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Player autobiographies
« 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:
  • Type 110 WPM
  • First character on EVE was Raze Valadeus
  • Favorite Faction in EVE: Amarr
  • Favorite Fantasy Character type: Wizard
  • Favorite Food: Lasagna
  • Favorite Drink: Water
  • Biggest Vice: Cookies
  • Really bad at taking compliments
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my insecurity
  • The thing I most love about myself is my honesty with people
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.
« Last Edit: 03 Apr 2013, 14:06 by ArtOfLight »
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Re: [Player] ArtOfLight
« Reply #1 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:
  • Types at Unknown WPM
  • First character on EVE was Katrina Oniseki
  • Favorite Faction in EVE: Caldari
  • Favorite Fantasy Character type: Warrior/Fighter
  • Favorite Food: Crustaceans
  • Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Cider
  • Biggest Vice: Soda/Pop/Cola
  • Flirts constantly, yet has no idea how to take a flirt in return.
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my smile (blame soda)
  • The thing I most love about myself is my imagination. It provides no end to my entertainment.

I am also much better at filling out a list than I am with typing stuff out about myself. xD

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« Reply #2 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:
  • Types.  This is enough.
  • First character on EVE was Solarienne
  • Favorite Faction in EVE: Caldari
  • Favorite Fantasy Character type: Warrior/Fighter
  • Favorite Food: Pretty mkuch anything with chunky Chorizo, Jumbalaya being a prime example
  • Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Glen Fiddich (Whiskey)
  • Biggest Vice: Was smoking.  Now it is the hatred born of quitting smoking.
  • Considers education (or at least presence in it's institutions) a serviceable substitute for applicable skill or knowing what is happening.
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my procrastination.
  • The thing I most love about myself is my endurance.  I'll stick with a job or concept pretty much up to the bitter end.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE.

(Full bio to come when not at work)
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Re: [Player] ArtOfLight
« Reply #3 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:
  • Types at Unknown WPM
  • First character on EVE was Lyn Farel
  • Favorite Faction in EVE: SoCT
  • Favorite World of Darkness Character type: Malkavians ftw, because I have no clue what I would play in a fantasy world. Maybe a wizard, apparently i'm an elve wizard according to the litmus test. vOv
  • Favorite Food: Pastries omnomnom
  • Favorite Alcoholic Drink: none, eww, just doing it at times because society demands it
  • Biggest Vice: Sugar
  • Some hobbies: learning about various sides of military history, which got suddenly worse with my new employment / jap animes (we are 2nd manga consumer in the world after all...) / reading SF books (like most of you I believe) / drawing or digital painting / trekking (at a small scale) if I could find the time again
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my utter lack of confidence.
  • The thing I most love about myself is my marginality.

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.
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Re: Player autobiographies
« Reply #4 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:
  • Type ?? WPM
  • First character on EVE was Ember Vykos
  • Favorite Faction in EVE: Caldari and Minmatar
  • Favorite Fantasy Character type: Thief
  • Favorite Food: Pasghetti  :P
  • Favorite Drink: Gatorade
  • Biggest Vice: Smoking
  • I deleted the original Ember Vykos by mistake once and after that I can't bring myself to delete anymore of my characters.
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my insecurity (ditto for me Jimbo  :cube:)
  • The thing I most love about myself is my honesty with people (wow 2 for 2)
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.
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Re: Player autobiographies
« Reply #5 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.


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Re: Player autobiographies
« Reply #6 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.
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« Reply #7 on: 03 Apr 2013, 19:25 »

I have a wonderful girlfriend that Mark says looks like Zoey Deschanel (and she does \o/)

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« Reply #8 on: 03 Apr 2013, 20:38 »

I have a wonderful girlfriend that Mark says looks like Zoey Deschanel (and she does \o/)

Confirming.

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« Reply #9 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:
  • Type 6-100 WPM
  • First character on EVE was Lallara Zhuul
  • Favourite Faction in EVE: Amarr/Minmatar (to know your enemy is to know yourself)
  • Favourite Fantasy Character type: Ranger
  • Favourite Food: Meat
  • Favourite Drink: Water
  • Favourite Alcoholic Drink: Beer
  • Biggest Vice: Procrastination
  • Really bad at taking other peoples weaknesses into account
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my capacity of being endlessly angry
  • The thing I most love about myself is my ability to change
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.
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« Reply #10 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.
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« Reply #11 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:
  • First character on EVE was Caellach Marellus
  • Favorite Faction in EVE: CONCORD
  • Favorite Fantasy Character type: Barbarian
  • Favorite Food: Hot Dogs
  • Favorite Drink: Coke
  • Biggest Vice: ^
  • Really bad at being serious.
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my inability to show empathy
  • The thing I most love about myself is my ability to be blunt honest


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.
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« Reply #12 on: 04 Apr 2013, 10:13 »

Redacted for personal reasons.
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« Reply #13 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:
  • Types fast enough, ~80 wpm on a good day
  • First character on EVE looted a hapless corp hangar for a pretty good haul while I was a noobie, later sold via character bazaar*
  • Favorite Food: Cookies
  • Favorite Juice: Mango
  • Favorite Beer: Maudite if I'm feeling classy, Old Milwaukee if I'm feeling lowbrow (or broke)
  • Favorite Liquor: Rye
  • Favorite Wine: None, I'm uncouth
  • Biggest Vice: Sloth
  • Has >1 year old dreadlocks
  • Several tattoos, including a 1/3 sleeve in pointilism style and Ouroboros on chest
  • Buys music on vinyl for the sound
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my apathy
  • The thing I most love about myself is my empathy
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
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« Reply #14 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:
  • Type ~70 WPM
  • First character on EVE was Black 1
  • Favorite Faction in EVE: Angel Cartel/Sansha's Nation
  • Favorite Fantasy Character type: Warlock
  • Favorite Food: Roast Potato :3
  • Favorite Drink: Dr Pepper
  • Biggest Vice: Relentless Energy Drinks
  • Really bad at motivating myself
  • The thing I most hate about myself is my attention span
  • The thing I most love about myself is my sense of humour, might not be to everyone liking but fuck 'em <3

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