Basic Trope: A character who believes that fate governs all actions.
- Straight: Eric believes he is fated to fail at any task he is given, and is right most of the time.
- Exaggerated: Eric is the Anthropomorphic Personification of fate.
- Downplayed: As a mature young man, Eric can see when he's been beaten and chooses to accept whatever hand he's dealt.
- Justified: After a lifetime of being subjected to one ill-fated prophecy after another, it's no surprise Eric sees his actions as futile.
- Inverted: Eric believes in unlimited free will, and that he will succeed at whatever he puts his mind to.
- Subverted: As part of his Character Development, Eric learns not everything is governed by fate, and that he has the option to pick battles he can win.
- Parodied: Eric shrugs off his copious failures and failings by ascribing them to "fate's grand design."
- Zig Zagged: Because Eric knows how easily things can go wrong, he's both reflexively cautious and well-armed for any eventuality. Of course, this rarely helps him because prophecies are highly flexible.
- Averted: Eric is a hard incompatibilist, meaning he disbelieves in fate and free will in equal measure.
- Enforced: The setting is explicitly deterministic.
- Lampshaded: Eric's last name is Finagle.
- Invoked: Going along with fate at all times means Eric is Resigned to the Call.
- Defied: Eric does everything he can to succeed.
- Exploited: Eric is in love with Sarah and wants a certain outcome with her (marriage, etc.) to happen. To him, staking their relationship on "fate" is the the quickest way to make that happen.
- Discussed: "Daily reminder: time is a flat fucking circle."
- Conversed: Charlie calls Eric out on his mentality whenever he abuses it. If he has no qualm when things go badly because everything is preordained, why should he feel happy when things go right?
- Implied: Eric rolls along with things fairly quickly, no matter how strange they are.
- Deconstructed: Even if better or less painful options are available, Eric still chooses to hew to what he considers the predetermined path solely because he believes in fate that much.
- A belief in fatalism goads Eric into embracing the worst parts of his nature.
- Reconstructed: Despite his misfortune, Eric accepts his fate with equanimity, because knowing he can do nothing to avert his doom takes the sting out of it.
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