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 occasionally 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 Harm's Way
- 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 never leaves.
- 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: Octavio is under house arrest, with guards making sure he can't leave.
- Lampshaded: "Octavio's getting dragged away from his sweet pad for a wacky 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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