Author has written 9 stories for Beyblade, and Gundam Seed.

"Let me pass now from fiction into legend."

-Lestat de Lioncourt, from Anne Rice's "Memnoch the Devil"

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SORT OF IMPORTANT NOTICE: (October 2006) I have deleted All About Him (Beyblade), Love Me Forever (Beyblade) and Night of the Vampires (also Beyblade). LE GASP! How could I have deleted NOTV, my oldest and longest running piece of fanfiction in all my years of fanfiction writing? The simple answer is that I just don't like it all that much. Actually, I don't like it at all. Nerk. The writing style needs serious work. I've realized that most of the things that really irk me about writing are things that I used to put in my earlier work. And I have just gotten over Beyblade, I guess. Such is the life of an otaku.
There is a mild chance that I repost NOTV once I've had the time (and the will) to rewrite it and ship it off to my beta reader. So no pestering me in the way that I pestered Storms-winter (my beta) when she took down Pretty Crimson Eyes.

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Greetings, all who have dared to enter my bio! -bows- I am she who is known as CarmenTakoshi on this site. Some of you may have received anonymous reviews by the name of Carmen (doesn't that defeat the purpose of an anonymous review?). Well, that's me. Pleased to meet you. -bows again-

I have been interested in the written word for a big portion of my life, although I would mostly read in my earlier years. I have been writing fanfiction since 2003.

My collection of chaptered fics and one-shots (I love those. Really I do.) is steadily growing here,and I hope that they will be appreciated. Please review if you like them, and, well, if you don't...review anyway. Reviews are an authoress' life force! So please nourish my wanting soul! XD I'm sure you all know how I feel. Plus, constructive criticism is always hepful.

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LINKIES :D ('Kay, that was scary...)

Carmen's Fanart Central

Carmen's Deviantart

Carmen's Fiction Press

(as of January 2006) Visit my wonderful beta reader, Storms-winter! Visit her, I say!

I also have a Gaia Online account under the name of Carmen Takoshi. Feel free to say hi to me, just...tell me who you are so I don't freak out. lol

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(January 12th, 2008) I've read over bio, and I realize that I sound very retarded. But oh well, I'm too lazy to rewrite everything. The links have been updated and such. Visit me:D

Also, I've finally gotten up the courage to post an original story on the net. -le gasp!- It's titled Imperfect. And yes, it is shounen-ai. It's a story that I've had in my head for about a year now. It's in the works, so I'd really appreciate it if people dropped me some feedback about it. Not that I'd shrivel up and die if no one did, but still. Yes. Anyway. Here: "Imperfect", by Carmen Takoshi

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The rest of this space will be dedicated to my thoughts about the random things that I have written and posted here on this site. :) So if you haven't read all of my fics yet, I suggest that you skip over this part and go right to reading...unless you're like me and are a sucker for spoilers. XD Still, I'll try not to spoil too much, but you HAVE BEEN WARNED. -thunder crashes-

Misanthrope (Gundam SEED): Wow, I haven't done anything multichaptered in forever! I guess I've been mostly concentrating on creating an impact with my short stories, so now, uh, well, not really sure what I DO want to accomplish with this, so let's just leave it at that. It's Nicol, so yay. Carmen luffs Nicol. Carmen's favorite characters always die. What's up with that? It's happened so many times, I think I'm cursed. lol But anyway... a "misanthrope" is a person who doesn't like other people. Like Yzak. XD But the fic is about Nicol, so why did I call it that? I guess it was because of that line in the first chapter about people killing people for no reason. Until then, in my computer this fic had been labelled "Gundam SEED thing about Nicol". XD XD XD And, uh... I could make it shounen-ai, but... then again, maybe not. It seems to fit it just being this: Nicol's silent, faraway admiration of Athrun. XD I C FANBOI!

A Shade Of Dusk (Gundam SEED DESTINY): Finally something het! XD Hah hah! Well, it's sad to say, but I find that most of the returning characters in DESTINY have grown stupider with age, except for Lacus who is as serene as ever, of course. Anyway... I don't particularly like Cagalli either, and even Athrun has fallen out of my favor (somewhat... only somewhat!), but hey, what can you do about a series now created solely for fan service? (I mean, look at Meer... seriously. I really like her, though! Especially in that scene where she showed up Lunamaria by slamming Athrun's room door in her face! XD XD XD) But what was I talking about again? Oh yeah, the fic. Uh... I killed Athrun again. Hah hah. This was also inspired by a chain email I received. (I should write a Shinn x Stellar... hmmm...) Oh, and in response to some person who sent me a badly written PM ... just because. The brakes died or something. That's how he was able to figure out that they wouldn't make the next turn, but he didn't want to tell Cagalli because he had just promised he wouldn't let her fall, so he felt like an idiot, like he does so often during the series. :-) Oh that adorable Athrun.

Before You Go (Gundam SEED): I love this one. Seriously. It's the shortest one-shot I've ever written, I believe, but also the sweetest, in my humble opinion. Yzak is just so "OMG, OMG! -frets-" and Dearka is...well...Dearka. This piece was inspired by achain email that I once received. It's about this guy who's about to go off to college, and his mom says to his dad: "Maybe you should talk to him about that." So, the whole day, the father is stressed out, while he searches for the words to tell his son that. Then, they're about to part, yadda yadda yadda, and then the dad just blurts out that. I don't know why I suddenly thought of that joke, but...well, it inspired me, so there. :D I'm hoping that I didn't butcher the characters too much. I mean...Dearka...GROW UP! XD

The Mockingbird's Song (Gundam SEED): I actually had this half-typed up sometime last year (2005), but I ran out of inspiration for it and just left it to wallow in unfinished-ness. At the time that I abandoned it, I was thinking that it was going to be the greatest thing that I'd ever written. I mean, I was inspired by Nicol's death, as tragic as it was, -still curses the day- and I just HAD to write something to go with it. Okay, so it turned shounen-ai at the end, but hey... Yzak x Nicol is my OTP, I can't help it. XD And after the number of failed "dedicated-to-the-death-of-Nicol-Amalfi" fics that I half-wrote up, I was happy to finally get one done. And it's so sad...come on, admit it. Athrun's reaction (in the anime and in my fic) really choked me up. He was just so wretched...I would've thrown something at the tv screen if Kira or Cagalli had killed him. (Tolle? Tolle who? Oh, THAT Tolle...)

Theme Of Tears (Gundam SEED): Yes, I love Nicol. He's just so sweet! Okay, I didn't appreciate his voice too much in the English dub (I think his VA's name is Gabe Kouth... and I think he's Sam Vincent's (Athrun's VA) brother. O.O And Chantal Strand (Lacus VA) is only three years older than me! Does that mean I can be a voice actress too? She's done so much VAing...-hopes-), but who am I to judge? Anyway... OTP-ness ahoy! So it's an unlikely pairing. So sue m-...okay, don't. I'm poor! This IS what fanfiction is for, right? Right. -realizes that she's been rambling- So...I had given myself the challenge up writing up a shounen-ai romance without getting Yzak too out of character. I really try, y'know. I think that I did pretty okay, what with the added difficulty of the present tense and first person POV. Oh, and Theme Of Tears (Namida No Theme) is Nicol's theme. He plays it in that episode where all of the ZAFT boys are back home with their families for a while.

Fragile Ice (Gundam SEED): Oh drama, oh angst! SO MUCH angst! I seriously don't know what I was thinking when I wrote this. I do recall my basement being very, very cold, so maybe that was what prompted this piece into existence. XD I also felt like torturing Yzak. Pauvre chou, (translation: Poor dear) he never seemed to have a happy moment during the series, did he? So, taking advantage of that, I decided to poke some sadistic fangirl fun at him. I could have killed him...but that would have been anti-climactic. And yes, it turns shounen-ai. Blah. And YES, I killed Athrun. Double blah. Don't get me wrong, I love Athrun too! It's just that I found it just fit to make him die, you dig? Makes it more dramatic and all. XD Aaahh...I'm so weird.

Moonlight Sonnet (Gundam SEED): Mmkay...not my best piece, in my opinion, but I like the poems. Unlike Forever, My Song, I was writing something for the sake of the poem, and not the other way around. I spent an hour on the sonnet. 'Twas frustrating, but not as much as I had thought. Yay? Anyway... I've only written one Athrun x Kira? If there's any pairing that should be canon in that series, it's them. Seriously! Even my mom thinks that Athrun is gay for Kira, in those exact words. XD I didn't even have to suggest it! She did that herself...OMG! XD XD XD Okay, I'll stop. The "emerald fair" in Kira's stanza refers to the color of Athrun's eyes, by the way.

Faith (Beyblade): Mhm... augh! Well, this is, ahem, somewhat old news. I haven't watched Beyblade in forever. Loyal fangirl, indeed. -snorts- Well, anyway... I was a Kai fangirl. Yes, yes, I was. I suppose I still am, it's just that I don't draw him obsessively anymore. Or write obsessively about him anymore. Still, I should finish this story at least, even it seems dumb to me now. There's just too much fantasy magic in it, I guess. Or maybe too many OCs. -shrugs- It was originally going to be an ultra deep story, probably with some relation to the Bible or something else profound and heart-wrenching, but... I didn't know what. This is what I get for not planning my fics before I write them... lol But I promise, if I get an inspiration flash, I'll update!

Forever, My Song (Gundam SEED): Yay yay yay yay yay NICOL! Yeah, I wanted to write some over-used Nicol-piano angst... and then I threw Athrun in there for fun. It ended up being over-used Natural-Coordinator war angst too, but hey, at least I didn't shounen-ai-ify it! Just tossed in some male bonding instead. :D I love the poem, even though I wrote it in, like, fifteen minutes, which is not a long time for me. It's random...but whatever. I like it, so blah. XD Someone told me that she learned the song/poem off by heart. I was like: "O.O Dude, even I didn't do that, and I wrote it!" And yes, I know that I spelled Nicol "Nikol". Don't ask me why. o_O