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Tropers: Talden

A fellow gentleman coming from the flat land of Belgium.

Describing himself as "A stupid fanboy with a head full of projects", Talden is a young nerd who dabbles in a lot of different subjects. While he has some limited drawing abilities, went to an animation school, and aspire to be a video editor one day, what he likes the most is creating stories and characters. Which probably explains why, after making first contact with TV Tropes in 2008, never left it and keeps consulting it after every work of fiction he sees.

Originally French-speaker, he had very limited education in English before he found a video from That Guy With The Glasses. Seeing that he could understand spoken English, he kept watching three to five videos a day for several years, and now possess enough vocabulary to be somewhat fluent in the language.

The 'Fanboy' part becomes relevant whenever Ankama (creators of Dofus and Wakfu) comes into play. He played the MMOG for years now, is fluent with every aspect of the mythos, played the card game on a competitive level, went to every convention they ever made, and could probably talk about the animated series for hours. Some of his closest friends actually work in the company, and it would be an understatement to say he dreams of working there one day.

The 'with a head full of projects' is also somewhat linked to Ankama, since most of his future fan works turn around the very same universe. He also created several stories for comic-books, at least two complete Tabletop RPG systems, and a few Alternate Universe to play into... all of them incomplete. One day maybe, he'll kick himself to finish some of those projects.

Has a Twitter

, though most of the time in French.

Tropes that apply to Talden includes:

Ascended Fanboy: Was allowed to visit Ankama studios and get a small interview for winning a contest with his only video made at the time.
Awesome by Analysis: Thanks to TV Tropes, he can speak for hours about things he has not actually seen, just by reading synopsis and analysis of the work in question.
Brilliant, but Lazy: Has to maintain an agenda to keep track of every fan project he thought of, but has yet to realize any of it.
Development Hell: He was considering to make a "Wakfu: the Abridged Series" since the beginning of 2010, and first mentionned it in August of the same year. To this day, we haven't seen anything yet.
Eloquent In My Native Tongue
Everything's Better with Plushies: He possess quite a neat collection, most of them bought well after his twenties.
Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Mais bien entendu. *
^{"But of course"}
Friend to All Animals and Children: To the point of being a superpower. Every cat, dog, unusual company animal or young child will end up best friend with him.
Lurker: Will very infrequently post on any forums, but read them every day and is always on synch with the current topic.
Nightmare Fetishist: He has spend so long on Imageboards looking at weird porn that he started to enjoy it, and actually find most of them hilarious.
- He also reads Franken Fran with glee.
- Subverted, however, as he can't stand horror movies at all.
One of Us: Well, duh.
Superpower Lottery: Has probably lost it, since all he got was Super Frienship (see before), and a surprising ability to know when a new video from Le Joueur Du Grenier has been posted.