Well, here I am. Rather than try and describe myself like this, I think I'll just let the tropes speak for themselves...
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- Aloof Big Brother - Me sometimes, to my half-brother, who's the only sibling I have and nearly 16 years my junior.
- Annoying Younger Sibling - see above.
- Attention Deficit...Oo, Shiny! - Sometimes funny, sometimes problematic, but I do have an actual disorder in the area. 'S not a variant of ADD, though.
- Berserk Button - Do not mess with the hair. It took me several seconds even to agree to let my first love to put a small amount of temporary dye in it.
- Big Eater - For my size, at least.
- Book Worm - Not so much anymore, but back inna day...
- Brilliant, but Lazy - At least I think so...
- Catchphrase - Primarily:
- "Almighty then..." (Used to be "Alrighty then..." but I found Bruce Almighty way funnier)
- "Take it easy." (See also Leitmotif below)
- "You did not." (Used both in response to certain kinds of awesome and occasionally Moral Event Horizon crossings, and for It's Personal moments)
- The "awesome" version has recently been modified into "Are you serious?!"
- "Wait, what?"
- Chivalrous Pervert, specifically the Ethical Slut + For Happiness variant. I tend to relate a lot to Miroku, for obvious reasons. And hey, At Least I Admit It.
- Companion Cube - my electronics, particularly my consoles and computer.
- Cool Big Bro - when I'm not being the Aloof Big Brother. Also my stepdad often feels more like this to me.
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon - Generally reserved for whom I genuninely despise, whether it's real people or characters.
- Deadpan Snarker - As often as I possibly can. Unfortunately, my stature disallows me from being Tall, Dark, and Snarky... (see below)
- Embarrassing First Name - Well...not really; I just don't relate to it so I never use it (and prefer not to give it out) online.
- Everybody Hates Mathematics - Cheerfully subverted; I don't exactly like math, but I find it difficult to hate something I'm good at. Math classes, on the other hand... (same with English)
- Furry Fandom
- Animal Stereotypes, though seemingly rather a different set than that which most people apply...
- Most of my chars are a single extended family, the matriarch being a certain minor Chrono Trigger character (whose brother was the Sixth Ranger Optional Party Member...and yeah, he's around too...)
- Fetish Fuel - see below
- Hermaphrodite - though the unrealistic, mostly-feminine-looking version. Explains the name I use.
- Humans Are Bastards, though there's always exceptions.
- Lolicon - If you really wanna know, ask.
- Most Common Superpower - See above.
- Otherkin, of a weird semi-Therian persuasion. Once accused of being posessed by a demon because of this by my normally-reasonable grandfather.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All - I'm a collector. For instance, my Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword modpack had to include every leader who'd ever been in mainline Civ up to that point. Also trying to complete a Square Enix collection.
- Grammar Nazi - Though in my own writing I intentionally do odd things like using more hyphens than you're supposed to, because I find it makes things clearer.
- The Insomniac - I often get to bed late for various reasons.
- It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY" - Back when I was using my stepdad's surname, "Heavysege". Though subverted in that its exact pronunciation isn't even certain to him, though he thought it was for a while.
- Also, my original personal character, in his first incarnation on Ragnarok MUD, kept getting his name (Stephen) mispronounced (people kept shortening it to "Steve") that I finally had him change the "common" version to Stef.
- Jerkass - Something of which my parents have been accusing me more and more of late...
- Large Ham - I actively try to be, when I get the chance, mostly for laughs. Though I often do feel like all the world's a stage and I'm just a character in some massive Role-Playing Game.
- Leitmotif - I consider three different popular tunes to be my theme-songs for various purposes:
- Eagles - Take it Easy: Sorta my general philosophy on life.
- Duran Duran - Ordinary World: Pretty self-explanatory if you know the lyrics.
- ...And I've somehow managed to forget the third. Dammit.
- Minored in Ass-Kicking - Planning to, at any rate; hard to find anything besides karate, kung-fu (though, remarkably, one of the kung-fu dojos is wing-chun), or kenpo around here. What I really want is aikido; or, failing that, t'ai-chi.
- Megane - The specs sometimes double as Nerd Glasses or Scary Shiny Glasses (or, very rarely, Stoic Glasses), depending on my current mood and preoccupation. Not Blind Without 'Em, though.
- Adjusting Your Glasses - Not just when I need too, either. (see Large Ham)
- Cross-Popping Veins tend to occur when someone suggests that The Glasses Gotta Go, as I think I look better with them.
- Mistaken for Junkie - Have had this happen a couple of times, primarily due to one of my trademark accessories having since highschool been a camouflage jacket (as a Badass Longcoat when I can find one long enough, which sadly isn't very often). It plus a pair of matching trousers once even got me cast as a Death Hippy in an Amtgard session.
- Though since I started wearing ballcaps regularly, it's become more often "Mistaken For Trucker". O.o
- Nakama - If life really is an RPG...well, I could do okay as a Lone Wolf, but it's better not to if you can avoid it.
- I just realized that we might qualify as a Five-Man Band, particularly if I can figure out a fifth member - though it's more common for the first three to be a Power Trio of either the Fire/Water/Thunder or the Earth/Sea/Sky flavour, depending on how you look at it:
- Myself (Water) - The Heart, sometimes The Smart Guy.
- David/Blade (Fire/Earth) - The Big Guy (Class 4). Not a full-blown berserker, but prone to occasional fits of Unstoppable Rage and generally aggressive; generally my Lancer, and we don't always get along. Probably the least-intelligent of us, but that's not saying much - consider that he's the only one of us who doesn't wear specs, and that's just because he prefers contacts; he's also usually the one telling me The Glasses Gotta Go. Ironically, also a Chef of Iron, having graduated recently from Le Cordon Bleu, Las Vegas.
- Jay (Thunder/Sky) - Big Fun, The Heart when I'm not, most likely Mission Control, also occasionaly a Deadpan Snarker. Prone to Epileptic Trees and the occasional Crack Pairing. Currently writing a Mega Crossover.
- Heather/Nonamei - Another big mutha, this time Class 2, Mighty Glacier variant in Meganekko form, with the Most Common Superpower and occasional Mad Scientist tendencies, making her a candidate for Genius Bruiser status. Yes, ''really''. She's over 6' tall (IIRC), built like a brick, and prone to Cheshire-Cat grins. And believe it or not, we went out for a while. Currently on a bus, having been semi-forcibly relocated to middle-of-nowhere California, while the rest of us are in southwestern Utah.
- Make that a charter bus; she's now more-or-less-permanently relocated to Kentucky and likely married soon if she isn't already. :/
- Kristin/Shade - Nonamei's Suspiciously Similar Substitute: built almost identically (though not quite up to Most Common Superpower standards) and just as intelligent. However, emotionally practically the polar opposite, not least because she has at least one Knight Templar Parent and they just don't understand her. Because of this and the control they enjoy over her due to her having to live under their roof, she finds real friends hard to come by, which frequently leads her to refer to me (sometimes bitterly) as "popular", just because I usually have someone to talk to online.
- And I think I have figured out the fifth: Robert/Sarogoth - Tall, Dark, and Snarky to the hilt, also wears contacts, literally The Medic (National Guard), a bit of a Knife Nut and fan of the Cool Sword. Occasionally mistaken for Harry Potter (no, really, and it's not that farfetched) and ended up marrying a Sixth Ranger, complete with Heel–Face Turn!
- I just realized that we might qualify as a Five-Man Band, particularly if I can figure out a fifth member - though it's more common for the first three to be a Power Trio of either the Fire/Water/Thunder or the Earth/Sea/Sky flavour, depending on how you look at it:
- Pot-holes - Gotta love'm.
- Sarcastic Clapping
- Self-Deprecation - Often for laughs.
- Self-Insert Fic - Two in the works, one using Stef in the main Final Fantasy VII plot, the other using an Ink-Suit Actor in Love Hina. In neither do I replace any characters, and I don't mess with the main Love Hina plot, such as it is.
- Shameless Self-Promoter - Hey, at least I have something at-least-vaguely worth promoting
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- Shipping, though I don't go down with my Ship. Primarily:
- Bleach - Minion Shipping galore! Also, Grimmjow/Nel is beginning to look juicy, assuming Grimmjow survived...
- Card Captor Sakura - Tomoyo/Sakura. The Official Couple just never made sense to me. Of course you know what this leaves us with...
- Final Fantasy VIII - Square Soft could not have gotten the pairings more nonsensical, IMO. Squall/Quistis, Rinoa/Irvine, Selphie/Zell makes much more sense.
- And my favourite, Love Hina - OT3, Keitaro/Naru/Mutsumi. Akamatsu's such a wuss.
- Shipping Goggles - I don't always roll with what I discover, but I always look...
- The Short Guy with Glasses - Played with (subverted somehow?) in that I'm older than most of my contemporary friends, and rarely wear green aside from camo. Like I said, my stature doesn't exactly allow Tall, Dark, and Snarky...
- The Smart Guy
- So Yeah - Gradually becoming another Catchphrase.
- Platonic Life-Partners - Subverted with myself and Heather, as stated above.
- Yuri Fanboy - Yeah...
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Works this contributor finds awesome:
- Bleach
- Now complete with Self-Insert Fic - I'm actually roleplaying as a version of my R Lself on Twitter, of all places! I even have a girlfriend now. Squee \. ^.^
- Chrono Trigger - Mundane (if well-executed) gameplay, but awesome storytelling.
- Chrono Cross - Muddled plotline and a couple too many characters (and no, no Sarcasm Mode here; I really think there's only a few too many), but incredible (and AFAIK unprecedented) gameplay.
- Civilization
- Diablo
- Dominic Deegan
- Faux Pas
- Final Fantasy VII - another Self-Insert Fic has been in the works here for some years, along with The Legend Of Dragoon...
- Inu Yasha
- Love Hina
- Marvel Vs Capcom - The entire series, particularly 2. 3's damn good too.
- Maison Ikkoku
- The Matrix (mostly the first)
- MUGEN (RIP Reu) - Currently have a roster of something like 500 characters, variants, and edits.
- Mulan - Gotta love female Bad Ass-ery.
- Questionable Content
- Robin Hood Men In Tights - It took me literally years and suddenly wondering why he decided to spell Robin's surname with an X (Loxley instead of the usual Lockesley) to catch one of Mel Brooks' Jewish jokes: "...I mean, what a combination - Loxley and Baguelle! Can't miss!" For those who may not know, a favourite munchy among Jews (and a few others) is lox on a bagel, often with cream-cheese - lox is a particular form of smoked salmon.
- Seiken Densetsu 3
- Sister Act - Whoopi Goldberg, Dame Maggie, and singing nuns!!! Can't miss!
- Street Fighter - The entire series, particularly Third Strike. Haven't played 4 yet.
- Tron - Tron Legacy was definitely worthy. Slight beef with one particular part of the soundtrack though.
- Waynes World - No, the second one did not suck, though it definitely wasn't as good as the first.
Diverse enough for ya?
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