TWU

* TWU's Discord logo
* TWU's YouTube logo

### Occupation

Former animator (Jan 21, 2021 to Apr 10, 2021), weather YouTuber (2019-present), shithead (2007-present)

## Tropical Weather Updated

Tropical Weather Updated, or more commonly referred to as TWU, was one of the first people to join the Sdslayer server. TWU was born on November 16, 2007, in Savannah, GA, USA. TWU gained an interest in weather at a young age, and this newfound interest would continue into 2019, where he would start and upload videos to a YouTube channel titled "Tropical Weather Updated". During late 2020, he would join Discord, and joined one of Derick's first servers. TWU built a name within that community, but would begin losing presence as he became more focused elsewhere on the platform. However, while scrolling through his server list during April of 2022, he accidentally clicked on the Sdslayer server, and saw that the server had activity. He gradually became more of a regular member, and overtime has greatly added to the server's lore. He is also canonically married to Lustixcane (TWU's & Lustix's Marriage (Lore))

## Birth and interests

TWU was born in Savannah, Georgia, USA, on November 16, 2007, but he has lived elsewhere in the state since birth. TWU took on many initial interests, such as astronomy, but the most important was his interest for weather phenomena. Despite his current point of interest being tropical cyclones, his initial interest began with tornadoes and severe weather. His interest for this field would grow as he watched YouTube content related to it, and as he went further down a "weather rabbit hole", he began to learn about the existence of tropical cyclones. This wouldn't affect much, however, and it wasn't until late 2016, when Hurricane Matthew brought tropical storm conditions to his area, that TWU became more interested in what they are. Excluding Matthew, he also paid slight attention to Hurricane Nicole.

After 2016, however, his interest for tropical cyclones diminished until Hurricane Irma the next year passed over his state as a weakening tropical storm. This point can serve as a starting point for his further interest, and during 2018 TWU began tracking the hurricane season, and also started to watch content on YouTube directly related to tropical cyclones, specifically that from an account known as "Force Thirteen"

## Hurricane tracking and YouTube

During the 2018 North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons, TWU began to delve more into the world of tropical cyclones. He tracked nearly the entire Atlantic season, and entered 2019 with a growing passion for meteorology. This growing passion would lead him further into the world of weather content on YouTube, and inspired by people such as Mark Sudduth, he created his own channel to begin uploading. TWU went through most of 2019 on this path, but would lose interest in the cyclone season during late September and nearly left the weather community as a whole. The loss of interest can be traced to strain from uploading to YouTube, as he lacked the motivation to do much during the latter end of 2019. He went 3 months without uploading to YouTube after September 20, and didn't upload again until December 6, even though a total of 14 tropical cyclones developed in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins in that time.

His interest wouldn't take long to become strong again, however, as he never fully lost interest for tracking. He occasionally checked on how the season was going, but most of the time he barely even caught a storm in the progress. In late 2019, TWU began to watch weather content more frequently, and the 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation by Force Thirteen helped to restart a stronger interest. And as 2019 ended and 2020 began, he spent more time in learning about tropical cyclones, and when it was time to start the historic 2020 Atlantic season, a major part of TWU's persona began to take shape. Uploads became more frequent, and his presence in Force Thirteen's community began to grow. TWU tracked the season with great interest, and as he wanted to become more devoted to the community, he decided to join Discord in late September that year. Despite being under 13, he went through with creating an account, and joined the Force Thirteen and Cyclone Tracking Oz Discord servers. However, this wouldn't last long as he left the Force Thirteen server and was banned from the Cyclone Tracking Oz server due to being underage.

## 2021

### Early activity on Discord

Upon being able to comply with Discord's ToS on November 16, 2020, TWU became more affiliated with Discord, and was rather present in the Force Thirteen server. Being closer connected to a whole community to learn from, his knowledge began to grow, and he entered 2021 with a stronger interest towards learning about tropical cyclones. He also joined other Discord servers, one of which being owned by Derick, presumably in February of 2021. He managed to build his way up in that community, and was promoted to an admin during early 2021. Constant drama erupted within the server, and he began gradually crossing paths with different communities throughout the early part of the year.

In May, TWU joined the HSWC Discord server to collect evidence to go through with banning a user within Derick's server. After collecting the evidence, he continued to be mainly devoted to Derick's server, but HSWC would later become his main server due to drama and declining activity in Derick's community during the latter part of 2021. This server would help to keep his activity on Discord and give him more opportunities to learn from others and his mistakes.

### YouTube

Inspired by others within the community, TWU began to upload a mix of content. He learned to animate on KineMaster, and irregularly uploaded cyclone animations and short, slideshow style videos on tropical cyclones. Animating was fun for him at first, but overtime it got way too exhausting, and felt more like a chore than a passion. This caused creative burnout for him, and his content gradually declined in quality throughout 2021. He began turning away from YouTube, and his online presence was fully devoted to HSWC. It reached a point where he was contemplating discontinuing his channel, but never reached a point of actually happening. TWU posted a handful of videos addressing this and other stuff. He quit animating only 3 months after starting.

### Sdslayer's server

In July of 2021, Sdslayer200 (separate channel of the main "Sdslayer" account, focused on cyclone animations) made a server for a hypothetical season concept, with server members being able to choose how some parts of the season played out. Via an invite, TWU joined this server, but was active for only the first couple of days. This is once again due to a change in interest as the 2021 Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons started to gain pace, and he began to affiliate himself more with servers devoted to tropical tracking. This would continue for the remainder of 2021, lasting into early 2022.

## 2022

### Sdslayer

TWU spent the early half of 2022 in HSWC and related servers, but on April 4, TWU was scrolling through his server list, and accidentally clicked on Sdslayer's server. He saw that activity was something the server occasionally saw, and said *"This server actually has messages often? Don't really know if I should be surprised there but I am kekw"*. He decided to spend more time there to reconnect with people from Derick's old server, such as TSK, Hurricane Wilma25L, Mafu, among others. Over the course of a few months, his activity would see an increase, as he began to find more place within the community. He spent most of August and September building a name in the community and connecting with some of the aforementioned people whilst also befriending others within the server. All was well until drama would become more frequent due to Hurricane Chaser Chase, and TWU contemplated leaving the main server and using Derick's alternative servers. Thankfully, drama would begin to fall off after Chase's Ban (Drama), and TWU began to take on his normal role in the community.

#### Nicawawa

*Main article: Nicawawa*

In July of 2022, TWU and others were talking in the general voice call, when someone said "Nicawawa". TWU wasn't the only one to join in on this, but he helped to further expand the lore, by bringing the joke to HSWC. TWU also edited the flag for the "Nicawawan Armed Forces".

#### Oa oao hoaoa aoauhghg auaagh

*Main article: Oa oao hoaoa aoauhghg auaagh*

Later in July, TWU and others were in VC once again. Oa oao hoaoa aoauhghg auaagh origins are from Lustixcane, as it started as noise he blurted out, but TWU helped to give it server meme status as he transcribed it. TWU has also brought oa oao hoaoa aoauhghg auaagh to HSWC, but the phrase failed to prevail in the server.

#### Canonical marriage

*Main article: TWU's & Lustix's Marriage (Lore)*

On September 16, TWU and others were playing Gartic Phone, when horny jokes were being made about him. To combat the jokes, he jokingly said "*guys i chopped my penis off, i'm no longer horny*", and then stated he would sell his dick on eBay. Lustix offered to buy it, and not long after he said "*GREAT TWU, NOW WE CAN GET MARRIED."*. In Gartic Phone, MedianEgg drew an image of the two on top of a hill, and the lore was officially started. This serves as the inspiration for the creation of this wiki. On December 31st, 2022, Lustix announced to Median via DMs that the two had officially divorced due to TWU canonically marrying someone named Zerick. However, During March of 2023, TWU and Lustix realized that there was never actually a formal divorce, and the marriage was still in place. No action has been taken towards a formal divorce, and as it stands the marriage is still canon, and no action towards a formal divorce is planned.

## Trivia

* TWU is jokingly called TWUwU
* He was one of the first members to join the Sdslayer server
* He often exclaims his love for cheese
* TWU has sent over 10,000 messages in the Sdslayer server
* TWU is one of the server's main meme sources
* TWU has listened to "Bout hit'em with this furry shit" and "Emo Boy" for an hour straight with Lustixcane (Emo Boy Lore)
* There are worms under your skin
* Rip them out

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