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I just think its really need to see a stoic character teetering on the edge of their breaking point. The team watches them creep closer and closer to losing it, but they never fully take the plunge, pushing their limits further and further. The team wonders if they even CAN get the character to open up to them.

And when they do break, its catastrophic.

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💃Body Language: Send in a number and character, and I'll draw/write something with that body language trope🕺

(Tropes from TV tropes 📺 )

Accidental Unfortunate Gesture: Someone accidentally makes an offensive gesture.

Admiration-Based Mimicry: One character copies the gestures or body language of another character they like or admire.

Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Touching a kid's head affectionately.

Affectionate Gesture to the Nose: Touching someone's nose in an affectionate way.

Almost Holding Hands: A character considers holding their crush's hand, but then decides not to.

Angry Cheek Puff: Puffing one's cheek to convey annoyance, frustration, stubbornness, or displeasure.

Angry Eyebrows: A character gets a different face than usual when very angry.

Angry Fist-Shake: Shaking your fist at someone who's angered you.

Attentive Shade Lowering: When someone lowers their glasses beneath their eyes when something has piqued their interest.

Awkward Collar Pull: Pulling one's collar as a show of embarrassment or nervousness.

Badass Arm-Fold: Folding your arms out front as a sign of badassery or ambition.

"Be Quiet!" Nudge: Hitting someone when they're about to say something that could get you in trouble to gesture that they should shut up right now.

Berserker Tears: Crying out of anger.

Bicep Kiss: An arrogant character, usually a man, kisses his bicep to show off his muscles.

Bicep-Polishing Gesture: Rubbing one's bicep to try to appear muscular.

Blind Shoulder Toss: Tossing an item considered unimportant over one's shoulder.

Blowing a Raspberry: Sticking one's tongue out and blowing to make a fart noise. Used to show disapproval or defiance.

Cape Swish: A character wearing a cape swishes it around.

Captain Morgan Pose: A casual, adventurous, lustful, or attentive character puts one foot on a raised object, leans forward, and puts one hand on their knee.

Caught the Heart on His Sleeve: Stopping someone you love from leaving by grabbing onto their sleeve.

Characterizing Sitting Pose: The way a character sits tells us something about their personality.

Character Tics: Body language quirks unique to a character.

Coin Walk Flexing: A character walking a coin across their fingers is usually showing off how cool they are.

Conducting the Carnage: Someone waves their hands as though conducting an orchestra or plays an instrument while brutal things happen, the implication being that the person finds the atrocities entertaining like music.

Coquettish Lip Biting: Someone bites their lower lip to suggest romantic interest.

Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Parents try to cover up their kids' eyes and ears whenever something inappropriate for children comes up.

Cuckoo Finger Twirl: Twirling your finger beside the temple of your head to indicate someone is acting insane.

Dance of Despair: Dancing to cope with severe sadness.

Death Glare: Staring angrily at a person to indicate that you're very pissed off at them.

Deep Breath Reveals Tension: Exhaling after narrowly escaping something serious.

Deranged Dance: Dancing indicates a person is not of sound mind.

Determined Expression: A character looks determined.

Disapproving Look: Giving someone an unamused glance.

Disney School of Acting and Mime: Realistic, but hammy, body language.

Disrespectful Feet on Furniture: A character puts their feet on a desk/table to display their smugness, disrespect, and impoliteness.

Dissonant Serenity: Someone looks and/or acts serene despite something serious or crazy going on.

Distressed Drink Jitters: Showing anxiety via shaking hands while trying to hold a drink.

Dope Slap: Slapping someone for saying or doing something stupid.

Double Take: Looking at something and turning away uninterested, only to look back again with a shocked expression upon realizing something.

Dramatic Downstage Turn: A character turns/walks towards the audience a bit to signify them as important or going through a lot emotionally.

Dramatic Drop: A character drops something out of surprise.

Dramatic Sit-Down: A character is so shocked that, while not unconscious, they can't stand so they sit down.

Dull Surprise: A character ought to be surprised, but they have a blank expression instead.

Dusting Off Your Hands: When a character slaps their hands past each other to represent satisfaction at disposing of an individual.

Dynamic Akimbo: Heroes pose boldly with both of their hands resting on their hips and their elbows pointing outward.

Evil Slinks: Seductive villains moving elegantly.

Eye Am Watching You: Pointing at your eyes, then a person, to signify you're watching them.

Eyebrow Waggle: Someone waggles their eyebrows after making a lecherous comment or a joke.

Eyelash Fluttering: Repeatedly blinking to appear innocent or flirty.

Eyelid Pull Taunt: Pulling a lower eyelid while sticking out the tongue to show disdain. Common in Japan, and usually portrayed as childish.

Face, Nod, Action: Two characters face each other, nod, then perform an action.

Facepalm: Pressing the palm of your hand against your face after seeing someone do something stupid or embarrassing.

Facial Dialogue: A character doesn't talk but emotes with their face.

Fainting: Passing out. Usually means the person is wearing a corset (if a woman), anemic, pregnant, or tired. Faint in Shock is a subtrope for passing out due to strong emotion.

Fascinating Eyebrow: Arrogant or bemused characters raise an eyebrow.

Fat Flex: A fat character tries to look buff by pulling up their belly fat.

Feeling Your Heartbeat: Taking someone's hand and putting it on your chest so they can feel your heartbeat.

Feminine Leg Swish: A character swishes their legs back and forth to highlight their girlishness and/or femininity.

Film the Hand: Sticking one's hand over the camera so as not to be filmed.

Finger-Forced Smile: A character physically forces themselves or another character to smile.

Finger Framing: Making a rectangle with fingers and looking through it, associated with cameras.

Finger-Lickin' Evil: Evil women with claws lick them.

Finger Muzzle: Putting a finger on someone's mouth to silence them.

Finger on Lips: Putting your finger or hand on your mouth and sushing instead of swearing while singing a profane song.

Finger-Tenting: Villains steeple their fingers.

Finger Wag: Wagging one's finger to say, "No" or "Nice try".

Fist of Rage: Someone forms fists because they're angry.

Fist Pump: A character holds their fist to their shoulder, with the palm facing in if a man and out if a woman, to express determination or pride.

Flipping the Bird: Extending your middle finger at someone to insult them.

Flourish Cape in Front of Face: Sub-trope of Cape Swish where they bring the cape over their face.

Frozen Face: Somebody's expression can't change because their face was injured.

Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Pointing your index finger at someone.

Glasses Pull: Taking off glasses for emphasis.

Gloved Fist of Doom: Villains making a fist while wearing gloves.

Glove Snap: A doctor, usually a Mad Doctor, puts on gloves and snaps them.

"Good Luck" Gesture: Crossing fingers, holding one's thumbs, doing a Thumb's Up, making a "fig sign", knocking on wood, or making a box shape with one's hands for someone to break, in order to wish someone luck or avoid bad luck.

Greeting Gesture Confusion: Characters don't know which greeting gesture (handshake, hug, bow, kiss on cheek, etc) to use.

Hair Flip: Flipping one's hair to display confidence or arrogance.

Hand Behind Head: A nervous, embarrassed, uncertain, or lying character rubs the back of their neck.

Hand on Womb: A woman resting her hand on her stomach as an early sign that she is pregnant.

Hand Rubbing: Shifty characters rubbing their hands together.

Handshake Refusal: A character refuses to shake hands.

Handshake Substitute: Informal variations on a handshake.

Hand Signals: Characters communicate with gestures and motions, usually of the hands, as opposed to using voices.

Handy Emotional Cues: A close-up is shown of someone's hands to provide a window into their emotional state.

Happy Dance: Dancing to express joy.

Head-and-Hip Pose: A woman puts one hand on her hip and the other on her head, to look sexy.

Headdesk: Banging one's head against something when frustrated.

Headlock of Dominance: Someone expresses dominance by putting their opponent into a headlock.

Held Gaze: Two lovers, friends, rivals, or souls stare at each other.

"Hell, Yes!" Moment: A character suddenly realises they're about to finally have some good luck.

Helpless Kicking: Someone kicking or flailing their legs as they are being killed, carried away to their doom, or eaten alive.

High-Five Left Hanging: A character wants to high-five but everyone else declines.

Human Hummingbird: A character flailing their limbs rapidly to express excitement or fear.

"I Can't Look!" Gesture: A character trying not to look at something horrible.

Idiosyncratic Cultural Gesture: Gestures unique to certain cultures, real or fictional, are demonstrated in fiction.

I Do Not Speak Nonverbal: Trying to say something using facial expressions and gestures instead of words fails.

Jaw Drop: A stunned or surprised character drops their jaw.

Knee Fold Fall of Defeat: A dead or unconscious character who lost a fight falls knees-first.

Kubrick Stare: Lowering your head while looking upwards, showing distaste or defiance over something.

Leaning on the Furniture: Leaning on furniture to express casual-ness.

Licking the Blade: A villain licks a bladed weapon.

Limp and Livid: An angry character slouches.

Longing Look: Staring at one's crush.

Looking Busy: Pretending to be busy.

Loud Gulp: Audibly gulping to express fear.

Lying Finger Cross: Crossing your fingers while making a promise means that you weren't sincere when you made it.

Magical Gesture: A hand gesture required to do magic.

Marionette Motion: A robot, undead, etc. moves like a puppet.

Miming the Cues: A character tries to communicate with charades.

Mischievous Body Language: A character's body language indicates that they're contemplating mischief.

Modeling Poses: Using body language as a form of marketing.

Nervous Tics: Anxious manners and tics that usually involve messing with one's body.

Non-Verbal Miscommunication: Misunderstanding nonverbal communication.

No Sense of Personal Space: A character gets way too close for comfort around others.

Nose Tapping: A character taps their nose to show they know something.

No Translation Necessary: Despite an established language barrier, someone understands what is being said to them clearly.

Not-So-Innocent Whistle: Whistling to try and look innocent.

Oh, Crap!: A character reacts in shock to the realization that they are in big trouble right now.

Palm-Fist Tap: Tapping your palm with your fist to express inspiration.

Palm on Cheek Pose: A character puts their palm(s) on their cheek(s) to express shock, embarrassment, joy, annoyance, excitement, or affection.

Peaceful in Death: A dead body with a serene expression.

Perpetual Expression: A character hardly ever changes their expression.

Pose of Silence: Leaning closely or obscuring your mouth renders you inaudible to everyone else.

Primp of Contempt: Performing checks of appearance (i.e. filing nails and fixing hair) to signify disdain and/or boredom.

Prompting Nudge: Nudging someone to get them to talk.

Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Putting one or both hands on the head while using Psychic Powers.

Putting On My Thinking Cap: A character has a thing that helps them think.

Quaking with Fear: Trembling to express fear.

Quivering Lip: As a prelude to crying, a character's lip quivers

Quizzical Tilt: Tilting one's head in confusion.

Rapid-Fire Nail Biting: Biting nails quickly in fear.

Rebel Relaxation: Rebellious or shifty characters lean against things.

Resort to Pouting: Someone pouts when they don't get their way.

Revealing Hug: A character makes a shifty expression during an insincere hug.

Reverse Arm-Fold: Clasping hands behind your back, often associated with Asians and military personel.

Sarcastic Clapping: Mocking someone by pretending to applaud them.

Secret Handshake: A secret, long, specific handshake between friends.

Secret Message Wink: Winking to secretly get a message across.

Shy Finger-Twiddling: A shy character (or an embarrassed ditz) twiddles their fingers.

"Silly Me" Gesture: A character hits themselves on the head, winks, and sticks their tongue out to acknowledge what they did was dumb or silly.

Sly Exaggerated Wink: An overdone wink that gives off a snarky or sneaky vibe.

Stopped Dead in Their Tracks: A character reacts to another's words by stopping what they are doing abruptly.

Stroke the Beard: A character contemplates by caressing their facial hair.

Supermodel Strut: A character struts like a supermodel to illustrate their confidence and sex appeal.

Thinker Pose: Sitting like Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker".

Thinking Tic: A character has a thing they do when thinking.

Throat-Slitting Gesture: Miming a sword with your fingers to slice your neck in half while growling, as a warning for someone to "cut it" or shut up from saying important information.

Throw the Sheath Away: Throwing away a weapon's sheath to indicate determination or a fear of death.

Tongue-Out Insult: Sticking out one's tongue as a means of insult.

Traitor Shot: A character looking shifty reveals them as a future traitor.

Troubled Fetal Position: Someone curls up into a fetal position when they're overwhelmed by their problems.

Twisted-Knee Collapse: A character kneels with the lower legs sticking out because they're sad or tired.

Twitchy Eye: Twitching eyes means someone is insane or angry.

The Unblinking: A character who never blinks or ceases blinking for a particular extended period.

Villainous Face Hold: A villain cradles their victim's face in their hand while taunting them.

Wall Slump: A dying character falls to the wall and slumps to the ground.

White Flag: Waving a white flag to surrender.

World's Smallest Violin: A character mocks another character's sorrow by pretending to play a tiny violin between their fingers.

Zombie Gait: Zombies move around slowly and awkwardly.

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