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Scan Visor is a seriously bitter high-school student from Laurel, MD, USA. He loves his dogs, video games, music, and and more than a few women who did not reciprocate the feeling. He has the lightest and softest possible version of a Darkand Troubled Past. He does a lot of volunteering for local candidates, one of the few things he loves doing which actually provides meaning for him. He has yet to win an election. He is an armchair/amateur economist and plans to major in the study. He is a Caustic Critic of life, and he considers himself a scholar of the Eastern RPG genre.
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- Afraidof Needles: Doesn't mean I don't donate blood.
- All Love Is Unrequited: How I'm feeling these days.
- Angst: Especially as an Existentialist.
- Anvilicious or Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: You'd learn these things very quickly if you had a conversation with me:
- There is no God.
- Life is utterly meaningless unless you find meaning for yourself.
- The disparity between the rich and poor, both in America, and between rich and poor countries, is unacceptable.
- Conservatism is a lie whose existence is fueled only by the corporate entities that benefit by it, and the ignorant who believe the lies.
- War is a continuation of the legacy of failure in international cooperation following WWI.
- Alternate Character Interpretation: Of myself, all the time, as a result of Self-Deprecation.
- Made of Wangst: After my first session in group therapy, I was left with the feeling of this. Group members quickly assured me that this was not the case. It was suprisingly comforting to hear multiple rape victims tell me that angsting over all my love being unrequited and my late older brother was totally legitimate.
- Jerkass: Pretty common, especially paired with Wangst.
- All Men Are Perverts: Every man I know.
- Arch-Enemy: The Republican party and I are not on good terms after what they've done to my country.
- Base Breaker: My entire existence.
- Beautiful Dreamer: I watched.
- Cannot Spit It Out: For about a year before the first cut.
- Cannot Talk To Women: A lasting result of The First Cut Is the Deepest.
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: Pretty much.
- Character Tiers: I believe in them, especially when it comes to Super Smash Bros.
- Chivalrous Pervert: I have been known to keep it classy with ladies, but I'm most often proposing . . . "casual" relationships.
- Covert Pervert: Because really, everyone is somewhere on the inside.
- Cluster F-Bomb: All the time. Actually, more like a "Cluster Every Curse Word Ever Bomb".
- Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Granted, I only learned Street Fighter about a month before buying Mv C 2, but when I got it, my main team in local matches was 3 Kens, and online I went with Shotoclone Ken, Akuma, and Ryu. These days I play either 3 Guiles, or Guile and Charlie, usually with Ryu or Akuma (I can't decide on a third character), so I've gone from complacency with Shotos to complacency with Chargers.
- I carried Marth from Melee to Brawl, and will probably play him in the new Smash, if he appears.
- Cynical Mentor: To myself: When learning guitar, my philosophy was usually a sort of Anti-Nihilistic "Don't ever expect to be good at guitar, but practice none the less." It worked pretty well.
- Dead Big Brother
- Death Is A Sad Thing: I was 9.
- Determined Defeatist: My attitude about many things.
- Do Not Do This Cool Thing: I don't do most of them.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Allow me to explain. No, in Real Life I tend not to allow this feeling to be put out there, but I absolutely abhore it when I'm talking to women who try and tell me that the first cut doesn't have to ruin my love life and that not all love is unrequited, and I know that they probably wouldn't go out with me if I asked.
- Downer Beginning: In terms of my own personal narrative, both of my parents come from abusive backgrounds, and my mother suffered from a uteran tumor before my brother and I were born. On a meta level, if you're meeting me just now, my brother is dead, and I'm still recovering from a harsh breakup, and a series of lost elections.
- Downer Ending: Don't like 'em. I don't believe in a no-win situation.
- Existentialism: An important part of how I conduct myself.
- Expy: Of Squall Leonhart. When my hair is short, I look like Henry Townshend
- For Happiness: Pretty much the basis of my entire morality and personal philosophy.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The idea of being alone forever.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: They certainly do for me.
- Hollywood Atheist: Subverted. The death of my older brother in 2003 made me start questioning my faith, it was ultimately the Wired magazine article about the "New Atheism" and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, both constituting the logical arguments against God, religion, and faith, which caused me to completely hop the fence.
- Hurting Hero: If you're willing to consider me the hero of my own story.
- Jerk With A Heartof Gold: Hang around me long enough and you'll see the "Heart of Gold" part in action.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Metaphorically. My mood determines whether I feel like this, or whether I feel like a Knight in Shining Armor who's trying to make this Crapsack World a better place. Yes, I realize that sounds at least a bit egotistical.
- Lap Pillow: I'm fond of this.
- Large Ham: Yep, pretty much.
- Loads and Loads of Characters: This is Real Life after all.
- Lonely Together: Basically what my relationship was like.
- Longing Look: Half of the fucking looks I give. Trust me, if I am looking, for some reason, I am longing.
- Love Makes You Evil: I started being kind of an asshole to a lot of my friends. Even more so after the breakup.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Upto Eleven
- Meaningful Name:
- Scan Visor comes from both my love of both Metroid: Prime, and my tendency to anylize and examine the meaning of even relatively shallow works, as well as trying to expose the Subtext of everyday conversations.
- In Real Life, I'm named after the city of Austin, Texas, which my mom regards as pretty cool. I don't think it worked. I have, however, grown up to be an extremely strange individual with a small afinity for American roots music. "Keep Austin Weird" indeed.
- Meta Guy: I often reference events in media to relate to life.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Mostly because of Epileptic Trees on my ex's part.
- Mrs. Hypothetical: Sometime before Teenage Marriage Promise. After that, she started signing her name with my last name at the end of the notes we used to pass in the hallway.
- Nietzsche Wannabe: I have some characteristics, and I love the man's work, but this is a subversion.
- No Social Skills: Mostly because I don't understand the moral worth of typical social rules, like "Don't talk about politics at dinner."
- Not a Morning Person: If it's a weekend, I might wake up at 9, but if you try to wake me up before ten, I'll get pretty livid.
- Patient Childhood Love Interest: Known her since . . . 5th grade or so? It's a long story, and not a terribly happy one.
- Patriotic Fervor: My guitar has an enlisted men's "US" pins (with the circles) attached to the strings at the headstock (they came from my father's Air Force uniform from the late-70's), and I wear the gold officer's versions on my sport jackets. I've started to wear a headband to maintain my hair, so I plan to start wearing a flag on my head soon.
- Please Don't Leave Me: In a letter I wrote.
- Relationship Ceiling: Right at the good stuff.
- Relationship Upgrade: After a small period of She Is Not My Girlfriend mixed with Oblivious to Love, but everyone could see it.
- Romantic Hyperbole: I tried to avert it, but the end result was a love fueled Teenage Marriage Promise.
- Samaritan Syndrome: Not too extreme, but I'm known to not be able to read the tone of a situation. If you pin a girl against a locker, I will stay on the scene until I know she's fine.
- Serial Tweaker: Well this page is a good place to start.
- Serious Business: We've got one life to live people.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: According to friends. Others just thought it was cute.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: I like to think of myself as, if not dead center, leading towards idealism, but most of the time I'm interpreted as The Cynic because of my not giving a shit about social institutions that I have deemed unnecessary and thus disregard in my day to day life. (Y'know, like High School. Or one-preference sexuality.)
- Spurned Into Suicide: Subverted.
- Strawman Political: I used to be a Socialist. Nowadays I consider myself a Social Democrat, which is about as left-wing as you can get while still supporting the market system. Sadly, in places where Social Democracy is a relevant political movement (read: Europe, not the US), Social-Democracy is still regarded as a form of Democratic Socialism, and its parties, such as Germany's SPD, are members of the Socialist International. I think, as most of the parties no longer support a removal of the market system, they should seek an identity independent of Socialism. Basically, I consider this trope subverted. Yes, I checked and made sure it's a subversion. However, Social Democracy is still considered a radical opinion in the United States, despite the fact that many Democrats currently support a platform that is very reflective of the Social-Democratic vision. So you could consider the trope played straight. Your call.
- Teenage Marriage Promise: See The First Cut Is the Deepest.
- The First Cut Is the Deepest: Any one-on-one conversation with me will eventually devolve into a discussion regarding how this happened to me.
- The Four Loves: Is it too much to asked to be loved?
- The Lancer: How I've observed my role amongst groups of friends.
- The Mentally Disturbed: I am a member. I'm also a Neon Genesis Evangelion fan, it's a given.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted. However, although my actual therapist is a close confident, I've slowly stopped taking my medications and started to to seek my own way, mostly because the medications made me feel like I was getting smiles painted on my soul.
- The Stoic: I try, usually resulting in Not So Stoic. I've had people tell me I handle sad situations pretty well though, so, again, your call.
- TrademarkFavoriteDrink: The smooth 23 flavors of Dr. Pepper.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: *sigh* See also Patient Childhood Friend.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Although more likely just All Perverse Sexual Lust Is Unrequited with some misinterpretation on my part.
- Wall Flower when I was younger, Wall Glower as I've gotten older.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: At heart.
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