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Prophesies, Destinies, and Killing Gods is a [[Play -By -Post Games|Play By Post Game]], played and managed by a small group of forum members. It was originally hosted on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100703004216/http://forum.fanfiction.net/forum/Hylian_Tower/50188/ Hylian Tower Forum] on [[Fanfiction Net.net]], however due to limitations of the website's forums, has since been moved to its own stand alone site hosted by proboards.com.
 
Starting in 2010, The Role Play was originally called [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Virtual Battling]], as its purpose was simply a thread where the forum members could engage in fights. Since then, it somehow evolved from a random battle thread with no plot and light-hearted humor to an [[Cerebus Syndrome|epic story with]] numerous arcs and villains. To put this in perspective, the Role Play started off with characters fighting nerds and licensed characters from other media, to a clone destroying the world in an attempt to become a god, to elaborate space battles, and dramas including slavery and rape.
 
The first half can be read from Virtual Battling [http://forum.fanfiction.net/topic/50188/8262920/7/ here].
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=== Prophesies, Destinies, and Killing Gods provides examples of the following tropes: ===
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: People like Ebony and Ricky hang out with people named Nayru, Rawk, and Lotus. It gets worse when you compare those to Master-of-Omega and Villain-of-Awesome.
* [[Alcohol -Induced Idiocy]]: Ebony drank [[Up to Eleven|six bottles of vodka]]. [[Hilarity Ensues|It doesn't end well.]]
* [[All Myths Are True]]: ...but few are accurate. Every god of Human Mythology was actually an immensely powerful sorcerer. Interestingly enough, the one to first use this idea in the KG wasn't a troper. Also, many mythological and supernatural creatures are real, with good explanation. Generally.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]:
{{quote| '''Poly Awesome: '''I have control of *glitch* I have control of entire tower. *all lights in the tower turn off* I have all information in tower. He. He. He. He. Can Heroes *glitch* Can Heroes defeat me? I am only AI with no physical body can Heroes defeat me? *a computer in the tower explodes* How can Heroes defeat what they cannot touch? Can Heroes find mole in tower whom uploaded me? He. He. He.}}
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Some characters have [[Plot Armor]], and some never lose it. Those that don't have it....{{spoiler|One killed off his main character Nikolai , and almost all of the rest of his characters at the time.}}
* [[Apocalypse How]]: All the way from 0 to X-4.
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** More recently, seithr has been used in the creation of more [[Magitek|outlandish devices]].
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: From [[MacGuffin]] to [[Animate Inanimate Object|sentient Cubes]].
* [[Artificial Human]]: [[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Reploids]] are incredibly advanced considering the date and age of the world Reploids are from.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Michael, a fan of the fiction from another dimension was brought to the universe that is the main setting of the RP for yet unrevealed reasons.
* [[Attack Drone]]: The Tower has multiple defense robots.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: The first [[Big Bad]] is actually named Awesome.
* [[Bad Dreams]]: Lotus suffers from them on occasion, as does Masaru.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Flora, a lovable thirteen year old girl, is able to transform into an emotionless, reality warping cyborg.
* [[Badass Normal]]:
** Nikolai, before the parasite within him forced him to get prosthetic limbs.
** Xavier, who has no powers to speak of.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Given that the group is actually called "The Heroes", this is often the case.
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] by Rawk, Will, Masaru, and Alessio during a [[Beach Episode]].
* [[Bond One -Liner]]: Villain ''tries'' to get Lotus to invoke this trope after she kills the cross-eyed Janus in a fit of revenge.
{{quote| '''Villain:''' *wakes up and sees the ending* END IT WITH A ONE-LINER! LIKE, "I GUESS THAT'S AN EYE FOR AN EYE!" WAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!}}
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Invoked by everyone. Averted in more recent times, as several characters move to using nonverbal attacks .
* [[Casting a Shadow]]: Isa is master of Dark and Shadow affiliated magics. Everything her shadow does to yours , happens to you. This includes non-animate objects.
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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The Devbut'a are the very race of demons that are known throughout Earth. They're also very polite and like to make friends.
* [[Defeat Equals Friendship]]: After having her entire team destroyed by the Heroes, Aqua joins their team with little hesitation and becomes a side team-mate.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea Withwith Cthulhu?]]?: The Ducibus. (Or Cubes.) [[Energy Being|Energy being]] [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|form-changers]] with questionable loyalties and morals. They destroyed planets, wiped out races and came close to accidentally killing all the Heroes while trying to stall for time. Then they spent an entire few months bunking in the Tower after their place was accidentally destroyed, and one of them even got into a relationship with a Hero.
* [[Dragged Into Drag]]: Nayru has done this more than once to unfortunate unsuspecting males, Aleph being the most frequent target.
* [[Energy Weapon]]: Used very often, one of the most prominent examples being [[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|Zero's]] [[Laser Blade|Z-Saber]]. These generally tend to be realistic, but some simply run off [[Rule of Cool]].
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Virtual Battling included multiple characters from other media and was overall far sillier and cartoony than [[P Da KG]]. Characters also were either exaggerated or had far more Out of Character Moments.
{{quote| '''[[The Stoic|Lotus]]''': OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHEESE! *Shoves [[Vo A]] out the way and attacks cheese*<br />
'''Zero''': *punches a moogle* }}
* [[Expy]]: [[Fire Emblem Tellius (Video Game)|Ilyana]] and [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Rachel]] are two of the most obvious examples.
* [[Extra Ore Dinary]]: Lotus, Isaac, and Aleph.
* [[Final Boss, New Dimension]]: Purposely invoked , as the GM of the time was a troper.The final battle against Awesome in the Shadow Dimension, where dark powers were twice as powerful.
* [[FinaglesFinagle's Law]]: The characters themselves lampshade this, though they know it as it Murphy's Law. See It Got Worse below.
* [[Game Master]]: The current person in charge of the Plot is known as the holder of the Torch of Dungeon Master.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Rouku. Giant demon attacking the Tower? Fighting off a known psychopath? Got [[Mind Rape|seriously messed up by Cthulhu]]? Not going to stop her sentences from ending with a "♥".
* [[Genre Savvy]]: [[Ascended Fanboy|Michael]], [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|dangerously so.]] Villain, as well as a large portion of the Main Cast.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Rawk has these when he enters Blood Kain.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Adalwolfa was ''the'' Grim Reaper, but rarely took her job seriously and was eventually fired for slacking off.
* [[Hello]]:
{{quote| '''Villain:''' Hello Bitches.}}
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: An unnamed 200m (656 feet) tall Battle Mech. Owned by [[Gadgeteer Genius|Mia]], hidden in her [[Pocket Dimension|pocket dimension]], but yet unused.
* [[I Think You Broke Him]]: Nikolai and Nayru have both said this word for word.
* [[Inevitable Tournament]]: The Tournament of the Shooting Stars. Deliberately invoked.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted hard.
* [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]: A recurrent theme throughout the story.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Never, ''never'' ask the question, "What's the worst that can happen?" Because [[Murphy's Law|Murphy]] ''will'' answer.
* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: Done to Rawk by {{spoiler|Will, Masaru, and Alessio}}. Possibly justified, however, because {{spoiler|he had just allowed a stranger to enter the Tower, done very little to help keep Gaenor from being kidnapped, and ignored a heavily injured Rie in favor of going on a date}}.
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* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: Rawk to Flora. She was once called a slut by her former owner. Rawk proceeded to strangle a sizable portion of the man's army. With a ''[[Up to Eleven|spinal]] [[Improbable Weapon User|column]]''.
* [[Literal Split Personality]]: Rawk had ten, complete with unique names, appearances, and personalities. {{spoiler|Averted, however, in that they are really souls which use his body as an anchor.}}
* [[Living Shadow]]: Isa's shadow acts independently of her when required, and it easily can cast shapes that would normally be impossible, including shadow weapons for her to ''cut you with.''
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Over 40 and counting!
* [[The Mafia]]: Rawk and Will both used to be members of the Galactic Mafia.
* [[A Magic Contract Comes Withwith a Kiss]]: Ada's [[Shout -Out|Pactio]] [[Mahou Sensei Negima|system]] runs off of this.
* [[Meta Mecha]]: Mia's armor system's operate off a "Layer" system, with Layer 1 being the basic system that is stored in her bones. Layer 2 is a suit of armor attached on top of her existing armor, and Layer 3's, yet unused, are Mech's piloted by her lower layer.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Yes, oh lowly bounty hunter or mook, [[Too Dumb to Live|try and attack one of the Heroes.]]
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: Rawk, Will, Masaru, and Alessio took the ''removal of shirts'' and turned it into a spectacle involving low grade explosives and [[Bishie Sparkle|a lot of]] [[Invoked Trope|silver glitter]].
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Kaine, Omega, Demon Awesome, and Big Brother.
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: Lotus wants to know about a mentioned mistletoe incident, but no one tells her.
** Also:
{{quote| '''Lotus''': As I remember, it resulted in a thirty-car pileup, the authorities, and me running away screaming about mutant chocobos.}}
* [[Our Souls Are Different]]: They are quite volatile when Rawk attacks with them.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Don't ever let Rawk find out you've hurt Flora in any way. [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|It won't]] [[Unstoppable Rage|end well.]]
* [[Phantom Zone]]: The Boundary is a dimension where no mentally based abilities work. It's also filled to the brim with [[Applied Phlebotinum|seithr]], which will generally kill any living thing that enters it very quickly.
* [[Power Armor]]: Will uses a nanosuit armor that is stored in his spinal column.
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* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: There have been many over the course of the series.
** {{spoiler|Masaru and Nayru}} got theirs after an extended case of relationship doldrums.
** {{spoiler|Rawk and Crystal}} finally got one after a long period of [[Will They or Won't They?]].
** {{spoiler|Alessio and Ebony}} had one just before the largest [[Beach Episode]].
** {{spoiler|Will and Mia}} had theirs recently, though it's debatable how much has really changed.
* [[Running Gag]]: Apparently Villain has to constantly remind Ebony of her bad taste in interior decoration.
* [[Shape ShifterShapeshifter Baggage]]: Averted in most cases, as Nayru and a few others require extra (water, biomass etc) to become larger, and shed it to become smaller. The Cubes are explained in that they are basically energy.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Way too many to count....
** Villain and his family are prone to this, shouting out everything from videogames, to live action TV, to anime, to music.
{{quote| '''Awesome Prime''': *thinking* Check it out! Gravity! *The ice around Awesome shatters, and he immediately flies towards the bomb, infuses it with more [[Metroid Prime|phazon]], and kicks it to the ground has hard as he could* You ever seen [[Dragonball Z]]? My favorite part was when Freeza blew up Namek. Of course he died, but you have to realise, he succeeded!}}
** Nayru and Zero are character shout outs, referencing [[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]] and [[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|Mega Man Zero]] respectively. Ebony's race is from the [[Elder Scrolls]] Universe.
** Lotus's Holy Knight outfit is a shout out to [[Final Fantasy IX|Beatrix]]. Her magical abilities mainly come from Final Fantasy IX and [[Final Fantasy Tactics]].
** Rawk's abilities are a shout out to [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Ragna the Bloodedge]], and he has referenced fighting games more than once.
{{quote| [[Soul Series|"Souls... Come unto me!"]]}}
* [[Storming the Castle]]: When the Heroes invade Awesome's Tower.
* [[The Power of the Sun]]: Diana/Delta. Her most(?) powerful attack involved creating a massive star many times the size of Earth's Sun. And causing it to go supernova.
* [[They Do]]: {{spoiler|Rawk and Crystal}} are now engaged.
* [[Toxic Phlebotinum]]: Seithr is not only a powerful energy source, it also negates mental abilities and can burn through organic material in mere moments.
* [[Transforming Mecha]]: '''Genesis Eternal''' (The bold lettering being an official part of the name.) Originally a fighter craft known as the Utter Bastard, it was reworked by Mia and Will into one of these.
* [[Troperiffic]]: Half the people involved in the story are avid tropers, so this is expected. Many times tropes are [[Subverted Trope|subverted]], [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].
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** All of the Cubes are capable of shapeshifting, but they generally have little skill with it.
** Sophia or Lambda, youngest of the [[Animate Inanimate Object|Cubes]], though her power is actually ''replication'', is master of this, capable of turning into anything she has the energy to. Considering she has the power to fuel supernovas....The fact that her thinking remains the same no matter what form she takes is justified in that she is an [[Energy Being]].
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Multiple, yet justified by the fact that it is [[Writing Byby the Seat of Your Pants|mostly written on the spot,]] as well as by people who never returned to give closure to their characters. Jessica and The Master are the most egregious examples as Jessica was Villain's ex-girlfriend and The Master suddenly left a large plothole. These characters are barely ever mentioned again.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: When Awesome utterly destroys the first tower.
** Note that said event was preceded by Omega ''slicing the Tower clean in half'', and turning parts of it into Cyberspace.
* [[Wooden Katanas Are Even Better]]: Rawk once wielded a bokken enhanced with mass effect fields. The results were... Explosive.
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