Greetings, fellow troper(s). I come in peace...for now.
Name: Mort08.
Meaning: Mort as in the lemur from Madagascar, and '08, as in 2008, when Madagascar 2 first came out.
Location: My own little world...
Life Story In A Nutshell: Female. Quirky. Somewhat disturbed. Photographic memory. Dropped on head as baby. Comes from family that's not very big but definitely screwed up. Loner. Frequently escapes to magical world inside head populated by favorite movie characters. Likes writing. Has written original stories, one short play and fanfiction. Has read Emma, Dracula and Frankenstein just for the hell of it. Does theatre, and lots of it. MAJOR Film and Western Animation fan. Favorite movies are (almost) all kids' flicks. TVTropes ruined my life. I couldn't be happier about it.
For my Troper Wall, see here.
- Abusive Parents: Of the emotional variety.
- Afraid of Needles
- Archnemesis Dad: He's an emotionally abusive, misogynistic asshole.
- Archive Binge: Currently, the new version of Doctor Who. Before that, Phineas And Ferb.
- Asperger Syndrome: I'm antisocial, talk too fast, avoid eye contact and pretty much live inside my head.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
- Awesome, Dear Boy: Why I'm perfectly fine with getting cast as the Red Shirt.
- Badass Online: In Real Life I'm a timid, quiet person with an inferiority complex who's been taught through years of verbal abuse that speaking up only leads to trouble. Here on TV Tropes I'm an outspoken girl who loves a good chat and isn't afraid to give the occasional Troll a good smackdown.
- Berserk Button:
- Getting teased or mocked by adults. Double points if it's happening right in front of me, which it often is.
- Also, don't ask me about Bourbon Street. Just don't.
- Mention what happens to the cat in Frankenweenie, and you will learn just how cold a Kindhearted Cat Lover can be.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Whenever I'm stressed out or when my Berserk Button is pressed.
- Big Breasts Big Deal: A firm Type 2. I have naturally what most girls have to get via plastic surgery, and I freaking hate it.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Let's see...my mom's a depressed cynic, my dad's a verbally abusive Jerkass, my brother is autistic and inadequate help has messed him up even more, my mom's relatives are almost all crazy inbreds, my dad's relative's are just plain crazy and we pretty much all hate each other. Can't wait until I'm 18.
- Bilingual Bonus: I use this a lot in my fanfics. Mostly it's just for fun, but it's also very useful for leaving clues.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: If you need someone to memorize lines fast, you come to me. Period.
- Call to Adventure: There have been three in my life so far;
- A person commenting on one of my stories telling me I ought to go to Fan Fiction Dot Net.
- The actual phone call telling me I'd gotten into what would be my first real play.
- My mom suggesting I take an acting class at the youth theatre I would end up joining.
- Catchphrase: Several.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Oh so very much.
- Cosmic Plaything: I truly believe that some Jerkass deity up there gets a lot of pleasure from seeing me in hysterics.
- Country Matters: While I do not use the word, I have been called it. By my uncle. At age 12. I was not there at the time, and it probably wouldn't have mattered because I wouldn't have even known what it meant.
- Crack Fic: My specialty. It stems from the fact that out of all the fanfic ideas I come up with, very few of them actually sound stupid.
- Creator Backlash: Against iTrainDragons and iTrainVikings.
- Cultural Cringe: I find British humor far more clever and worthwhile than American humor.
- Cute and Psycho
- Daydream Believer: Where Doctor Who is concerned, anyway.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Dead Fic: Three over my career, due to Writing by the Seat of Your Pants.
- Does Not Like Men: Not like that, anyway.
- Drama Club: Technically I'm part of one.
- Driven to Suicide: I tried to strangle myself with a belt, and I got pretty close before stopping.
- The Ego: I'm viewed as the most sane person in my circle of friends and the glue that holds them all together. This should tell you something about my friends.
- Enraged by Idiocy
- Even Evil Has Standards: There are two things I refuse to stoop to when writing; killing a child and killing a cat.
- Fake Brit: Sometimes I'll put on a British accent to help myself talk slower, 'cuz I have a problem with that. And it's certainly not for practice in case I ever get the chance to be on Doctor Who. No way.
- Fan Fic: I dabble. My fanfiction.net account.
- Fan of the Past
- Five-Man Band: My youth theatre gang.
- The Hero: C, our ever-suffering Butt-Monkey. Extremely social and always dragging the rest of us into her plans.
- The Lancer: B, an energy-filled Blithe Spirit who enjoys constantly tormenting C. And everyone else.
- The Smart Guy: R, who is the one I get along best with and probably the most normal person in the group. Which isn't really saying much.
- The Big Guy: J, a Gentle Giant and major Cloudcuckoolander. Known for always having a joke on hand for every situation, appropriate or not.
- The Chick: Yours truly, who holds the group together and always has to stop the fights between C and B.
- Sixth Ranger: S, who showed up to his first drama class in a Doctor Who t-shirt and was immediately inducted. Loves webcomics. Appears to have a Heterosexual Life-Partners thing going with B.
- Flipping the Bird: My only method of retaliation against the undesirable people in my life.
- Forgotten First Meeting: This has happened to me quite a few times, mostly with friends and once with an Alpha Bitch. It usually gets brought to my attention by the other person, although I'm sometimes the one who remembers first.
- Freak Out: I had a long, painful one after a particularly bad weekend. I then resolved to pretend it never happened.
- Freudian Excuse: Most of my problems come from the fact that I've been forced into the role of psychologist to my depressed, cynical mother. Yeah, that's the kind of stuff a little kid needs to be thinking about.
- Friend to All Children: If said children are friendly back.
- Generation Xerox: My grandmother married my grandfather, who was an asshole. She suffered his abuse so my mother could have a better life. My mother married my father, who is also an asshole. She suffers his abuse so I can have a better life. The way I see it, the only to break the cycle is for me to not get married. And I'd be okay with that.
- Grammar Nazi: One thing I always look for and comment on when reading stories online is the grammar. It's more important than most people think.
- Growing Up Sucks
- Ham and Cheese: I once got to play a mostly-deaf old woman in a production of Robin Hood that was...let's just say it was troubled. I suffered in silence, learned my lines and did my best. The result? My single scene was one of the highlights of the show and a year later people still remembered me from it.
- Heroic BSoD: I recently had a minor one on realizing that Padme Amidala is, in at least one aspect, even more pathetic than Bella freaking Swann. At least Bella would probably slap Edward if he got too creepy; Padme couldn't even do that to Anakin. For shame.
- Homeschooled Kids: I'm one, and proud of it.
- Humans Are Morons: I admit to thinking this.
- Insane Troll Logic: What my Magical Land runs on.
- Instant Humiliation Just Add Youtube: Two words...Scottish bellydancing.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: To the extreme.
- Large Ham: Dear god. I'm dramatic when I get very emotional, and when I'm not? I exaggerate for the sake of exaggerating.
- Longing for Fictionland: All the time. See below.
- Lost World / Magical Land: I have one that takes up about 95% of my imagination. I play with it every day and populate it with my favorite characters from various sources. It's fun.
- Magnum Opus Dissonance: iTrainDragons and its sequel iTrainVikings are my first major fanfics and a bit of an Old Shame, yet they're the most popular multi-chapter stories I have on Fan Fiction Dot Net and still get readers to this day. The Piratesverse stories, which I think are much better, have gotten only a handful of readers.
- Mega Crossover: I have one constantly going on inside my head, taking place in the Magical Land mentioned above. I'm adding to it all the time.
- Ms. Imagination
- Mommy Issues: Mommy seems hellbent on instilling me with her depressed, cynical way of looking at life.
- My God, What Have I Done?: One time my friends and I had the not-stupid idea of introducing two hyperactive, Doctor Who-obsessed boys to one another. Cue the following exchange:
Boy 1: Let's get a fez and pretend to shoot it!Boy 2: With a LASER BEAM!Me: Now I know how Frankenstein felt.
- Nerd: Although I'm occasionally in denial about it, I knew it was true when I found myself saying without any embarrassment whatsoever, 'He's not British, he's Gallifreyan."
- Nice Hat: I collect them.
- No Big Deal: Pretty much sums up both my house and my youth theatre.
- Oh, Crap!: Quite often.
- Old Shame: iTrainDragons and iTrainVikings.
- Only Sane Man
- One-Scene Wonder: My smaller play roles often end up being these.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When I swear in forum posts without censoring myself, I'm pretty mad and/or depressed about something.
- Original Flavour: A goal of mine when writing fics.
- Pass the Popcorn: Although I've never actually done it while eating popcorn, I do have this mindset.
- The Pessimist: What my mother is trying to mold me into.
- Pirate: My most familiar avatar on the forums. I've even dubbed myself Pirate Queen.
- Precision F-Strike
- Proud to Be a Geek
- The Quiet One: Yes, really. When I'm around unfamiliar people, I don't talk at all. You want a conversation? You have to start it yourself. Once I get to know you, I'm much more outgoing.
- Samus Is a Girl: My name is not Samus, but I am indeed a girl. Everyone got that?
- Self-Deprecation: Most of the time.
- The Slacker
- Spoiler Hound
- Stepford Smiler: Type A.
- "Stop Having Fun" Guys: Don't you care about the play?!?
- Token Good Teammate: Me and R are the only members of our Five-Man Band who don't get a kick out of trolling our other friends and cracking jokes which consistently slip into Dude, Not Funny! territory.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: More like "Nerd And Girly Girl." I'm the former, C is the latter.
- Took The Bad Play Seriously: I'm generally the only one who does.
- Tv Tropes Will Ruin Your Life
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Then I found the Internet.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Somewhat subverted. While I care about what my mom thinks, my dad's opinion isn't worth much.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Snakes and spiders, actually.
- Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: It was my normal method of writing...until it killed three of my stories after I realized I had no idea what I was doing. I've now resolved to do my preparation for such things.
- iTrainDragons, my crossover of iCarly and How To Train Your Dragon.
- iTrainVikings, the sequel to iTrainDragons.
- The Factory, a Doctor Who oneshot. To give a longer description would spoil the thing.
- The Piratesverse, a Fan Verse for The Pirates In An Adventure With Scientists.
- My Deviantart page.