Bonjour, Bonsoir, et Bonne nuit, everyone; I am RiverNotch, and you may call me either R.N. or River (not Notch, as that rather confuses me, due to the name's origins in a certain minecraft server I occasionally participate in). I am an unranked roleplayer, akin to, I am guessing, the majority of you readers of this thread, and I am very pleased to meet your acquaintance (albeit virtually).
In real life, I am sixteen year old boy (though, by my rather antiquated philosophies on adolescence, I should already be a man) currently majoring in Biology in the University of -------- (a fact which, to many of you, I am guessing would be taken as rather astounding; in fact, it is (or once, as our system is now changing) rather common to youths my age to go into college here), and I live, in this day and age rather appropriately, with my parents and my older sister. I am not as formal as this introduction shows me: I am, simply put, only very easily influenced in terms of manner by whatever things I immediately enjoy, and very recently have I had the pleasure of re-enjoying Jane Austen's delightful novel
Pride and Prejudice; my general sensibilities, however, are (however disobeyed they may by the majority of my thoughts, words, and actions, seem to be), as I consider myself to be a Romantic in the 19th century sense of the word (unfortunately not of the modern sense, as I have much misfortune in that kind of romance). Also, I am by mental nature both a libertine and a devout Christian (I am the waters born from the meeting of the passionate fires of Bacchus and the illuminating ice of Apollo), I consider myself to be a true lover of movies (especially those considered by "official" circles to be classics, as often it is those kinds of film that I watch out for, them being a good guide to developing a discerning eye to film (as well as theirs being as good as most purport them to be! (Yes, Citizen Kane is the best film, like, ever. Though in terms of screenplay, I think either Casablanca, in its deep yet simple power, or Back to the Future, whose relatively complicated plot and very smartly thought-out dialogue, trump that film; in fact, perhaps Citizen Kane's true value in being "the best" is not because it is the best in every aspect of film, but because it is the best marriage of those aspects, not to mention the fact that the techniques shown on it in terms of narrative and direction were groundbreaking for its time. But ah, I diverge))) and music (though, this time, I am not guided by popular (haute-societie?) opinion, but simply by the ever-variable wheel of fate, and my ever-constant urge to be, in music, a true eclectic (hence my top three artists being nigh-completely different from each other: Bjork, Joni Mitchell, and the Beatles. Although, perhaps the odd ways by which they all presented their musical ideas (relative to what was popular in their respective times), and the fact that they used them and that they were odd, were, perhaps, their unifying feature. But ANYWAY....), I constantly search for romance in the modern sense (albeit usually in manners either too bashful or too hidden to be truly seen. Both a bane and a bounty to my existence is this: bane for I wish to be found by my love, bounty for I wish to be true in my finding-out who my love is (perhaps this is another manifestation of the cruel conflict between Apollo and Dionysus within me?)), and I like to ramble in long speeches like this when given the proper opportunity.
In roleplay, meanwhile, I am a rather inconstant player; inconstant, that is, in the sense that my motives (as in what I plan to do for my character/the story per post) or my styles (as in what I consider the motions of my posting to have been committed with: eg, whether or not a post was written with the character's development (and hence, the character's mentality) in mind, or the story's development at focus (to clarify: Sometimes I write as a storyteller, others I write as an actor, others still I write as a gamer, etc.))(although, this could also apply to my writing style: sometimes I write like Jane Austen, then I write in first person, then I write in terse discourses, etc.) never remain
properly set within a single roleplay. I am never, however, blind to this inconstancy; I always stay my hand when my variability encroaches upon the tale's clarity or coherence. I love playing either roles made for the sake of challenging the actor/adventurer in me, or roles that are closely tied to my ideals of fantasy and romance (this time, in both senses of the word). As for the kinds of roleplay I love playing in, I love playing in roleplays that are either grandly fantastical (akin to, say, the romances of Charlemagne, or adventures in Dungeons and Dragons (which I have studied, but unfortunately have not had the pleasure of playing in a live setting), or Adventure Time!) (of note: I did not, by the way, join the mass roleplay because even though I absolutely loved it in terms of all that I have said here, constraints in time prevented me from doing so) or quaintly romantic (like Anne of Green Gables, which by the way is my favorite novel (not on the whole my favorite book, as such a ranking is a three-way tie between the aforesaid, Edith Hamilton's Mythology, and the Bible)).
And finally, as for the littler things, well I'm not entirely sure if I can post anything here that's of any special relevance (that hasn't already been hinted at), but here goes: I love singing and
trying to dance (especially tap and ballroom); I have
impeccable spelling, grammar, and pronunciation; my friends say I could sing well, and I believe them; I am a terribly slow reader when it comes to novels and short stories (or I am of average speed, but whenever I'm reading something long my brain always feels like it's shitting somehow (pardon the language)); I am a self-proclaimed poet (of feces); I absolutely enjoy worldbuilding, the occult, and studying the Middle Ages; I have an odd attraction to women with red hair (which is absolutely
not sexual; this instead stems from a certain romantic dream I had about four years ago, wherein I was walking in a peculiar library and, in its midst, did I find Her, the red-haired, green-eyed lady of my life and love, and thence did we talk and talk by the hearth til' my evening's sleep was spent, and I awoke); I am ridiculously afraid of cockroaches (even when they're dormant or dead), but not of any other insect (unless it happens to look like a cockroach, or is one of those giant insects from the 2005 version of King Kong); and of the seven deadly vices, my greatest ones are lust (let's just say I too-often have
single-party dates), sloth (procrastination being, to me, more of a skill (that I ,unfortunately, am
not skilled in) than a vice), and pride (more of the silent, honorable, and to Mr. Darcy most probably acceptable, yet still awfully damaging, form, than of the obnoxiously boastful and vain form).
Anyways, I guess that's as much of myself as you should be wont to know of, or I should be wont to reveal (for now). There you have it, and I hope you and I enjoy the rest of the time we shall spend both here in this site and here in this world. Au revoir!
Oh, and PS: if you read THE WHOLE of this post, then here, have a cookie:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Fortune_cookie.jpg. It'll bring you good luck, especially when you're reading especially (unnecessarily) long posts ;).
PPS: There, Diana, happy now? Now please, cease thine stalking.... Lest I shall be forced to summon with all my tender, juicy powers the might of your local system of justice against thee (ie, I shall file ye olde restraininge ordere)! And hark, ye shall cower at the fat, swollen, and probably pus-filled hand of the inefficient and unnecessarily expensive bureaucracy! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
