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Title: Player autobiographies
Post by: ArtOfLight on 03 Apr 2013, 12:23
So, we already have a dedicated forum for our character profiles and corporations and every now and then I get the desire to know a little more about the players I'm playing with. I figured I'd make a personal little page and share some information about me.

Obviously I'm not expecting everyone to follow suit (but I encourage you to do so!). It's one thing to put up a biography for a fictional character, it's another thing entirely to put up an autobiography. However, it's something I wanted to do so please feel free to ask me questions, state your opinions of me (good or ill) or simply banter below.

Name: James Kyle Custer
Preferred/Nickname: Jim/Jynx
Date of Birth: AD 85.05.27
Age: 28
Profession: Human Resources and Information Technologies
Nationality: American
Number of years roleplaying: 3
Fun facts:
Historical Summary:

Born May 27, 1985 in Stuttgart, Germany. Graduated in top 5% of my high school class of 2003 (not that you could tell from talking to me. :P) Started the chess club at my high school which now participates in statewide tournaments.

I'm a lead baritone and I sing often for my church (I love to sing). I'm particularly bad at poetry though I love to write short stories.

Happily married (just celebrated by second anniversary) to the most amazing woman in the world. Non-denominational Christian. I consider myself moderately conservative politically, socially and economically.

The oldest of three brothers, my father recently passed away. (Leading to my absence from EVE for several months).

When I make characters in roleplay settings, one of my overarching goals is to make them believable and yet fun to interact with. My focus is to try and make sure that any RP involving me is fun for everyone involved and not just me.
Title: Re: [Player] ArtOfLight
Post by: Katrina Oniseki on 03 Apr 2013, 12:50
I'll bite.

Name: Mark
Nickname: Goofus Markus (yes, I'm serious. That's my mom's nickname for me)
Online Handle: Counciler
Date of Birth: AD 86.07.17
Age: 26
Profession: Part Time Worker, Po'Dunk Redneck-in-Denial, Deli Clerk
Nationality: American
Number of years roleplaying: 8
Fun facts:

I am also much better at filling out a list than I am with typing stuff out about myself. xD
Title: Re: [Player] ArtOfLight
Post by: Aelisha Montenagre on 03 Apr 2013, 13:40
Name: Darren
Online Handle: Sokahrthu
Date of Birth: 29/07/1985
Age: 27
Profession: PhD Student, Research Engineer (Intelligent/Autonomous Control Systems in particular)
Nationality: British
Number of years roleplaying: 15 (5 of which were spent shamelessly 'doinitrong' at my local gaming club)
Fun facts:

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE.

(Full bio to come when not at work)
Title: Re: [Player] ArtOfLight
Post by: Lyn Farel on 03 Apr 2013, 13:48
We might have to change the title of that thread if everyone keeps answering in the same topic.

And since I feel bad reading about someone else private life (with internet as a reference here), I'll bite too. Forgive me if I just use the same form, I do not feel like being very imaginative/creative on that kind of things.


I'll bite.

Name: Robin
Nickname: None yet, I think. That's not so much part of the culture like it is in the US where I live.
Online Handle: Valence
Date of Birth: 09/01/1987
Age: 26
Profession: Game industry (Eugen Systems for those who know)
Nationality: French
Number of years roleplaying: 9
Fun facts:

Born in north of France in Lille, then lived for 1 year and a half at 4 in England near London, before returning. Then lived in Normandy, and eventually around Paris. Oldest of two brothers (and a sister studying in Spain).

I was a casual Tennis player until lack of time and partners made me stop. Otherwise, I usually suck more or less hard at sports and have a bad stamina.

Since I live in a country of heretical socialistic atheists (32%), thus I am one of them. Hello ! But more seriously, I tend to be quite a technocrat in mind, EU staunch supporter, an eco-freak also, and feeling a lot of affinities with the various pirate parties over Europe.

I usually love to write/draw/paint/create things (like games), which has been a passion since my childhood. But I need to be in the right mood to do it... Which tends to be quite a constraint when already doing that for work.

That's it, now you can start to stalk me. I don't bite, really.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Ember Vykos on 03 Apr 2013, 14:18
Name: Jonathan
Preferred/Nickname: Jon/Joker
Date of Birth: 12/9/80
Age: 32 (33 this year omg fml)
Profession: Soon to be graduated student/Retail slut
Nationality: Merica
Number of years roleplaying: Counting tabletop games around 14 off and on
Fun facts:
Historical Summary:

I'm an only child. I have a wonderful girlfriend that Mark says looks like Zoey Deschanel (and she does \o/) I got into fantasy/sci fi at a very early age by watching movies with interesting covers at the local video rental place. Shortly after that I started reading D&D novels, playing Final Fantasy games and the like, and the rest was/is history.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Valdezi on 03 Apr 2013, 18:33
This is probably a bad idea.

Name: John
Preferred/Nickname: Johnny
Date of Birth: 21 Jun 80
Age: 32
Profession: Teacher
Nationality: Australian
Number of years roleplaying: Started DnD at 11, so 21, I suppose.
Fun facts:

First character on EVE was Mammal Tafren
Favorite Faction in EVE: Intaki/Gallente
Favorite Fantasy Character type: Wizard
Favorite Food: Indian
Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Whiskey or Wine
Favourite Non-Alcoholic Drink: Tea / Coffee / Coke
Biggest Vice: Coke

The thing I most hate about myself is not really anything. I wouldn't mind being taller. Maybe it would be nice to be more motivated.
The thing I most love about myself is that I'm quite good with people.

Historical Summary:

One of five kids, born in Sydney and lived here my whole life except for a year in the UK. I'm married with a kid and another on the way.

I play competitive basketball with some other dudes from I-RED. I'm the point guard.

I'm politically quite left-wing. Was involved with Student Politics and in Young Labor.

I write poetry and short stories.

I come from a progressive Catholic family, but I mostly worship Thor nowadays. I consider myself to be culturally Catholic, even though I don't really buy into Christianity anymore.


Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Saede Riordan on 03 Apr 2013, 19:09
Oh dear, it begins, the internet is leaking. (Feel free to add me on facebook u gaise.)

Name: Fiona Shiloh Nightingale
Preferred/Nickname: Fi
Online Handle(s) Sagebrush/Sagebrysh/Tsakara
Date of Birth: 03.26.YC92
Age: 23
Profession: Professional Instigator of Mischief, Shenanigans, and Haberdashery
Nationality: The Internet
Number of years roleplaying: 8

Fun facts:
Type 65 WPM
First character on EVE was Wren Alterana
Favorite Faction in EVE: Minmatar
Favorite Fantasy Character type: Cleric
Favorite Food: Sandwiches
Favorite Drink: Pepsi
Biggest Vice: LOL, how do you choose just one?
I'm totally fully of myself
The thing I most hate about myself is my inability to focus on things and keep with things I start
The thing I most love about myself is my creativity
I'm Queer
I'm genderqueer
I'm Fabulous

Historical Summary:
This will be very brief, my history is pretty boring honestly. Born in 1990 in upstate new york, and have lived there all my life. Graduated high school in 2009, went to college for a semester, dropped out, moped around doing nothing for 2 years, now I'm back in school, pursuing a science degree. Oh, and somewhere in there I switched genders.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Katrina Oniseki on 03 Apr 2013, 19:25
Quote from: Ember Vykos on 03 Apr 2013, 14:18
I have a wonderful girlfriend that Mark says looks like Zoey Deschanel (and she does \o/)

Confirming.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Ember Vykos on 03 Apr 2013, 20:38
Quote from: Katrina Oniseki on 03 Apr 2013, 19:25
Quote from: Ember Vykos on 03 Apr 2013, 14:18
I have a wonderful girlfriend that Mark says looks like Zoey Deschanel (and she does \o/)

Confirming.

 :cube:
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: lallara zhuul on 04 Apr 2013, 02:54

Name: Sauli
Preferred/Nickname: Saukkis/Wrath of God
Date of Birth: 5th of November 1976
Age: 36
Profession: Alexander-Technique Teacher
Nationality: Finn
Number of years roleplaying: 26
Fun facts:
Historical Summary:

Born in the middle of Finland in the wee hours of morning on the fifth of November in the year of our Lord nineteen seventy six.
Enjoyed the first nine years of school immensely, pissed away the next three.
Did my civilian service at a monastery for a year.
Waffled about in the rock n' roll scene for a few years until I realized it was just a wonderful excuse to be an alcoholic.
Spent six years waffling about in the university.
Worked a few years at a theater behind the scenes building props and cleaning up the toilets.
Got myself trained as an Alexander Teacher in Ireland, took me three years and a bit.
Currently getting my own practice going in my hometown.

I've pretty much worked every job in a farm from tilling the soil to burying rotten calves.
I've done my time in a cubicle and chose to scrub urine infested toilets instead because it was less demeaning.
I've helped built houses and for a hoot we blew up an old one with dynamite when we were kids.

I love the cold of winter, I love the laughter of the kids of my relatives and for some strange reason I love running.

Politically speaking I am an abolitionist, current political systems are based on a power structure that is profoundly corrupt that also create corruption. During the information age we should not be thinking that a two thousand year old political dogma should be considered constructive.

Religiously speaking... well, once you've seen 'holy' men breaking just about every rule in their rulebook the organized religion went out of the window.
Then I took a look into the wiccan thing in the nineties, its like a comic book version of the old pagan religions so the neo-paganism has nothing but disdain from me.
Zen was incompatible, buddhism and shinto didn't fit into my culture and these ramadamadingdong people, ffs.
So I'm a pagan, and a finn. All that it entails and none of the above.
Primal connection to the nature and mutual respect.

Damn, I'm rambling again, time for brekkies.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Adreena Madeveda on 04 Apr 2013, 04:14
Name: Gabriel
Preferred/Nickname: Gabi
Date of Birth: May 21th 78
Age: 34
Profession: philosophy teacher
Nationality: french
Number of years roleplaying: ... 22
Fun facts:

    I acn tuep 60 wdors oer iumntes !
    First character on EVE is Adreena
    Favorite Faction in EVE: Minmatar
    Favorite Fantasy Character type: warrior
    Favorite Food: pot-au-feu
    Favorite Drink: coffee !
    Favorite alcohol: Oh they're all so cuuuute ! Why can't I take them all ?
    Biggest Vice: cigarettes
    Really bad at organizing
    The thing I most hate about myself is everything
    The thing I most love about myself is that I somehow manage to be a decent father

Historical Summary:

Essentially : "Wow, it's been a weird ride... Wait, is this thing still moving ?"
My son Elie is 9 years-old, his mother and I are separated since 8 years. I manage to live an almost normal life with a borderline personality disorder. My father was a calvinist pastor who didn't believe in an afterlife, who hanged himself on my birthday seven years ago (he was always terrible when it came to choosing gifts), I became an atheist after a 2 weeks retreat in a monastery and I wonder if I should erase this ramble or hit post. Oh, crap.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Caellach Marellus on 04 Apr 2013, 07:36
Name: Matthew James Berry
Preferred/Nickname: Matt
Date of Birth: 8th July, 1986
Age: 26
Profession: Professional lab rat for the department of Work and Pensions.
Nationality: English
Number of years roleplaying: 8

Fun facts:

Historical Summary:

Born at 1:15 in the morning already sporting my first bruise (seriously who thought that was a great place to put a pelvic bone?) I spent my early years in a "Start as you mean to carry on" getting bumps and scrapes everywhere.

Due to my older brother owning a C64 and a Z8 I grew up very early in videogaming, that and a love of sci fi which got me reading Dune at a very early age plotted the rest of my life. Infact I can summarise 8-26 like this...

Dune (books) > Dune (Video game) > Dune 2 >Westwood making awesome games> Command and Conquer >Love of RTS > Warcraft >Love of Blizzard lore when it was good> World of Warcraft >The people you meet> EVE.

In that time I've had numerous events take place but mostly all short term and non life changing, except rejecting religion at my Grandfather's funeral, that's been pretty permanent. Other than that, videogaming and a love of Pro Wrestling are the two constants throughout my life.

Oh, and I was on Fun House, I expect no one outside of the UK to understand this line.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Anslol on 04 Apr 2013, 10:13
Redacted for personal reasons.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Safai on 04 Apr 2013, 16:28
Hey, what the hey.

Nickname: Jackie-boy, Jerky
Date of Birth: AD 88.xx.xx
Age: 24
Profession: Graphic Design student, soon-to-be unemployed graduate
Nationality: Canadian (BC)
Number of years roleplaying: 2
Fun facts:Historical Summary: I was born pretty young but over time I got older. Was big into hardcore, noise rock, doom metal and sludge later in high school—still am, actually—and am a proponent for independent music. Regrettably, have been unable to stick with an instrument and dedicate myself to practise. Still go to shows to see the bands I like whenever possible. I've been erroneously called "emo" and "hipster" throughout my life despite having no connection with the emotive hardcore scene, nor any fondness "indie rock" as a genre.

I was scolded throughout school for drawing, daydreaming or otherwise not paying attention. Eventually I decided I had enough and left high school and home shortly after turning 17 to work and pretend like I was an adult. After a number of years of that my focus came together and lead me to a diploma program at my University which is nearing an end, and I'm looking at returning for another year to major in English (for technical editing) and minor in Humanities (out of interest). I have rooted faith and conviction in Torah, though I'm gentile and not part of any organized group. I loathe being called "spiritual" as a replacement for "religious." I do hand-cut stencils for a hobby craft, though I'm too old to do graffiti. ;)

* Note: Not my previous character
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: DeadRow on 04 Apr 2013, 17:21
Name: Joshua taylor
Date of Birth: 24/06/1989
Age: 23
Profession: Shitty Job D:
Nationality: British
Number of years roleplaying: 5, started with Eve and then tried DnD with friends, sadly work and RL got in the way of that :(
Fun facts:

Quote
I am also much better at filling out a list than I am with typing stuff out about myself. xD
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Syagrius on 04 Apr 2013, 18:38
Name: Jackson W. Neil
Preferred/Nickname: Jack or JW
Date of Birth: AD 1957.01.15
Age: 56
Profession: Director of Allied Health at Arkansas Northeastern College.
Nationality: The State of Arkansas, The United States of America.
Number of years role-playing: 3
Fun facts:

Teaches sunday school and uses “limited” profanity.
Has been married for a very very very long time.
Favorite Food: Chicken and dumplings.
Favorite Drink: Sweet Tea.
Biggest Vice: Single malt Irish whiskey.
First character on EVE was Oland Jan.
Favorite Faction in EVE: Amarr.
Favorite EVE Bloodline: Ni Kunni.
The thing I dislike about myself: I am overly opinionated.
The thing I most like about myself: I am fair.

Historical Summary:
I was born in Blytheville Arkansas the same town I live in now.  I attended K-12 at the same school, completed undergraduate at The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss).  Masters from Arkansas State University, doctoral at the University of Missouri.  I am a divisional director at a local community college and farm, growing mostly rice, soybeans and a little cotton.

I have been married to my beautiful and accomplished wife for a very long time.  I am socialy and politically conservative with libertarian overtones.

I was the youngest of four children both my parents, my eldest brother and only sister have have all died within the past five years.

I enjoy playing Jame Syagrius but his development is been haphazard.  I very much enjoy interacting with other RPers in eve.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Natalcya Katla on 04 Apr 2013, 22:38
Oh, very well.

Name: Arne
Year of Birth: 1980
Age: 33
Profession: University student (History)
Nationality: Norwegian
Number of years roleplaying: 20
Fun facts:
Historical Summary:

I'm from Bergen and proud of it. Unlike very many other local patriots, this pride does not extend to an interest in football (soccer).

I'm a social liberal, believing that individual freedom and a solid social safety net (including free education) can and should complement rather than contradict each other.

I'm an atheist.

I am quite conservative in my music taste. If a genre was invented after (or even shortly before) my birth, it is probably shit. I do not consider a computer to be a musical instrument, I do not equate bestial growling with song, and if anything is so loud that you need to plug your ears in order to listen to it, it is not music, but noise. Folk songs, shanties and especially political ballads of all - and I do mean all - creeds are what I prefer. If my Youtube history were ever to be investigated by anyone, they'd probably label me a multipolar extremist. Ragtime, cabaret and old jazz is all good music, too, as is satire and just about any song with clever or funny lyrics. Marlene Dietrich is divine.

I'm single and not really looking.

I love Western movies. Absolutely love them.

I study American history, but I have never been to America.

Much like my taste in music, my RPG characters tend to gravitate toward some kind of ideological (or in some cases simply cultural) extreme. Radical ideology fascinates me, even though I don't share it. I enjoy the challenge of exploring mindsets different from my own, while still trying to keep the character three-dimensional and somewhat ambivalent. I usually let my characters stop comfortably short of blind fanaticism, however, which to me seems more likely to destroy interaction than to provoke it.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Ché Biko on 05 Apr 2013, 21:29
Ok, those who've read my evelopedia profile are gonna find similarities, and yeah I've based Ché on myself, live with it.  :P

First Name: Sanne
Preferred/Nickname: My love calls me (Little) Beast often. My second love and her son call me Nasse.
Date of Birth: 81.03.26
Age: 36
Activities: Youth center/music venue/café volunteer, terrible house"husband", creative guy, lover.
Nationality: Dutch
Number of years roleplaying: 18
Fun facts:
Historical Summary:

Born in Rotterdam. Only child. Mostly grew up in a small (population ~12.000) riverside city in the "Green Heart" of Holland. My left wing parents divorced at age 7, continued to live with my mother, spend most weekends with my father. My mother started renting some rooms of our big house to students. I was very intelligent, might have been highly gifted, but was rarely motivated to do something with it. Cruised my way through school without much effort, to the point of going to some of my final exams stoned and 2 hours late.
I learned to play various instruments (among them violin, piano, guitar)  but lack of motivation was also a factor here. Made some electronic music and (alternative lyrics to) songs. And I like(d) singing. My first girlfriend introduced me to Metallica when I was 15, and from that point onward I gradually became a metalhead/goth hybrid, although my musical tastes have broadened considerably since then.

When I turned 18, my father informed me against my mother's will that he had 2 younger daughters with another woman. I contacted them, and although we get along well for the most part, we never got really close before they moved abroad.

In my final year in school, when I turned 18, I started smoking weed and started taking pictures, always carrying my camera with me. I also met my current partner, and we quickly became pot smoking buddies and then lovers, in a relationship that was a bit turbulent at first. When I wanted to move into her rented room, my mother prevented it by telling the owner of the house I was a junkie. I did not want to move back in with my mother as I felt betrayed by her (which is still part of why our relationship is troubled to this day), so instead me and my girl stated sharing a small apartment with someone young woman who we befriended around that time, and was a borderliner, which led to some interesting situations. We experimented a little with other drugs and substances, nothing too hard though, but in a way it's amazing that we landed on our feet as good as we did, with our lives and brains relatively intact.
After nearly a year, we found out that the woman had not payed the rent since we moved in, and were about to be evicted. Me and my loved volunteered to pay our fair share, and lend the woman the rest because she was broke. I loaned the money from my father, after my mother had refused to do so, but she allowed me and my love to move into her house, paying rent like the students. We accepted the offer, not wanting to risk a repeat.

After we graduated, I still had no idea what I wanted to do, so I worked several paid jobs, but never longer than a year, for various reasons. My love had similar success, so we were depending on social security often. At some point I had a epiphany, when I realized the nature of money and our economy, and I started to question almost everything, forming my own truths and philosophies, influenced by Buddhism, communism, and nihilism/determinism. After a few years, my mother got tired of our bad habits and bad housekeeping, even though we practically lived in our own apartment within the house, so we moved out to our own place.
Eventually I gave up unsuccessfully "whoring myself to the economy" and focused on my volunteer activities, which gave me far more satisfaction than the paid jobs. The income of my love along with some tax cuts, allowed me to do so, she had landed a steady job she liked, but wants to quit now, so I'm looking for a job.

I'm pretty creative quality wise, in various fields like writing, music and photography, but not very productive. I made a decent amount of art in the form of pictures, some of it is likely sadly lost due to my back-up drive being corrupted.

I think I might have some form of autism. This has yet to be confirmed, but one variant sounds so much like me (and maybe my father as well) that it's freaky. Whether or not it is true, is pretty much irrelevant to me, as I've always been pretty aware of my traits and mannerisms and stuff. I just didn't know most of those traits and mannerisms were lumped together and labeled as a form of autism. Maybe I'll find new ways to make some things in my life easier, but I think it is a bit too late for me to really benefit much from this new insight. It would have been great to know like 30 years ago, but now...meh.

Two and a half years ago, a woman seduced me. Some loving, adventures and travels later, we're now best friends. I'm still in love with her, though (I'm poly-amorous).

Character creation:
I tend to put at least one aspect of myself in my characters, sometimes magnified (and sometimes to the extreme), whether it is personality, interests, or philosophy. Then I throw in some stuff or philosophy that I think contrasts/harmonizes nicely with that, or that twists that "me" trait into something new. And I try to make the char suit the setting/story and the other characters.
For example, I once paired my benevolent self-righteous side with religious fanaticism, as a vampire killing sinners, a dark angel of God's wrath, a Gladius Dei.
Ché started out as an experiment to test the feasibility of creating a communist economy within a capitalist world. He is what I imagine myself to be if I had grown up in New Eden. After his creation though, we have increasingly less in common. Ché got more psychologically unbalanced, for example.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Louella Dougans on 20 Apr 2013, 02:27
Name: Louella (apparently a German name meaning "young girl warrior". grr :3 )
Real Name: Louise Elisabeth Francis
Birthday: April 13, 1991.
Profession: Environmental conservation
Nationality: British
Number of years RPing: 5ish. (omg)

Fun facts:

Summary:
So, life is somewhat complicated. My real mother died when I was about 2. She was a friend of my adoptive mother. My father was not really suited to trying to look after a child on his own, which is how it came to pass that I was adopted. He disappeared a couple years later, it is possible that he joined the French Foreign Legion, we got a couple postcards for a few years after that, though they stopped around ten years ago.
I found out fairly recently that I am allergic to semen, lol, which means I am unlikely to be able to have children.
I also have frequent depression, which is one reason why I didn't do all that well at school.

It seems that animals find me fascinating. When I've been out and about, animals always seem to come over to have a closer look. Horses, cows, dogs, seem to leave other people alone, but wander over to me instead. It's odd.

I currently work as a park keeper, maintaining grass plots, shrub beds, flower beds, and other park features. It's nice to be out and around during the summer and stuff. Not so much in winter, and other typical UK weather. A few questionable orders from managers too - "go blow sticks and leaves off the paths, in a gale" and so on.

:)
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Arnulf Ogunkoya on 20 Apr 2013, 03:57
Name: Arnulf Ogunkoya
Real Name: Shaun Murrant
Birthday: July 09, 1966.
Profession: Local government clerk
Nationality: British. Resident in London.
Number of years RPing: 39. Mostly tabletop & a smattering of LARP. MMO's are something of a recent thing.

Stuff:

Summary:
Grew up to UB40 and Madness. Started work in the peak of the Thatcher years (which is why I don't remember her very fondly). Started gaming just after leaving secondary school with AD&D. Over the years have played most of the more popular tabletop systems and run some stuff myself (Mainly Cyberpunk, RQ3 and a little GURPS 3rd edition modern horror).

About a decade or so back I got invited along to one of the big fest live roleplaying events, The Gathering. This happens over the August Bank Holiday near Derby. Haven't been for a while due to money issues and lack of people to go with, but find dressing up & being silly to be a lot of fun. For those that are familiar with the setting, I'm a member of the Unicorn faction.

Sporadic SF fan of the con-going variety. Current member of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the hitch-hiker's guide fanclub. My first girlfriend was a filker.

Wondering if this isn't a major invitation to identity theft given some of the more rabid elements of the EVE playerbase. But I figure none of this is anything that would be too difficult to find out anyway.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Techie Kanenald on 20 Apr 2013, 06:08
Name: Erik Lawrence Goodin
Nickname: None outside of EVE
Date of Birth: 05/31/1986
Age: 26 (soon to be 27)
Profession: Student
Nationality: American
Number of Years RPing: 10


Fun Facts:

WPM – 42
First Character on EVE – Izanagi Raiden
Favorite Faction in EVE– Amarr
Favorite Fantasy Character Type: Demi-God
Favorite Food: Kraft Mac and Cheese
Favorite Drink: Mountain Dew
Biggest Vice: MMOs
Thing I hate most about myself – my compassion
Thing I love most about myself – my imagination
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Dewgong on 25 Apr 2013, 14:06
Name: Jeremiah Snyder
Nickname: Jeremy, Jer, Sny-dog, Snyder
Online Handle: Xns or Dewgong
Date of Birth: July 21 1989
Age: 23
Profession: USAF, Airborne Surveillance Technician (I fly on This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-3_Sentry))
Nationality: American
Number of years roleplaying: 10
Fun facts:


Bio:
Born an Army brat.  Dad cheated on and divorced my mother before I was born.  My step-dad was at the hospital with my mother when they just started dating.  Born in Washington State, always my home, although I've never stayed there more than a few years.  Step-dad just recently retired.  Moved around every couple of years or so, ended up going to 3 different high schools and graduated in Texas (ugh).  Lived in Japan for a few years, Okinawa, beautiful place I tell ya.  Lived in Colorado before enlisting, now currently reside in Oklahoma (as much as people says it sucks, and even though I might say it sucks, this place really does grow on ya)

Heavy gamer (until recently because of 'life').  Always enjoyed war and strategy games.  Tetris, Starcraft, Call of Duty/Medal of Honor (the original ones, not this new crap).  Also a huge fan of games like Mario Kart, various RPGs like Final Fantasy (IX is the best) and Skies of Arcadia.  Not really big on sports games.  Heavy Nintendo fan, although fanboyism played out years ago.  Mostly casual gamer now as work and life occupies most of my time and worries.  I have enough flying hours to equate to about three months straight of flying.  Longest flight clocked in at just under 21 hours.

Huge Sci-Fi addict.  Star Wars, Trek, Stargate, X-files, Sci-Fi channel before it went to shit.  Oh, almost forgot Firefly, how dare I.  Decent fan of Fantasy and usually makes for good reading.  Self taught at Photoshop, 12 years now.  Tried to go to college for web design/graphic design but the professors made it into an evil idea.  I still dabble from time to time.  Very artistic outside of computer programs, sketching, painting, drafting, even work with various things such as household items, scraps, even charcoal.

Former member of the Communist Party of America (yes, it exists :o ).  Long story to go with that, but oh well.  Part Welsh, Croatian, Lebanese, German, Norwegian, Irish uhhh, I prefer to drive manual cars over automatics?  I don't know what else to put really.  Oh, I do enjoy reading.  War and Peace is my favorite book, although I've only read it twice (it's a  long read <_< ).  A close second would be 1984.

Any questions, comments, concerns? 
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Utsukushi Shi on 26 Apr 2013, 08:06
Righto, here we go.

Name: Bjorn Sorensen-Named after the Gurahl in the Hobbit(yes I just mixed WoD and Tolkien, beat me later)
Nickname: Gen Roku-Been my online handle of choice forever, means "Returning Spirit" in Chinese. First used it when I was a Halo addict.
DOB/Age: 08/31/80-32
Profession:Miner/Fabricator-I make stuffs out of soapstone.
Nationality: USA, born in a farmhouse in South Dakota. Raised in Virginia.
Genetic Origin: Mostly 3rd generation Danish immigrant, then black slave stock from North Carolina, then some random mixed stuffs from europe.
Years RP: 20+, started with AD&D 2nd ed when I was 10-11. Moved on to Cyberpunk 2020 and WoD, mainly LARPing. Those two are and will always be my favorite RPG systems/settings.

Vice: I am a terrible pothead.
First Toon: Shinayin Naerth was the first character I ever created for EVE.
Fav Faction: Love most of them.
Fav Bloodline: Same. Wish that CCP would stop using words like "Bloodline and Race" and instead use "Ethnicity" but whateves lol.
Things I like: Role-playing, shooting the occasional person, doing some mining, doing some explo, OCD organizing my stuffs.
Things I dont like: Mean people, Forum-warrioring, "EVE IS DYING BECAUSE X", internet kids who lack reading comprehension.

Rough Bio:
 My father was a carpenter, a drug smuggler, a convict, one crazy long-hair Willy Nelson looking badass muther. My mother was a mixed race single mother in the fifties who ended up in the first all woman folk band in America. they met through the classifieds in Mother Earth News and became farmers in South Dakota where my sister and I were born.
 I grew up in the shadow of the coolest people ever and so of course became a worthless gothic bastard....
 I started working with my older brother at his Soapstone mill over ten years ago and now stone is what I do, just starting to segue left out of the boring production crap and starting to make more art pieces. Think one of my first projects will be a set of four benches themed of the main factions of New Eden. Will see how that goes :)
 I love music of all types, love sci-fi, love smart fantasy. I live in the realm of fantasy and will for the rest of my life.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: orange on 26 Apr 2013, 10:40
Name: Rob Holland
Nickname: Dex
Online Handle: orange or dex (or some variant there of)
Date of Birth: 16 Mar 1984
Age: 29
Profession: USAF Contractor (former Air Force)
Nationality: American
Number of years roleplaying: 15ish
Fun facts:


Bio:
Air Force brat.  Born in North Caroline.  Moved around every 2 to 3 years, ended up going to 3 different high schools and graduated in Texas (useful for tax purposes).  Lived in two places in Germany, Belgium, and Denmark.  Went to a small technical school in Colorado before graduating with a BS in Astronautical Engineering and becoming an 2Lt. Tried to be an AF pilot before washing out for not getting the hang of landing fast enough and then trying to be a backseater and getting medically disqualified (I love flying, except for the puking).  AF assigned me Los Angeles working a satellite program.  Got out of the Air Force when my next assignment turned out to be ICBMs.  Now, I am a dirty contractor supporting the Air Force.

Fairly standard gamer, sci-fi fan, etc.

Quote from: Dewgong on 25 Apr 2013, 14:06
graduated in Texas

Hood, Bliss, or Houston?
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Reinheart Novan on 26 Apr 2013, 19:11
Name: Richard
Preferred/Nickname: Not any that stuck past one job or another.
Age: 42
Profession: Facilities Management these days
Nationality: New Zealand
Number of years roleplaying: 32
Fun facts:
Started RPing in good old basic D&D sometime around the end of the Eocene
Enjoy but not so into Fantasy,Sci fi is definitely where the heart is
Saw Star Wars when it first came out and have been a fan ever since
Thing I like about myself- I get shit done
Thing I don't like so much- The quieter things get the lazier I get. If I'm not flat out I get bored very easy. Good thing is it tends to be self correcting as a result :)

I've moved around a wee bit. I was born in Southampton in the UK but my parents were 10 pound poms who moved to Oz. They then got fed up with all the whinging poms and crap from the aussies and moved here to NZ.

I started out as an Electrician and in the Navy Reserve, when the '87 crash hit I took an option to go regular Navy and finished my time in there. After that my Fiance was a litigation lawyer who got a job in Sydney about the same time they halved the size of the fleet. Last thing I signed up for was sitting on the hard so I cashed out and went with her. Then I got into Industrial Automation and robotics over there. Did that for a while then got fed up with factories, moved to Tasmania and joined the Parks Service as a Ranger. After 7 odd years there we moved to West Oz and I managed a reasonable sized Marine Reserve (1.8 million hectares) in a place called Shark Bay. Awesome we spot but we got a doctor for a day each fortnight and since we wanted to start a family we figured we needed to move to somewhere closer to civilisation.

So moved back to NZ worked in parks here but got despondent with the way things were going politically and left. These days I'm a facilities manager for a large charity running 114 sites.

Really only got the internet about 10 years ago when I moved to this part of NZ as everywhere else was supplied by a long piece of wet string. So I was a bit late to MMO's. Played SWG and rp'd mainly imperial toons there. I had tried Eve and liked it but couldn't justify two subs. When SWG shut down here was the logical choice and if anything I wish I'd moved earlier.

I've a great 8 year old daughter and my awesome partner is just recovering from a battle with Cancer. So I tend to be a bit erratic on when I can get online and sometimes will go dark without warning. Which I feel really bad about, but such is life.
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Lasairiona on 27 Apr 2013, 03:50
I'll bite, although most of you know most of this anyways :) I'm not exactly a private person, lmao!
Char Name: Lasairiona
Name: Heather
Preferred/Nickname: None really, in game it's Lasa.
Age: 26
Profession: Stay at home mommy
Nationality: American
Location: Scotland
Number of years roleplaying: Going on 5
Fun facts:
- I moved from California to Scotland to marry my husband who I met on Eve.
- I've met Princess Anne in person.
- I'm heavily involved in theatre.
- I write a lot but I've never had anything published. Although, I have had two plays performed that I wrote.
- I love the color purple (not the book, the actual color).
- I have a two year old son who can frequently be seen typing in random channels when I move away from the computer for a minute.
- I have three tattoos.

Short Bio:

Pretty straightforward life. Born in California and lived there until 2009 when I moved to Scotland. Met my hubby through Eve and an ex. I volunteer a lot, play around in the theatre, and take care of my wee man. I have very passionate views, I've been told. Anyways, I'm a pretty open book and if anyone wants to know anything more, they just have to ask :).
Title: Re: Player autobiographies
Post by: Ava Starfire on 28 Apr 2013, 20:33
Name: Amanda
Nickname: Amanda. Seriously. Call me "Mandy" and die.
Online Handle: Ava
Date of Birth: 1976
Age: 36
Profession: Math tutor at a state university
Nationality: American
Number of years roleplaying: Tabletop count? 20+. Online? 10
Fun facts:


Bio:
Born in Ohio and lived here my whole life, to my West Virginia hillbilly dad and my Lovari by way of Croatia mother. Worked a series of dud jobs when I got out of school for about 10 years until I said the hell with it and went back to college. Got my bachelor's in Dec of 2012, and am looking forward to grad school. Woo! My favorite gaming genre is actually fantasy, not Sci Fi. Eve is just a neat enough story - and awesome people - so I stick around! I'm Catholohindu (those who know, know. Those who dont, dont) and I am a rabid foaming liberal socially and economically.