Whoa boy, did I ever develop as a character. In elementary school, I was quite a Genki guy who was also generally unpredictable. I possessed a HairTriggerTemper and would often do what I wanted without caring about how other people felt sometimes. People just let it happen because it kept me happy. Keeping me happy made things less stressful for people, since they didn't have to deal with me being incredibly pissed off and I would often make entertaining games. By the time middle school came, I realized what effect my behaviour had on others so I became more in control with my emotions while still keeping my core personality intact. Overall, it was the same. Then High School hit. Realizing that my ways would make me an outcast and target for bullying, I became more closed about my emotions, only showing who I truly am to people I can trust. This behaviour has led to me becoming a much calmer person, having a much more peaceful presence and allowing me to become smarter, which has allowed for me to make many more friends (Some of the closer ones are COMPLETE opposites of me!). I went from a somewhat selfish, self-indulgent kid with a huge temper to a more helpful person who makes selfless decisions for people at times, and is able to stay calm in situations so that I can make good decisions.

This troper went from a quiet, bookish FragileFlower to a take-no-crap GenkiGirl.

My best friend went through this during his teen years and twenties. TheStoic > TheWoobie > ThePollyanna > {{Tsundere}} > JerkAss. The only thing about him that hasn't changed is his nerdiness and his love for junk food.

Let's get this out of the way quickly. Lots of girls get huge "character development" during their teenage years.

Not this one.

Most people experience this in high school,due to becomeing more adult-like in thier privlege and well,just looking less kid-like. Most people are much different from when they were freshman year. This happens again in college. Not always though.

This guy, when he started at his current university, was unhappy, to say the least. He felt that the average intelligence of the college students (he transferred from a junior college to a four-year university) was a little bit...lower than he thought it would be, to say the least. Still, he made one or two friends. He tried out for RA position (something he detailed in TroperTales/CrazyPrepared), but didn't get it - but not because of lack of preparedness, no - because he was a huge JerkAss. Finally, he took on a volunteer position with a group so he could bolster his resume for RA position...but loved the experience so much that he ran for an executive position in the group. He got it, and today he's a respected student leader.

As this troper has mentioned elsewhere, he experienced a lot of character development during highschool, which is why many of his TroperTales are about that time. Long story short, he got some friends, met a cute girl who helped him to restore some semblance of trust to humanity, and became less of a JerkAss (he's more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold now). Of course he still has to work on his social skills and is far from a balanced person, but he's still a lot better off than he used to be.

Weird. I don't remember writing anything here...

This troper was a socially awkward ShrinkingViolet and CheerfulChild. Now I'm more of geeky, GirlNextDoor, and ButtMonkey within her group of friends. (Mostly in friendly teasing way.) Within my friends, I often feel like a secondary character in a sitcom about a group of frinds. Lately this feeling has gotten worse because I'm one of the only single girls in the group and my friends are ignoring me more and more in favor of their beloved.

This troper has metamorphosed from a very angry and volatile little girl into... well, a cross between TheSnarkKnight and TheSpock, with a side of PerkyGoth. It wasn't really sparked by any one event or set of events, though, just sort of a gradual and often consciously self-directed evolution.

Are you, by any chance, me?

Or me? I don't remember typing that summary...

Possibly me? Hmm, I can't remember this entry....

This troper used to be a self-isolated JerkAss whose parents even described him as needing "a backup friend." After two years of constant theatre while getting to know some incredible people, he's a pretty nice guy who actually has a social life. He still has his moments, but he's a lot better overall.

Ditto for this troper. All though the 'nice guy' thing is taking a bit more work.

This troper used to be a ShrinkingViolet who hated boys due to unfortunate experiences in fifth grade. Now she's more of a quiet DeadpanSnarker TeamMom and her group of friends is composed primarily of guys.

Hey there, long lost sister!

This troper started as a standard nerd with bits of CloudCuckoolander. After extensive experience with bullies he went through a NietzscheWannabe period, until he voluntarily went back two grades. As a highschool veteran, he first became TheStoner, went up to be a {{Jerkass}} and a KnifeNut (bad combination, folks), alienated his best friend, and became a poster boy for LonersAreFreaks. One year later, he got a new Nakama, and became the Papa Bear. Saddly, after an AwfulTruth and a few funerals, e failed another school year. He is now a SecondaryCharacter DeadpanSnarker in the main drama, one of ThoseTwoGuys.

And finally, ThoseTwoGuys were cut from the main plot altogether. This Troper is now an unemployed high school dropout looking for a chance to get his own SpinOff.

This troper's been stuck around ShrinkingViolet and freakish loners for a long time now, but she's seen a little evidence of this in other people. The girl she'd had pegged as a mean cheerleader/ borderline TheLibby, who had gotten into a fight with one of Joysweeper's acquaintances, drove Joysweeper to the library during one of the latter's minor meltdowns. This might have been because a broken Joysweeper is a genuinely pathetic sight, but it still seems to hint at more depth.

This Troper was a {{Nerd}} and loner ''her entire life'', loving books and not at all interested in dating, only socializing when absolutely necessary or to relieve her mother's worries. A few weeks in college, and while hanging out with a group of peers, I noticed it was time to go to a class, and I felt so strange as I left but couldn't figure out why. Some time later, I realized what strange emotion I was feeling -- I didn't want to leave! I was actually ''enjoying'' hanging out with a goup of people instead of feeling like it was a chore I couldn't wait to get over with! Since then, I've been opening up more than I ever expected. This should be a good thing, but I feel like a hypocrite for continuing to identify with loners, and my developing interest in the opposite sex has also led to predictable consequences. I miss the old me.

You have given hope to This Troper who is currently still in the book loving antisocial stage of your story and is hoping that said development may happen when she moves into a University house of residence this coming year.

Sounds like a female version of This Troper. Which is precisely who he wants to be. Mind switching bodies? This one is a bit run-down, but it's probably a bit younger, nearly done with high school while being 17, and has all the disadvantages of being male. So I guess it's a bad deal and you won't fall for it. Siiigh. There go my hopes...

Going on a two-week camping trip to Colorado was character development gold for this troper. At first, I didn't get along at all with the people I shared a tent with, (one a goth who hadn't been taking her depression meds, enthralled with the supernatural, and was contantly afraid of getting eaten by a bear, the other a stubborn, spunky blonde girl who always wanted to lead and have her way, who I frequent had power struggles with) and felt a general sense of loneliness and disconnect from the other campers. By the end of the first week, some serious heart-to-hearts with the other campers made this troper realize she was being a brat and had learn to work with and open up to other people more. This revelation came at the right time, because the blonde girl who I fought with developed a painful infection on her lip from a bad sun burn. While now I'm aware she treated other people badly at times, I went out of my way to help her and be nice to her, and we patched things up nicely. (This is also when this troper started to become a TeamMom. And by the end of the trip, there were hugs all around.

This troper was diagnosed with an incurable disorder at age 7, and had played/been very much a victim since then. At almost 19 she moved over an hour's drive away from home for university, and a noticable and very positive change happened within a few months. She's still disabled, but now has oodles more self-confidence about herself and what she can do.

This troper has changed a lot over the 2 decades he's been alive, but one of the more notable changes was when he outgrew the EmoTeen "life is pointless and HumansAreBastards and it would probably be for the best if everyone just dropped down and died" phase. Thinking back on it today, he's barely able to recognize himself.

Change "two decades" to "one and a half decades" and ya got me. I'm still kicking myself over how much of an idiot I used to be. Maybe a little too much, though.

Troper here was part of an interesting story at one point as the NewTransferStudent and TheKirk of the local PowerTrio. He then got PutOnABus, and now serves as occasional VoiceWithAnInternetConnection to a variety of people. He would think he was just racking up Cameos for the sake of AuthorAppeal, but he's recently found himself an entire FiveManBand of Voices With Internet Connections. His luck may well be changing.

This troper spent all his time up to freshman year of high school nigh friendless. Thinking back, its probably because his sense of humor was rather crude and he himself was a bit....strange. Nowadays, he knows when not to say something and is now strange in a way which is more sociable.

Change highschool to middle school and you have one of my best friends.

This troper changed from a straw liberal who admires Michael Moore and Lenin to a straw capitalist whose heroes incluide Thomas Jefferson and Milton Friedman; The change was so slow and gradual even I'm surprised

Back in high school, this troper was the very definition of a loner. I was such a social outcast that I didn't fit in with ''any'' group, and it showed. I spent 3.5 years of high school in moderate depression, and the last half of my senior year in much more ''severe'' depression. I started piecing things back together after that, and in the 2 years since then I've made huge progress. Kind of like a ZenSurvivor, only I came out of it optimistic. I'm the very definition of OlderAndWiser to my high school friends, even though I'm not that much older than them. Hell, some of my ''older'' friends see me in the same way.

Am I editing Troper Tales in my sleep again? That's exactly my story.

This troper never went to any social gatherings in high school until the end of sophomore year. Senior year was slightly better. Now a freshman in college, I'm gathering with my floormates semi-nightly. Not much developed, but getting there.

This trooper has run the full gamut of character types from his early life up until he was 18. Being a military brat, the growth seems to have coincided with each move. Moves Alaska and Virginia I was a Cloudcuckoolander. The England move warped me into an IneffectualLoner HeroicSociopath. The Florida move turned me into a male Tsundere that very nearly broke into deredere side full time before the next move to Nevada. Nevada at first warped this troper into an IneffectualLoner Cukoolander, but now, on the cusp of the move back to Florida, I’m more like a Cukoolander JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a dream of writing speculative fiction books.

This Troper is wondering if CharacterDevelopment is always supposed to be a positive change. This Troper went from being a pretty smart and somewhat well-adjusted person to a burnt out ICouldaBeenAContender in the space of four years.

Oh yeah, this troper. When he was in first grade, he was a ''very'' angry loner kid, that would beat up, or rather ''try'' to beat up whoever pressed one of his many Berserk Buttons. But with a whole lot of psychiatric help, he slowly learned to keep calm no matter what. When he was 15 years old and finishing elementary school, he was that quiet sad kid nobody liked, which also made him suffer the first year or so of the high school. Now, when he's beginning his last high school year (fourth), he's transformed into a Deadpan Snarker-would-be, but none-the-less a good guy with good friends, or in other words, Jerk With A Heart Of Gold.

This troper sucked as a kid, and sucks now. Her fictional characters, however, can go through this. Most notably was her ParodySue character, who developed into a character with real motivations and weaknesses. Atmittedly, this was because even a parody of MarySue is deadly boring to write...

This troper has a pretty messed up tale. At first he had very little interest in talking to girls or having anything to do with them, even at the age of 18, until an accidental and semi-disturbing incident where he became someone's online girlfriend. Eventually the persona of the "girl" started developing into his own dream girl, until the point where he fell in love with what could only be considered an imaginary friend / alter-ego hybrid. Long story short, this incident finally started an interest in the opposite sex to develop.

This troper went without any real friends until ninth grade, not because he couldn't make any, but because he didn't want any. He was considerably smarter than most kids in elementary and junior high, and felt far more at ease reading alone than interacting with other kids, just because he felt like they weren't on his level. He joined marching band upon entering high school, and suddenly felt like he needed to get to know these people. Of course, having never made any real friends before, his social skills were decidedly lacking, and he broke the ice by being as strange as possible. This resulted in...well, somehow, this troper became a highly respected and quite popular guy, mostly due to the fact that he is so well adjusted and comfortable with himself.

This Troper, over the course of his first two years at secondary school underwent a transformation from this to something very close to this. Thankfully, after moving to a grammar school, I started to regain some faith in humanity. Although any faith in God is still totally beyond repair, especially after a friend and my dad died around this time.

This troper was quite a shy, standoffish kid - until fifth grade, when she got friends and morphed into the lazy, lax blabbermouth she is today.

This Troper went from being a quiet, geeky semi-loner to being quite popular, to being a Cloudcuckoolander slash SocialButterfly and then (because he is Poly and did something incredibly stupid) got dumped by seven people... at once... the resulting suicidal depression led to a bipolar diagnosis, a realization of my utter terror of abandonment and lots of medication and shrink visits and a return to being a quiet, geeky semi-loner because people scare the crap out of me but I'm not completely agoraphobic. Yes, I'm a mess. I'm working on it.

This troper began middle school as a complete and utter crybaby who swore he was a tough guy. In the 7th grade, I began to hate everyone and subsequently became a loudmouthed, spiteful and unpopular individual. The 8th grade I simply became very angry, slightly less unpopular, and just as spiteful. In the 9th grade, I mellowed out some, and simply became the guy who said what was on everybody else's mind, much to the dismay of many. Middle of that year... I fell in love with a girl, but that didn't turn out so well, but I decided I'd deal with it. Then, in the 10th grade, this troper moved to Virginia, and popularity and luck with the ladies just skyrocketed. Junior year of HS I decided HS sucked, graduated a year early and came back to New York. Now in college I'm a well-liked, well-spoken, and highly perverted individual who spends his time being the most awesome college radio DJ ever.

This troper has gone from Raised By Wolves to one of those girly Teen Witch types withone or two friends who think they're better than everyone else (*shudder*) to calm, reasoning hardcore rationalist with a stable group of friends.

This troper went from a Little Brat to half Genuinely Nice Person/half Cloudcuckoolander between grade school and high scool now.

This troper was once a painfully shy, bloody miserable person who was far too cynical due to getting bullied mercillesly in middle school. Moved to a new school, I'm now happier than I've ever been in my life, have great friends and a completely new personality- friendly, open, the most optimistic person of my Nakama and pretty much the resident Agony Aunt.

This troper had an interesting shift on the TomboyAndGirlyGirl spectrum. As a preteen and teenager, she rebelled against what she saw as the superficiality of stereotypical femininity by insisting that she didn't care about clothes and refusing to wear makeup except on special occasions. By her second year of college, she realized that liking pretty things doesn't make someone materialistic, and wanting to look nice doesn't automatically mean someone is shallow. She now openly admits her love for sparkly things and long, flowing dresses, although in a semi-subversion her fashion sense is described as "bohemian" by charitable observers and "bizarre" by certain others. Plus, she still loves rodents, feels more comfortable hanging out with guys than with other females, and enjoys video games and tabletop [=RPGs=].

This troper started out as a TomBoy who caught frogs and lizards and climbed trees and hated dresses. As she went through elementary, she morphed into a {{tsundere}}/Smart Girl who was also a bookworm. She was teased quite a bit and was a bit of a crybaby. She also chose rather sucky friends. In middle school she added FanGirl (complete with FangirlJapanese) to her roster. Still, she was able to find her current best friend and join her current {{Nakama}}. At the end of middle school she finally stopped with the annoying Japanese (though she was still a very large fan of anime and video games and books). In high school, she continued with her dorkitude, expanding to comic books. She's a fair bit more confident in herself now, and has continued to keep her dorky smart girl status.

Whoawhoawhoa. Another long-lost twin alert!

This troper went from cool and popular in her primary school, to unpopular and shy in her first secondary school where she had few friends and was bullied. Eventualy she moved to a new secondary school and is now a happy popular person again.

This troper used to have quite a bad life, socially at least. She lost all of her friends, who had to move away and/or switch schools. Yes. All. Of. My. Friends. In the span of one year, even. The year just after that, she had to go through arguably the most crappy moment of her entire life. An entire school year with no friends, not even mildly tolerable acquaintances. All of this was mainly because she was shy, a giant geek, not really good looking and a tomboy. Another more tolerable year passed, but still no friends. The year after that she got into a class with only one kid she knew (who happened to be the new best friend my ex-friend found after she moved away). They became the best friends you could ever imagine. Another girl also joined the group. This troper think we're the closest Nakama in the entire city. Even now, after having to go to another school 'cause of bad grades, they're still best friends and this troper even got a social life.

This troper's family moved multiple times during his teens, and by the final settle (and seventh school in three years) he'd sort of given up on making friends and turned into a lonely misanthrope {{Nietzsche Wannabe}} by the time he was 14. Vicious cycle ensued with depression which was never mentioned out loud for fear of being painted emo and got worse and worse. It took a lot of courage, but eventually I just moved the hell out of that town and started life afresh. These days I'm the local {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}, which is a step up certainly. I'm tougher than I used to be. I'm also noticing a lot of similarities in the troper's stories...

This troper's got the beginnings of it going on. He's gone from social recluse to a more socially adept dweeb, and has overcome his depression and is now kicking ass at college and theatre.

More CharacterDerailment, but when this troper started killing bad sentences/entries on TvTropes, he used to be fairly calm and polite about it, giving proper justifications for his deleting. Now he's reduced to nasty insults or even flat-out cursing madly due to the statements' perceived stupidity.

This troper used to be a freakish loner thanks to an unpleasant experience at the age of four involving a toy train... and still is one to some degree, but with aspects of TheSnarkKnight, DeadpanSnarker and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} added on.

I'm a Nice Guy, this is a bad thing. I'm trying to develop into a JerkAss. Empathy however is hard to suppress. A lifetime of playing the ButtMonkey, TheWoobie, and TheChewToy has taught me that people are in general assholes and the best defense is a good offense. So, alienate as many people as possible and you won't get hurt. Anyone who tolerates it is either a saint, finds snark hilarious, or more of a doormat than me.

This troper in Middle school was a bitter loner who was a major DeadpanSnarker. Throughout Highschool I've developed a bit in that I've added nihilist and ThisLoserIsYou to that list. Physically I've ditched my NerdGlasses and acquired a emover.

This troper has a slightly different example: a friend who fails to understand what character development actually is. He wants to be a writer, (as do I) but in addition to writing terrible HighFantasy in PurpleProse that might make Christopher Paolini blush, and falling for every single rookie move in that Turkey List thing, insists that character development is a genre and that his series is a ''character development series''. He'll say things like "My stories are 50% fantasy, 50% character development." He's not stupid in any other area, though.

This troper was someone who went gradually from StrawmanPacifist to a potential GeneralRipper, and is now sinking back toward the middle (and hopes to stay there). This troper also went from a desperate guy to someone with a bit more self-control, and is turning from a dogged Can Save Us Now}} pessimist to someone hopefully in the more realistic realms of optimism as opposed to being a {{keet}}, spurred onward by meeting a young and cute Aspie woman - this troper also has Asperger Syndrome himself. Though this troper knows her abilities in drawing trump his and she is actually able to finish what she starts at least half the time he hopes to be, if anything, friends with her, if she is willing.

Update: this troper hasn't seen the person mentioned above again, and could only ever be friends due to her total lack of interest in either girls or guys, but no matter - though out of fear of commitment he had once two-timed on his on-again, off-again girlfriend with an ex-prostitute who was OlderThanTheyLook, he has repented and is now back with his original girlfriend and has resolved to commit to her.

This troper is a complete and total WildCard.

At 13, I was a PuritySue.

At 14-15, I got DarkerAndEdgier.

At 16-17, full-blown NietzscheWannabe.

Around 18 when I got out of school and away from my SadistTeacher (I'm telling you me getting darker was all his fault.) I mellowed out from hating the world and just became a DeadpanSnarker.

Less snarky, more deadpan now. I'm a generally amicable person now, if you don't mind my occasional pent-up vitriol.

This troper was the odd lonely guy in middle school, the nerdy nervous loser in high school, combined with some serious introversion and clinginess, and now because of super tsundere tendencies have driven away my best friend and realized I'm toxic to be around. Not all character development is fun.

This troper was a ShrinkingViolet during his high school years, due to low self-confidence. He also happened to fall head over heels for every girl to show the slightest sign of friendship. There is a reason this troper tries to forget high school. Strangely, he developed a spooky ability to change his personality to fit any group of people he's currently hanging out with. Once he left high school and entered college, his personality completely inverted. He is now known as quite TheCharmer, with a large group of ''close'' female friends. He's also become known as quite the ManipulativeBastard, a DeadpanSnarker, and girls take great pleasure in telling him that his supposed jerkiness is a facade. A word of caution though, in changing this way, he's also found that he lapses into depression when alone, and seems to have lost his original personality underneath the masks. It can happen when you model your personality after a certain fictional spy.

This troper started out as a rage filled child who attacked his siblings and other children if they teased or hurt him in the slightest I sometimes beat them until they were covered in black and blue bruises, this continued well into first grade but after a while I only attacked true bullies and by the time of the second grade I only attacked if necessary, today I have learned to control my anger and manage to restrain myself if I get really angry the way I handle this pent up rage is by playing violent video games until I calm down.

This now-fifteen troper would have found his self of two-to-three years ago quite insufferable in almost all ways, but the one that really stands out is self-esteem. He currently makes a running gag out of his own arrogance. "Owing to my extreme brilliance, wit, and sophistication, and also humility...". Thirteen-year-old him was forced to seriously search his soul when stupid people called him stupid.

This Troper used to think that everyone could be trusted and that the world was, in general, a nice place. A few years of pain have made her one of the scariest shrinking violets you ever did see. Yes, she's the one from the Character Alignment page who starts listing her various personae.

Same here, thanks to getting routinely screwed in work, life and play. I know I'm retreating inward and I simply can't get the energy up to care any more.

This troper was a cheerful, popular, optimistic and generally naive kid in primary. Then in his next school he was being discriminated by the teachers because of his parent's political stance. No wonder he became more cynical an pessimistic than a burnt out, jaded 40er at the age of 12. However, he became a lot more defiant and developed a strong sense of justice. In high school, he kept his cynicism, but combined it with tons of sarcasm and wit, and alongside with the aforementioned sense of justice and defiance, he earned his respect and reputation. He retains these characteristics in the university too.

This troper: gone from a whiny, petty brat with a fragile ego who had little sensitivity to other people's thoughts and feelings. She gradually matured throughout middle school high school, but painfully breaking her leg in several places and the subsequent rehabilitation forced her to realize (if subconsciously at the time) that she could die at any time and it's pointless to behave that way. (seriously, slightly different angle and she could have broken her neck.) By all accounts, her behavior had improved tremendously since then, only growing more and more easy-going.

Although this is more of {{Character Derailment}} one of this troper's former best friends started out as a smart, nerdy, athletic girl who had lots of friends but unfortunately by the time of the 7th grade we transferred to a different school she began to hang out with the wrong crowd and became a ditzy, bitchy, idiotic girl who smoked and drank before becoming the legal age, she became so dumb that she didn't know things she once did, and she is now known as one of the biggest sluts in town and often dresses in skimpy outfits.

Back in school times, this editor was the plain poor ol’ {{buttmonkey}}. Then, two years (seasons?) before graduation, his family moved to another town (spinoff??), and a brand new school. This editor decided that it was enough of the {{buttmonkey}} stuff, and took that as a new beginning. Two years (seasons???) after that, in graduation, he was the most popular person in school, dating the most beautiful girl in town. Quite neat huh? Too bad it did not help in my Truman Paranoia...

This troper made TheLibby dislike her in elementary school. This led to some issues (In response to, "Nice shirt," 'Is she joking? Does she think I'm ugly? Is she trying to catch me off guard?' would be a probable thought process) which made it rather difficult to make friends. Then, at around the end of eigth grade, she entered the talent show and showed up standing tall in a red dress without her glasses and sang Defying Gravity. She has since gotten over the self-confidence issues due to random strangers coming up to compliment her on her performance. She is also still wearing contacts so no longer worries about people sneaking up in her peripheral vision, so another paranoia gone.

This troper began as a happy but serious boy. When he entered the last years of grade school (13-16) though, he lost friends and found himself alone. He therefore became more serious, very quiet and a lone wolf. He spent more time with homework and learning stuff than with any kids and liked it. Then he entered the Swedish equivalent of high school (16-18) and got some friends. There he began to evolve and he came out of his shell somewhat and got friends. Still a lone wolf, still very comfortable doing things his way and doing it himself he has begun to cooperate with other humans and liking it. Sadly (or luckily as some sees it) this means that he has taken up the mantle of DeadpanSnarker and likes to point out inconsistencies in other peoples plans. He is also somewat arrogant and believes himself intellectually superior to most people but who knows? Maybe more development will follow...

Arguably averted: As far as This Troper could remember, he has not really changed where it matters since first grade, aside from becoming slightly (and I mean ''slightly''; a lot of it is just a matter of growing up a bit) more composed, laidback, outgoing and extraverted. And he likes it that way. His parents tend to exaggerate the change, though (IMHO, ofcourse).

This troper was a reluctant loner during his childhood years due to a lack of the athletism needed to be considered worthwhile by one section of his classmates, and too rough a manner of speech for the rest. After making his first real friend at age 9 he spent the next 9 slowly becoming a SarcasticDevotee with perhaps too much of an investment in ThePowerOfFriendship.

I was a typical loner throughout his schooling (being homeschooled didn't hurt.) until he reached high school, and started hanging out with people his own age more. Now I'm starting to come out of my shell and talk to people more. It's actually turned somewhat negative; I used to be able to get through a good week without talking to anyone. Now, I start going a little nuts if I go without human contact for long, just like everyone else. I sort of wish I could go back, but I can't.

This Troper went from a whiny, selfish, pessimistic, lonely kid who doesn't even believe in god and dislikes everyone to... actually, I've no idea what I've become. I've at least become less whiny and I'm agnostic. I've also become quite optimistic. I feel like I'm becoming more asexual... at least more than other people who aren't instinctively asexual. When before he loved to be a deadpan snarker, now he fails at it. He chastises anyone who doesn't type correctly or when they make a very obvious spelling/grammar mistake. He also sucks at deciding whether to stay in 1st or 3rd person, apparently. But not much change aside from that, I think. I'm at least aware of all my faults. I still have a lot of character development to go down the road.

This troper started out as a semi-Cloud Cuckoolander, and was probably the only really crazy person in his class,as well as being so Christian he couldn't even fathom why somebody would stop. Eventually, once he reached Middle School, he bordered into JerkAss territory but remained really silly. The last few months though, he's become an Atheist practically overnight, more serious and even kind of genre savvy. And now he is more or less the only sane man, as well as the DeadpanSnarker (Though completly by choice) of the group. As well as occasionally being Asexual.

Just a few years ago, this troper was a whiny little bitch who thought everyone and everything was out to get him and he'd rant and/or cry whenever someone teased or made fun of him. He was also a religious homophobe who believed Christianity was the one true religion and everyone else was just crazy. Now, he realizes that a lot of the things that went wrong in his life were his own fault and he recognizes when he's being a jerkass instead of blaming it on everyone else. He rarely cries anymore and instead expresses anger by being a StepfordSmiler and {{deadpan snarker}} (although this could probably also count as {{character derailment}}). Recently he's given up his homophobia and realized that he himself is a raging homosexual (though in retrospect it should have been obvious) and is now agnostic, though he still hopes God exists.

When I was 3, I apparently beat everyone up. Up through school I changed from a skinny bully to TheSmartGuy (with some ButtMonkey tendencies) to JerkAss to TheSmartGuy to a GeniusBruiser who is pretty much well liked or ignored by everyone. Go figure.

When I started kindergarden, I was TheQuietOne, then when I got into elemenary school, I fell into the LonersAreFreaks catergory(I was a loner because I actually liked to read. That's what you get when you go to a school in the country.). Then in middle school I became the class KnowItAll. Now I'm the BigGuy/Smart [=Guy/=]TheScrappy.

Hm...This Troper must admit - she has gone through so much Character Development, it's hard to keep track of it all. The earliest event she can recall of this was when her little brother (who is not only ADHD/OCD but also rather ODD when not on correct medication) was born. Additional development happened when she started {{Becoming the Mask}} of her current character at the time (a noble)for a local renaissance faire...when she was in kindergarten, and she moved from her home of south-eastern Washington to ''seriously'' southern California a couple of years later, becoming more of a {{Tomboy}} social butterfly and at a total {{Gamer Chick}}. After introducing herself to the world of internet forum role-play, even ''more'' of this resulted due to her very bad tendencies to make her characters some form of {{Mary Sue}}. After two years of an inverted Type 2 {{Love Triangle}} with her two best friends during the end of elementary school (she realized she had crushes on both but never learned about their feelings), she moved ''back'' to south-eastern Washington state and entered middle school, to which a natural shyness around strangers, puberty, accusations of dating her {{Plucky Comic Relief}} friend, forging a (rather large) {{Nakama}} since the first month of middle school, and her own ADHD changed her from simple Tomboy to {{Perky Goth}}, semi-{{Deadpan Snarker}} with an honesty policy like a set of brass knuckles to the jaw (or whacking a quarterstaff upside the head), and a {{Genre Savvy}} {{Knight In Sour Armor}} prone to either social interaction or self-exile, depending on whether or not she's at school. How she's been able to keep such a huge Circle of Friends across two cities is ''completely'' beyond her.

This troper started high school as a rabid anime FanGirl, then turned into an {{Emo}} (Year 7), then turned into a StepfordSmiler, then went through therapy (which she hated and still hates and will not go back to even if she turns into a psychopath and murders a bus full of nuns) and got a seemingly unrequited crush on her very female best friend (Year 8), then went back to be relatively happy, turned into a sane FanGirl, then turned into a CloudCuckooLander and a ditz despite actually being quite intelligent (of course, she was still recooperating from two years of being depressed). She spent Year 9 slowly getting her confidence back and improving her grades, and her seemingly unrequited crush turned out of be requited, and she then had to deal with bucketloads of {{Gayngst}} and she still is, and has discovered that she has anger issues, which she absolutey hates which makes her angrier.

And despite being a total airhead, she has her moments.

This troper's life changed considerably after he realized he was transgendered.

I... was a bit of a {{Tsundere}} when I was younger, now that I think about it. Now I'm a GenkiGirl.

This troper + puberty, testosterone and a move to a competitive all-boys school became ... more relaxed, got a vastly ''better'' temper and made a larger and more sincere group of friends. Yay for Subverted Tropes, no?

This troper started middle school as a GenkiGirl ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fangirl with one hell of a DeathGlare. In the span of just about a year, she's become a proud otaku DeadpanSnarker {{Shorttank}} that ''still'' has one hell of a death glare and a few self-esteem issues, mostly due to her "OMG lookit all my internet stuffs" phase, around the same time as the Twilight phase.

This troper used to be 100% girly girl. Now, she wouldn't be caught dead in anything besides jeans. She's also turned into a full out LittleMissSnarker, and has slowly evolved into a WrenchWench, and carries a golfball at all times. Long Story.

The Development started sometime during This Tropers sophomore year of college. I was this immature innocent innuendo kid who thought he was just there to get through the day and that was it. Cue learning about the internet and art and various other things and I became this vague more mature guy who took a few levels in badass for art and found himself a group of online nakama. then college started and stuff went down and I went through a lot more development. lost my nakama, became a biology major, and started to get acquainted with his heritage. Bang I became more mature, much more accepting and understanding of how stuff is and got a series of crowning moments of awesome and to top it all off, I got a study job. Woot!

Not quite as extreme as some other examples this one. I'm a shy person, I always have been and for most of my life this was the quality I hated most about myself. I would be ashamed of it because it often drove me to tears, and, from my point of view, I had no one to blame but myself. My Character Development isn't developing some confidence (this has happened, but to no significant degree) but, instead, my Character Development is the realisation that I will ''always'' be shy and learning to accept that fact. I'm not the boisterous person I wanted to be, instead I'm still quiet and shy, but accepting this part of my personality has made me a happier person. I have friends that understand me, instead of friends I'm putting on a front for.

This Troper started out life as a CheerfulChild, then when she started school she started getting teased because of her Dyspraxia, which makes her slow, clumsy, and scatterbrained. This kicked off six years of BreakTheCutie, reducing her to a ShrinkingViolet with self esteem issues. Then she left Primary school (Years 1-6) and started at an all-female combined middle-high school, met some amazing friends that rapidly formed a Nakama, discovered she wasn't actually useless and there were people who valued her for what she is, and became a crossbreed of Tsundere, Badass Bookworm, and Deadpan Snarker while simultaneously managing to acquire a reputation as one of the nicest girls around. Now I'm a lot more comfortable with myself (Yangire tendencies aside...) in general, have an amazing circle of friends, and a great boyfriend. I have issues, yes, but I have people who'll help me get through them. <3

When this troper was in primary school (elementary for the non-Brits) she was an epic ShrinkingViolet {{geek}} who craved love, however, years of illness in the family ,depression and just plain bad luck has turned her into an outspoken DeadpanSnarker ''(very deadpan'', I rarely smile) with an extremely dark sense of humour. The thing is, I've never been happier!

This troper just went through a BreakTheCutie moment. Ha ha, looks like I got excited with the links...

This troper seems to go through a cycle whenever she enters a new situation. First she starts off as TheQuietOne when she doesn't know anybody, then opens up a bit and shows shades of being a DeadpanSnarker. Once she really gets to know the people around, she's a full fledged friendly DeadpanSnarker mixed with the GenkiGirl, major NeutralGood tendencies, and the CloudCuckooLander. She figures she wouldn't have this cycle if she didn't suffer from numerous BreakTheCutie moments in middle school and freshman year of high school.

This Troper started out life as a CheerfulChild, bordering on TheCutie, but after something really bad happened, he became TheChewToy that everyone at school loved torturing. He tried to find his place among elementart school, trying to be TheSmartGuy, TheLancer, and ThePluckyComicRelief, but his persistance to find his place led many others to label him as TheScrappy. Through out the rest of elementary school and middle school, he was a loner, until he joined the Drama Club, where he became the LargeHam. Thanks to some people finally being nice to him, he has gone to GenreSavvy Nice Guy, with a hint of StepfordSmiler thrown in.

This troper entered a moderate depression in middle school that took him well over 3 years to overcome. The end result, however, is TheChessmaster and a sort of OlderAndWiser figure, mentally. I've also got quite the optimistic outlook on life, something I never even thought of when I was scrooging. A side effect of this experience has been a very powerful emotional reaction every time I come accross a fictional character with this same kind of development.

This troper... used to be a bit of a loner. Never talks, do mostly what's told, etc. Good grades, little to no friends. Then after taking up art and music, I started to meet new people. Some were asses, yes, but others were really close friends. I've learned to be a little less of a dick in recent years, so that helps. I was a Grammar Nazi Deadpan Snarker who was easily angered (Anger problems.) back up until 6th grade. That's since been replaced with "Screw you, you jerk" and general avoidance. I'm entering grade 10, and somehow have regressed into Shrinking Violet Emo Teen mode. What happened?

This Troper went through some Bowie}} ch-ch-ch-changes. I was a smartass in elementary, and I eventually lost all my friends. Then went into the gifted program for 3 years for middle school (6-8) and went from DeadpanSnarker to a trope-free, personal character. I don't think I will go through any major changes, I've got a bit of stability now.

This troper used to be homophobic and HATED yaoi, but after a few years of Hetalia Fandom and having a YaoiFangirl as my best friend, I developed into actually SUPPORTING gay rights and marriage, and, while I still don't like yaoi, I completely accept her fandom of it and even paired together two males on my TheSims 3 as a favor to her.

This troper was a particularly obnoxious GenkiGirl back in elementary and early middle school. Severely. After spending a lot of time as the ChewToy of her middle school for it, she spent a lot of time being bitter and annoying, only really good for making people laugh. Now she's settled into being the Cloudcuckoolander TeamMom.

This Troper watched her bestfriend go through this. When I met her, she was that little, blonde immature tween who obsessed over anime and manga ... even though she was 16. She was adorable to be honest. But (and what I think was the reason for her 'development')after a brutal break up with her first boyfriend, she became a lot more self-obsessed, emo (but only to the point of fashion sense and appearance e.g bright red hair, vibrant sneakers e.t.c), began to smoke and was very promiscuous to the point where we couldn't go to a party without awkward moments with previous hook ups. She lost a lot of childhood friends and people who liked the 'old' her and she was constantly accused of 'changing' in a negative way. She also had a tendency of dating guys and dumping them once they told her they loved her. However, she's now almost 18 and has become a lot more mature, dresses a lot more like 'herself' rather than to try and fit in with a subculture, has gone back to drawing manga a little again, has a boyfriend (One of the previous guys who loved her and now does so again) and never did I once stop loving my best friend through all of this, and she never stopped loving me. (:.

This Troper used to be a slightly immature loner-ish person, but now I'm a geeky Cloudcuckoolander.

This troper has slowly evolved into a Soapbox Sadie and Granola Girl with a healthy dash of Cloudcuckoolander from a quiet, wannabe emo-kid. It doesn't help that I work at a co-op and I'm a vegetarian.

This male troper has gone through an extensive amount of this since the day he set foot in his current high school to the present day. Picture this: my previous high school was jam packed full of nerds, which i fit right in with cuz i pretty much was(and to an extent still am)a nerd as well. But my new school was one of thos ALC(a-holes last chance) kinda schools thus it was full of potheads, party animals, and sexually active people. Thus fire was put to steel very quickly. Over time i got slighty more street smart(but still far from perfect) learned to talked to girls much better to the point where im pretty much a ChivalrousPervert now, and learned to rise above the concept of awkwardness alltogether. And despite the fact that i liked my first school much better, a big part of me is actually pretty glad i didnt stay there because all this development has certainly been for the better

This she-Troper was a rabid ShrinkingViolet and BrokenBird thanks to blood-related "family" throughout childhood and the teen years until said she-Troper up and left the household for good. Has bloomed as a PerkyGoth with GamerChick and CuddleBug tendencies ever since.

This troper is trying to learn to use BecomingTheMask to induce this. Went from wimp/nerd to Stoic/nerd by trying to emulate Ike (though my only experience with Ike is actually Brawl so perhaps I got an AlternateCharacterInterpretation version), now trying to rid myself of the socially-awkward part of nerd but less sure how to do that. Although I'm fine with playing the introvert, so perhaps I should look to something else.

This Tropette used to be a {{Doormat}} until she was placed in a mental hospital for extreme depression bordering on suicide. However, because of her timid disposition, she couldn't work up the nerve to off herself. Three days in the mental ward changed her from a soft-spoken weirdo to a defender of the timid, a LittleMissBadass, and a tranquil bitch.

I used to be a depressed StepfordSmiler who was fairly cynical, which only made me more depressed. I was also beyond shy and socially awkward. A year at college and some inspirational reading later, and I'm an independent GenkiGirl who firmly believes in the goodness of humanity.

Averted with this troper. He has gone through little if any character development since birth. Goo-goo ga-ga, motherfucker.

This troper was a Violet all through elementary school and the first year and a half of middle school. Then she discovered she's actually good at public speaking, and in eighth grade somehow became student body president, resulting in people actually knowing who she was and (mostly) liking her. Unfortunately a few mean girls decided to do their best to ruin all of that, but this troper then joined her high school theatre group, made real, good friends, and though she is still quiet at times, she's getting a lot better.

This troper has a character, Mina, who he's been writing for a few years. She started as a HeroicSociopath PlayedForDrama, but is now a DeadpanSnarker AntiHero Spock who shoots dogs for sport.