splinteredstar | More memery! (Reply)

Memery! These are fun. This one gives me an excuse to ramble about myself, which is something that is more fun than perhaps it should be. In outline form because that works. Ganked from both sierra and phoenixjustice , who are both fantastic people. Lj cut to keep from spamming flists.

001. Leave me a comment saying you want to do the meme.
002. I'll respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
003. You should update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
004. You should include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
005. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

Sierra’s

Do you believe in ESP, and why?

Yes. There are enough instances of such powers recorded – they can’t all be faked. Besides… I have some leanings that way myself. If my own experiences are my only standard, then they certainly do. (If you’re wondering, I’m very slightly empathic, which means I can sort of sense other people’s emotions. (Only problem is I tend to over-interpret them and assume the worst.) I may have some premonition – related bits, but that may just be my infamous luck serving me well. I’m also sensitive to anything with a spirit, much to my own annoyance at times...) What’s happened with me is either real, not and I’m slightly crazy, or I’m just interpreting it wrong. Anyone’s guess at this point. But hey – why shouldn’t they?

What job are you leaning toward at the moment, if any?

It varies with my mood, really. Right now I’m leaning towards something in law. Possibly cultural anthropology. The thing is that I’m incredibly present-focused, to the point that I am psychologically incapable of solidly planning more than a month in advance. I don’t have any comprehension of the fact that next week exists – hell if I know what I want to do with my LIFE.

Do you have a role model, and if so, who?

It’s hard to say. There are certain aspects of a dozen people and characters that I admire and want to emulate. My pastor’s intensity. Integra Hellsing’s steel. Light’s passion. L’s intelligence. Seto Kaiba’s devotion. Salvador Hardin’s political genius. Quatre’s ideals. Zaphikel’s strategy. My English Teacher’s humor. If, however, I absolutely had to pick one, at the moment it would probably be Roy Mustang. I don’t go so much for his philandering ways, but his mind is unmatched. And his determination to rip the institution that allowed him to flourish to shreds and make a new government, one that works is admirable. But the best part may be his simple philosophy – protect those under you. You are the leader; their lives are in your hands. They are depending on you. Serve with them and for them. Protect them, and they can protect those under them. Maybe someday if you get high enough, you’ll be able to protect everyone.
I can only hope I can be that kind of leader someday.

Who is your favorite super hero?

Batman, easy. He’s always been my favorite. He wasn’t a hero because he was trapped in a science experiment gone wrong, or because he was born with special abilities, or because he was chosen by fate. He was a hero because he chose to be one. He could have lived his life peacefully as a millionaire. Instead he saw his cause, and followed it through his own strength. He didn’t win because he had super-strength or speed or could shot heat-beams out of his eyes – he won because he was smarter and more determined to win. His strength and his abilities weren’t just given to him. How many hours of training did Flash put in at the gym? How much work did Superman have to do in order to save people? Batman was the only one that actually felt like a real human being.

What occupies most of your time these days?

Work, school, scribbling down stories in between everything else. Trying to stay in touch with people I like and failing, as I am not used to having this many people I like and want to talk to. *has spent much of her life a social recluse and isn’t entirely sure what do with all these awesome people she’s met lately*

Phoeni’s.

1. What was your very first fandom?

Yuugiou. I started in there *thinks* Holy carp, was it really 2003? Just a moment… Yes, yes it was. Goddamn… But yes. Yuugiou was the first time I found a series, and then went online and found, omg, other people are fans too! And what’s this…fanfiction? …you mean I can write down my ideas? And other people want to read it? SO COOL. I honestly had no comprehension that anyone other than my mother would ever want to read what I had written. Yuugiou is still one of my favorites, however, and each time I read it I find some new thing that I didn’t notice the last time. I can quote the series chapter and page, but I’ve come to see the complexity of it and the depth of the characters. (Even if I don’t like the ending…) And that was a rambling answer to a simple question…

2. If you had to be born in any other time, which time would you choose and why?

Well, this is going to sound so dorky… but I would have liked to have been born in the fifties. Because that would mean that I would be about 20 in the seventies, which is one of my favorite decades. Glam rock! Hippies! Outspoken feminism! Getting to see Queen and the Alice Cooper band in concert! Yes, I’m a raging glam rock fangirl, why do you ask? But seriously, it sounds like it was so much fun, and so many things were happening and changing. It would be fascinating.

3. What is your all time favorite pairing and why?

Hmm…hard choice. There are really two that are tied – L/Light from Death Note, and Seto Kaiba/Yami no Yuugi from Yuugiou. Light and L…click in my head. I cannot picture one without the other, even if just emotionally. I’ll take them as lovers and I’ll take them as enemies – their relationship is one of the best written and most complex I have ever seen, and any aspect of it is fascinating. Watching them battle is part of the reason I love the series. And I can’t help but think that they’re so intensely focused on each other for so long, and they’ve never felt anything like respect or interest for another person – I think that those emotions would catapult out of control into something neither of them understand.

Now, Seto Kaiba/Yami no Yuugi…that is mostly the fault of nenya85 . She was one of the first ygo writers I ever read, and the way she writes the pairing is amazing. However, Yami and Seto fit each other perfectly. No one else challenges them like each other, and no one else forces them to change their philosophies like they do for each other. And even in the canon, no one gets under Yami’s skin like Seto does. In Duelist’s Kingdom, when Grandpa gets his soul stolen Yami’s full of righteous anger and determination, but he’s still calm and still his normal self. When Seto gets his soul stolen, Yami is so angry he almost _loses a duel_ because he can’t think straight. And on Seto’s side – who else does he respect? Who else does he listen to besides Mokuba? Who else could get him to completely reinvent himself twice? He doesn’t wake up from his coma when Mokuba is kidnapped – but he does when Yami is about to lose to someone other than him. They’ve always been together in my head, and no matter what else is going on in my mental plotline they usually sneak in. Long, long time otp.

4. Which Death Note Character would you be and why?

Again…hard choice. It depends on what point in the series, almost. If it’s pre-note, I would probably be Light. Brilliant, easy life, and passionate. Though really, I might have liked to be Mikami. The OCD would be unpleasant, but hell I’ve got some of that anyway. He found what he was passionate about, and died an honest death. He was wrong, but he was not malicious.

Or I could just be L, and live with all the sugary treats and money I could put up with. I really don’t know. *shrug*

5. Would you rather be single and rich, or married/with someone and poor?

Hmm… I really don’t know if I have a preference. Marriage and wealth are both borderline meaningless to me. I honestly think that I would rather be single and rich. I’m probably going to be single anyway, so why not? And with money, I would be able to help more people than I would be able to if I were poor. I’ve never longed for anything more intense than friendship, anyway, and I would rather be able to help people find what they need and donate to charities that need it than have someone and not be able to help others as much. Love is great, but I wouldn’t be able to pay for Nigerians to go through med school or help build hospitals in the Amazon with it.

Besides, I have a hard time spending time around my best friends for more than an hour at a time, so a long term relationship is kind of out. But it really doesn’t matter to me.

Funness indeed. Now, on to fic... Wonder what I should do with that FMA thing I scribbled down... Interesting, but vaguely creepy.

S