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1. I'm a bit strange when it comes to fandom activity; I'm almost never vocal about my favorite character, usually choosing to be loudest about another character I find to be interesting. I don't know why I do that, but I almost never openly mention who my favorite characters from various fandoms actually are. That said, I wonder how many people would be surprised to find out that my favorite character from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney is actually not Kristoph Gavin.

2. When it comes to heroes and villains, I tend to gravitate toward the villains; I've done this since I was a child. Huge deviations from normalcy and sanity fascinate me, as does trying to figure out what caused the change and shift away from acceptable behavior. It's an obsession with psychological aspects, I suppose - I've written painfully long dissertations on various 'darker' fictional characters (Kristoph Gavin, Broken Pedestal Mentor extraordinaire, being the most recent) simply because I can. I tend to find heroes bland by comparison to their villainous counterparts, and only recently did someone explain to me that heroes can be just as interesting when one considers the difficulty in staying on the path of righteousness when the world is coming down around you - at the same time, I haven't explored this nearly enough yet to shift my preference away from the villainous characters.

3. I have one of the worst tastes in movies. I got it from my dad, who thinks Starship Troopers is genius and the 1998 movie-version of Lost in Space is a cinematic masterpiece; the only movie he's ever thought was actually terrible was The Avengers, also from 1998. I'm in complete agreement on all of the above points. The part that most people don't know is that my dad and I have a strange interpretation of bad movies, based around the idea that everything is satire. Seriously, it works every time. Pick out the worst movie you can think of and when you watch it, keep in mind that it's supposed to be satire. Be amazed as the movie suddenly becomes tolerable. In certain cases, the movie becomes absolute genius.

4. I haven't found a single Disney movie yet that hasn't made me cry. The worst offenders in terms of causing Floods and Floods of Tears (in descending order) are Old Yeller, The Lion King, Brother Bear, Bambi and Wall-E. Brother Bear made me feel particularly stupid - I wasn't crying because I was sad half the time; I was crying because the scenery was pretty.

5. Even though I tend to be very loud in public and I go up and talk to several people when I'm in crowds, I'm actually painfully shy. I generally talk to people so they won't think I'm angry or being standoffish through snobbery, but I'm actually terrified of being in large groups of people. I love going to conventions, but the crowds are always so scary...

6. Of the 37 friends I have on LiveJournal, I've met 10 of them in person. I'm currently living with two of them.

7. I'm a cosplayer. I'm also terribly allergic to wool, which makes getting suits made for cosplay into a rather interesting procedure. My current favorite was made for a Kristoph Gavin cosplay; we ended up making it out of crape. My seamstress hated me for it at first, but we both ended up insanely happy with the final product.

8. I'm 5'4"; when I was 17 years old, I weighed 354 pounds. I'm currently just over half that weight and feel so much better for it.

9. I'm schizophrenic. I was diagnosed with disorganized schizophrenia at the age of 11; I've also had symptoms consistent with manic-depression and was bulimic a few years ago. Currently doing better, though, much to the relief of...well, just about everyone.

10. I love horror movies; the Saw movies are my favorites. However, even though it's a G-rated movie, one of the only movies to leave me psychologically scarred was, weirdly enough, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The one with Gene Wilder, not Johnny Depp. For some reason, that movie was absolute nightmare fuel for me, and I still can't sit through it without curling up into a pathetic little ball.


...aaaaaaaaaaand I don't do tags.

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