(I first wrote this profile when I was 16 or around that age. If there’s a quality shift in places, I probably added some stuff later. May edit more)
Hello, Shonengirl here! I'm the writer of A Wild Badfic Appeared! Commentaries on Deviant Art, and you may know me from there. I'm not exactly a gamer, but I like Nintendo games, especially the ones represented in Super Smash Bros, and am into Fire Emblem and Pokemon. Generally, I like filling out characters and imagining how they would interact more than actually playing the game, which most of the time I absolutely suck at. I also love history, geography, and international politics, which is why you may see me poking around Hetalia pages; it’s kinda similar to how I experience most games, I don’t watch the franchise’s media, at least now (I have seen clips of the show and some comic strips though, and from what I saw there it’s actually pretty funny), but something about it draws me to it and I like seeing what people do with the idea and characters more than anything (in this case it’s more the concept though). I am also really into Vocaloid, and partway in the Evillious Chronicles fandom, partway because I’m not that well-versed in it. I also tend to find myself dabbling in franchises that touch on historical topics in some way (e.g. the Fate series), though I’d hardly consider myself a fan of them due to barely bothering to look into the deeper lore of them. Well, please check out the commentary; fans are always wanted.
Tropes Applying to me:
- Asian and Nerdy: I'm Japanese; as in, actual full Japanese, not a Weeaboo. I've spent 13 years since birth in the States, so my English is actually better than my Japanese though.
- Berserk Button:
- This has come to bother me less over the years, but OOC-ness, whether for the sake of humor, manipulative angst, some yaoi/yuri fantasy, or because of lack of research. The way I see it, you may as well use OCs if you aren't being loyal to their character. The "OOC BECUZ FUNNEIHH!!" really grinds my gears since I see it way too often. The only exception is if you have a damn good reason for it; maybe you think the character could have been written differently, or want to consider how something would change a character. I would actually like to read something like that, and I play around with the Axis Powers Hetalia characters myself for this reason. And there are surely many people who decided to write better versions of Bella Swan for example, and I appreciate badfic rewrites a lot. But again, most of the time there’s no real reason to do so, and as such no real reason to be using those characters. And I've seen way too many commentaries which make them OOC in the opposite way; as in, make them as bland as possible, in a format where you should be exploiting character quirks and their unique personalities. If I see Sonic, Pit, Fem!Robin or Palutena, I'm expecting things to be bursting in snarky/trollish goodness, not extremely bland and unimpressive. And no, references to their games do not cut it.
- Also an annoying thing is the Draco in Leather Pants and Ron the Death Eater tropes. It goes into part of OOC and is a particularly irritating strain of it. I’ve grown to tolerate it more, but man is it annoying. I’m looking at you, Game Theory.
- Bifauxnen: Apparently I look like a guy to some people. Or a kid. Or a young boy. Though I get mistaken for a young girl more often recently. It’s probably because I don’t fuss over my looks a lot. Though yeah, maybe I should care about it more.
- Deadpan Snarker: I run a commentary, what do you expect?
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: You know how I said my English is way better? Well, yeah... if I consider English my “first language”, since my first word was (apparently) “apple”, though I speak Japanese at home, I could be considered a downplayed example. Otherwise, it’s an Inverted downplayed example. My Japanese is... pretty mediocre for my age. I can do everyday stuff fine, but it can get incredibly frustrating trying to express myself in Japanese, but not being able to come up with the word for something or not knowing how to describe something, which means if you ever hear me speaking in Japanese, you’ll likely hear me peppering my sentences with Gratuitous English in place of words or concepts I can’t convey otherwise (on top of a bad case of Motor Mouth and butchering of the pronounciation of “s”, and depending on how early it is since I’ve woken up, possibly worse). It makes me sound stupid, and it’s a bit embarrassing, but I’m planning to work on it.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: I like to do this; cussing sounds immature, why not use Inherently Funny Words in place of them? I might use bleeped out swears for comedy occasionally too.
- The Idiot from Osaka: I'm not stupid, I'm pretty intelligent, if I say so myself. Yeah, I know, bragging. But I can be kind of brash at times.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Man that trope name is uncreative. But my crushes include Dr. Jekyll from the Fate Series and Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the Star Wars movies. I will probably be extra cringey when talking about the former especially lol.
- Tomboy: I’m somewhat of one I’d say, though have become a bit less so over the years. Especially when I was a teenager, since gender norms are followed by pretty much every girl around me even in an international school (as of in high school), this is Japan after all. It really marked me as an American, lol. Though I’m actually not a fan of sports that much.
- Weakness Turns Her On: This Trope is me. I’m single, gentlemen! /slapped/ But yeah, because of this and my aforementioned tomboyishness I tend to have a soft spot for Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy dynamics, and it’s likely why I like Gender Inverted Tropes, which will probably show itself every so often. I could probably make a pretty good, not Book Dumb Bumbling Dad (Mom), lol.
