I am a teenage guy from Wisconsin, but I recently moved to a town in western New York State. Before you ask, no, I have never been to NYC, and in fact I live closer to Cleveland, where I have family, than to NYC.

I'm in high school in an incredibly pretentious district, which revels both assigning us enough work to either crush our lungs or cripple our spine and bragging about how this makes it one of the top-fifty high schools in the country. This means that I have hardly any time to write my fics.

On the plus side, though, my school offers a superb set of engineering and technology courses, which will be helpful to my pursuit of a career as an aerospace engineer. To common folk, that can be referred to as a rocket scientist. Some kids dream about being the first person on Mars or living on the moon or simply going into space. While I don't deny I'd also take pleasure in the first and third of those, any desire to fulfill such a dream of mine is overshadowed by my ambition to design the vehicles that are used in space travel. My goal in life is to help create the spacecraft that will ferry the first people to Mars, Europa, or Titan. I want to contribute to humanity's endless journey throughout the universe by leaving my mark on the technology used in the journey in a manner similar but not identical to how Tsar Peter the Great of Russia contributed to his empire's emergence as a naval power by personally building his navy's ships and instructing his navy's sailors.I plan to spend the rest of high school learning about advanced physics, engineering, and even chemistry in order to give myself a basic understanding of the details of the career I am pursuing. I then plan to apply for a school renouned for its engineering program; Purdue University is number one on my list for a number of reasons. Other schools I plan on applying for are the University of Michigan, Cornell University, California Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, and perhaps even the Massachusetts Institute of Technology just to see how large and how red of a font they use to say "NO!" After I get into college, hopefully Purdue, I will attend college until I receive a Master's Degree in aerospace engineering, however long that takes. After I earn a Master's, I will try to earn a job at NASA, or at least a government contractor, so that I can participate in the designing of the vehicles that traverse the greatest and widest sea, space.

I have a wide variety of interests. Deal with it. They're listed in an random order below.

My real-life friend Kefka VI (formerly Kefka 666) introduced me to this site after I came home from summer camp one year. I also really like to read SciFi novels, like Star Wars EU, the Space Odyssey quadrilogy, and the Ender series.

I've been a Star Wars fan for as long as I can remember, i.e., before the "Special Editions" came out. I am too much of a Star Wars nerd for my own good. I have an entire part of my room dedicated solely and entirely to Star Wars crap, even though only a quarter of it really qualifies as crap.

And...

Laugh at me if you want, but I am very into Pokémon, and have been since I got Yellow on the Easter after it came out. Though I only like it for nostalgia now, as its current quality is...lacking. Seriously. At least the anime, which jumped the shark a very long time ago.

Plus...

Running series I particularly like

Heroes

Star Wars EU

Ender

Fullmetal Alchemist

Gundam 00

Final Fantasy

Pokémon games

NOT the Pokémon anime.

I write Pokémon fanfiction is for two reasons:

1: Because I think the games are excellent. As anyone who's read Master Chronicles has noticed, I make my story more game-based than the anime actually is, because I like the games a heck of a lot more than I like the anime. Writing in the anime universe is really just a crutch I use so that I don't have to make my own setting from scratch for an OC-filled, game-based fic. Some people, like Emperor Kra Frostwing, are good at making their own settings. I'm not.

2: Nostalgia for both when the anime was good, and when I was young enough to enjoy it. I'm just not the kind of guy who lets go easily, so I'm very nostalgic. I've never seen a single, entire episode after Season 5, when it started to be a pile of bantha droppings (I've used that analogy to describe its current status several times), because I just...loathed it. I have seen clips on the internet, (such as this one scene with Hikari and Shinji), and I wanted to claw my eyes out. I wish the anime would just die already. Then maybe more people will respect the games, like I do.

One thing that bugs me is when people neglect the accent mark over the e in Pokémon. Some people don't care. I do.

Basically, I like a lot of things. Some might say I have too many interests. But I still don't have a life.

Lists

My favorite Pokémon are, in order:

1.) Tyranitar

2.) Jolteon

3.) Alakazam

4.) Muk

5.) Zapdos

6.) all of Tyranitar's evolutionary stages

7.) Steelix (and not just because I have a Shiny one in Diamond)

8.) Typhlosion

9.) Metagross

10.) Flygon

11.) Snorlax

12.) Electrode

13.) Sneasel

14.) Dragonair

15.) Tyranitar

Some of my all-time favorite books, in no particular order:

- 2010: Odyssey Two, by Arthur C. Clarke

- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

- War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Regarding the movies, the 1940s version is pretty good, and the 2000s version was abysmal)

- Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card

- Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card

- 2061: Odyssey Three, by Arthur C. Clarke

- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, although I haven't read it in over ten years...

- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

I also enjoy the following series:

- Lord of the Rings

- Rama

- Space Odyssey

- Anything by H. G. Wells, delightful pessimist that he is.

- The writings of Thomas Hobbes for the same reason.

- Shannara saga

- Ender saga

- Artemis Fowl

- Harry Potter

- The Edge Chronicles, which I guarantee you've never heard of

- Star Wars EU

- Inheritence

- History textbooks (sadly, I'm only half-joking)

- I used to like to "read" atlases, but eventually I came to the point where I didn't need to refer to them anymore. I had memorized the entire atlas of the world.

Weirdest novel I've ever read:

I feel compelled to award this distinction to a book that is so unorthodox, so unique, so obfuscating, so bizarre, that I cannot rank it in the same system I use to judge whether I like a book or not, nor am I able to determine its quality in the same scale as I use to measure other books' quality:

- Shadowmancer by G. P. Taylor

Some video games I like:

- Pokémon (especially GSC)

- Bomberman series

- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

- Phantasy Star II

- Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest

- Ducktales (NES)

- The Legend of Zelda (NES)

- Super Mario Bros. 3 (and the rest of the series)

- Final Fantasy IV (and I - IX)
I consider Final Fantasy IV to be the best Final Fantasy. This is a case where IV > VI > VII.

- Tactics subseries within Final Fantasy

- Advance Wars series

- Metroid series

I dislike most first-person shooters, particularly Gears of War. Two exceptions are Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 007, both on the N64.

Some my favorite movies.

- 2001: A Space Odyssey

- Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Plus the rest of the series

- LotR: Return of the King
Plus the rest of the series

- The Dark Knight

- Castle in the Sky

Honorable Mention: Spaceballs. It's just so ridiculous.

Some of my favorite anime:

- Evangelion

- Gundam

- Code Geass

- Outlaw Star

- .hack//SIGN

My all-time favorite manga:

1.) Fullmetal Alchemist

2.) Everything else is crap compared to FMA. The emphasis being on the words "compared to".

Manga that I like but cannot be compared to FMA:

- Code Geass

- Death Note

- One Piece

- Bleach

- Chrono Crusade

- .hack//G.U.+

Shipping Notes

Here's something that I think is a big issue on this site:

Keep characters in relationships consistent with their canon sexual orientation, PLEASE! That means if someone wants to write about Haseo and Endrance, fine. It's possible to ship them up in the games, making them both bisexual (Haseo is confirmed to like Shino and Endrance had a girlfriend). I obviously won't read it, because that just doesn't interest me, but I don't have a problem with someone writing it. But if some hormonal fangirl wants to write about Heero and Duo making love to each other, go see a professional therapist. Please, you'll be doing humanity a favor. Heero and Duo never give any inclination of being gay, and in fact are shown to be straight.

/Rest of section under reconstruction/

Quotes I like:

"Highly advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke.

"Nevermore." -The raven.

"The Inheritence series is what happened when Star Wars made love with The Lord of the Rings." -Kefka VI.

"You spoony bard!" -Sage Telah, addressing Edward the Bard in Final Fantasy IV.

My current projects are my AP Euro seminars. When this school year ends, I may go back to writing Master Chronicles, but I'm probably going to cut Heirs to the Forest short. Not cancel, oh no. Just end swiftly. Master Chronicles may suffer the same fate, though that I cannot say for certain on the matter at the present time. I also have a Gundam Wing story planned for when I finish Master Chronicles, though I might choose to write something else. I write chapters on a rotating basis. This means that for a few weeks I'll work on a chapter of MC, and after I finish and upload that, I'll work on the next chapter of HttF. Then it's back to MC, and so on. I promise I will finish every story I ever start, but writing takes time, and I mostly only write when I have inspiration. I'm not an eccentric writer who lives to update; I'm a nerd with many interests who does other stuff besides writing fanfiction. So I don't update very often.

Additionally, as a high school student, I have severely limited free time. By which I mean I have to write a five-page minimum essay every week. For AP Euro alone. Add that to all my other subjects, and my free time each week amounts to... -32 hours and -17 minutes. So don't expect updates from me for a while.

Last note: I'm going to warn you: stay as far away as you can from my drabbles/oneshots. They're stuff I just shat out when I was bored. I don't even like them. Please don't read them unless you really, really want to.