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ep·och Noun /ˈepək/

1. A period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics.

2. The beginning of a distinctive period in the history of someone or something

gam·ble noun [gam-buhl]

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6. any matter or thing involving risk or hazardous uncertainty.

7. a venture in a game of chance for stakes, especially for high stakes.

A webcomic in-the-making by some chick on deviantART.

She hasn't started it yet, mostly because she is busy doing other things.

Really the only reason this page exists right now is that she finds it hilarious how many tropes apply to her characters. Also, she wants to have it on hand if/when her comic gets popular.

She will do her best to avoid spoiler-riffic things.

At this point in time, this page is merely serving as a place-holder for tropes that apply to her characters as they stand now. When the comic is started though, it will be wiped clean and only list tropes that apply to the story thus far. Consider it a "glance into the future", if you will. Although the only people who are looking at this page are the artist's friends who already know all of these things anyway, it is of little impact.

Story

Not much is here, understandably, considering the darn thing hasn't even begun yet.

• Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness
• Magical Land: explains all the weird stuff that goes down
  • some characters have Elemental Powers
  • and others have Summon Magic
• One Degree of Separation: The artist is fascinated by the six degrees of separation, and you could trace many of her characters back to one another through their shared acquaintances.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The artist is likewise fascinated by large words and the general use of the English language, to the point where she reads through thesaurus.com like a second tvtropes. Unsurprisingly, really, she is prone to using absurdly large strings of words as titles for chapters and the like. In her writing, she tries to keep the wording more simple so people don't have to go running for a dictionary every other sentence, but the occasional Purple Prose-esque word or phrase might slip in.
• A Minor Kidroduction: the story starts off with a child version of Darius. Contrary to what this trope implies though, it lasts longer than just an introduction.
• The Vast Amount Of Things That Don't Have A Title: Still being in the developmental stage, many places and things seem to be lacking in proper names. (i.e., The Fields, The Troupe, The Forest that the Aurora Dell [see below] is placed in, etc)

Characters, Their Tropes, and The Tropes That Apply Within the Regions

North West

• Cory Mc'Allen (and Mollie)
  • Boring, but Practical: Cory's outfit. Not nearly as fancy as some other characters' outfits, but it keeps him warm out there in the Fields.
  • Our Ghosts Are Different: mostly because she's a sheep
  • Big Brother Instinct: Cory has it.

• Julia Range
  • Good Is Not Nice: Type 3, with maybe a touch of type 2. She is QUITE the snarky stick-in-the-mud. (Overlaps with Jerkass Woobie due to backstory reasons.)
  • Sometimes goes off on foreign language tirades

Central City (temporary name, despite it being farther east than being central)

• The Clockwork King
  • The Good King: highly favored by many many subjects of the country.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?? Certainly not him. Isn't given too much choice, unfortunately.

• The Princess (no name as of yet)
  • Silk Hiding Steel

West

• Fain
  • Affably Evil
  • Magnificent Bastard

• Tiny Flag
  • Theme Nicknaming
    • he doesn't exactly like it
  • Mr. Vice Guy: he has a few things to deal with

• Lawrence Parnassus Wonder
  • Meaningful Name
  • Retired Badass: used to be quite the heroic type
  • Large Ham

The Troupe

• Confetti
  • Theme Nicknaming
  • Cheerful Child
  • Cuddle Bug

• Daniel (aka "The Teacher Guy")
  • Dad the Veteran: Confetti's dad, specifically. although he hasn't been in any wars. but he HAS had plenty of experience fighting.

• Carmen
  • Technical Pacifist
  • Reluctant Warrior
  • Elective Mute: only seems to speak to Confetti and perhaps a few others. The rest of the time, she is a Silent Bob, communicating with body language, or having someone (usually Confetti) act as her interpreter.
  • Gentle Giant: being the stilt walker (and in costume most of the time), she is most often portrayed VERY tall.

• Jojo Bop

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