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..and I would like to tell you a few things about myself. It is in hope that I can finally find someone to communicate with. Bare with me.. this may get long.

First off, I shall be known as July. It's my recent internet alias, though I have had many. The history for now can be spared, but some of it will be useful later in this post. I always felt that writing a lengthy introduction was a direly essential need. Why? I need to explain exactly what I am doing here.. it becomes less stressful for everyone. I seem harsh and edgy, but that's just the fatigue of scouring the internet for several weeks.. looking for just the right person or people to play with.

Enough with my silly introductory antics. Cutting to the chase:
I am a girl with quite a lot of free time as of late. I am in China for personal reasons until around mid July of this year.. giving me plenty of free-time to do absolutely whatever I like. The issue? The time zones do not align well with the English-speaking world. As I write this however, it is nearly midnight in China. I am GMT+8 here, and if you're in PST for example.. that is exactly 12 hours behind me I believe. Inconvenient. I have had tremendous trouble finding people of my age-group (I'm 23) to spend good quality, enjoyable and free-form role-playing time with. Note: I define 'Free-form' as not so strict, allowing for mistakes as I am not a perfectionist.. and generically rule-less as I don't mind intense, epic or seemingly over-powered situations (as you will see in my later description of my desired settings as of late) so, in that way I call this 'free-form' role-playing.

Onward..

I love writing, though I find that I am perhaps barely mediocre at it. I draw my rhetoric from a man named Hirasawa Susumu who writes beautiful music. I could go on for days about his styles, though it is suffice to say he uses the full-extent of the Japanese language to describe visually opulent scenes of nature, hard-work, human crisis and other themes. He is some-what a 'fantasy' writer in that he can write about dystopian or utopian situations, human struggle and the like.. and yet make a strangely mystical feel to it all. It is nearly impossible for me to place a genre on this man's writing and I can only suggest to hear and read his lyrics.. though unless you find English translations the man writes only in Japanese or in his own made-up languages (which clearly need no translation). Taking him as my inspiration, I tend to write with as much detail as I can imagine in a very small amount of space to create a discrete, concise explanation of surroundings, actions and et cetera. I want my reader to feel, imagine and know my words as a concrete reality .. though I cannot write incredibly long explanations in my work. As I love reading, I take enjoyment in books written by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, Natsume Souseki, Yume Makurabaku and many others. I have discussed a lot of Japanese men in this post, so I may as well say that I am level N1(Highest level of Japanese Language Proficiency) with the Japanese language, as I studied in Japan for 1 year and took Japanese for a total of 4 college years. My degree is a type of Intercultural Communications focused on East Asian societies. I am well versed in the topic of 'globalization' as well, and I enjoy discussions of cultural/sociological matter.. as my degree relies heavily on the social sciences as one of it's 3 main categories of study. I would also like to note that this is not some kind of "bragging" which I have somehow been accused of on other websites (do not ask me why, childish things really) so I have gotten that out of the way early. You may contact me outside of role-playing if you feel your conversational interests would converge with mine as well, I am very friendly. Other hobbies I have include wood carving (particularly Japanese Noh masks) and RPG gaming, sometimes working with computers though I am not that amazing at it (I know a little about programming here and there, and some other functionality) as well as cooking and visiting science/history museums.

Let's step forward into the role-playing part.

I know that I have already practically written an essay here but this is very, very important to me. I am hugely interested in a variety of role-playing styles, settings and character types.. though to be more specific I will grant a few examples into existence below:

Settings I will usually be okay with: Medieval, Fantasy, Space-age/Sci-Fi, Fairy-tale(ish)
The settings I currently really want to play: Fantasy/Medieval

Styles of Role-playing I have used: Multiple Paragraph, Semi-Paragraph, One-liner.. pretty much any size..
Styles I prefer most: Usually semi.. multi is okay but I get tired, and one-liner is the same as Multi.

Media I have used to role-play: Forum posting, IRC, Skype(no voice/video), MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Various websites via their 'messaging' systems, inside of video games(Ragnarok Online, Minecraft, Guild Wars, Tried to role-play on my own with Oblivion and Skyrim as well as Fallout New Vegas but those are not fun.. Tried Illarion and some other sandbox games that didn't work out so well for me because I could never just get to the story I wanted..)

Character Types I have played: Human[Mage, Warrior, Blacksmith, Necromancer type thing, Monk type thing, pirate, high profile assassin/sniper, medieval Queen], Elf/Half-Fairy[Special types of magic unique to my roleplay.. for example, being able to see and eventually control other's dreams, Archer type of thing, Witch type of Queen/magic user..]

Note: I have played both good and evil character roles, and I am generically fine with both.. even fine with reallllly neutral people too.

That being said, I want to say in combination with my currently desired setting.. that I would like to play a character I have been working on for a while. She is generically adaptable into any scheme that allows for half-fairy or elven creatures.. though my idea of half-fairy is basically like fairy only human-sized. I am currently obsessed with the beauty of these creatures and their mysticism. I want to create this 'July' persona who is basically a human-sized fairy who is adaptable into most fantasy worlds, though I would like to run her with a partner character or a group. In my personal and original idea for this character, she has some usually game-breaking desires.. for example, she wishes to kill a god (she is not inherently evil, though depending on role-play and group she can become either benevolent or evil) and either become a demi-god of some kind, or have use for her incredibly illusion-based magics (she doesn't care about dealing physical damage so much as dominating and enslaving her opponent to their own fears much like the Guild Wars mesmer. Fairies tend to have this mischievous attitude.. and that is why I designed the idea that she is much like 'Paprika' from the movie "Paprika" which has a character who can jump into/out of dreams of others freely, et cetera. (Now you realize what I meant earlier by not minding over-powered characters)

Of course, this kind of character is usually considered incredibly over-powered.. though if I could find a group who played similarly to her powers I would really love to enact the real ideal and potential of her. If not, however.. I will tune her down or make her reasonable for any given story or role-play so long as it seems appealing to me and those involved desire my character to join/are interested.

Another note I must make: I am not so interested in erotic role-play. I am not AFRAID to play that stuff out, if it legitimately comes to be some-how, but I do not want to start a role-play for the sole purpose of erotic adventures. Sorry in advance.

I am now going to quickly describe a few archetypes I have created before for characters:

Name: July Ashheart
Race: Human
Age: 25
Profession: Blacksmith
Description: Essentially the daughter of a very average blacksmith and his tailor wife.. she strives to best her father in his own craft. She sees how dedicated and passionate her father is about his work, and even so there is something missing(skill, to assume) so that his work is merely average. She studies under him until she is old enough to leave and attempt to find the secrets in the world for smithing with her father's passion to create more-than-mediocre goods. There's other bits of story, such as her dream to own her own smithy and be at least trusted and relied upon for her work.. et cetera. Other than that, a very standard character shell.

Name: Anya
Race: Human
Age: 29
Profession: High Profile Assassin
Description: Used for a D20 modern game, this character was a bit stereotypically sold to flesh-merchants at a young age to grow up as a gun-runner and then got involved in mercenary killings before finally evolving into a high-profile assassin silenced-sniper sort of Russian gal. She worked in a piracy game set up for space-terrorism and such.

Name: July
Race: Half-fairy
Age: Never decided
Profession: Pirate~?
Description: To put it simply, July in this game was a half-fairy illusionist(the type of magic) of some unimportant kingdom before being recruited to fulfill her desires (basically adventuring and such, what piracy offers) by joining a captain's crew. She and the captain developed a very good business connection like partners and worked quite hard as July's attitude developed to be that of a somewhat evil, mischievous pirate. In this game, July had the fairy-based power of being able to see into people's dreams and she would eventually use it to terrorize her captain's prisoners and enemies. As time progressed, her captain and her discuss what they will do-- create a humongous floating city out of ships and rule the seas from it. There is no "love" so to speak between the captain and July.. simply a very good partner feeling. They drink together quite often and eventually they set out to literally kill the god of the sea and the god of the air (the captain and July's kills respectively) ... and after killing those gods they reign as king and queen of the seas. Of course, this was not the end of July's story.. because her kingdom would not be the most powerful kingdom in the world.. though they did command the seas. That kind of idea.

So, those are some of my most recent characters.. but I have plenty more from a long time ago that I am too lazy to explain. Plus, who wants to read all of that anyway in an introduction?

Now.. I wrote all of this out in my introduction because I am interested in seeing who likes the ideas I have given.. and who would like to be my friend. I use Skype and MSN to chat (not voice or webcam, sorry but that's not my thing) and discuss all kinds of things.. and am willing to join/look for role-plays on this website if they will accept the kinds of characters I have in mind. If you are reading this and really like anything you have seen, please feel free to add my MSN [spoiler]julyashheart@hotmail.com[/spoiler] in the spoiler tag, or private message me/contact me somehow on here. That MSN is a functional e-mail as well, in case you cannot contact me otherwise.

I am sincerely interested in making role-playing partners.. so please let this be my last stop on the internet.. please allow this website to solve the crazy alone feeling I feel scouring the internet for friends who are interested in playing with me. The main problem has been that when I meet people they can never be on when I am on due to the time-zone issue.. so people who absolutely no life like me are amazing godsends right now.

This sentence will conclude my introduction.. so I am pleased to meet all of you, and hope my stay here will be long and fulfilling.

Sincerely, July.

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