Tropers / Aqua Eclipse

I won't say I do, till you promise me
That though we're grey, we can stay young and wild and free
Young and wild and free

— The Crane Wives, "Steady, Steady"

Hello, I'm Aqua, and I'm a Troper from Hong Kong and a MCYT super-fandom archivist who plans to chronicle more local literature and works. I use they/she pronouns. I am very tired; someone should really put me on a child leash on this site.

In real life, I joined TV Tropes as a secondary school student and am currently majoring in Biology, but my interests are all over the place, ranging from natural and social sciences (except economics) to arts and humanities; expect to find me anywhere and everywhere.

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Projects

Current Projects

General

• Addition of trope descriptions to indices for easier navigation
• Alphabetization of examples on main and sub-pages
• Cross-wicking of various MCYT works and derivative works
• Fixing example indentation across various main and sub-pages
• Gender-neutrality project of switching to they/them pronoun sets as the generic pronoun unless it's an Always Male/Female trope
• TV Tropes translations into Chinese (forum)

Tropes

• Gratuitous Chinese (TLP, adopted from deerhornsaresopretty)
• Unadoptable Orphan (TLP, adopted from R8ingsGuy)
• World Of Dumbass (TLP, adopted from PhyrexianAjani95)

Works

• The Crane Wives examples and entry pimp
• Life SMP examples and updates; splitting pages and wicks by season
• Minecraft SOS examples and updates
• Pirates SMP updates

Created Pages

Note: Sub-pages are too many to count.

Creators

• DanTDM
• stacyplays

Fan Works

• Awakening (Hetalia; an old relic)
• Between Dreams and Memories Universe (DSMP/MCMV)
• Bottled Letters (Pirates)
• Curses (Life series)
• Dawn of the New World Order (Hetalia; an old 2018 relic)
• The Death Eaters' Disney World Trip (Harry Potter)
• Grey Skies Universe (Hetalia)
• How to Sex Vol. 4–58 (DSMP; created the original page, has since been moved)
• Trolling the Toad (HP)

Literature

• The Sixty-Eight Rooms (recreated the page due to page title issues)

Music

• Sam Hui

Tropes

• Glitter Litter (2024/04/08; TLP)
• Scientific and Technological Theme Naming (2024/04/11; TLP, adopted from Synchronicity)

Web Series

• AsapSCIENCE
• Evolution SMP
• Life series splitting by season:
  • 3rd Life SMP
  • Last Life SMP
  • Double Life SMP
  • Limited Life SMP
  • Secret Life SMP
  • Real Life SMP
• Minecraft SOS
• New Life SMP
• Pirates SMP
• Rats SMP
• Shady Oaks SMP
• Weird school rules in Hong Kong
• WitchCraft SMP

Submissions

Page Quotes

• Games of the Elderly (Stampy's Lovely World)
• UsefulNotes.Hong Kong (Sam Hui)
• Legacy Seeker (Dream SMP)

Videos

• Dream:
  • Nuke 'em
• Dream SMP:
  • Furry Confusion
  • Mood Whiplash
  • Polyamory
  • Powerful Pick
  • Public Execution
  • Suicide by Cop
  • Wasteful Wishing
  • You Wouldn't Shoot Me
• Peppa Pig:
  • Glitter Litter
• Pirates SMP:
  • Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
  • Look Behind You
  • Relative Error
  • Sweet Polly Oliver
• Stampy's Lovely World:
  • It Tastes Like Feet
• Weird school rules in Hong Kong:
  • Bilingual Dialogue
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language^note I accidentally input this instead of Gratuitous English instead, but since that's a sub-trope, I guess it counts.
  • Ironic Echo
  • Real Joke Name
  • Who's on First?

Planned Projects

Animation

• Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom revamp and rewrite (too many ZCEs and lack of alphabetization)
• Characters.Disney Fairies cleanup
• Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat cleanup
• Recap.Sofia The First

Creators

• Aron Chu and his works
• POWCreations

Fan Works

• About Opened Windows (DSMP)
• All Hail The Goblin King (ESMP S2)
• The Baker And The Healer (THG)
• The Canary And The Stars (MCMV)
• Carbon Monoxide (Life series/MCMV)
• Celestial Incorporated (Life series)
• The Cold Wanderer (ESMP S1) — outlined
• Colorblind (Life series)
• Convergence (THG)
• Everen (possibly) — outlined
• Fish Out Of Water (ESMP S1) — outlined
• Gadus Morhua (ESMP S1)
• Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità (Hetalia)^note There's so many examples of it on the main trope pages that it might as well have its own work page at this point
• Gods And The Mortals They Worship (MCMV)
• Kingsfoil And Past Lives
• Long Black Night Morning Frost (ESMP S1) — outlined
• A Matter Of Time (WCSMP)
• Passerine (DSMP)
• Still The Echoes Give Me Light (Hermitcraft/Life series) — to be read
• Storied Past (ESMP S2)
• Trauma Fish And Comfort Wizard (ESMP S1) — outlined
• Your Father and Mine reread and page revamp
• Quite frankly, there's a lot more fanfics that I am thinking of rereading and troping, possibly including my own

Literature

• Biff, Chip and Kipper examples and entry pimp (10/30)
• Fortune Falls
• Hong Kong Noir
• Miss Chopsticks
• Moxie — once I reread it; the main plot is similar to that of the film from what little I recall of it
• The Only Girl In School
• Rainbow Magic revamp and cleanup
• Red Thread Sisters

Music

• Derivakat
• Sam Hui entry pimping
• Within Temptation cleanup

Sub-pages

• Heartwarming.Casual Geographic formatting
• DeconstructedTrope.Dream SMP
• FanWorks.Empires SMP (have to make several more fan-work pages first)
• Heartwarming.Empires SMP
• CulturalTranslation.Harry Potter
• FanWorks.Life SMP (have to make several fan-work pages first)
• HoYay.Life SMP
• Heartwarming.Pirates SMP
• NightmareFuel.Pirates SMP
• TearJerker.Pirates SMP
• Characters.Winter Moon cleanup

Tropes

• Various Fanboy/Fangirl-derived split tropes
• The Free Rider — possibly, depending on Trope Idea Sounding Board feedback
• Time Zone Troubles/Tribulations — possibly, depending on Trope Idea Sounding Board feedback; The Night Owl is a related trope

Web Series

• Angry Birds Craptastic Adventures rewatch, cleanup, and entry pimp
• Area Unknown SMP
• ASMP watch-through — currently drafting
• Crazy Craft
• Empires SMP Season 1 rewatch and revamp
• Escape the Night cleanup
• Evolution SMP examples (via watch-through)
• Harmony Hollow watch-through
• InTheLittleWood revamp and rewrite (less real-person, more V-Tuber lore)
• Karmaland
• Kingdomcraft rewatch and drafting
• Life SMP rewatch and revamp — especially for earlier seasons
• Lifesteal SMP entry pimp
• Minecraft SOS entry pimp — I am waiting for either comprehensive bits or plotlines before I properly start adding examples
• One Life SMP rewatch and drafting
• Origins SMP examples (via watch-through)
• Outsiders SMP page drafting (collaborative project) and watch-through
• Rats SMP rewatch and revamp
• Redacted SMP entry pimp
• A Wild Pigs Chase watch-through
• Wonder Quest rewatch and revamp
• X Life SMP rewatch and revamp

Others

• Chinese Mythology revamp
• The Thirty-Three Divisions expansion, e.g. addressing common stereotypes like the U.S. states' and Canadian provinces' pages
• Uncyclopedia cleanup

Long-term Projects

• The Minecraft Multiverse — like a super-trope, but it's for a super-medium covering a super-fandom (long-term)^note Prerequisite: Making many of the above SMP series' pages first
• Various Hong Kong-based works

Works I Edit For and/or Enjoy (incomplete)^note Examples with asterisks (*) are ones I help keep regular maintenance for

Animated Series and/or Manga

• Boonie Bears (one of my childhood shows)
• Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot (one of my childhood shows)
• Heidi, Girl of the Alps*
• Hetalia: Axis Powers
  • Grey Skies Universe*
  • Your Father and Mine*
• Peppa Pig
• The Pink Panther
  • Pink Panther and Pals
• Sofia the First
• Tom and Jerry
  • "Mouse Trouble"
  • Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse
• Winnie the Pooh
  • The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
  • My Friends Tigger & Pooh (one of my childhood shows)
• Wonder Pets! (one of my childhood shows)

Creators

• Corpse Husband
• Hector Hugh Munro
• Stampylongnose
• Sykkuno
• Valkyrae
• White Squirrel
• Xiran Jay Zhao*

Fan Works Without Corresponding Media

• If Bella Were Sane (The Twilight Saga)*
• Lucky Number Thirteen (Fifty Shades)
• Never Leave Fanfiction Lying Around (LOTR)
• Not as Planned (LOTR)*

Film — Animated

• Disney Animated Canon:
  • 101 Dalmatians
  • The Aristocats
  • Cinderella
  • Encanto
  • Frozen
  • Lilo & Stitch
  • Mulan
  • Tangled
  • Zootopia
• Pixar:
  • Inside Out
  • Soul
  • Turning Red*
• Others:
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Film — Live-Action

• 3 Idiots
• Matilda*
• One Cut of the Dead
• Train to Busan
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Literature

• All American Pups
• Biff, Chip and Kipper*
• The Camp Half-Blood Series
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians
    • Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023)*
  • The Heroes of Olympus
  • The Trials of Apollo
• Captain Underpants
• Chrysanthemum* (I was introduced to the book in a creative writing class in P.5)
• Dork Diaries
• Esperanza Rising*
• Geronimo Stilton*
• Harry Potter (formerly)
  • The Accidental Animagus*
  • Another Prisoner, Another Professor*
  • The Arithmancer*
  • The Death Eaters' Disney World Trip*
  • Goldstein
  • Hail Odysseus
  • Harry Potter and the Champion's Champion
  • Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce*
  • Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash*
  • Love at first sight*
  • A Marauder's Plan
  • The Naked Quidditch Match
  • Oh God, Not Again!*
  • Petrification Proliferation*
  • Potter Puppet Pals
  • Trolling the Toad*
  • A Very Potter Musical
  • Wish Carefully*
• The Hunger Games
  • Cheating Death: Those That Lived*
  • The End of the World series*
  • The Parts We Play*
  • Valkyrie on Fire
  • The Victors Project*
• The Legend of the Condor Heroes
• Matilda*
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• A Song of Ice and Fire (unread but interested)
• Symposium
• The Young Visiters

Minecraft SMPs

• Afterlife SMP*
• Dream SMP*
  • Between Dreams and Memories Universe
  • How to Sex Vol. 4–58*
  • Penis SMP*
• Empires SMP*
  • Everything Turns to Gold*
• Evolution SMP*
• Feather Adventures
• The Funniest Minecraft Videos Ever
• Life SMP*
  • Curses*
• Minecraft Championship*
• Minecraft Multiverse* — the super-medium
• Minecraft SOS*
• New Life SMP*
• Origins SMP
• Outsiders SMP
• Pirates SMP*
• QSMP*
• Rats SMP*
• Stampy's Lovely World
• WitchCraft SMP*
• X Life SMP*

Music and Theatre

• The Crane Wives
• The Longest Johns
• Sam Hui*
• Six: The Musical*
• Sleeping at Last
• Within Temptation

Useful Notes

• China and most of its sub-pages
  • Chinese Dialects and Accents
  • Chinese Language
  • Dynasties from Shang to Qing and all sub-pages
• The Enneagram
• Hong Kong
• Macau

Video Games

• Among Us
  • Babushka: the Movie*
• Angry Birds
  • Angry Birds Craptastic Adventures
• Cooking Fever
• Goose Goose Duck
• Infinite Craft
• Minecraft
• Minecraft: Story Mode
  • Movie Mode
• Toontown Online
  • Toontown: Corporate Clash
  • Toontown Rewritten

Web Original

• Casual Geographic
• Cinema Therapy
• ColeyDoesThings
• Escape the Night (formerly, now acting as cleanup)
• history of japan*
• history of the entire world, i guess*
• Loving Reaper
• OverSimplified
• Paint*
• Tumblr
• Weird school rules in Hong Kong*

Other

• Chinese Mythology
• Classical Mythology
• Steamboat Willie*

The Trope Index

Tropes Associated with Me and My Persona

• Asians Love Tea: I literally drink tea more often than I drink water on a daily basis. Cheers to that.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: I blame undiagnosed ADHD. Executive dysfunction is a bitch.
• I Minored in Tropology: I've surprisingly been on the receiving end of this many times. Top English student majoring in Biology and minoring in English? It's more likely than you think. Also, you never know the sheer amount of knowledge one can pick up just from being in (international) fandoms and by being a writer who does their research.
• Must Have Caffeine: In the form of tea. And also Coke. But mostly tea.
• The Night Owl: Time Zones Do Not Exist, my ass. At this point, me complaining about time zones on the Internet is a meme in the communities I'm in. Living literally halfway across the world from most of the English-speaking fandom community is murder on my sleep schedule, i.e. I am frequently and more often than not "time-zoned" — it's like being in the friendzone, but geographical.
• The Perfectionist: Arguably my Fatal Flaw; it's caused issues on all fronts.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator: You do not want to know about the sheer number of projects I have on the back-burner.
• Sleep Deprivation: Combining undiagnosed ADHD (especially tendencies as The Night Owl and potential DSPS?) with being half the world away from prime-time entertainment online only ever means trouble.
• Troper Types:
  • The Advertiser, the Casual Example Adder, the Breaking News Editor, or the Entry Pimp for my associated works.
  • Generally the Trope Browser in my spare time and on off-days, or try to be a Trope Editor.
  • Occasionally the Trope Dropper for certain works, because it's easier to draft works to collect enough tropes before launching a page.
  • Occasionally work as the Drive-By Voter but worked towards the TLP Midwife.
  • Occasionally the Aspiring Writer but without forum participation.
  • I admit to dipping my toes in other types occasionally, but for the more zealous ones, please give me a few months to cool down and I'll be right as rain.
• TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: I edit on the daily, day or night, rain or shine, I keep track of edits and archive what I see.

Tropes My Works are/were Associated With

• Creator Thumbprint:
  • Hong Kong, and China and/or Chinese history or culture, mainly out of personal familiarity.
  • In terms of worldbuilding, diglossia.
• A Day in the Limelight and O.C. Stand-in: Particularly in the Riordanverse fandom, I dabbled in in "sideliner" fanfiction and give background/minor characters their own backstories, plotlines, and/or characterizations.
• Dead Fic: Unfortunately for some of my readers, I might never continue some of my works, in part due to undiagnosed ADHD.
• Deadpan Snarker, First-Person Smartass, and Lemony Narrator: I feel it crops up a lot in my Signature Style because I grew up reading Harry Potter and based my English speech and writing mannerisms on the series' World of Snark.
• Fan Translation: I did a bit for the MCYT fandom back in 2021, mainly.
• Old Shame: Many of my older works from before 2019 or so, because most tend to be rather unpolished.
• Self-Insert Fic: Many of my oldest works, most of them unpublished, tended to be this.

Tropes and Indices I Enjoy

• Accent Tropes
• Backstory Index
• Characterization Tropes: I'm a writer and think it's neat.
  • Pastimes Prove Personality
  • Weapon-Based Characterization
• Characters as Device
• Chekhov's Gun: My best beloved.
• Consistent Clothing Style
• Death Tropes
• Destination Defenestration
• Environmental Symbolism
• Expospeak Gag
• Fashion-Based Relationship Cue
  • Her Boyfriend's Jacket
• Fictional Culture and Nation Tropes: As a worldbuilder, I throw in the whole index.
• Flower Garden Index
• Hide-and-Seek Horror
• Language Tropes:
  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" and Disease by Any Other Name: As a worldbuilder? Of course.
  • Classical Tongue
  • Common Tongue
  • Conlang: I've drafted a few of my own. Sign me up!
  • Language Drift
  • Omniglot: Multilingualism, pog!
  • The Power of Language
  • Pronoun Trouble
  • Translation Convention: For obvious reasons, and to get around the conlang barrier.
• Magic and Powers and Stock Superpowers Index: I love working around limitations; writing is the true Imagination-Based Superpower to me.
  • Bad Powers, Good People
  • Good Powers, Bad People
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power
  • Lethal Harmless Powers
  • Natural Elements
    • Elemental Personalities
  • Personality Powers
  • Power Stereotype Flip
  • Required Secondary Powers
  • Single Substance Manipulation
  • Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: I am a science student, after all.
• Meaningful Appearance
• Motifs
• Naming Conventions:
  • I Am X, Son of Y
  • I Know Your True Name
  • Meaningful Name
  • Melting-Pot Nomenclature
  • Theme Naming: And all derived sub-tropes.
• Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: I've read far too many Reddit stories.
• Oh Great, a Snark Index
• School Tropes:
  • Unconventional Electives 101
• Technical Euphemism
• Translation Tropes
  • My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: For the amusement value.
• Tropes on Science and Unscience: As a biology student, all for me?
• Tyrannical Homeowners' Association: I've read far too many Reddit stories.
• Visual Development
• Weapons and Wielding Tropes
  • Improbable Weapon User
  • Improvised Weapon

Tropes I Enjoy Playing With

• Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits
• Artistic License and Science Marches On: For me? A scientist?
• A Degree in Useless and Hard on Soft Science
• Eternal English: I love language and Language Drift, I love diglossia, and I love drop-kicking this trope to heaven and bouncing it around on a yo-yo for my own amusement.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: As a child of mathematicians and a science student, I am legally obliged to say that I do not hate mathematics, but I do find it complex myself… but it's intriguing if it's taught the right way.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: I used to love playing around with these tropes when I was starting to write and learning about gender roles and stereotypes.

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So I, I will tell your story
All of the grief and all the glory

I come from another lifetime
To carry these worlds in my mind
This burden's mine to bear
But don't give in to despair

— Derivakat, "Tell Your Story (Extended)"