a different kind of meme

Rules:
1: Pick a few of your chars, at most 5.
2: Ask them these questions.
3: Tag 5 people.

I'm gonna use Lelila (my Improb Island char), Xytos and Aydin


1: Who/What are you?
Lelila: *raises an eyebrow, then doffs her top hat* Lelila, at your service. What am I? I'm not sure I like your tone, child. I am one of what you would call the Joker class. *smiles with very sharp looking teeth, and her eyes glow a little greener*

Xytos: *catches himself checking out Lelila, immediately snapping his attention back to the question* I'm Xytos and, uh... Well, it's kind of a long story... I have this sister, and we... Hn. *flicks his long, platinum hair* Tell you what, I'll buy you a drink some time, tell you the whole think, 'kay?

Aydin: *shifts nervously* Well, I am Aydin, son of Samos, and I am a paladin-class white mage.

2: Shut up
Lelila: *blinks, then bursts into laughter*

Xytos: *smirks, leaning back on the back two legs of his chair* You say it as if I don't hear that from women ten times a day.

Aydin: *pouts* Now, I would say there's no need for such language!

3: How old are you?
Lelila: *furrows her brow* That's... kind of a complicated question. At any rate, let's say... if I knew, I might tell you.

Xytos: One hundred and thirty two, this March.

Aydin: Nineteen and a half! Don't believe a jot of it when Ian tells you fourteen, you understand?

4: WANT A HUG?!
Lelila: *grins wickedly with her pointed teeth* Sure, why not?

Xytos: *raises an eyebrow* Only if you are female, hot, and preferably slightly intoxicated.

Aydin: *hesitates* Um... n-no thank you?

5: Got any bad habits?
Lelila: Mmm, probably... gambling. But I'm a Joker, I'm not sure that counts as a bad habit.

Xytos: *smiles that flawless smile of his* Of course not.
(authors note: DON'T BELIEVE HIM FOR A SECOND!)

Aydin: *frowns* Only if you asked my brother. Just because I enjoy bathing once and again doesn't make me germophobic.

6: Boy or Girl?
Lelila: Girl. Unless The Watcher or Horatio decides to say otherwise. *shakes head* Poor Tor...

Xytos: All male, sweetheart, through and through.

Aydin: Boy.

7: Brothers or sisters?
Lelila: *shrugs* Maybe. Who knows? The memories I have before coming to the island are few and far between.

Xytos: *sighs, with a concerned look* A sister. I... I don't like to talk about it. Let's just say... we aren't exactly on the best of terms. As in, you know... she tends to blow up small villages when I'm around.

Aydin: *groans* Most unfortunately, a brother who causes me no end of grief.

8: Are you a virgin?
Lelila: *raises an eyebrow and smirks* Maybe.

Xytos: *laughs long and hard*

Aydin: *blushes madly* Of course I am! I'm no shameless man-hussy like my brother!

9: Any kids?
Lelila: Maybe if Kai would ever PROPOSE... *crosses arms*

Xytos: Oh good lord, no.

Aydin: *blinks* I'm only nineteen!

10: Ever killed anyone?
Lelila: *smirks* Only ones that needed it.

Xytos: *seriously* No. Not yet.

Aydin: *pales* Goodness, no.

11: Hate anyone?
Lelila: *considers for a moment* I suppose. Certain kittymorphs just... grate against me, you know?

Xytos: ....

Aydin: The armies from the North. We've been at war with them for nigh a decade now, and I am absolutely sick of hearing about it.

12: Do you love anyone?
Lelila: *laughs shortly* Well, let's see here. I would say I am in a rather serious relationship with Kai Victoria, but I am definitely in love with Count Sessine. I've also got quite the crush on Gorbert Vanhousserhoffen.

Xytos: Oh, darling... I love someone new every week!

Aydin: *blushes* No. Not yet.

13: What's your job?
Lelila: *monotonously, robotic* My mission is to seek out and destroy the Improbability Drive, as many times as required of me to win the war against Improbability. *drops the tone, smirks* ...When I feel like it.

Xytos: Hn, that depends. Either coffee shop barista, or preventing my psychotic sister from wiping out all of human kind. *shrugs* Ya know, all in a day's work.

Aydin: I am studying to be a great mage.

14: What do you do to relax?
Lelila: I enjoy grabbing a glass of wine from the auto-bar in the SPOON clan hall, sitting around and chatting with my friends. Unless it's snowing inside again. Or Kai's blowing the place up.

Xytos: Video games, man. You don't want to face me in Halo 3, I GUARANTEE you'll get a whooping!

Aydin: I like reading good books. The older and dustier, the better.

15:What do you do if someone teases you?
Lelila: *raises eyebrow* That depends. If it's some newbie that has no idea what's going on, I'd probably just turn them into a typo gremlin, or something. Intentional teasing, though? *pulls out her Riot Hammer and hefts it threateningly* Let's just say... don't sleep out in the open.

Xytos: Nobody teases me.  Everybody loves me.

Aydin: *sighs dejectedly*  It's okay.  I'm used to it.

16: What are your powers?
Lelila: *grins her wicked grin* Mmm. This is the beauty of Improbability. You can do anything you want with it. Sometimes. Improbability has a funny habit of not giving you what you want, but rather giving you what you need. Oftentimes, much to your own suprise. *a poof of green smoke lifts off her open palm, and a pair of black dice lay resting there. She rolls them across the air, where they clink after hitting an invisible wall. Snake eyes. She cackles darkly*

Xytos: *gives an appraising look, before standing*  Now, I don't show this to just anyone, understand? *Takes off his jacket, followed by his shirt.  He has the kind of body Greek sculptors used to dream of.  He turns around.  With a whoomph noise, two bright, white wings explode out of his back in a torrent of feathers.  His wingspan looks to be about ten feet.  He turns back around, smiling*  Not bad, eh?

Aydin: *boggles at the other two* Er.  I can, uh... c-cast magic spells... I almost always hit my target...

17: What's your worst trait?
Lelila: *sits up straight, with a mock-serious expression on her face*  I'm shy.

Xytos: *snickers*

Aydin: I... well, I suppose I do tend to perhaps complain a little bit.  When the situation calls for it.

18: Best trait?
Lelila: *brushes off the skirt of her Victorian suit* Most definitely my fashion sense.

Xytos: *smiles charmingly* All of them.

Lelila: *raises a brow* You're certainly full of yourself, child.

Xytos: *scoffs* Child? Were you not paying attention during the age question?

Lelila: Oh, I most certainly was. And while I can't remember my age, I promise you it is greater than one hundred and thirty one.

Xytos: *blinks, then leans in close with an inviting grin*  I always have liked older women, you know.

Lelila: *smiles back, defiant*  It would be really hilarious to put you in a cage fight with my boyfriend.

Xytos: *bursts into laughter* HA!  I would eat him for breakfast!

Lelila: *shrugs* Probably.  He'd put up a damn good fight first, though.  It would be entertaining.

Aydin: ...Did everyone forget about me??

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I DEFINITELY want Merlin and Nicole to do this.  Definitely.  And I think anyone else that has original characters should, too.  Drop me a link in the comments if you do, k?

random fact.

The female version of pope is "poppess", according to wikipedia.  Now, is it just me, or is that a little counter-intuitive?

random occurance for the day.

So I was going through some of my stuff, and I found a box of crayons.  I love crayons, in case you don't know.  I was all excited.  So I've had them on my desk all evening, and I was sketching a picture of Richard (LFG, you know... FOR PONY!) and I wanted yellow for his eyes.  So I opened my box of crayons, and... they're all shades of brown.  A box of 24 crayons.  All browns.  All different browns.  Ooh, no, I take it back, there's one that's a kind of blue-slate gray.  But ALL BROWN?!  What good is that??

I am severely dissapointed.

eta: And also, I just realized I drew the whole picture upside-down in my sketchbook.  I think these are signs that I need to quit and go to bed.

fanart.

Man, sometimes I really wish I could draw.  Because I want to draw a picture of Scarlett totally chowing down on a huge steak, and Raven being all "zomg I hate you, woman." XD

ugh, food.

So a funny thing happened to me last night.

I went to bed and I couldn't fall asleep and I laid there for a while when suddenly I needed to get up and write the major climactic moment of change for the end of my story. It all just came to me in a rush at like 2:30 am. I don't even really know what I wrote, I should probably go back and read it, but shortly after 3 am I'd pounded out 1700 words on the final transformation from Harleen to Harley.

And, I don't really remember, but I think it actually went really, really well.

In other news I ate way, way too much tonight. Like, so much I thought I was gonna pull an Amy and throw up. My ribs hurt because there was so much food in my stomach.

It was a delicious pain. Delicious and yummy.

PUNKINZ!!

Today I bought the two most beautiful pumpkins in the world. Is it too early to carve them? If I petroleum-jelly the cuts?

hegakhurgurk.

WOAH blogger dashboard got a new interface. I like it.

So I went to Chattanooga and had a blast and I am so in love with that city. And now I'm back here and it's just so urban everywhere and there is no NATURE and I want to live in Nooga. Because I love it. And now I'm all mopey and bleeh.

MOPE.

In other news, I am a total doofus sometimes. And also kind of ridiculous.

omg I need to stop rambling incoherently when I am really tired and emo. GO TO BED, DAMMIT.

rant

I feel very unsatisfied with life right now.

It's like right now, tonight, I feel like I can't sit still. I feel like I want more. I want to live a big, huge, adventure filled life! I want to go mountain climbing in South America and buy wool yarn from old ladies who live in little tiny villages. I want to go backpacking across the UK. I want to go on a Mediterranean cruise. I want to go camping on the Great Wall of China. I want to go to a foreign country and get lost.

But instead, I sit here. I go work for a few hours in a little shop that sells unnecessary items in the spirit of the American way. I worry about money. I feel lonely. I feel empty.

And I don't want it anymore.

a list.

People I want to meet someday:
(in no particular order)

Anthony Bourdain
Matt and Mike Chapman (especially Matt)
Alton Brown
Nathan Fillion
Stephanie Perl-McPhee
Holly Black (totally missed out on this one, she was at dragon*con last year!)
Benedict Cumberbatch
David Duchovney
Gillian Anderson
Chris Carter (heck, might as well go for broke)
Joss Whedon
Gordon Freeman (no, I know. But I can wish, right?)
Larry Page
Mookie Terracciano
Gideon Emery
Johnny Depp (feel like a sellout, listing someone people will have actually heard of...)
Toby McKeehan
Mike Nesmith

blather.

So, basically, almost every single person I talk to makes me feel like a loser. Why no, I don't have a job yet! I haven't even looked yet! Fantastic, huh? Oh, no, I haven't the foggiest idea what I want to do! Yes, I am a total loser!

Why are people so shocked I'm not working yet? I've been here... not even a month. Three weeks, maybe. So, everybody: stop making me feel like a loser. I'm freaking sick of it. kthxbye.

Right. Now I've vented.

Oh dude, so today I was listening to the oldies radio station, and the song "you're still the one" started playing, and I was like heey, Carl Gutierrez! Heh... uhm, this is only funny if you're from Guam. Just so you know.

Also, I've discovered the most romantic song ever. I'm Gonna Be, by the Proclaimers. Ooh, you know it, it's that "I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more...", you know? But if you listen to the verses, it's just so sweet! ...Does this make me a totally strange individual?

In other news, Valentine's stuff is already hitting the shelves. Which just makes me feel worse about everything in my life. You know, I am actually very lonely. I wish I wasn't.

stuck.

There's something wrong with me.

Ever since I got back here to STL, for good to stay this time, I've been very... nonmotivated. I don't feel depressed, per-say, because I don't let myself think about Chattanooga or Merlin or my friends. I just... don't.

But I don't want to do anything. At all. I haven't even unpacked. I watch TV... I guess I've gone out with my parents a few times. I've had almost no contact with the outside world, though. I talked to Carson and Merlin on the phone a little, and I've had a couple good chats with Jon, but... that's it.

I mean, I did just get into town on Tuesday. But... still.

I don't want to do it. Any of it.

d'oh.

Some really, really stupid things I've said in the past month:

• Man... I hate one minute!
• Hey, what if you could build... a cake...
• Dude, it's been Monday like, for freaking ever!

The idiocy and complete pointlessness of this post is dedicated to Heather Lyz and Amy.

update.

So, all the people who told me I'd like that TV show Chuck? Yeah, they were right.

Umm... yeah. So I'm working at this haunted forest this month. It's pretty awesome. I basically crouch in the woods all night and jump out and scare the heck out of people. And also, for the curious, getting airbrush makeup done hurts.

I've recently started playing my bodhran. I bought it like a year and a half ago, but I've never really learned to play it. I bought a tutorial video about a year ago, though, and last week I decided to give it another shot, and this time 'round it all clicked! By the way, it turns out that people who play the bodhran are stereotypically nerdy and socially awkward, and are almost always men. ...I swear, it's just my lot in life. I can't get away from my destiny, I suppose.

forget.

There was totally something I was thinking about earlier, and I was like "oh, I should blog about it." And now I can't remember for the life of me what it was.

...oh well.

bugs.

I'm having a strange problem today. It all began with this dream I had last night. It involved a lot of bugs. Big, kind of creepy but kind of pretty bugs. Really big, though. I finally spooked myself enough to wake up. Well, ever since then, I keep having bug-related problems today. Something icky and flying bothering me while I was brushing my teeth, bees buzzing around me... the two weirdest instances were within the past hour: before my science class, there was this tiny little beetle on my neck. Creepy. Then after class Merlin and I walked to my car, and just before we got home I felt something moving on my collar, and without even thinking I grabbed it and threw it... right at Merlin. It was an accident! Apparently it was a large beetle-creepy kind of thing, I never actually saw it, but Merlin jumped out of the car and threw it away. But now I'm all paranoid. And what's worse is that I have to go to a picnic tonight. Outdoors. Bugs everywhere.