you have to be one to hunt with a BloodKnight willingly and on regular basis.
* DramaticIrony : Most of Weed's adventures count, where it's revealed decisions Weed has made earlier in his latest adventure have actually made things even harder for him than the quest was intended to be.
* DramaBomb: A lot of it. Such as when [[spoiler:Seoyoon find Lee Hyun "dead" in the living room after losing a major battle, minutes after she mourned and cried he suddenly wakes up; he's just sleeping on the floor after eating too much]]

** Bard Ray and his guild "Hermes", a bunch of PK {{Jerkass}}es who gang up on every one who doesn't bow to them; just like most big guilds, but theirs is the largest/strongest.

** Weed was this in "Continent Of Magic", as the "God of War" who single handedly dismantled the guilds of thousands of players just to improve his grinding speeds.
*** In Royal Road however, he tries to keep a low profile, which is helped by the fact that multiple people register with the same name as him. [[spoiler:Once that fails, his actions before and after being discovered make him [[TheParagon highly respected, almost to the point of worship]].]]
* DreadfulMusician: Weed has several times shown that his singing will make enemies of all his listeners, no matter how much sweet talking he has done. When posting one of his battles on the internet [[spoiler: while transformed into an orc]] people think it is a parody of how the they have no culture. He is completely unaware of how bad he is.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood : Weed isn't so much evil as really greedy, but he can't understand Seoyoon at all

* GlassCannon : Weed considers his non-combat title-class to be this, he calls his class a "glass sculptor" as his unique attacks do a lot of damage, but because he is a crafter class, he cannot equip heavy armor, and does not receive the ordinary damage reducing skills of, say, a warrior. [[spoiler:Until his persevering, has the game award him with the occasional defensive ability; the new abilities just allow him to place himself in even more precarious situations.]]
* {{Greed}} : Weed's main motivation, as a means of security after a childhood of poverty.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower : Most of the "art" classes end up having massive benefits in combat and adventuring.
** The Sculptor class. High level sculptures can not only grant long-lasting buffs to anyone in the vicinity, they can literally change the world around them, such as permanently weakening monsters in the area or stopping rivers from flooding, and eventually grants highly utilitarian unique skills that allow the player to create NPC followers, temporarily change into almost any race or class, control the weather through sculpting, and so on. Sculpting also allows Weed to constantly increase his stats little by little through hard work, making him stronger than characters dozens and later even hundreds of levels higher than him, and max out other production related skills with their own unique benefits (since blacksmithing, sewing, painting, etc. can be part of making a sculpture).

** The Sculptor and Architect classes can get access to disaster causing unique skills that are more powerful than any standard magic.
** The Painter class has access to a teleport unique skill that can move you and many people as you want anywhere you can draw. The creator of the game eventually reveals the ultimate skill of this class allows the one time creation of an entire ''second continent'' built to their exact painted specifications.
* HeroBall: Despite being a miser, cheat and trickster, the increasingly high fame stat Weed built up to help him exploit [=NPCs=] eventually starts making him automatically accept dangerous heroic quests even when he himself tries to refuse. Weed's hidden plans of drawing in users to his kingdom with low taxes before jacking them up are also crushed when other lords start matching his low tax policies to attract new users of their own.
* HilarityEnsues : A lot of Weed's schemes work like this because of his bizarre single mindedness.
* JackOfAllStats : Despite putting all his level up stats into dexterity and vitality, Weed uses bonuses he gets each time he makes a high-quality sculpture or other piece of work to boost ''all'' his basic stats (dexterity, strength, wisdom, vitality, intelligence) and numerous other class specific stats, including several normally not related to his sculptor class, [[spoiler:(art, fighting spirit, endurance, sustenance, faith, charm, charisma.)]]
* JackOfAllTrades: Unlike most (if not all) players that specialize in one field of expertise and try to master it to perfection, Weed has become proficient in numerous professions through sheer grinding that defies common sense. Whether it be cooking, tailoring, blacksmithing, sculpting, or fishing; he's close to mastering them all and has also gained numerous benefits from expanding his repertoire (such as the blacksmith passive that lets him wear top gear armor at a lower level).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold : Lee Hyun/Weed in a nutshell. He's scamming/ripping off practically everyone, but he does so for the sake of his sickly grandmother that needs money for proper healthcare and to fund his sister's education.

** He takes a commission for 1 copper coin out of empathy for parents who lost a child. [[spoiler:He works on it for a month and in the end walks away lamenting his lack of skill and embarrassed that he could not do the father's request justice, and chooses not to name it, thus losing the ability to gain credit and stats for the work. The work ends up a mythical sculpture. The first person who saw it after Weed was given a title and the ability to gain audience with any noble or king on the continent to talk about the discovery of a mythological work.]]
* LoanShark: Lee Hyun's family was hounded by them ever since his parents died, until Weed payed them off with most of his earnings from selling his Continent of Magic game account. [[spoiler:The owner of the multi-national conglomerate that runs Royal Road also eventually has them "[[Film/{{Oldboy2003}} Oldboy-ed]]" to a remote location for potentially the rest of their lives when they attempt to blackmail Weed a second time, as they'd ruin his enjoyment of Weed's exploits.]]

* NoDamageRun : His stream-of-conscious narration states that he is perfectly capable of this in ordinary battles due to his training in martial arts and developing top notch sword skills, his use of dodges and parries are not in-game mechanics... however, he will allow his health to be in the red the entire time he fights as fighting in the red is the game' condition for raising the endurance stat (endurance reduces incoming damage).
* OhCrap : A lot of times for Weed.

** Sometimes some of Weed's minions/slaves/pets manage to get away from Weed for awhile because their contracts ended or Weed ran off somewhere else on a quest. And while they are happily enjoying themselves away from their evil master, [[RunningGag sometimes]] they find some random guy trespassing on their newfound territory. And [[RuleOfThree sometimes]] that random guy might just be Weed. Cue frantic backpedaling and failing that, the SuspiciouslySpecificDenial about who they are.
* ParentalAbandonment : Averted, it is speculated early on that Weed is all alone with his grandmother and sister and in debt with loan sharks because of his parents, [[spoiler:and it's true, but that's because they died in a car crash after taking the loan. They would have otherwise been able to pay it.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Weed is able to remove the massive reputation and stat imbalance costs of the Necromancer class by using the bonuses he gets each time he makes new sculptures to continuously supplement his lost reputation and physical stats instead. This quickly makes him the most effective Necromancer user in the entire game.

** The Hermes guild's fatal flaw. Even though more pragmatic users like Lafaye want to use altruism and internal development to strengthen their empire, they had got to where they were through wars of oppression and enticing users with promises of money and power. As such, many users in the guild are completely corrupt, warmongers, or worse, and thus unwilling to engage in more moderate actions like lowering taxes, helping the npcs, or not acting like a complete villain for fun.
** Bardray gets stuck with this on a individual level on his class's Master Quest, where he tries to select becoming a benevolent president in a democracy, only to be told his infamy is too high from his evil actions so far, and his only option is to become a brutal dictator by killing an increasing number of his subordinates.

* BackFromTheDead: As a reward for completing an epic serial-quest, Weed unlocks the [[spoiler: {{Necromancer}}]] class for players, and is rewarded with a high-level, as of yet unknown power called [[spoiler: "The Power to Reject Death" [[labelnote:"What it does", you ask?]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It allows him to resurrect]] as a random {{Undead}} with new stats and powers until he either dies again or 24 hours have passed and he returns to being human. He actually does die, and suffers all the setbacks of death except for the forced logout and normal 24-hour ban.[[/labelnote]]]]

A [[Characters/TheLegendaryMoonlightSculptor character sheet]] is currently being made that [[NeedsWikiMagicLove needs some help]].

** Bardray gets stuck with this on a individual level on his class's Master Quest, where he tries to select becoming a benevolent president in a democracy, only to be told his infamy is too high from his evil actions so far, and his only option is to become a brutal dictator by killing and then casting out the brains behind his entire empire, Lafaye.

** The Sculptor class. High level sculptures can not only grant long-lasting buffs to anyone in the vicinity, they can literally change the world around them, such as permanently weakening monsters in the area or stopping rivers from flooding, and eventually grants highly utilitarian [[GameBreaker unique skills]] that allow the player to create NPC followers, temporarily change into almost any race or class, control the weather through sculpting, and so on. Sculpting also allows Weed to constantly increase his stats little by little through hard work, making him stronger than characters dozens and later even hundreds of levels higher than him, and max out other production related skills with their own unique benefits (since blacksmithing, sewing, painting, etc. can be part of making a sculpture).

** The Sculptor class. High level sculptures can not only grant long-lasting buffs to anyone in the vicinity, they can literally change the world around them, such as permanently weakening monsters in the area or stopping rivers from flooding, and eventually grants highly utilitarian [[GameBreaker unique skills]] that allow the player to create NPC followers, temporarily change into almost any race or class, control the weather through sculpting, and so on. Sculpting also allows Weed to constantly increase his stats little by little through hard work, making him stronger than characters dozens and later even hundreds of levels higher than him, and max out other production related skills with their own unique benefits (since blacksmithing, sewing, painting, etc. can be part of making a sculpture).

->''"Through grinding, nothing is impossible"''

''The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor'' is a Korean light novel written by Nam Hi-Sung (남희성). Due to its incredible popularity, it was then adapted into a manhwa, illustrated by Kim Tae-Hyung. At the moment, the series has over 45 volumes that are being translated by a variety of different translation groups on and off.

* BackFromTheDead: As a reward for completing an epic serial-quest, Weed unlocks the [[spoiler: {{Necromancer}}]] class for players, and is rewarded with a high-level, as of yet unknown power called [[spoiler: "The Power to Reject Death" [[labelnote:"What it does", you ask?]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It allows him to resurrect]] as a random {{Undead}} with new stats and powers until he either dies again or 24 hours have passed and he returns to being human. He actually does die, and suffers all the setbacks of death except for the forced logout and normal 24 hour ban.[[/labelnote]]]]

* BadassCrew/ BadassArmy: [[spoiler: Geomchi's group.]]
* BadassNormal : Le* he Hyun is this in real life due to extensive martial arts training. Weed starts out as this in the game until he [[EmpoweredBadassNormal gets his unique profession with its extra perks]]. Also, [[MemeticBadass Geomchi.]]

Unfortunately once again for Weed, his initial plan to get rich by gaining a legendary hidden class soon [[YouCantFightFate gets him stuck with]] the "Moonlight Sculptor" class, as [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway "art" classes are famous for being terrible at gold farming of pretty much all types]]. Undeterred, Weed vows to grind twice as hard, hunting for hours on end, practicing production skills of all types, and doing whatever it takes to make even one more gold coin.