Let's get to know YOU! [OOC, Non-Mods/Staff]

[Courtney Larkin]

This is where you people who don't have to spend billions of hours on here can introduce yourselves as people! Yes, IIII know all of you, but you don't know each other! If you'd like to say hey OOC, this is where you put it. [in a new thread, obviously.]
Courtney

[Laylani]

Hi! You might recognize my notorious YiM sn, visceral_catharsis, better!

Ummm... getting to know me... Wow, I'm a very private person but here goes!

On All Things Literary!

My earliest years were filled with the mythology and folklore that my eldest brother (14 years older) would read to me at bedtime. It's when I learned how most Fables were actual History. But... in a form that wasn't corrupted by politics... rather, in the Laymen eyes.

More importantly, he taught me that their is a moral to the story in the best ones. To this day, it sticks with me in all I write. I think to myself "What is the Moral of the Story?" and expand from there.

My father was a Technical Editor amongst other things in the Army. It came from his love of reading. I remember boxes upon boxes of books being packed every time we were shipped elsewhere overseas. Most people grew up with children's books. I grew up with the ancient philosophers, myths, religion, folklore, fiction, non-fiction, war histories, anthropology, high fantasy, sci-fi and everything in-between.

I believe that's why when I make a character, even though I do put aspects of myself into her/him, it's never Me. It's also why I'm enjoy writing darker stories that will never see reality. I've always been able to draw the line between twisted imagination and reality. I mean... if we choose not to think about things because it's offensive, how mindless would we be?

Now, like everyone, I do have limitations on this. Animal/Pet mutilation is highest on that list. I will never rp or write about that. My reasons are my own. But beyond that, something I normally won't do will change if someone presents it with a catching enthusiasm.

Case in point... This Forum! I'm not a huge fan of Harry Potter. I read up to The Chamber of Secrets when it first came out and saw all but the last movie... but still, not a huge fan. Courtney swayed me with her enthusiasm and when I agree to something, I give it my all until I call it quits.

Welp, hope you enjoyed reading this tidbit about me!

[captainpanda]

Alrighty, then, might as well make my introductions and all that.

I'm Todd. Great to meet everyone! I'm a psychology student with aspirations to study neuroscience. I've been something of a mad scientist my whole life, and hope to channel that into something that would benefit mankind. That, or maybe make a doomsday device or two. Either or. I love to read; my father raised me to have a love of books not by handing me a book and telling me to read, but by getting so lost in them that I had no choice but to see what all the fuss was about. Eventually, this led me to RP. I haven't done message board RP in years and years, but it's good to get back into it. I'm afraid I never really got into the Harry Potter books - by the time they started coming out I was reading things like Game of Thrones, and what little I read of the HP books frankly bored me. The movies were pretty kick-ass, though, and the mythology is pretty cool. So, at Courtney's invitation, here I am!

I am a musician and composer by hobby; I love sitting at a piano and crafting a world with music. Every note alters the landscape a tiny bit, and each world is vastly different than the last. I study everything I can, from philosophy to physics to ancient military strategy... no topic is spared my academic wrath. I like a good glass of whiskey, a good cigar, and a good book to read at day's end.

I look forward to procrastinating here when I should rightly be doing homework or sleeping. Well met, everyone ^_^

[Thaddeus N. Banner]

Greetings to one and all,

My name is Amanda and I'm a total Pottermaniac. I've been text based roleplaying for a very long time (nearly eleven years!) and have been using Yahoo as a means for said fun since the golden age of Ayenee. Some of you may remember the heady days of User Rooms and T-1 and Dice Rolls.

I am also a nursing student and have little time to sit for hours in a chat room, praying for a good roleplay experience. This forum is to help fulfill some of my gamer addiction!

I play Thad Banner and yes I am a female. I prefer playing male characters and have primarily done so for some time. You may have met me in a Yahoo room as Plothunter1980 or under my newest screen name, killjoy_noise.

I joined this forum because I am post desperate for roleplay of any kind and I will shameless plug that I have a Freewebs site for that purpose. I had always sworn that I would never take on Potter Fan Fic as a means for roleplay because I wouldn't be able to trust anyone with the stories. However, this forum is an exception to the sea of degradation monotony one generally finds in a HP web forum roleplay. I am most impressed.

I look forward to playing with all of you in the future!

[Eli Winters]

Hello Everyone!
Good to see so many people posting about their OOC lives on the board. So, following the trend, here is a little blurb about me.

My name in the chats is vanilla_twilight06 or effortlessly_eli. I go onto Yahoo quite often, and you usually can spot me hanging around with Courtney or Kayla, and some other cool people I've met. I've been on Yahoo since I was roughly in the 7th grade. A very, very, very, long time. I come from the land of the user-rooms, and remember them fondly, particularly the friendships I forged there. Now, I wander in the rooms just to goof off and not really look for RP anymore, since it seems to be dead anyways.

Everyone calls me Eli on the chats, something that was picked up in high school because there were so many girls in my class with my name. (Cookie for you if you can guess what it is. ;p) I enjoy reading, writing, drawing, singing, dancing, listening to music and spending some time with friends. Currently, I'm at a strange time in my life where I'm spending more and more time indoors, working on a short novel, rather than being outside. (I think this honestly has to do with the fact that I moved back in November, and there are a ton of bugs in the woods. Who knew?)

On the off hand I take a fancy to your character, I have been known to do sketches and post them on my tumblr (something I just made! I feel so accomplished!) or DA. Usually I'll message you with a link so you can see it. I have also been known to take on a request or two to do some avatar/sig work, or background stuff. I have a degree in Graphic Design - Print, so I know a few tricks with web stuff. Feel free to ask. I rarely turn anyone down.

I'm a total Harry Potter fangirl. I sobbed when ..Well, I don't want to ruin story line, but when "certain people" died. I think quite a few of you know who I am speaking of, but lets just leave it at that. I started reading Harry Potter way back when I was still visiting my father for Holidays. My step-mum would read the books to us, until I realized I read faster than her, and took it and finished the first 3 books and then had to wait an agonizing 6-8 months for the next one, then another 4 weeks because my younger step-brother was the slowest reader ever.

Needless to say, from that point in my life I have been hooked. This is the first Harry Potter roleplay I've done in a forum, and I must say I'm very excited and happy to be here. That being said, look for me around the forum. I play Eli Winters, Danica Kiernan, and Admin/Moderator Gods Willing, Rowland Hughes. Feel free to pm with story lines or ideas, because I'm open to a lot.

Thanks for tuning in for a minute!

Tah for now!

~E.W.~

[captainpanda]

Eli, I think I've seen you once or twice around Yahoo chat. I don't go there often these days, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis.

Amanda, your mention of Ayenee sent me on a nostalgia trip. Those were the good old days. Ironically, I got into Yahoo chat RP after leaving a message board RP quite like this one. My character made a noble sacrifice that ended up accomplishing absolutely nothing =P. I met my beloved through Yahoo RP, and she may be joining us one of these days. Good to see so many Yahoo people around here ^_^

[The Nice One]

Hello, hello all. Nothing really more to say. Well, tooodles.