Home, Sweet Home/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character wants to settle down rather than adventure.
 * Straight: Octavio, who is helping hunt down goblins, would rather spend his life at a home of his own rather than this endless journeying and fighting.
 * Hieronymus refuses to leave his home to help the characters against the evil wizard; he gives them some knowledge and sends them on their way.
 * Exaggerated: Octavio refuses to leave his home even when the goblin horde has besieged the city.
 * Downplayed: Octavio occassionally talks of how nice it would be to settle down
 * Justified: The comforts of home are hard to get when you are not...home.
 * Inverted: In Harms Way
 * Small Town Boredom
 * Subverted: Octavio gets home, buys a cottage, and stays there -- for a month, at which time he takes to the road.
 * Double Subverted: But Angelica asks him to stay a little longer, and it turns he
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: Octavio talks of going home, gets excited about the prospect of seeing something new, gets tired of the road, cheers up at some excitement.
 * Averted: All the characters love being on the road.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: "Octavio's getting dragged away from his sweet pad for a whacky adventure again."
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: The Mole argues against his leaving, since he loves home so much.
 * Defied: Home life is HELL, any excuse to leave is taken.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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