Author Topic: The People Behind The Characters  (Read 12315 times)

Offline Narissa

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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #60 on: August 01, 2008, 10:18:49 AM »
That trip sounds amazing! Did you see the giant tortises?! Did you get to go to the rainforest? Did you get to sit in a tree and shoot blowdarts at other tourists? Feel free to share some pics!
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #61 on: August 02, 2008, 03:43:02 PM »
The trip was absolutely amazing!  I did see tortoises.  I did stay in the rainforest.  I did sit in a tree and shoot blowdarts, but not at the same time.  I'll make a separate post with pictures soon.  :)

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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #62 on: August 06, 2008, 08:44:31 PM »
Heya Avalonians, Marc here introducing the man behind my avatar Akashiel.  I am now 33 as I am updating this old post (this post last updated: 4-02-10) and I have recenlty moved to the SE corner of Georgia (US) from Kansas.  I spent 9 years in Topeka, KS after hitchiking out there from Ohio where I grew up. 

I've completed a High School Degree officially, 2 years at Miami University in Oxford, OH and several technical schools and one other university and worked professionally from age 18-22.  During those four years I worked for IBM Global Services at Procter and Gamble, AT&T in Denver, Colorado and a Luxury Home Builder. 

For the past 9 years I was a public speaker for NAMI and worked with dispelling the stigma of consumer's living with Mental Illness.  I attended National and State conferences on Mental Illness and testified to the State Legislature's Means and Ways committee on my experiences in the Mental Health field and advocating for funding.

Finally, most recently I moved into a new Appartment in SE Georgia and have become active in Avalon again.  I am about 20 minutes from the nearest beach and it's very sunny and warm here year round.
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #63 on: August 26, 2008, 04:41:23 PM »
Hey everyone. My names Ron, also known as that Jerk Svar -does bow-. I'm 17 and live in Tallahassee Florida but commute to Georgia everyday for school and work. I am a senior in high school and have plans to continue onto college when I graduate.
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #64 on: August 27, 2008, 10:29:13 AM »
Hello! Few people really know whether I’m male or female, and often times I’ll tell people what they want to believe just so they’ll leave me alone. In either case, I’m a private person, and I firmly believe that OOC info tends to color how people perceive you in land, which is why I refuse to confirm in a definite sense what sex I actually am. I will say this, though. I have played both male and female characters in Avalon, and I have been convincing in both roles.

There are several concrete things I’m perfectly comfortable with sharing, however. I’m from southern California, in a town 50 minutes north of Los Angeles. I’m married, which is why I divert any attempts to flirt with me; it’s just one of those things that is both true RL and in Avalon. I’m visually impaired, which I’ve also shared with people before, as there have been an insane number of questions as to why I don’t fight. I’m twenty-six years old, and have a degree in English Literature; I would like to note that it’s a degree in English lit, not spelling or grammar. *wink*

Some of that info does color your opinions, for sure, but they are things--being married and visually impaired--that directly effect my gameplay, anyway, so it's harmless info to divulge.

Other than that, I don’t have much else to share.

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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #65 on: August 28, 2008, 08:41:37 PM »
I'm editing this in order to update some information and try to make up for the fact that I read like a 14 year old school girl the first go around.

My name's Mary, I'm as of this writing 21 years old, and I'm a native of the Nashville, TN (USA) area. As a result of growing up in Music City USA, I have the standard Nashvillian impulse to completely shrug off any celebrities I see and not blink twice when they brush right past me. I've recently returned from living abroad in Tokyo, Japan for a year where I got to mingle with Visual Kei rock stars and models, and where I pretty much had my entire view of the world overhauled while I was there. In my spare time, I'm either finding new ways to blow up my kitchen attempting to cook or imposing on my friends' doorsteps while biding my time until I can return to the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #66 on: September 01, 2008, 07:21:12 PM »
hey all Im Wilbur, from Townsville Australia. Im 17 and study Law at James Cook University.

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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #67 on: September 02, 2008, 12:59:21 PM »
My name is Mark, I am 18 years old, I am an alchoholic(Kidding...kind of)

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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #68 on: September 02, 2008, 04:19:47 PM »
I can't believe you're 18 now!
 
I remember when you were what 13 and playing Avalon?
Crap I feel old.   :-[
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #69 on: September 02, 2008, 05:17:47 PM »
I can't believe you're 18 now!
 
I remember when you were what 13 and playing Avalon?
Crap I feel old.   :-[

Hey now... I started out when I was 13 too. And I'm a year older than Vargo!
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #70 on: September 03, 2008, 04:25:58 AM »
God, for once I am actually feeling old. I remember feeling like quite the youngster, relatively, once. Vargo, you being legal - that scares me. :P
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #71 on: September 03, 2008, 07:19:15 PM »
God, for once I am actually feeling old. I remember feeling like quite the youngster, relatively, once. Vargo, you being legal - that scares me. :P

Well I'm glad I don't scare the cute lil fluffy paladin!
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #72 on: September 04, 2008, 01:57:21 PM »
Yeah, Vargo being legal's a terrifying thought!
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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #73 on: September 04, 2008, 03:47:57 PM »
God, for once I am actually feeling old. I remember feeling like quite the youngster, relatively, once. Vargo, you being legal - that scares me. :P

haha you were always old to us newbies

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Re: The People Behind The Characters
« Reply #74 on: October 09, 2008, 07:13:01 AM »
  Well, for the inquiring minds who want to know.....  I am Kaysea, 25 from Fortworth Texas, though I am spending some time in the hill country of Texas down near waco with my family. I work as a Division Manager  for a company up in dfw area, so, spend much of my time at a computer, or making calls here and there... hence why I am able to be so active.