History Tropers / LatwPIAT

* ...''[[DeusExInvisibleWar Invisible War]'' can come too.

So... I'm a Norwegian student, with interests ranging from obscure tabletop WWII wargames from the eighties with rulebooks the size of two capital city phonebooks, post-cyberpunk animated series, obscure post-apocalyptic Japanese comic books, StanleyKubrick, Infinty Engine [=eRPGs=], Hard ScienceFiction and [[PlayingWithATrope interesting uses of tropes and cliches]]

* ScienceFiction: Ilai the groundwork for the current form many, many edits ago. Some of my bad potholes are still there...
* [[Characters/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri character sheet]]: Based upon the faction listing already present in the main article.

* ''[[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''

* ''MetalGearSolid2''
* ''DeusEx''
* ''[[SplinterCell Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory]]''
* ''DresdenCodak''

* ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]''

* ''{{Appleseed}}''
* ''{{Planetes}}''
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''
* NealStephenson

* ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' (The first four novels and the fist season of the animated series, for now)
* ''BlackLagoon'' (Graphic Novel, vol. 1-9)
* ''{{Watchmen}}'' (The original graphic novel)

That would possibly be simpler if I wasn't a huge introvert... [[#tropes So I'll let you do it instead!]]

* EdenItsAnEndlessWorld: With continuous updates as I receive new volumes of the series.
* ScienceFiction: In it's current form.

* ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel'' which I like better than the original because it's snarky, [[ShownTheirWork shows it's work]] and is lithe with geeky references.

* ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' (The first four novels and the animated series, for now)

* [[Characters/{{ptitlenhy07uuq}} Sid Meier's Alpha Centarui Character Sheet]]: Based upon the faction listing already present in the main article.

* ''HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''[[hottip:*:I trust you will enjoy reading this as much as I do. Don't forget to look at the [[http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences sequences]] too! -- @/{{QQQQQ}}]]

[[folder:QQQQQ has a lot to say, so he gets a folder all for himself]]
* Remember that suggestion I made to you about TomClancy, and on his diction regarding violence? Perhaps I should have said that's what ''not'' to do. It might [[GeekyTurnOn sound fine at first]], contemplating Dirk McToughguy's Mac-Ar-M249 assault-machine-shot-rifle laser-model telescoping sight extended-magazine, but really though it's padding to the story and most likely all the description would be [[GetOnWithItAlready skimmed over with.]] This is not to say that looking over violence and [[TechnologyPorn relating technology]] is bad, but not more than what is really necessary. For actual good examples that it could pay to emulate, or at least contemplate, I suggest you might look at the following:
** AllQuietOnTheWesternFront
** {{Dune}}
** BlackHawkDown -- @/{{QQQQQ}}
*** @/LatwPIAT: Well, while ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is known for it's long, drawn out and {{squick}}y hospital scenes and silent contemplation on lots of things, and ''GhostInTheShell'' isn't much better, I don't think I could use ''AllQuietOnTheWesternFront for anything. Nor will there be too many knife-fights, but I'm tempted to put in a few ''{{Dune}}''-references anyway.
* Considering that you write techno-thrillers for the geeky clique ([[BlatantLies which I'm not part of, sadly]]), it still pays to put a good story above the [[NealStephenson Stephenson-like]] discourses about a boggling concept (like Sumerian mythology or Toilet Paper). After all, technology tickles the mind for a short while, but it is the story, and the wondrous characters that everyone will go to remember. In short:
** Story/Characterization - A Good healthy meal
** NarrativeFiligree - Dessert
* Reason for all this is because I'm very interested in seeing an AlternateHistory of Evangelion/GiTS carried out to its [[DivideByZero very end]], and I like seeing both series together as Adam and Eve of [[SoCoolItsAwesome something wonderful.]] Now I'm done. -- @/{{QQQQQ}}
** @/LatwPIAT: Eh, over the last eight months or so, I feel that I've matured a lot as a writer, so I'm also figuring out what works and what doesn't; for long descriptions, this means I'm now actively using them where I feel they're appropriate, rather than putting them there to flawdly emulate NealStephenson's style. As for setting merger, I feel that while I'm using a lot both settings, they're not really compatible (which means it comes down to characters, which isn't too bad) but if you really want to seer a ''GhostInTheShell'' elseworlds I'll have to get back to you about that ''GhostInTheShell''/''DeusEx'' crossover I was threatened on my life to write. (nonspecific ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' elseworlds you shouldn't have to come to me for.)[softreturn]
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This does however mean that the [=TGoE=]-plot you know stuff about is ''nothing'' like the current [=GitE=]-plot, which is a really fun and {{Mind Screw}}y one.
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* [=~Eden: It's an Endless World!~=]: With continuous updates as I receive new volumes of the series.

* ''[=~Eden: It's an Endless World!~=]'' (Volumes 1-12)

* ''MetalGearSolid 2''

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%comment%I'm also in the process of authoring a ''Ghost in the Shell''[=/=]''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' (/''Serial Experiments Lain''[=/=]''Snow Crash''/whatever else I like really) IntercontinuityCrossover, but it's going a bit slow at the moment because they're rather incompatible universes; until I can work out how to give the 'fic the feel I want it to, (an resist the desire to [[Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel make Shinji snarky]]) I'm just not going to publish anything. (I should have gone with ''NGE''/''X-COM'' or ''NGE''/''Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'' instead, but ''nooooo'', I had to go with ''NGE''/''[=GitS=]'')
%comment%My main gripe is basically that the giant cyborgs of ''NGE'' violate the sensibilities of ''Ghost in the Shell'' I just give up trying to explain why or even how anyone thought it would be a good idea to fund a structurally impossible war-machine that would be piloted by dysfunctional 14-year-olds - I feel like I'm writing the entire [=GitS=]-verse OOC when they don't immediately shut down Nerv by force in the beginning of chapter 1.
%comment%(There's technically nothing stopping me from ''not'' having giant cybernetic monstrosities imbued with souls of the pilots' dead mothers, but that would feel too much like a deviation from ''NGE'', and UNIX-based VR interfaces (imbued with the pilots' dead mothers) connecting to a {{Doom}}-clone {{metaverse}} is so ''cliché'' these days.)
%comment%I'm also the author of ''The Ghost of Evangelion'', a ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fanfic set in a variation upon the ''GhostInTheShell'' Earth and drawing elements from various other works I happen like; most importantly ''SerialExperimentsLain''. Rather than focusing on [[ShinjiAndWarhammer40K Walking, Talking CMOAs]] or [[Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel total despair]] I've chose to go along the route of [[XanatosGambit intricate plots]], [[ThirtyXanatosPileup interwoven]] and [[SpannerInTheWorks tearing in the fringes]]; Chapter 1, 2 and 3 are being rewritten to introduce more subplots and slight character alterations.
Also, I'm writing ''The Ghost of Evangelion'', a ''GhostInTheShell''/''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' crossover fanfic ([[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=159524&page=1 Link!]]) where Section 9 are called in as security for the Earth Coincidence Control Office, a military defence contractor headed by CEO Gendo Ikari. Major Motoko Kusanagi interacts with Captain Misato Katsuragi, and there are Tachikomas. [[SchmuckBait It has no trope page.]]
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* ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' (The first three novels and the animated series, for now)
* ''BlackLagoon''

* ''HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''[[hottip:*:I think you will enjoy this as much as I did. -- @/{{QQQQQ}}]]

* ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' (The first two novels and the animated series, for now)

* ''GlobalFrequency''

* ''{{Transmetropolitan}}''