Source: Knight Templar – TV Tropes
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A male version is usually Troubled, but Cute, and his heart of gold should never outweigh his inner jerk because All Girls Want Bad Boys, though it can if Single Woman Seeks Good Man. If his jerkishness threatens to overshadow his good qualities, he’s likely to attract a Love Martyr.
A character who has been through utter hell, and came out sad, cynical, and Wise Beyond Their Years. Part of their wisdom is knowing that it is wasted on most people, so they don’t go around babbling it to everybody. Instead, they wait until they see somebody who is worthy, and serve as the worthy one’s Mentor.Like an ancient Zen master, a Zen Survivor never gives straight advice. Instead they speak in odd riddles and hints, delighting in Cryptic Conversation. They also make bizarre demands, and do cruel, seemingly pointless things to their student.
Source: Zen Survivor – TV Tropes
This mentor helps the hero very, very grudgingly (most likely because he/she was bored and/or had nothing better to do). Never gives encouragement or compliments, except maybe right before the hero’s final test/battle, and even then it might be a longshot.There’s a fair to good chance that said mentor either is a Knight in Sour Armor or Retired Badass.
Source: Cynical Mentor – TV Tropes
Alphabetical List of Brand Names
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Source: Corporations becoming actual humans
(A thread started by me on Worldbuilding.stackexchange.com)
Serban Tanasa writes:
There was suddenly a hushed silence in the board room, as the great mahogany doors opened and the 11th Incarnate Avatar of the Great and Holy Ford Motor Corporation walked in.
It was the great insight of the neuromorphic industrial organization experts in the mid-21st century that the pernicious principal-agent problem that had vexed corporations for centuries had an obvious solution: making the corporate entity an agent.
“We are the Ford, we speak for Ford, the whole Ford and nothing but the Ford”, chanted the Avatar. The Executive Leadership Team bowed their heads and generic visual sensory appendages in a respectful ritual pose.
As immortal representations of the essential spirit of the company, most of the avatars required special arrangements, due to their generally monomaniac (some in the past would have called psychopathic) world outlook. Moreover, the strict restrictions on AI incorporation following what later historians would call the Lesser Abomination Crisis meant that all Corporate entities had to be human-corporeal, and thus subject to the random neural growth that biological development inevitably entails. Thus, different Avatar incarnations will necessarily have (not-so-)slight differences in personality caused by random neural development during the vat-growth stage.
The avatar sat on the Great Chair, and its eyes traversed the room. “We remember and acknowledge you. Your security permissions are thus reinstated.” The Executive team breathed a collective sigh of relief. New avatars had the tendency to go for clean slate ELT boards sometimes.
Via a Gawker article from 14 March 2016: When he opened the app, Dalton told police, a symbol would appear that “would literally take over your whole body,” Det. William Moorian of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety wrote in his report, obtained by the Kalamazoo Gazette and MLive.com through the Michigan Freedom of Information Act. The app “literally took over his mind and body,” Moorian wrote.
Source: Uber Mind Control? – Medium
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Source: Corporeal — “Teaser” – Medium