My literature teacher has published a bunch of poems. Reading them, I discovered that he has a strange fascination with bare feet, women who wear glasses, and for some reason white cats.

A case of {{Bread Eggs Milk Squick}}?

This troper has recently been spending his time writing fantasy stories with a mainly female cast who mostly have big breasts and wear skimpy or tight clothing. He does this purely for himself and the appeal.

My bro writes sci-fi stories. All of them have something in common: psychos as protagonists and uninhibited broads as love interests/villains... and sexy villainous redheads with a fetish for inflicting pain. Suddenly his fixation with a girl in class who has a special reputation makes much more sense...

This girl I was eyeing writes short stories. I was curious, and I started to read them without her permission. It turns out that her tales contain scenes in which the characters do what she likes... which involves some interesting stuff, albeit freaky. It was useful, though.

This Troper is fond of exploring sexuality and relationships in his work and applying a more realistic if cynical approach to them, not just fanservice. In {{KIKEN}}, he has a pair of lesbians that get together in the main fic after being seperated for three years. From this moment on, I will name names--

Juuri Fujisaku, the secretary of Yumegorosu's CEO, is being sexually harassed by him and other male co-workers, but her boss, Takeo Boumu really is in love with her, and is willing to keep her happy (even by means of moral ambiguity).

Emiri Fukugami, Juuri's lawyer girlfriend, uses the current Conflict to try and separate herself from Juuri so they can be happier in the long run--while she develops a plan to sue Takeo murder and sexual harassment.

This troper has a pathological need to explore familial relationships (in a non-sexual way, thank you very much). She is particularly fond of the bonds between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and siblings of the opposite gender. This troper hates how if two opposite sex siblings (or in my novel's case -twins) love each other deeply and don't go at each other's throats like siblings in popular media, that their behavior is automatically chalked up to incest. I've been known to put loads of fake subtext into their interactions just to troll the incest fetish fangirls and then brutally deconstruct BrotherSisterIncest with another couple just to show how bad of an idea it is.

Which leads to this troper's second kink. I LOVE deconstructing tropes popular in romance or young adult literature to the point of MindScrew. You like BrotherSisterIncest? You like LoliCon? You like the WideEyedIdealist? Pfft. Not when I get finished with you, you won't. Then I'll turn around and reconstruct stuff like KidHero, ActionGirl and the like.

This troper also has an unhealthy obsession with all things SteamPunk, motifs from TheRoaringTwenties, TheBigEasy, TheNineties, Bangsian Fantasy, MagicalRealism, SliceOfLife, UrbanFantasy, RetroUniverse, ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld, IstanbulNotConstantinople…My main heroine is always a girl of color (most of the time black), I must always have at least six characters who a CrazyAwesome, one character who is AxeCrazy, another who loves PrecisionFStrike, a bottle fairy, Badass Mother, an obligatory, HoYay/ LesYay couple, merciless ShipTease, and BiShounen and BiShoujo from around the world.

This tropette finds anything Japanese appealing, as well as some movies that RickMoranis was in and {{Kemonomimi}}.

Many of this Troper's fanfics/fanartworks put one of the characters (usually her favorite) in a cape/cloak at one point or another, be it for a costume, or due to it being an alternate-universe:medieval fic or a crossover to a medieval setting. This ''could'' be due to this Troper's fascination-bordering-on-fetish for capes. Also, in any similar setting (and even a couple sci-fi ones), a dragon will almost always appear (though this falls squarely into the not-sexual author appeal section!) because everything is better with dragons. Oh, and she has a thing for writing stories that are rebellious in one way or another (the main canon character is the one that everyone hates but has a very small DracoInLeatherPants fanbase, or is a crossover between things that ''could'' make sense with enough thought put into them but still sound cracked out (Pokemon and WorldOfWarcraft, anyone?), or simply setting out to subvert/lampshade common tropes).

Quite a few of this Troper's characters have fur, and a lot of his authority figures are female. I get the feeling that my love for sarongs and other exotic garments shines through, as well. As far as character types go, I always seem to include a newbie character (to allow for worldbuilding by describing things the others find old hat), a wry mentor, and an aloof character with violent tendencies and a thing for piracy.

The character designs of this troper tend to incorporate goth elements (especially black and white stripes, black tights, and combat boots with frilly skirts, the last of which was directly ripped off from River Tam), bare feet, oddly-colored hair, various degrees of androgyny, MismatchedEyes, and miscellaneous harmless physical oddities such as having six fingers or being albino, although usually no more than two or three of those at once. Both sexes default to being fairly thin, but there's an abundance of skinny boys in particular. Left-handedness and being short are also common. Also, all her characters wear Converse hightops except in cases when it wouldn't make any sense for the character type, unless they wear combat boots or occasionally Doc Martens. Personality-wise there's more variety, but a disproportionate number are rather shy and reclusive, and psychological disturbances crop up fairly often; she has a fair few woobies, but there's the occasional {{Yandere}}, Ophelia, or full-blown AxCrazy as well. (Despite her love for LooksLikeCesare, so far she only has one character to whom it applies.) Additionally, there's a disproportionate number of child prodigies; they're pretty low-key compared to the typical TeenGenius in fiction, usually 11 or 12 and in the later two years of high school (although there was one 14-year-old junior, due to an age limit set by the GM), with the females of this contingent semi-frequently doubling as the TokenLoli. Also also, a statistically significant number of her characters are commonly known by their middle name in EmbarrassingFirstName fashion, although usually the only thing wrong with their first name is that they don't like it as much or it doesn't suit them as well. However, none of this is sexual, just stuff that strikes her as cool, appeals to her aesthetically, or must have some sort of subconscious attraction based on how often it appears in otherwise unrelated characters.

....Beccy?

Sorry, but no. My name's Hilary.

Now I think I understand that guy a little more...

This troper always makes her main female protagonist left-handed in whatever she writes. This is because she herself is left handed, and has difficulty wrapping her head around ''just how awkward'' writing with the right hand looks and feels to her. This has partially to do with her own body and partially to do with the English language itself, which is written and read from left-to-right--left-handedness just seems more ''natural'' to her, somehow, given that fact of her particular language. She also ''hates'' PacManFever, so she makes most of her characters at least somewhat video-game GenreSavvy to avert it. If she has an ensemble cast, one of them will generally be a "gamer" of some description. She also has a thing for sympathetic villains, and enjoys the contrast of depicting them as normal living a human life as possible (frequently due to TheMasquerade) while making them cross the MoralEventHorizon. If not, expect them to go around humanity entirely and be an EldritchAbomination.

I have a penchent for steampunk motifs, UrbanFantasy, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and robots in my artwork, usually in a HR Giger/Drew Struzan hybrid pencil style. I also like like drawing Chibified soldiers blowing each other up in various gruesome and bloody ways, usually ending with LudicrousGibs and plenty of {{Gorn}}. I'm... a tad messed up.

Nearly all of this troper's male characters have tattoos or scars (facial scars especially), and most of his female characters have large boobs and unnatural hair colors (though as he draws in an anime/manga style, that is to be expected) and carry around ridiculously huge weapons. His male characters usually wear longcoats, leather and/or sunglasses. His female characters generally wear skintight clothing or miniskirts.

This troper used to name every female (and even some male) main protagonists with names who either begin or at least has tucked anywhere the letter "L". When she finally grew out of that compulsion, she realized that every one of her histories has at least a redhead, a {{Meganekko}}, a girl with brown curls, or a person with raven-black hair (often short) in a important position. Some of her characters even combine those traits! Also, she has a thing for males with a sweet personality, {{Broken Bird}}s in both genders, and sarcastic characters with some {{Genre Savvy}}ness. And females in short skirts and corsets. The males she draw have androgynous faces, but that's because she is too used to draw girls, thanks to her older histories being {{Shoujo}} versions of the PinkBishoujoGhetto (the newer ones are more balanced) and having an awful lot of female protagonists.

Naoko Takeuchi, is that you?

This troper has a friend (no, really!) who feels some pathological need to sneak a BoundAndGagged scene into every story. It seems that it's a sexual thing when it happens to the females, but it sometimes happens to a dude in order to avoid looking sexist or something. I'm really not sure and I don't ask too many questions. On the other hand, my own stuff (when I still hadn't realized what a terrible, horrible writer I am) tended to feature an overabundance of DeadpanSnarker characters and a tendency to use normal names for MeaningfulName purposes (a guy named Mike was a chatty BoisterousBruiser who sought attention, for instance).

This troper is that friend! I think.

This troper's female characters are almost invariably clueless about the fact that another character is romantically interested in them, which is a reflection of the author's own general cluelessness about such things.

This troper's obsession with film noir and hardboiled crime fiction means there's usually a few noir archetypes present in his writings - be it a cynical trenchcoat-wearing detective, a seductive femme fatale, a shady underground villain, a VillainWithGoodPublicity, etc. etc.

This troper also loves noir archetypes, especially femme fatales, often involved with a more innocent or naive male character. Additionally when playing videogames that allow character customisation he always endeavors to play as a black man (despite being a white guy) bonus points if they have a shaved head and a goatee. He also often throws in a character (usually female) with dark hair/complexion and bright blue eyes as he finds the combination somewhat striking.

This troper loooves to write a female lead who is confident, strong, and self sufficient. Androgyny is a plus, particularly combined with some muscles and a preference to be called "Sir" instead of "Ma'am". Ideally, the character also tries to look like TheStoic, and can go through a story without being paired up by the end. She also has a love of female-to-male TG stories, which are of course forever thin on the ground. She's working on that.

Denise? Oh, hai, Aline here.

This troper would like to read those stories.

This troper incorporates glasses into about half her character designs, and about 90% of the female characters who are attractive wear them.

In addition, this troper's attractive male characters tend to have been in, or currently be in, the military.

Almost all of this troper's blond characters don't have blue eyes, because she thinks blond hair looks better without them. She tries to avert this trope, however, by making her characters like things she hates or is indifferent to.

This troper definitely has his patterns. {{Action Girl}}s, {{HotAmazon}}s, and other indomitable ladies populate his works, and on the male side, he has a definite penchant for {{Bishonen}}, {{NonActionGuy}}s, and TheSmartGuy. In a less sexual vein, {{DeadpanSnarker}}s are rather thick on the ground, as is cleverness rather than straightforward valour winning the day. And he likes to run up and down the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism like a caffeinated squirrel on a tree.

This Troper realized that she has a pattern in writing and roleplaying. Her characters tend to be of the following: A) Sweet, {{Wide Eyed Idealist}}s - often pious but not always, or B) good guys (albeit tending to be {{Deadpan Snarker}}s and GenreSavvy) with SuperpoweredEvilSide or struggling against DemonicPossession and {{Grand Theft Me}}s, or C) very cynical older men who got burned so often that they hide their kernel of nice-guy-ness to keep from getting burned, and all of the above types tend to be Bisexual. This troper admits to having an inordinate fondness for JamesBondage, good horse-riding skills if the setting allows it, and weaponry - from Henry Repeating Rifles to Meteor Hammers, especially if it lends to good innuendos.

This Troper has a freakish tendency to let the girls in any of her stories get pregnant. Not infrequently under some pretty improbable circumstances, if the setting supports enough magic or megatech for it to make sense.

This Editor wants to know: are you a maieusiophiliac?

You bet your ascot I am!

Have posted any of the stories that you have written on the internet? If so please link to them!

This troper has a tendency to give his female characters green eyes, quite often combined with blond hair. He also has a habit of adding demons and expies of Lovecraftian deities in his stories whenever he gets the chance (and he tends to find a lot of excuses to do so). Thus the webcomic he's currently working on has a green eyed female demon (with black hair, as blond hair doesn't fit demons) as one of the main characters, and Nyarlathotep's human form as one of the recurring characters (altho the other characters don't know his true identity).

This troper always has an urge for one of the main characters to lose a limb or eye, possible self-inflicted.

THIS troper has a long list of author appeal in his characters and stories. To name a few: Asymmetrical eyes, particularly in the "one is missing" vein but with a handful of heterochromia tossed in. TONS of breaking his cuties-- nobody gets to be happy. The ability to play string instruments (typically violins and the cousins thereof) tends to pop up a lot. However, all else aside... nearly every single male character he has tends to wind up in girls' clothing at least once, due to his none-too-hidden male crossdressing fetish-- he has an ''entire character'' devoted to it. (Of course, said character is also easily one of his most emotionally instable because he was forcibly and abusively raised as a girl... which says something, considering that psychologically fucked-up characters are also on his list of things he tends to put in.)

This Troper, for some odd reason, finds it way easier to design female characters than male ones. As a result, he ended up with a series where 80% of the characters are female, and made three of the four leads male in order to compensate. He also has a predisposition for writing characters with plenty of existential wangst (Along the "do I really deserve to exist" sort of vein), though he had to remove nearly all of this for plot-related reasons.

i have this too. i think it has something to do with trying to avoid writing someone like i would write myself. though the males i do write get a lot of character development.

This troper has discovered that one of her weaknesses is blue eyes, and she also really likes dark hair (being brunette). When she took a second to think about it, she realized that the two main characters in the story she's currently writing have both dark hair (in one case, black) and blue eyes. Also, she's always been fascinated by telepathy, particularly couple telepathy, and that somehow found its way into this story too... Not to mention she used two of her favorite male names, William and Michael, for the guy.

This troper sometimes gives his main characters his middle name, gives himself a cameo, and has a ''deep'' weakness for very good villains. He also likes characters who are a little messed-up and have no sympathetic backstory- his villains are evil because they ''want to be''. Generally, his characters only have backstories/ parents/ lovers if there is an important plot-related reason for them. He's also a sucker for slightly ambiguous happy endings.

This troper is writing a novel where the main antagoinist is a telepath. While he doesn't actually use his powers for mind control, that is the reason I became interested in telepathy in the first place.

This troper, upon looking back, realized he likes really long hair in unnatural colors, with a side order of longcoats and/or WholesomeCrossdresser of both genders.

This troper is fascinated with seemingly perfect characters who turn out to be anything but. Her WIP has ''three'' of these: Character A gets off easy by turning out to be a BunnyEarsLawyer verging on CloudCuckooLander, but genuinely good otherwise. Character B is an AxCrazy StepfordSmiler who hurts others for the ''tiniest'' perceived slight and burns a man's home down so she can have him all to herself. Character C is another StepfordSmiler who deliberately represses his emotions because feeling anything other than serene contentment ''must'' be a sin, and has never felt actual love or empathy as a result. However, this troper also likes relationships that appear utterly screwed-up at first glance, but turn out to work for those involved or develop into something approaching functional. Love only encourages A's loopiness, but his lover ''likes'' him for it. B enters a hurt/comfort dynamic with her man who has his own claim to insanity. C falls in love (though it's a long time before he realizes it) with the resident {{Jerkass}} who very obviously reciprocrates and is somewhat softened through it, despite his protests to the contrary.

This troper wrote a 'verse where humans achieved a third sex (i.e. genuine human hermaphroditism) via genetic and cybernetic engineering. 'Verse cultures naturally take a loose approach to gender and relationships and most major cultures are very egalitarian. Anyone who hangs out on the TroperIRCChannel will be able to identify this troper immediately once I mention that pretty much all of the 'verse's characters are polyglots.

Most of my characters' physical designs focus in majorly on the eyes and hair, with unusual styles and intensities abounding, to the point that one character is remarkable simply because he's so normal (brown eyes, black hair). And all my female characters, without exception, have long hair (along with a fair number of the male ones, esp. the most attractive one, nicknamed "Casasupernova" in one internet conversation.) Psychologically, a huge number of them are protective in various ways, ranging from KnightInShiningArmor to ChivalrousPervert, to the point that the defining trait of one of my most evil characters is that he specifically believes that he's the only thing in the universe worth protecting (and refers to himself as a 'modern-day Baldr', among other things.)

This troper's works (and daydreams) frequently encorporates the whole 'ragtag band of misfits' archetype wherever the story may go. SweetPollyOliver types, vampire bites that really suck, and psychological horror set in a prison setting. Also, she really digs her some GoodLookingPrivates and even the odd FairCop. However, things you ''will'', I guarantee it, find? Control issues, my squick du jour, and at least one gay/lesbian/bisexual character. Failing that, Everyone is asexual. Everyone. EVERY. ONE. And though anyone can write nice, warm and fuzzy smut, I stick to squicky, mind-killing scenes that would make people looking for something to fap to, CRY. (Well, most.) Also, clowns. And prostitutes. (The last is most definitely not for reasons of fetish fuel, but occasionally for wangst.)

Also apparently this troper has a thing for {{sarashi}} as undergarments-- especially for swordfighters. This is where it begins to get away from non-sexual author appeal... one of said swordfighting characters is a {{pettanko}} lesbian SweetPollyOliver IllGirl. It's not as fetishtastic as it sounds, I swear. Also, male BandageBabe characters, and every story over a chapter or two will include a male character with a succulent black eye or a broken nose. Transguys seem to be very popular, as well as butch women, who this troper will openly admit to fancying.

Also, serial killers. A whole freaking lot of them. Especially those that use power tools. Similar serial killer tropes appear to be the whole corruption of innocence angle-- victims who become aggressors, and hostages who end up partners in crime/lovers. Professional torturers (and amateur torturers) are pretty popular, including at least one who's fond of PuttingOnTheReich.

This troper imagines stories a lot, but a common thread is either an ActionMom, ActionGirl, DarkMagicalGirl, and the like. It goes without saying that I absolutely hate chickification (but does play around with tsundere and ThreeFacesOfEve). Some of the more recent one includes either a Kyon-ish DeadpanSnarker, a bookworm NonActionGuy (as a main character), or both as a single character. And this troper is ''male''...

This troper runs about eight different series worth of stories, and other than the darkest of them age regression is sure to pop up in some form or another. Oftentimes as many tropes as possible will be featured and just as often subverted, just because. Colorful hair is often featured and lampshaded of at the expense of people who happen to dye it that way.

This troper. Vampires, bisexual men, younger woman/older man pairings. At least one of those is guaranteed to appear in anything she writes.

This troper is majoring in animation and I'm drawing characters for a personal project. Out of the five female characters, three of them have a variation of DetachedSleeves. He doesn't know why he does that other than that they looked cool. Also he always draws his characters with hair at least shoulder-length, because he doesn't like drawing ears.

This troper has quite a few. He will sneak in a green-eyed redhead or an actual ActionGirl any time he can. He will make the main character (or as many viewpoint characters as possible) female, because he finds it easier to write. He will have a main cast of DeadpanSnarker types and has a penchant for women hitting their significant others.

This troper, after reading everyone else's Appeals, feels that his are lame comparied to others. But this one will say them anyway. This one likes to make characters that are either interracial or in interracial relationships. He also likes to give them real names from all over the world, not just Japan or North America. He like it when the male and female characters can fight at the same level because he dislikes Chickafacation and Double Standards Finally he tends to make entire idea after seeing one thing, like a Japanese ex-military man turned Mercenary with water magic after seeing The Transporter for the first time. One other thing that is Author Appeal to this troper, is that if any of the character he made up were to say meet Shinji from Fate/Stay Night or any character like him, they would have to be held back from beating said character like Shinji to near-death.

This troper has included lesbian encounters in all but three of his stories, and also tends to focus character-wise on ActionGirl-type characters. He has also used incest and bestiality quite a bit in his work, and is not adverse to applying NaughtyTentacles either (but tries to avoid Chickification). He has also used his work as a platform for political commentary at times, usually in order to slam the religious right. Strangely enough, this troper only rarely applies his infamous breastmilk {{Fetish}} to his stories.

All of this troper's female main characters are smart sarcastic redheads, as are all his girlfriends. His only porn story was about albeit [[WordOfGod lesbian cunnilingus]]. But he came here to tell of the co-worker, an illustrator, who was hired to draw a beautiful woman. He drew his wife, who unfortunately wasn't his patron's idea of a beautiful woman.

Most of this troper's original story ideas include a very high ratio of women to men, as she tends to mentally default to female when designing characters. She also tends to include {{Action Girl}}s, {{Bifauxnen}}, {{Meganekko}}, and transwomen. She has a fondness for improbably cool costuming, particularly {{SpyCatsuit}}s, {{BadassLongcoat}}s, and anything with a historical influence, although she believes in giving her action heroines comfortable shoes and avoiding body armor that leaves most vital organs exposed. For bad guys, she favors {{MadScientist}}s, Baroness types (generally of the Scary Lesbian variety, and paired up with a PerkyFemaleMinion or DarkChick MoralityPet / Love Interest), {{AntiVillain}}s, and various sorts of evil conspiracies. LesYay and at least one character with some kind of physical oddness (lycanthropy, physical mutation from experimenting on herself, interesting scars in a more mundane setting) are fairly ubiquitous. All her protagonists like animals, and a disproportionate number of them are vegetarians.

This troper has a novel in progress, several original short stories and oodles of fanfiction in which she can find many of her favorite tropes and archetypes. There is always one short girl with long dark hair and blue eyes, based off my high school buddy who I always thought was absolutely stunning. Her love interest is (usually) tall, blond, and tends to be a bit of a joker. Their relationship is more often than not described by a quote from said novel: "Yes, I know I'm supposed to be the knight in shining armor, but it's not quite as satisfying when you know damned well that the damsel in question can slay her own dragons with no trouble at all." Close relationships between same-sex buddies get played up whenever possible. Tall, gangly {{Badass Bookworm}}s (especially of the chemist/alchemist type, in fantasy settings), {{Action Girl}}s in black, and old men with scars and stories show up regularly, as well. And anyone with snakes in their motif? Run away very, very fast.

Kate?

Nope, the name's Jessica. Nice to know I'm not the only one with said interests, though.

Come to think of it, this troper has a few examples herself. She likes a bit of {{Backstory}} and has written around three or four sets of twins in her lifetime - two of which are related to each other in a BigScrewedUpFamily sort of way. She likes to name characters after other fictional characters, or at least, she likes giving her more criminally-minded characters assumed names of other criminal/evil characters. For example, her blond biochemist vampire RP character's last name is Seymour-Parrish, making his nickname Sy. Sy Parrish? ''One Hour Photo''? She also writes her stories and her novel-in-progress in a universe where EveryoneIsBi, and has a thing for {{MemeticOutfit}}s: her OmnicidalManiac cannot be seen without his pair of rainbow suspenders, the UnluckyChildhoodFriend and many others are {{Meganekko}}, and most of her characters are either very tall or very short.

Some of my tics include making independent, rationally-thinking female leads (without drifting into Main/StrawFeminist territory either), dark-haired and dark-skinned (but not too dark). I view most of my characters as atheistic (it doesn't mean they're heartless jerks devoid of spirituality, just that they don't believe in any gods). I like to sneak in references to computers or other information technology, and characters reasonably competent in them. The preferred form of government I like to feature is adhocracy meritocracy, so I'll throw in a Main/WastelandElder or two into my future stories. I also have a thing for transformations in the broadest sense (including {{Magical Girl}}s) and cross-gender exploration. While traditional Main/GenderBender characters don't fit the settings I'm interested in, cross-gender Main/FreakyFriday scenarios will be almost a given.

This troper's main protagonists have nearly always been three or more of the following: Blonde, left-handed, female, possessing some mental disorder, asexual, a DeadpanSnarker, psychic, or {{Fille Fatale}}s.

@/InsanityPrelude seems to have a thing for {{Action Girl}}s, improbably cool costumes (and lampshading it,) unusual hair colors and happy endings.

This troper's stories always have a male main character who is a VillainProtagonist and a WellIntentionedExtremist (or sometimes, not so well intentioned...) BadAss. In addition, he generally wears black, and if it is possible (I.E., he wasn't a poor orphan or somesuch,) dresses very formally, usually with a BadassLongcoat or just plain ol' military BDU's, which this troper himself always wears. In addition, he is usually of average attractiveness, never gets the girl, and always has horrible things happen to him, up to and including horrific death. {{Downer Ending}}s make up about 50% of this troper's endings, as well. And of course, any important female will be small-framed, tough as hell, with dark hair and a distinct lack of the MostCommonSuperpower.

For some reason, @/RadioactiveZombie keeps using people named "Dover" or variations of "Glenstone". Some are bishonen (yes, they look like they were taken from an anime) who either an odd cross between Rei, Sousuke Sagara, and Ninja Raiden with white hair, a Deadpool expy, if Deadpool was a master of disguise and was a bishonen in his normal persona, or are bearded Yahtzee expys, scary black men, or naive detectives. All are British and aren't the main character, but are still major (except one). Dunno why. Oh, and their eyes never show, something I riffed off from H-doujin games where you ''never'' see their eyes, excepting the non-bishonen ones.

Oh, and there's always a full-body combat suit worn by someone that's based off a video game EliteMook, minus the GagSeries this troper's written.

And two of them are submissive!

And he's honored to be featured on SomethingAwful's "hate on tropers" thread. (Yes, not the correct name. No one cares)

This troper has found a lot of recurring themes and characteristics in her work, including but not limited to: Interesting/plot-related heath problems, SpaceMadness, androids with weird programming glitches, BadassBookworm and HitManWithAHeart characters (even better if they overlap!), Dark Skinned Brunettes, characters who are NotGoodWithPeople (both forms), PeekABangs, BrokenBird characters of either gender, strange but natural physical features, Non Action Guys, Strange Girls, LockedInToStrangeness, StoicSpectacles, and for some reason, characters who aren't even crazy tend to live in what looks like a cross between a RoomFullOfCrazy and a HackerCave. All my plots seem to take place in a world in which you have to EarnYourHappyEnding. A typical FiveManBand for me would consist of an {{Unlucky Everydude}}/{{Non Action Guy}} type, a ShrinkingViolet or MysteriousWaif of the non-magical type (who may be Everydude's Childhood Friend), a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, a CareerKiller of some type (usually also a ZenSurvivor), and a {{Gadgeteer Genius}}/{{Wrench Wench}}/{{Badass Bookworm}} character. If it's even dealt with at all, I'm a big fan of the OffscreenAfterlife. (To give context, the softer end of sci-fi is my thing.)

This troper will often include female characters with names that end with(or otherwise include) -a. All her characters tend to be quite intelligent and at least one of them will be left-handed, though it probably won't be the main character (being left-handed herself, she's afraid that'll be too obvious). She likes writing dystopian societies, stories that somehow include a rebel faction, and (if she can work it in the storyline) dimensional travel. At least one person will get hurt (most often they'll get shot and/or fall down cliffs). The Hero's best friend is very likely the one to get hurt or even killed, which might lead to HeroicBSOD (though not always). Also, something will always be the matter with a watch. It might be something very minor that's only mentioned once, or it might be a plot point or a MementoMacGuffin, but there will be a watch somehow.

This troper's stories usually feature female main characters. No matter how serious the subject matter can be, I like to include humor in them in some way. If there is a male love interest, he usually has long hair and is slightly older than the protagonist. I also like to add time travel or other science fiction themes, even if the story isn't sci-fi at all.

This troper likes to see how much HoYay he can sneak under the radar in his stories before people start to notice (in one story, it took the inclusion of a ''foot massage'' scene between two of the main characters before some people started to question anyone's sexuality, and even still no one questioned mine). This troper also greatly enjoys making his characters fairly dysfunctional people and is sometimes tempted to go a bit overboard. This troper also has little use for notions of traditional femininity and his female characters tend to be either iron-willed women who serve as their boyfriends'/husbands' common sense and/or brains or badass Action Girls.

This troper fills his stories with conspiracies and long-reaching {{Xanatos Gambit}}s, because he loves the idea that there is more to the world than what there seems. He also enjoys mixing magic and hard science. He is fascinated by military history, despite being a card-carrying pacifist, and his characters tend to be similar. He also likes KnightTemplar characters, many of which are actually the heroes. He has no patience for stupid people, so most of his characters, good or evil, tend to be intellectuals of one sort or another. There is also in unhealthy obsession with the letter 'V' and his most definitely non-Freudian love of swords, especially in a modern setting. Also: RuleOfCool abuse.

This troper has gradually found himself increasing the time dedicated to a pairing initially introduced for a quick multiple entendre gag...because the idea of a hypersexual loli was just too much fun to give up. Okay, it was more than just that...it was also the way she has her nearly-twice-her-age boyfriend ''whipped'', and the way she seems to take a perverse pleasure in {{squick}}ing her older sister out with this relationship. Maybe it's just that I feel like because she's so young, there's nothing that I can't have her do. Wait...

Also, interestingly colored eyes. I'd give a color, but I ''still don't know what color mine are.''

This troper has a tendency to make his lead female characters redheads, {{Tsundere}} and then pair them with main character based on the Author. Said main character also tends to be a {{Deadpan Snarker}} and {{Genre Savvy}}

This troper's characters usually dress in trench coats and fishnets with goth pants, who are either brutally nihilistic or in denial.

This Troper has a powerful enjoyment of Crowning Moments of Awesome, to the point that he pushes all his focus towards these and figures out how the hell to get to them later. He also has a tendency to make action hero types, and to play with new tropes he finds. Spiky hair and big swords are very common, as are giant robots, and Generation Xeroxes. He's managed to use the same basic female design(long, coppery-toned hair and blue eyes, t-shirt, cargo pants, sneakers/boots) in THREE generations of a family line, including gender-bending. Oh yes, there is a lot of gender-bending. Far too much.

This troper is a long-time roleplayer. The other players' characters, for the first few stories in which he participated, ''all'' had some kind of unusual appearance -- wings, horns, bright green hair...this isn't really a ''bad'' thing, though -- at least, not until you realize that the game in question (Ars Magica) took place in ''11-th Century Europe''. After a few repetitions, this troper started a new storyline and reminded his players that 'in the Middle Ages, people generally didn't have giant glowing wings and green hair'.

This troper has a thing with making blondes evil and making them always have brown eyes and. The results are that brunettes always have various eye colors She also has a habit of making her good female characters with with really long hair and all her evil female characters being bifauxnen. Also, all her good male characters have short hair and all the evil men have long hair.I also like all my characters of both genders to be equal in power. There is the appeal of making the Catholic Church as a force for good. As well as making them happily adopted or at least have a parent give up their childern because they are mentally ill and can't care of their kids themselves. Obvoisly there there are therpaist who are very helpful. You can see I like to avert or subvert some tropes you see to much of these days.

This troper, looking back on it, has hoards of HoYay with at least one guy looking fairly feminine. This guy will inevitably have a deep, sexy voice and has a high chance of wearing skirts. Her female characters tend to be either androgynous or extremely curvy. Most of her characters have wings, tails, horns or other non-human features, or have shapeshifting. And an unusual number have tentacles of some sort...

This troper has great trouble writing anything that doesn't eventually involve mental or emotional breakdowns of some sort. HeroicBSOD, FreakOut, LoveMakesYouEvil/Crazy, GoMadFromTheRevelation, {{Yandere}}, AxCrazy... She just seems inordinately fascinated by the process of a person losing their sanity. When she's not writing about crazy people, she's writing about YaoiGuys with significant age gaps. If the story is set in modern times, there will always eventually be a character who's a heavy metal aficionado and a character who's a female-to-male {{Transsexual}} (or at least a WholesomeCrossdresser).

This troper rarely writes original fiction, but when the muse strikes, the female lead is ALWAYS a short, cute goth chick with a heaping helping of DeadpanSnarker. When he's feeling truly self indulgent, the male lead will be a tall, quiet intellectual who's secretly a huge nerd and extremely observant. Oh, and these two will always end up in a romantic subplot. Even when writing fanfiction, this tends to crop up, as this troper's modern day AU settings for his Avatar fics frequently feature Toph as said cute goth chick, and Sokka as a giant nerd.

This troper, despite being a male, will invariably make his characters an {{Action Girl}} and/or the epitome of {{Evil Is Sexy}}. He's never quite understood why.

This trope uses hair as the most distinguishing aspect of any character. His main character is always male, but there is a female counterpart that is always either physically stronger than the main or more of the Badass when a BadassNormal is needed but is not a StrawFeminist and may even be the MamaBear. They will never be a designated couple. People just happen to be whatever race, sexuality, or religion, and will often have beliefs that run counter to the sterotype. For instance, a black guy may be the most uncool and AgentMulder of the bunch, and the gay character is a devoute Christian. GreyAndGrayMorality abound, villains rarely stay that way for long, delving into KnightTemplar or WellIntentionedExtremist.

This troper has been a DM for several years now, and a running joke leftover from my early days is that every half-elf is female, has red hair and green eyes. I guess I've got a type...

This troper had a wtf moment when she realized that in two of her fandoms (well, one's a fandom, one's part-fandom part-original universe) her favorite characters to write are the blue-haired, glasses-wearing, tsunderes who blush ''really'' easily and are involved in love triangles. One of the other members of the triangles are invariably tall Deadpan Snarkers who are ridiculously attractive and stuck in contracts they can't get out of. If the third members were anything like each other, she'd call herself out on plagiarism.

This troper tends to write and draw genius bruisers paired with petite, snarky black-haired little ladies, as well as a quite a few examples of UglyGuyHotWife, which I think is subconscious wish-fulfillment. Oh, and way too many belts and zippers.

This troper has a real problem with utterly neglecting to give her characters any sexual interests or lustful behaviours unless they are relevant to the plot. When they do turn up, the story tends to be dismissive of them and consider them unimportant. She's an asexual who has no clue how to write such a thing, how influential such things are or even notices their absence until consciously looking for them.

This troper's planned works involve a lot of DarkIsNotEvil and subversions of BadPowersBadPeople, with OrderVersusChaos, {{BadassLongcoat}}s, and {{DeadpanSnarker}}s thrown in. Strangely enough, despite the first two, his recent RPG characters have included a demon-summoning sociopath who tricked another PC into signing his soul over to Choronzon in exchange for nothing, drove an angel insane and handed him over to Asmodai, became a Duke of Hell and won the [=GMs=]' award for unmitigated evil.

This troper has many stories where at least one character is a small, slender male with pale skin, dark hair who can kick almost everybody else's ass. Nintey percent of the time, they're also gay with a boyfriend who is twice their size and at least a decade older.

This troper has a thing for animalistic characters with feathers, horns, or scales rather than fur. The major characters' love interests in her various stories include a naga, an amphibious fish-boy, a kind of winged elf, and a troll, although she does a few stories where the main character ends up with a human. Often, it's also a May-December romance or the two age a vastly different rates. Most of the main characters are bookish and/or wear glasses. Thematically, there's often a strong thread of people created or raised and then abandoned or marginalized, in some for or another, and she always puts far too much research into any mythological element she wants to include.

This troper absolutely '''hates''' the {{Overprotective Dad}} and {{Freud Was Right}} tropes, and so none of his protagonists in his {{Marvel Comics}} fanfiction are ever depicted as having had sex before marriage, despite the fact that many of them are in university. This troper also went out of his way to make the "Overprotective Dad" a genuinely nice guy, who approves of the protagonist dating his daughter. This troper also finds smoking to be an absolutely disgusting {{Fetish Retardant}}, so almost none of them smoke, either. On the other hand, he also finds pointe, ballet, and tap dancing to be major {{Fetish Fuel}}, and as a result many of his female protagonists, or the female love interests of his male protagonists, are skilled dancers themselves.

Nobody seems to ever notice that this troper is constantly finding excuses for his female characters to be barefoot. Given the sheer number of times he does it, he can only take this to mean that he's ''really'' good at integrating it into the story.

This troper's novel is actually quite violent and depressing. It's planned as a trilogy. Two people, one major character and one minor, survive. The major character that survives is the only one in the entire series to have decent relationships, which actually end up tragically.

This troper is only working on one story, but I have a thing for gloves, ScarfOfAsskicking, and the occasional NiceHat. A good majority of the heroes and antagonists wear gloves (the ones that don't...well...I dunno). Oh, and I've dabbled a bit in HighPressureBlood and NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. But mainly, I like hats, scarves, and gloves.

This one, whenever he writes a new story, always includes the following three elements: a) There will always be a hard-nosed by-the-book male character, or indeed, even an entire culture. b) There will always be a CatGirl, or an adult dressed in Gothic Lolita. c) There is always a character that makes off-color comments.

This Troper draws a lot of Pettanko and Shorttank characters. When he does nude or semi-nude drawings, they're all slightly embarrassed but otherwise unperturbed...

This troper always make stories with jew protagonists or at least, as very important characters; The fact that 90% of my fiction takes place on NY or LA and in the showbiz doesn't help either...

Looking through his various universes, this troper has noticed that he includes balloons or airships as the main form of transportation in a lot of his alternate universes. He also has a weird habit of giving a female character his own personal issues. He also wrote two universes based entirely on stuff he thinks is really cool - one based on stuff he finds cool now, such as {{Medical Drama}}s, Pirates and Woobies; the other based upon his fantasies, games and other fun times he had when he was a kid, such as travelling through alternate universes, camping, and Mons. The second is slightly more deconstructive, however. He has also noticed that his more action-orientated characters tend to be female. He suspects influence from Joss Whedon here, plus a pre-existing dislike of traditional gender roles. Finally, he loves teaming up a cynic and an idealist, as well as deeply flawed characters who overcome themselves to become awesome.

This troper seems to constantly be having characters walk into a scene at precisely the right moment to hear themselves being talked about or to make a timely comment on the situation. He's a tad self-conscious about this tendency, so he almost invariably lampshades it.

This troper has the tendency to make far more of his characters martial artists than is demographically probable, and has to resist the urge to give characters martial training when there is absolutely no point, story or character wise, in their having it.

This Troper is a bit too fond of long, soft, flowing hair, on both genders. Don't look for rugged, unshaven heroes in my stories. I love elaborate costume designs, usually involving rather revealing costumes with bright color schemes and a lot of buttons. Magi-Tech environments abound, and the JigsawPuzzlePlot seems to work its way into every story (I'm fond of having multiple good, neutral and evil parties with various agendas... it makes the stories rather complicated, but more interesting). Oh, and regular as clockwork, at least one young, attractive female character will have a lethally biting wit and a perpetually-snarky attitude... and be one of the good team.

One person in this troper's roleplay group insisted repeatedly that she be allowed to shrink another character to Tinkerbell-sized, with a slightly unnerving zeal. This would thereby render the shrunk character at the mercy of hers. ''Does not want.''

This troper isn't much of a writer, but has done quite a bit of tabletop roleplaying, and has noticed some similarities in her characters. All of the following are non-sexual. Most of this troper's characters are: female, broken birds (although not the type who act aggressive; snark and sarcasm are more on the witty than nasty side), shorter than average to very short, petite in build, well-educated, smart/charismatic rather than physically strong, magic users if magic is part of the setting, musicians/performers (generally singers; even if this is not the character's profession, she almost always can do it well), unlucky in love (at least in their backstories - their crushes/lovers/husbands never reciprocated, reciprocated but ended up being jerks, or reciprocated, ended up being nice, and then were killed), not particularly close to their parents but with no animosity, only children or not close to their siblings, good with animals (character frequently has a pet or familiar and in one case could turn into a chipmunk), skilled at Social Fu, and somewhat overconfident about the success of their plans. They've frequently been in situations that made them seem like the DistressedDamsel type, until they a) take a level in badass or b) reveal that it was part of their larger plan - current character let herself be captured by minions so that they would take her to the big bad's lair; the rest of the party followed stealthily and did recon, broke troper's character out, and took a higher-level minion prisoner when it turned out that the big bad was not present. The "damsel" delivered a speech to the imprisoned villain (who'd had the usual plans for her) that turned out to be a CMOA for her.

This troper always makes her bad boys devistatingly attractive and wear skimpy outfits. Most of her heterosexual female characters have some Degree of Yaoi-Fangirlness.

This troper's fanfics and stories usually have a scene with a girl and a toilet. Oh, and all the characters love tea.

This troper has a list. One part of it is her method of making characters. She puts a trait of herself in all of them, and then runs with it beyond recognition. They tend to be nice in some way. If they are bastards, they have a strict code. They often have a father figure that was a good role model for them. The girls tend to be social or brainy, and very, very good at being the trickster or just have a sense of humor that one can call demented. The guys tend to be attractive gentlemen and have some measure of intelligence/geek to them. They are also mostly straight. Very straight, though comfortable with homosexuality. She also has noticed that she can't help but to figure out the kinks of her characters, main or not. If a character is someone who sex may turn up for, she ends up figuring out what makes them really get interested. Oh, and she tends to end up writing porn for said characters. The child prodigies are safe from this, normally because even when they grow up, they'll be asexual. Clothes? They tend to be practical and modest, all the better to hide things in. Oh, and not one of them are comparatively busty to the troper, including the tall, bulky GentleGiant. Mainly because the troper's boobs are almost GagBoobs.

This troper cannot resist killing main characters, and is so restricted to very morbid one-shots. Also, a large portion of his stories tend to feature young soldiers innocence being utterly crushed before they die. Firing squads are the preferred method of execution.

Hello there, male me.

This troper added in his book a character who's his ideal type of girl: a half-HotAmazon half-YamatoNadeshiko, green-eyed, readhead, 6 feet and 3 inches tall, well-endowed, virgin Angel way more powerful than the main character whose beauty (in my fantasy, EvilIsSexy but BeautyEqualsGoodness) stuns even girls. The only reason she isn't a Mary Sue is because there are more powerful characters around, she is a supporting character with sporadical appearance and sometimes those traits are played for laughs. The troper also likes to write about insane characters!

If you had said "blue eyes" and "flat-chested" instead of "green eyes" and "well-endowed," you would have almost perfectly described someone I knew in high school. (Well, okay, she's only 6'02", but... close enough!)

This troper's protagonists all tend to be very religious or at least spiritually minded, prone to being {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s if not {{Knight Templar}}s, and usually hang out on the cynical end of the scale. Most of them are also more knowledgable about classical literature than it would make any sense for them to be, and are the frequent targets of teasing from their allies.

This troper has a rather unbridled fetish for insane, AxCrazy, skinny guys. Guess who saves the day and gets the girl in her stories? Yep.

Almost every single important male in this Troper's stories is tall. Very tall. Nothing less than six feet tall is acceptable. The exact characteristics of the men in question vary depending on what's currently attractive (hence the Author Appeal), but they're almost always significantly taller than the (usually short) heroine. Naturally, this leads to a lot of Huge Guy Tiny Girl. There are also an awful lot of male {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s or characters with similar traits.

This troper writes mainly snarky, sarcastic, highly intelligent female characters. Some have been {{Action Girl}}s, but her favorite ones have used brains rather than brawn to get out of bad situations. Male love interests are intelligent, handsome, and sympathetic, and while they like the main character, they are often frustrated or confused by her idiosyncracies, but fall in love with her anyway. A lot of the time, a plainer main character girl will get the handsome guy in the send. Wish fulfillment, who me?

This troper is guilty of this as well. Gay male AuthorAvatar in his [=DnD=] game aside, he also finds himself guilty of both Age Fixation (early teens) and Gender/LGBT fixation, with a majority of characters in his stories and games ending up as lesbian, gay, or bi. No transgenders yet.

This Troper has found himself...interested in exploring bisexuality through his fiction. The (male) main character of his current work-in-progress has slept with a girl, but a future encounter with another boy (who recently revealed he was in a relationship with a girl himself) is being foreshadowed. Bizarrely enough, I geniunely think of myself as pretty straight...right?

One of my Zelda fanfic {{Original Character}}s is quite possibly the ''sum'' of what I find attractive in females. Tall... ahem full bodied, dark skin, and bookish and kinda nerdy. All she's missing is glasses.

I have a personal interest in things like weird nature (particularly marine life), mythology, urban legends and the supernatural that finds it's way in to a lot of my work. Even things slightly more grounded in reality tend to see this show up either thematically or through character design.

This troper could probably come up with a few examples of this in his work, but the first that comes to mind is asymmetrical romantic pairings. It could be anywhere from age to race to species, but the common thread seems to be two people who fall in love as equals, in spite of -- and ''because of'' -- differences that some would consider insurmountable.

Oh God. This troper's include genderfuck, gay relationships, glasses, LadyOfWar types in the highest positions, AffablyEvil villains (with the occasional CompleteMonster just to shake things up), and many, ''many'' philosophical souls. He despises InnocenceVirginOnStupidity and MenAreUncultured with the intensity of a dying star; heroic characters are never depicted as ever having had casual sexual encounters (or at least none that they don't subsequently really, ''really'' regret) and his male leads tend to be at the very ''least'' knowledgeable about English literature. At one point a character who isn't even depicted as being overly religious laughs when asked if she's sexually active and says 'oh, no! I'm not even married'. All the women are Snark Knights, all the men are kinda girly, and all the children...are WiseBeyondTheirYears. He has a thing for making the most BenevolentBoss in the story a villain and at least one hero a BadBoss (in a KnightTemplar sort of way). Characters often play gender ping-pong or end up in Gender Stand-Alone Complexes. Almost every female character not in a relationship with a main male character is gay. If it isn't a JigsawPuzzlePlot it isn't worth writing. {{God}} is discussed a lot, and on the occasional appearances when the Most High actually puts in an appearance it's God, Jim, but ''very much'' Not As We Know Him. He loves making references to other works of fiction and having characters who are casually involved in fandoms of series with a similar genre to the story in which the characters exist (GenreSavvy is fun to write!). You know what else is fun? ''ViewersAreGeniuses''.

Update: I let my psychologist read some of my stories. She said something to the effect of 'why do all of your stories feature a TallDarkAndBishoujo LipstickLesbian with a morally ambiguous character, a hidden agenda, fluctuating but always high levels of angst and emotional repression, and an IQ somewhere between genius-level and practically omniscient'? 'Why do you think?' asked this troper. Troper's psychologist smiled at him and said, 'You have one ''HELL'' of a fetish there.'

This troper has recently noticed that a ''lot'' of her main characters are brilliant, intensely geeky, snarky, and bespectacled. For the most part these aren't based on attraction -- rather, they're what she falls into writing, because both she and most of her friends are like that -- but she did end up with a case of textbook AuthorAppeal when she wrote a genius redhead with glasses.

This troper's female characters are almost always brunette, but better looking than the blonds (because this troper is a proud brunette, of course) and they also usually have blue or orange highlights in there hair and/or wicked awesome tattoos, both of which this this troper will be getting as soon as possible.

This troper's story ideas usually contain non-evil (if not outright heroic) practitioners of necromancy, worlds with both magic and technology, steampunk mecha; usually insectoid (which is strange because he despises every last variety of real life insects and their relatives) and being big enough to have huge cities on them. He also has characters who are dangerously insane, dangerously sane as well as harmlessly insane. He also seems to love subverting ai is a crapshoot and his villains are always only doing what they think is right.

This troper's (the one responsible for the ScarfOfAsskicking page) most recent works, a trilogy of sorts that is officially at the halfway point (26 chapters per part, 13 chapters into part 2) that is greatly inspired by reading up about things here and watching anime... especially the works of GoNagai. The works could be considered loveletters of sorts, involving slight homages to MazingerZ, GetterRobo, TheBigO, NeonGenesisEvangelion, SamuraiShodown, Killer7, Darkstalkers... and is currently pitting the heroes against a villainous pastiche of {{WITCH}} whilst deconstructing ideals from that series *and* SaintSeiya.

This troper is writing her own story/book, and the characters are all turning into fuckers...

1, this troper is obsessed with black hair (she's blonde to the point that everyone fawns over her hair, and comments as to how gorgeous it is, when all she ever wanted was black hair), so most of her characters have black hair and strange eyes (normally green or grey or blue), 2, she isn't really good at turning her characters into their own selves, and 3, she keeps adding supernatural stuff, like abilities... This really is not working...

This Troper, who is an avid writer of those internetty roleplaying-y whatchacall'ems, specifically sci-fi ones, maintains that you have to have a race of aliens that are blue-skinned. Blue aliens are to sci-fi what elves are to fantasy. Anyway, also commonly featured are strong female characters, villains with good publicity and an amazon brigade. A whole race of amazon brigade, but not actually hot. They go in for scarring, tattoos and piercings. They're also seven feet tall. Secretly I'm scared that this is what turns me on?

This Troper found this to be a good source of material for a creative writing course. First story dealt with various theories of the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (with a ShoutOut to the song), second one was a hard sci-fi story (also TemptingFate, as the teacher said he loathes Science Fiction), and the last one included the rest of the kitchen sink. Also, for one in-class excersize TT wrote a CosmicHorrorStory.

This troper has such a deep love of "Nagaiburns" - the large, often unnaturally pointy or fiery sideburns featured in the works of GoNagai or KenIshikawa, that he's started adding them to most of his female characters. No, really! Though in this case, they're assumed to be stylized bangs in front of the ears instead of actual facial hair. And it looks good! See {{Devilman}} for an example of a female character with a full blown pair of these [[http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2554/snapshot20090129175029kt7.jpg]].

I dig giant robots. As well as gunslingers, action girls, badass longcoats, trickster-Gods, magical knights, heroic legacies, campbellian heroes, steampunk, masked cavaliers, pulp magazines, Ditkoian magic, super-speedsters, spiders (though I'm terrified of 'em), explorer-adventurers, meaningful names, and characters with super-strength. Oh, and mythological super-heroes. And NIKOLA TESLA.

This troper will always roleplay or write about a tall dark and bishoujo action girl/lady of war (bonus points if she's a broken bird or dual wields), a stoic zen survivor with mandatory scars and badass longcoat, and a short redheaded BoisterousBruiser with mechanical aptitude who frequently abuses fake accents and buffy speak. I've used this trio (and several others depending on the plot) so much that they're practically a CommediaDellArteTroupe. For some reason I also really like black hair paired with blue eyes. Oh, and Russia, I am absolutely fascinated with Russia and the Soviet Union.

Raekuul is proud to admit that the heroine of his current project that never goes anywhere is a somewhat tall, blue-and-blonde B-Cup ActionGirl-plus-StaffChick mashup.

This troper has an irrational obsession with this trope. At least two of her protagonists are Viziers trying to prove they ''aren't'' evil, and one of her villains is the trope played (mostly) straight. She even went so far as to create a Viziers' Academy, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Putting good characters who like snakes, or perfectly nice harmless reptiles in, is another recurring thread since she thinks reptiles are ''not'' abhorrent.

If this troper wrote more fanfiction, it would contain many or all of the following: Action girls, female main characters, red heads, characters with blue eyes, characters who are left handed, women in bondage (whether being dominated by a male or female, it doesn't matter), and characters who wear any of the following: sleek sunglasses, nightvision goggles, bandannas, skull caps, sleeveless shirts, face masks, and Badass Longcoats of any type. Also, most of this troper's male characters have no qualms about hitting women.

@/{{Amadeous}} didn't realize it up until recently, but all of his female designs incorperate either a skirt/dress and long socks or stockings. I've actually had to edit a few designs to have shorts or pants. Along with that, the main female characters are usually soft-spoken and reserved. As for the males, they're usually harder and stoic, but not overly-muscular. Also, longcoats and capes. Finally, there's a lot of religious tones and motifs in my stories, except the problem being I'm atheist. Don't know how that works.

This troper's work almost always involves some sort of marginalized or hidden subculture, the members of which are often artificially created or altered - genetic experiments, magically created beings, that sort of thing. Communism, in some form or another, tends to show up, always in a positive or at least neutral light. And the main characters are generally human - or closer to human than the rest of the cast - with a vaguely bestial or animalistic love interest. Often, they have kids.

The girls I like to do won't always look at least a bit like myself, but the boys... Ah, these. Always the cute nerdy gentleman kind, that can also do house chores, that this troper fails at doing. To be honest, this tropers squee at Ishida Uryuu like a teenaged Twitard, just because he fits that appeal to a T. Including the EXTREME sewing abilities. The nearest I found is my boyfriend, but he probably is worse at house chores than me. Oh, and nanobots. Although they are used in a more realistic setting and don't break as easily as they do in fiction; also, their functions are usually regarded as life support and auxiliars, not substituting any of the already existant systems, biological or not. Also, freaks, there will always be quirky and freaky people, as, to this troper, there's no normality. Ah, I remember now... YouGottaHaveBlueHair. And green eyes. Almost every main character in my histories are like this. The green eyes are partly for jealousy, since her mother has green eyes, her father had medium brown, but I have almost black eyes. Nah, I look too much like my father to be a bastard child. Well, the characters that tend to get my quirks tend to be clumsy, cook really bad, and sing decently, despise not really being into music, inspired in myself, due to the sheer amount of hilarity and unexpectance these situations cause to others even in real life. Of course, they'll be bullied like Hell as well.

By 'do', you mean create, right?

This editor always, ''always'' has at least one non-human character in whatever she writes. Generally it's canines, but she'll find some way to include a fuzzy mammal of some sort. (Needless to say, whenever she writes fantasy, the inhuman characters far outnumber the human ones.) Also, her cast of characters ''always'' includes a violent, definitely unfeminine female. She's combined the two ''twice'': one resulted in an undead mouse-like HeroicSociopath BountyHunter, and the other resulted in a HeroicSociopath Big Badass Demon She-Wolf BloodKnight. And for some reason, most of her characters are male.

This troper has just noticed that a high percentage of his characters are in an inter-racial relationship. In fact there are only two none inter-racial ones. One ended in a divorce and they became friends. The other had both parties cheating on each other so ... yeah.

Also, The number 5. To the degree of any character with numbers in their name having exactly 5 digits, and at least one of these digits has to be the number 5. And all important numbers are a multiple of 5.

And many of my friends have pointed out my (huge) obsession with dragons.

This troper rather enjoys creating main female characters that are darkhaired and intelligent. Whether they are reclusive or not depends on what mood she's in--not to mention creating a blonde character as an evil foil is also pretty common. Also for LesYay.

This Troper, (who'll get around to actually putting something on paper someday, damnit!) seems rather fond of redhaired girls, HumongousMecha, {{Perkygoth}}s, corsets, women with long wavy hair, the hot older woman, women with generous proportions (screw you, StrawFeminist, I'll draw boobies and ass if I want to), and strong female characters who aren't WellExcuseMePrincess or {{Tsundere}} types, or "lol female role model lolz"... and also has a love of HotBlooded male leads and heroes giving speeches about why objective morality is awesome and nihilism is for losers. Preferably while in a SuperRobot. Never said I wasn't strange.

This Troper's Fantasy protagonists tend to be small, dark haired and reserved intellectuals with zero magic ability or fighting skills that rely on their wits to survive. Troubling perhaps, but elements of incest creep into his work, he blames George RR Martin, as well as many a MayDecemberRomance.Chivalry is also a major theme in everything he writes, drawing on DonQuixote a lot as well as more serious chivalric ballads. Other worlds ala ChroniclesOfNarnia and HisDarkMaterials also seem to be something of an AuthorAppeal. Luckily, those small, dark haired intellectuals don't tend tobe an example of an Author Insert, as this troper is close to six feet tall, has reddish brown hair and is quite broad and boistrous.

A friend once tried to analyse my writing in terms of common motifs etc and got stuck after she found too many. To try and list as many as I can think of, I usually have a strong female secondary character, usually with a much weaker male lead who relies on them greatly. (Taken to extremes with a story about a cloned soldier with psychological issues up the wazoo, and his main female love interest, an exceptionally powerful witch with magical power which could end the world in a stray thought, hmm) Also, so many of my characters have turned out bisexual, usually by accident, and there is a strong tendency for readers to see various scenes as sexual, when I never intended them that way. Often this includes themes of being captured and rendered helpless. Snipers are an extremely common theme, usually as villains with hearts of gold (See sub-reference, obsession with Sniper Wolf at age 13), usually female, bisexual, villanous snipers with hearts of gold who defect to join the weak lead male character. At least four of them. Villains who defect and turn to the side of good are common, mostly because I get too attached to the character and don't want to kill them. Pistols are somewhat of an obsession, along with sniper rifles (surprise!). Almost every single character will have a badass longcoat, unless they are the weak male lead. A general love of cultural references also finds its way into everything, extending far beyond a casual name drop. Also, I base almost every single character on people who I know, resulting in people I don't like becoming villains who get slaughtered in increasingly messy ways, and people I like becoming almost deified by the end of the series.

This Troper has noticed a tendency for his work to contain something about Elements and, by extension, Elementals, who are usually normal people that somehow gain elemental powers (be it through TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt or genetic experiments). His artwork usually has, most often completely unjustified, pointed elven ears even in the more scifi (and even realistic) setting drawings. He's also gone to great lengths to justify some sort of GenderBender situation in his works, though it's usually just one character and not treated like a big deal.

This troper's characters have, more often than not, an outward design that completely opposes their personality. Also, she absolutely ''loves'' to BreakTheCutie and the non-Cutie, and does so precisely after everything seems like it's gonna be alright. Her favourite, and most-used character archetype? The MagnificentBastard.

If this troper ever goes anywhere with his writing, critics and reviewers are going to very swiftly note his obsession with golems/magical constructs, the undead, and the mechanics of magic, which is almost always some form of rule magic. And the color blue prominently displayed in the visual effects of said magic.

So far, the only lead character this troper has ever written that was openly religious was a devout Jew. This troper is not Jewish (but DID do the research, thank you very much). She also has a tendency to write characters who are in some noticeable way out of the ordinary, since she herself is strange and has difficulty getting into the mindset of normal people. Redheads of both sexes make an appearance, as do immortals of varying types, and strange eye colors such as gold or acid green tend to show up as well. Her favorite OC yet, however, has none of those traits, and is a very pissed-off revenant to boot, and to date, this troper wonders why the related story was one of the few she's managed to finish.

This Troper tends to have a lot of important eye colors in his characters, big dark cities, and lots of scarfs.

Troper has something of a thing for Wrench Wenches, who tend to be redheads. Also a thing for Badass Normals; especially when combined with a Badass Grandpa. Both tend to feature heavily in his stories.

This troper has a thing for redheads with green eyes, so whenever he has an AuthorAvatar in any short story, there's a smart and sexy redhead with green eyes who ends up with him.

This troper's male characters fall into two categories: A HotBlooded {{Determinator}} with an undeniable heart of gold, and an equally-powerful, TroubledButCute SquishyWizard. They have an extremely high rate of hooking up, but as I detest the {{Seme}}/{{Uke}} formula, I usually make both of them {{DeadpanSnarker}}s and avert the OneHeadTaller trope by making them either roughly the same height or realistically taller/shorter. (With heterosexual pairings, though, it's fair game.) Most of my characters have eyes that contrast their hair; for example, light-haired people have dark eyes and dark-haired people have light eyes. None of my characters will stand for anyone hurting their {{Nakama}}, and they will have overwhelming tendencies to be socially inept otherwise. My female characters are not unattractive, but are often considered attractive by sole approachability. They have a tendency to be quiet, compassionate, and intelligent, and while I make them proficient in combat if the story's appropriate, I commonly use them as foils for the male lead. Generally, if I don't traumatize someone over the course of the story, I'll usually have them pre-broken. In the end, everyone moves past their issues and live as normally as possible.

This troper has always tried to avert this trope by simply not mentioning the key physical features of my female leads: In my mind, they are probably redheads (occasionally blondes or light brunettes), but they are ''definitely'' short and with big blue or green eyes and freckles. Their invariably Irish last names are probably giveaways, though. Still, I thought I could finally do whatever I wanted when I was editing a novel whose author made his female lead a short, gorgeous redhead with freckles. ''He'' chose that. ''I'' didn't. So I could "Editor Appeal" to my heart's content. Then he told me that he'd decided the character should be HIV-positive, and in fact, have full-blown AIDS. I argued as long as I could, but the simple truth was, it ''did'' make more sense, given the character's choices, the time setting, the tone of the novel and the directions set up for possible sequels. So the Irish hottie has AIDS. Dammit.

This Troper is an aviation enthusiast, though I try not to let that creep intrusively into my work. Mostly. Okay, I *did* include the description of the distinctive low-throttle engine noise of a particular aircraft that few people have heard of as background for one scene...and there was the time I outlined a super heavy-lift Helistat, with setting-appropriate codename AND roughly accurate technical capabilities, for a scene in a story where most reasonable people would have just put in a throwaway line about cargo rocket platforms or something...and there was that one instance of building a couple of fictional aircraft on a flight sim, putting them in the location and weather/lighting conditions I had in mind for the story, and using the data from flying through the scenario to figure out how to write a scene involving a landing on an AirborneAircraftCarrier with some semblance of realism (I couldn't just... y'know, make something *UP* ...it'd feel like cheating). But mostly, really, I've been good about it. Really.

This troper has included in a draft for a FantasyKitchenSink RealTimeStrategy game idea he is coming up with, among other things: a race of displaced modern-style humans (can't decide whether they are {{Eagleland}}ers or from the LandDownunder though), a race of former CrystalSpiresAndTogas magician-warriors with a HeroicAlbino leadership caste trying to get over the destruction of their world-spanning empire , and maybe some sort of DemonicInvaders supported by the denizens of ShamgriLa. On the more realistic side, he hopes to write a story with a Albino}} Albinistic LoveInterest.

Being a homosexual male, this troper ''always'' takes musculature into account when it comes to physical beauty, regardless of gender. As a result, many of his female characters (but mostly the tomboyish ones) tend to be rather buff, especially compared to real-world social standards. Switching gears, whenever his stories feature Funny Animals (which I believe is all the time), expect to see at least one bird character in it. As the troper is a fan of Satoshi Kon, the blurring between fantasy and reality is a recurring element in his works.

Whenever This Troper wants to show a character's masculinity, he kicks down doors.

This troper has... a bit of a laundry list of author appeal points, on various levels. For instance: piercings show up a lot, as do crucifixes (despite this troper, himself, being a Satanist); high boots and ponytails on guys; combat boots and belly shirts on girls; and lots and lots of neck adornments (collars are prominent) due to the troper in question's prominent neck fixation. Heck, a lot of his girls are, if not outright Wrench Wenches, at least spiritual sisters to the same... As well, the majority of his characters wind up being queer in some way (mostly gay and bisexual (mostly males-- is this troper's sexuality obvious yet?), but there are a few asexuals and transsexuals for good measure) And let's not get into the crossdressing...

This troper, who is a {{bishonen}} and HotLibrarian fetishist, and enjoys playing as a MagicKnight in 2D platformers, designed (with the help of this other troper) a male character who looks pretty, works at a library, has DetachedSleeves, has shorts short enough to threaten ZettaiRyouiki, and excels both in magic and swordsmanship. And just to reflect this troper's virginity and him joking that losing it will bring about the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, he made his character's powers virginity-powered...a loophole that still allows him to be [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean taken care of, albeit in...interesting ways.]]

This troper parodied it in this troper's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''/''FairlyOddParents''/''DannyPhantom'' crossover, in a scene in which some canon characters and OC ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fans from FOP are editing ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' to stop Norm the Genie's plan from coming to fruitation (read more about it here). One of the Twi-fans wrote that ''Come On Get Higher'' by Matt Nathanson came on. Then, in the next chapter, when Ghost Writer was reading Literature/{{Twilight}}, he {{Lampshaded}} the trope

This troper likes to include at least one tall, slender, and lithe (but not quite {{bishonen}}) young man in his stories, who is guaranteed to be in some state of undress at least once. RapunzelHair and FootFocus sometimes appear as well. Also there will likely be references to HeavyMetal music somewhere. And HoYay. (yes, this troper is gay, why do you ask?)

This troper, when she writes porn, always likes to make sex as rough and disgusting as possible. There will probably always be a blow-job in there too. As for non-porn, especially for her ''{{Supernatural}}'' fanfic, she likes to write pretty people much more realistic (either giving them scars, making them skinnier or a tiny bit chubbier) and writing mental breakdowns in a surreal way. Is it any wonder why I'm scared to write fluff?

This troper likes StoicSpectacles. Especially with bonus ponytails, although, honestly, the guy doesn't have to be TheStoic, just TheSmartGuy in a cool way. Any character with even a hint of a preexisting vision problem is likely to find it worsen if she's writing him, or to be suddenly confronted with very fine print.

Update: TropesAreNotBad! I had a character who had either minor vision problems in canon or an ongoing case of BrainySpecs wear glasses and a ponytail while swotting up on the 392 section in the Dewey Decimal System. Three reviews so far (which, relatively, is pretty good), and they've all mentioned liking the mental image. Sometimes, I guess, if you write what you like, it turns out other people like it too.

This troper still employs this in things like basic body shape when she's drawing because she likes having a model she can actually see in different positions easily - for instance, herself - but has done this without noticing. Examples are mainly extremes (very pale or very dark skin, black or sky blue or emerald green eyes, caramel eyes pre-reading Twilight, etc). One that surprises people was because for a while when she was very young she did not know everyone wasn't like this: bisexual people. She assumed it was just preference one way or the other, like blondes vs. brunettes, because that's how she feels. It took her until seventh grade to learn the word.

Whenever this troper (Tropers/KurtmanJP) plans a made-up anime, story or RPG, the main protagonist is usually a HotChickWithASword joined by a male, sarcastic talking canine FragileSpeedster whose name starts with the letter C (mostly Clyde, Chet and Chase) and some token minority guy whose either native american or black and provides the muscle of the bunch.

A cross sampling of this troper's work shows a few common themes when it comes to love scenes. Neck kissing, lots of skin contact, emphasis on body heat, and cuddling in the same bed. And this is just the fanfiction. Original characters include kickass women, gay guys who also kick ass, tall fatherly black men and uniforms. Lots of uniforms. Also lots of interracial relationships, some straight, some gay, which she didn't realize until it was pointed out to her.

Oh, and the BadassBookworm and/or HotLibrarian seems to come up a lot. There's also a theme of mental illness, which unfortunately is TruthInTelevision as far as her real life family goes.

This Troper's works in writing always seem to have lesbians in them, usually with one of them wearing the bare minimal amount of clothing they can get away with in any given setting. One of the characters will usually wear an eyepatch, and some form of superpowers will show up. The most common is fire, because it's cool.

This troper has a weird twin fetish and will work twins (or something vaguely resembling twins) into most of her writings. Creepy children (namely little girls in ElegantGothicLolita), bio-engineering,Gothic architecture and black vs. white themes often crop up as well.

This troper's characters almost always are off their rocker in some way or another (particularly a fan of narcissist MagnificentBastard types). Those that aren't are either StraightGay, an inversion of OneHeadTaller, or some form of TheLadette or TheOjou. Most of her female characters have BoobsOfSteel and BreastPlate armor.

This troper loves doorknockers for some reason (partially because of the classic Jacob Marley scene in A Christmas Carol) so houses in his comics or stories usually have a lion knocker on them. One character, as an enourmous in-joke, was given an obsession with doorknockers. Also, this troper tries to stick in a song or musical number in almost every one of his stories or so.

This troper happens to be a major fan of SummerGlau. As a result, he tends to write a ''lot'' of fanfic involving characters played by her, putting fairly heafty emphasis on her characters even when its a general story.

This troper has a veritable plethora of this. One of her recurring characters is a PollyAnna blind girl who loves the colour blue. Also, she is obsessed with many other things, including mechanical replacement, Gods and Goddesses Among Us, angels, fallen angels, piercings, long coats (not always badass), non-sexual bondage, stigmata, religious theming, long ears, pale skin, nearly unpronounceable names, fancy/royal/hard-to-draw clothing, dresses, 'freaks', strange eye/hair/skin colours, musical tendencies, LimitedWardrobe, capes, bad guys becoming good (or failing that getting kicked out by someone even worse), and torture.

The troper has noticed a lot of his characters are left-handed, although he tries not to make it obvious he's left-handed by having everyone be a lefty...although this still tends to mean that most of the good guys are left-handed. This troper also tries to avoid having villains that are evil for evil's sake, almost every one of his villains have at least some reason behind whatever they're doing. And due to him liking dragons, they also tend to be the good guys.

This Troper, after going through some of her work, came to realize that her lead female characters are either {{Bifauxnen}}(I have this thing for girls dressing up as guys just to fool others), a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}(I've been described as eccentric and odd before), high-class, or all of the above. Other girls are {{YamatoNadeshiko}} who tend to apologize a lot(I love those sweet characters), or is a {{TokenLoli}}(preferbly wearing {{ElegantGothicLolita}}). The male characters are either jerks with hearts of gold, adorable little boys (I-I swear it's not what you think), or handsome gentlemen. This troper is pretty surprised her characters don't have anime hair colors.

This troper has a tendency to always include at least one character who combines TooDumbToLive with NighInvulnerability as the comic relief. This may be due to his other tendency, which is to have a multitude of characters at Author Weight power levels. The poor ComicRelief wouldn't last 5 seconds without some kind of protection

This list already seems absurdly long, but I guess I'll add mine: characters who are outsiders/loners, {{CrapsackWorld}}, occult and philosophical references, things that appear to have been made on drugs, HumansAreBastards, creative death scenes, exotic places and/or time periods, unusual (but real) names, parody, and the MostCommonSuperpower (this last being my only sexual turn-on).

This troper is messing around writing a series of short stories about a guy who somehow ends up in a relationship with a Lamia (like a mermaid, only with a snake tail.) The stories seem to have a few detailed of instances where mild constriction with the tail is a common form of affection from a lamia, which seems to be more and more appealing to this troper the more he thinks about it. Eventually, this troper finally realized that the closest real life counterpart is bondage...

This Troper would ''very'' much like to know where this story is, just top prove that he hadn't misread those details.

This troper has recently noticed his tendency for including female villains that are either a) Psychopathic womenchildren, b) have a bad case of MadLove or at least severe problems with dependency on someone , c) are StepfordSmilers, d) are AxeCrazy, or e) all of the above. I'm pretty sure it's non-sexual, but if it is, I have serious issues. Also, I think that black jackets are one of the most awesome accessories ever. Go figure.

This troper favors military operations owing to a childhood misspent in research of modern armed conflicts. Aside from that? Tykebombs, stoics, nutters, and lots and lots of detailed weaponry. Also, while homosexuality occasionally appears in some of his stories, references to it are common but of an off-handed "blink and you'll miss it" type. Well, a partial exception for lesbians but not really.

This troper has a tendency to write her male protagonists who end up as romantic leads as Deadpan Snarkers with dark hair and light eyes (this has nothing to do with the fact that her first major crush was on a boy with similar coloring, oh no).

This troper has a habit of giving all of his characters accents other than the norm. The most common are German, Irish, and South African (or at least a generalization of what they sound like). Also, he has an odd habit of trying to put a hyena in every single story, because he likes hyenas for some strange reason.

This Troper (who is a fanfiction author of the Pokémon variety) has a mysterious tendency to always wind up with at least one canonical villain in most main character traveling parties. One of them was forced into it, and another had a HeelFaceTurn in canon, so...

In This Troper's stories (of which one is unfinished and the rest unstarted) tend to include women who are beautiful but somehow unconventional-looking, for example having an EyepatchOfPower, Green hair, glasses, up to being a Furry or a Midnaesque demon. I also like to include sailing ships, {{BadassLongcoat}}s and other pirate-y aesthetics, as well as ScrapheapChallenge-style machines. I also tend to go into great detail about the various ways that the Villians mess with people's heads, due to having been bullied in high school. I also tend to let my political opinions in, though only in the vague sense of showing evil that takes away from people's independance.

This troper is currently writing a series of short stories set in an alternate earth that runs on Our Monsters Are Different and Not So Different, and is having far too much fun with it: zombies, vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, and even djinn are all present, just... well, different. There's also some more standard Author Appeal: Les Yay and unusual eye colors, namely.

This troper... oh god, this troper... This troper used to write so many stories about her favorite characters turning into giants or other weird things, and the worst part is... ''it hasn't gone away!'' GREAT SCOTT!

The fact that such a thing like this exists ''doesn't help!''

This troper just noticed that she appears to like creating silver/light-haired characters when trying to decide what strange colour she should give them next.

This Troper and Fanfic-Writer's favorite thing is to take things that are so overdone in a particular fandom that you avoid any story that has any mention of it at all...and make it work. Examples include another kid going to Narnia, A speshulbender in Avatar: The Last Airbender and [=OCs=] that are not Mary-Sues in every fandom ever.

This troper loves using Mind Rape in her stories, and has no idea why. Other favorites include Our Vampires/Elves/Fairies/What Have You are Different, Badass Normal Characters and Breaking the Cutie. She also tends to write siblings who used to be close but aren't anymore become close again. So, yeah.

This troper is terribly sadistic in her fics. Two of her original stories, meanwhile, both feature a post-junior high school RelationshipUpgrade for the main characters.

This troper is a YuriFan, an ActionGirl fan, and a foot fetishist, and it shows.

This troper is a huge fan of both ''{{Power Rangers}}'' and ''{{Pokemon}}''. She also likes the {{Magical Girl}} genre. As you can see from her work (especially her series), she combines the three elements. No, it's not a fanfic, even though there was a Power Rangers fanfic that eventually served as a small inspiration. And I just happen to like action girls, especially since there seems to be a lack of them nowadays. (No, she's not a lesbian. She's perfectly straight.) Also, different types of badasses, but none of the punk variety. There is nothing sexually related in her work, even though the only two times the {{Balloon Belly}} trope appeared in two of her works (alternate universe/crossover fanfics) were likely coincidences. Oh, and sometimes she makes either her original characters or her favorite characters fat. Hikaria and Arceus help me... >__<

UPDATE: At least one person likes this troper's male weight gain six-part story. Also, she would like to add another Author Appeal to the list: transforming (again, male) characters into human blueberries. It all started when she wrote one that focused on her original characters, and then she wrote/drew a ''Power Rangers'' story in which five Rangers were turned into human berries (Carter Grayson became a human blueberry, then Andros was turned into a cherry, and Merrick Balitone, Kai Chen, and Tommy Oliver became a human gooseberry, mulberry, and cloudberry, respectively. However, the latter four [[IGotBetter got better, but Carter swelled up to the point where he became a giant--more than ''one hundred feet''--human blueberry. Oh, and he was renamed "Carterberry." No, really]]). The fact that one of the comments on this picture says "Oompa Loompa!" does not help. Overall, though? Transformations are her favorite fetish. Just recently, she worked on several pictures that show characters changing into pigs.

This troper loves animals and enjoys sneaking them into his works of fiction. If a character doesn't have an animal motif, then it's likely that they have some sort of pet. Villains either aren't related to animals in any way, or their animal motifs are completely alien and disturbing animals, akin to Eldritch abominations, except they're ''real'' animals. Birds are common, especially sparrows and ravens.

This troper also likes sneaking in small references to other works of fiction. One white-haired, nervous individual with a pocket watch is a minor character in one roleplay.

And don't forget all the meaningful names, name puns, and riddle names. Usually if you can guess the meaning of a character's name, then you'll understand their role perfectly. This troper probably lifted that bad habit from Harry Potter.

With this troper, it's PowerArmor, up to eleven. I've managed to put PowerArmor into all of the 4 books I'm working on, one of which is a fantasy (albeit with SteamPunk elements, but still...). I also have the exact same thing was BadassLongcoat; each of these stories has a Badass character who, well, wears a longcoat.

For this troper, it's HugeGuyTinyGirl. Bonus points for the guy being heavily muscled but well-padded.

This particular troper loves putting the military into all sorts of situations. Apparently, magic, demons and other assorted supernatural nonsense can be solved with an M4, a P228 and two frag grenades. Yes, that's not a typical loadout...

This troper loves playing with speech patterns when playing [=RPGs=]. So far he's developed two mute characters, a character with a lisp, and one who doesn't ''stop'' talking. He also engages in stealth ThemeNaming. In his stories, he always goes for a TwistEnding, his favorite type being a last-sentence-or-paragraph Genre Reveal.

This Troper recently realized all of his best and deepest heroines and, to a less numerous extent, heroes, are all desperately lonely. Might have something to do with his own feelings, to a point. Also, my RP characters tend to, for whatever reason, be sexual deviants; more than one gay, one whose best friend is gay for her, and one mute incestuous dog-girl.

This Troper shoehorns the DarkSkinnedBlonde and SubordinateExcuse tropes into most of his stories.

This Troper loves exploring father/daughter or brother/sister relationships. Having never had a brother, that could explain why in the latter case.

This troper has several, SEVERAL reoccuring patterns in his stories...Oh God, where to even begin? For one, there is always a chubby character who is usually a major character. Usually, over the course of the story, the character, almost always a girl, starts off with low self-esteem about her weight before eventually accepting it as a part of herself, perhaps even finding herself beautiful as she is. Another thing I almost always include are Tsundere. Often, they are modeled after characters like Asuka Langley Sohryu or Akane Saotome. I just love tsundere characters! I feel they're so complex and interesting. Additionally, Meganekko are very common, and, in some cases, I just combine chubby girl, tsundere, and the glasses together! And I have an otaku somewhere in the story, too, or genre savvy characters in the mix. Often, there is also a focus on describing hands, the love interest/main character has brown hair, LOTS of Heroic BSOD or break the cutie, high octane nightmare fuel, and, of course, mind screw. This troper has a lot of patterns.

Alpha}} This troper has a propensity for writing Brunette}} brown-haired Bookworm}} Badass Bookworms as his protagonists and heroes. Their Interest}} love interests are usually Girl}} Action Girls, their enemies are either {{Ax Crazy}} or Bastard}} Magnificent Bastards (or both), and they tend to be part of a {{Badass Crew}} or some other kind of a {{Nakama}}. There will also usually be an important {{Intergenerational Friendship}} between two female characters, with one looking after the other. A running theme tends to be about the protagonist finding himself in a much-larger world after being forced out of his comfort zone, along with examinations of Good vs. Evil, Versus Chaos}} Order vs. Chaos, and other dichotomies.

This troper tends towards vaguely seinen-esque, Scale Of Idealism Versus Cynicism}} cynical, and philosophical stories. Can Die}} Character deaths, That}} satire, foreshadowing, Out}} references, Love Is Unrequited}} unrequited love, Screw}} paradoxes, irony, McCoolname}} bizarre Name}} names, lampshading, and tragic backstories abound. Any Eyed Idealist}} idealists in the story will have either been The Cutie}} broken or The Cutie}} killed off by the end, which will usually be Ending}} bittersweet and have required the characters to Your Happy Ending}} go through hell and back. Most of them will have Character}} improved by the time this occurs. The cast will be Bunch Of Misfits}} varied and And Loads Of Characters}} quite large. Villains are never and Gray Morality}} completely Monster}} evil, nor are heroes ever the complete opposite. She also tries to Their Work}} do the research. Arson And Jaywalking}} And male leads are usually Asian.

This troper loves loli contortionists and doe-eyed (or at least vunerable-looking) {{bishonen}} in bandages. Nuff said.

This Troper hasn't started any works ''on the internet'' yet, but the stories have, long hair and black coats, and other stories may include HumongousMecha, Anime References, among other things, this Troper also seems fond of the CompleteMonster, WellIntentionedExtremist, and KnightTemplar character types, and wants to put them into the works. Another piece of AuthorAppeal, MegaMan {{Steampunk}}, with some elements of {{Deconstruction}}, and {{Reconstruction}} after a certain point.

Oh, and Goggles, can't forget the goggles.

This troperette has a taste for very strong, generously-endowed, TooKinkyToTorture women. Her OriginalCharacter Dianne has the first and third parts down pat.

Let me see if I can name em all in one sitting: just about any badass tropes (World of Badass and Crouching Moron especially: I love the idea of characters that would be thought of as wusses being secretly hardcore), characters who are ruthless at politics, swords, Middle Eastern & biblical iconography, mythology in general (especially heaven/hell concepts), Rosseau Was Right, skinny girls, sniper rifles, swords of all shapes & sizes, parkour, shapeshifting, Nightmare Fuel by way of hypersexual imagery (and in general- ties in with shapeshifting), swords again (I will figure out an original spin on lightsabres one day), casual swearing, sweet, eccentric geeky guys, (with traces of Keet or Snarker) and Kuuderes. And swords. Oh, and some bondage here and there, but I try to be discreet about it.

This Troperâ„¢ uses this trope '''on this very wiki'''. Go to the PlayingWithWiki and choose an entry there. If a character named Kimiko is mentioned, chances are I started that article. The very first article I ever wrote to use named characters, PlayingWith/MeLoveYouLongTime, marked her debut; most Tropers name the female character Alice when writing Playing With examples, but I felt that since that trope involved Asian characters, I should have an Asian name for the female. Kimiko was the first name that popped into my head. It stuck, and I've used Kimiko for every other Playing With entry since. Unfortunately, the only other Playing With entries to use Kimiko as of March 8, 2010 are tropes with Japanese names, like PlayingWith/{{Meganekko}} and PlayingWith/ZettaiRyouiki. But I swear that one of these days, Kimiko WILL appear in a non-Japanese trope! Other features of my works:

Franklin County High School is the center of the universe. And, extrapolating from that, the hierarchy is:

Rocky Mount, VA and Smith Mountain Lake

All of Franklin County, VA

The surrounding counties

The entire Roanoke/Lynchburg TV area (all the counties covered by WSLS, WDBJ, and WSET).

^^^^^Any cartoon I ever make rarely takes place outside of that area. So, if Franklin County is the center of the universe, then New York, California, Canada, Australia, the UK, etc., are parallel universes!

Tall girls. By default, every female character is the same height as me (5'9"). However, the vast majority of characters are rarely taller than 6 feet. I once had a 6'9" character, but retired her. The tallest character is now a 6'6" one.

This Troper always includes these things in any story she writes:

Meaningful chapter titles, usually punning or referencing music or poetry.

References to or quotes from songs she likes. These, especially, are EVERYWHERE, and one of the most common formats she writes in includes a quote from a song or poem at the beginning of the chapter, which describes what happens in the chapter.

Action Girls and/or Ladies Of War. The main character is, with one exception, ALWAYS capable of protecting herself and others.

The exception is not someone who can't defend themselves. The exception is a ''guy''.

Original characters who are very honest and simply ''will not'' put up with Will They Or Wont They/Cannot Spit It Out relationship crap.

A DiabolicalMastermind, if possible, usually as a supporting character.

Lots of internal monologuing or explorative thought processes for characters who normally don't seem to talk or think all that much.

An example would be Roronoa Zoro from OnePiece apparently being quite thoughtful and intelligent in his head, but simply keeping his thoughts to himself most of the time, preferring to take the 'just kill what bothers you' approach.

Realistic hair and eye colors, even in settings where odd ones are natural. So far, only one original character has ever been created with eyes which are physically impossible for a human to posess--she has EyesOfGold.

PragmaticVillainy. No villain in a story I write or BETA is ''ever'' an impractical villain. They always have legitimate, if evil goals, solve their problems as efficiently as possible using their abilities and sources, and don't let pride get in their way.

At least one character (usually female), with NoSenseOfPersonalSpace.

Expies of favored characters, from series NOT being crossed over with the current one. Also, Fake Crossovers.

Long hair on females, though I have started to branch away from that and now have a main original character with very short hair.

At least one CloudCuckoolander, CosplayOtakuGirl, or CrazyAwesome character, usually a GenkiGirl to boot.

A minimum of two Justified, Deconstructed, or Reconstructed Tropes.

Characters being a lot smarter than they look or act. The more screen time a character has, the more likely they are to be smart under their kooky exterior.

At least one character who does things ForTheLulz. Usually a DragonWithAnAgenda, EnigmaticMinion, or CloudCuckoolander.

This character will also never lie. They will just say something that can be easily misunderstood or misconstrued...

I also like {{Half Human Hybrid}}s suffering from ParentalAbandonment due to their weird parentage being completely impractical.

Also, most of my stories are actually connected through confusing and serpentine means. They don't cross over with each other directly, but they connect.

An example would be ''Road's End'', a Goemon-centric fic focussed on the lead character WalkingTheEarth and trying to meet up with a woman he met and fell in love with over ten years ago (they were unaviodably separated). Since this story involved dimensional travel, Goemon goes to visit Ichihara Yuuko. Yuuko also assisted in ''Crossovers Galore'', a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover fic I put on semi-permanent hiatus a while back due to AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder. In one (as-yet-unwritten) side-story, several characters from ''Crossovers Galore'' go to a cave in the seeming middle of nowhere and set up a series of traps both magical and mundane. Those traps are actually a fundamental part of a ''third'' story, ''Gypsy Romance'', the first story I ever wrote, which is not a crossover, and is set in the Puchi Puri Yucie universe post-series. So technically, although they have nothing to do with each other, both ''Road's End'' and ''Gypsy Romance'' are related.

Oh, and people--especially grumpy guys--blushing awkwardly.

This Troper finds himself constantly revisiting religious exploration and turning things that're either adorable, strange, or silly into the darkest things they could possibly be.

In terms of non-sexual AuthorAppeal, this troper's work often features characters who surf, cycle or are really into cooking. She tries to keep them as side characters but most people who know her eventually pick up on the fact that she can't resist putting at least a little something of herself into virtually everything she writes.

This troper has a big thing for people with weird hands and feet, especially cybernetic hands with long, scuttling fingers. This troper also likes creating characters with bizarre mouths, like mouths with multiple tongues, double-hinged snake jaws, and chainsaw teeth.

Bizzare}} This Troper has a big strange love for gloved women. Leather, long gloves etc. (the only thing he loves about autumn and winter and newest fashion are gloves). So in his works there will be several female characters wearing them, but he tends to make up some plausible reasons for it. Whe he wrote a bit of his new work, he had to re-edit one part, because it started to look like some sick glove covert porn (and it wasn't even an sex scene). Also, he doesn't mind to put some actual fetish fashion outfits on his heroines, by the power of {{Latex Space Suit}} and {{Spy Catsuit}}. Also, short haired girls, sometimes even sporting a buzzcut. One of the main characters must be one of them. And will have very straightforward personality and will be probably snarky and {{Genre Savvy}}.

This troper's works almost always center around true love. Not in the fairy-tale, sparkly, princess meets Prince Charming kind of true love. This troper finds herself inventing all kinds of bizarre ways to achieve it, be it biological engineering gone right in a future society or the meeting of soulmates that ends up being a chaotic, nearly apocalyptic disaster. These ideas are probably due to this troper's fear that true love doesn't exist, and so she winds up writing stories where the main idea is "yeah it exists but it's so rare that the world would probably be thrown into a frenzy if it ever actually blossomed."

This troper has a bit of a...thing for Victorian-era menswear. Her male characters tend to end up in suits, waistcoats, and suspenders a bit more than they probably should. She also is fond of accents, glasses, red hair, and smart, snarky, awkward-cute characters in general, all of which bleeds into her writing rather strongly.

Are you me?

This troper tends to have some combination of the following: snarky, geeky, semi-loner female lead; snarky and protective male leads who tend to be exasperated by the heroine; pop culture references out the wazoo; inverted or subverted tropes; lampshade hanging; semi-obnoxious and accomplished older siblings; people getting thrown out windows; people escaping from hospitals; and people getting slammed into walls. The last three are unintentional.

In a subversion, aversion or inversion (not too sure), this troper has a hypnofetish... and therefore ''avoids'' using mind control in her stories. Psychological manipulation still crops up from time to time, though.

Certain TurnOnTropes, especially ones which we probably shouldn't have because they're kind of pointless, seem to exist solely because certain tropers want to track down wank material and write about the thing that gets them off. Now, I'm not going to name any names, but if you see a lovingly-written description of a rather kinky "trope" and about five examples underneath it, you've really got to wonder.

This troper enjoys averting EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion. Usually combined with a healthy dose of HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

This troper has several

Explosions.

SceneryPorn

YamatoNadeshiko: In ALL my drafts, there's at least one and all of them are some of the strongest characters.

This troper has been writing since gradeschool(not always *well* , mind you) and has determined that his literary "turn-ons" have scarcely changed. Just about anything he writes will involve non-human and part-human characters, and NOT simply as cannon fodder! Monsters who are also characters, characters who are also monsters, and a generous helping of {{Cute Monster Girl}}s, all wrapped up in a DarkIsNotEvil motif, with an Alice in Wonderland sense of whimsy. Interspecies friendships and harmony between humans and monsters is something that's always enticed me, and I try to make sure every nonhuman is outlandish and exotic in some way. Platonic friendships are also something that I'm fond of exploring, so I love a good, heartwarming moment that doesn't necessarily have to involve romance. I also have a fixation on strange, quirky, nerdy girls, So they'll almost always be the protagonist, or figure heavily on the plot, especially if they reach CrazyAwesome Cloudcookoolander territory. Wings and the night are also two themes that *always* sweep me off my feet, so they'll almost always appear in some form or another, usually together. I also make no secret of my transformation and vore fetishes, so they tend to crop up quite a bit. The end results can be... surreal, to say the least.

I tend to ''invert'' this--the more something fascinates me, the more I avoid giving into the urge to slap it on my writing, simply because I don't want to go the way of Laurell K. Hamilton, if you get my drift. Is that bad?

This Troper is currently working on a manga but for the other drawings (and failed ideas) he's done he's managed to sneak in girls with green and pink colored hair, at least one girl whose well-endowed, ElementalPowers (Especially his favorite: ShockAndAwe), and RapidFireFisticuffs. Of course the manga he's working on doesn't have a previous standard - Including a Guinea Pig in some form, be it AlienAnimals or TalkingAnimal. But the manga now went BeyondTheImpossible with the author appeal: DetachedSleeves for the main female (Thank you Sanae), CelticMythology, NorseMythology, Shooting Stars, and the fact that Autumn will be the longest season in the story... (Along with spring, but the story starts in Summer.)

this troper's female main characters tend to be Broken Birds who are somehow related to the BigBad. Also at least one prominate female character,(not always the FMC) will have red hair, and my male main characters always have green eyes and are always boy-next door types.

This troper's favorite type of protagonist when wrting are DeadpanSnarker young males whose common beahaviour is always on a fine line between socially awkward and a little bit psychologically unhealthy and downright sociopathism and schizoid craze (the struggle with mental illness is a long time favourite); this characters usually act quiet at first glance and are described as people that do not drive attetnion instantly, have a tendency to be clean shaved, chubby and dressed in black and often surprise every body with their knowledge, badassery and insanity. Most female characters are going to be strong-willed with just a little bit of bitterness and neurosis to keep it interestng. Females usually go against the Lolita trend; dressing in dignified ways and expecting respect form males while. On the other hand they usually are tall, slender and raven-haired, with noteworthy breasts; I too have tastes. On more general terms every body and their mother smokes, most protagonist come from disfunctional families and have difficult relationships with their parents, dependacy in others is seen as a serious defect, phylosophy discussions appear without a warning, there is a strong GreyandGreyMorality all around and an infinite amount of ShoutOuts to the book i like, mythology and religion. Also, in the terms of relationships i aim more towards the EternalSunshineoftheSpotlessMind than the Twilight, but i must admit that it is tougher this way (but it is worth it). My biggest fear is writing a one-dimensional character on the spotlight, so I try to avoid {{Shallow Love Interest}}s, being the girlfriend of a main character automatically puts you and your issues in part of the spotlight. Also I tend to flesh the mothers of characters more than the average "love his child and was very kind". I also have noticed that I have a near obsession with eyes, that most of my main characters are musicians, that I love weird names (Day-Lewis Harriet! Day-Lewis is his name) and that irony in my work dominates the universe.

A LOT of my stories deal with the themes of loneiness and isolation, with most of my characters being a bunch of DeadpanSnarker with personality and self-image issues. Due to my fixation with post-modernism and BreakingTheFourthWall, a lot of my stories are also very metafictional in tone, with a good few stories also dedicated to lampshading my constant use of mentally unwell deadpan snarkers.

This troper loves long hair on both men and women and so most of her characters have longish hair. She also likes characters who have minimal interest in sex and romance.

This wiki taught me to examine my own tropes, and I realized that almost everything I wrote had as one of the heroes a shapeshifter whose default form was a beautiful human female. Determined to curb this, I stopped writing any stories with shapeshifting, but then I realized that everything I wrote had A): a beautiful female {{Demihuman}}, B): a beautiful girl with one jarring trait (like inhumanly pale skin), or (most frequently) C): a beautiful female demihuman with one jarring trait. I wanted to curb that too, so my next story had an entirely female cast and every one of the girls was portrayed nonsexually, even one who I deliberately gave semisexual traits. Then I realized that whether accidentally or unconsciously, I'd set up a plot-related reason for that semisexual girl to get turned into a CatGirl, and I gave up. (Incidentally, when I tried to come up with the perfect love interest for one of my heroes in another story, the first thing that came to mind was a ''female orc'' with CuteLittleFangs and a {{BFS}}. Maybe I should have kept seeing my therapist . . .)

This troper has a perchant for snarky protagonists - usually either Villain Protagonists or somewhat wimpy Action Survivors - placed in situations (and genres) they have no experience in and in no way could have prepared for. Example: a mafia man who discovers that aliens are plotting to assinate all the world's leaders and then take control.

If you are one of this troper's characters, you ''will'' indulge in Deadpan Snark at some point, even if you're the {{Big Bad}}. Male characters are usually either good looking maverick-types or Idiot Heroes, and female characters are invariably cute Action Girls. The main character designs always have a punk/goth aesthetic to them (often with some {{Fashionable Asymmetry}}), and if you are female, you're probably wearing fishnets (the lead character in the comic I'm currently drawing wears them on her ''arms''.) Also, there's at least one scene where the heroes interrupt a confrontation with a villain to bicker amongst themselves about something completely irrelevant, causing the villain to get indignant with them. (For example, two characters arguing about whether {{Metallica}} is better than {{Megadeth}} ''in the middle of a fight with an {{Eldritch Abomination}}''.

This troper ''really'' likes cats, and it shows in his fiction. Talking ones in my ''SailorMoon'' fanfic, but even outside that, there will always be one main character with a cat sidekick. Furthermore, even the non-talking ones will show surprising intelligence, and will at some point be helpful to the protagonists.

This troper is doing ENTIRELY too much research into medical restraint (read: bondage) for an upcoming plot than is probably healthy...

This lurker has a ''big'' obsession with hair, meaning that stroking/pulling/obsessing over hair is a given any time someone has even a slightly longer. She also keeps writing neck scratching to fics, even though she doesn't mean to.

This troper has a soft spot for hot native american women (think Chel from TheRoadToElDorado) and strong independent women (the ones who actually stay that way and dont get kidnapped at the final Act). Also I like slime, yet toned men.

This torper has a tendency to make redheaded main characters involved with brunettes. I also tend to give the protagonist flowing, wavy hair. And my characters are 'fashion-forward' individuals.

This Troper usually use one of three character types: The intovert; the adventurous; and the smart, handsome, and nice guy. I use the latter the least, MarySue because it leads to...

Many people who read my fic said that I have some issue. That probably has to do with my love toward psychotic berserker ripping people's limbs off and crushing people's face off either by stomping or squeezing. Bam! Bam! Bam! Just thinking about that turned me on. Don't worry though, I'm a nice guy IRL.

I ''love'' red hair. My list of red-haired characters, whether natural or dyed, is huge.

For whatever reason, this troper is ''extremely'' unforgiving to his protagonists -- they do bad shit and get what they have coming to them. More often than not something kills them (and not nicely), they commit suicide or just end up kind of miserable. Most have an unrequited love at the beginning of the story, manage to get him/her (though sometimes by underhand tactics, which only brings the author's eventual wrath upon them harder), do something to fuck it up and destroy the relationship they've wanted so badly.

This troper, despite being heterosexual, has a weird thing for HoYay, along with parodies, and male characters who are mind-control raped and then want to start a family with the girl who did it. Okay, that last one was a little specific.

For this troper is Worldbuilding. Creating cities, Nations, cultures are always the first step for any of my works, the more delinated the better. For characters I go with the Tao of Oda and make everysingle abilitie awesome and absurdly dangerous no matter how silly it seem by exploting all the plotholes, transforming loads into hidden badasses with CrazyAwesome and make World of Badass in the process with a good dose of ScrewYouElves. While Im firm in the Ideal side of the Scale,RousseauWasRight or at its extreme (and more often used) HumansAreFlawed I like what I call Complex Fantasy and exploring the consequences of their actions of my Characters and how they react when the shit hit the Fan. I love deadpaness, witt, casual danger dialog and BewaretheNiceOnes at truckload and equal gender opportunity mayhem. Physically I put emphasis in Eyes (Im a sucker for pretty eyes) long hair, long legs and full lips. For relationships my characters are passionate, long scenes of kisses and Hugs and cuddling a lot, whith love is unrequieted and don't ge the girl/guy but they put themselves together. For sex I find alluring the surprise, things that blaffed me that the character enjoy (said Hardcore BDSM, Polygamy, Bisexuality, Incest, a Full blown Cosplay theater level etc...)and have fun. Also high heel and stocking. While I enjoy Darker and Edgier and ShownTheirWork, I hate the introducction of "Reality" in works of fantasy or Anime,since its seem pretty silly (and in some cases offending)to me bemoaning that Reality dosen't work that way or Didnotdotheresearch in what ammount Alternate realities with different laws of existence, history and Cosmology. And, as show in this work, Im honestly psychological incapable of writting anyting that dosen't end in a doorstopper.

This troppette always on The Sims makes girl-on-girl lesbian gay couples. Which are almost always attractive to me and based upon people I know. I think that counts?

This troper nearly always includes Lesbians, or EveryoneIsBi, or some other similar thing. I also have a thing for school uniforms and badass girls

This troper has a tendency to write her leading ladies very old-fashioned. (Names that were popular decades ago, elegant dress sense, etc) Unless they're comic relief or the antagonist, everyone else tends to be pretty much the same way.

This Troper's writing has a simple formula: 1) create likable characters, 2) make their life hell, 3) repeat step 2. AnyoneCanDie is common, and characters will generally be skimming the DespairEventHorizon by the end. Once the plot is in full swing, the direness of the situation will stay as near to OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow as possible without me resorting to DeusExMachina. However, I can't stand Wangst, and I only let my characters bitch when there's a justified reason.

This troper has an extremely strong fetish for cute, fluffy, small-framed males with plump butts. (Not quite Shotaro Boys, and possibly its own trope.) All male main characters are at least an offshoot of this in one way or another. One character is even a parody. Yes, the troper parodies her own writing.

I try to avoid this sort of thing and not write in my own fetishes, because it is bad writing but it inevitably leaks in since AuthorAppeal is unavoidable. My cast of characters will usually be all female and at least one lesbian. Also, at least one character with a large chest. But no farther than that.

As much as this troper is embarassed to admit, he is actually a fan of large-breasted women, and every one of his women in fiction are usually very well endowed. He also loves women with hair of all kinds of beautiful colors, as well their eyes, and dress in navel-friendly clothing. He also loves to give them innocent, classy, pure, yet upbeat and sweet personalities, comparable to his own.

for me its BodyHorror. I love this trope, the special kind of reaction I can get from people, and the reactions of other characters. HighOctaneNightmareFuel for a reason. For some reason, my scenes that involve such horror are usually less poorly received than other ones.

I didn't notice it, but looking back, I seem to have someone undergo MindRape in everything I do. I thought I'd avoided it, but realized how suspicious that moment is (in a work-in-progress-probably-never-to-get-completed) where the LetsYouAndHimFight situation is solved when one team's telepath and one team's... (uh, what do you call it? Touching things and seeing where they've been is called psychometry, but a 'psychometrist' is something ''entirely different.'') wind up accidentally touching, experience each other's whole lives in an instant, break up the fight, and basically act more couply than newlyweds for the rest of the story.

Pocketwatch/Poketto has only recently started discovering what her own author appeal elements are. They kind of just crop up and surprise her. To date has at least skimmed off: f/f IntimateHealing, meaningful tattoos or scars, consensual "marking", Type 2 of AintTooProudToBeg (a story of that name, no less), a character who takes a FaceHeelTurn to FallenHero status, aided along by LoveMakesYouEvil and TheDarkSide to full-on villainous UnholyMatrimony, blood knights, a badass m/m BattleCouple, lots of blood (including a blood-covered FirstKiss), GladToBeAliveSex, dragons both sympathetic and ChaoticEvil, InLoveWithYourCarnage, InterplayOfSexAndViolence, a hero actively submissive to his loved one, genderswitches, changes both physical and psychological/moral, transformation, intentionally messing common annoying/stupid BoysLove tropes about, OT3s, HornyDevils, FantasticArousal, PowerPerversionPotential...

This troper writes a lot. Until recently, he did not notice that a lot of his stories contained mythology (especially {{Classical Mythology}}). That and a lot of characters falling under the {{Action Girl}} trope. He also enjoys deconstructing and reconstructing. He also likes the tropes of {{Hot Amazon}} and AmazonianBeauty, and seems to write in at least one buff, {{badass}} and VERY beautiful woman in almost all of his works. And there is lots of {{Fanservice}} for all.

This Troper, in novels, tends to involve at least one description of a bloody or gory scene, someone talking about their addiction to coffee, lots of smirking, and describing pain in detail. Across the two comics I've written scripts for: the year '35 (one takes place in 1935, the other in 2035), soldiers, ''at least'' one DarkAndTroubledPast, and torture. Across both, serious SanitySlippage (especially paranoia) and, if a character isn't already broken, BreakTheCutie. Also, parent distance - not quite ParentalAbandonment, but distance.

This troper recently realized that there are several elements common to each of her stories. The most common are ParentalAbandonment (coupled with PromotionToParent but more commonly {{Nephewism}}), AdultFear (specifically the loss of a child), and relationships with parents or stepparents in general. She finds this rather odd, as her relationship with her parents is quite normal.

This troper has plenty of AuthorAppeal with her original characters. Female characters tend to be {{Pettanko}}, or at least the vast majority of them. Many characters have issues with their parents in some form. Couples and other duos will often involve tall guys and short girls (sometimes even short/tall girls or guys). In situations involving action and fighting, at least one person uses a hammer as their weapon of choice. There's always tons of shout outs and parody elements included in the stories themselves, too. This troper also sees more {{Yangire}} characters springing up on her.

This Troper just can't stay away from those characters that are the epitome of LOYALTY and JUSTICE and, as such, tends to create characters who are more TheLancer or TheDragon, depending on the context of the roleplay. Why yes, I do believe that Jeremiah Gottwald was one of the finest characters created for CodeGeass, why do you ask?

This troper is a glasses fetishist. Every single one of her male characters wears glasses for some reason or another. She also likes names that have a regal tone to them. The guys are almost always TheStoic, too, unless there are multiple guys in my story, in which there's also the HandsomeLech.

This troper has some sort of fetish for lots of characters who tend to always have conflicting, unique personalities and dysfunctional home lives. Not sure if that counts, but still. Also, always expect an ElegantGothicLolita.

I like details when it comes to stories, so my fics tend to be highly descriptive, sometimes to a fault. Apart from that, I very much enjoy interesting characters with compelling personalities and complex development; I try to make my characters like that. While I like almost every fetish out there, I have a particular fondness for girls wearing short skirts, along with stockings, knee-highs, corsets, garters and the liek. Structurally, I prefer my female characters to be slender, curvy and busty, while wearing revealing outfits, which - you guessed it - generally involves skirts in use. Just the same, being that I myself am slightly BiTheWay, I like my male characters to be muscular and every bit as attractive as my female characters, while wearing stylish costumes.

Me? Let's see . . . well, in terms of characters, I like cheerful people who have a taste for the macabre, {{Cloud Cuckoo Lander}}s, {{Guile Hero}}es[=/=]{{Magnificent Bastard}}s, {{Loveable Rogue}}s, Gentleman Thieves, CrazyAwesome people, cute dorky people, {{Badass Bookworm}}s, {{Genius Bruiser}}s, and {{Gentle Giant}}s. I also have a strange liking for circuses, masquerades, pirates, and various types of SteamPunk. Red hair and green or black eyes are nice, and hats, boots, and ElegantGothicLolita are some favorite types of clothing. Looking back on my earlier attempts at writing in FanFic, where many of my favorite characters (usually the ones I had crushes on) goes through hell, I concluded that I must have a hurt comfort kink. Post-apocalystic, academies of adventure, cities of adventure, cities of canals, {{Dark World}}s, and TheWonderland settings are awesome. {{Clock Tower}}s and {{Living Labyrinth}}es tend to attract my attention. {{Funny Animal}}s are cool, as are skeletons (I blame Jack for the latter). I'm oddly interested in the HugeGuyTinyGirl dynamic (though that could be because I'm short) and like DanceOfRomance (usually a more upbeat dance). I like sharp dressed men and UnkemptBeauty. DarkIsNotEvil and LightIsNotGood are some of my favorite tropes, and I like subverting the ThirteenIsUnlucky trope.

Party ova hea! Tropers/EponymousKid isn't an especially prolific writer, but he has a lot of ideas. Most of them involve psychotic levels of violence, a hopeless IdiotHero, LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (seriously, check out Literature/DrDetective - he's got a rogue's gallery to put ''SpiderMan'' to shame!)... Settings in which violence is practically the only accepted currency are also a favorite, from the crime-ridden shantytown to the post-apocalyptic ruins of a once-great metropolis to the Philippines (kidding, kidding). Mad scientists, strange, forbidden experiments, ChildSoldiers, murderous motherfuckers, a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, a SecretProjectRefugeeFamily, mutants, mass graves, ContractKillers (to the point that I'm working on a story where three groups of hired killers are pitted against each other), crime in general... For some reason I'm noticing a distinct lack of things that get me all hot and bothered. That can't be healthy.

This Troper has a MASSIVE thing for suits/formal wear on men. It was fairly a dormant thing until I watched ''{{Inception}}'' and fell in love with it all over again. There's always one point where my male characters have to wear a suave suit which is quite fitting. Also, smoking. Which is odd because I don't like it when people smoke, hate the smell and constantly tell people off for doing it near me. But when a character is smoking, god, its cool and sexy. Being a {{YaoiFangirl}}, {{HoYay}} comes into play quite a lot, even if the characters are not inclined that way at all. However, if they are, they are almost always {{StraightGay}} since flaming/SO CAMP kinda annoys me, however being effeminante is fine. Dark hair, ranging from black to red or even purple ... not a big fan of blonde unless it's on girls, and the high cheek-boned angular faced guy with the crooked smile/smirk/snarl, in which he is usually the bad guy.

This troper actually just writes anthros and transformation into the stories because he likes them. He doesn't like anything sexually, although you can see he has many a PetPeeveTrope out there - obviously to GagBoobs, GagPenis, and MostCommonSuperpower. Most of the time his female characters don't even ''have'' their breasts mentioned. They're also drawn flat...mostly because I haven't had enough practice drawing them. Many of his characters are deadpan sharkers or genki girls, with the gay characters being StraightGay. (mostly because when there's a stereotype out there; I do the ''opposite''. Plus; a lot of the gay people I know tend to treat their sexuality as a secondary thing.) They also have a sense of humour and tend to...have a bizarre amount of knowledge. (ie, breaking the fourth wall) Many times they observe stuff that most people don't notice and yeah, it's probably myself putting my own observations in, but really...a lot of my observations seem obvious to ''me''.

This troper has a thing for, when writing-

Villains-Use scythes if humanoid. Are insanely powerful, fast, and smart. Have multiple forms. Are fallen heroes (Think Lordgenome). Have a greater being tied to them, sometimes parasitically. Are usually only TheDragon, and ends with the reveal of that.

Monsters-Are mutants. Are formed by a virus or a parasite, possibly biomechanical in nature. Usually are GoneHorriblyRight or GoneHorriblyWrong.

Heroes-Start out young, with no mentor. Are the outcast socially, until latent powers develop, then they become liked by everyone. Is curb stomped by the Villain repeatedly until the climax. Is usually infected with the same thing as the monsters, but immune.

And other things I don't want to list.

Everything this troper creates will be yaoi. EVERYTHING. Anything different was probably collaborated on with somebody else. Even then, I will still try to shoehorn YaoiGuys in somehow, even if it's extra, non-canonical material, or only background characters. I also have a fascination with redheaded twins, usually brothers (but not for that), and one character, usually the seme, will be obscenely tall and muscular, Badass, and long-haired. My most recent plot bunny involves a pair of fraternal twins (A brother and sister) where the brother is huge and has long, violently red hair that fits his {{HotBlooded}} temperament perfectly. Funnily enough, I usually make my big, muscular characters stoic gentle giants, so he kind of goes beyond my usual fixations.

This Troper has a liking for RefugeInAudacity (several of his stories have scenes where the protagonist somehow manages to punch out a large animal (A bear in one situation and a horse in the other)), Badass Longcoats and LighterAndSofter tones in his stories...

This troper has quite a few author-appeals: at some point, there will be a character on crutches (this goes for both original fiction and fanfiction), the main protagonist will either have glasses or braces (even robots), and the TeamPet will always be a Jack Russell Terrier in her FiveManBand hero stories.

This troper has a newfound tendency to come up with action stories that will more, likely than not, have a PinkBishoujoGhetto, with tons of Yuri overtones. Other appeals include (but are not limited to): atleast one AxCrazy protaganist (Usually female, but my first one is male) that are usually SelfMadeOrphan's, cute girls with goggles , FootFocus, CrazyAwesome action sequences, Demons, Angels, Dark not being evil, BFS's, Yuri,Hot blood, and whole bunch of other things I'm probably forgetting.

This troper doesn't actually write stories, but find a lot of pleasure in fictional world-building (i.e. settings for TabletopGames) or improving a shared universe (i.e. CthulhuMythos). Somehow, the majority of female [=NPCs=] are either lesbian, or in varying degree receptive to advances from women: from the lowly barmaids that [=PCs=] will interact with to the TheHighQueen that issues missions to [=PCs=]. If there is a powerful GMPC (the kind that steals the players' thunder), she will be someone who fight the gods of the world for her girlfriend's sake, usually because said girlfriend is crippled/imprisoned/indentured by said gods.

I just seem to have a thing for androgyny, based on which characters in my {{FanFic}}s I gravitate toward. There's also a pattern with the main characters favoring knives as weapons, (one character even nicknaming hers and being quite attached to it), smaller busts (maybe more of an AuthorTract on PetitePride), and SteamPunk. There's also a trend with supernatural things and {{Shonen}} anime, but that's another story.

Whenever this troper's writing/drawing, she has a habit of including {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s who are actually evil, top hats in settings that don't require them, villains who do {{Heel Face Turn}}s, {{Bifauxnen}}, lots of {{Ho Yay}} and {{Les Yay}}, {{Dieselpunk}}, magic {{Powered by a Forsaken Child}} and lots of guns (especially rifles)

When one of my friends sent a chat to me asking why a female character of mine (a conscript in the army of a future dystopian Vietnam) wore glasses, I replied with a single link. I also like to put words that sound like they're coming from 19th-century English noblemen in the mouths of late 21st/early 22nd century Russians and Australians, as well as making countries like Mexico and Australia and Vietnam have massively powerful armies, nuclear missiles, lunar colonies, etc.

There will often, in terms of characterization, be a lot of soldiers (possibly justified, as it is military SF), at least one BadAss ActionGirl, a {{woobie}}, several Asians, two or more sweet, innocent characters who get slaughtered in the most horrific way possible, usually involving large-caliber gunfire or chemical weaponry. Clothing will almost always be sensible and practical, there ''will'' be at least one airstrike, and finally, I absolutely ''love'' to NukeEm.

Time for me to list my kinks again, sexual and non-sexual. From elementary, I liked goths with little piercings, DarkActionGirl characters who act glamorously, glamorous girls in general, and even IncestIsRelative. When middle school kicked in, the fetishes exploded. I suddenly had characters from all the colors of the rainbow, androgyny, teens involved in {{Fanservice}}--both genders, water, fire, blood splatters, male protagonists who look similar, SweetPollyOliver and DroppedABridgetOnHim, risky outfits, little body hair, the lack of facial hair, pale skin, shoulder blades (oh shoulder blades)...and even more. There are a few turn-ons I'm yet to incourporate into my stories. For example, I find shoulders fascinating...

This troper admits to writing AuthorAppeal in, and then ashamedly tippexing/backspacing it all out. Usually it's for the best.

Non-sexual appeal, though I always end up adding bits of medical trivia that I researched specifically for that story. There's also my fondness for "Glittering, stony, or otherwise poetically described" eyes, green ones in particular. I try to hide the "Green eyes" bit. Somewhat related: I've created at least 2 characters that look and act like my boyfriend. One of them I created before ever seeing or meeting him. UncannyValley much?

This troper has a few specific things which often apear in her work (some sexual, some not), so here goes: dub-con, crossdressing, fem!dom, bondage, demons and/or TheFairFolk, an unusually high amount of snarky people, tattoos, and knifeplay. Oh, and practically every character I write is bi, and usually some variety of {{adorkable}}. Heh. Actually, ElegantGothicLolita often shows up as well...

This troper has realized that, in almost all of the things he writes, there is a snarky protagonist, a great deal of sarcastic epithets, pyros, and at least one guy turning into a girl.

This troper really goes into great lengths to describe the facial structure of his attractive female supporting characters, far more so than the men and even the main character, they all have heart shaped faces and short, cut to the jawline hair cuts and are independent badasses or a StaffChick, yeah

Taaaaall guys (over six foot) paired up with shorter (generally between 5'2"-8") girls/guys. ''Every'' story, pretty much.

I certainly have a bit of AuthorAppeal, but it's not really in a sexual way. This troper seems to have a thing for androgyny as well as challenging certain gender roles (i.e.: most of the girls are taller than the boys, TheChick on the team is a guy, TokenShota as opposed to TokenLoli, etc.), {{pettanko}}s:Partly out of [[GagBoobs buxom females falling short in the 'appeal' department]], redheads, geeks {{moe}}-blobs, kickass cuties, {{adorkable}}ness, and above all else...woobies. Dear God, there is ''nothing'' I love more than a character in serious need of a hug!

Not necessarily a sexual thing, but this Troper loves writing about hotels, the desert, and CIA agents. And time travel or mention of it will appear in her stories, no matter what. Also red cars and horror. And deadpan snarker characters, or oddball situations.

For this troper, she tends to have much {{Foot Focus}}, {{Bandage Babe}}s, and for some reason has an odd fascination with chains that inevitably will make its way into all of her stories. On the non-sexual side, she likes {{Heroic Albino}} characters, {{adorkable}}, and {{Eye Scream}}.

This tropers main lead is always female. And there is always a wise old mentor/father figure who she platonically loves. She will also be very strong and tough, the stoic. And there is always painful but non lethal injuries that she will have to endure. This troper makes her characters struggle.

Stuff I write usually contains lots of steampunk, gothic lolita, etc, as well as lots of surreal fantasy/magic realism. And I'm on the side of Romanticism rather than enlightenment, so there's a lot of that too. And any chance I get, I shall definitely add in some references to childrens' literature, especially Lewis Carroll.

This Troper and his brother have an planned anime series, which takes place in the 42nd Century. It has three series, each consisting of three seasons (not including one short OVA season and one or two OVA movies.) The first series has all the four main characters in 6th to 8th grade fighting (MonsterOfTheWeek monsters) in their hometown with each season having a loose story-arc. The second series (after on-year TimeSkip) has them in 10th to 11th grade, and has them fighting a race of alien invaders. (My brother is the head writer for this one.) And the third series, (of which I'm the head writer) takes place from 12th grade to the end of all life in the universe. It features a race of EldritchAbominations as the main enemies. Each series gets DarkerAndEdgier starting with a full blown comedy series to a dark sci fi drama. The stories I write usually involve a large number of thing that appeal to me.

A lot of Wibbly Wobbly-Timey Wimey Stuff? ✓

A lot of fictional guns based on real guns like the Smith & Wesson, Heckler & Koch MP5 and Desert Eagles? ✓

Intense Shootouts? ✓

Parodies of TV shows Like Series/DoctorWho and StarTrek? ✓

Scenes involving my favorite characters doing epic things? ✓

Scenes in which female characters are barefoot? ✓

A female japanese character who may-or-may-not be the ApocalypseMaiden and cries a lot? ✓

EldritchAbominations from beyond time and were imprisoned by another ancient race? ✓

The SmartGuy/Gunslinger wearing an awesome suit? ✓

The character that almost seems like a L ripoff being eccentric or AmbiguouslyGay (even though I'm straight.)? ✓

A lot of Japanese culture, even though the series takes place in a new version of Vermont? ✓

Logos that have 漢字, ひらがな 平仮名 and カタカナ, 片仮名 (in other words) GratuitousJapanese? ✓

Making a point of how in the 42nd Century, life for teenagers hasn't changed at all.

I also have various unrelated stories, like a high school drama, a yuri and various horror stories.

For whatever reason or another in Roleplays, this troper has a thing for:

Face Heel/Heel Face Turns.

Characters with MessyHair.

Smart women.

Insane characters of either gender.

Redheads of either gender.

Demons.

Characters into S&M

Explosives.

This troper ADORES German Culture, and commonly inserts either a token Deutsche character, or makes on of the main characters of his stories Deutsche. He also habitually makes the female lead a redhead. Male leads are usually bookish and pacifist in comparison, and are usually taken from outside the norm areas and cultures (Arabic or Indian in a Western World setting for example). Currently, in my largest ongoing story, I've created a family that can be considered a cultural mishmash, with: A German surrogate mother who is an Atheist, A surrogate turkish father who is Islamic and a Jewish adopted child/Orphan of War. This coupled with my obsession with dysfunctional families/ absent parents makes for one charming backdrop for a group of soldiers fighting for a newly rearmed Bundesrepublik Deutschland in a war against a National Socialist Superstate consisting of The United Kingdom, The United States of America, Canada and Mexico. Yes I have a thing for dystopian fiction, and topics concerning morality, insanity and personal responsibility. I'v also seemed to develope a "writing tic" of always inserting at least one if not more female characters that tsundere/dark action girl/Axe Crazy.