Name: Cestari

Age: 21

Location: Japan.

Me: I'm one of those people who's very quiet until you get to know them, but then refuse to shut up once they've gotten comfortable. I've been told I'm very cheerful. I'm a hopeless romantic, and have a weakness for nostalgia and people with dark, mysterious pasts. I usually end up as the group peacemaker. But I'm friendly:)

Hobbies/Interests: Student at University of Hong Kong. College has eaten my brain. Other than that, I am an avid reader, writer, jazz-and-modern dancer (since about '02), figure-skater (since about '00, but now on possibly permanent hiatus), and artist. I am fascinated by ancient warfare, listen to music almost obsessively, like archaeology, and am studying Japanese. I love my sleeping-bag. I like the words 'guacamole' and 'muttonchops'. I want to build a catapult.

Music: My Chemical Romance, Vienna Teng, Adam Lambert, Evanescence, Metallica, The Killers, Green Day, Nickleback, Flyleaf, Owl City, Linkin Park, The Cranberries, Blackmore's Night, Guns 'N' Roses, and Edvin Martin, plus random movie soundtracks, pop stars, and new age and adult contemporary artists.

My Writing: I wrote a bunch of Lord of the Rings fanfics when I was 13. Since then, I've been on hiatus, until a Naruto yaoi fanfic exchange in Summer 2009 jump-started my writing again. So the creative juices are flowing! Hooray! However, I do my new writing under another name. Also, my biggest fic - The Fellowship As Professors - was taken down by ffnet some years ago without my permission, because it was in script format. D8 Some day I plan to edit and repost the entire thing on my livejournal.

Favorite Non-Fiction: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, And Scorpion Bombs; They Went Whistling; America (The Book); anything by Bill Bryson.

Favorite Fiction: Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Thief, Bartimaeus Trilogy, What Happened To Lani Garver, Merlin Trilogy, The King Must Die, Fire From Heaven, Shiva's Fire, Gail Carson Levine, Meg Cabot, millions more.

Manga: Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, Saiyuki, Hana-Kimi, Mars, Fruits Basket, Rurouni Kenshin (Seihousen NEVER HAPPENED. I defy it. DEFY IT!!), Dramacon, Death Note, Vampire Knight, Gundam Wing, Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto (Oh, how far I've fallen!), D. Gray-Man (sorta)

Quotes: "Ride! Ride to ruin and the world's ending!" - King Theoden

"A day may come when the courage of men fails! When we forsake our bonds, and break all bonds of fellowship! But it is not this day. An hour of wolves! And shattered shields before the Age of Men comes crashing down - but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear, on this good earth - I bid you STAND! MEN OF THE WEST!!" - Aragorn

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have, Ron." - Hermione

"The dolphin is DEAD. It died in a car accident." - Dominic Monoghan as Hans Jensen

"Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx

"Let your anger be as a monkey in a pinata." - Master Tang

"Talk all you like, this buffalo's not listening." - Bartimaeus

"I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick." - Bill Bryson

"Stephen, your sloth, it is eating my hat!" "So he is, too. But do not perturb your self so, Jack, it shall do him no harm at all." - Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin

"My kids tell me I'm not warm-hearted enough, so they bought me a book on compassion. So far I've smashed six flies with it." - My dance teacher

"Dream like you'll live forever. Live like you'll die tomorrow." - James Dean

"Never underestimate stupid people in large groups." - Anonymous

"I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but those are some good-looking eggs." - Anonymous