Hello, I'm Ren. Welcome and all that.

Check out the stories in my favorites lists and C2 archives. There's gobs. Mostly all Harry Potter with a couple other randoms thrown in for when a break is needed from the monstrosity that the HP-fandom has become. A growing collection of Naruto stories are there now too...

I don't like to post stories and not finish them. That said, I do have a life outside of fan-fiction, and my fics here are not on the top of my priority list. Unfortunately, sometimes they aren't even on the list. My apologies for those of you who like steady, swift updates to stories, but I post most of these as I am writing them, so if things are keeping me busy elsewhere, postings here get pretty slow.

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Working On:

Namikaze Brothers - chapter 7. Will possibly be titled Hyakunan, or maybe Seihen. You can look those words up on your own if you're that interested. Hah.

Founders Heir - chapter... whatever number its on now. It's coming. Slowly. I continually want to ignore its existence at the moment.

Will of Fire (as yet unposted Naruto story) - titled such because I haven't had any better ideas yet. A Next-Gen fic. Might get its first chapter posted soon.

Riddle Me This (rewrite) - reworking this storyline (it's got a few installments posted in my HP Miscellany and was well received. Of course this rewrite isn't much like what I posted there... over 25,000 words and rising. Might get posted once I start separating it into chapters.

And other miscellaneous stuff that is cluttering up my time, imagination and computer space...

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Trivia, you probably didn't want to know:

Fave Naruto Characters (in no particular order): Jiraiya, Naruto, Ibiki & Anko, Itachi & the Sand Sibs (esp. Gaara). Occasionally also Kakashi if I can manage to make myself believe that he's not the retarded teacher with a bad case of favoritism that the manga leaves his portrayal as (mostly pre time-skip). Tsunade and Zabuza are pretty darn cool, too.

I like the Harry Potter series, however while I've read the first three books numerous times, I've only read books 5, 6 and 7 once each, so canon information within those books tend to not show up as much in my fanfictions. Prisoner of Azkaban was my favorite, by far.

My first fan-fiction piece was a behemoth of a Harry Potter time-travel story that never actually got fully written, but did get fully outlined. Frankly, after the way-too-many-pages outline, I no longer had the patience to write it (this is why I don't typically outline). And I had other ideas to play with.

Random Rant: Flames are annoying. Not only that, they are insulting and make the one giving them look like nothing more than an uninformed idiot with a grudge to take out on whoever they darn well feel like. While I fully appreciate constructive criticism, no one takes kindly to insults. While I do not post my stories here purely for the sake of reviews, getting feedback on my writing is definitely one reason that I post this stuff online and getting a host of blind, foolhardy insults will do little more than either depress me or piss me off, and neither make for a happy or productive writer and both together is down right debilitating to creative-ness. In other words, too many stupid comments about things that pertain to nothing more than a reviewer's short-sighted opinions will likely only result in me not posting anything for a good while. Though some flamers might be looking for that result, in which case I might just be obstinate and post stuff against their flames anyways...

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Resources I use...

...for Naruto canon information (so I don't have to scrounge through the manga for hours looking for where I thought I read something) in case anyone is interested. I rarely actually compare them, but they tend to include slightly different sorts (not to be confused with contradictory) of information from each other, and I typically flop between them depending on my mood or what I'm looking for. Narutopedia, Leafninja.com and naruto info

Here is a link to an English/Japanese online dictionary I tend to use: Online English to Japanese. It's just a basic tool, and I would recommend always cross-checking words. If you're wondering how to use those words, well, you might be on your own there.

For more information on the Japanese use of honorifics check out Wikipedia's article: Japanese Honorifics.

And while I'm on the topic, on the rare occasions that I bother to look up canon Harry Potter information, it's wholly through muggle.net's encyclopedia.

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Some of my (old) original fiction can be found at FictionPress.com. I rarely post anything there, but this links to my profile: Renatus at FictionPress

Horcrexhexer has a series of shorts based off The Founders' Heir, about Harry's time with the Founders: The Dumbledore Sisters

Hikaru H.K. is translating The Founders' Heir into Spanish. Link: The Founders' Heir (spanish), though has so far only posted one chapter.

Woot. Here's a pic of Kinatsu from Namikaze Brothers, as he looks by about chapter 2: Kinatsu Drawing And yes, I drew it. I'm actually more of an artist than a writer most days, so that links back over to my DeviantART gallery.