Mystery Otaku is {{Exactly What It Says on the Tin}}. If you have a mystery series, she has probably read it or watched it. Crime drama seems to be her favorite genre to write outside (well, not exclusively outside) of the fanfiction community. Outside {{TVTropes}}, this troper has a very suspiciously anime-like reality, from [[{{The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry}} a pretty, more popular big sister]] to friends whose entire apartment is a {{Hacker Cave}} to [[{{Are We There Yet}} having found exactly twelve different deliveries of a common phrase in order to annoy her parentals]]. She is also her group's {{Deadpan Snarker}} most of the time, as if she doesn't say it, nobody else will. Much for the same reason, she is a bit of a {{Pungeon Master}}.

Her interests tend to include the Victorian era and its literature, ''{{Dungeons and Dragons}}'', anime, herbology, anatomy, writing, mystery and crime novels, ''{{Pokemon}}'', and Ho Yay, Foe Yay and LesYay... [[IncrediblyLamePun YAY!]]

Manga that hold her interest currently are ''{{One Piece}}'', ''{{Detective Conan}}'', ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'', ''{{Soul Eater}}'' and ''{{Puzzle}}''. Don't expect that list to be the same for anime.

Some Examples of Tropes In Her Everyday Life:
* AscendedFanboy: Mystery Otaku has delved into writing original fiction lately...of her favorite genre. And so far has gotten positive feedback and even has several poems published.
* AppealToObscurity: Happens a lot.
----> Mystery Otaku: It's okay, Sara, no matter what you did, all will be forgotten in the future. Look at the Yellow Turbans!
----> Sara: Who are the Yellow Turbans?
----> Mystery Otaku: Yup, we are all doomed to obscurity...
* BerserkButton: Many. Oh so many.
* BrownEyes: All her loves have this in common...save for one.
* ComedicSociopath: MO is a very guilty party.
* DaddyIssues: Alongside MommyIssues, Mystery Otaku is not on good terms with her father.
* Facepalm: Applied directly to the forehead. Often. On both ends.
* GeekyTurnOn: All major love interests, from a fanartist to a fellow Gaslight Nerd to a Tom Baker Cosplayer.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: It is very difficult to have a day where Mystery Otaku and her older sister do not take potshots at each other.
* GoGoEnslavement: Danny, though it's all fun and games.
* GreenEyes: Klarissa, though in a bit of a subversion, she only shows the nature behind them when mad.
* HackerCave: the apartment of three of her friends, moreso after a fourth moved in.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: She plays this for laughs. Subverted because [[TransparentCloset no one was surprised when she told everyone she was bi, despite it being a shock to her]].
* HazelEyes: Mystery Otaku has them.
* HollywoodNerd: Mystery Otaku (along with a vast majority of her friends)
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: That's right, Claire.
* PerverseSexualLust: For [[OnePiece Nami]] and [[BloodPlus Haji]].
* RapunzelHair: Kate's hair is at the very least at her hips when it's down.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Claire, despite being a BDSM dom, is very...cuddly with her sub.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Almost all of her guy friends at one point or another.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Kate has a habit of being ''very'' distracting with her pretty undergarments.

Examples Common In Her Fanfiction
* AlternateUniverseFic: ''A Soul's Songbook'' is this for SoulEater.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In spades.
* BreatherEpisode: Using the two examples above? The chapter where Maka and Soul nearly hook up in ''Songbook'', and the Kaitou chase in ''Trails''.
* BreakTheCutie: 'cause it's fun.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''A Soul's Songbook'' and ''Death Trails'', most prominently.
** Entire ''point'' of ''Songbook,'' isn't it?
* EveryoneIsBi: It's her own personal theory of human behavior, so it tends to show up in a lot of her works.
* Expy: Giriko's original meister in ''Songbook'' had been Doctor Cullingwood.
** Also in ''Songbook'' is Kallisto and Adonias, antagonists created by the beta for other works.
* HoYay: A result of EveryoneIsBi.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Kid in ''A Soul's Songbook.''
* OutWithABang
* SexEqualsLove: Kid in ''A Soul's Songbook'', again.
* StreetUrchin: ''Songbook'' has one.
* TroubledButCute: Several of the boys in ''Songbook.''

Examples within her Original Fiction
* CloudCuckoolander: Max is the current favorite.
* CuteBruiser: Gina.
* CuteShotaroBoy: Randall, before he grew up to be TallDarkAndSnarky.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Harry, but also, and most noticeably...
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Randall, who all the girlies say he's pretty fly for a white guy.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: It's best if you do not insult Harry's mother...
* HeManWomanHater: Max had become one of these [[spoiler: after seriously dating one of his customers]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Harry's capture of Rachelle.
* {{Lust}}: The whole point of Harry's crimes is his uncontrollable lust.
* StalkerWithACrush: Again, Harry.
** Also, Vic has stalker tendencies towards his love interest in another work.
* YumYum: This is part of Harry's MO, where he ties down his victims spread-eagle and sits between their legs while eating a peach.

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