TV Tropes for String Theory MUX: Book Two
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The following is a list of TV Tropes that apply to String Theory MUX as determined by the game's playerbase. Players are always encouraged to continue adding to the list, but staff asks that you do not add tropes for other characters due to the fact that some tropes have a tendency to be self-depreciating and we'd like to avoid hurt feelings. There's also the fact that the creator of the character may disagree with your assessment, so in general it's a good idea to stick to your own stuff unless you get explicit permission from the other parties involved.
This is a continuation from TV Tropes for String Theory MUX: Book One.
In alphabetical order:
- Jonathan doesn’t remember much about his childhood, but he does remember his biological father beating him. It’s in his background that his father couldn’t leave bruises, which only infuriated the man more… Even so, Jonathan manages to not become like his dad and is a gentle person and a pacifist.
- Kaylee is known for being just like a Stormtrooper and misses what she aims at most of the time. “Why learn to shoot when you can make people do it for me?” On one occasion in a moment of anger throws a snowball at Luther and hits him in the head! She wasn’t even trying to aim!
- A number of times in Book One (Wonderland is Full of Horrors and Red Queen's Croquet Field), but has also reappeared recently for poor Atticus in Off the Edge of the Map.
- The Alice Allusion is alive and well in Book 2, with such examples as Robyn's chosen alias of Alice, Eve's appellation as the Caterpillar, and the use of the song "White Rabbit", itself an Alice Allusion, for the scenes [Go Ask Alice and White Rabbit.
- Yeah… that’s just about all of ST. See Also Child of Two Worlds, of which the list is a little sketchy still but may include nearly 20 people from 1982's jump as well as the children of the travelers.
- So many alternate timelines! It would take too long! See also The Multiverse, which is what Magnes always calls it.
- 'Looking Glass'
- Believing ourselves at the end of Book 1 to be Wrapping It Up, our lives changed when we got a Revival! Complete with a big old time skip and a baby boom! Sound off!
- Yamagato and Praxis Heavy are pretty deeply engaged in this. They even have classic cyberpunk augmented humans and everything.
- All Coopers in all the timelines… It would take too much time to list all the sources, but the newest is by the Wasteland version of him. Man needs to learn to think first and probably lay off of the alcohol.
- Several characters in the game are doing this at any given point, but Avi and Robyn are probably the worst offenders.
- Elisabeth and Isabelle have done this a few times in various worlds!
- Luther is really big into this. Poor guy!
- The Overlays! Relatedly, Psychic Dreams for Everyone.
- The Lighthouse leans towards teenaged-horror, the Corporations tend towards cyberpunk-corporate warfare, Wolfhound tends towards military-esque action, Raytech tends towards conspiratorial weirdness…
- Claire, Dearing, Lucille, and Curtis had a great time in this trope. They had a plan on how to take on the Gozillama… and yeah, they won but the whole operation was one big cluster f—- after another.
- The sound in Mateo's head, and that comes from El Umbral.
- Kaylee's ability means that her mind is filled with the constant humming of other peoples minds.
- All of Book 2, Volume 1. And they've conscripted gathered up a posse of hitchhiker heroes!
- Kaylee feels like she doesn’t deserve a man like Joseph. She feels like she doesn’t deserve him and that she can’t be what he needs.
- Again… all Coopers in all timelines. He fits a lot of tropes like that.
- Eve and her ragtag band of misfits over in the Wasteland Future!
Friends Improve Your Personality
- Shit, if this ain't Emily … she's definitely becoming more personable over time, running off less strangers with glares than she used to. Well. Sometimes. It's a work in progress.
- Kaylee was on the path to be a bad girl and thanks to Joseph she is now a much better person, though she is always on the edge of slipping back into what she was. And because of this has a growing split in her personality.
- Eileen Gray (Bright Future) has carved a bloody path into and through the Prime Timeline in an effort to destroy Looking Glass for good and give those closest to her a second chance at life, placing her firmly in Anti-Villain territory.
- Benjamin Ryans is physically 20 years younger than he really is, thanks to an incident that occurred while he was still working for the company.
- In her life, Kaylee as had people in her life that take up the part of substitute dads… Most notably Adam who even named her his heir. One could also argue that for Kaylee it was Kain that took up that roll for her and in Bright Judah took up that roll and guided her future… Cause, let’s face it… Edward sucks as a dad.
- Kaylee also adopted Emily from the lighthouse. Even before that, she took care of the toddler after the baby lost her parents. And Kaylee also treats her step-daughter Hannah like her own.
- Jonathan was happily adopted by the Smiths. And he credits them for the person he became.
- Felix has taken on daddy role for Cameron Harrison and Aurora Cranston (in Bright). Kain has sort of fallen into that role by Wasteland and Flood for Aurora.
- During the Time Wars, Kaylee was lost in the 1890’s for 5 long years. As a result she is older then what her birthdate says.
- It shows up on the regular in times of stress for Elisabeth, where she pops into a church to sit and think. New Year's Eve tends to be a time she goes there, to in some way say 'thank you' for seeing another year begin. (Also known as a "recovering Catholic" since she rarely goes to church but still has all the baggage that comes with it.)
- Richard has always referenced being raised by the nuns. It scarred him! He occasionally quotes the Bible.
- Isabelle in her incarnations has mentioned it, and she even went to church with Liz in Bright.
- This is a ridiculous understatement for many, including Ryans, Richard, Kaylee, Isabelle, Elisabeth, among many others who surely need to be on this list. It might be easier to list the people who DON'T have it going on! Related heavily to Who's Your Daddy? for a lot of these people!
- Because we know these babies will turn up again… Richard's first spread for Volume 2.
- Because tattoos meaningful to the characters are pretty widespread here now! Elisabeth has her Celtic knot that mirrors the one on Cardinal's gravestone from Vol 1. She also has her bloodied guardian angel on one shoulder and a starfield raven on the other, twined through with the lyrics from the Beatles' "Blackbird."
- Robyn's first tattoo was lyrics to the song No More Summertimes To Come, a tribute to the second death of Else, which was a character defining moment for her at the end for Book 1.
- Keira pretty much embodies this trope.
- String Theory has it's own in The River Styx. Tune in next week.
- Kaylee, from the Virus timeline, meets and falls in love with Luther from the Wasteland future. Which ends with her choosing to stay behind when her time displaced family moves on.
- Ruiz, from the virus universe, falls in love with his wife from a brighter world Lynette. Which also qualifies them for Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest.
- Magnes, from Prime, falls in love with and marries Elaine from the virus timeline.
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