About Me: My name is Promised Sword, though I'm also known as ~The Black Dove~. I'm a eighteen-year-old romantic who loves to ship, will never fall out of love with Babylon 5, and reads and writes more than is healthy. I love all the arts, but have found my talent in writing. I'll do both poetry and prose, but lately I've been writing more of the latter. I'm a film geek, have a home library bigger than the local public one, and music fuels my muse more than anything else.

I love fanfiction and fanart, though nowadays I read more than I write. My lovely sister, LeaveMeLonely, however, is going strong with amazing Deidara genfic, with dashes of Team Seven and other arrays of characters every so often. My top three favorite things in the universe would have to be Babylon 5, my friends (hearts to all you guys~!) and well-written fanfiction.

Currently, I'm totally IN LOVE with the Bleach series. Momo and Aizen now completely own my soul. I have also (rather annoyingly to my friends) openly embraced the Eleventh Division. Zaraki-taichou is awesome!! >D I haven't written much lately, but I plan to do some more fic sooner or later.

Favorite Bands: The Cruxshadows, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Evanescence, Kajiura Yuki, My Chemical Romance, Grey Delisle, and various other Jpop/Jrock.

Favorite Songs: Winterborn (This Sacrifice) by The Cruxshadows, Number One Crush by Garbage, The Queen and the Soldier by Suzanne Vega, and The Maple Tree by Grey Delisle.

Favorite Anime/Manga: Soul Eater, Blood Plus, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gurren Lagann, Lucky Star, Baccano!, Code Geass, Death Note, Naruto, Princess Tutu, .hack/SIGN, Haibane Renmei, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Azumanga Daioh, Chobits, Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach, NANA, Kuroshitsuji, Night School, Ayashi no Ceres, Angel Sanctuary, Please Save My Earth, Fruits Basket, DramaCon, Hot Gimmick.

Favorite Movies/T.V. Shows: The Last Samurai, the LOTR trilogy, Millennium Actress, Voices of a Distant Star, What Dreams May Come, Serenity, Pan's Labyrinth, Sweeney Todd, and Advent Children; Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Avatar: the Last Airbender, and Invader Zim.

Favorite Books: Tigana, LOTR, The Dresden Files, Discworld, Snow Crash, Neuromancer, A Fire Upon the Deep, The Morgaine Trilogy, Interview with the Vampire, The Newford series, Valiant, the Abhorsen Trilogy, Sword at Sunset, and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

Favorite Animated/Anime Characters: Hinamori Momo, Aizen Sousuke, Inoue Orihime, Zaraki Kenpachi, Madarame Ikkaku, Nel Tu, Soi Fong, Shihouin Yoruichi, Urahara Kisuke, Tousen Kaname, Kyouraku Shunsui, Kurotsuchi Nemu, and Arisawa Tatsuki from Bleach; Hyuuga Hinata, Akasuna no Sasori, Deidara, Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, Akimichi Chouji, Haku, Uchiha Itachi, Mitarashi Anko, Tenten, and Gekkou Hayate, from Naruto; Zuko, Sokka, Yue, Azula, Mai, Jet, Teo, Song, and Jin from Avatar the Last Airbender; L, Yagami Raito, Touta Matsuda, and Amane Misa from Death Note; and Franken Stein, Crona, Marie Mjolner, Death the Kid, Maka Albarn, and Yojimbo Mifune from Soul Eater.

Favorite Live-Action/Book Characters: Marcus Cole, Delenn, Susan Ivanova and Lennier from Babylon 5; Kaylee Frye, River Tam, and Zoe Alleyne Washbourne from Firefly/Serenity; Cameron Phillips, John Conner, and Sarah Conner from The Sarah Conner Chronicles; Buffy Summers, Spike, Tara Maclay, Drusilla, Willow Rosenberg, Andrew Wells, Jonathan Levinson, Oz Osbourne, and Kennedy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer; and Michael Carpenter, Karrin Murphy, Thomas Raith, Molly Carpenter, Charity Carpenter, Justine, Carlos Ramirez, "Ivy" The Archive, Anastasia Luccio, Kincaid, Lash, Mister, and Mouse from The Dresden Files.

Favorite Animated/Anime Pairings: OTP: Aizen/Momo from Bleach. Others: Ichigo/Orihime, Renji/Rukia, Ulquiorra/Orihime, Yoruichi/Soi Fong, and Shunsui/Nanao from Bleach; Sasuke/Sakura, Naruto/Hinata, Sasori/Deidara, Zabuza/Haku, Orochimaru/Anko, Temari/Shikamaru, Shikamaru/Chouji, Pein/Konan, Neji/Tenten, Neji/Ino, Kimimaro/Tayuya, one-sided Orochimaru/Kimimaro, and Hayate/Yuugao from Naruto; Aang/Katara, Zuko/Yue, Zuko/Mai, Teo/Toph Zuko/Jin, Zuko/Song, from Avatar; Raito/L, one-sided Raito/Misa, and Mello/Matt from Death Note; Maka/Crona, and Stein/Marie from Soul Eater.

Favorite Live-Action/Book Pairings: OTP: Marcus/Susan from Babylon 5. Other: John/Delenn, and Byron/Lyta from Babylon 5; Simon/Kaylee, and Wash/Zoe from Firefly; John/Cameron from The Sarah Conner Cronicles; and Spike/Buffy, Willow/Tara, Spike/Drusilla, Kennedy/Willow, Oz/Willow, and Xander/Anya from Buffy.

Favorite Quotes:
From Know Me, by Northlight:
'Know me, her words cry. See inside my mind, my heart, my life. I'm love and laughter and more than I can ever show them when not behind the words, fantasy and reality bleeding together. Safe.'

From Famous Last Words, by My Chemical Romance:
'I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone'

From Winterborn (This Sacrifice) by The Cruxshadows:
And in this moment...I will not run
It is my place to stand
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands