Hello there!

I'm not going write a lengthy description of myself, since labeling myself is so much more fun: hence the sort-of-lengthy trope list below. But I will mention that I'm a young adult (which means somewhere between 17 and 27), I'm a dedicated writer (troping my WIP was pure heaven), I'm a Christian (but please don't label me with any stereotypes, especially if they start with "evangelical" or "fundamentalist"), and I'm a woman (which should be rather obvious from my handle). My handle also happens to hold several other clues to my personality, but I won't go on about them here. Tropes await!

'''Jewel Maiden's life provides examples of:'''
* {{Afraid of Needles}}: Not to a debilitating extent, but enough.
* {{Brainy Brunette}}: Er -- yes. Humble, too. Quite.
* {{Bad Dreams}}: I get these quite a lot, though I don't see how they can possibly signify an intriguing {{Back Story}}. I haven't been around that long, and I don't believe in reincarnation. Deja vu? Snort.
* {{Beware The Nice Ones}}: People tend to think I'm sweet and cute ... until they push a button.
* {{Bookworm}}: Like you wouldn't believe.
* {{Born In The Wrong Century}}: Though if I ever time-travel, I'm taking my chapstick with me.
* {{Clingy Jealous Girl}}: On occasion.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: It's debatable whether I've ever been described so well by a single trope page. Except that...well...you live in the world, and you learn things. But you forget them as often as possible.
* {{Genius Book Club}}: Not on purpose. I can't help it that I regularly read {{War and Peace}} and {{Middlemarch}} for fun.
* {{Girl Next Door}}: Preeeety much. Certainly I look like the classic example, but other tropes may disprove this.
* {{Grammar Nazi}}: For lack of a better term. I'm more of a Punctuation Rights Activist than anything; as a matter of fact, I champion split infinitives.
* {{Mood Swinger}}: Oh, goodness.
* {{My Eyes Are Up Here}}: I've had to use this line a few times--but, being shy, I mostly glare out of the corner of my eye. Believe me, [[BuxomIsBetter buxom ISN'T better]].
* {{NaNoWriMo}}: I would not miss it for ''anything''.
* {{Not A Morning Person}}: Could anyone be less so? (Though technically speaking -- cue the hate! -- right after midnight is my best time. In ... the morning.)
* {{Not Helping Your Case}}: This is true for me much more often than I like to admit.
* {{Shorter Means Smarter}}: Well, I like to think so.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B (though I've delivered several undeserved [[ArmorPiercingSlap Armor Piercing Slaps]] before). I am being brutally honest, by the way. [[SincerityMode This is a Brutally Honest page]].
* {{Write Who You Know}}: I've done this more than once. And ''nobody's ever guessed it''.

'''Jewel Maiden's main work-in-progress provides examples of:'''
* {{All Girls Want Bad Boys}}: Played straight with [[FieryRedhead Rhoyna]], averted with [[YamatoNadeshiko Glynnis]].
* {{Bad Dreams}}: Evan and Glynnis.
* {{Big Brother Instinct}}: Evan to Rhoyna.
* {{Bittersweet Ending}}: Due in part to {{Maybe Ever After}}.
* {{Break The Cutie}}: Selwin and Rhoyna. The verdict's still out on whether Margery counts.
* {{The Charmer}}: Selwin. Oh so much.
* {{Cruel and Unusual Death}}: Subverted. Thank God.
* {{Death Seeker}}: Evan, which overlaps with {{Glory Seeker}}.
* {{The Determinator}}: If you happen to be an ordinary useful person on the side Which-Is-Not-Evan's, you may as well give up. No really. Give up.
* {{Died In Your Arms Tonight}}
* {{Even The Guys Want Him}}: Selwin. This has been confirmed by ... others.
* {{Fire Forged Friends}}: Evan + Selwin is the most obvious example, but there are others, including Rhys, Dafydd, Gwilym, and Malcolm. (By the bye, I love my [[LandofMyFathersandTheirSheep Welsh names]].)
* {{Glory Hound}}: The {{Big Bad}}, who is also somewhat of a [[TheCharmer Charmer]] until you get to know him.
* {{Hair of Gold}}: Oh, Selwin.
* {{Heart Broken Badass}}
* {{Heroic BSOD}}: Evan experiences a particularly debilitating example.
* {{Heroic Sacrifice}}
* {{Heterosexual Life Partners}}: Evan and Selwin. If you try to slash them, I will be very very angry with you. But I've rather resigned myself to it happening, all the same.
* {{In Harms Way}}
* {{Iron Woobie}}: Both Evan and Glynnis, though Evan may be more of the [[StoicWoobie stoic variety]].
* {{I Want My Beloved To Be Happy}}: One of four reasons for the main {{Heroic Sacrifice}}.
* {{Long Lost Relative}}
* {{Love Hurts}}: Good ''Lord''.
* {{Sensitive Guy and Manly Man}}: Selwin and Evan, though Evan isn't above having horrible nightmares and Selwin has drawn blood on occasion.
* {{Sins Of Our Fathers}}
* {{Suicide Mission}}
* {{Tall Dark and Snarky}}: Evan and Lord Iorweth.
* {{Tear Jerker}}: This has also been confirmed by plenty of people other than myself.
* {{True Art Is Angsty}}
* {{Unlucky Childhood Friend}}: He did choose to be unlucky, but hey.
* {{Villain with Good Publicity}}

'''Some of Jewel Maiden's current fandoms:'''

[[folder:Literature]]
* {{The Lord of the Rings}}
* {{Narnia}}
* {{Lord Peter Wimsey}}
* {{Jane Austen}}
* {{Charles Dickens}}
* {{The Man Who Was Thursday}}
* {{The Bible}}
* {{Little Women}}
* {{Rosemary Sutcliff}}
* {{Jane Eyre}}
* {{Till We Have Faces}}
* {{The Once and Future King}}
* {{Rudyard Kipling}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Television]]
* {{Horatio Hornblower}}
* {{Jane Austen}}
* {{Charles Dickens}}: As in the BBC productions of his works, such as ''Bleak House'' and ''Little Dorrit''.
* {{North and South}}: Also referring to the BBC production with [[TallDarkandHandsome Richard Armitage of Dreaminess]].
* {{Merlin}}
* {{Doctor Who}}
* {{Sherlock}}
* {{All Creatures Great And Small}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films]]
* {{Star Wars}}
* {{The Lord of the Rings}}
* {{Narnia}}
* {{Enchanted}}
* {{The Bourne Series}}
* {{The Dark Knight Saga}}
* {{Harry Potter}}
[[/folder]]

'''Ten random tropes Jewel Maiden inexplicably adores:'''
* {{Big Brother Instinct}}
* {{Heterosexual Life Partners}}
* {{Good Is Not Dumb}}
* {{Killed Off For Real}}: Oh, whatever, this one's not so inexplicable. Though I hate seeing my favorite characters die, I am staunchly opposed to {{Disney Death}}. Except in ... well, ''exceptional'' cases.
* {{Fun Personified}}
* {{Happily Married}}
* {{Sexy Priest}}
* {{Hurting Hero}}
* {{Evil Former Friend}}
* {{Blue Eyes}}

'''Jewel Maiden's freshly whitewashed wall waiting to be graffitied:'''

* Hello! :3 ~{{Tropers/Fuzy2K}}
** Hey yourself, First Graffitier! :D (Your username is so cute, BTW, that I'm squeaking from cuteness overload.)
* Hey there sister and fellow Christian! [[spoiler:And fellow Type B {{Tsundere}}!]] :D --@/{{jcruz}}
** D'aww...it's so awesome to find a fellow Christ-believer here. It's so awesome, in fact, that I shall proceed to GLOMP you. ^.^ [[spoiler: And yes, us derederes have got to stick together!]]