I have officially stopped caring about the bandwagon thing from my last journal, not like it matters.

Took this from and , because I have nothing better to do with my time at present.


How long have you been drawing?
I've never really been much or an artist, but I've technically been drawing since I could hold crayons.

What inspires/inspired you to draw?
I'm a mechanic, by which I mean that I like to "build" characters and crunch the numbers to make them as fabulous as possible. I spend a great deal of time thinking about said characters, but I've never made any satisfactory drawings of them when I even DO sit down and try to draw, which is rare.

Do you have a certain routine when drawing?
Nope. I don't tend to pick up a pencil unless I know what I want to draw already (I don't doodle mindlessly, even though I ought to doodle in my class notes to improve my skills and such), so I just get paper, pencil, and a flat surface and go.

What's your favorite medium/tool?
Pencil every time. I barely know how to draw anything that doesn't look like a scribble or a stick figure, so having an eraser handy is always a good plan.

Do you take drawing seriously?
Oh hell no. I'm much too much of a casual artist for that. For some reason I just expect myself to be good at it even though I have no basic for that expectation, so I easily discourage myself when I can't take the picture in my head and put it on the page.

Why did you start to draw?
I tend to think in pictures and equations, which makes it really hard sometimes for me to answer questions quickly and such. However, it does mean that things play in my head like movies, and I can always sorta see what I want to do. I just can't bring it out.

Do you think you've improved since you first started to draw?
Nothing worth writing home about. Really, in terms of pencil and paper, I'm no artist. Give me a woodshop and some "junk", though, and I'll give you something worth posting.

Do you draw frequently?
No, I do not. Obviously if I want to get any better I have to try to draw more, but I never "get around to it", and I can't stick to it because everything looks like garbage.

Did you teach yourself, or did you have help?
The only drawings I've ever done that weren't awful were likely due to closely ready a "How To Draw"-type book earlier that week / simultaneously.


Yeah, I'm not sure why I have an account either, though it DOES make it much easier to stalk my friends, which is pretty much all I use it for. Moving on.


My family is FINALLY almost finished moving to our new house. Everything's bigger, and we threw a whole dumpster-load of stuff away (said dumpster is currently sitting slightly over-full in my old driveway). I have a lot more floor space. Once the warmer months come around, especially summer vacation, I'm going to be hiding people in my room all the time if I'm allowed to. I could easily sleep 4 or 5 people in here. It's kind of awesome.


For no particular reason, I'm going to make a list of my OC's that have ever been worth anything, IE, the ones I remember:

1. Terri Reinard. My first RP OC, and the one with the most incarnations over time. He's morphed into a pseudo-final form by now...I hope. Lives in the general Earth world almost all the time, and depending on the nature of the world, he may be an immortal. Yes, I do have an explanation for how he gets it.

2. Seoras Reinard. Terri's younger brother. Originally built as a goth to fill a friend's request, he's changed from being incredibly serious to a total spaz. He has the most variable personality, because for some reason it can change to fit whatever I need him to act like, though he maintains consistency within a given world. He's always smaller and quicker than Terri, but not quite as intelligent.

3. Teresa Rhye. I'm never 100% certain how to spell her last name; I think the H and Y are trying to confuse me sometimes. Her sexuality is ambiguous and alterable depending on how I'm feeling, but she's more interesting when she's not straight, because it forces other people to step up their game to keep up with me. She's always been rather happy-go-lucky, and has very pronounced emotional states. If I was any good, she'd probably be one of the most fun to draw. She's far and away Terri's best friend, and is good friends with Seoras as well.

4. Joel Lewis. He's my knight character. Joel's tall and built like a tank, which is only made more epic by the fact that he's fairly old. His hair is all silvered, and he has this fabulous giant handlebar moustache. He's a master with all manner of weapons, including hand-to-hand combat, and is exactly as knightly as an old knight should be. I use Joel often, and he's always the same--he just varies with the semantics of the world he's placed into. He's an absolute master of battle, and most of his incarnations could go for DAYS without bothering to rest longer than a few minutes.

5. Heian Siandon. My most recent obsession, not counting Bandages (below). After actually GIVING him a reasonably solid backstory recently, with the help of my dear friend ~NamuCiziru (a backstory MASTER), he is even more favored than before. He is a cleric, and my only character with an Evil alignment. He's a very lazy sort of evil, though, and up until recently, could very well have been True Neutral. I am trying to get him to show more of his evil than he has ever done before in a side-campaign, and hopefully be able to bleed that improved evil into his main campaign, because if he doesn't become more evil, I'll feel bad about flouting the system he was born into. His personality won't really change, I just need to make him more ruthless and prone to injure and murder to get his way that won't result in his immediate death...

6. Genevieve, "Jenny". I don't think I gave her a last name. The only reason she's on this list is because she's a cool character. She's a Blade Dancer, which is a class in D&D that I created myself. She's really quite awesome, and there have been several instances of hilarity in the game she was in.

7. "Bandages". No one knows his real name, not even me. He was originally a French marksman wrapped in bandages from head to toe underneath his uniform. However, he was very quickly converted into a D&D character, where he has gone several major overhauls in his character build, though he's always been a sort of Rogue/Ranger in some way. He is an expert sniper, with a reputation for never missing his mark. He is very often (almost always) a gun/bow for hire, and he has never been known to fail a mission. With the right preparation, he can take down dozens of opponents by himself without breaking a sweat. His right eye is covered by the bandages, meaning that he can only sight with his left eye; conveniently (or possibly because of this, I am unsure) he is a lefty. In his most recent D&D character re-build, I actually had that covered eye be replaced with an Eye Graft of True Strike, so that he would be able to live up to his crackshot reputation without any problems. Yes, it was very expensive. Yes, he is awesome. Ah, yes, one more thing. In D&D, instead of just being human, Bandages is an Asherati, which is a desert race that can swim through sand, but cannot swim in water. Amusingly, the first time I used him in a D&D campaign, it was a pirates campaign: the whole point was to sail around the world and either be pirates or hunt them.

8. The Illusionist. He was never given a name, because I never got around to seriously building him as a character. He really only has one incarnation, because all I did was create a story for a powerful illusionist to star in, and that's him. He was inspired by something Cho Hakkai did in the Anime version of Saiyuki (and possibly the manga, but I have yet to see it occur). His power is such that he could create illusionary copies of himself in the middle of melee combat, fall back into the shadows as his double gets run through by his foe, and then appear behind said enemy and backstab him into the next world. He could also make it look like the countryside was being engulfed in demonic power from a rift that the evil wizard didn't actually create because the illusionist went invisible and disrupted the ritual, casting an illusion over said ritual to make it look undisturbed. I know, he seems over-powered, but that was the point. He was among the best, and a total loon to boot. I'm fairly certain I decided that he'd treat life like a play and have him act like he was on a stage, and have him change what character in this imaginary play he was the part of without warning and hopefully to humorous effect.

9. Reore. He is technically more of a "fan-character," because he exists only in the World of Warcraft universe. He's my Tauren Balance Druid, and is in general quiet and calm, which is normal for his race. He spends much of his time with Wessely (Blood elf rogue, ~NamuCiziru's character) and Biyori (Troll hunter, ~fuzakeru-oh's character), trying to keep them all out of trouble. Romlius (Undead Priest) and Gromtor (Orc Warrior) used to be part of their group, but Mike (Rom) quit playing for a long time and Owen decided to level Gromtor to 80, so the Hordies are pretty much disbanded. 'Tis a sad thing, because I had a lot of fun RPing those guys. Their adventures were meant to be the subject of the 'We Are Hordies' webcomic that Namu was trying to make, but I believe that that project has been put on hold for an indefinite period of time and possibly scrapped, because we never play the Hordies anymore. It's scary that Reore's actually the 2nd highest Hordie, because I was the last to join the group and always found myself lagging behind up until about level 35-40, where I pulled ahead and went all the way to 49 somehow before I stopped playing him--I really want Wessely and Biyori to catch up to Reore so that we can all play together again. It would be even better if Mike would go back to Romlius or make a new Romlius and level him way the hell up so we could play together again. Oh well, here's to hoping.

10. Alfred. As ~NamuCiziru reminded me, below, I did indeed have a half-elven archer. He was an Eldritch Knight, a Sorceror mixed with a smidge of Fighter. He was a bit of a coward, because he wasn't much of a warrior, but he did what he had to do to when the time came. My favorite technique for him was to inscribe Explosive Runes onto a piece of paper and tie it to one of his arrows, and then miss with his arrow, but then when the cocky foe looked at the arrow embedded in the wall/floor, and then, BOOM! It was a fun technique, and it worked best the one time he acutally got to do it, because he was in his home town, so he could run on rooftops and crap. It was cool.



And I think that's all of them. It's kind of interesting that my descriptions seemed to get longer and longer as I went along. I left out a whole hell of a lot on most characters, because there's some stuff that I've forgotten, and some stuff I just didn't feel like typing out. I don't think I'm missing any characters worth writing about, but if anyone knows one I don't remember, feel free to point it out. This, of course, would necessitate that someone actually READ my journal, which is a rare occurrence indeed.