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Describe Entan here.

Who is this contributor?

Hmm. Interesting question. He's interested in semiotics and theology, is a total history geek, is an obsessive and somewhat pathetic Doctor Who, Simoun, and Bee Train Girls-with-Guns fan, has an LJ but prefers to keep his Intarwebz identity fragmented (and thus will never bring this up again), and occasionally breaks down and admits to being just an easily confused young man with a memory that manages to be selective and eidetic at the same time.

The following tropes apply to him.

• The White Prince: sort of. He has the same inability to understand how normal people operate, but it's academic rather than class-based.
• Impoverished Patrician.
• The Stoic: played mostly straight; occasional subversions.
  • Kuudere: Holy shit is he emotional under it all...
• TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life.
• Yuri Fan: he also gets along very well with real-life lesbians. They talk about what girls they'd date.
• The Chessmaster: rare Chaotic Good example, as he's willing to manipulate people into doing things that they'd rather not, but not if it would actually harm them. Unfortunately he's not actually GOOD at it.
• Iron Woobie.
• Morality Pet: his Nakama.
• Nakama: Played completely straight.
• The Masochism Tango: every girl he knows.
• Mistaken for Gay: quite frequently.
• Cake Eater: "[real name] likes older women" has reached Memetic Mutation status among his friends.
• Non-Action Guy: although he's fairly handy with [that type of saw that cuts on both the push and pull strokes].
• Gadgeteer Genius: sometimes.
• The Smart Guy.
• Emo Teen: subverted. He angsts a lot but remains a fairly idealistic person.
• You Suck: he feels this way about himself quite a lot.
• Born in the Wrong Century: ever since seeing Spice and Wolf, he's wished he was Lawrence. That's just one example.
• Perverse Sexual Lust: yyeaaahh
• Stoic Spectacles.
• Blind Without 'Em: subverted, although he still has to squint at a distance.
• Subbing versus Dubbing: subbing.
• Theme Naming: every male in his family except for him and a few distant cousins is named Paul or something containing Paul. His mother and her two sisters are all named after Broadway stars (and, incidentally, Camp Gay icons).
• Geeky Turn-On: all the way.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: he tends to bounce around a lot.
• Hollywood Atheist: averted. He has no idea why people tend to just assume he's not religious, but it bugs him. But then, how many liberal Nishidan Anglicans do you see walking around?
• Tsundere: Male Type A. But when he goes dere, he goes dere.
  • Yandere to an extent.
• Bishōnen: Non-conventionally. He gets 'pretty' FAR more often than 'handsome'.
• Real Men Wear Pink: His hopeless schmoopy romanticism.
• Determinator: From slapping a friend who was worried about his depression and concerned that he might be Driven to Suicide (asking if she took him for a dunce) to walking a mile and a half on a shattered knee and...when he got home...
  Mother: Is there anything you need?
  Me: I could go for three bowls of rice. Oh, and an Ace bandage.
• Squishy Wizard: He walks with a pronounced limp, thus also:
  • Genius Cripple.
• Gentle Giant
• Genius Ditz: His specialty is the Humanities.
• Hahvahd Yahd In My Cah: He's from the non-existent Western Massachusetts/Southern Vermont area but has the non-rhotic accent characteristic of Cape Cod and the Maine coast, for Cape Cod is where he spends his summers.
• Broken Bird.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: He had one.
• A Darker Me: Averted. He doesn't know what his fat older cousin Darrell does when he lets him use his account for TV Tropes and he doesn't want to know.  ^*
  ^{Don't worry, Darrell doesn't mind that I describe him like that.}
• Settled For Lesbian: He has this kind of (non-sexual) relationship with his lesbian best friend. For now, anyway.

Formerly Namta, he forgot his password and subsequently deleted all his cookies. Yes, he's an idiot.

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