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Yea, there probably aren't as many huge Malik fans, in spite of all the cosplayers of Malik I know. I used to have a friend who'd be so annoyed b/c she couldn't find good fiction or good art, though back in the day she didn't have too many problems with role-plays, but that's probably because the series was still current. Now it's probably harder. One of the advantages of my generally liking main characters, if not the main character. Better longevity of an addiction.

Stress is not good, I wish I could take my course part time half the time, but it's not an option for international students, we have to take it full time. Just trying to get through one day at a time I guess. Based on your test I'll assume your some sort of science major, Biology (or an expanded more concise branch therein)?

I was ok with my 5 - 6, I tend to work better under pressure, and usually if I was at 5-6 one to two of the classes were only 1 unit seminars or 2 unit performance classes. I was an English major (well still am, just now at the MA level which is 100% focused on the core of the academic subject now) and history minor, though I dabbled in classics and was in band as well. I almost minored in music as well as history, but didn't want to take theory. I also wanted to minor in classics or specifically Greek, but the courses I was taking were across the board and not to the specifications of either minor. Oh well, I enjoyed myself.

Most series I don't like the main character but I like the side-kick. In this I don't like Yuugi, and I did like Atem but not so much anymore. My favorite has always been Seto, I don't often go for villains but I do rather tend to gravitate towards anti-heroes, and Seto is a great one. In general I don't like emotional characters which is why Malik never really did it for me, he's too in touch with those feelings. xd

Ah yea, I remember that, I did chemistry my first year, I got by but looking back I could have taken MUCH easier general ed, but I didn't know what I wanted to do at the time. I had been thinking about psychology, both my parents went that route, but in the end while I had been greatly trying to avoid English I realized that's just where I'm meant to be. Do you go to a small school, do you not have "easier" options for math + science GE? If I could go back I would have taken Plant Sciences 10 instead of one of my chem courses. It was a course on Fruits and Nuts of California (I'm from CA fyi), you get to eat fruits and nuts and go on field trips to orchards. That would have been a MUCH better class than general chemistry. Blech. I always did well in Bio and fairly well in Physics, but chemistry has always been a week point for me.

Yea I think I have a couple of exceptions, though can't think of them off the top of my head. Generally I like cold, calculating, tortured (but silent), arrogant, intelligent, talented and any combination therein.

Writing has always been my forte, I just couldn't think of any career I'd want with an English degree. I felt the only thing English lead to was teaching and I didn't want to teach. You don't need a degree to be a writer, so obviously I wasn't going to college to be a writer, but to find a way to support myself if my writing never could (or until it could to be optimistic). However first I realized that your bachelors rarely determines your career. Most people do not necessarily end up in fields related to their bachelors, and you can go on and do most anything off any degree. You can major in dance and take chemistry courses at a community college and go on to med school. However obviously I'm still in English at a higher level, and that in part is because I changed my mind. I want to teach, just at the university level. I'm going to attempt to teach at a junior college while I put a research proposal together for my doctorate and then after that attempt to secure a research position at a university. That was the other change, I decided I do want to do research and critical analysis. I'm still dabbling on wherein I want to build a niche in the literary field, and hopefully I'll have a better starting point at the end of my MA, that's the reason I'm doing this MA rather than just proceeding straight to the doctorate as many are prone to when they are sure that's where they want to go.

That is too bad about your hearing, how did that come about, the referral to a professional?

@Hawk: Hey, welcome to Kage no Gensou! I did in fact read your guild request, and was happy to see you took time to fill out the questionnaire. Eheh, didn't realize this guild was so hard to find though; maybe I should add some alternate Yuugiou spellings into the tags...
Anyway, gonna take some time to reply to all topics noted here...

Yes, the guild is currently in one of its more inactive phases; JK and I are mostly the only ones posting, though another member Morgey has been back recently. This guild never dies, but it definitely goes through long periods of only one or two members posting.

Sadly, I don't think I'd be able to help with your roleplay request either. As busy as JK is, she still seems to be updating roleplays more often than I am able to lately; I often can't even update once a day. Plus I also have no forte in playing either Maliks. I love both of them, but I've just never been good at playing villains. I even have a difficult time playing anti-heroes like Kaiba.

You probably don't suck at running guilds; they're extremely difficult to keep active. The only reason this one is alive at all is because I inherited it from someone who did an amazing job starting it up. It became less active once I took control. XP People just tend to leave when they get too busy or uninterested; there isn't much you can do about that. And regardless of how you run your guild, the more active ones are generally the ones with the most popular topics. I will warn now though that this guild has never been very strong in the roleplay area. We've always had the roleplaying subforum and encouraged it, but for some reason roleplays have just never thrived here like general Yuugiou discussion has.

@JK: Managing a guild isn't difficult at all. Living with the sadness and guilt of having an inactive guild is the hard part. XD I find far more responsibility in just posting like any normal member than actually moderating things. Then again, that might be because I always put off updating the guild. >_>;; It's kinda out of date; I should do a big rehall when winter break comes.

@Hawk: I've played almost every character at this point, so I'll just say the ones I feel I'm good at playing: Jounouchi, Shizuka, Anzu, Mokuba, Honda, Rishid, and Bakura (Omote). Pretty much all the dopey characters and 'follower' characters. XD;;

Ugh, I agree, four courses is obnoxious. Sadly, to graduate in the four years that my scholarship lasts with my minor, I need to take 5.75 classes a semester. And yes, I said 5.75. Japanese classes at my school count for five credits instead of three, and that's because they are longer class periods and give more homework than all of my other classes combined.

In characters I tend to go for anyone except the main hero or main villain... so usually the sidekicks, the anti-heroes, or the henchmen. Would explain why my favorite characters are Jounouchi, Kaiba, Honda, Shizuka, and Rishid, though mostly Jounouchi. <3 Not only do I like the more side characters, but I also really like the underdog, and Jounouchi radiates that role so perfectly he gets called out on it.

@JK: I don't think most schools offer required sciences that are easier than Bio. Maybe Geology or Astronomy, but that just depends on how good you are at memorization. My school definitely doesn't have an 'eat nuts and fruits' class. XD;; I took Bio and Chemistry, Bio because it fit in my schedule and Chem because I love it. But Chem was definitely the easiest science course I could've taken, because I'm much better with formulas over memorization.

@Hawk: Hey, my hearing sucks too! =D I actually have to put subtitles on movies and stuff. *high five*

@Kits - lower division language courses I think at any school or worth more because they are everyday I think. First year Greek and French were both 5 units as well at my school (and all the other languages I didn't take). I guess if "full time" is considered 12 units I was generally full time x 2 because I was usually taking a language. However I tend to do better under pressure, I think that's why I'm so wayward now, I have tons of pressure but not really. I have too long to do the papers in. I need to do the research for my essays before I head back to the states and can't physically access the library anymore, however I just don't want to think about them right now.

I doubt most universities have an eating fruits and nuts class, haha. I also took intro to wine making. UC Davis has a viticulture program, it has a plant science program. Basically any program at a school is going to have GE courses spun off it. Now most schools don't have that, it's one of the awesome things about UCD and one of the things that are getting hit hard by the budget cuts in CA, as my friends in equestrian studies can testify, which is very sad. I know smaller schools in CA only have basic bio (at UCD however you can't take bio until you've taken chemistry, part of why someone wouldn't do bio as their GE even though I woulda done bio, it was really annoying the hierarchy there) and that sort of thing. However most of the major universities have large and extensive science and engineering (or math, it was sci&eng at UCD b/c they have a big ENG program) curriculum, and while you might not find that awesome plant class anywhere else, most of my liberal arts friends could very easily avoid the big hitters like chem, bio, physics for their GE. Geology, Astronomy, Ecology where pretty much everywhere. Also I didn't even know about plant sciences until well after I finished my sci&Eng GE. So it's possible that your school doesn't have those, or it's possible you just don't know about some other GE options. They aren't as bantered about as general chemistry often is.

@Hawk - There are psychos in the library?!? sweatdrop

The few Malik role-players I knew were usually very particularly to "their" Mailk and their shippings, which probably also contributes to making it hard for that community.

When I joined the guild - well I don't even remember when I joined because I don't think I ever really did anything in here for the first couple of years - but when I became active in the guild that was the busiest I've seen it (that was about a year ago). I think in part there were a couple of other new people, and more of the old people still around. Anyhow like Morgey sometimes old people randomly pop up, though Kit's is right I've never seen this guild be very rp heavy. I just lucked out in the rp thing because Kits and me have similar enough tastes and opposite enough tastes to be interested in a rp.

I tend to have liked fanfiction, the little I dabbled in it, but it's a harder motivator to make time for when I don't have someone on the other end "waiting" for me so they can go.

Definitely particular with their shippings, which is usually why I've avoided most Malik role-players, at least to try and role-play with, haha. I mean I don't even always hate the pairing they like, but it's just they are too narrowly confined to their one specific taste, it seems like I'd just be tagging along their story. They might as well be writing their own fanfic it's so tailored anyhow. sweatdrop

Generally the one thing I want in a role-play is flexibility, to actually create a story with another person(s), not just follow out a preexisting script. As for OCs I'm wary of them myself I have to admit. Especially female OCs, mainly due to Mary Sue syndrome, which so many of them seem to fall victim to, if not in the beginning of a story eventually. And then if I'm within a certain series I generally do have something specific I want to see out of the series characters and OCs tend to sometimes overshadow and take over. A takeover by a character whom I personally have minimal knowledge of and zero attachment to - love 'em or hate 'em, I have established feelings on all canon characters that will be tickled in one way or another in an rp. I wouldn't ban them, and I've created minor filler characters myself, but I guess I'd be wary going into a story with an OC as a main character.

@JK: Makes sense, but my Japanese class is only three days a week. I do know some languages classes are five days though. I do better under pressure as well, but this Japanese class giving me so much homework I'm literally having to do it every free opportunity I have is just too much for my taste. Like your situation, where you have so much time to write something, that's too little for me, but my situation is too much. XD

Gosh, your university sounds like it was awesome.

Haha, yeah, I think you did happen to pop in right when the guild was most active. It's because we had three new active members join all around the same time, and those three as well as myself and a couple others all happened to hit it off, so we had like a million conversations going. They all kind of faded away one by one though, sadly. ): I guess we did luck out with roleplaying though, as I tend to be kind of picky with who I choose as roleplay partners. XD Needs to be someone who's willing to let me be the follower in terms of both characters and plot, where I contribute, but don't lead. Also, like you said, someone who has similar interests (like pairing and plot types), but different at the same time (like specific characters). Besides you, I've probably only had... two other Yuugiou roleplay partners that I really hit it off with, and various others that were just okay.

Same for me with fanfiction; I like writing it and how you get total control, but I'm not as motivated when someone isn't waiting for me. XD

@Hawk: I've noticed that all three of us seem to agree that Malik roleplayers are very controlling and nitpicking (which works for me; the one Malik I roleplayed with was great, but not for most people). I wonder what brings that about? Like is there something about Malik that inherently attracts controlling people? XD Is it because he's so controlling?