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The Basics
Name: Nicole
Nickname: Nicole
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Personality
Likes: writing, books, painting, journalling, anime, manga, my fiance, cats, bike riding, swimming, softball, music (of pretty much all types), playing instruments
Dislikes: mean people, inconsiderate people, liars, people who lack principles, people who dislike me, bad dubbing, neighbours who play loud music, when my cats scratch things that aren't the scratching post, being "old", The Details
Hobbies: writing, journalling, painting, playing piano/flute, watching anime
Talents: I've been told that I'm a somewhat talented writer. I've won poetry contests and the like before, so I suppose I could call that a talent. I suppose I'm talented at music. I started studying piano 20 years ago, and have managed a cumulative 12 years of serious study (a number of circumstances have left me for long intervals of time without a teacher). I also play the flute reasonably well. If you wanted to call literary analysis a talent, you could stick that in here, and if you wanted to get into it, I'm fairly good at public speaking despite my tendency to be a weak conversationalist. I'm not really exceptional at anything, but good enough that I could call them talents. I'm not really keen on calling myself talented at anything since there will always be someone who is better at what I'm good at than I am, so I prefer to spare myself the embarassment of being made a fool of in that way. I'm competent, but not great.
Ambitions/Goals: To be a published novelist. To finish school to the point where I'm actually employable. To do something I enjoy doing for a living.
Strong points: Determined. I get discouraged with things, but I'm not inclined to quit. I'm observant of people, and situations. I'm intelligent, introspective, and philosophical. I'm creative. I can be very kind, and very generous.
Weak points: Verbosity. I can be stubborn. While I can be kind and generous, I'm not very open with it, and I can be pretty cold to people I don't like or don't know. I can be short tempered. I often make the wrong impression on people. I can be uncooperative. I can be proud and I often refuse help even when I'm struggling and I need it. Probably my weakest point, however, would be my perfectionism -- I'm so terrified of making a serious error that I procrastinate notoriously, sometimes to the point where I avoid certain tasks altogether.
Your personality in 3 words: strong, determined, loyal
Mature/immature: I think it's more that I'm overly serious for my age. Life circumstances pushed me to grow up faster than I likely should have, I think, and it's not something I regret, but I do know that while I have a fun and gentle side, it doesn't get induldged much because I so often focus on responsibility before pleasure.
Outgoing/shy: Again, because of life circumstances, I tend to be withdrawn from others aside from the few people I'm very close to. Even with the people I'm close to, I hold some reservations, but I'm considerably more outgoing with people after I've become comfortable around them.
Graceful/clumsy: I'm not uncoordinated, but I'm not exactly graceful. When I think of gracefulness, it strikes me as indicative of a sort of finesse that I definitely lack. I'm coordinated enough to be reasonably athletic, but I'm not particularly graceful.
Optimistic/pessimistic: I'm more optimistic now than I was a number of years ago. I get discouraged, especially when I can't seem to form any feasible plan of action, but, at the same time, obstacles will often make me more determined because I've come to regard them as a challenge against which to test myself. I suppose I'm ultimately an optimist because I believe there's always a way to get where you're going no matter how many challenges there are. I don't believe in impossibilities. It doesn't mean I never doubt; it means that my will is greater than my doubt.
Leader/follower: Neither and both. Though I will take on enormous amounts of responsibility at times, I'm not particularly fond of the responsibilities that come from leadership positions, and while a person who has my loyalty can have anything they ask of me, I won't hesitate to argue with someone who violates my will, or my ethics, even if that person is a friend.
So, I will follow if it is my will to do so, and lead if it is required of me, but ultimately I will do what I believe is right.
Favorite
Color: green and purple
Animal: I like animals generally, but I suppose I would say cats and dogs. I've always had a pet, though I've never been able to decide if I'm a cat person, or a dog person.
Food: those cookies with the jelly in the middle
Scents/smells: fresh tilled soil, wood smoke, citrus fruits
Fairy tale: The Goose Girl
Princess Tutu character, explain: Ahiru. I like her optimism and her innocence, as well as her seemingly innate goodness, but I also like her for her doubts, and her worries. She's sweet, and strong, and vulnerable, and incredibly human, which is kind of ironic considering that she's a duck.
Least Favorite
Color: The horrible non-colour that is beige.
Animal: Snakes. We used to get garter snakes in our back yard, and while they're harmless, they always startled me badly. But more than that, my dad used to kill them with an axe when he found them, and it always bothered me.
Food: I really don't like foods that have multiple textures. It's just that it's really disturbing to be chewing on something soft, and then have something crunchy randomly appear out of nowhere. I'm not a big fan of crunchy things to start with, so at least let me be prepared for the crunchy.
Scents/smells: Definitely cigarette smoke.
Fairy tale: Snow White. I'm not sure when gullibility became a virtuous character trait that warranted reward.
Princess Tutu character, explain: Lilie. I'm not a big fan of all the pleasure she seems to derive from other people's suffering. (And yet I can forgive this tendency in Drosselmeyer . . . it just seems slightly more insidious in a young girl.)
Questions
Have you ever taken ballet lessons? How did you find the experience? I took ballet lessons for two years. They didn't go so well. I was in the middle of a growth spurt at the time and had all the grace of a drunken, three legged elephant. Beyond that, I lacked interest, and it's quite impossible for a person to really do reasonably well at anything they're not interested in doing. Even if one is technically proficient at a thing, the sterility that comes from a lack of passion will detrimentally affect the technical proficiency, just as a lack of technical proficiency will detrimentally impact the expression of passion. I was always much happier doing any of the countless other things I do.
If you find out that the only way to save the one you love is to disappear into a flash of light, what would you do? I doubt that disappearing in a flash of light would be an effective way to help someone. I don't like the aspect of powerlessness that comes with it; it feels too much like giving up. Leaving someone's life is very rarely much of a help to them. Stepping up and being your better self is so much more worthwhile than vanishing, and saying, "this is all I can do." I'm of the belief that there are always alternatives to the obvious if one is creative, and dilligent enough to find them.
If your life were a fairy tale, which would it be (and why?) The Brave Tin Soldier because, though he appeared defective, he endured the trials of the world by standing firm, and never losing devotion to the one he loved; in the end, however, though he believed the paper doll to be as strong as he was and loved her for it, she was made only of paper and was easily consumed by fire, whereas the tin soldier was made of something more durable and instead of being destroyed, was transformed, so that his true nature, his strong ability to love, remained to the end.
Picture (optional -- feel free to just describe yourself if you don't have/don't want to post pictures):
and a link to a full body picture because I can
Links to 3 apps you voted on (edit your post as you go on):
Duck
Duck
Goose
Anything else? :3 Admittedly, I feel concerned that I'm passing myself off as being too serious, and neglecting the more upbeat, goofball side of my personality, but at the same time, I think it really is accurate since I tend only to be open and upbeat around my close friends and even at that I'm more serious than many other people, so perhaps I shouldn't worry about it.