"Fire Emblem, your spirit shall shine"
This person exhibits the following tropes:
- Artifact Title: The legacy of "N_tonio36" (his historical Discord handle) will forever live in his internet persona. Nowadays, friends and acquaintances just call him "Tonio".
- Deadpan Snarker: I'm sure no one did a trope page describing themselves before. Exhibits this in spades in his O.O.C. Is Serious Business moments.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: If you're a Fire Emblem, Super Smash Bros., Hitman fan, you'll instantly unlock his Sugar side. Don't count on much otherwise.
- Defrosting The Ice King: Takes some time, but he eventually warms up with frequent positive interactions.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: On a normal day at work, he will sometimes get sloppy, to the dismay of his superiors. Give him a deadline or an important issue, however, and he will ace whatever his assignment is.
- The Ace: A very good software engineer. Built himself an ever-expanding repertoire of Show, Don't Tell projects to make his case.
- Complexity Addiction: Living, breathing, ass-kicking embodiment of the trope. Every side project will involve engineering something fairly complicated to achieve a usually-clear-cut goal. After all, why bother creating a resume in a designer program, when you can code your CV, deal with a whole host of issues to share it online, then code something else to create a PDF file out of it?
- The Determinator: Goes to extreme lengths to try and work out a solution for a problem, even if said solution is complicated and/or his sleep schedule pays for it. It doesn't necessarily involve coding either: he spent 4 hours fixing a controller issuenote that made Street Fighter V unplayable. At 3 AM. On a work day's eve.
- Meta Guy: Often quips what trope matches any situation he encounters. TVTropes already ruined his life.
- Death Glare: Has often been told his stare made people feel like he's about to kill them. Poor sap might just look at you funny because you surprised him.
- Gentle Giant: Quite an imposing stature, but not quite the brooding vibes you might expect once you know him a little.
- Blood Knight: Loves Fighting Games. Beat him at one, give him a chance to fight again, and he will train his ass to get his revenge. Thoroughly enjoys the process, but tries to lean towards the Spirited Competitor mentality.
- Brutal Honesty: Blunt by default. Long seen as a flaw, he got around to use this trait in a healthier fashion. Can be humorous, as people don't expect to hear someone's blunt opinion on an opponent's level. But if you complain about a problem and you have some part of blame in it, expect him to remind you just that. Thus, he's also prone to throw you a Blunt "Yes" in your face. Taken Up To Eleven when in OOC mode.
- Spock Speak: Strives for precision and syntax correctness when stating his mind. Leads him to say words such as "recency"note , as well as using verb tenses that are uncommon in spoken languagenote .
- Rhymes on a Dime:
- You'll find him adjust what he says to fit a few rhymes sometimes.
- "Tonion the Onion".
- Shout-Out: Will incorporate quotes he likes into his daily speech.
"Your sacrifice honors me." — Kotal Kahn's quote between rounds, Mortal Kombat X.
- Start of Darkness: If "darkness" means "spending too much time on TV Tropes on a daily basis", then the Black Dude Dies First trope counts as this.
- Black Comedy: Loves mocking his current state of affairs, his home country's, or basically any problematic and dangerous situation.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: Many incidents were caused by him hurting people by mistake:
- He practiced correctly throwing a jab. He hit his classmate's eyes, making it sore for three days.
- He sometimes throws joke, light punches if prodded. It's all fun and games, until said punches make a friend crumple from the pain. Oops.
- Tell him you're a Fire Emblem fan. Go on. And while you're at it, protect your fists somehow. Because that fist bump is gonna hurt.
- Percussive Maintenance: His computer mouse once fell buttons-first into the floor, thus breaking his scroll button. He fixed it by letting the mouse fall again, same buttons-first side.
- Single-Issue Wonk: TypeScript is a programming language that forces you to tell your computer if some piece of code is a number or a word, so that it doesn't allow you to do nonsensical things such as "adding 5 to the word Alice". It also allows you to bypass these checks with a special "any" directive ("allowing" you to do 5 + Alice), in which case you're on your own. If you ever need to use that "any" directive, be prepared to justify it, or else he will fucking chew you out.
- Nervous Wreck: Doesn't handle unexpected events very well. Usually uses Black Comedy and sarcasm to cope, but often needs reassuring that something will be done at a given time. Which is not practical.
- No Indoor Voice: He sometimes tries to lower his voice in places where secrecy is needed (such as a meeting with his boss). His voice still resonates through the walls, sadly.
- Large Ham: In contrast, he will be very loud if he knows he can get away with shouting. Expect big "NO"s and big "YES"s to come out whenever he's in the middle of an intense fight.
- Pungeon Master: A shameless adept of low-level, cheap comedy. People are often annoyed, and those annoyed reactions keep him going for more.
- Apathetic Student: Believes college is as a necessary evil, and puts no effort to go past the bare 50% requirements to pass.
