"My goal in life is to be the person that 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 Wall of Text. (She talks too much.)
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About the Troper
- A deceptively mild-mannered writer and unrepentant geek, Lady Norbert is known to many as the internet's designated Team Mom. She's mostly harmless. She has 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 addicted to tropes, in case you couldn't tell from all the blue links.
- Part of the reason for her reduced internet presence is her health, which is unpredictable at best. Sometimes she wears an Eyepatch of Power on account of being half-blind, but 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 automail.
- As you may have guessed, she did indeed name herself after the dragon from Harry Potter. However, she would also like to go on record as stating that she chose the name before Norbert was revealed to be female. In fact, she's been using the name as her internet handle since 2000.
- She's also known in the Dragon Age fandom as "Scholar," on account of having been given the nickname by Varric Tethras.
- We're not making that up either; it's canon, per Mary Kirby.
- "Lady" is her actual title in Real Life. 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.
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 Indie Game Magazine.
- 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 Fanfiction Dot Net owing to space restrictions.note Currently, she is cluttering up both that site and Archive of Our Own 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 I Just Write the Thing and Writing by the Seat of Your Pants. Her fics which can be found here are:
- The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
- Til the Sun Grows Cold and the Stars Grow Old (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
- Shadow and Rose (Dragon Age: Origins)
- Elemental Chess Trilogy (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- The Bank Called, Your Reality Check Bounced (a Fullmetal Alchemist and Ouran High School Host Club crossover)
- The Contractually Obligated Chaos series (the Beetlejuice cartoon) - notable for being the first page about one of her stories that was made by someone else (thanks, Bookworm Gal!)
- The Twice Upon an Age series (Dragon Age: Inquisition)
- The Skyhold Academy Yearbook series (coauthored with one of her closest friends, also based on Dragon Age Inquisition... mostly)
- Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium (Dragon Age Inquisition again)
Where have I heard that name before?
People have actually heard of her and this unnerves her sometimes. If you've seen the name online before, it is almost certainly the same person, as there's only one of her and she's it. (The exceptions are 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:
- Fan Fiction dot Net
- Archive of Our Own
- Tumblr, which she joined only to discover she had an Instant Fan Club
- Sunny Stories is the internet's only home for a very specific rare pair OTP from Dragon Age; 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 Dark Parables series caught the attention of the games' then-developer, Eipix, who 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 "North American Vice-President of Fairytale Detection".
- In the 2020s, she's arguably the closest thing Elephant Games has to a Big Name Fan, 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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