This article concerns itself with the roleplay in Skyrates, a free to play MMORPG. The roleplay forums are rather dedicated, and many of the things that go on in roleplay end up accepted into canon.

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Tropes used in Skyrates Roleplay include:
  • Ace Custom: Any pilot worth their salt is probably going to have a tricked-out version of a stock plane. Some of these stray really far from their base models. Armada Kingfishers have an uncanny habit of turning into C-130s, for example...
  • Ace Pilot: Considering that this is a flight related game set in a flight related world, yeah, there are plenty.
  • Action Girl: Dana Carter
  • Action Survivor: Hau Long, though he's quickly taking levels in badass
  • A God Am I: Blake Spencer, in the Unobtainium Project.
  • Airborne Aircraft Carrier: Some of the more affluent of the characters own these. For example, the Black Pearl and The Big Figure, both Zeppelins (Not blimps), both capable of carrying a fleet of ships.
    • Even if they can't support a fleet of planes, some of the larger airship-type craft might carry at least one 'escape plane' (you don't want to be on an airship when it's going to hit the water) or a recon craft of some kind, much like the seaplanes launched from American and Japanese ships in the Pacific Theater of World War Two.
  • The Alcoholic:
    • Waiwaera
    • Ellington
    • Aeson Strafe
    • Aldin Forseth
    • Natalie Forrester.
  • Alternate Character Interpretation: Are some of the characters misguided souls, pushed to bad deeds by societal pressure, or simply evil people who would have taken that path anyways?
  • Exclusively Evil: Pirates
  • Always Save the Girl: Erika, rescued by Chakide.
  • Arch Enemy: Blake to Rubrum, or so the latter would think. The former probably has 5 or so more
  • Ascended Extra: Erika is was on her way to becoming a more regular character.
  • Babies Make Everything Better: Violet and Daryn have brought quite a lot of joy.
  • Badass: A dime a dozen. Chances are somebody's done something badass at some point. Includes all subtypes (longcoats, labcoats, etcetera).
  • Berserk Button: Do not hurt Kaylee in front of Waiwaera. Really, just don't.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Many of the "pacifist" characters are known to show a surprising level of badassery when provoked.
  • Bodyguard Crush: Kaylee and Waiwaera
  • The Casanova: We've a few:
    • Talon was this, getting about 10 women at once. This however, backfired when they all dumped him at the same time.
    • Hyashi
    • Ivan Hirst
    • Blake Spencer does have signs of this
  • Catch Phrase:
  • Character Alignment: Considering the amount of characters, the sections have been moved to the bottom.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: The Azure League is often treated as this, not entirely without cause.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: George Stallengrant, whose job as a realtor, while not quite corrupt (yet), can be a bit unscrupulous.
    • A much better example would be Xethos Borgenwelch.
  • Courier: Lena Draw, most of Vincent's characters.
  • Crazy Awesome: Captain Remy!
  • Dark and Troubled Past: A dime a dozen, much like badasses.
  • Darker and Edgier: holycraptheUnobtainiumProjectfinaleHOLYCRAPTHEUNOBTAINIUMPROJECTFINALE
  • Death of the Hypotenuse: Flint's death is arguably this.
  • Determinator / Made of Iron: Most pilots/characters in general, but especially members of the Armada.
  • Deus Ex Machina: Morgan lives.
  • Dieselpunk: Darker or more gritty portrayals of the setting may lean towards this at times.
  • Does Not Like Shoes: Generally very subtly applied. Not nearly as common as general furry-influenced genres.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Hau destroys the engines on The Big Figure, after being coerced into working for Blake.
  • The Dragon: Chakide von Gunari to Blake Spencer
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: the almost death of Morgan Bantex. Quite effective, actually.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: Aeson does this.
  • Drunken Master: Waiwaera
  • Elite Mook: Any named non-PC enemy character. May end up becoming a full character, possibly with a Heel Face Turn around the same time.
  • The End of the World as We Know It: The Unobtainium project, in which Blake Spencer tries to destroy all of Skytopia to rebuild it in his own image.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Blake has shown considerable levels of compassion towards Maya.
  • Exact Eavesdropping: Of course, why else would you roleplay it?
  • Expy: Many characters are admittedly based off of others.
  • Extended Disarming: Some characters upon entering the R&P tavern. Kept just this side of realistic in some cases.
    • Shrike Leonheart.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: Does anybody really expect the bomb to go off?
  • Fanon: A lot of material is not really expelled as being non-canon, but very little of it is officially accepted into the official Skyrates canon.
  • First Girl Wins: Kaylee Stallengrant vs Lena Draw with Waiwaera.
  • Five-Man Band / Five-Bad Band: Slivoh's crew, depending on the situation, can be either. Or both.
  • From a Certain Point of View: Blake's method of misguiding the general public
  • Furry Fandom: Toes the line for obvious reasons.
  • Hannibal Lecture: The villains among the community are fond of these
  • Happily Married: Zhana and Talyn
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: Rubrum and Rudolf.
  • Heroic BSOD: Plenty.
  • Heroic Bystander: Hau Long.
  • Hidden Depths: Since everybody has only a few characters to work on, most of them have some depth to them.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl:
    • Aldin 6'8" and Lena 5'1"
    • Maya 5'2" and Blake 6'7"
  • Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: due to the stigma against killing another's character
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: The community is fond of these. Can develop into a full blown Hurricane of Puns if you're not careful.
    • One of the characters is named "Hau Long." The name is such easy bait for these jokes.
  • Inn Between the Worlds / Good Guy Bar / Local Hangout: Whilst not strictly between 'worlds', The Rotor & Prop is exactly where it needs to be, when it needs to be, all as the plot demands. Villainous types are usually tolerated as long as they behave themselves/don't brag about what they've done/aren't beyond the Moral Event Horizon yet, and it's where a lot of casual interaction takes place.
  • Intoxication Ensues: Two notable instances both stem from Rubrum dosing other characters, as well as himself once.
  • It's All My Fault: Kaylee Stallengrant is quick to blame herself when things go wrong.
  • Karma Houdini: Xethos gets away after killing Flint.
    • Also, Blake (the person) has said that Blake (the character) has gotten off pretty easy, considering what he'd done.
  • Knight Templar: Blake Spencer.
  • Lampshade Hanging: Some of us being tropers (me), certain characters are known to do so.
  • Large Ham: Once again, many, many characters. Notably, Blake Spencer.
  • Lethal Chef: Mote
  • Loads and Loads of Characters: Considering that it's an rp forum, it's to be expected. In fact, there is a spreadsheet dedicated to keeping track of these characters here: Dramatis Personæ
  • Love Triangle:
    • Of a sort - Herley Danika is engaged to Artemus Delphus. Artemus is also engaged to Maya Muldrake. The key part is that he loves the both equally, so...polygamy.
  • Ludicrous Gibs: The hallways of the big Figure were painted red.
  • MacGyvering: Artemus Delphus, when face with a boast about Terrance "Pistol" Hick's mechanical feats, gets into an argument as to who can out Mac Gyver who:

Pistol: Whatever you gotta do mate... you know your stuff but I've fixed/built more than a few things in much worse conditions... you ever repaired a tractor in a hail storm, or fixed your planes feul intake in a jungle?
Artemus: Yeah....I've fixed my sister's Nova with nothin' but a hammer, three bands of rubber, a top hat, some brass, and a bottle of Lengish Red in the middle of Grottopolis all while trying to make a trade to Uurwerk within the next 6 hours....what's your point?
Pistol: That's more like it, but instead of having a my story top yours war I was just pointing out that 'soundproof' might be a bit errr hopefull.... oh and did I ever tell you about the time that I fixed my havoc in flight, between luz and Tehras, with a towers shots resounding around me with only a pair of plyers, my teeth, a piece of leather, and some chewing gum?
Artemus: For shame....What's real skill is trying to fix a scout ballon, midflight between here and Echo because the engine exploded. I had to build a new engine with naught but two friends, the brass horn of a victrolla, and a sophisticated looking picture of Fuseli.
Pistol: Thats lil' stuff, I once used naught more than a coffee cup, a quarter, 2 lemons, and a dartboard fashioned in the shape of volstoy to build a glider that took me clear from midgard to Islo...

    • And it went on.
  • Made of Iron: Blake Spencer has survived... well, a whole lot.
  • Mad Botanist: Manik Depra-seeve, who uses his skills to create coffee.
    • Some of the members of the League are almost certainly mad scientists of some flavour. See below.
  • Mad Mathematician: Rubrum Veritas when he loses his grip on reality enough; sometimes helpful, sometimes... not so helpful.
  • Marital Pacifist: Zhana Hirst
  • Martial Pacifist: Maya
  • Men Are the Expendable Gender: Not quite so prevalent as one would think, but there are a few examples.
    • The mooks that died on The Big Figure were men
    • An NPC that is murdered by the mob for Emotional Torque is a woman
    • A man is murdered for "making a sandwich" and it is simply let go, even though plent of people knew who had done it.
    • Male characters that hurt eachother are forgiven. When a female is hurt, cue the Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
    • etc.
      • Somewhat justified in that this is set around the 50's.
  • Meta Guy: George can fall into this during the lighter roleplays.
  • Mexican Standoff: Guns are rarely used to kill, more to point and look threatening, occasionally to wound. Naturally, a lot of these happen.
  • Mind Rape: Xethos to Aeson
  • Mooks: Because at some point, somebody's gotta die, and if it ain't a player character, then it's gonna be a mook.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Arguably, Xethos's murder of Flint.
    • Also, Blake's murder of dozens of scientists.
  • Mood Whiplash: The next thing roleplayed after the pause in the Unobtainium Project's finale was between a one-tusked elephant and comic relief character.
  • Never Found the Body: Voyager Islo, Rachel Fuana.
  • No One Should Survive That: Lets face it, Morgan was pretty lucky.
  • Not That Kind of Doctor: On at least one occasion, Dr. Nikolai Evans.
  • Not What It Looks Like: On occasion. Often involving Lena Draw lately.
  • Oh Crap: After Blake fills the Big Figure with gas in order to blow up the bomb.
  • Only Mostly Dead: Rachel Fuana, Morgan Bantex.
  • Perfectly Cromulent Word: Fuboom.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Xethos Borgenwelch believes that Flint and Aeson had intentionally killed his family, and is now trying to kill them. However, the death of his family was due to a misunderstanding, and not intentional... yeah.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: Mote.
  • Put Them All Out of My Misery: Blake Spencer.
  • Red Shirt: Plenty, and I mean PLENTY are killed during the Unobtainium Project finale. On both sides.
  • Refuge in Audacity: Pirates hiding on the R&P skylet so that other pirates won't find them!
  • Retcon: Due to the fact that mistakes are made, some things are taken back with the simple term "Conned". It is moderately stigmatized.
    • Unob Project: Morgan lives. Victory of the majority over the player, who did not intend to change the fact that he was Killed Off for Real.
    • Rachel Fuana's explanation scene, in which she ended up dying anyhow because of communication errors amongst the players.
  • Right Man in the Wrong Place: Hau Long, during the Unobtainium Project.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: villianous example, Xethos Borgenwelch.
    • Rubrum gets one against Blake
    • Blake gets one against everybody.
  • Sanity Slippage: Blake Spencer.
  • Saving the World: The previously mentioned "Unobtainium Project."
  • Separated at Birth: Naes and Lena Draw, with their parents involved in Cidadian crime, where Lena was shipped off to a relation.
  • Shipping: Hoo, boy.
  • Ship Tease: Plenty of it, half of it unintentional.
  • Shoot Out the Lock: A variant on this is used by Hau. He shoots a control panel to lock himself and three other people in a room together, thereby forcing them to work with him.
  • Shout-Out: Certain characters are named after other famous figures, most notably, one "Jay Gatzby." One League "officer" intentionally shares a first name with a certain Miss Starshine.
    • Also a common theme of plane naming.
    • A combat medic named Jenkins. First name Leroy.
    • To say nothing of George, a rabbit. George Babbitt
  • The Sixth Ranger: Rudolf, joining Dana, Morgan and Rubrum right before the invasion.
  • The Smart Guy: Among others-
    • Rubrum Veritas
    • Hau Long
    • Morgan Bantex
  • Speech Impediment: S-S-S-S-Seamus M-Mac Leod
  • Squick: Possum Grease.
  • Status Quo Is God: While there are certainly changes made, it's frowned upon to kill off any characters.
    • Less frowned upon and more that very few people are actually willing to off their characters for good. Sometimes they get Put on a Bus, but very rarely is anyone Killed Off for Real. If they Never Found the Body, good bets the character may yet return.
  • Stepford Smiler: Kaylee Stallengrant.
  • These Questions Three: On entrance to the Rotor and Prop tavern, new folks are asked three questions before they can order or spend the night.
    • "Who are you?"
    • "Where did you come from?"
    • "Where are you going?"
  • Sure Why Not: Half of the plot is created this way.
  • Tastes Like Diabetes: Lampshaded in this passage.

"Can't be that bad. You're here to guide me through it." All together now, 1, 2, 3, 'awwwwww'.

Maya: Tell me, Blake; how long do I have?
Blake: ...You could have years, if you choose. The offer is still there. But, other than that... six, seven hours. Nine tops.
Maya: Well, then. A third'f a day, it is, Spencer. I wish you a hundred years of good life. Y'might as well take mine.

Blake: But... it was perfect... It.... was PERFECT!!

Symbolic? You bet your ass.

Character Alignment:

  • Neutral Evil:
    • Xethos Borgenwelch
  • Neutral Neutral:
    • Most of the Mooks on TBF are this.
  • Neutral Good:
    • Kaylee Stallengrant
    • Rudolf Fahrenheit
    • Rubrum Veritas
    • Burrito Loco
    • Naes Draw
    • Jon-Michael Plont
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