->''"My goal in life is to be the person that [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers]] believed I could be."''

A page about Lady Norbert, or whatever she's calling herself today. Apologies for the length of the page, but the folders will keep it from being a WallOfText. (She talks too much.)

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[[folder: About the Troper]]
* A [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse deceptively mild-mannered]] writer and [[ProudToBeAGeek unrepentant geek]], Lady Norbert is known to many as the internet's designated TeamMom. She's mostly harmless. She has [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard an awful lot of titles]], most of which were given to her by other people. In more recent years, she's started to dial back her internet presence somewhat.

* She's kind of [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife addicted to tropes]], in case you couldn't tell from all the {{blue link}}s.

* Part of the reason for her reduced internet presence is her health, which is unpredictable at best. Sometimes she wears an EyepatchOfPower on account of being half-blind, but [[Franchise/MetalGear she has one good eye and she can still fire a gun]]. Also, due to a childhood car accident, she is partially constructed out of [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist automail]].
** No, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer we are not making this up]].

* As you may have guessed, she did indeed [[MeaningfulName name herself]] after the dragon from ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. However, she would also like to go on record as stating that she chose the name ''before'' [[SamusIsAGirl Norbert]] was [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting revealed to be female]]. In fact, she's been using the name as her internet handle [[LongRunner since 2000]].

* She's also known in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' fandom as "Scholar," on account of having been given the nickname by [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Varric Tethras]].
** We're not making that up either; [[Trivia/TwiceUponAnAge it's canon]], per [[WordOfGod Mary Kirby]].

* "Lady" is her actual title in RealLife. And no, that's not made up either. Thanks to a somewhat odd legal loophole, she is technically Scottish nobility and has the legal right to use the title of Lady.
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[[folder: About the Author]]
* When she's not online, Lady Norbert has published a few things under her real name. In addition to a drawer full of freelance magazine and newspaper articles, she is co-author of a children's book based on a holiday tradition local to her home region in eastern Pennsylvania. She is also a former member of the staff of ''Website/IndieGameMagazine''.

* In fandom, though, she's still better known as Lady Norbert, author of a whole lot of fanfic. As of summer 2017, she's written well over a million words of the stuff - probably more when you realize that some of her earliest fics were taken off of Website/FanfictionDotNet owing to space restrictions.[[note]]Back when she was new at the game, FFN had no chaptering feature ''and'' placed a limit on the number of fics an individual author was allowed to host on the site, so a few of her OldShame pieces are lost to us. This is for the best.[[/note]] Currently, she is cluttering up both that site and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn with more than thirty stories; links to her profiles, for the curious, are farther down the page.

* She likes to talk about her fics perhaps a bit too much, which is why several of them have pages on this site (well, that and her troping addiction), but she doesn't mean to be self-indulgent - she just has entirely too much fun. She begs the reader not to give her too much credit, however, because she is the living embodiment of both IJustWriteTheThing and WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants. Her fics which can be found here are:

** ''FanFic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain'' (''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'')
** ''FanFic/TilTheSunGrowsCold and the Stars Grow Old'' (''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'')
** ''FanFic/ShadowAndRose'' (''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'')
** ''FanFic/ElementalChessTrilogy'' (''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'')
** ''FanFic/TheBankCalledYourRealityCheckBounced'' (a ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' and ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' crossover)
** ''The [[FanFic/{{Cinderjuice}} Contractually Obligated Chaos]]'' series (the ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' cartoon) - notable for being the first page about one of her stories that was made by someone else (thanks, Creator/BookwormGal!)
** The ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series (''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition)''
** The ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'' series (coauthored with one of her closest friends, also based on ''Dragon Age Inquisition''... mostly)
** ''Fanfic/BeyondHeroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium'' (''Dragon Age Inquisition'' again)

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[[folder: Where have I heard that name before?]]
People have actually [[BigNameFan heard of her]] and this unnerves her sometimes. If you've seen the name online before, it is almost certainly the same person, as [[SecretIdentityIdentity there's only one of her and she's it]]. (The exceptions are Website/{{Twitter}}, where someone else took the handle, and Instagram, which she has never used - so if you see someone using the name there, it's not her.) Most likely you would have seen her in one of the following places:

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~ladynorbert Fan Fiction dot Net]]
* [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/LadyNorbert/works Archive of Our Own]]
* [[http://ladynorbert.tumblr.com Tumblr]], which she joined only to discover she had an InstantFanClub
** [[http://sunny-stories.tumblr.com Sunny Stories]] is the internet's only home for a very specific rare pair OTP from ''Franchise/DragonAge''; she is the captain of this ship, and will be promoted to admiral once she gets a big enough hat.
* In the 2010s, a Powerpoint she created about the ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' series caught the attention of the games' then-developer, Eipix, who [[ApprovalOfGod sought her permission]] to use it as actual social media marketing, thereby pretty much making her entire week. They interacted with her regularly on Facebook and Twitter until the franchise was sold back to Blue Tea Games, and further boosted her ego with the honorary title of "[[BigNameFan North American Vice-President of Fairytale Detection]]".
* In the 2020s, she's arguably the closest thing Creator/ElephantGames has to a BigNameFan, having won their first (and thus far only) fan fiction contest and also because she's the chief editor of their professed favorite wiki about their games.
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