History Tropers / NickTheSwing

* AttackDrone: On the forum roleplays I frequent which involve HumongousMecha, most designs I come up with in the later game tend to involve a lot of these. I blame it on watching clips of Awakening of the Trailblazer.
* BerserkButton: I confess I perhaps have too many.
** However, it seems to me that anger lasts for a short time, but that certain things can tend to cause somewhat more intense anger.
* ItAmusedMe / ForTheEvulz: Gnawing boredom is a part of the sociopathic package, thus, I tend to amuse myself with whatever is available.
* LackOfEmpathy: Par the course.
* TheSociopath: A diagnosed sociopath, I was usually prone to blame my own problems on other people, I lack empathy (this part is slowly being dealt with), I find it difficult to form complex emotional bonds beyond a certain point, and I have some talent in [[ManipulativeBastard emotional manipulation]]. However, I recognize this problem exists for me, mainly because its caused me a lot of trouble growing up.
** Uh huh, how were you diagnosed?
** Family got a psychologist due to some...issues. Formally diagnosed.
* {{Troll}}: I have decided that, given the above, every day I will find someone new to troll. I don't really hate individual people, its just hating them some days would seem fun.
** in fact, its obvious now that I have been playing with some common tropes associated with the above. My Knighting behavior was, now that I look back, not an issue of "care", but more an issue of "I am bored."

* BerserkButton
** In Yugioh, its Gravekeepers, Lightsworn, Caius, and the "Solemn" cards. Usually a RantInducingSlight. And I tend to take a sadistic glee in figuring out ways to kill that Caius.
** Life in general, its: elites, people who are too academically smart to a degree I deem "aloof", and the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove. A simple mention of the Koch's usually has me calling for their deaths.

* AuthorAppeal: I am not a fan of guns. That much, I have decided. Thus, I am rather unashamed to say that in New Dawn, if you use a gun, if you hold a gun, if you so much as own one, you are going to die. Most often, horribly.

* TheSociopath: A diagnosed sociopath, I was usually prone to blame my own problems on other people, I lack empathy (this part is slowly being dealt with), I find it difficult to form complex emotional bonds beyond a certain point, and I have some talent in [[ManipulativeBastard emotional manipulation]] (I just plain stopped doing that maliciously. Got me all sorts of misery myself). However, I recognize this problem exists for me, mainly because its caused me a lot of trouble growing up.

** Life in general, its: elites, people who are too academically smart, and the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove. A simple mention of the Koch's usually has me calling for their deaths.

** Maybe you were trying to parody Nicolas the Slide? - {{Speedchesser}}

** Maybe you were trying to parody Nicolas the Slide? - Speedchesser

** Maybe you were trying to parody Nicolas the Slide from {{Literature/TheSwordOfTruth}}? - {{Speedchesser}}

An incredible GM who, unlike some, knows there are lines that shouldn't be crossed. Just don't ever say he can't write a villain... -Dragon573

What Mal said.-Bindlestick

Yeah, lolno. {{Tropers/The Malignancy}}

I have interests mainly in writing fantasy. I started out with a SoBadItsGood ''Yu-Gi-Oh GX'' fanfic, went on to a few more, and the most recent are the stories Fall D.Ark Tyrant and Viandas, Johnson. Commonly recurring characters in these stories are [[MagnificentBastard Wolfang Endreich]], who is either a BigBad or anti-hero. There is [[CompleteMonster Urixo]] [[EvilSorcerer Raazgul]], who is often BigBad when Wolfang can't be there. Also featured is the mercenary organization called the DRA who became a country all their own. The deviantart page this is all posted on is Arcadiusd.deviantart.com.

I despise Encyclopedia Dramatica and have been insulted by them several times over Youtube disputes, and wish I had the strength to actually do something other than just flail as pitifully as a Magicarp. I have [[GuiltByCoincidence an unfortunate resemblence to Ralph Fitzgerald from Ken Follet's World Without End]]. That actually destroyed a relationship I was in. And for the record: I did enjoy Eragon. As long as it could be read, I did not care if it was based on StarWars or anything else.

I am also a little mentally fragile. In Elementary School, it was considered cool to force me to eat grass or kick my face. I had no friends, most of them moved away and I never saw them again. In Middle School, I started eating a little bit too much, and became kinda fat, triggering new abuse, including a bully who stalked me and liked tripping me and saying he was tipping a cow. I also had no friends there either except a kid who threatened me and tried to make me his servant. In High School, I had no popularity, was widely hated due to the fact I liked snitching and was still fat for the first two years. My declining grades made my parents start verbally harassing me, and I had my freedom of speech revoked at home. Thus, I am slightly damaged.

Tropes associated with NickTheSwing's stories (and Nick himself)

* AccidentalPervert: I was slapped verbally once for looking down after being admonished by a teacher...and looked right down a pretty girl's dress. I blushed, and the teacher actually admonished her for assuming such.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Nick? Boring, average everyday name. Nick ''The Swing?'' Fucking hardcore. - @/{{Renagade}}
* TheBigGuy : Weight lifting is good. In my stories, there is Walter, I suppose Rupert, and Kail.
** For that first claim, pics or it didn't happen.
* BigBad : Urixo Raazgul technically first, then the DRA, then Lord Perseus Sarasho, then Wolfang Endreich, then Urixo again, and finally The Old Gods.
* CompleteMonster : Urixo Raazgul, William Trandeigh, Erason of Light, Richard Viandas, Chaos, etc...
* CloudCuckooLander : myself sometimes, and in the stories, Natzo, Alarne, and Prince Iltrind Arkh.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp : Nathan Drant (15-25). From there, his [[spoiler: aging is slowed or even all but stopped by his Symphony]]
* BigDamnHeroes : Despite being an Anti-Hero, Johnson Viandas cannot resist pulling these. Neither can Nathan Drant.
* BigDamnVillains : Ceith killing Tom, [[spoiler: Stephen Arkh destroying Instrumentality]], and finally Lord Acton banishing the ghost of Tom.
* CursedWithAwesome : Nathan Drant's Symphony, which upgrades him whenever he takes damage, and has made a cape for Nathan out of his blood turned to liquid steel.
** In addition, there is also William's sword, which can destroy anything magical, but drains the life force of everyone around William.
* PowerPerversionPotential : I wonder what kind of things Nathan can do with those tentacles from [[EmpathicWeapon Noah's Ark]]...
* NightmareFuel : OK, Johnson does have some screwed up habits, including mutilating a corpse when he is angry. Then we get into the demons, who practically run on this and...
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel :
* PerverseSexualLust : A female fan of mine has said she wanted to screw Johnson. Squicky considering Johnson is 15
* Expy : You should be able to guess who I based Psycho Objectivist Richard Viandas on.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: I am 19, not 27. Yet, somehow I can also be...
* OlderThanTheyLook: And no, I am not 16.
* RoyalBrat: Damn it, I was an evil little guy in Middle School. However, through CharacterDevelopment throughout High School, I avoided being forever in the Scrappy Heap.
* AxCrazy: I have come notoriously close to a HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Level crack once. It was when I was in my first job, this construction job, and we were required to hike through a large, wet forest. I was unenthusiastic from the start, but then my boss got a SmallNameBigEgo, and for the entirety of lunch break, that shovel looked appealing for...less than legal uses on the boss's head.
* GameBreaker: I tend to use card decks like this in both ''MagicTheGathering'' and ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', such as the Necropotence Deck for MTG and Hopeless Dragon for YGO.
* BigBadWannabe: In 12th Grade year, I ''tried'' to be the bad guy and controlling dictator to alleviate pressure from a substitute teacher who was being given torment from the kids so bad it could count as BreakTheCutie. It...did not work as well as the first time I did it. Lets just say, the class learned how to beat me.
* Bishonen: When I get shaved up and grow my hair out, the result is a little astonishing.
* CuteShotaroBoy: As a kid, I was a very cute little guy...and then I got this entitlement complex, and a rich boy mentality, combined with quite a bit of cruelty. As a teenager, the cuteness ended fast.
* HeroicSociopath: my current status. Textbook Narcissism, Aspergers, and who knows what else...
* WellIntentionedExtremist: thanks to some professional writing tips from Bogleech, Frederick actually falls more in this. All that evil stuff, including the nastiness in the Towers of Benediction, the Darric bsuiness? It was all done as part of a XanatosGambit to make sure that Johnson became the best king possible once Frederick died after Frederick's SuperpowerMeltdown later in the story. When Johnson found out, he was a mix between greatly angered that dad could not just fricking tell him that, and saddened because a lot of loss of life, including Darric's HeroicSacrifice and RedemptionEqualsDeath, would not have happened had the Viandas Family acted more like, well, a family, rather than a branch of the mafiya. And those seemingly pointless wars were to make sure the demons had something to do so that they did not run roughshod over the homeland. And he gets a TearJerker send off involving fireworks...
* PermaStubble: and damn is it annoying.
* {{Hatedom}}: Sometimes, in Bogleech chat, it's fun to just gather around and listen to Chupacabra moan about how egotistical this guy is. BiggusDickus? [[SmallNameBigEgo Seriously?]]
** Yeah, really. My imaginary girlfriends all say so...
*** I wasn't so much questioning the veracity of the entry, so much as the egotism of adding it in the first place.
**** As for the guy who added imaginary in there, I do not have to provide you, some internet nobody, with any information about my partners. If the best you have to do in a day is question other people's veracity and make stuff like that, YouNeedToGetLaid. Or at least get something more productive to do.

* {{Yandere}} : Darric, who would do '''anything''' to get Johnson's attention. Made very much squick considering the two are brothers. Darric actually says on the Darboath Plains to Jane, "My motive? I want to be fucked by my brother." He later does a HeelFaceTurn and becomes more mellowed out. [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Then he dies.]]