History Tropers / Gancena

Um... I can't think of anything witty to say. So I guess I'll just talk. I am 18 years old. I love hyperanalyzing things I like, even if I'm not very good at it yet. Therefore, TVTropes was a dream come true.

* GakiNoTsukai

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder and/or AttentionDeficitOohShiny: ...[[MemeticMutation I-I don't even.]] Really. I have several fics going, but I slump a lot, so delays just stretch out... And I just get so goddamn distracted.
* AuthorAvatar: I have one. Her name is -- [[TwoWordsObviousTrope one guess]] -- Gancena.

* BigEater: YES. I LOVE FOOD. Snacks are frequent, and whenever I'm browsing the Internet, I'm wondering when the next meal is/what it will be...

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: If you don't think so now, [[YouFailLogicForever you will by the end of this page.]]
* ClusterFBomb: When nobody's around to hear, though I'm surprisingly clean on the Internet... well. RealLife is a different story, though context matters.

* TheDaria: If you could hear me in high school, quipping about my classmates...

* DitzyGenius: Another way to describe it: [[DungeonsAndDragons High INT, low WIS.]]

* ForbiddenFruit: There is ''one'' fic I have outright banned myself from reading, for complicated reasons.

* TheGhost: My younger brother's crush -- until recently. Twice before, I'd missed the opportunity to meet her by a few minutes.

* LonersAreFreaks: One of the many manifestations, I'm sure.

* SeenItAMillionTimes: Not me, but my ''everyone I know''. However, as I grow older and take in more works, I occasionally find myself muttering this.

* ShrinkingViolet: Undoubtedly, and for several reasons. After a super-rough sixth grade year, I just decided to keep quiet for the most part -- if people wanted to talk to me, they'd come to me. It's worked ''amazingly'' well to deter insults and incidents -- my only stumbles overlapped with my boldest moments (see [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck Dethroning Moment Of Suck]]). However, I also grew a bit lonely as a result -- Before college, I considered only two people outside my family as friends; the rest were referred to as acquaintances. Even nowadays, I find myself quite shy.

* SoYouWantToLiveForever: Yes. Yes, I do.
* SweetTooth: Yes. Chocolates, mints, frozen treats...

* YaoiFangirl and YuriFangirl: Just warning you ''right now.''

* SelfInsertFic: ''A Foreigner's Tale'', and a slew of private fics.

* SophisticatedAsHell: Not so much my speech, but my fic. ''A Foreigner's Tale'' has Gancena writing in a formal tone with occassional regressions to more teenaged phrases.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: I ''[[RickRoll RickRoll'd]] my senior field trip'' when we went to a karaoke restaurant. Classmates tell me they have videos.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: ...Technically. [[YourMileageMayVary You be the judge.]]

* [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck Dethroning Moment Of Suck]]: [[spoiler: In freshman year of high school, I wrote a {{Lemon}} for my then-OneTruePairing, since I could never find a thing about them. Then I took it to school. ''Then'' I shared it -- not with just friends, though. With ''random students.'' It actually went pretty well until some [[PrecisionFStrike asshole]] turned me in.]] And to top it off? [[spoiler:Just a few months ago, I found a fic for that same pairing. It was better. ''Much'' better.]] ...However, I have found that [[YourMileageMayVary my feelings about this bounce between Crowning and Dethroning...]]

* DoNotCallMePaul: I'd play with that title to include the name I don't want, but that would defeat the purpose.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: I ''swear'' this happened once in relation to CuantaVida... Spoilers '''will''' come with this explanation. After page 83, I [[YourMindMakesItReal asked to find out, through a dream,]] where [[spoiler:Scout]] was at the time. I instead found that [[spoiler:Sniper]] was the one who needed finding. I realized this because finding him was ''the'' plot of the dream I had -- I even ended up asking strangers if they'd seen him. I could ''feel'' [[spoiler:Rojo]] lurking around. And in a ''mental image'' I had ''within'' the dream, [[spoiler:I could not clearly distinguish Sniper's eyes.]] And look what [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] happened... But at least realizing that I'd been fairly warned made it easier for the actual event to sink in. [[OrIsIt ...Or did it?]]

* ForbiddenFruit: There is ''one'' fic I have banned myself from reading, for complicated reasons.

* GamerChick: Subverted. I play, yeah, but I still suck at a lot of games.

* GenreBlind: I realized this when my mother figured out several plot points of movies we watched well before the possibility even crossed my mind. Multiple times. I first thought that she was just GenreSavvy, but when my Dad and my ''younger'' brother did the same thing (though never as often as my Mom), I knew: I did not understand fictional "formulas."

* HeroicBSOD: I once got so sick of school that I began to think that graduating and going to college won't be worth it. I, through my psychologist, told my parents that I wanted to drop out of high school. Since she got to me first, my mom and I had a long talk about why I wanted to do so. She also made her position clear: '''No.''' That's not the kicker, though. The kicker is [[spoiler:that she believed I was depressed and considered taking me to a psychiatrist, which I've heard isn't always a bright idea. I've believed I was neurotic for some time, but to hear it from someone close to me in a serious setting...]][[CatcherInTheRye That killed me.]] I moped for quite a while afterwards...

* IconicItem: Three. Or eight, depending on how you count it: a necklace with a Psi Upsilon pledge emblem for a charm, my [[TeamFortress2 Spy]] gloves, and one of any six CuantaVida pins. The number of items I own/use is subject to change.

* OriginalCharacter: Gancena. She has nearly a dozen incarnations.

* SeenItAMillionTimes: Not me, but my family. See GenreBlind. However, as I grow older and take in more works, I occasionally find myself muttering this.

* ShoutOut: References to any of the above series are an integral part of my daily conversations.

* YourMindMakesItReal

** This does also affect my schoolwork; I choose the Internet over it any day. But there's something beautiful in the way I handle it all: No matter how much I procrastinate, I always get all of my assignments done -- with quality -- on time. I suppose after four years of the same game, it comes naturally.

* TheGhost: My younger brother's crush, Mallory. Twice, I've missed the opportunity to see her by a few minutes.

* TricksterMentor: A friend I made at my co-ed fraternity after coming to college, who hid my paddle to teach me not to leave my things unattended, or who jokingly tells me I fail at everything just to see if I overreact.

* AfraidOfNeedles: You kidding? Between CuantaVida and Episode 6 MortalKombatLegacy, I can't ''trust'' those things.

!!Favorite Series:

* DethroningMomentOfSuck: [[spoiler: In freshman year of high school, I wrote a {{Lemon}} for my then-OneTruePairing, since I could never find a thing about them. Then I took it to school. ''Then'' I shared it -- not with just friends, though. With ''random students.'' It actually went pretty well until some [[PrecisionFStrike asshole]] turned me in.]] And to top it off? [[spoiler:Just a few months ago, I found a fic for that same pairing. It was better. ''Much'' better.]] ...However, I have found that [[YourMileageMayVary my feelings about this bounce between Crowning and Dethroning...]]

* GenreBlind: I realized this when my mother figured out several plot points of movies we watched well before the possiblity even crossed my mind. Multiple times. I first thought that she was just GenreSavvy, but when my Dad and my ''younger'' brother did the same thing (though never as often as my Mom), I knew: I did not understand fictional "formulas."

* PerverseSexualLust: For who? No examples, but a trope is a trope.

* ShrinkingViolet: Undoubtedly, and for several reasons. After a super-rough sixth grade year, I just decided to keep quiet for the most part -- if people wanted to talk to me, they'd come to me. It's worked ''amazingly'' well to deter insults and incidents -- my only stumbles overlapped with my boldest moments (see DethroningMomentOfSuck). However, I also grew a bit lonely as a result -- Before college, I considered only two people outside my family as friends; the rest were referred to as acquaintances. Even nowadays, I find myself quite shy.

* UnreliableNarrator: In regards to my family, especially my parents. I seem to make them come off as more oppressive than they really are. A result of my own anger? Probably yeah.

** Spring 2007, during the incident under DethroningMomentOfSuck: "Coach wants to see you."

* WhatAnIdiot: See DethroningMomentOfSuck. This is exactly why I invoke the YouSuck trope on myself.

Um... I can't think of anything witty to say. So I guess I'll just talk. I am 17 years old. I love hyperanalyzing things I like. Therefore, TVTropes was a dream come true.

I love writing FanFic. I mostly post to [[http://nintendolover4ever.deviantart.com to my deviantART page,]] but I do have a couple private works going between me and my [[HeterosexualLifePartners dear]] {{Tropers/RoyalFanatic}}.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: My perception of several characters throughout the years. For example, just ask me about [[MortalKombat Scorpion]]. I dare you.

* BerserkButton: While I can take in just about any kind of {{Fanon}}, for the love of God, at least ''know'' your {{Canon}}.
** The clear exceptions, of course, being TeamFortress2 and the TouhouProject. The latter is mostly based off {{Fanon}}, and just about ''anything'' goes in the former due to the small amount of {{Canon}} Valve gave us. ...Though it has been expanding lately...

** This does also affect my schoolwork; I choose the Internet over it any day. But there's something beautiful in the way I handle it all: No matter how much I procrastinate, I always get all of my assignments done -- with quality -- on time. I suppose after three years of the same game, it comes naturally.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: I have even at least attempted to shape fictional events through this line of thought. Note the "at least." [[spoiler:I have, however, had this ''backfire'' on me by letting fear take over...]]

* ClusterFBomb: When nobody's around to hear, though I'm surprisingly clean on the Internet... well. Unless someone ''really'' [[BewareTheNiceOnes pisses me off.]]

* DethroningMomentOfSuck: [[spoiler: In freshman year of high school, I wrote a {{Lemon}} for my then-OneTruePairing, since I could never find a thing about them. Then I took it to school. ''Then'' I shared it -- not with just friends, though. With ''random students.'' It actually went pretty well until some [[PrecisionFStrike asshole]] turned me in. I now ''measure my life'' in terms of before or after this event -- it affected me that much.]]
** And to top it off? [[spoiler:Just a few months ago, I found a fic for that same pairing. It was better. ''Much'' better.]]
*** ...However, I have found that [[YourMileageMayVary my feelings about this bounce between Crowning and Dethroning...]]

** '''[[ItGotWorse AND THEN IT GOT WORSE WHAT THE FUCK!]]'''

* FacePalm: At dumb classmates.
** But a recent example was when I realized that my SelfInsertFic is called ''A Foreigner's Tale.'' The first known ParodySue fic was called [[FanFic/ATrekkiesTale A Trekkie's Tale.]] '''A Trekkie's Tale''' when I'm trying ''not'' to accidentally create a MarySue. It was kind of funny and kind of sad at the same time. [[ShoutOut MLIA.]]

* {{Fangirl}}: I rarely if ever criticize the series I like, and when I do, I tend to downplay the flaw or justify it (See the VideoGame page of FridgeBrilliance for an example of this justification). YourMileageMayVary.

** However, this is another one of my ideals. I'm working on it...
*** Additionally, I recently realized that VideoGames are so important to me and such a big part of my life that I ''cannot understand'' why anyone, especially other teenagers, wouldn't play them. In fact, my reaction is not "Why?" but "How do you ''live?''"/"What do you ''do'' in your spare time?"

* GrammarNazi: I ''will'' correct you, even in conversation. It's a habit that I don't care to control. Bad English bothers me.

* OriginalCharacter: Gancena. Whether or not she is a MarySue is... debatable. I don't want to sell myself short or be defensive, whichever the case may be. I want my audience to decide. ...Now I just need to ''get'' an audience. And actually write some more material for them to analyze.
* PerverseAsexualCuddlelust: Pretty much the entire cast of CuantaVida. Except for...
* PerverseSexualLust: Um. Ah. This... one... [[{{Angrish}} FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-]] God, I hate him so much. '''WHY''' do these feelings keep coming up? I know there's a biological reason for them, but it's frustrating beyond belief.

* ShrinkingViolet: Undoubtedly, and for several reasons. After a super-rough sixth grade year, I just decided to keep quiet for the most part -- if people wanted to talk to me, they'd come to me. It's worked ''amazingly'' well to deter insults and incidents -- my only stumbles overlapped with my boldest moments (see DethroningMomentOfSuck). However, I also grew a bit lonely as a result -- Before college, I considered only two people outside my family as friends; the rest were referred to as acquaintances. [[MoodWhiplash Then I found Psi Upsilon. It was glorious.]]

* TheDaria: If you could hear me at school, quipping about my classmates...
* DethroningMomentOfSuck: [[spoiler: In freshman year, I wrote a {{Lemon}} for my then-OneTruePairing, since I could never find a thing about them. Then I took it to school. ''Then'' I shared it -- not with just friends, though. With ''random students.'' It actually went pretty well until some [[PrecisionFStrike asshole]] turned me in. I now ''measure my life'' in terms of before or after this event -- it affected me that much.]]

* IconicItem: ''Six:'' A watch on one arm, a Pandora bracelet on the other, a necklace with a real preserved scorpion (''the'' most important of the icons, actually), half of a Best Friends charm necklace, my [[TeamFortress2 Spy]] gloves, and a [[NiceHat fedora]]. People only really notice the gloves, but the others are there, all right. They're just usually covered up by clothing. And I only got the hat on February 21, 2010.
** However, the number is ''subject to change'': I actually used to wear two rings and another bracelet just as often, but I abandoned the rings when I got my gloves and the third bracelet wore out.

* SelfInsertFic: ''A Foreigner's Tale.''

* ShrinkingViolet: Undoubtedly, and for several reasons. After a super-rough sixth grade year, I just decided to keep quiet for the most part -- if people wanted to talk to me, they'd come to me. It's worked ''amazingly'' well to deter insults and incidents -- my only stumbles overlapped with my boldest moments (see DethroningMomentOfSuck). However, I've also grown a bit lonely as a result -- I consider only two people outside my family as friends; the rest are referred to as acquaintances.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism

* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: Subverted. While I do include romance in my fics, they're either a subplot or already established so that only doses of fluff are necessary. I just like to mix it in with my adventure times, really.

* SoYeah: I use this phrase ''a lot.''

**Additionally, this tends to happen in regards to fiction. Most recently, CuantaVida's been tugging my emotional strings all over the place. And now... [[TearJerker page 88.]] [[XJustX Just... page 88.]]