If this is about The Knolls, mostly I take delight in absurd collisions of coincidences that have no particularly logical reason for existing. (Mopey dark mages, sure, predictable. But throw in the silver haired maidens and suddenly Henry's random DLC flirting is 500% more hilarious than it already was.)

As far as archetype attachments go, though, there's no FE-specific trope I go for. Closest we get is genius orphaned mages, and I'm fairly lukewarm about Nino, Ewan, Linde, etc.

Does Cordelia count as a New Darrin of some manner? My knowledge of TV is abysmal and admittedly I'm not totally catching onto this metaphor.