Origin of Hope is back on, and I intend on bringing it to the end.

Playing Tekken 6 even though I suck randomly. Lars and Alisa! Intriguing!

Name: cyathula.

Age: feeling decrepit.

Country: I currently reside in Korea. No, folks, not the northern one.

Languages: English, broken Mandarin Chinese, anime-taught Japanese, survival Korean.

About me: I would call myself a neurotic eccentric. My humor is mostly dry, sarcastic, and falls in the darker category most of the time. A friend of mine pointed out that I almost always fall for the 'bad guy that turns good'. I prefer small groups of friends and I hate large parties. I have a spouse who is somewhat less dorky than I am and has saved us much money because he gets motion-sick from first-person shooters. I also have a nutty dog named Mung Mung who barks at notional targets. There is also a 5-7 year old siamese cat with no teeth and no front claws, but is the sweetest creature in the world.

About my likes and dislikes: I hate tragedy. But they are the best fuel to get me started on writing something. I think I get most of my inspiration trying to right something that seemed so unfair. So yeah, my stories are mostly reversals of tragic misfortunes for the most part. If you love tragedy, the world's full of it, and I don't care to voluntarily add to it!

Music: Uh, let's see, I mostly like listening to game music from most of the games I've ever played, and whatever ocremixes I can find (there are some really good ones!!). I also like listening to backgroundy music like Thievery Corporation, Air, Massive Attack, and ATB. Good for an over-daydreamy mind.

Games & Anime: I rediscovered video games, thanks to Tales of Symphonia. Why? Oh, Kratos, thou art such a tragic hero! Anyway, I would normally classify myself now as an ye-old-school-gamer who grew up on Final Fantasy 1,4,6,7, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, Zelda: Link to the Past.

Um, what else, I usedto watch a lot of anime, favorites being Escaflowne, Dragonball (the manga), Slayers, and Kenshin (especially the OVA's)...

Books: As far as books, I definitely don't read as much as I should. I generally read fantasy books and some non-fiction. I do like Harry Potter (all but book 5, and I'm lukewarm towards 6). Did read Twilight, which was a good series. Am keeping up with the 'A Song of Ice & Fire' series (by George RR Martin). His books are pretty intense and makes me squeamish lots of times. However, they are very good, and I do recommend them! I just hope he puts out the next book before he dies of something. O_o But my favorite book of all time is Pride and Prejudice by the excellent Jane Austen. I have two copies of the book (don't know why) and I've watched my copy of BBC's miniseries of P&P only about 20 times (and counting).

Pairings: I'm not a huge 'shipper fanatic but I do got some preferences. As far as my writing style, I really hate writing romantic stuff, especially if it's just dripping with splenda and whatnot. I'm more the action/adventure and if someone likes someone, then it should be obvious by the way they interact and talk to each other. I have issues with yaoi, incest, and stuff, it makes me squeamish when they're not that way to begin with.

Favorite pairs:

Tekken 6BR: Lars x Alisa (to me, Dr. B gave her his daughter's human soul), Jin and Asuka, Kazuya x Jun

Tales of Symphonia: Kratos x Anna, Kratos and Lloyd (FATHER-SON fluff), Sheena x Zelos, possibly Regal x Presea (when she grows up physically, they'd definitely be very good friends anyway), possibly Yuan x Raine (if done right)

Final Fantasy IV: Kain x Rydia (the one I'm most interested in!), Cecil x Rosa ('cause they're both wonderful boring saints!), Edge can stay married to himself

Final Fantasy VII: Zack and Cloud (yes, great brotherly/best friendness), Zack x Aerith, Cloud x Tifa

Final Fantasy Tactics: Delita x Ovelia (If only they never included that stupid scene at the very, very end! Aaargh, it plagues me!!)

Escaflowne: Van x Hitome (they were smiling at the end because she was gonna come back to Gaia very SOON)

Slayers: Xelloss x Filia (except in my world, Filia's not such an airhead), Lina x Zelgadis

Zelda: Link x Midna (sadly I don't think they'll ever work it out...). As far as Zelda, I can't help but think of Zelda as kinda Link's sister, they just never seemed all that romantic. It's like saying Mario is going to hook up with Peach.

Harry Potter: Draco x Hermione (funky, yes)

Dragonball: Vegeta x Bulma (because it's so weird! Wow, I haven't thought about them for years... yeah I still like them!)

Okay, I just recently decided to open the drawing closet which I have kept closed for a long time and has spiderwebs all over it (metaphorically).

http://cyathula.deviantart.com/

Chat info:

AIM: phylia05

Yahoo: uzumio

GoogleTalk and/or Email: cyathula@gmail.com