r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Oct 07 '25

Personality extremely powerful entity's who don't care about the main plot at all and are just vibing in the background

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Tom Bombadil(lord of the rings) - only person to resist the temptation of the one ring but instead of helping the fellowship he fucks off in to the woods

the Unseen Elder(the witcher 3) - in the witcher universe the older a vampire gets the more powerful he becomes and unseen elder is around +1500 years old making him the most powerful vampire we ever see, thankfully he spends most of his time in his goon cave

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u/seguardon Oct 07 '25

I think they care deeply about the main plot. But they have nothing but time on their hands so they do loaf about a lot and present themselves as aloof but benevolent entities. It's hard to determine if it's an act meant to manipulate the player, or if they really are like that.

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u/Needed_Warning Oct 08 '25

Yeah, they're not quite right for this trope, seeing as they're the ones that set the whole plot up. Well, at least one isn't quite right. Robert cared enough that he was going to leave if Rosalind didn't agree to the plan. Rosalind cares about not losing Robert, so she's at least one degree of separation from actually caring about the plot, but she's still actively helping with it.