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Notice!!

Where's Living Blade gone to?

I decided to discontinue The Living Blade Alchemist because...it wasn't going anywhere. I try to use fanfiction as a way of improving my writing skills without worrying about my own canon. LB did none of that and frankly...I kinda got tired of the monotony. Sapphire's Redemption will start now and fans of Cali, don't worry, she'll be appearing as a cameo several times. She works better that way.

So, for now, read SIMM and DM and now I have room to work on one of my other up and coming stories.

My three biggest works are in Anime/Manga

So I Married a Murderer is about a young girl who falls into a well that leads her straight to the love of her life, Orochimaru. Aided by the wisecracking ghost of a king for a conscience Kelly will help the snake sannin and try to see if she can get him to fall for her.

SIMM: The Series is a continuation of that wonderful piece and features all new storylines and cute bits of romantic fluff as well as more of Griffin's antics.

The Living Blade Alchemist is best viewed on the link below but is about the life of Cali Griffin, state alchemist and guardian of Roy Mustang. Cali's been through a lot with everyone's favorite colonel and the adventure's just getting started. From the righteous quest of the Elrics to the wacky adventures of Roy's subordinates Cali is a griffin trying to get by in her own quest as Roy's very own 'traveler'.

If you would like a reader of my epic fantasy series The House of Claw, a life work of my own creation, you may contact me through the email posted here.

To view my other works visit: http://thegriffin88.deviantart.com/

There you will find my other works such as Fallen, Divine Matters and the short works of Hiro Yoshizawa the last ninja as well as some excerpts from The House of Claw. And of course, the highly anticipated comic series: Blood Brothers: My life with two vampiric roommates. Featuring Lestat, Louis, and new comer Edward Cullen. Good times in the big city abound. (CHECK IT OUT!!)

Argument that SIMM is NOT a 'Mary Sue'

I fell in a well, what's your story?

An online quiz said my color is black but in actuality my favorite color is green although blue looks best on me. So yeah, pink doesn't even come close to my color spectrum. Actually, it's not even there, I took it out behind the old shed and shot it.

Baldwin: It may have been pink but it bleeds red. evil laughter

Yes, I do have a ring in the shape of a snake on my right middle finger but that has nothing to do with this...

Ochi: Riiiight...

Me: So help me I will hit you with my ring hand. (is, in actuality, a family guy quote)

Ochi: Which one?

True that, I have rings on both fingers.

Me: The aforementioned one of course. It adds insult to injury dear.

My character/me is not a total bitch, as pointed out by my readers. That's what I find a lot today. In an effort to dispel the 'Mary Sue' effect people make their OC's really nasty. I'm 50/50 if you catch me at the right time. I'm nice, but able to hold my ground.

Ochi: She was a bit of a 'praying mantis' in bed last night though.

Me: O_O

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The Cast and Crew

Travelers:

Travelers are a select group of beings, usually griffins, who are recruited by the gods and godesses of Karma, the world my original novel is set in. They are assigned to a particular person in the world they are sent to live in, called their ward, and given two tasks: 1) to protect and serve their ward, keeping them safe from the minions of the god of Chaos, 2) to help their ward complete their mission in their world, thus ensuring that time and fate flow as they should. Travelers become very attatched to their wards, forming close bonds that have an almost psychic link. If their ward is threatened, a traveler will usually, instinctively, move to sheild or protect them. Travelers are not allowed to harm another traveler's ward, no matter what side they are on. Travelers are meant to be observers, not participants in anything that would drastically alter the flow of fate.

Name: (Shinobi) Griffin

Alias: The Yellow Leaf, SG

Age: 20-ish

Gender: Female

Species: Griffin

God: Manauia (Honor)

Size: On the large side but about medium when compared to the others.

Magic: Fire

World: Naruto

Ward: Hatake Kakashi

Goal: Help Kakashi do whatever it is that he's supposed to do.

Description: Yellow body feathers, brown fur, blue eyes. Wings are: top part=grey middle=pink flight feathers=same yellow as body. Wears her leaf headband like a skull cap with long ribbons coming out of the back. When she's in the woods, she ties these back as well.

Background: Griffin arrived in the Naruto world about a year before Itachi massacred his clan. In that year she had developed a strong bond with the boy and was sure that he was her ward. (the person she's there to watch and help yadda yadda) But a few days before the night of the massacre it was announced by her overseer, the god Rudo, that her real ward was Hatake Kakashi. She met Itachi after the massacre as he was leaving and told him that she couldn't follow him because of this. Itachi accepted this and asked her to do him a favor while he was out of town: Take care of Sasuke. Griffin obliged his request, and informed him that she could do no more than try and nudge him on the right path. It is still unclear how close she was to Itachi, or if they are even still in contact.

She is currently touring around with Suigetsu, once again shirking her responsibilities as Kakashi's watcher. She follows the KH reject because he stole Zabuza's sword. Griffin respected Zabuza as a person because she believes that he had a good soul. She had appointed herself a personal quest to redeem Suigetsu from his sin of grave robbing and others.

Fighting Style: Ranged attacker. She uses her fire magic about the same as her wind magic, as a tool for doing everyday things. But her jutsus are special, they are a breed of her own techniques she calls the: Bully Techniques. One is this: Bullying Technique: Hate Crime no Jutsu, in which she filngs a rock with amazing accuracy at someone. She uses this to punish someone if they said something she didn't agree with. Sai and Neji are the constant targets of this jutsu. Her top move in this category Crotch Kick no Jutsu. You can guess what that is.

Weapons: Large shiruken, small shiruken, kunai and her magic. Also rocks, acorns, any projectile she can find.

thegriffin's notes: Griffin was not the first traveler but my first OC. Her name is griffin because I always called her my griffin character, although she didn't have a name. I used her as a representation of myself to voice my views on various, unimportant things. She needed a name and Griffin just stuck. I added the Shinobi part because most of my views with her were about Naruto. I was really unclear about exactly when she came into the whole Naruto picture until just before Shippuden started. (SG: Shit Pudding) I kinda felt a twinge of like for Itachi when I saw him as a kid and pretty much everyone I like Griffin likes, or hates. Depends. She's also close to Sasuke, having looked after him for years, even though he wasn't her ward. Really, the only reason I made Kakashi her ward was because he was the first person I liked in the manga, and Griffin was created when he was the only guy I liked in the manga. As we can see, that has changed. I also decided to have her steal underwear simply because it was funny and made for great running gags. Plus, it was a way for her to make money. Her residence is under the portrait of the 4th Hokage because I thought he was kinda cute. She can also play the piano. She is related to Sapphire and Cali as sisters.

Personality: She's a hyper, fun-loving, pants stealing, suprisingly stealthy, loud-mouthed, sometimes serious, exceptionally extremist, laugh-out-loud, over-sized cat-bird of a traveler. And I love her to bits.

Name: Sapphire

Alias: The Ice Queen, Nak'ulak (centaur for 'Frozen Heart')

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Species: Griffin

God: Ekundayo (Redemption)

Size: Large (as in just all around big. No fat jokes)

Magic: Water/Ice

World: Fullmetal Alchemist

Ward: Zolf. J. Kimblee, the Crimson Alchemist

Goal: To make sure Kimblee doesn't die before he's supposed to.

Description: Blue feathers, blue fur, yellow eyes. Tail is not like a lion but like a cougar which she inherited from her father's mountain griffin side. Wings: same shade of blue as body but with black stripes running through them.

Background: Sapphire was once a happy, gifted healer. She was married and had a wonderful life in Karma. But that was the problem. She was married to an elf named Phenix Rainstrider. And Phenix, was terminally ill. Sapphire describes his disease to Kimblee as something akin to Stomach Cancer. It was actually how they met, she was his healer, she was supposed to be giving him a comfortable last few years. But desptie all this they fell in love and were 'married'. (marriage in Karama is common law excepting royalty) But, a few years down the line, the disease began to take its course and Phenix grew steadily sicker. He eventually died and Sapphire fell into a deep depression. She stopped healing and began damming the gods. But the gods, being the benevolent creatures that they were, decided to make her a traveler, and set her with someone who was equally sinful, yet delightfully cheery. (Sapphire: Quit being so f-ing happy, you'll give me diabetes.) Zolf. J. Kimblee, the mad alchemist of Amestris.

By the time Sapphire got to Kimblee, she had turned into a surly, chain-smoking, beer-drinking ex-doctor, and by the time she got to Kimblee, so had Scar and a large iron pipe. Cursing all manner of things Sapphire began operating on the man in the midst of a blizzard on a train in the middle of Briggs. She managed to extract the pipe and cauterize the tissue around the gaping hole so that he wouldn't bleed out. She succeeded and is still following the man today, even though she constantly reminds us all that she 'really doesn't want to be there'.

Fighting Style: Sapphire is a punch first ask questions later. She's frightfully adept at hand-to-hand combat for a healer. When her fists aren't enough, she resorts to ice magic, a derivative of her native water magic.

Weapons: Ice magic, fists, claws, sharp words. Ouch.

thegriffin's notes: Sapphire originally started out as and analog for myself in a series of shitty shorts involving my two favorite things: cute guys and illness. She was a very happy character in those stories and when they got scrapped, so did she. When I decided to bring her back for a companion story to The Living Blade Alchemist she got a makeover, as House-esque healer in need of redemption. I figured that a surlier personality would be able to keep the mad alchemist at bay long enough so that he didn't go off blowing up half of Amestris because he felt like it. She Griffin and Cali's sister and plays the violin. Also, in the fic, Zolf's middle name is Jay. It's an allusion to the joke on the Simpson's about the J in Homer J Simpson was Jay. lol n' such.

Personality: She feels like the world is out to get her and wants everyone within shouting distance to know it. Don't think that just because she's a healer that she won't hurt you. She won't hesitate to throw a mean punch in your direction. You probably deserved it anyhow.

Name: Cali

Alias: The Living Blade Alchemist, Mustang's pet chimera

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Species: Griffin

God: Rudo (Compassion)

Size: Small

Magic: Fire

World: Fullmetal Alchemist

Ward: Colonel Roy Mustang the Flame Alchemist

Goal: To have Roy and Riza get together. Oh, and maybe save the world.

Description: a cowlick of 'hair' on her head, one blue eye, one brown eye and calico coloring throughout.

Background:Cali originally trained on Earth as a doctor. She went ot school in Oxford and that's where she met her mate, Zackary Greyshadow. It was love at first sight. When what was to be her ward died unexpectedly before she could meet him, she was whisked away to Amestris.

Cali arrived in Amestris four months before the war in Ishbal ended. She was thought to be an escaped, talking chimera and was imprisoned in the military labs for testing. There she met Dorchet, Marta and Loa. While the four never really became friends, they did become comrades. But, after displaying for a crowed of military officers her fire magic, she was granted release thanks to the persuasion of one man: Colonel Mustang, the expert on fire. He was able to recognize that what she was doing wasn't alchemy and that she really couldn't be from Amestris or the surrounding countries. He took her into his home and trained her in alchemy. She made a name for herself in the military and soon earned the rank of major, although as a non-human she wasn't allowed to have her own select group of underlings. This was fine with her as her only priority was her ward Roy and getting him together with Riza.

When she found out that her sister was in Amestris and the watcher of the Crimson Alchemist she blew a gasket. She begged Sapphire to give up her ward but Sapphire refused. Cali has never truly forgiven her big sister for this.

She still keeps contact with Sapphire though, and with Zack, who she sees on Earth once a month.

Fighting Style: Close combat, weapons specialty. Cali is a weapons expert with training in martial arts. She only falls back on martial arts and/or her fire magic if she is unable to transmute a weapon.

Weapons: She can create whatever the situation calls for if she has earth to transmute. Also fire magic.

thegriffin's notes: Cali I created for the story in itself. I had a little vision of a calico colored griffin and naturally named her Cali. Her first Bio was that she worked in the Central City Library and when that burned down, went on to travel with Ed and Al. But then I decided to take a different approach, one that would lend me more freedom, the untold story of Roy Mustang and his crew of wacky lackeys. Her type of alchemy is actually modeled off of Ten Ten's jutsus in Naruto. It is sometimes mentioned that she gets the ideas for some of her attacks from her sister. She must be talking about Griffin! She is also seen reading several mangas in the story, all of which were written by Osamu Tezuka, who created her boyfriend's ward: Black Jack. Cali, on the other hand, hates Jack. She is, however, very close to Roy, almost like a female Maes (whatever wrong thoughts you are thinking, stop) But she still retains her personality. She is the sister to Griffin and Sapphire. She plays the flute.

Personality: sweet, caring, cuddly, and yet she is able to hold her own in battle. She in intrusive, loving, loyal, fierce, overbearing, funny, impulse driven and one of Roy's best friends.

Name: Zackary (Zack) Greyshadow

Alias: The Neon Alchemist, Jack's Ace

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Species: Griffin

God: Kriti (Healing)

Size: Taller than Calil but shorter than Griffin.'

Magic: Dark

World: Tezuka Universe

Ward: Dr. Black Jack

Goal: To help Black Jack save the world, one patient at a time.

Description: Black feathers, a shock of hair going almost into his eyes with a red zig-zag going through it. Wings: Alternating black and red feathers starting with black on the top. Yellow eyes. His lion-parts look almost like patchwork and vary in color and size. In addition, his legs are longer than most, makin him look a little strange yet allowing him to stand on two feet for longer than most of his species.

Background: Zackary Greyshadow was born...actually, he wasn't born, he was created. Zack was the product of and experiment by Slade Greyshadow 'The Demon Master'. Slade was an insane dark type who wanted to create an army of created creatures. He made Zack by sewing parts together and infusing them with both life essence from the planes of existance and his own life force. The result was Zack. Zack was considered a failed experiment, since he didn't actually obey his master and eventually ran away. He was able to find a good home with other griffins in the Horncliffs of Switchton. Because he was created, he is able to stand up on two legs for longer and has arms close to human proportions.

A few years down the road Zackary was picked up by the gods and made a traveler. He was sent Oxford in Earth to study medicine. He thought about using a dark spell to disguise himself as a human so that he could attend classes with as few stares as possible until he met Cali. She had no way of concealing herself and was doing just fine. They fell in love almost immediately. After the death of what was to be her ward, Cali was whisked away to Amestris with the promise that they would still be able to see each other. Zack, though, finished his studies in Oxford and left to pursue a different, more dangerous career, that of the assitant of Dr. Black Jack.

Despite his girlfriend's protests, Zack enjoys working with the dark doctor and had gone on many great adventures with the man in the surgical mask. He's popped into Amestris twice now, once to help Jean Havoc, and a second time with his boss in tow to help a very ill alchemist. Flame or Crimson? It's all in Sapphire's Redemption: Comming soon!

Fighting Style: Zack doesn't fight a lot in his line of work but when he does, he can throw a punch or two. Zack relies on his speed and flexibility most in an encounter. He only ever falls back on his dark magic if his life is truly at stake and he can't escape. He can only perform his 'Neon Alchemy' in the world of Amestris when he's visiting Cali or Sapphire.

thegriffin's notes: Zack started out like Griffin, as an analog to voice my opinions. He looks like Black Jack because that's the series he was created for. I then decided to make him the boyfriend of Cali and have his story cross over with hers. The whole creation thing is relatively new and was really a way for me to explain why his backside looks the way it does. He doesn't like to talk about it. He plays drums and guitar.

Personality: Like the classic college male Zack likes to lounge around, play video games, eat pizza and other junk food and watch Adult Swim. But when the Dr. is in 24/7, he doesn't get much time for that. He's kind soul with whip smart wit and an attitude to boot.

Name: Magpie

Alias: Mimic, The Grey Angel, Svitbalka (Wise Wing)

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Species: Griffin

Size: larger than Cali but only by a bit

God: Asper (Hearts. Literally, your heart, or your true self)

Magic: Earth

World: Alagaesia

Ward: Murtagh/Thorn

Goal: To either lead Murtagh to ruin or to glory. She’s keeping it a secret.

Description: Bluejay markings but in black, grey and creamy-white

Background: Able to imitate just about anything she hears Magpie often communicates through quotes and bits of sound that she has picked up in her travels. She is secretive, though, about what it is that she is supposed to help Murtagh do, or even if she herself knows. She does, though, have a plan for the three dragon captains and their steeds that she brought into the world of Alagaesia to aid her in her mysterious plan. Because the three, soon to be two, captains allied themselves with her and thus the mad King Galbatorix, Magpie’s trustworthiness is questionable at best. Although, as she demonstrates constantly, she is certainly smarter than she seems at times. She is fiercely loyal to Murtagh and does really try to help him when he is at the mercy of Galbatorix and his punishments.

thegriffin88's notes: Magpie started out, as most of my characters do, as my thoughts when reading the Inheritance cycle series. But she evolved into much more than that, taking the side most people try (but ultimately fail) to do properly. (that's most, not all. I've found a few gems out there in a sea of useless chert) I added her mimicry because I kept thinking of quotes and lines and sound bytes when I was reading. I'll have footnotes in the story parts with her so that you can get all the references because there's a lot of obscure ones. She's still, though, very mysterious in her intentions, leaving you to wonder who is the less of two evils, Kelly or Magpie?

Personality: Kind if somewhat mysterious, usually very carefree and happy and quoting and sounding off just about anything that comes into her head.

Weapons: Talons, claws, beak and very strong earth magic.

Name: Kelly Hel-Kona

Alias: Deathsdaughter, Hel-kona (Death Woman)

Age:39

Gender:Female

Species:Human

God: Rhuk (Wind)

Occupation:Dragon Captain/ Traveler

World:Alagaesia/Naomi Novik’s Earth

Ward: Oromis

Goal: To redeem herself for her past discrepancies

Description:Average height, slightly wavy roan hair, blue eyes, smirk

Background:Kelly was not born in Alagaesia, nor was she born on Earth. She was, in fact, born in the lands far East of the Empire of Alagaesia, in the grand of Kingdom Ur. However, at the age of 33, her husband died in one of the many border skirmishes that plague the technologically rich Kingdom. Distraught, she left Ur and headed West, farther and farther West until she reached Alagaesia. Once there, she learned of how the people of the, in her opinion, rather primitive Alagaesia used words to control magic. In Ur, magic was always abundant. Curious, Kelly began studying magic and became quite adept at controlling life energy and bending it to her will. At the time she was studying with the Elves of Du Weldenvarden, whose trust she gained with a display of Urian technology. And as she was studying magic there, she met someone who would become a life-long fascination of hers (and he would most likely say the same to her), Oromis. This was before the fall of the riders, and Kelly met Glaedr on numerous occasions.

But as her studies and uses of life energy took a slightly more sinister turn, Kelly decided that she was beginning to wear out her welcome and left for the human city of Terim to complete her studies. While in Terim, she was visited by the God of Ur, Rhuk. Rhuk told Kelly that she was destined for something great and bade her depart with him for a distant land. Kelly, still searching for something to ease the pain of losing her husband, followed and was transported to an Earth where dragons existed. Once there, Rhuk presented her with a dragon’s egg and told her that she was to become a captain of renown here, and to wait for his return. The egg soon hatched into a Winchester, a smallish breed of dragon, with pearl scales. Kelly named the little dragon Widget. Now a dragon captain, Kelly found herself on the West Coast of Africa making a modest living as a messenger. It was on one of these errands up the coast that she met the Celestial dragon Temeraire and his captain Lawrence who were searching for a cure for the consumption that was ravaging England. Intrigued by them, Kelly agreed to help look.

Two years later, and now a full fledged member of the Royal Dragon Corps, Kelly and Lawrence were shipped off to Australia along with the feisty dragon Iskierka and her captain Granby. But along the way they were swept up in a storm. While trying to stay aloft in the buffeting winds, Rhuk once again appeared to Kelly and bade her and her friends to follow. At Kelly’s urging, they agreed and were transported to a very different Alagaesia then Kelly had left. In the two years Kelly had been in Earth, several decades had passed in Alagaesia and with them, the fall of the dragon riders. Kelly and her friends were led straight to Galbatorix’s doorstep and greeted by another traveler, Magpie the griffin. Magpie, who was serving Murtagh and Thorn, told them that they were to stay here until a certain, mysterious ‘plan’ was enacted. Kelly, upon learning more and more of Galbatorix’s terrible rise to power and those who opposed him, decided that she could not, in all good conscious, could not stay. When Murtagh and Thorn attempted to raid the Varden encampment with the undying soldiers, Kelly boldly broke away from the group and marched into the Varden. After many scrutinies and mental probes, Kelly was declared a safe and valuable ally to have fallen into their hands.

Now Kelly has to fight against her friends turned enemies and what will she do when she finds out that a certain someone escaped the fall?

Personality:Slightly jaded, finds a lot of things funny even if they aren’t necessarily so to the general public, very smart and perhaps a little mad.

Weapons:Rapier, flintlock pistol (only uses if she has no other options), bag of gems and semi-precious stones infused with a countless amount of magical energy, a spell that can convert a ball of pure life energy into an unstable form that, when released, will kill anything in its path. Widget cannot breath fire but uses her claws and teeth fairly well if she has to enter combat.

thegriffin's notes: I use my name as an analog when I don't have a name and it sticks most of the time. I really should stop that bad habit. Thanks to me and too much mental stimulation there's already a sequel planned for this thing.

Other OC's:

Name: Ghost (Real name: unknown)

Alias: The Ghost of Atlantis, Hel and Jorgmunder, Hel and Fenris etc

Age: Unknown

Gender: Female

Species: Atlantean Human

Occupation: Atlantean Blackwing Aeronaut

World: Code Geass Japan

Description: Tall, always wears a mask similar to Zero’s (she claims he stole the design from her) in public and her sea-green/blue aeronaut greatcoat. Ghast wears a similar helmet and is leathery black with a white underbelly, white underside of his sail-like wings and a bristly white mane of hair.

Background: Ghost is a killer. She lives to hunt what she calls the Ragnarok, a race of super-humans that were created by the Atlanteans and led to the downfall of the great city. In the millennia since the fall of Atlantis, Ghost established herself with the world’s strongest empires in order to allow herself much more freedom and ease to hunt the Ragnarok. Aided by her dragon-like Atlantean Flyer Ghast, Ghost and the three other surviving aeronauts hunted the Ragnarok down to the last, or so they thought. Allying herself with the Britannia empire Ghost managed to capture the last Ragnarok but, at the insistence of Prince Clovis, she allowed the humans to run experiments on it. This was not one of her finer moments because, a few years later, the Ragnarok escaped during the attacks in the slums and did something Ghost had wanted to prevent at all cost, the creation of another Ragnarok. Who are these two Ragnarok Ghost is now trying so hard to kill? They are Lelouch and C.C.

However, as much as Ghost would like to rend both of them from tip to tail, an order from her superior prevents so for Lelouch’s power is that of Alpha, the man who singlehandedly overthrew the Atlantean empire. Chase, the Lord-Knight Aeronaut, orders Ghost to leave Lelouch because of a prophecy the Ragnarok Omega predicted, about he who would rule the world. It was foretold that he who would be able to overcome the maddening effects of the Geass power would be King.

Not merely content to sit by and watch her prey go on peacefully, Ghost has decided to make Lelouch’s life a living hell. She figures that if he was to, let us say, die at the hands of a Britannian Knightmare or soldier in one of the Black Knight’s raids, the rest of the aeronauts would have to accept it as an unfortunate accident. So she has asorbed herself into the special ops unit of the Britannian army, working alongside Suzaku and her lover, Lloyd.

To say that Ghost is in love with Lloyd would be a vast understatement, she is positively infatuated with what she calls, ‘the smartest human alive’. She uses her vast knowledge to help improve the Knightmare Frame technology and Lloyd, in turn, allows her access to medical supplies she needs to care for her infirmed brother Daniel.

Personality: Slightly crazy, completely homicidal towards the Ragnarok, racist and the absolute nicest person to Lloyd. Ghost is probably selectively bi-polar.

Weapons: Ghost has a double-axe that she can materialize out of thin air provided that she is wearing a special glove. Shield-stones that create a shield of energy that will stop most things such as bullets and lasers. Ghast breaths a jet of plasma to melt anything in his way as well and uses his many rows of needle teeth and dagger claws to tear up anything the plasma won’t melt.

thegriffin's notes: Ghost is very interesting to write for. At times she's a good exercise in writing a softer kind of romance and at other times she's an experiment to see just how racist I can be. She can be very cruel to Lulu and CC (but mostly Lulu. shame on Ghost picking on the one who can't defend himself from her and Ghast) Really though it's fun to write from what's technically the enemies point of view (and really, you're not supposed to love and agree with everything she does. You'll like her, but you'll hate yourself for it.) and that's what really appeals to me about the show, the whole concept of 'what's the right side? is there a right side?'. That and Lloyd's accent. X3

Name: Tock (real name: Eva Fairbough)

Alias: The Clockwork Exorcist, Ryuu-baka (Kanda's 'endearing' name for her)

Age: 18 (3 months younger than Kanda)

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Occupation: Exorcist

World: D. Gray-Man Earth

Description: Tock used to be human but now her soul inhabits the body of a brass battle-golem in the shape of a clockwork dragon.

Background: Tock, also known as the Clockwork Exorcist, was a human up until a year ago. She and Kanda were in Belgium and got caught in a swarm of Akuma. Tock and her golem-innocence took too many hits and eventually fell. Kanda dispatched the rest of the Akuma but it was already too late, she died in his arms. But instead of ending, this is precisely where our story begins, for Eva’s soul did not pass on, but rather was bound by her innocence and transferred to her battle-golem’s body where it currently remains.

Eva, who all but legally changed her name to Tock, has learned how to live with her body the way it is, although she does hope for the day when she can get it back. Still though, she still works as an exorcist for the Black Order because of the way her innocence allows her to morph into a larger metallic dragon, a living innocence weapon. She recently found out that the Akuma who killed her were being commanded by one Tyki Mikk. She is now on a personal mission to shred him to bits.

She seems to have some sort of close relationship with Kanda although they don’t actually say much on the subject; it seems to be clear that Tock is in love with him. Whether the feeling is mutual is up for debate.

Personality: Overly emotional, occasionally hyper and probably in love with Kanda, Tock is a happy go-lucky kind of person most of the time although she does seem to share some of Kanda’s animosity towards strangers and newcomers. She doesn’t really like Krory.

Weapons: She can transform into a larger dragon with metallic wings and breathe an anti-akuma breath. After the encounter with Rhode Kamelot she develops a poison that she secretes from her fangs. This is a reversed version of the Akuma virus that also destroys Akuma.

thegriffin's notes: Tock's kinda like Griffin, she started out as me voicing my reactions and opinions and getting attached to a character and therefore manifesting myself as an automaton dragon . She does have a past though, like her master Archon and the fact that she and Kanda seem to have a secret involving what went down on a mission in Brazil.

Coming soon to a website near you:

Jack's Ace: Zack the griffin finally gets his own little story as the offbeat assistant of the infamous mercenary doctor Black Jack. Includes cameos of some of your favorite anime characters (canon allowed at least) Estimated publish date: Better late than never

Sapphire's Redemption: Set after the final events of book 16 of the FMA manga Sapphire, a grizzled old ex-healer griffin, is once again whisked away to a world unknown to redeem herself. She finds herself in the company of someone very unlikely, and very grumpy. It's Crimson vs Sapphire in this exciting, hilarious companion to the epic Living Blade Alchemist series. (featuring cameo of Cali and all your favorite FMA characters, location allowed at least.) ie. whoever's at Briggs Mt. at the time ETP: Sooner of later. Depends on how fast I get up to Briggs in LB.

The Marvelous Adventures of Magpie: The story of Kelly Hel-kona Part 1: Join Kelly, her dragon Widget and their friends as they embark on a journey in Alagaesia. Features two simultaneous points of view, that of Kelly as she sides wit the Varden and Magpie and Murtagh on the side of the Empire with Kelly's friends and their dragons. But when Kelly's mysterious past comes into play in several big ways, how much can Eragon trust her? And what is Magpie's big plan? Why would a traveler be working for someone so blatantly evil? Or is that just what she wants you to think? ETP: Sooner than Sapphire's Redemption probably because these thoughts are driving me nuts!

The Ghost of Atlantis: Ghost and Ghast are seeing red, or is it a vibrant green? Ghost's one mission in life is to kill the Ragnarok and prevent them from destroying the world, but if she were to fulfill that dream sooner rather than later the show would be over rather quickly. Join Ghost, Ghast and their twisted past as they seek a way to stop the Ragnarok without breaking rank. She's making Lelouch's life a living hell, and this story isn't filed under humor. ETP: Still in the works.

The Clockwork Exorcist: Tock's an unusual exorcist, with the body of a clockwork dragon and a homicidal samurai for a boyfriend she claims that really she's seen just about everything. Until now. ETP: Later rather than sooner.

So there you have it and remember to Read and Review or I'll forget I'm writing this! (and Balthazar the purple demon kitty will eat you.)

About me

Age: Wouldn't you like to know

B-day: 04/15/88, yeah, tax day, big whoop wanna fight about it?

My style: My style of writing is generally hurt/comfort based, (character warning: you WILL get hurt) but I do dabble in romance and humor as well as some action if the occasion calls for it. Spookthemook, on the other hand, is mainly a humor writer with some romance and fluff thrown in for free.

Home State: I was born in New Jersey but I now live in New York. I still consider Jersey my true home although I have a soft spot for the big apple. After all, Jersey doesn't have any good sushi restaurants.

Stance on Religion: Atheist/agnostic and damn proud of it too. Everyone needs to adopt this method, it would make the world a much better place.

Favorite movies:

The Indiana Jones movies (even the new one yes)

Kingdom of Heaven

October Sky

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Hellboy

Dr. Strangelove

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Time Bandits

Bringing Up Baby

Hard Day's Night

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Mummy series (can't wait for the new one)

Rankin Bass and Ralph Bakshi do The Lord of the Rings animated

And of course Peter Jackson's version

The Last Unicorn and Flight of Dragons

Erin Brockovich

Tin Man (made for TV movie on the sci-fi channel)

and much much more

Favorite TV shows:

Bones

Dr. House

Digging for the Truth

Axe Men

Deadliest Catch

Mythbusters

Dirty Jobs

Bone Detectives

World's Wildest Police Videos

Most Shocking

Most Daring

Forensic Files

Monty Python

New Amsterdam

Moonlight

Blood Ties

CSI: NY

Cold Case Files

Stargate SG1 and Atlantis

Eureka

Salute Your Shorts

Keenan and Kel

And much more

Manga and Anime:

Naruto (like everyone else duh)

FMA (manga, anime and movie)

Black Jack

Kimba

Leo the Lion

Jungle Emperor Leo

Unico

Tezuka's Metropolis

Phoenix

Witch Hunter Robin

Devil May Cry

Totoro

Howl's Moving Castle

Spirited Away

Naussica Valley of the Wind

Princess Mononoke

Castle in the Sky

Cowboy Bebop

Books: (a.k.a. recommended reading)

Good Omens (five stars in my opinion)

Harry Potter if you are one of the handful who haven't read it

Scar Night

the Dark Lord of Derkholm and The Year of the Griffin

Dealing with Dragons series

Interview with the Vampire (Lestat and Louis, my homeboys)

Master and Commander

the James Herriot series

the Amelia Peabody series

Graphic Novels:

Hellboy

B.P.R.D.

League of Extraordinary Gentelmen

and Lobster Jhonson when Mignola releases it

Games:

Final Fantasy VII

Super Mario 64, Sunshine and Galaxy

Paper Mario 1 and 2 (I want 3 badly)

Mario Kart 64, Double Dash and Wii which I am totally owning right now

Katamari Damachy

Starfox

Harry Potter games (soooo much fun)

World of Warcraft (Shandris server, Alliance hunter named Merwin, Alliance paladin named Tetera and Horde rogue named Tati)

Age of Empires 1,2 and 3

The Sims 1 and 2

Zoo Tycoon 1 and 2

Myst series

Okami

Spyro series (honestly, how many games actually let you play as a dragon?)

And probably others that I forgot

Bands:

Queen

Jethro Tull

The Who

Yes

The Ramones

AC DC

The Sex Pistols

The Clash

Fall Out Boy

The Urgency (you'll hear of them very soon)

Panic at the Disco

Bowling for Soup

Dropkick Murphys

Flogging Molly

David/Diane Arkenstone

All American Rejects

Various Anime Theme songs

Some of Disney's better days

The Beatles (major duh)

Rise Against

Reliant K

Linkin Park

Three Days Grace

and much, much more

Story Theme Songs:

So I Married a Murderer: 'True to your Heart'-98 degrees and Stevie Wonder

The Living Blade Alchemist: 'Link' -L'Arc en Ciel

Jack's Ace: 'Doctor my Disease'-Jethro Tull

(more soon)

Pairings:

Anything canon and if I have had enough sugar or am truly bored out of my little mind...anything is possible.

Stance on 'yaoi/yuri': 'If you were gay, that'd be okay.' but only if it were canon. So there. XP

Quotes:

"Y'know, some people believe that the moon landing was filmed in Arizona and that the Holocaust didn't happen"

"You're kidding. Where do they think all the thousands of Jewish people went? The Moon?"

"No, just Arizona." -Me and a friend

"It's a cell dammit!" -me

"Aw, lookit Furey in his little hat!" -me

"Come here Edward..." -'Huges' in FMA Conqueror of Shamballa

"Underpants." -Chi, Chobits

"Say what?"

"Be cool dude, I think he may be retarded." -me and a friend on first encountering Tobi

"He's a goddamn butthole!" -Cartman, Southpark, Make Love Not Warcraft

"Supersize me!" -Kyon, The Melencholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

"I'm not wearing underwear today!!" -Brian, Avenue Q

(points to the Pope on Trinity Blood who has, once again, jumped at the slightest noise)

"See, this is what happens when you decide your leader by picking names out of a hat and tossing them in a fire. This isn't freakin' Harry Potter people!" -Me

"We are soooo good." -Ron, Goblet of Fire video game (we only got him to say this once, ever since then it's been elusive...or we just suck...probably the latter

"He doesn't seem like a flowers kinda guy to me, he seems more like a 'leave me the hell alone' kinda guy." -Me to a friend about Sasuke when Sakura was going to buy him flowers

Eel bird: Gabba Gabba Hey -Word bubble from a sketch in Mike Mignola's sketchpad in the back of B.P.R.D. The Garden of Souls

"God-is-pissed." -Brian to Peter, Family Guy

Some King: Where is my son?

Me: Ah, well, you see, he's kinda...pushin' up daisies -flower appears on screen- See! There's one now!" -Me watching LotR Twin Towers, only works on the non-extended version

"Diabeetus" -Do I really have to tell you?

"I want you in that vest and that headband you wore to the Chunin exams...and nothing else." -Kelly from, So I Married a Murderer

"Cherry blossoms!!" -Me one morning at college

"AHHHHH!!"

"WHAT WHAT?!"

"THERE'S A CREEPY LITTLE KID IN THERE AND HE AIN'T GOT NO HAIR!!" -me and a friend to my sister in a museum in Ireland, it was a bald mannequin of a kid. Creepy.

"I say get the operation. Either you survive or you die. And if you die, at least you'll never know about it." -Me to myself on Rock Lee's pending operation so he could be a ninja again.

"Shut up you ho!" -me to a banner ad

"But Afro Samurai cannot love...oh...I guess he can..." -Kyra (a.k.a. Spookthemook)

"Oh that's right, Rasputin's in the acorn...wow, I just realized how absurd that sounded." - me

"Money makes the world go 'round, love makes people go 'round, and gas makes the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round." -me

"How big can it be?" -Hellboy, Hellboy.

"If homosexuality were normal God would have created Adam and Bruce." -Anita Bryant

"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn." -unknown

"You appeal to a small, select group of confused people." -fortune cookie

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness." -Leo Tolstoy

"I'm not going to climb the ladder with Tolstoy." -Ernest Hemmingway

"Hemmingway was a jerk." -Harold Robbins

"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come to my neighborhood after midnight." -Dick Gregory

"You know you live in the hood when the ice cream man has a gun." -truth me and my friends came up with. true story btw, her ice cream man did have a gun

"Man would kill his own brother, but God forbid he should lose his most loyal companion."-Escape from Planet of the Apes

"Offer people a new creed and a new costume and their hearts and minds will follow."-Crowley, Good Omens

"Watch out for that pedestrian!"

"It's in the road it knows the risks it's taking!"-Aziraphael and Crowley, Good Omens

"So if you're tangoing with a lesbian...who leads?"-Me to my sister while watching Rent

Brock: Pimpin' aint easy -truth me and my sister came up with about Brock from Pokemon

"Today Lance from N'Sync announced he was gay and in a stable relationship"

"That's not news." -me to Yahoo news

"Life is really just a bunch of random moments." - me to my sister

"Obama didn't do shit! All he did was drive the car!"

-holds up Newsweek with Obama's picture on it-

"Aw look, you made him sad."

"I don't give a damn!" -my sister to me about a dream she had

"Needs more explosions...Kimblee! Get over here." -me to myself before going back to sleep after waking up from a dream in which Roy Mustang and I were trolling around a war in Persia...which no longer exists

My thoughts on Kakashi: I wish my teacher read porn in class. - a thought by me

"I saw Lady Sinestra today and she has gotten faaaaat!"-me to my guild (Taco Flavored Kisses) on world of warcraft. Lady Sinestra is a dragon.

"...You're hot, can I have your pony?"-me to an npc on Dragon Fable

"I love a man in a three-cornered hat."-me

"By the power of #CCCCC skull!"

TV: Real People. Not Actors.

Me: Actors are people too...

Mom: Girls wait on their knees to be given a pearl necklace...

Me: Mom that's porn! D:

Danny: He's not deaf Linus -Ocean's Thirteen

"You're preaching to a brick wall sweetie, he can't hear you."-Sapphire, Sapphire's Redemption

"Is that Oprah?"-Danny Ocean, Ocean's Thirteen

Lestat: He's too cool to sparkle!-Me

"Cedric Diggory is DEAD!"-Harry from Parody Potter 2

"Did you steal that off our tree?"-Christine from Girls Next Door, a comic by Pika-la-cinique on Deviantart.com (go find her and Ashe-Ryder who runs the flagship comic Roomates)

"I think that guy might really be dead."-Dodgeball

"Your skin feels so soft."

kiss

"Really? kiss So does yours. kiss"

"You do know that you're kissing your hand right?"

-A 'conversation' between fangirl me and rational me.

Tv Commercial: "1 in every 8 Americans is starving."

Me: "Yeah, well, 8 in every 8 Ethiopians is starving."

If I have learned anything from my Sims family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.-Liz from 30 Rock

TG's Fandom Truths:

1) First off, so I can say this: are some of you missing a sector of your brain or was it damaged when you were dropped as a kid because INCEST AND UNDERAGE SEX IS SIMPLY WRONG. W-R-O-N-G!! Honestly, it should be programmed into our DNA that incest is wrong, it's part of nature to insure that we don't breed retards. Although somehow retards still get born and wander over to this site! D: And underage relationships are wrong socially, really, in almost every country (except ONE town in TIBET of all places) incest and underage (although age is an arguable variable) relationships are wrong. So there.

Ochi: claps

2) My man is not gay, and most certainly not gay for his little medic. -grabs Ochi- MINE!!

3) Kabtuo is most definitely a virgin. (srsly)

4) Sasuke does not love you. Some people are simply incapable of love. I have no idea where people get the idea that Sasuke can fall in love. The first time I saw him, and I mean when this shit was still coming out in single digits, I said: 'Okay, he is so not a candidate for love. I mean look at him, he's a revenge case. those never end well." And then look what happened. I was right.

5) Humankind has a habit of seeing what they want to see. But just because I want to see a chocolate cupcake in front of me does not make it real. i.e. I don't care how you look at it, Sirius is NOT in love with Lupin, Draco is not in love with Harry and Naruto is not in love with Sasuke! And any other pairings are just wrong! (even the one's I have favored I favored because they are written WELL not for their plot content.)

Ochi: Sure babe.

Me: raises ring hand

Ochi: hides

6) Y'know, a dub can actually be good, I don't look at the tv all the time so I need to listen. Open your f'ing ears!!

7) And yes, I can be a grouch sometimes.

Ochi: Jet lag doesn't help

8) Using Japanese words does NOT make you cool. You may think it does, but weed makes you think doing nothing is totally amazing, so you can see the reasoning here.

9) It's Howl, btw. It was an English novel written in English so the English name should be used. So STOP USING JAPANESE!!

10) It's not Mary Sue if my character is a griffin from the world of my ORIGINAL epic novel The House of Claw

11) A man cannot get pregnant because a) they have no uterus b) no...you know (>_>;) c) the stomach really isn't a good alternative, the enzymes there pretty much eat everything d) it goes against nature. nuff said.

12) Zolf J. Kimblee doesn't care! He has no feelings towards murdering innocents! He's like, the Hitler of FMA! Hitler never cared about the Jews and Kimblee doesn't care about the Isbalan's!

Argument for the fact that Sasuke cannot love and Orochimaru can

Okay, this a response to a question posed, or thought about by many SIMM readers.

"By your logic, that states that Sasuke is incapable of love, how is Orochimaru any different."

That is a very good question. Actually, it's two statements of questionable nature:

1) Sasuke is incapable of love

2) Orochimaru is capable of love

First things first, Sasuke. The very first time I saw Naruto I was watching the raw anime on my friend's laptop during art class. I saw this kid and my friend told me his story. I don't know how she knew but she did. Lot's of raw out I guess. Anyway, I saw this black haired kid and while I liked his back story, I knew he would be trouble. Now, I don't mean that I knew he would turn against us, although I wasn't exactly surprised, I meant that I knew he would be the crowd favorite but so distant that he would shut them out. You could love him, but I'd eat my hat if he were to return the favor. (I'm currently wearing said hat, in case you were wondering.) After all, one of my earliest Shonobi Griffin jokes came about when Sakura and Ino were buying him flowers:
"He doesn't seem like a flowers kind of guy to me, he seems more like a get-the-hell-away-from-me kind of guy."
He was/still is a revenge case. Revenge cases never turn out well. If a person only lives to do one thing for the sake of revenge it eats them up inside until they are only a shell powered by hate. When the hate dries up, they fall apart.

"The hunter is nothing without the hunt..." - Illidan Stormrage, WoW Burning Crusade.

2) Now, as a point of comparison, how come I still say that Orochimaru can be loved and then return the feeling? Well, for starters, the seeds of hate weren't planted in him at an early age.

Baldwin: snrk

Oh, really mature for an eight-hundred year old. (Shame on anyone who gets that.) Now, back to the point.

My darling Ochi is not a revenge case period, he simply likes power. Hey, who doesn't? All humans like power, for Earthlings money is power so we actually are on the same page. If I offered up a free, no-strings-attached 100 bill I'd like to see you refuse it. It just so happens that the source of power in the world of Naruto is a bit more raw, jutsu for one is power as is having followers and I'm sure money helps too. It always does.

"Money makes the world go 'round, love makes people go 'round, and gas makes the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round." -me

Now, I am aware that Ochi had some sort of relationship with Anko, but I try to view it as a student/sensei relationship as that works in my favor. Like I say, you can see whatever you want to if you put your mind to it, that's the gift and curse of being human.

So, Ochi is not a revenge case, that's a given. But I know that if you were to show him some love he would return the affection. How do I know this? The way he moves in the anime, his body language in the manga and his expressions, the words he uses and the look in his eyes. He could be very seductive if he wanted to be and I'm sure I'm not his first. (I being me in SIMM) It's obvious that he's turned on that snake like charm for more than one lucky lady.

Ochi: That's quite enough dear.

Ah, yes...well, not to mention he's straight as a senbon. I really have no idea where people think Kabuto's involved, it's so clear the little snot's a virgin. Ah well.

I hope that clear up a point of contention for y'all. Now, on to writing!!