ABOUT ME:
Hi! Feel free to call me Rose. I'm 18, a freshman at Ithaca College, and an aspiring journalist/novelist/essayist/writer in general. I hope to become a Copy Editor or writer for a newspaper (or even a writer for a video game or anime magazine! ) and write my own creative works on the side--I don't care if they get published or not; I write only for me. I'm working on the first draft of my first novel right now. I also hope I can write for a video game magazine when I'm not editing some other magazine or newspaper. I'm an agnostic who's looking into Buddhism. I'm extremely liberal and not in the mainstream left. Everyone jokes that I'm a Communist, but I'm really more of a democratic socialist. I'm an idealist. I love to laugh and most of the time I'm smiling.

FAVORITE ANIME/MANGA:
Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna, Death Note, Yu Yu Hakusho, Fruits Basket, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gunslinger Girl, Hell Girl, Rurouni Kenshin, D.N.Angel, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ouran High School Host Club, .hack//SIGN, Chrono Crusade, Wolf's Rain, Naruto, Azumanga Daioh, Haibane Renmei, Bleach, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star, Chobits, Magic Knight Rayearth, Paranoia Agent, Soul Eater, Darker Than Black, Xam'd, Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Symphonia.

FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES:
Tales of series, Legend of Zelda series (Twilight Princess and Windwaker FTW!), Super Smash Bros. series, Fire Emblem series (Rekka no Ken being my favorite of all), all of the Mario games, Pokemon, Final Fantasy series, Guitar Hero, DDR, Phoenix Wright. I have an old SEGA Genesis somewhere in the house, an N64, a Gamecube, a Wii, a DS, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, and a PS2. As you can see, I'm a Nintendo fangirl. Unfortunately, I don't own a NES or SNES. I was first introduced to SEGA before I knew about Nintendo, so by the time I liked Nintendo people had moved onto SNES. My parents didn't want to buy one for me, so I just played it at a friend's house.

FAVORITE MUSIC:
Muse, Linkin Park, Within Temptation, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Rammstein, H.I.M., Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Pink Floyd, Franz Ferdinand, Three Days Grace, Flyleaf, U2, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Evanescence, Green Day, The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Aural Vampire, Rage Against the Machine, Aural Vampire, Paramore, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed

FAVORITE BOOKS:
The Ender and Shadow series by Orson Scott Card, 1984 by George Orwell (whom I love so much! His essays are just as good as his books <3), Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely series, Angels and Demons and Deception Point by Dan Brown, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, America: The Book by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert, and The Stranger by Albert Camus. My very favorite Shakespeare plays are Hamlet and Macbeth but I also really love Much Ado About Nothing and Taming of the Shrew.

My favorite authors include George Orwell, Orson Scott Card (even though he is an a*****e--it just goes to show that even the greatest writers can still be immature jerks), Edgar Allan Poe, Melissa Marr, and William Shakespeare.

FAVORITE TV SHOWS:
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Scrubs, House, South Park, The Office, Black Books, In Plain Sight, Burn Notice, My Name Is Earl, Monk, Law and Order (including SVU and CI), Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

FAVORITE MOVIES:
RENT, Juno, Dead Poets Society, The Shawshank Redemption, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh version), Office Space, Get Smart, Wall-E, Moulin Rouge, Inglorious Basterds, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, V For Vendetta, Little Miss Sunshine, Donnie Darko, Battle Royale, Taming of the Shrew, UHF, Anchorman, Ocean's Eleven, Full Metal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, All Star Wars movies (order of my favorites: 3, 5, 6, 4, 2, 1), and all Star Trek movies.


Cosplay
I Can Has Cosplay?

Yes, I absolutely adore it. I've linked the pictures to the corresponding costumes on my cosplay.com account, Rose of Battle.

Costumes are in order from least to most recent.

Luke fon Fabre (long hair) from Tales of the Abyss --- Tohru Honda (winter uniform) from Fruits Basket --- Tohru Honda (summer uniform) from Fruits Basket --- Alice from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World --- Mitsukuni "Honey" Haninozuka from Ouran High School Host Club


Future cosplays: North Italy (military and original casual) from Axis Powers Hetalia, Rita Mordio from Tales of Vesperia, and Rin Kagamine from Vocaloid