L'Étranger

**L'Étranger** (or **Tranger**, for those unwilling to find an É), is a self-proclaimed infamous Generation 2 tagger that joined on November 16th, 2014. He is responsible for many smaller, less serious shitstorms sparked in 2015, such as the Weeaboo War and the Ulyssesstorm. As of January 24th 2016, he declared his retirement for the umpteenth time in the weeks prior, though he would return every now and then until the site's eventual end.

## History

L'Étranger came across TF2Tags on November 16th, 2014 by pure chance, stumbling upon it as he browsed the web looking for TF2-related websites. That same day, he posted his first tag, an Iron Curtain named "Heavy's first love". Though the tag received a mixed response, Tranger was happy to start tagging, interested by the idea of renaming items and submitting them to be rated on a public forum. He began to use the website as a means to see if any of his ideas were worthy enough in the public's eyes of being used a legitimate names for his actual TF2 items.

### The George Incident

L'Étranger would continue to use TF2Tags for his original purpose. After a few months, he was an overall uneventful tagger with around 200 points, but he quickly desired to find something that would help him stand out among the crowd. Boy, it did... something, for sure. Starting between the Mobile-Friendly Update and The Banning of AFI, Tranger began shitposting with a character he created, a Haunted Second Opinion named "George" (though it wasn't Tranger who named him), which he portrayed as an imaginary voice inside his head. This... did not go over so well. Taggers did not take a liking to the George character, and anything regarding him was quickly missed. Despite this, Tranger kept up the character. Soon, however, after claiming to leave and never come back, the character was dropped and all tags related to him were deleted. Tranger still regrets creating George to this day, as it pretty much ruined his otherwise clean reputation at that point and sunk his chances of rising through the site's higher profile rankings. At the time, however, he embraced the negative reception, claiming to be the "Most Hated Tagger" on the site.

### The Weeaboo War

In mid-September of 2015, Tranger made a *Katawa Shoujo* joke, with TGRobert responding that Lilly Satou was the best character from the roster - contrary to Tranger's own opinion, which was that Hanako Ikezawa was the best. This began an argument that went on for approximately 4 days, with Tranger recruiting new members with cookies and spamming posts insulting both Lilly and TGR, while TGR was watching ecchi anime not participating in the argument. The war slowly faded away with neither sides being a clear winner in terms of who was best. What was clear, however, was the severe amount of misses Tranger took from these tags. The war's only casualty was the first wiki, after the war spilled over onto it and ruined everything with a bunch of trash edits. This chain of events is what led to the creation of this very wiki you are now reading. That same month, Tranger would be missbombed by an unknown tagger (presumably either Ulysses or TGR).

### The Ulyssesstorm

In October 13th of 2015, L'Étranger would unintentionally cause a brief but hilarious sitewide shitstorm later dubbed the "Ulyssesstorm". What started off as just an idea to piss Ulysses off quickly spiraled into a sitewide trend. He used the site's rename feature to change his username into "Ulysses", matching that of the ornery veteran with a notoriously short fuse. He posted a set entitled "Message to the Community", where he pulled an "It was me! Dio!" and revealed that it wasn't Ulysses who posted the set, it was him! Tranger!

Things quickly escalated when immediately after CP did the same thing, changing his name to Ulysses and pretending to be him. Legownz would follow, and then TGRobert. and then finally Walumancer, who would give the event its name. Upon hearing this, Ulysses would contact each of these men and threaten them with serious bodily harm if they did not change their names back to who they really were, which worked almost immediately.

## Style

Besides the previously-discussed idea of George, Tranger's style went back and forth between two types of tags. First, tweet tags that were often of a self-deprecating nature. Second and more successful were references to various media he had recently watched or played. These posts were actually quite well-received all things considered.

## Relationships

L'Étranger didn't involve himself much with many people on TF2Tags outside of the base level of Tagging. However, TGRobert has been his best friend since TGR added him on Steam in 2015. Though TGR would later admit that this was part of a plan that he made with Ulysses to bully him, the two actually became good, real friends with each other, who remain in regular contact now, five years later. Now, however, instead of bickering over which disabled girl is better, they argue whether or not ship girls (Tranger) or gun girls (TGR) are superior.

Ulysses, on the other hand, has been on very bad terms with Tranger since almost the very beginning, and the Ulyssesstorm certainly did not help things.

Tranger also had brief relations with Walumancer, being the very first person to join the Wahfia. The two had a few instances of doing Wahfia-related things, but their ties would break after Tranger stopped visiting the site regularly after 2015. The two would be reunited in February 2020, when Tranger requested to join the Wahfia Discord server, which he continues to frequent. Regrettably, Tranger discovered that Robert had gotten to Walu before he did, for he too prefers gun girls.

## Gallery

L'Étranger's first tag.L'Étranger's best tag, with 41 crits.The tag and subsequent comments that began the Weeaboo war. (Read bottom to top.)The tag that started the Jessestorm, with comments made by four of the five participants.
## Trivia

* L'Étranger is the only known Swiss tagger. Others tend to make fun of him, pretending that he lives in France, Sweden, and/or Swaziland.
* People often misattribute that L'Étranger named himself after the famous book by Albert Camus, though this is not the case. In reality, he had his steam inventory open while he was looking for a username, saw the L'Étranger revolver, and figured "Yeah, why not?"
	+ Because the revolver was named after this book, in some sense Tranger really was naming himself after the book.
* L'Étranger chose his representative item because it was his favorite Heavy hat at the time, with the collector's quality because he likes the color red. He liked it so much that it was his goal to get an unusual version, which he has since achieved, owning one with the Dead Presidents effect.
* L'Étranger's birthday is on the 1st of September, coincidentally the same date as the beginning of World War 2.
* Despite proclaiming to be the "Most Hated Tagger", Ulysses was the only one that ever had a true issue with him. Most of his hate came from others like Relk or Sensible came from the George Incident.
* Makin' Bacon was the one who suggested that Tranger should name the voice George. Bacon deeply regrets this decision.
* L'Étranger regrets that his position as right-hand of the Wahfather was given to a flower, and then to an egg. Shit's sad, man.
* L'Étranger mains Heavy because he loves the character and his personality, so much in fact that he can recite *Meet the Heavy* by heart.
* L'Étranger has a pretty extensive manga collection, making him a certified weeb in the same vein as TGR and Kokogumi.
* He believes Toradora is the best anime/light novel ever written.
* He believes that Senor Pink from One Piece is the only character worthy enough to be the pirate king.
* L'Étranger took the Cambridge Advanced English test and got level C1 (199 points; B for you simpletons), 1 point off getting C2 (A, again for you simpletons).