Vulturepunk (9,000 BCE - present) is the reigning ruler of roadkill and rot. They are a cryptid creature of the avian persuasion, as well as a certified mayhem-maker, trouble-causer, and shenanigans enthusiast.
Their hobbies include but are not limited to larping and playing tabletop roleplaying games, covering songs by indie rock band The Mountain Goats
, cosplaying as a plague doctor, writing fanfiction in which Horatio, Hamlet, and Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet are in a polyamorous relationship, and being a pretentious goth weirdo. Apparently, they are self-indulgent enough to write an entire tvtropes page about themselves.
Personal Tropes
- Animal Motif: The "vulture" part of vulturepunk.
- Ditzy Genius: Reading at a post-graduate level as an eleven year old, they nonetheless have failed or barely passed every math class they've ever taken.
- The Empath: Hyperempathetic to the point of frequently being accused of mind-reading.
- Fainting Seer: Self-proclaimed prophet with a neurological disorder that causes them to faint with alarming frequency.
- The Fair Folk: Made a deal with the fair folk as a young teen and are now besieged by various maladies of unknown origin.
- Genius Burnout: Everyone thought they were really going places. They sure showed them!
- Handicapped Badass: Developing a neurological disorder that requires them to use a wheelchair did not stop them from continuing their boxing classes.
- Hearing Voices: A key symptom that led to them being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. Whether these are actually hallucinations, prophecies, voices of the dead, or all three is up to interpretation.
- Loon With A Heart Of Gold: They tend to be kind and selfless to a fault, defying the stereotype that people with serious mental illnesses are violent, heartless killers. They can't even squish a bug without feeling bad about it.
- Mad Oracle: They may be clinically schizophrenic, but their rambling prophecies have an odd tendency to come true. Not quite a Cassandra, though, as a lot of them really are just nonsense.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: In the flesh.
- Mood-Swinger: Rapid-cycling bipolar type schizoaffective disorder, baby! The rollercoaster that never ends.
- Nightmare Fetishist: If it's weird and creepy, they're probably going to coo over it.
- Non-Linear Character: Not literally (most of the time, anyways) but they have a time-travel motif going on, and a theory about their traumatized brain as a time machine that only goes backwards.
- Not Afraid To Die: After a certain amount of near-death experiences, death loses it's edge.
- Perky Goth: Perpetually clothed in shades of black and death-themed apparel, but still a relatively cheerful and perky person.
- Psychopomp: They're in school to become a social worker specializing in palliative care, seeing people through the transition from life to death.
- Unhappy Medium: Not always, but they have their moments. Feeling everyone else's feelings, hearing the voices of the dead, and having crippling panic attacks from seeing endless iterations of the apocalypse kind of sucks.
- Unreliable Narrator: They can't even keep track of reality for themself, much less accurately narrate it for anyone else.
- Wheelchair Antics: They get up to all sorts of shenanigans in their wheelchair, including running people down, wheeling down hills, and more than once, flinging themself down stairs.
- Word Salad Philosophy: They have a lot to say and little of it makes sense to people on the outside, due to a combination of minor schizophasia and regular old inability to use simple words.
Favorite Media
- All The Bright Places: They read this book during their first psychiatric hospital stay after their first suicide attempt, and it resides in their heart now.
- Firefly: How terrible it is to love something that Joss Whedon can touch.
- Hamlet: Fourteen copies of Hamlet is an inadequate amount of Hamlet.
- Night In The Woods: More or less everyone who is familiar with both Night In The Woods and this troper have made a comparison between them and Mae Borowski, the main character.
- Spiritfarer: Deathwork! Psychopompery!
- Starbot: They love this game enough that they attempted to make a tvtropes page for it, despite having no idea what they were doing.
