History Roleplay / RedHoods

%%* ManOnFire: Poor Lockseley...

%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just look at the characters page...

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Whatever Zeke is, he sure isn't human.
* AchillesHeel: Invoked during the initiation - the only way to defeat the trial beasts is to find this.

-> The OOC Post: 'Humans are the most prolific of The Red Hoods. They train hard, can move about society freely, and can hold their own in a fight, especially in groups. '
* BigGood: Blanchette Rouge, Commander and founder of the Red Hoods as a whole

* BigFancyCastle: The Red Hood Keep, located in Duncaster, is a huge castle that lies outside of any province's jurisdiction.

* DramaBomb: Brighid uses a spell to release the sentenced recruits from their shackles, the results are... interesting.
* DarkFantasy
* DoorOfDoom: The doors to the trial rooms.
* DysfunctionJunction: And ''how''.
* ExtraEyes: The trial beast faced by Brighid, Nyssa, Nick and Tholo
* EyeScream: The aforementioned trial beast is dealt with when Nick shoots it in the eye
* EnsembleCast: By nature of being a roleplay, and each character being controlled by a different player
* FantasticRacism: Faced by all non-humans in general, but in particular vampires.

* FairytaleMotif: Off of Little Red Riding Hood
* GoryDiscretionShot: ''Averted''
* LittleRedFightingHood:
* WebcomicTime: Part and parcel of being a forum roleplay.

* InitiationCeremony
* KillItWithFire: How Kiri takes down the trial beast faced by her, Colin, Loona, and Lockseley.
* ManOnFire: Poor Lockseley...
* KilledOffForReal: Lockseley

* FeedItWithFire: Attacks against the trial beasts not aimed at their AchillesHeel just serve to make them mad.
* LanguageOfMagic: Spells can be cast using specific words, primarily seen with Brighid thus far. Examples include...
** Lohta - an unlocking spell
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Qiran, Kiri's homeland, has features of several asian cultures, although it appears to be loosely based off Japan.

** Backfires when Loona pulls a WhatTheHellHero on ''both'' of them.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: Although less Tolkien, more folklore and fairy tales
* ViceCity: Sinstead is this, described as a 'medieval Las Vegas'
* ShiningCity: Duncaster
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The new recruits are this.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Supernatural members of the Red Hoods can sometimes become this, willingly or not.
* HunterOfMonsters: The role of the Red Hoods
* IntroOnlyPov: We start off with the POV of a family in the way of the zombie hordes.
* LawEnforcementInc.: The Red Hoods are this
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just look at the characters page...
* MysteriousPast: Invoked with the [=PCs=], at least at first, as players weren't asked to reveal their character's backstory upon submitting a character sheet.
* OpposedMentors: A source of tension between Finlay and Ryder
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Happens to both Kiri and Loona when they go up against the trial beast.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: How Gottfried got PutOnABus

''Red Hoods'' is a forum roleplayy hosted on the Roleplayer Guild website, and run by user Red VII.

The first instalment, ''[[https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/175928-the-red-hoods-initiates/ooc/ The Red Hoods: Initiates]]'' , follows a group of new recruits to the Red Hoods, an organisation charged with hunting down and killing vampires, zombies, and other things that go bump in the night.

* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: Although less Tolkien, more folklore and fairytales

* MysteriousPast: Invoked with the PCs, at least at first, as players weren't asked to reveal their character's backstory upon submitting a character sheet.

!! This show provides examples of:
* LittleRedFightingHood:
* WebcomicTime: Part and parcel of being a forum roleplay.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Mostly conforming to traditional werewolf lore, with a side serving of full-moon horniness
* WhoYouGonnaCall?: The Red Hoods are an organisation charged with taking care of the various supernatural threats that roam Tenebris. They take care of supernatural nasties the people face, for a price, of course.
* ExtraEyes: The trial beast faced by Brighid, Nyssa, Nick and Tholo
* EyeScream: The aforementioned trial beast is dealt with when Nick shoots it in the eye
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Lockseley dies by being simultaneously burned and crushed to death by the trial beast after Kiri sets it on fire.
* InitiationCeremony
* GoryDiscretionShot: ''Averted''
* FantasticRacism: Faced by all non-humans in general, but in particular vampires.

* CrossCulturalHandshake: Nick and Loona share one early on, involving the tiny fairy covering his finger in fairy dust.
* FantasyPantheon: Eliza and Brighid both worship 'The Goddess', as do the Witwing clan. WordOfGod states that there are other deities, but they have yet to make an appearance.
* KillItWithFire: How Kiri takes down the trial beast faced by her, Colin, Loona, and Lockseley.
* ManOnFire: Poor Lockseley...
* KilledOffForReal: Lockseley
* DramaBomb: Brighid uses a spell to release the sentenced recruits from their shackles, the results are... interesting.

* FantasticSlurs: 'Vamp', 'Leech', and 'Bloodsucker' have all been used in-universe to refer to vampires.
* FeedItWithFire: Attacks against the trial beasts not aimed at their AchillesHeel just serve to make them mad.
* LanguageOfMagic: Spells can be cast using specific words, primarily seen with Brighid thus far. Examples include...
** Lohta - an unlocking spell

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Qiran, Kiri's homeland, has features of several asian cultures, although it appears to be loosely based off Japan.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: Although less Tolkien, more folklore and fairytales
* ViceCity: Sinstead is this, described as a 'medieval Las Vegas'
* ShiningCity: Duncaster
* BigFancyCastle: The Red Hood Keep, located in Duncaster, is a huge castle that lies outside of any province's jurisdiction.
* FairytaleMotif: Off of Little Red Riding Hood
* BigGood: Blanchette Rouge, Commander and founder of the Red Hoods as a whole
* BoxedCrook: Members of the Red Hoods sentenced to join are this - having been given the choice between joining up or dying.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The new recruits are this.
* EnsembleCast: By nature of being a roleplay, and each character being controlled by a different player
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just look at the characters page...

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Supernatural members of the Red Hoods can sometimes become this, willingly or not.

-> Colin: ''I guess you’ve only drunk animal blood, right? You’re not like them – the ones in the mountains that terrorise the villages, drink off humans like we’re meals that just happen to have bloody legs, but you’re not fucking special. You might have some of your humanity left right now, or at least you seem to think you do – but the second the chips are down? You’ll turn some other poor sod just like the leech that turned you.''
* DoorOfDoom: The doors to the trial rooms.
* LawEnforcementInc.: The Red Hoods are this
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Happens to both Kiri and Loona when they go up against the trial beast.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: How Gottfried got PutOnABus
* HunterOfMonsters: The role of the Red Hoods
* IntroOnlyPov: We start off with the POV of a family in the way of the zombie hordes.
* MysteriousPast: Invoked with the PCs, at least at first, as players weren't asked to reveal their character's backstory upon submitting a character sheet.

* IntroOnlyPOV: We start off with the POV of a family in the way of the zombie hordes.

* HunterOfMonsters: The role of the Red Hoods

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: How Gottfried got PutOnABus

-> Colin: ''I guess you’ve only drunk animal blood, right? You’re not like them – the ones in the mountains that terrorise the villages, drink off humans like we’re meals that just happen to have bloody legs, but you’re not fucking special. You might have some of your humanity left right now, or at least you seem to think you do – but the second the chips are down? You’ll turn some other poor sod just like the leech that turned you.''

* FantasticSlurs: Vamp, Leech, and Bloodsucker have all been used in-universe to refer to vampires.