User:Hawkeye8
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| About Me | |
|---|---|
| Name | Hawkeye8 or CB |
| Alignment | Chaotic Neutral |
| Race | Human, unfortuantly. I'd rather be half-phoenix |
| Fangirl to | Inheritence, Murtagh, and Dragonforce |
| Is squeeing a sport? | Only if they'll show it on ESPN |
| Current Color of Toenails | Skin Tight Denim Creme. Seriously. |
| When Book 3 of Inheritence should have came out | Three months ago!!! |
| Favorite Song | My Spirit Will Go On GO DRAGON FORCE! |
Bonjour! Je m'applle Hawkeye8, et je ne parle pas francais. J'aime le choclat and je n'aime pas les escargots. Yes, for those who could understand that, I completly contradicted myself.
The mentioning of choclate and snails? That sentence is the exact thing that everyone said the first day of French I.
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[edit] Hawkeye8
I guess that people are confused from where my name came from, so I'll explain for you so that I don't have to do it a million times. There is an anime called "Fullmetal Alchemist", the original idea came from Hiromu Arakawa. It's about this boy and his brother who try to bring back there mother after she died, and...let's just say it doesn't end up well for them.
Anyways, the soldiers in the millitary are a big part of the story, and there is this one charecter who is awesome. Her full name is First Lieutenet Riza Hawkeye, and everyone calls her Hawkeye, and where I first tried to get a screen name on a website (ezboard.com, since my French teacher has a message board on there)hawkeye was already taken, so I used hawkeye8 instead.
I didn't get from the bird, the hawk, at all, but they're still cool. We have them around here, and it's cool to see them. We also have some bald eagles, and one of them flew over a rec soccer game once. All the people grabbed their dogs and toddlers and ran away. Like an eagle would eat the dogs when theres toddlers there...
Photoshopping is fun...
[edit] Intrests
[edit] Anime
I love anime, and manga. Some of my favorite titles are: Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, InuYasha, Rurouni Kenshin, .hack//SIGN, GetBackers, Pokemon (the old ones, not the new ones), Digimon (only the first three seasons), Sailor Moon, Zoids, Neon Genisis Evangelion, Saiyuki, Yugi-oh!, FLCL, Bleach, Eureka seven, Reborn!, Black Cat, Death Note, Love Hina,Zatch Bell!, and Mar. There are tons of others, and I have yet to remember them.
If you love anime/manga, go to an anime convention. It's fun to drag along your parents. The first one I went to, my dad was all confused. He kept on asking why people had 10' swords. And of course, my friends and I just said, "Duh! It's Zabuza/Cloud!" But because of all the conventions I made my dad go to (only 3!), he's a big of a nerd as any of my friends. It's scary that he calls us down to watch Naruto with him....
[edit] Chidori!!!
Chidori has to be the coolest Jutsu in Naruto. It means "a thousand birds" in Japanese, and that is what the attack sounds like. It took me so long to color this, you wouldn't believe it even if I told you.
Of course, Kakashi beats Sasuke any day.
[edit] Writing
I'm an author, and a lot of my friends are, too, oddly. We get alot of our inspiration from anime, plus video games, our made-for-sitcom real lives, other authors, the books we're forced to read in school, and each other's work. Some of us want to be published, others just want to show their stories off to their friends, and one of us has already been published by using lulu.com.
Personally, I want to be published by a "real" publishing company. Either Scholastics or Knopf would be like a dream come true. If that never works, my friends and I could just create our own publishing company, and fail miserbly. At least we would have signed copies of each other's works.
The story that I'm working on now is called For Those of the Sun and the Moon. It's about this girl, Fiona, who is predicted to do "great things" by The Seers, an unkown group of individuals who hold an unofficial power over the Realms. I have an excerpt, the prologue, below. Please don't take my work, and feel free to comment on it.
[edit] Prologue
Nothing yet, Fiona thought as she crouched on the branch, bow in hand. A sheath attached to the armor on her thigh contained her sword, only the gilded hilt showing. She pulled her arms closer to her body to make more room; she needed to be careful to keep from stabbing William with the curves of the armor on her elbows.
He clutched a double-bladed sword in his right hand, his left firmly on the trunk of the tree that they perched in, and he wore a stern look on his face as he surveyed the seemingly empty field below.
The field consisted of a small stand of trees at one end, where the tree they currently hid in stood, with the other end covered with a thick, new growth forest more than three hundred yards away. The tree would normally be able to conceal them, but the leaves already began changing color and falling with the oncoming advent of autumn. To their right flowed a river that caused the normally flat field to slant downwards, and to their left, in a blind spot caused by the tree, a cliff dropped straight down into the sea, with sharp rocks rising from the bottom.
Something touched Fiona on the shoulder, causing her to whirl around and pull out her sword. The gold and amethyst tempered into the blade caused the waning afternoon light to throw yellow and purple slices of translucent color on William’s face; her actions did not seem to perturb him at all.
“Calm down,” he said in a soothing voice, “They aren’t here yet, and if anyone saw something they would tell us.” His soft, silver eyes matched one of the feathers on a leather necklace, the other colored black with orange and red at the end, like a flame in the darkness.
Fiona sighed, “You’re right. I just hope that they haven’t caught Gloria. I don’t know what we would do without her.”
“Don’t worry,” William spoke softly and assuredly. “She has received the most training out of anyone who is out there.” He gestured his free hand towards the field. “And besides, if they did she could probably get out on her own.”
Glancing at the sun, Fiona stated more or less to herself, “It’s weird, nothing has happened yet. The sun is starting to set, and I’d be useless with my bow. I can’t see at all in the dark.”
“Well,” William said with a laugh,” I guess I’ll just have to add that to your training, now wouldn’t I?”
She laughed, too, and then froze when she heard a rustling sound from the field. It quickly approached them. “Someone’s coming!” Fiona said in a hush, quickly stringing her bow and nocking an arrow, its silver feather identical to the one on William’s necklace.
“Hark! I am a messenger from the general and I have an urgent message for those of the Sun and the Moon,” A young male phoenix said, landing from his speedy ground flight at the base of the tree. A brown sling on his back held papers and scrolls; the green insignia of the general on his bag matched his plumage.
“What does he have to say, then?” William said with a smirk on his face.
Fiona did not pay attention to their conversation, since she busied herself with surveying the field with sharp golden eyes. How can that page come to this tree without us neither hearing nor seeing him? The grass is too short to muffle his wing beats and hide him from us! If he could be hidden then couldn’t… “Get away! Quick!” She shouted as she dove off the tree, rolling when she hit the ground and continuing towards the center of the field. William followed her, without question or hesitation.
She ran forward, William close behind. When she traveled twenty feet from the tree, she stopped. What she saw she could not believe.
How could this have happened?
A huge fight took place in the field. The attackers succeeded in pushing the defenders back in the disarray; they seemed to boast the upper hand. A long, black dragon slashed with her claws and the curved scales on her forearms, not unlike the ones on Fiona’s armor.
Another dragon sneaked up behind her, and with a dull blow, caused her to crumple onto the ground.
How could this have happened?
A woman with red-tipped, shoulder-length black hair, who looked no older than twenty, fought against being restrained by two large dragons, her long silver chain necklace with two feathers, one silver and one gold, flapped on her neck because of the struggle.
How could this have happened?
On the other side of the field, the general sat on top of his gray warhorse. The saddle blanket’s embroidered insignia on it looked the same as the one on the page’s sling. Similar dragons from before somehow managed to cut him off from the rest and forced him to back up to the edge of the cliff. His mount reared up in fear and unseated its master. He fell off his horse, and to Fiona’s horror, tumbled over the cliff.
How could this have happened?
“William! Help Gloria! Jeremy needs me!” She ordered to him as she tore across the field towards the cliffs. The combatants that she passed disregarded her as she sprang at the edge of the land and into the air, and then dove straight down.
How could this have happened? The thought raced through her mind as she inched closer to her superior, huge silver wings sprouting from her shoulders.
Please tell me if this is bad!
[edit] Haru!!!!
Okay, so I have this charecter named Haru. He's this minstrel who wanders around and sings very badly. He's also a swordsman, and he uses a ridicuolsy huge greatsword. He's also homless, broke, and sleeps in trees a lot. What's so awesome about him is what he says.
-“Of course,” Haru said quickly. “Knowing that at least one person is on your side is all you need to prove to yourself that you aren’t insane."
-"If I had honor any day of my life it’d be news to me!"
-“I tend to know things that most people don’t think I know, and I usually know things that I shouldn’t know. I also have a habit of knowing things that no one else knows, but I always seem to not know what everyone else knows, or at least thinks they know.”
-“I can’t form an intelligent opinion if I don’t know what I’m talking about. Now, I can criticize the book and the author without sounding ignorant.”
-“It’s fun to mess with people.”
-“What kind of sick people like to watch other people fight, and during a war, no less?”
-“Oh…snap…,”
-“You didn’t do anything to help, and that makes you as worse as any one else who isn’t rising up to take action against what’s wrong.”
-"I don’t think we should confront them, since that would most likely lead to a…confrontation, which isn’t what we want."
-On one such night, when they entered the bar for dinner, they found Haru. He played his guitar, badly, and seemed to be trying to get enough money for at least a meal. When he saw them, he stopped and came over to them, to the obvious delight of the others in the room. (All right, he didn't say this, but it just shows his charecter)
If you couldn't tell, I love him way too much.
[edit] Dungeons and Dragons
You can't hate D&D. It's the best game in the world, since you can just sit down with your friends after school underneath the staircase or in the closet in the band room and play for literaly hours on end. What game can allow you to become a halfling druid that skins random creatures?
The best campaign that I have ever been in was played in study. It's a study that is held in the cafeteria with about 75 kids in there (it's a school of no more than 500, so that's a lot of kids) and they all talk at the same time. It's impossible to do work, or sleep, so we started a campaign instead. I was a human fighter (original), but I choose to have rogue skills, instead, including Perform (parkour). We went into a sewer to kill the rats that were terrorizing the town, and the monk used his gauntlets to scrape the obviously poisonous barnacles off the wall and eat them. He therefore threw up, and incurred penalties on all his rolls thereafter. It was so odd a campaign, that even the guy at the local gameshop was creeped out by it.
[edit] Parkour
I'm not phyiscally active, but most of my friends (who are mostly guys), are. One of them, Wally, wants to start a parkour club after I told him about it. There was an article in "Time" magazine about parkour, and that's what sparked my intrest. Have you ever seen Casino Royale? You know the fight scene in the construction sight? That's what parkour is, basicaly. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, look up parkour on YouTube. You'll be amazed.
[edit] Video Games
I love Zelda, Starfox, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Trauma Center, Phoenix Wright, Super Smash Brothers, and the Mario games like Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario, and Super Mario 64, but not any game that has the name "Mario" in it. I'm a total Nintendo fangirl, and I can prove it. I have a Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, DS, 64, Gamecube, and a Wii.
I had to wait so long to find the Wii. My Mom randomly took us into Wal-Mart *shudders* to buy a DVD for herself. My sister and I wandered around the electronics section, like any true gamer should, and we found two Wiis locked up in a safe with a huge glass window. (Thats just so smart of them to do that.) Anyways, they apparenty got nine Wiis two hours before. We were in the store at 4PM! We bought one and ran up into my room and played for 6 hours. We already had Trauma Center and Avatar, so we didn't have to OD on Wii sports the first day.
And who buys the Wii games for their kids for easter, but not a Wii?
[edit] Awesome Stuff I Like
[edit] Awesome Books
Besides "Eragon", I really enjoy Kathryn Lasky's "Guardians of Ga'Hoole", Lois Lowry's "The Giver", "Gathering Blue", "Messenger", and "The Silent Boy", Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun", F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes", and one of my friend's story, "Phoenix Graveyard."
[edit] Awesome Bands
I don't really like American bands for some reason, but I'm okay with British bands, namely The Beatles, The Who, and Dragonforce. I also like L'arc~en~Ciel, Nightmare, FLOW, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, Orange Range, Siam Shade, T.M. Revolution, and Charcoal Filter. They're all Japanese and they write songs that are used in anime openings and closings. Nena and Rammestein are both German, and both awesome.
[edit] Dragonforce
I just love Dragonforce. They have to be one of the best bands ever! I've heard their songs so much, I actually wrote down the complete lyrics to "Valley of the Damned" in biology when I was supposed to be studying for my final. To all you fantasy authors/D&D-ers, listen to them! Their lyrics are pretty tame for a metal band, but they're so fantasy-ish that they're good inspiration when you're stuck.
[edit] Random Stuff
[edit] Random Intrests
Minesweeper. I don't know why, but I'm hooked on it for some reason. It's addicting how you play, and then you die, and then you must play again to win. The computers at my school don't have minesweeper on them, so I have to placate myself by playing it online instead. One of my friends can never beat expert mode, so the first time I did, i put my name in the high score as "OWND (Friend's name here)!", took a screen shot, and then printed it out and showed him. I have no life.
Adobe Photoshop. I can't draw, so I just mess around with pictures other people have made, instead. I have CS2, which I got for Christmas 2-3 years ago, and now they have CS3. It's really "spiffy", but the price tag for the upgrade is aprox. $900................... I'll just stick to CS2 for now. They have CS1 in the computer lab that they teach graphic arts in at school. I already took the basic course, and I want to take the advanced course, but I CAN NEVER GET INTO IT!!!! They have so many freshman (I hate freshman!) signing up for the lower level class that they won't have the upper level one. It wasn't even in the course selection book this year!
Sleeping. I sleep in my combined english/social studies class and biology, I never take notes or study for the tests, and I got A+s on the finals and classes, while many of my friends do the exact same thing and fail miserably. I know sleeping isn't really a hobby or an intrest, but we all do at some point, right?
[edit] Random Cool Words
-Glean
-Courier
-Nondescript
-Smattering
-Chocobo
-Spongy Mesophyll
-fraught
-cappuchino
-Frappachino
-Kobold!
-Belobog
-Vliop
-Geemo
[edit] Random Advice to Anyone Who'll Listen
All of this is what I've learned so far from real life.
-Don't succumb to peer pressure. Even if you're friends are pressuring you in picto-chat.
-Make sure you get your copy of Eldest back before your friend moves two timezones away.
-If you get bored, do your English test backwards. It helps clear up your mind.
-If fifteen teenagers are at a halloween party and are hyped up on sugar and they all have lightsabers, something bad will happen.
-Even if your life is like a sitcom, you won't always end up with that hot guy over there.
-Always be the girl in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl since the guy is fashionably challenged.
-Don't let the grammar nazi proofread your story. You will die by the hand of a red pen.
-Just because you have a sword in school, it doesn't automaticly mean that you'll kill someone. It just might mean that you want a good grade for your French final.
-You are allowed to meow when drawing circles on the whiteboard only if you're the teacher.
-Never ever listen to the crazy kid. The cafeteria is not serving dead baby pizza.
-Join your friends on their quests for world power. Who knows? You might actually rule Ireland one day.
-If given the choice between starting early on your final or having free computer time, always choose free computer time.
-Apparently, it takes 4 high school graduates and 3 high school freshman to light a fuse on fireworks. Just don't stand too close to them when they somehow manage to succed to do so.
-Don't dance if you can't, even if the DJ is playing "White and Nerdy."
-Don't always follow the grammar checker on Word.
-Learn to write without your native dialect, unless your charecter is supposed to be from the same region you're from.
[edit] Random Rants to Anyone Who'll Care
I don't understand the competency system. My school was built recently, it opened in 2000, and it has a "new" education system. One of those things are competencies.
Most classes have them in fair things. French has Communications, Culture, Comprehension, and Grammar and Vocabulary as competencies. Biology, though, has Plant systems, Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration, Genetics, Evolution, Scientific Method and Scientific Analysis. If you get a 65 or lower in a competency, no matter how high your overall grade is, you automaticly fail. It makes sense with French's system. Obviously, if you can't communicate well, than you aren't good at French. But if they are sorted into units like in Biology and you bomb one unit, then you're dead.
I have a friend who is a year older than me, and he decided not to do the model of a cell. Turns out, that was the only grade in the competency about cells, and the teacher doesn't accept make-up work. Since this happened the first week of second semester, we only have two semesters a year, he dropped the class. When he re-took the class, he learned that cells weren't even a part of the second semester curriculum that year!
Lesson: Competencies are evil.
[edit] Owls!
| Uncle of the King | |
|---|---|
| Name | Soren |
| Alignment | Lawful Good |
| Race | Barn Owl, Tyto Alba |
| Rank | Guardian of Ga'Hoole and personal advisor to King Coryn |
| Powers | Starsight |
| Member of | Weather, Coilering, and Chaw of Chaws and the Band |
| Mother of the King | |
|---|---|
| Name | Nyra |
| Alignment | Lawful Evil |
| Race | Barn Owl, Tyto Alba, or hagsfiend |
| Rank | Madame General of The Pure Ones |
| Powers | Born on lunar eclipse, hagsfiend powers |
| Member of | Pure Ones |
Nyra forever! She has to be one of, if not the best, villan that I have ever seen. She would have already one if it wasn't for those meddling owls of the great tree!
The only thing that saddens me about Guardians of Ga'Hoole is that they no longer have pictures on the inside covers. Kathryn Lasky said that it was too expenisve, so they stopped doing it after book six "The Burning". I miss the pictures...
