Know-your-paradoxes, a pseudonym for a boy named Starboy/Maris on the internet, is a writer, musician, and voice actor.
Mars identifies as a panromantic asexual trans man. He accepts both he/him and they/them pronouns, but will more than likely answer to she when called.
Mars is currently a 21-year-old senior in college, living in the great state of Corn Hell.
This troper contains the following tropes:
- Adorkable: Is this in spades.
- All Gays Love Theater: Isn't exactly GAY, per se, but does have a love for the theater.
- Ambiguous Gender: Downplayed. While he identifies as trans, he also accepts they/them pronouns.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Averted and zig-zagged. Identifies as a demiboy. While he identifies partially as male, the other half of his identity is yet to be pinned down.
- Angel/Devil Shipping: Deploys this.
- Asexuality: Mars has confirmed that he identifies as asexual, and has contributed a haiku to the Asexuality haiku page.
- Atomic F-Bomb: Uses these often.
- Beneath the Mask: Uses relentless happiness to mask the fact that he is extremely depressed.
- Berserk Button: Bad grammar.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Is generally a pleasant person to talk to, and tries his best to be polite, but once you get on his bad side, he hits you HARD.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Has an IQ of 138, but doesn't like to apply himself often.
- Broken Bird: His cynicism is stemmed from his inability to maintain friendships as a child.
- Brutal Honesty: Likes to engage in this from time to time.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Whether it's romantic or otherwise, he tends to have a hard time saying much when put on the spot.
- Celeb Crush: Patrick Stump.
- Character Signature Song: Deploys these in his private non-fanfiction works, even writing some of them himself.
- Chaste Hero: Doesn't seem to understand romance that well, and is the hero of his life story. Also identifies as asexual.
- Child Prodigy: Was one in his youth.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Tends to have this happen.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Uses these often.
- Cool Loser: In-Universe. Is treated very well by more popular people and by more of the outcasts.
- Contralto Of Danger: Invoked. He uses his naturally lower-pitched voice to be snarky to people in real life, or whilst voice acting. It also alleviates some of his vocal dysphoria.
- Crack Pairing: Has some of these.
- The Cynic: Is extremely skeptical and cynical of people.
- [1]: Loves this franchise.
- Deadpan Snarker: Is known to be quite sarcastic, and in actuality, is VERY much so.
- Doom Magnet: Has shades of this, considering that his Homestuck title is the Knight of Doom.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: Is a natural blonde, and has quite a few followers online.
- Extraverted Nerd: Definitely wouldn't call himself extroverted, but is considered this by many.
- Extreme Doormat: Was once this, but has since become downplayed.
- Flat "What": Likes delivering these.
- Freudian Slip: Tends to slip into some of these from time to time.
- Foe Yay Shipping: LOVES this.
- Forced Out of the Closet: Was basically this to his family.
- Forgetful Jones: Is forgetful.
- Gayngst: Has this with his family, despite his Transparent Closet.
- Good Is Not Dumb: Considers himself to be a decent person, and has decent intelligence.
- A Good Name for a Rock Band: Loves these.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Around children and/or respected adults.
- Graceful in Their Element: Is good when it comes to the arts, but is extremely awkward as far as other things go.
- Grammar Nazi: Will take any opportunity to correct improper grammar and make sure that it becomes flawless.
- Green Eyes: Has these.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's a very sweet person, and is a natural blonde.
- Has a Type: Musicians, redheads, blue eyes, or any combination of the three.
- Hates Being Alone: Despite being an introvert, he has a desperate fear of being alone in the world.
- Have a Gay Old Time: Makes some rather... interesting innuendos.
- Heavy Sleeper: Can barely be woken up by anyone.
- Heroes Want Redheads: Has never met a redhead that he doesn't find cute in some way.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation
- Hidden Depths: Has an IQ of 138, plays the tenor saxophone, is a fairly good actor and improviser, and has a relatively nice singing voice.
- He is also an aspiring voice actor.
- Hipster: Has shades of this.
- Ho Yay: He's pan, but has a lot of same gender crushes.
- Homestuck: Is a fan of this work.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Wants to be attractive so that he can find someone who will want to spend time with him.
- Inconvenient Attraction: Hates being in love with people, and yet can't seem to stop having certain crushes.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Loves puns.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: In an interesting take on the trope, he's developed BOTH complexes - he sees himself as both inferior AND superior to others.
- The Ingenue: Is naive as it gets.
- Innocent Innuendo: Uses these whenever he writes more saucy scenes, due to him being uncomfortable with writing smut, being asexual.
- Innocent Prodigy: Was a Child Prodigy in his youth, but still retains some childlike behaviors to this day.
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: Was isolated from many children his age due to being deemed a gifted student, and as a result, he has had trouble interacting with his peers ever since.
- I Work Alone: Doesn't like to work with other people.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Uses snark to combat people that want to see past his tough outer shell, but once you get to know him...
- Woman of a Thousand Voices: Does both singing and voice acting impressions, with his singing impressions ranging from Shakira to Patrick Stump, and voice acting ranging from Roxy Lalonde to Mikan Tsumiki. Also tends to sometimes drop into [2] from time to time.
- Meekness is Weakness: Seems to be a recurring theme in his life.
- Mood-Swinger
- Not a Morning Person: Hates being woken up early.
- Oblivious to Love: Cannot seem to take the hint when it comes to someone flirting with him, and cannot detect his own flirtiness.
- The Paranoiac: Distrusts people and worries that they plan to conspire against him.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
- Performance Artist: Is relatively camp-y, and has interest in theater, as well as musical performance.
- Picky Eater: Is definitely this.
- Pigeon Holed Voice Actor: He tends to be pigeonholed into two major categories.
- He tends to be typecast into Mary Sue-esque characters, who are unequivocally good, no matter what, and tend to be rather fey.
- Alternatively, he tends to be typecast as a villainous character.
- Pop Punk: Is a fan of this musical genre.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Enjoys using this in more serious situations (as far as her stories go).
- Pungeon Master: Loves puns quite a bit.
- Serious Business: Treats music, puns, video games, and board games as such.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Is himself quite an admirer of using this on occasion.
- Sexy Sax Man
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Is not naturally so, but does have green eyes and red hair.
- Singer-Songwriter: Sings and writes his own music.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot
- Shipping: Is a shipper of many pairings.
- Shrinking Violet: Is actually quite shy if meeting him in real life.
- Singing Voice Dissonance: Is actually an alto, bordering on contralto, despite appearing cute and having a very bright and chipper appearance. Also has a very powerful voice, despite appearing shy.
- Single Man Seeks Good Man: Or, y'know, woman. Really any person at all.
- Sleepyhead: Is constantly tired, it seems.
- Snark Knight: Definitely has shades of this.
- Sophisticated as Hell
- Sore Loser: Takes losing during a game very seriously.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside
- Spoiled Sweet: Has a very loving mother that spoils him often, but still manages to be a relatively decent person.
- Stepford Smiler: Uses a bright and bubbly personality to hide his sadness.
- Stepford Snarker: Also uses snark to hide the fact that he is almost constantly disillusioned from the world.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Can come across as this sometimes. Generally tends to act apathetic on the outside, when on the inside, he is a kind person, albeit a bit jaded.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Takes any opportunity he can to admit that she is surrounded by people that don't take actual work seriously.
- Too Clever by Half
- Transparent Closet: Doesn't make any effort to hide his romantic, sexual, and gender orientation.
- Transgender
- Trash Talk
- Troubled, but Cute: Has readily apparent self-esteem issues and suffers from social anxiety and depression, but look at that face, though!
- Tsundere: Is more often than not this.
- Twisting the Words: Tends to engage in this sometimes.
- Typecasting: Is either typecast as extremely good characters or villains.
- Vocal Range Exceeded: Is an alto (borderline contralto) but generally is stuck singing higher-pitched music. Hilarity Ensues.
- Voice Dissonance: Would you expect a boy that looks so sweet to have such a low voice?
- "Well Done, Son" Guy
- The Woobie: Has a lot of pretty bad shit happen to him.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Has dyed his hair red, bleached it, dyed it turquoise, and dyed the ends purple.
- You Keep Using That Word: Tends to sometimes use words that don't mean what he thinks they mean.
