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One Boiled Potato is a male 22-years old TV tropes user that joined in 2023. An introverted guy who has being dealing with poor social skills throught his whole life and has refuged in consuming a massive amount of media, specially movies and is planning to become a Film Director some day and is in (as of this writing) in his 4th year studying said career.
This person contains examples of the following tropes:
- Aimlessly Seeking Happiness : His objective right now
- Alone Among the Couples: Among his social circle
- Ambitious, but Lazy: While he's open to do hard work for his objectives, he also has no issues with taking shortcuts and if it's about an activity he doesn't wanna do, he will try to find the easier and faster way to do it.
- Animal Lover: He likes most of them. His family usually has at least one cat and one dog regulary because of it.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Just ask her middle sister. Averted with the actual older sister, with who he doesn't have much of a relationship in the first place
- The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest on a family of three sons and until the birth of his niece, he was the youngest member of each side of the family.
- Better with Non-Human Company: He deals much better with animals (specially cats) that with people
- Big Little Brother: Taller that both of her older sisters
- Big Sister Worship: Towards his middle sister. Althought he will never admit it to her face.
- Bookworm: While more of a movies guy, he will sometimes focus more on reading books.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Had a experience related to that in high school, he's usually kind of flirty around some of his friends for giggles and laughs but in the very moment he started to fell for one of them, he couldn't keep doing it.
- Character Tic: He tends to play with a spoon on his fingers
- Child Hater: He's not fan of being close to children and would try to avert them
- Chubby Chaser: Sometimes
- Complexity Addiction: He will commonly create unnecesarily complicated plans for something that could have being solved in a easier way
- Courtly Love: His relationship with his past crushed had shades of this. Mostly out of I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship
- The Cynic: He tends to jump to worst case scenarios often
- Deadpan Snarker: At least around people he has some sort of level of trust.
- Defrosting Ice King: During high school
- Eating Lunch Alone: Sometimes, althought he doesn't mind.
- Enraged by Idiocy: Zigzagged. He will commonly get annoyed by someone being incompetent around him, specially if it's on his way to achieve something but this only applies if the other person refuses to put of his side, otherwise he will understand and even try to give advice if he knows of the subject
- Even Nerds Have Standards: He will commonly make fun of otakus and gamers if he has the chance despise playing his fair share of games and watching and enjoying multiple animes.
- Eyes Always Averted: Rarely looks at people at the eyes
- Extreme Doormat : Mostly averts it unless is from someone he needs something of
- Fanon Discontinuity :
- As a animal lover, he prefers to ignore the existence of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted for ending with the main animals finding joy in a circus instead of the wild, he's also not fond of the Penguins of Madagascar movie out of lacking connection with the TV series which he regards as much better
- He will rather pretend that the fourth and the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movies don't exist neither.
- Ice Age concluded with Dawn of the Dinosaurs . Nothing was released after that except for Scrat Tales and the 30-second short where Scrat eats his Acorn
- He doesn't consider the events of Ralph Breaks the Internet to be even close to make canonical sense with the original movie.
- While he regards How I Met Your Mother to be one of his favorite comedies of all time, he refuses to acknowledge the existence of the controversial two-parter finale.
- Related to another Audience-Alienating Ending, Star vs. the Forces of Evil never had a fourth season and if it did, it ended with the coronation of Eclipsa and Globgor and nothing else. Similar feelings towards the final season of Lucifer
- He mostly ignores the final season of Community besides the final episode which he regards as one of his favorites of the entire series. He also prefers to ignore the death of Pierce
- While he's not the biggest fan of Friends, if he does watch it, it will be of the first 6 seasons and almost never of the later ones.
- The first 2 seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars for being the point before the series had his Growing the Beard moment.
- First-Person Smartass : Tends to make rather negative comments of the people around him in his head even if he rarely voice it, he sometimes regret them.
- Friendless Background: Spend it most of his time in elementary school being ignored or disliked by his classmates
- Friend to Bugs : Loves all kinds of animals including bugs, specially spiders.
- Guilt Complex : Will often try to find a way in which he is at fault of a situation
- Hates Small Talk : He has a hard time keeping it up therefore prefers to avert it
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs : Prefers this kind of hairstyle
- I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship : Once
- The Illegible: His calligraphy has being noted to be very hard to understand.
- The Insomniac: Since he was very young he had troubles sleeping.
- Introverted Cat Person : He's cetainly both
- I Work Alone : If he can, he will try to do things by himself and only join in groups or ask for help when there's no other option.
- Kids Love Dinosaurs: He was utterly obsessed with them as a kid, it has become a more downplayed interest as he grew but still pops up every once in a while.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover : He's utterly obsessed with cats and will always try to pet each one he finds on the street. Despise this he only got one when he was 17 years old.
- Loner-Turned-Friend: Pretty much every friendship he ever had was to some degree this.
- The Movie Buff : Fully obsessed with movies since he was young and would commonly use pop cultural references to explain things.
- Moving Angst : During university
- Mr. Imagination : Spends a lot of time imaginating possible fictional stories and fake scenarios
- Must Have Caffeine: Not always but if he has something important to finish or has to get up early then a cup of coffee would be a priority
- Nerds Are Virgins: He's certainly both.
- The Nicknamer : Has a personal nickname for everyone on his phone even people he hasn't talked with.
- No Social Skills: Played with. He can be sociable once he has gained trust on certain persons but is unable to talk to people outside of his confort zone or start conversation on his own.
- O.C. Stand-in:
- Harry Potter: Mandy Brocklehurst (Ravenclaw)/Tracey Davis (Slytherin)/Wayne Hopkins (Hufflepuff)
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Dislikes most kind of physical contact besides hugs
- Practically Different Generations: Has a at least 7 years gap between each each of her sisters
- Ridiculous Procrastinator: As an example of this trope, he's adding this trope to his personal page while he should be ending his college essays.
- Satiating Sandwich: If he gets to choose his own dinner, it would almost always be a hot cheese sandwich.
- Situational Sociability: He has a very hard time talking with persons who aren't close friends or family. His ability to talk in public varies depending the amount of people and how many persons he knows are in the public. He also intercalate between being an Extreme Doormat with people who he can't talk against to and a Deadpan Snarker among his close circle
- The Slacker: Zigzagged. He tends to put effort in things and like to challenge himself but will also pass for larger periods where he would do the minimal to make it through the day, mostly in bad periods of his life.
- Sleep Deprivation: Sometimes will suffer of this, especially when he has to finish something the following day.
- The Quiet One: Depending the social circle and his mood of the day.
- They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason : Prefers not to share personal issues that personally affect him to the people on his surroundings
- Trademark Favorite Food : All kinds of cheese
- Smart People Play Chess: Defied. He's aware to some degree how to play Chess Piece but prefers not to do it out of disliking the stereotype
- Sweet Tooth: He eats a huge amount of sweets, specially when he's anxious
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: If his parent's stories are anything to go by.
- Used to Be More Social:
- Around 2010-2012, managed to gain something of a social circle, too bad that he ended up having a hard discussion with his best friend at the time and ended up alone again around middle 2012.
- Once entering high school he finally gained a whole bunch of friends and managed to be very well liked and midly popular during this period of life. However once the pandemy hit they couldn't hang up anymore and then once everyone went to their respectives colleges, the group split and remained in contact with very few of them. To top it all he hardly has made any new friends in his actual career.
- They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Tries to enforced by rarely talking openly about his personal issues
- Tranquil Fury: He rarely voices his anger out loud or against the persons he's angry with.
- Token White: Downplayed. Every male from his group of friends during high school were either black or tanned minus him. He gained a male white friend in 2019 but even then he wasn't part of that same friends group. Inverted with his female friends which were all white minus one
- Took a Level in Kindness: Around 2017 once he became more social.
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