Character Tropes

**Tropes** are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations.

If used correctly, they help move the narrative along, because the author has less to explain. Badly used and it can become a "Cliché".

For example, if you want to show your character is smart, show him playing chess. Everybody knows smart people play chess ! If you want to show that the next character that just entered is smarter than the one before, have her just glace over his shouder and solve the game he has been struggling with. This way you can show instead of tell , which always enhance the narrative.

Badly used it becomes a Cliché , an element that has been overused to the point of loosing it's original meaning or it's effect. In colloquial use, it refers to something that is expected or easily predicted. They are often used for comic effect.

## The Necromancer

### Main Characters

#### Luther Stoteraux

* **Papa Wolf**: Luther is fiercely protective of Hazel, and will dish out a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to anyone who harms her.
* **Too Powerful to Live**: Luther is extremely powerful, considering he is the prince of the Underworld. He can fry alive anyone with a trace of humanity in them.
* **Pretty Boy**: Thoroughly aware of his handsome looks, and often exploits them to his advantage.
* **You Are Better Than You Think You Are**: Katerina believes there is a genuinely noble man under the spoiled Underworld Prince. Due to her influence, she proves herself right.
* **First Love**: Katerina is the first woman Luther has ever had a serious relationship with, and the only one he has ever truly loved.

#### Hazel Stoteraux

* **Daddy's Girl**: Luther is besotted with her even before she's born.
* **Sins of Our Fathers**: As Luther notes, Hazel has 'inherited' all his enemies by virtue of being his daughter.
* **Our Miss Brooks**: Hazel is close to her father Luther.
* **Jesus' Birthday**: Hazel was born December 25, 2010. She could be the savior of the world, or the cause of it's destruction.

#### Lutarius Stoteraux

* **Calling the Old Man Out**: "And if there's one thing we can agree on, it's that you were a TERRIBLE father."
* **Creepy Good**: Scares the hell out of his family, but he's on their side when shit hits the fan.
* **Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette**: Pale and dark-haired, befitting the god of the Underworld.
* **Doting Parent**: Luther talks about how proud Lutarius was of Hazel.

## Adventures of Winter

### Main Characters

#### Ambrose Spellman

* **Bi the Way**: Is pansexual, and has been seen having encounters with both men and women.
* **Mr. Fanservice**: He spends most of his time lounging around the house in a bathrobe and occasionally doesn't bother to put a shirt on underneath.
* **What the Hell, Hero?**: Calls Winter out big time for trying to cheat the laws of life and death. All he can really say is I Warned You when she doesn't listen.
* **Autocannibalism**: Dissects himself and eats his own heart in Batibat's nightmare then complains that it tastes bitter.
* **Papa Wolf**: Ambrose will fight tooth and nail to protect his baby.
* **Like a Daughter to Me**: Winter is for all intents and purposes Ambrose's daughter. He raised her as his own and has been known to go to insane lengths to keep Winter safe, even if it means expressly going against Winter's wishes.
* **When He Smiles**: He does grin and smirk sardonically, mischievously or psychotically quite a lot, but his genuine smiles are quite the sight. So far in this series the only time he's smiled like this is when Winter tells him that if she had power, she would set Ambrose free from house arrest.

#### Winter Spellman

* **Happily Adopted**: By Ambrose when home isn't safe for her.
* **It's Not You, It's My Enemies**: The reason she was sent away by her mother, as it's too dangerous to keep her around her biologic father.
* **Creepy Child**: She has a rather focused, unsettling stare when she's using her magic.
* **Daddy's Girl**: Winter is Ambrose's daughter, loves her father very much, and given her circumstances, Ambrose is extremely doting and overprotective of her. Likewise, Ambrose loves his daughter immensely, with nearly all of his actions being driven by his desire to see her happy and keep her safe.

#### Chris Spellman

* **Hero-Worshipper**: To Jax Spellman, whose magic and accomplishments he greatly admired. It's implied his attraction to Winter stemmed mostly from the fact that she's Jax Spellman's granddaughter.
* **Summon Magic**: Conjuring is his specialty. (Implied to be because of how much he admired Jax Spellman.)
* **What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?**: Chris explains that witches and warlocks (unlike humans) have difficulty feeling love. Their feelings are mostly attraction and lust but not love.

#### Arthur Spellman

* **Abusive Dad**: Arthur tries to brainwash Winter into believing that she was a half-demon.
* **Squishy Wizard**: Arthur is one of the most powerful characters in *Adventures of Winter*, since he is the first-born son of a powerful warlock and high priest.
* **Would Hurt a Child**: Even though Arthur tells Winter that he'd never harm her, he tries to kill her to get back at Ambrose from all the years he's spent with his daughter.
* **Narcissist**: Arthur is so in-love with himself that he forgets the meaning of family.
* **Complete Immortality**: Arthur cannot be permanently destroyed by any means, and if he can, the method must be very specific and is usually related to whatever grants him immortality in the first place.
* **A God Am I**: Arthur sees herself as an all-powerful supreme being and believes he is the only one with the right to rule the world.
* **Psychic Powers**: Arthur possesses powerful mental faculties which he uses to manipulate the minds of others and corrupt them. He is also very adept at telekinesis, which he constantly uses on-screen.

### Recurring Characters

#### Luke Chalfant

* **Ambiguously Evil**: He summons Ambrose to the Academy despite knowing that he was busy protecting the mortals of Greendale leaving Winter and Chris to fend for themselves.
* **Anguished Declaration of Love**: In the season one finale during the attack by the 13 witches of Greendale, he summons Ambrose to the Academy to protect him despite the latter's complaints that his family needs him. Luke blurts out that he summoned him because he loves him and can't bear losing him. However, Chris' explanation that warlocks can't feel love makes the matter more complex: is Luke really in love with Ambrose? Is he confused and really just in lust with him?