and AO3 (as TribunG), is a Fanfiction writer whose works include a surprisingly diverse number of fandoms. Those include, among other things :Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sailor Moon, Ranma ½, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Avatar: The Last Airbender.He is German in nationality but writes all of his stories in English, thus he does have to translate everything in his head during the writing process.
He did start writing in early 2000, after realizing that drawing the stories he imagined was simply impossible for the scale envisioned, but next to all of his early works prior to 2008 (and him joining fanfiction.net) are lost. However, despite still having the master files, he will never republish those, since not only was the writing unpolished at that time, but his grasp of the English language was not as well-developed as it is now.
Fanfics with their own pages:
- Going Another Way - A Neon Genesis Evangelion story
- No Chance for Fate - A Ranma ½ and Sailor Moon crossover story
- The Chosen Six - A Harry Potter story
His works contain examples of:
- Adaptational Karma: That pops up very frequently in his works. Essentially, people who in the original works got away with their terrible behavior won't do so in his stories.
- Darker and Edgier: Not overly so, but stories where the original source material had been toned down due to the intended audience have noticeably more mature themes and realistic (often nasty) outcomes. No Chance for Fate is the best example, due to its source material.
- Deconstructor Fleet: Is in effect to verious degrees in all of his stories. In the process of changing the canon story, a hell of a lot of canon plots, or fanon plots, are heavily deconstructed, and either dismissed as absurd, or the nasty consequences are shown.
- Doorstopper: He generally writes long stories, since that allows him to put in all the detail. His shortest story, one-shots excluded, clocks in at over 450,000 words.
- Lost Episode: Basically all of the author's pre-2008 output (before joining fanfiction.net) is lost, as is the original version of Going Another Way before it was rewritten into the Revival-Edition. The author still does have the master files, but refuses to ever let them see the light of day again due to the weak writing and the horrible grammar.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: His earlier works (which are almost entirely lost) had lots of that going before his mastery of the English language improved. That was even the reason he rewrote Going Another Way, since he was embarrased by the original version.
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Schedule Slip: That was very common in his earlier stories. It was only when he was 2/3 through with No Chance for Fate that he finally decided that he should concentrate on only one story at a time and put all the energy into completing that one. Nowadays he is better at organizing his writing. - Shown Their Work: Tribun in general tries to do the needed research. This not only goes for the canon of the stories he writes about, but also aspects of the real world, if the work in question does take place on Earth.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: A theme always present in his stories. One of his mottos is "actions have consequences" after all, and thus the realistic consequences of actions are shown, which also often exposes how such things were glossed over in the source material.
- What If?: The central premise of all of his stories, either from within the story itself, or without, the events of the canon story go different. While the differences at first are minor, they become more with each chapter until by around the mid-points things do go off the rails entirely.
