Overused To Death (but Loveable) Tropes In Zestiria

Overused to Death (but loveable) Tropes in Zestiria

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Grumpy jerk and actual ray of sunshine are BFFs

Dezel and Sorey? They weren’t BFFs per se, but friends, so it counts. Mikleo is not a grumpy jerk, so he doesn’t count here.

Dezel and Rose (debatable, as I don’t really consider Rose a ray of sunshine).

Edna and Lailah (not sure if they’re BFFs, again, but Lailah certainly likes Edna a lot and shows it).

Mutual unrequited pining

[Insert SorMik fan response]

Character A falls fast and hard for Character B

 [Insert SorMik fan response] 

 [Insert SorLisha fan response]

Character A slowly falls in love with Character B over the course of several years, realization hits them that they’ve been in love with B for a long time hits them like a truck

[Insert SorMik fan response] 

[Insert SorLisha fan response]

[Insert DezelxRose fan response]

Cool badass is actually a giant fucking nerd

Mikleo, for ruins.

Dezel, for fauna and flora.

Mayvin (?)

Segei (he’s a dork, yes, does that count?).

The Power of Friendship ™

Our Hero and His Party ™.

Flat “what” reactions

Too many to count in the skits.

Sweet adorable characters with horrible tragic pasts

Sorey and Mikleo, though they have no memory of their tragic past (being infants at the time). They did however relive it. Both sweeties, especially Sorey.

Alisha (not exactly horrible, but sad - early death of mother, distant father and spending her entire life trying to prove her worth, being the lowest ranked of the royal family or royal children. And then it turns out her entire life so far had been manipulated to suit the bitch Maltran’s wicked ends and that the person she thought was her mother this whole time was evil and wanted to destroy the world. Yet in spite of all that, she’s a sweetheart.

Lailah, though we’re counting her life as a seraph. This only counts for her past with the Shepherd Michael and how he ended up and her guilt over it.

Villains-turned-heroes becoming the Weird Uncle

Lunarre, to an extent, in the X anime. Unfortunately he doesn’t get the opportunity to become the Weird Uncle, firstly because Ufotable botched his character arc - if it was even planned in the first place - and secondly because by the time he actually turned hero Ufotable killed him off seconds later. 

Though not an outright villain, Zaveid was considered an enemy prior to joining the group and becoming the Weird Uncle.

Characters that aren’t actually related having a parent-child relationship

Rose and Dezel (?).

Rose and the former boss whose name escapes me.

Sorey, Mikleo & Gramps (Zenrus).

Alisha & Maltran.

Dezel & Zaveid (????).

Characters that aren’t actually siblings having a sibling-like bond

Our Heroes and His Party ™.

Sorey & Mikleo.

Scattered Bones members.

Edna & Eizen.

“I can’t stand this person but I would die for them”

If this is a tsundere thing, Dezel & Rose? Not sure about this one.

The hellion’s lips stretch into smile.

“...I love you, Gramps. You and yer mad brain!” 

He claps his hands together with one loud slapping sound and bears his teeth in a grin.

“Now bring out those goddamned pumpkins and let’s do it!”

@snickering-kitsune -> X

“You gotta punch a pumpkin to really know why I want to-!” The seraph showed just as much excitement on this as he did with dragons. “It’s just- so satisfying to break it with a punch! Not only that you can still carve them…kinda. It just adds effect to them if you ask me.”

divinaaquis:

“Well, even if he trusts you, I don’t. You do anything funny and you’ll regret it, you hear me?”

Mikleo eyes the kitsune with a hint of suspicion.

“Don’t take advantage of his kindness, Lunarre.”

Lunarre frowns. He knew what to expect, but that didn’t mean he had to like it. He certainly didn’t have to take it. Especially not from a high strung seraph brat.

“Look. I’ve been raised from the time I could hold a blade to know a perfect opportunity when I see one. I’ve had hundreds over the past months I’ve spent watching over you people. The great and powerful Shepherd is safe from me.”

He sighed.

“I’m no overnight saint. I know that. I’m still this. I’m still oozing malevolence. And you know what? I want to keep it that way. Not because I like it. Not because I think this is a fine and dandy way to be. But because it’s like this that I’m useful against that rabid lion bastard who wants to destroy the world. The world I live in.”

Hostile/Enemies sentence starters

“You are not my friend! You never were!”

“Don’t make me hurt you!”

“I swear, I won’t hesitate to punch you!”

“Don’t try and act friendly with me.”

“I will have my revenge on you. This, I promise.”

“Come any closer and you’ll regret it.”

“That’s not a threat, its a promise.”

“Are you threatening me?”

“Consider us enemies.”

“This knife isn’t for show. I know how to use it.”

“We could never be friends.”

“Don’t hurt me, please…”

“You can run, but you can’t hide!”

“Stay away from me, you monster!”

thetraitordemon:

“Would if I could but I won’t cause it doesn’t settle right with me…..in english.”

“What’s ‘English’? Fuck me, old man, you are going senile.”

[Lol England and by extension English doesn’t exist in Tales shoot me]

“Thank fuck.”

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          “It is not meant to be.”