Konnichiwa!

I suppose a profile is a place where you reveal a bunch of info about yourself that you're not really supposed to give out on the internet right? Alrighty then, here goes.

Name: Amber
Age: 21
Location: In my own little world...as far away from reality as I can get.
Occupation: Student
Status: Back at school, in an apartment, and loving it. Now with a job! At the campus cafe, even.
Physique- blond hair, blue/grey/green eyes (mostly green), 'bout 5'6, kinda skinny-ish. Not sure why you would care...

Favorites!
Books: Harry Potter, Most anything by Tanya Huff (I want to write like her). Her series starting with Smoke and Shadows is my favorite. Stephen King stuff, too.
Movies: Emperor's New Groove, Pirates of the Caribbean, Red vs. Blue (does that count as a movie?), and many things Pixar
Anime: Escaflowne, Evangelion, Elfen Lied, Gravitation, Gakuen Heaven, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, Trigun, Rurouni Kenshin, a few others, and almost anything Miyazaki
Manga: Our Kingdom, Yellow, Saiyuki, +Anima (I have a lot more manga than that, but those are my current faves in progress, except for Yellow which is complete)
Video Games: Devil May Cry, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Okami, Samurai Warriors, Zelda, Ico and/or Shadow of the Colossus

As for the other stuff, I have an overactive imagination, and a relentless muse. I've got far too many fanfictions and original stories to keep up with on my flash drive, and so have trouble deciding which ones to work on. For this reason I've started trying to write a few chapters ahead on fanfics before posting them, so I don't fall too far behind. (Like Lost, where a half-written chapter 4 sat on my comp for two years before I reread the reviews for it and got the motivation to finish it.) College is fun, just know not to expect too much updating as I near exam times. Those couple of weeks are killers.

Anyway, there's far more to say about me, but that would require a lot of thinking and lots of typing of stuff you probably don't want to, or won't ever, read. So I'll save us both the effort and say, if you'd really like to get to know me, then send me a message!

Now then, since I've seen a bunch of people talk about their stories in their profile, I decided I like when people do that, so I shall too.

All Inuyasha Stories: Have now been deleted. As Edna Mode says, "I never look back, dahling! It distracts from the now."

In Progress

Corrupted Legacy: (Harry Potter ~ Draco/Harry)(Sequel of Ferret In My Shoe) The title says a lot. Voldemort is dead, the boys have finished with school, you would think everything is peachy, right? Not just yet. Draco finds a kitten...Harry finds a kid. Harry starts acting weird, and Draco tries to figure out why. And that, my friends, is all I'm going to reveal until we get further into the story. :3

Shadowed Conviction: Hiatus! (Kingdom Hearts ~ Riku/Sora) Since he turned 14, Sora has been seeing strange creatures -shadows- everywhere, and everyone is starting to think he might have gone insane. He starts becoming confused himself about the line between his dreams and reality. He is finally able to show Riku, who tries to help out, but Sora is attacked and taken away by these creatures. Sora finds himself fighting in a battle where he doesn't even know his own significance, and Riku sets off on his own quest to bring the boy back. ~This is my favorite story of mine so far, but I get more motivation for my HP fics, and so have been working on those. (And I'm slightly stuck on this one...)

Completed

Ferret In My Shoe: Complete! (Harry Potter ~ Draco/Harry) Harry finds Malfoy with the other ferrets in a pet shop the summer before their 7th year, and decides to take him home to question him about his reason for being there. Malfoy discovers a lot about Harry as he waits for Harry to come of age and turn him back, and decides he was hating him for all the wrong reasons. As Draco has no desire to join the death eaters, he goes into hiding under the cover of a fox as Harry's familiar when they return to school. Oh yeah, and don't forget Harry's new power! (It's over nine-thousand!) Lots of fluffy goodness in this one. =)

Also, redrose-melody was awesome enough to draw a fanart for this story! If you want to see it, go here: http://redrose-melody.deviantart.com/art/HP-Fic-What-s-up-80445453

Lost Around You: Complete! (D.N.Angel ~ Satoshi/Daisuke) Daisuke is forced to steal the Chaos Gem in his own body, but nobody will tell him why. Of course Krad decides to show, and messes everything up by trying to take the gem back. Krad and Dark are sucked in, and Satoshi and Daisuke are left trying to figure out what happened and how to get them out; while on school vacation no less. Things get complicated when Daisuke sprouts wings and the gem chooses him for reasons unknown. ~ This one was started a couple of years ago, and I can't say I'm all that proud of the first few chapters, but I'm just a bit too lazy to rewrite them into anything better.

There really aren't many, but here are a few of my favorite pairings...

Riku/Sora - They get their own category, because they are my OTP. I switch to loving Draco/Harry a lot, but I always come back to these two.

Harry Potter
Draco/Harry- used to hate it. thought it would never work. Now they're my second favorite, and one of my most read/written pairings
Ron/Hermione- they just belong together, slash story or not

D.N.Angel
Satoshi/Daisuke- my favorite
Dark/Daisuke- my second favorite
Dark/Krad- It works...light and dark, opposites attract...you know

Misc.
Sasuke/Naruto- I don't really watch/read Naruto, but I've read enough to know the characters, and I like this pairing
Yami/Yugi- Again a show I don't watch anymore, but I like this one for some reason

~And for the hell of it, here's some random fanfiction pet-peeves of mine~

-People that don't have a good grasp of the English language...trying to write in the English language. I think it's great that you want to write and all, but if you're going to do that...please at least find a beta that does speak English well. When I read a story, I want to just be able to see the picture in my mind, without rewording the sentences and basically rewriting the story in my head first.

- Cliched plots. I see this especially in the Harry Potter realm. The culprit? Creature fics. The fandom is saturated with them. And what always baffles me is...they usually have the most reviews. I've read some pretty bad creature fics...that have 100+ reviews when there's a really good -original- story around it with only a few. It's quite sad really. Those that are like me and try to keep away from overused story lines don't always get the attention they should for some really well-written stuff.

-(A/N) This...is probably the most annoying to me. When authors put that into the middle of the writing. And it's usually to add in something that should be able to be explained in the story itself, but apparently could not be worked into the plot, or the words. To me these interrupting author's notes just scream 'amateur.' I used to add those in...they were abundant in my Inuyasha stories. I was also 14-15 when I wrote those. Basically the story loses all seriousness when I run across one of those notes. I feel more detached from the characters and the story when I am abruptly halted in my reading and reminded that the images in my mind are really just words on a screen. I like to get lost in the world of a good story thank you...

-reviews consisting of five words or less. Namely something like, "update soon", (yeah I try) or, "great story". Yeah...thanks and all, but, leave a little something worth looking forward to, yeah? One of my favorite things in the world is opening my inbox and seeing a review alert. Then I get two words, and am left with something to be desired in that...come on, tell me what you thought! What did you like about it? What didn't you like? And most of all, what could I do to improve something? I adore constructive criticism!

-Sasu/Naru/Sasu (whichever) fics with girl Naruto. (Or perhaps just girl Naruto in general.) Really, if you can't even keep the character in their original gender, why write a romance about it? That's not who he is, and thus it becomes a fic about a different pairing. I just don't get it. -.-