FanFiction.Net - unleash your imagination| Okami No Yume |
Author has written 37 stories for Wolf's Rain, Sandman, Invader Zim, Final Fantasy VIII, Fullmetal Alchemist, Final Fantasy IX, Princess Mononoke, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy VII, Howl's Moving Castle, Xena: Warrior Princess, Avatar: Last Airbender, Ergo Proxy, and House, M.D.. Greetings, and welcome to my ridiculously long profile. I am the writer formerly known as Bells of Requiem. No, your eyes have not deceived you. I've changed my pen name. It translates to "Wolf of Dreams," if you're curious. I'm 23, live in the Bible belt state of Oklahoma, and I am working towards leaving this hillbilly hell. My greatest ambition in life is to become a horse trainer, and to dedicate my life to animals and animal rescue. My hobbies include reading, writing, and video games. I've written for several fandoms, and my tastes tend to be rather eclectic. I'm fairly selective in what I watch, read, or listen to, and have an unhealthy addiction to energy drinks. I have a great love for writing, though I'm not sure if I want to make it a career or simply a hobby. My literary idol is Neil Gaiman, and I want to be him when I grow up. I consider American Gods one of the greatest books ever, and think everybody should read it. That's me in a nutshell. I'm a terribly lazy writer that updates sporadically at best. To those that leave me kind reviews, I humbly thank you. They're always deeply appreciated. To those that give me constructive criticism, I extend my thanks to you as well. Know that I take concrit to heart, and it pushes me to do better as a writer. Your advice is truly valuable to me. http://okami-no-yume.livejournal.com/profile There's the link to my LJ. It's f-locked. If you'd like to know even more about me beyond the information I provide here in my profile, and if you have an account, then feel free to friend me. If your LJ doesn't send me fleeing in terror, then I will likely friend you back. And now for a rant: Here on Fanfiction (dot) net, I've noticed an interesting trend that was fairly recently pointed out by one of my compatriots, Negative Creep. (BTW, read her. Her writing kicks major ass. Seriously, go check out her stuff. She's awesome. She's one of the best writers on here.) I've noticed that the few pieces on here that are truly well-written, original, and well-thought out, hardly get any reviews. Hell, they're lucky to get five or six before they disappear into the abyss. While so-called "epics" whose spelling make my eyes bleed, clearly written by obnoxious teeny-boppers (who often write Mary Sues, no less) with only the most rudimentary grasp of reading, writing, and grammar skills, get twenty pages of squeeing praise to the tune of "OMGZ, U MUST UPDATE!! THIS IS TEH AWESUM! I WAS SO SKARED FOR :insert your pairing of choice here: Don't believe me? Check out my favorites list. I've found some AMAZING work by people who put genuine effort and thought into what they're creating, and they get little in return for it. It's depressing. But you know, trashy romances that are pure tripe sell like the proverbial hotcakes, (Twilight anyone?) while novels that are true classics (Neil Gaiman's American Gods comes to mind) don't get nearly the level of recognition they deserve. Though, I suppose there's no accounting for taste. And well...FF.Net is called "The Pit of Voles" for a reason... Second rant: It drives me nucking futs that they got rid of page breaks on here. This means that I'm going to have to go back and re-format/ fix some of my old stuff. Damn it. Oh, well...:sighs: And now, for a list of some of my favorite things: Favorite Book Authors: Alice Borchardt, David-Clement Davies, Neil Gaiman, E.E. Knight, Phillip Pullman, Tanith Lee, Catherynne M. Valente, Christopher Moore, Meredith Anne Pierce, Peter S. Beagle, Dave Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss Favorite Books: American Gods, Anansi Boys, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, The Silver Wolf, His Dark Materials, In the Night Garden: The Orphan's Tales, The Sight, Fell, Firebringer, The Tao of Equus, Fragile Things, A Dirty Job, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Running with Scissors, The Firebringer Trilogy, Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics...and so on. Favorite TV shows/cartoons: House M.D., Dexter, Weeds, Californication, True Blood, Scrubs, Avatar: The Last Airbender, United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie (older) shows: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Xena: Warrior Princess, Dead Like Me, Invader ZIM Favorite Animes: Inuyasha, Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing, Hellsing: Ultimate, Fullmetal Alchemist, Chrono Crusade, Bleach, Death Note, Naruto, Rahxephon, Last Exile, Ergo Proxy, .hack, Code Geass, Noein, Tactics, Trinity Blood, Blood Plus , Ruruoni Kenshin, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Betterman, Samurai 7, Speed Grapher, Boogiepop Phantom, Basilisk, Gunslinger Girl, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Shaman King, Soultaker, Hell Girl Favorite Movies: Pan's Labyrinth, Sin City,The Crow, Kill Bill 1& 2, The Nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, 300, The Golden Compass, The Last Unicorn, The Animatrix, Underworld, Underworld: Evolution, Sweeney Todd, Constantine, Sleepy Hollow, LadyHawke, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Watchmen Favorite RPGs/Games: Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, X, & XII, Xenosaga series , Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill series, Okami, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Remnant, Star Ocean: The Last Hope Favorite Bands/Music: Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, Nine Inch Nails, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, The Gathering, Within Temptation, Nirvana, AFI, All that Remains, Crisis, Otep, Arch Enemy, Godsmack, As I Lay Dying, Bullet For My Valentine, TOOL/APC, Ashes Divide, In This Moment, The Vincent Black Shadow, Sonata Arctica, Nobuo Uematsu Some favorite quotes: "We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen, and we respect with every fiber that which cannot be explained." ~Rukia, Bleach "There's no such thing as a saint without a past, or a sinner without a future."- Baghavad Gita "It only takes a single voice to start a revolution."-Thorin "Because we do not know when we will die, we think of life as an inexhaustible well." - Brandon Lee "Do no pray for an easy life. Instead, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." ~Bruce Lee "Life is just a dream on the way to death." - The Crow: City of Angels "Take comedians seriously and politicians as a joke" - Author Unknown "There's nothing unnatural about dying or being killed. It's better than living with no purpose."- Kiba, Wolf's Rain "Adversity is like a flame; it melts the weak, but it tempers the strong." ~ Thorin "It is only when you refuse to give in with all your heart that you begin to transcend your humanity." - Alucard, Hellsing "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments, goverments should be afraid of their people."~ V for Vendetta "Hope sees the invisible. It achieves the impossible...if you look up, there are no limits."-Lacuna Coil "I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it." -Neil Gaiman, American Gods Current status of my stories: Run Wolf Warrior, Run: My badly neglected Wolf's Rain fic that I've been working on since '06. It's original incarnation was rather badly done, so I deleted it and started from scratch. I will eventually finish this fic...it just might take awhile. Fornerly known as Prelude to Destiny. I like this title much better, less clunky sounding. :p Seafoam and Woodsmoke: A 100-Zutara drabble and one-shot challenge series that I started. Why? Because I'm insane, and I broke my own rule of not writing more than one multi-chapter story at a time. (See neglected WR fic above.) What can I say? I have much love for the Zutara pairing. And I just...wanted to see if I could do it. It all started one day when the idea popped into my sleep-deprived brain last October. That's all for now. 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1. Zero Gravity reviewsAn introspective look at Kiba's thoughts as he lays in the snow. Takes place just before the series begins. Drabbly. One-shot for now, although I may continue and expand this into a drabble series to include the other characters. Please R&R.Wolf's Rain - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 814 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-3-09 - Kiba - Complete2. Seafoam and Woodsmoke » reviewsThis is a challenge to all you Zutara shippers out there. 100 Zutara one-shots and drabbles. All requests welcome, bring it on! You name it, I'll write it! Humor, angst, friendship, fluff whatever!Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 35 - Words: 16,347 - Reviews: 90 - Updated: 6-30-09 - Published: 10-8-08 - Zuko & Katara3. Laments and Musings » reviewsTwelve 100 word character drabbles of the Wolf's Rain cast. Old work. Edited and slightly revised.Wolf's Rain - Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,481 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-16-09 - Published: 7-18-05 - Complete4. Hope's Blessing reviewsZuko and Katara name their newborn daughter. Written on request for a friend. Family fluff.Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,677 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 4-7-09 - Zuko & Katara - Complete5. Seven Days to the Wolves reviewsDarcia and Harmona. Their love, their tragedy. When will the wolves come? One-shot. Songfic. Set to Nightwish’s “Seven Days to the Wolves.”Wolf's Rain - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,615 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-14-08 - Darcia & Harmona - Complete6. Memento Mori reviewsRemember that you will die. Thirteen-centric. Drabbly.House, M.D. - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 877 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 12-7-08 - Thirteen - Complete7. Lucrecia, My Reflection reviewsVincent laments his lost love, and that he could not save her. Vincent/LucreciaFinal Fantasy VII - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 691 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 11-5-08 - Vincent V. & Lucrecia C. - Complete8. Lilies For Her Grave reviewsLilies. Edward remembered she always loved lilies. Inspired by the episode “Mother.” Drabbly.Fullmetal Alchemist - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 454 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-4-08 - Edward E. & Alphonse E. - Complete9. Proposal reviewsZuko proposes to Katara. Will she accept? Inspired by yukimiya87’s beautiful piece of artwork “Decision.” Drabbly.Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 259 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-24-08 - Zuko & Katara - Complete10. When We Start Killing reviewsQuent is bound and determined to hunt every wolf, down to the last pelt. His thoughts throughout his journey. Songfic. Inspired by Within Temptation’s “The Howling.”Wolf's Rain - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,572 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-18-08 - Quent Y. & Blue - Complete11. Hawks and Wolves » reviewsIt is a well-known fact that hawks mate for life. As do wolves. Twin Zutara ficlets.Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 763 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 8-14-08 - Zuko & Katara - Complete12. What Have You Done? reviewsTakes place around “Crossroads of Destiny.” Zuko and Katara’s thoughts of each other. Songfic to Within Temptation’s “What Have You Done?” Rated T for slight swearing. One-shot. Formatting issues now FIXED.Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,086 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 8-7-08 - Zuko & Katara - Complete13. Almost reviewsThey may hate everything else, but they don’t hate each other. In fact, they sort of almost like each other. Maiko. Pointless bit of fluff. Drabble.Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 8-6-08 - Zuko & Mai - Complete14. Run Wolf Warrior, Run » reviewsThe story of Kiba's early life, up until the beginning of the series. Follow the tale of his birth, the deaths of his family, his time amongst humans, and the realization of his true destiny. Edited, revised, and now updated.Wolf's Rain - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 3 - Words: 3,697 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-4-08 - Published: 3-27-0615. Aware reviewsPino did not know she slept, until she awoke, and knew what awareness was.Ergo Proxy - Rated: T - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,342 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 8-2-08 - Complete16. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi reviewsSo has passed away the glory of the world. Re-l's thoughts. Drabbly.Ergo Proxy - Rated: T - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 525 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-31-08 - Complete17. Little Soldier Boy reviewsHe soothed the tears of a child. He steered a young man away from a life of crime. However, he could not save his only son. One-shot, Iroh-centric.Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: K - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,427 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-27-08 - Iroh - Complete18. Approval reviewsApproval: The one thing that Zuko always craved, but never received from his father. But he has always been the apple of his Uncle's eye. A father and son bonding moment between Zuko and Iroh. One-shot, first attempt at Avatar fic.Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,637 - Reviews: 16 - Published: 1-18-08 - Zuko & Iroh - Complete19. The Memoirs of Gabrielle: Bardic Princess reviewsA humorous series of diary entries, told from the point of view of the little blond bard herself. First attempt at the Xena fandom.Xena: Warrior Princess - Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 661 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-15-08 - Gabrielle & Xena20. Polar Opposites » reviewsHe’s flamboyant and eccentric. She’s sensible and practical. They are complete opposites, and yet they mirror each other perfectly. Twin Sophie/Howl oneshots. Fluff. Please R&R.Howl's Moving Castle - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,221 - Reviews: 21 - Published: 5-17-07 - Complete21. Wilted Rose reviewsVincent's rather pessimistic thoughts on Valentine's Day. Brief oneshot, no pairings. Cynical and a little instrospective. Angsty. Please kindly review.Final Fantasy VII - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 634 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 2-16-07 - Vincent V. - Complete22. Love to Let You Down reviewsCloud's thoughts on Tifa. Songfic. Please read and review. Second FF fanfic. Strong CloTi, very slight Cleris. First fic I've posted in awhile, second FFVII fic. Please R&R. Takes place after AC.Final Fantasy VII - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,576 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-11-07 - Cloud S. & Tifa L. - Complete23. Bring Me To Life reviewsSquall waits for Rinoa in the flowerfield. Takes place after game. Mild spoilers. Songfic to Evanescence's Bring Me To Life. Second Squinoa fanfic, oneshot. Please R&R, hope you like.Final Fantasy VIII - Rated: T - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,366 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-20-06 - Squall L. & Rinoa H. - Complete24. Dilly Dally Shilly Shally reviewsJust a little drabble type thing where Cloud contemplates those four little words. Oneshot. Takes place after AC. Hint of Cleris. Please R&R.Final Fantasy VII - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 317 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6-20-06 - Cloud S. - Complete25. What I See reviewsThe scene at Kilika from Tidus' perspective.Oneshot. Songfic to Lacuna Coil's What I See. First attempt at an FFX fanfic, please R&R.Final Fantasy X - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,337 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-2-06 - Tidus & Yuna - Complete26. Bitter Contemplation reviewsMoro contemplates her impending death. Morbid one-shot, spacing and formatting issues now FIXED.Princess Mononoke - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,318 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 3-27-06 - Complete27. All the World's a Banquet reviewsJust a silly little oneshot I wrote centered on Quina. First attempt at an FFIX fanfic, please R&R, I hope you find it at least mildly amusing. Typos and mistakes now fixed. :DFinal Fantasy IX - Rated: T - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,393 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 3-18-06 - Quina Q. - Complete28. To Crave Deliverance reviewsJust a short, introspective piece told from Lust's POV. First attempt at an FMA fanfic, please R&R, I hope you like.Fullmetal Alchemist - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 683 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-25-06 - Lust - Complete29. On Most Surfaces reviewsJust a songfic about Kiba running through the snow. Dream sequence. Reposted, re-edited. Song from "The Gathering."Wolf's Rain - Rated: T - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,230 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-19-06 - Complete30. I Stand Alone reviewsSongfic to Godsmack's "I Stand Alone." Reflects Kiba's thoughts at the end of the series. Spoilers for the final episode. Reposted. Re-edited.Wolf's Rain - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 872 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-19-06 - Complete31. Please Make It Stop reviewsJust a silly little fic about ZIM being stuck with GIR in the Voot cruiser for six months, and what his thoughts might have been. Based on the first IZ episode. Please R&R.Invader Zim - Rated: K+ - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 661 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 1-5-06 - Zim & Gir - Complete32. Let's Go There reviewsJust a songfic centered around Toboe. The song is Higher by Creed. I hope you like, reviews always appreciated.Wolf's Rain - Rated: K+ - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,898 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-4-05 - Complete33. Strangers in the Night reviewsThe dance scene from Squall's POV from disc 1. One of my better fics I think. My first FFVIII fic, please R&R. Inspired by Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night.Final Fantasy VIII - Rated: T - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,299 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 9-25-05 - Squall L. & Rinoa H.34. A Love Once Lost reviewsMy first attempt at a Darcia and Harmona fic. My fourth WR fic. Told from his POV on Hamona's death. Brief, angsty one-shot.Wolf's Rain - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 883 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-10-05 - Complete35. Dib, the BeltSander, and Bigfoot reviewsThis is an idea that literally just popped into my head. Based on a comment in the first IZ episode. My first attempt at a ZIM fic, please R&R! One shot! I hope it's funny!Invader Zim - Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,082 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 6-18-05 - Complete36. Lay of Morpheus reviewsThis is just a short piece told from Morpheus's POV. This is probably the first and last time that I'll ever write something like this. Review if you so desire.Sandman - Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 275 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-17-0537. Heaven's A Lie reviewsThis is a Blue/Hige songfic. Set to Lacuna Coil's "Heaven's a Lie."Wolf's Rain - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,209 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6-15-05
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