Pen Name: Merklin

Real Name: What does it matter?

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Words of Wisdom: You need to mix maturity with immaturity. All work and no play will either A: Just make you very angry, B: Make you a dull person, or C: Lead your life down the path that ends with you being the bent old curmudgeon/curmudgeoness(real word?) who chases/hobbles after neighborhood kids swinging your can/waving your walk and screeching 'GET OFF MY LAWN!"

Ok, let's see, about me...

I don't promise regular updates on my stories. Often months go by before I have time to work on them. What with college, work, family obligations/family fun, and writing my original material. And then there's writer's block, which as of 11/11/09 I don't have(I have ideas for the stories and directions for them), but right now I'm working on an original story, and funneling my creativity towards that.

Also, I love to laugh, firmly believe that both the Jedi and the Sith have it wrong and that things would be best if they worked together because the Sith are homicidal maniacs/sociopaths/megalomaniacs, and the Jedi are, when you break down their 'no feelings, no attachments, no family, no emotion' policy little more than a more intelligent, less-undead form of zombie.

Oh, and Slash is a guilty pleasure of mine that I indulge in far too frequently.

Favorite Author: Either J.K. Rowling or Robin Jarvis or Christopher Paolini, or Mercedes Lackey

Favorite Manga: Magic Knights Rayearth, Alice 19th, Shaman King, Yu-Gi-Oh: Millenium World, YuYu Hakusho, Naruto, Death Note, Full-Metal Alchemist

Favorite Comics(American): Young Avengers, Kingdom Come, Civil War, Infinite Crisis, Superman: Red Son, Locke & Key

Favorite TV Shows: Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Stargate-SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Charmed, George Lopez, Grounded for Life, Family Guy, Star Trek Voyager, DS9, and Original Series (Haven't seen much of Next Generation, but I want to.)

Favorite Books: Stardust, The Fallen Quartet (The Fallen, Leviathan, Aerie, Reckoning), Pretty much anything by Mercedes Lackey, Dark Lord of Derkholm, The Pendragon Series, The Warrior Heir, The Wizard Heir, The Redwall Series, The Wyird Museum Trilogy, The Deptford Mice Trilogy, Breathing Underwater, The Black Tattoo, The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games, The Obsidion Trilogy, Saint

Favorite Movies: Stardust, The Reaping, The Ernest Movies, Air Force One, Transformers, FFVII: Advent Children, The Covenant, Ghostrider, Stargate, Cursed, The Wraith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Dr. Strange, Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away

Favorite Games: Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts 2, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Golden Sun, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Age of Mythology: Gold Edition, Black & White, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Again, there are more, but these are the main ones.

Favorite Songs: Photograph, Cosmic Castaway, Bring Me to Life, Break Away, Untitled/How Could This Happen to Me, Moonlight Shadow, Unfaithful, Don't Take the Girl, Dare, At the Beginning, Slipped Away, Hero, Breathe into Me, Iris, Our Solemn Hour, Hero by Skillet, Lost in Life, Perfect Day

Fanlistings

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Loz

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