Out of misguided adherence to the theme, their sons were named after various vices they also failed to live up (down?) to. Possibly in reference to Anne of Green Gables (below), the Carter family in Lancre named their daughters after virtues they failed to live up to, including Charity (a miser), Hope (a depressive), and Chastity (currently making good money as a lady of the night).Few people practice Tubso and Bissonomy in the busy modern world, because no-one remembers what they are. In Going Postal, the (now) Eight Virtues are Fortitude, Patience, Chastity, Charity, Hope, Silence, Tubso and Bissonomy.Character trackers of this kind are particularly common in computer-based role-playing games, especially of western origin. Sometimes they affect whether NPCs react positively or negatively towards the Player Character, for instance. These scores themselves may be anywhere from fully visible to completely hidden to the player, but they are sure to have some kind of effect on the gameplay. The player's actions in the game will add to or subtract from the player's virtue scores. When featured in video or tabletop games, virtue systems often takes the form of scorekeeping scales that represent a protagonist's prowess in a certain virtue. Since the focus of virtues lies on inspiring us to do the right thing in the here and now, even when it comes to seemingly minor everyday decisions, the virtue-centric hero is usually a Small Steps Hero. This is the trope for works that define or otherwise deal with such a system, religious or otherwise, in order to form a moral narrative. One classical system of religious virtues from history is the Seven Heavenly Virtues and their counterparts the Seven Deadly Sins, both sprung from Christianity. Virtue systems often appear in religion, where the virtues usually are regarded as downright sacred, and often roads to rewards in the afterlife.

Virtue and vice