Dance Dance REVOLUTION!!
The Basics
Name: Tomoyo Ichijouji (I always go by this alias online)
Nickname: Tomoyo-chan
Gender: Female
Personality
Likes: creative writing, science, curious things, friendship, crossovers, roller coasters, cleanliness, cuteness, insight, comedy, parodies, metafiction, teamwork
Dislikes: misunderstandings, death, sad or cruel endings, sappy romance, horror genre, filthiness, artsy-fartsy-ness, cut-throat attitudes
Hobbies: writing, playing video games (usually RPGs or adventure games), watching interesting movies and shows, accomplishing things
Talents: writing, maybe...piano only because I've done it for so long, storytelling (kids seem to generally say that I have a very good voice for reading books aloud ^^;;)
Ambitions/Goals: For science, I'd love to be able to discover something that will change people's view of the world, or make people able to do things they couldn't. For writing, I want to write books that people will get a sense of wonder from and that they'll enjoy very much. :)
Strong points: assertive, not afraid to speak in public about own views, able to ignore peer pressure, able to bring a group together to get a project done, being careful and detail-oriented, hardworking
Weak points: getting distracted very easily, being too much of a perfectionist, not picking up social cues, ruminating too long over mistakes, being a blabbermouth
Your personality in 3 words: sincere, imaginative, hardworking
Mature/immature: Mature in theory, but immature in practice sometimes. (see social cues)
Outgoing/shy: Outgoing, but at the same time I'm very sensitive to people's discomfit.
Graceful/clumsy: Not graceful exactly, more like...adequately coordinated? Most of the time anyway
Optimistic/pessimistic: Optimistic. Even though I also think I'm cynical, I still think things, in the end, in the big picture, will turn out okay. (I don't think I could live being a pessimist, because I'm pretty affected by sad or horrible things...)
Leader/follower: Leader if I think it will help things, but if there's another then I'll be the organizer and keeping the group together and helping out.
Favorite
Color: pink, but I'm very fond of indigo and azure.
Animal: penguins, but dolphins and pandas and elephants are also on my list of many animals I love. :D
Food: chewy chocolate chip cookies, brownies, macaroni & cheese, potstickers, rice, apple juice
Scents/smells: baking desserts, the ocean, and strangely...gasoline o_O
Fairy tale: Hmmm...the Nutcracker, perhaps?
Princess Tutu character, explain: I really hate to pick one, because there just isn't a particular character that really jumped out at me as the favorite, but I guess...Fakir? He's certainly the one who's developed the most dynamically during the series, and is very complex, so that makes him the most interesting, and Ahiru's very endearing to me for her gung-ho spirit and well-wishing.
I can't stop though without mentioning my curious fascination for Mytho. Since the beginning of the series, I first saw him and I was wondering about him. What must being heartless be like? After getting back some of the heart shards, I tried to glimpse who he would be with his whole heart, who would surely be so different from his then impassive self. Then when the dark Mytho came about, I saw his struggle and I cringed too, hoping desperately he'd recover soon. You can imagine how I felt when he transformed back, into his full-fledged self. I thought he looked simply awe-inspiring. I still think he's a little too naive, since he still seems to see things too much black-or-white, but I think that's something that could really be developed post-series, in fics or otherwise.
Least Favorite
Color: neon green, dull yellow
Animal: baboons (so violent! D: )
Food: spicy food, mushy food
Scents/smells: wet grass (mildly dislike), very strong mint smells, some cologne
Fairy tale: There was one story about two girls that were sent out into the snow. One was asked by a prince on a carriage if she was cold, and she always answered she was warm, even when she was about to freeze to death, and so the prince brought her away on his carriage. The other girl was asked by the prince the same question and she kept on saying that she was freezing and very cold, and so he left her to freeze to death. That really seems to be saying to never complain about suffering, and upholds the doctrine of girls being passive and self-suffering. Reading back on a lot of fairy tales actually, there's a lot of sexism. The young men of the story travel and save the day, while the young women, if not being saved by the men, travel around and suffer to save a prince from a spell. The newer versions aren't really like that, so they really do seem to update themselves with the times.
Princess Tutu character, explain: Lilie, although Drosselmeyer fits on there, along with Kraehe. Lilie simply likes to see Ahiru, and people in general, suffer and fail, yet acts so innocent and ignorant (which she may well be). Drosselmeyer loves tragedies too, and even is willing to have people die and suffer for his own gratification, but perhaps Lilie would have done the same if she had that power, and Drosselmeyer seems to have a very dark background that could easily have messed up his mindset to this point. Kraehe just seems like a very jealous, selfish person with a warped view of love to me, full of bitterness and submission.
Questions
Have you ever taken ballet lessons? How did you find the experience?
When I was quite young, I took it for a few years. I liked it I think, but I think I got bored sometimes and would start being talkative. I eventually quit, probably because I got busy with school and I was probably too impatient too. ^^;;
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 would have to get the entire situation. Disappearing is the gentlest way of dying, but it is death nonetheless. I know sacrificing your life for someone you care about is noble, but I want to hold my life as valuable as others' too, even if it seems selfish (I'm not necessarily proud of that). What am I saving? Their lives? Their careers? Their minds? In real life, and in any story of mine, things won't be as simply tragic as that. I'll discover another method! I'll analyze the situation and make sure it's not simply being stupid (wasn't Tutu about to needlessly sacrifice her life before she really thought about it?)
...But if it's either yes or no, such a question is too fatalistic for me to answer casually, and while I suspect I probably would do it, it would take much heart-rending and soul-killing on my part to be able to willingly kill myself like that. I don't want to brag that I would sacrifice myself without really meaning it. Maybe, if I were saving an entire nation, or even a town, from destruction, ruin, or agony...I would.
If your life were a fairy tale, which would it be (and why?)
I think I've spent most of my life trying to live a life different from the old fairytales in which we all know the mistakes people make, the people that die, and the ones that are punished in the end. I want to tell a different story, one that's cheerful and hopeful and humorous, too, with a good dose of wonder.
Picture (optional -- feel free to just describe yourself if you don't have/don't want to post pictures):
Tall, very long dark brown hair with no bangs (looks black indoors), brown eyes with long eyelashes that are straight rather than curving upward, natural (untrimmed) eyebrows, oval-shaped glasses, hands good for the piano (that's what my teacher said before). You can also see my icon; it's a mouse-drawn portrait of me.
Links to 3 apps you voted on (edit your post as you go on):
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Anything else? :3 Can't think of anything!