Stratadrake (sometimes abbreviated as "Strata") is a user who has been on the Internet for a few years (possibly more). Outside of TV Tropes, he currently resides on various sites such as
deviantART and
FurAffinity, and has had experience on other sites and wikis.
Some trope articles I've written:
Most of these are videogame related.
Some tropes/articles I've hit with a sledgehammer:
...by which I mean made significant edits to. (Not always
good edits, but...)
Tropes and topics that I find interesting:
- First Person Ghost: I've been aware of this trope for years. Imagine you were playing a first-person game where your character is a quadrupedal dragon. If you used a freelook to glance behind you, you'd damn well better see some hindquarters and a tail back there, right?
- LEGO: I grew up on these things. Thousands and thousands of pieces, and still growing.
- Our Monsters Are Different, including:
- Instant Awesome Just Add:
- Transformers: Was (and to a lesser extent, still am) a fan of these things.
- Berserk Button: See Rant Inducing Slight.
- The Chains of Commanding - Inside the fanart-central.net domain, where I'm a mod.
- Don't Call Me Sir - Anywhere else.
- Heroic BSOD - August 2006. (Don't ask.)
- I Do Not Like Garlic or Avocado - True. But I definitely do not like celery or onion.
- Incredibly Lame Pun - A cherished family tradition. They tend to strike without warning.
- No Pronunciation Guide: Another cherished family tradition. Apparently nobody knows how to pronounce (or spell) the German "tsch".
- Portmantitle: Coined from "strategy" + "dragon" in early 2000.
- Precision F-Strike
- Rant Inducing Slight: Whomever ends up on the receiving end of this was probably Bullying a Dragon well before it.
- Serial Tweaker - Sometimes played Up to Eleven, with drastic impromptu edits to arbitrary articles, for better or worse.
- Tear Jerker (and/or Player Punch):
- 2001, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring: I never read the books. All I knew about Tolkien was from Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit and The Return Of The King. The only characters I knew the names of were Frodo, Bilbo, Gandalf, and Gollum — and that the One Ring had to be destroyed in Mount Doom. So I had literally no knowledge that Gandalf was going to take that fall in Moria (yeah; I was sobbing all the way through Lothlórien). That's not counting what happens later, like Sam's nearly drowning, Frodo's nearly killing Sam in The Two Towers, or just about everything that happens to Sam and/or Frodo in 2003's The Return Of The King.
- 2006, Ōkami: A highly emotional moment late in the game (involving the original Shiranui, no less!), a climactic final boss tune, and a slightly sad ending.
- 2011, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky: The end of the main story arc. Sure, you saved the world, but you changed history in the process, so your Hero is now Ret Gone, and your partner can't stop crying after watching you vanish right in front of him.
- 2005, Shadow of the Colossus. The game Dropped A Bridge on your horse Agro right before the final colossus battle. Then It Got Worse.
- The Stoic
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary
I joined National Novel-Writing Month in 2007. As of 2012 I've written six novels for a grand total of over 300k words (wow!). Since thereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability, so here's your
Entry Pimp:
- My 2007 Nano novel: 56,000 words about a species of symbiote. One half of which are the noble protagonists, the other half are Always Chaotic Evil. In other words, Puppeteer Parasite versus The Virus (good luck figuring out which is which), versus all the other animals who can't tell any difference between them. Most of it is uploaded to my deviantART account, including character drawings and sketches.
- Followed up by a sequel in 2011, clocking in at 60,000 words.
- Emerald Legacy: My 2010 novel; a 52,000 word story set in a world of wild Pokemon that is thrown into turmoil when two human trainers show up harboring ominous plans for the Darker and Edgier, Mon-eat-Mon world they live in. I've uploaded most of it (well, the important parts anyway) to my FurAffinity account.
- In 2012, an adaptation/recreation of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Sky. Had to skip a few middle chapters here and there but I did finish the Story Arc as a whole and set a new personal record of 70,000 words.
