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* GutturalGrowler: After the high pitched early attempt, Ryan settles into growly ‘easy to be a douchebag in’ voice for Steve.
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The Quarantine Games is a actual-play TTRPG Youtube series made by Website/{{Watcher}}, and based on the 'Tales From The Yawning Portal' system. It features Shane Madej as DM, and Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Katie Leblanc as players. Initially created during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to safely create content from home, it tells the tale of murderhobo adventurers Qezza, Stephanos, and Steve.

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The Quarantine Games is a actual-play TTRPG Youtube [=YouTube=] series made by Website/{{Watcher}}, and based on the 'Tales From The Yawning Portal' system. It features Shane Madej as DM, and Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Katie Leblanc [=LeBlanc=] as players. Initially created during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to safely create content from home, it tells the tale of murderhobo adventurers Qezza, Stephanos, Qezza (played by Katie), Stephanos (played by Steven), and Steve.Steve (played by Ryan).

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* ActionGirl: Qezza. She doesn’t do ''everything'', but she’s mostly the one to crush some heads while Stephanos and Steve are doing their slow burn tsundere romance. Less prone to torture than they are too!
* TheAlcoholic: According to a slightly wine drunk Ryan, Steve loves his Chardonnay, and is pissed off when Stephanos brings him back from the dead, because he was promised beer.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Nothing confirmed, but Qezza rejects Stephanos’s feelings, and only seems to have interests piqued by other women.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Stephanos finally tells Steve he loves him in Chapter 5, and Steve doesn’t really reject him even, just says they need to take it slower.




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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Even though he’s CuteAndPsycho and Steve also treats him badly, but Stephanos seems to get whatever he wants with Qezza and Steve (except romance).
* BadassBoast: Steve, first half in high pitched voice, second half in the usual growl. “it appears we have beef… luckily they call me the butcher”.
* BaitAndSwitch: After years of teasing Bergara Guitara, Steve promises to play his “lute” and even looks over at the guitar before… singing. He does play a chord next episode though.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Steve and Stephanos go between insulting each other and bonding over being AxCrazy, plus EveryoneCanSeeIt and the Watcher twitter teased more if a season two happens.
* BlackComedy: The sixth chapter of The Quarantine Games ends up a BloodyHilarious gorefest and Steve/Stephanos going full murder boyfriends.
* BloodKnight: Qezza is perfectly happy to be offered up by Steve as the beatdown solution to every problem.
* BloodyHilarious: Episode six of The Quarantine Games has Steve push his sword into a goblin’s heart, pushing a guy into an acid bath and cut another’s face off. Katie is almost crying because it’s so funny.
* CuteAndPsycho: Stephanos looks and acts sweet and innocent, but it was his idea to cut someone’s face off. Steven’s admitted that Stephanos was 50% him just psychotic.
* DeathSeeker: Stephanos revives a passed out Steve (with a cute “hi Steve!”), who is pissed because he wanted to stay dead in a heaven full of beer.
* DistressedDude: Floon and Renaer in the [=DnD=]. The murderhobos find the latter tied up and plan to trade him in for Floon, while also making him think he’s joined the group, because outright “kidnapping the trust fund baby” is extra work.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Stephanos has a speech showing huge faith in the two angry people he’s just met.
** Even when he’s acting nice at first, Steve gets angry and defensive about DM Shane questioning his name choice.
** Qezza shows off being a no nonsense ActionGirl when Steve annoys her and she threatens to grab his head and throw him across the room.
* EyeScream: Played for laughs but Stephanos juggles the eyes from the sewer monster, and everyone else loves it apart from Steve, who’s certain Stephanos is a serial killer.
* FamilyOfChoice: Stephanos, Qezza and Steve are decided this by Stephanos in the first episode, and they do develop a murderhobo kinship.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Stephanos is more interested in healing his friends, and spends a few episodes low hit points before remembering he can actually heal himself too.
* GutturalGrowler: After the high pitched early attempt, Ryan settles into growly ‘easy to be a douchebag in’ voice for Steve.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Slightly more bronze than gold, but Steve admits to feeling bad when Stephanos is knocked out, and looks upset when Stephanos transfers his crush to Qezza.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Steve is terrible to Stephanos a lot of the time, but is mad for him when Volo makes him cry.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: Despite Stephanos canonically having a “banging bod” who everyone has the hots for, he tries to seduce the city watch (played by Shane, who bonus points doesn’t even crack up) which just completely fails.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Steve, who either tells Stephanos to shut up or that he’s “his shawty”, and then Stephanos in later episodes, who clearly loves Steve but upsets him by saying he loves Qezza.
* MrFanservice: Played for laughs as they make it canon that Stephanos has a “banging bod”. He does a striptease in episode four and both Qezza and Steve appreciate the gun show.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Stephanos doesn’t take Steve’s “let’s take it slow” very well, still having a lot of ShipTease, but insulting him more, backtracking and deciding he has a crush on Qezza instead, though he’s fooling nobody.
* RousingSpeech: In [=DnD=] 2, Steve does a mostly insulting passive aggressive speech to Stephanos to get on Qezza’s shoulders to save them, but Stephanos gets heart eyes anyway.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Stephanos is the last of his family the Coffeebeans and Steve heavily assumes that he’s the one who killed them all.
* ShipperOnDeck: Qezza calls bullshit when Stephanos (having declared his love for Steve most of the series) confesses Steve is his “best friend”. She also implies that they have some fun when she and Renaer go off and leave them alone.
* {{Squee}}: Stephanos gets very loud and high pitched at a hidden doorway. Steve tells him to keep his pants on.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Qezza, Steve and Stephanos talk a fair bit when they’re in battles, DM Shane tries to keep it in the laws of the game, saying to assume they’re all yelling at each other in a span of a few seconds.
* TeamMom: Qezza to Steve and Stephanos; protective, annoyed and shipping. Helps that she’s half giant and they’re short.
* {{Tsundere}}: Both Steve and Stephanos, as Steve goes between kinda nice and just insulting Steve, and Stephanos, after getting… not rejected but told to cool it with the love, starts calling Steve stinky.
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The Quarantine Games is a actual-play TTRPG Youtube series made by Website/{{Watcher}}, and based on the 'Tales From The Yawning Portal' system. It features Shane Madej as DM, and Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Katie Leblanc as players. Initially created during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to safely create content from home, it tells the tale of murderhobo adventurers Qezza, Stephanos, and Steve.
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!! The Quarantine Games contains examples of:

* ArousedByTheirVoice: Within a minute of meeting each other, Steve likes Stephanos’s voice and calls it like butter.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Steve doesn’t regret being an AxCrazy {{jerkass}}, but is pretty certain Stephanos is deranged and was the one who killed his family.
* AxCrazy: Stephanos is CuteAndPsycho, but Steve wears the crazy on his sleeve, wanting to keep Stephanos’s head as a volleyball. And that’s just the start of it.

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