Welcome to Gaia! ::

Gaia Hangouts:
Well, I tend to spend most of my time in the Breedables subforum, occasionally visiting Mini Shops and Requests. I have a shop in Breedables called Chibi Monsters, which I haven't done much with yet. ^_^ I am part of 3 active guilds currently, The Lanzer Shrine, The Romantics Guild(which I actually only joined because a friend created it. sweatdrop ), and The Spirit Avatars Guild(Based off a shop in Breedables). I used to be part of a 4th guild dedicated to a game called Legend of Mana...but when they switched to this new guild system, I decided I didn't care for the way things were going and so didn't follow them. It's too bad though, I liked that guild. cry

Hobbies/Interests/Obsessions:
YUUGI MUTOU!!!! heart heart heart blaugh Other than that, I like arts & crafts, volleyball, shopping, bouncing around,


Likes:
Planning what I'd do if I rule the world, the supernatural, anime, cats, mythical beasts, Yuugi Mutou xd , freedom, money, power, a good sense of humor and nice attitude, collecting stuff, shiny/sparkly stuff,


Dislikes:
BUGS!, responsibility, work, people who display some of my worst personality traits..it just does not look good on them. xp ,


Location: Southern California, USA


Mule Account(s): Yuugi Mutou


Personal: Let's see...I've been playing on Gaia since July 25th of 2003, my birthday is in November(So, Birthstone = Topaz. ninja ), I'm scared of the thought of a live action Yu-Gi-Oh! movie, I avoid any shops that do Yu-Gi-Oh cosplays and any guilds that allow the claiming of anime characters(no offense Dorg.. sweatdrop ) because 1. I hate the thought of anyone but me having any sort of claim to Yuugi, and 2. I don't think it's right that only one person is able to claim each anime character when there are tons of people who like that character. If they were to suddenly come to life or something, they should be able to choose out of their many fangirl/fanboys instead of automatically being stuck with whoever got there first. xp I know, they're a little contradictory, but I happen to think I'd have a fair chance of winning Yuugi's heart if it came to that. ^_^ And if not...I'd just kidnap him and keep him locked up somewhere until he finally gave in and married me out of loneliness and desperation. twisted Okay, maybe not....but it's a thought, just in case.... xd

Work In Progress

space reserved for when I have more time. 3nodding

*begins autobiography with no hope of finishing any time soon*

Once upon a time I was born. This major even in my life occured on December 21st of 1986. This means that I am a Saggitarius. My birthday is the shortest day of the year and therefore the darkest. It is the Winter Solstice.

My name given to me at birth was, and still is, Donovan Richard Cochrane (last name isn't here razz ). My first name is old Irish and it means dark warrior. My second name is English and it means ruler. Because of this I am led to believe that I will use my evil powers to rule over you all!! My two middle names could also be d**k and c**k if you think about it. Not something most people would be proud of but I'm not most people am I?

I was raised by my mother and father until my father moved out when I was 14. Oddly enough the same year I got my first girlfriend, had my first kiss and lost virginity. I have no shame so don't expect me to keep any god damn secrets. stare As a child I moved around a lot. The longest I've ever lived in one house was for 3 years. It was scientifically proven that children who have moved a lot during their life are more in touch with the real world and are more likely to think rationally.

I have a younger brother and an older sister. I currently have 1 dog who is a german shepherd/great dane. I also have 5 cats but will have more soon because my sister's cat had kittens. EDIT: Nope, we didn't get any.

I have bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depression. Because of this and other varying factures in my life I tend to have my ups and downs. This and my tendancy to drift into deep thought about complex issues that I can't explain is what probably attracted me to poetry-writing. Skill is not an issue to me. I write for the enjoyment of myself and others but I do not write because others want me to.

At one point in my life I had gotten into quite a few fights. I had moved and decided to no longer live that sort of life. That is why I am now a pacifist.

I once thought I was in love with a girl of whom I had ended up dating for two years. The story is not worth typing up but let's just say I'm a little more wary about my feelings now. I had almost had a child but she had a miscarriage.

I don't like the last subject so... I just returned from Québec on an exchange program. I was there working with kids and learning French. I love kids a lot and enjoy being around them.

I can think of nothing else to say at the moment so I'll update this later.
Peace, love and cake.
Donovan heart

The Wind Angel's Autobiography
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Overview
I am known as Ane, Anemo, Kari, or Kristy. My username is greek meaning Wind Angel. I've been at Gaia longer than a year and have two accounts. The other one is one of the few invisibobs resulting from the April Fool's Day 2004 glitch. I'm eighteen and live with my parents though I'm not currently attending school. I'm a Pisces in the Western Zodiac and Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac. I have a type of depression and anxiety disorder that make going out into public not favorable for me. I was born on March 9 just after midnight, one day late and after my mom's birthday. My birthstone is the Aquamarine, or Bloodstone, and my starstone is the Moonstone. I'm an animal lover and have four pets. I have Super Nintendo, Gameboy, and Gamecube to play games on. Of them all my favorites are the Legend of Zelda series (Link to the Past, Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time), Aladdin (Super Nintendo), Mario Party 4, and Mortal Kombat 3 (Super Nintendo). I am not good at designing graphics or layouts but I can code HTML and CSS pretty well. I have not had a carefree past and unintentionally find myself somewhat trapped there when things remind me of things from it.
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Gaia Information
My username is anemosagkelos, which is greek for wind angel. I used a Greek-English dictionary and though I don't know how to properly pronouce it I thought it would probably sound nice. I joined Gaia on April 19, 2003 following a link someone posted on DDG's Message Board. I remember at first often checking out the threads in General Discussion but now I almost never look at threads in there. I tend to frequently lurk around the shrine, Questions & Feedback, and the Exchange. I am mostly found in The Exchange Lobby created by 58mm. I think there is probably one thread that I told myself I would never go to, a thread in the Exchange where a user was offering gold for pictures of people with their middle finger up. I guess it might be considered lame but I find the middle finger rude as well as cussing.

I have one mule account known as Weeping Willow. Originally, a female if I ever try to create my avatar again it'll be turned to a male as it's an invisibob. I don't plan to ever change that avatar and that helps me not to buy items. I have a marketplace store on Weeping Willow that I try to place items in at a low price so they are usually bought rather quickly. I try to avoid my bad habit of just giving people items and gold that I have worked hard for. I have given away too much but I hope to give away more in the future.
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Real Life Information
My real name is Kristy, which is also greek in origin. It means Christ-bear though I don't think that's appropriate for myself. I'm 18 and live with my parents, older brother, and four pets. I have brown hair just below the middle of my back and blue eyes although they seem to look blue-green to me. I wear glasses as I have trouble getting contacts out, in I do fine, but I can't seem to pinch the material to get it out. I currently am not attending school, but may return to being between a freshman and sophmore at a community college.

I have been diagnosed with Dysthymic Disorder, a type of depression, and a type of anxiety. I've been dealing with my depression since I was around 13, making it about five years. However, my entire family has some type of depression, so I seem to dislike hearing about it. Luckily, none of my pets seem to suffer from it, or people might think our water supply or something was contaminated. That was a lame attempt at making it seem funny.

I was born on Sunday, March 9, 1986 just after midnight. I am a Pisces, the fish swimming in opposite directions, in the Western Zodiac and a Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac. My birthstone is the Bloodstone or Aquamarine, while my starstone is the Moonstone. Pisces are in the twelfth house of the zodiac being the last sign but seem to be one of the more mystical signs.

I love animals and reading as well as writing, whether it be a story, poetry, or perhaps a journal entry. I like candles and fire, I call myself a pyromaniac (my family calls me a fire bug) though I'm not. I only light candles when I'm allowed to and have never started anything on fire. I like the Legend of Zelda games from Nintendo though I've only played three so far.

I am firmly against the abuse of people or animals, alcohol, animal captivity, cussing, drugs, idea of sex before marriage, slavery, smoking, and teasing. I would have to say I probably would protect animals more than people. I would love more than anything to swim with Orcas (Killer Whales) and dolphins though, I think they should be free. If an animal can't survive in the wild, then I don't think of captivity as a bad thing for them.
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Miscellaneous Information
I love almost all animals with the exception of some sharks, snakes, and spiders. I don't mind learning about snakes, I'll even watch about them on TV but I don't like seeing images of sharks (mostly the Great White). I happened to come in at a bad time during Jaws, while my parents were watching it. I was rather young so I freaked out and now I just prefer that I don't find out anything more. I think the only thing I would like to know is if they built another model, like Bruce (the one used in Jaws), and have the original displayed somewhere because I imagine the original couldn't have been used at Orlando without machinically falling out of shape.

I have frequent down spirals where my mood becomes either blah, wanting to make people hate me, or just not having a reason to believe anyone cares. I'm actually in the last one at the moment. It's ironic that as much as I hate myself I can't ever go through with suicide because I don't want to hurt the people who do care about me. It might not seem ironic to some but since I often wonder if I'm evil or a demon, irony seems to fit perfectly.

People tend to push me around without even knowing they are doing so. I care so much about people I don't really know and sometimes find myself searching in hopes of finding that they care. I never seem to find that they do though and it's quite painful to lose hope that anyone could care about you ever. To have the simplest dreams and yet know that they probably won't ever come true, that all you have is dreaming. Dreaming can only last so long and leaves me feeling so empty that it seems like it's not at all worth it.

The thing about me is that I'm rather fragile though it may seem otherwise. People can say something about me and I'll want to cry, though often I find I can't. I'm easily hurt by people and I withdraw when I'm hurt. I become very quiet, very 'thoughtful', but mostly I look at things through black colored glasses. I have trouble believing people care and that when I leave a room or when I did people won't be celebrating that I'm finally gone. I don't think many people do care though. People may know me a little bit but somehow the more I care about them, the less they seem to care about me. It's like living in a glass room, and looking at the window. You try to reach out, to call to people but they don't hear you or if they do they ignore you. Pain seems to be my only true companion besides my heartbeat.
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History
I was born a few minutes after my mom's 25th birthday. I've lived in the same city all my life and only remember living in one house. My family lived in a duplex before moving to this house but I don't remember that.

I've always lived with Dad, Mom, and my older brother. There have been points where that has been left up to fate but luckily fate has always seemed to decide it's best for us all to stay living together. I am rather grateful for that.

I'm known to be accident prone but considering I have been bucked off a horse, bitten on the lip by a dog, scraped my knee almost to the bone, hit by a car while riding my bike, scratched and bitten by numerous cats, hit my partner with a racket while trying to play badminton, fell off a horse while it reared, and while dismounting a horse fell backwards. So I think it's rather logical to see why I think if I get in a car I'm going to crash. Sometimes I seem to be one big scar or bruise, often finding one with no idea how I got it.

School...long story short good at learning, got good grades, but found out the hard way social gatherings just aren't for me. I learned from that, that I hate Iowa's court system and some laws. So I was kind of forced to drop out of high school but I got my GED and started college. The GED was so easy for me it took me a month, of that month I went about ten days to take the pre-tests and actual tests. I really wish it had been harder especially since in Iowa you can't take it until you're seventeen (although you can drop out of highschool at sixteen).

I'd add more here but that wouldn't be appropriate. It's more of my family's business and advertising it or talking about it seems kind of wrong. So I'll just say someone in my family made friends with a bad person and wound up getting beat up by that "friend". As much as those events should be over, they really aren't and it's resulting in me being untrusting, suspicious, and fearful of losing one of my parents.
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Last Updated: October 13, 2004

*reserve*

Okay, I know I'm pretty late with this, but I'll try and add a little more each day as I remember it. O negau na... [ hopefully... ]

Alright, the beginning seems a good a place to start as any. I was born on March 11, 1987 in a little city in Siberia by the name of Tomsk. I suppose it wasn't too terribly small, as there's hardly anything out there to begin with, but it's not one of the known cities. For some reason, I was born in the #2 birthing hospital. Considering birthrates over there, I don't know why they even needed two whole hospitals. Anyway, yes, that was still in the days of yore (communism). So, I'm a Pisces ( water sign through and through - my moon is Cancer. I have a chart thing on astro.com = D ), and a Fire Rabbit by Chinese Zodiac. I'm passionately meek. Isn't that just lovely? -_-;;;

Anyway, my family - parents, :: insert inutterable long string of curses :: older brother ( let's just say I've got repressed memories and leave it at that - anyone who talks to me long enough knows why I hate my brother ) and I - lived there until communism collapsed. When it did, things sucked righteously. Little food, high prices, et cetera. So, we came here to the states on refugee status, and a relative helped us a lot in getting settled in.

Yes, I'm a refugee. I didn't even know it, 'cause I didn't float in on a box or anything like that. o_O

I hate making people sad with anything I say, so I'll often just make fun of whatever sadness is in my life. It somewhat works.

Oh yeah, my name's Ella - means light, which is why I use the moniker Hikari. While some people here at the lovely shrine made it easier to put my name on high scores by calling me "Hika," it's actually split at Hikari no Tabi. It means journey of light, and by carrying the same meaning as my name, it's like my journey.

Wow, I am t3h creative. XD

As some people might guess, I'm a student of Japanese. I've been studying for about three years now, officially for about two. I go to an independent language school by the name of "San Faanando Baree Nihongo Gakuen" [ San Fernando Valley Japanese Campus, by literal translation ], and I absolutely love it. I always have a good teacher, love celebrating the festivals, and adore going there so much that I'm working my butt off to be able to pay the tuition. I started in the second grade, skipped to the sixth, and with some studying, I should be able to test into the eighth - they're starting the testing this fall - and graduate. I'll be sad to leave, but I really have reached a sort of plateau for now, and I can't afford to keep going. ( LOL As great as it is that since I can't afford to keep going, I'm going to graduate instead of quit. = D )

My favorite types of humor are political humor and, moreso, the absurdities of life. When something is ridiculous, it amuses me. No clue why, but hey, you gotta laugh at something.

I'm into anime and video games ( currently watching .hack//SIGN and just finished FFV... Yes, sad, I know, but I'm catching up! ), a major reader, chatting, studying Japanese language and culture, the martial arts, eating, writing randomly, and probably other things I can't remember.

I haven't been on here too long, and I can't remember how I found my way to the shrine, but it's the only place that I actually frequent on Gaia. I love the people here, and couldn't be happier that I was allowed in while it was still on the forums.

I think that's all for now, I should save more writing for later.

~Hikari

I'm going to bring up things in this that shall not be discussed anywhere else.

My name is Kristyn Amee Davis. I was born in Sacramento, California on August first, 1983. My mother was eighteen at my birth, my father was twenty-one. They met at a mormon church. My father continuously denied that I (unborn at the time) was his child, and for this, he was excommunicated. Harsh, huh?

My early years were spent with my Grandmother and her husband (she left him fifteen years ago, but they're still married... sweatdrop ), because my mother wasn't terribly... maternal. I was quite an entertaining child. If I noticed that I was causing people to laugh, I would ham it up and act goofy. We have proof. My first birthday I spent making funny faces and rubbing cake on my budda-belly.

My mother married when I was still very young to a man who she did not love. He was okay, but looking back on it, she told me it was like having two children instead of just one. Though I lived with my mother, I still spent most of my time with my grandmother, who I have always been very close to. My father married a barely legal girl and decided he wanted to play 'Daddy'. My parents spent many hours and a great deal of money in custody battles. The ironic thing about it is, neither of them really wanted me. Sure, my mother loved me, but she was still a child herself. My father... Eh.

So, they got joint custody. At this point, nothing really happend. My step-mother had two sisters, my mother got divorced, my father got divorced and then remarried, blah blah blah. At sixteen I decided I didn't like my father (he made me cry every time I went to his house. No particular reason why. He's just an a**.) So I quit visiting. Guilt trips have been laid ever since. I don't care.

Graduated High School, joined GAIA, moved to Oregon, and here I am. I'm sure there are a lot more things I could have written, but I got bored.

Shall we move on to my personality?

I'm a Leo. Rawr. I can be very outspoken and aggressive, but most of the time, I'm shy and polite. I'd much rather be at home lounging than hanging out with friends. I enjoy video games, horror movies, internet addictions, sugar, and other various things. I'll leave it to your imagination. Actually look it up in my journal. I've got a big list of things I like there in my user info.

I'm terrified of masquito hawks. ...Eww... Eww... They're so gross! My mother claims I'm a puss, and I'm sure she's right. I'm such a girl.

I'm asexual, never had a boyfriend/girlfriend, never been kissed, still a virgin.

...There are all sorts of other things, but again, I'm bored, and I'm sure you are too just reading this. It's not the best thing I've ever written.

Mmkay. sweatdrop
November 1, 1989; Stanford hospital; California; Female; Snake; Scorpio.
I've lived in the same house for my entire life. yay me. o.O
I have one older brother, both my parents, and a half brother named John. I think he lives in Washington. I don't know which one though. And he's old.
I currently have two cats, and I've had three previous ones, plus a hamster (two weeks- I gave it back to the petsore) and a bird (a few months or so- it died).
Santa Rita Elementary School, Ardis Egan Jr. High, Los Altos High School. Go LAHS. Woo. ¬_¬
I like cats and chocolate. And other stuff. o_O
I hate spiders, nuts, and poopy people. 3nodding