Hello! I am a 16-year-old named Claire. Phoebe Jay Scuttlebutt is one of my first rats and I thought she'd make a good username. I like reading many different worlds of fanfiction, but the main ones are Harry Potter, White Collar, Suits, Twilight, and Merlin. Whump and hurt/comfort are the best.

Other than reading and writing, I spend my time with my animals. I have three pet rats (Lark Phoenix Tinypaw, Fin Leona Honeytum, and Cricket Blue Scamperfoot), a dove (Tinker La Stulta Kolombino), and a dog (Sir Theodore Digby Chicken Caesar). In my stories, you may find me giving random facts about my babies (my animals). Example: Cricket just hid some carrots and kale inside my mattress. Meaning that she and the other rats just chewed a hole in my mattress and she then thought it was a good idea to bring food inside. Now I don't know what to do since I can't get it out without a lot of work on my part and breaking my bed even more. I'm just hoping that they eat the food they left in there and it won't rot.

I love walking barefooted and have been going barefoot for most of my childhood since I was home-schooled. I started high school two years ago and I love it, but I still would never give up those wonderful years of stress-free life. I don't think that any formal education up to high school is really worth it because I was somehow able to do every grade from 4-8 in one year before my Freshman year. If I can catch up so easily, how can all those hours in school be really worth it?

Anyway, I have four siblings. One sister who is also mildly (very) addicted to fanfiction and three brothers, one of whom is also the before mentioned Sir Theodore Digby Chicken Caesar (he goes by Theo). My sister is two years younger than me and if you see a comment on anything I've written by an Anna saying that I'm ugly or stupid, that my sister. Feel free to respond that she's a bad soccer player then when she's in the US women's national team (as my family suspects she will be) you can say you insulted her when she was 13. All my siblings and I show affection with insults and teasing - what better way to greet a brother who's been at college for a few months back into the house than by saying, "Ew, it's back!" and flipping him off? My two human brothers are two and four years older than me and Theo is around 8 years younger, but he's my favorite.

I'm not trying to be a stereotype by outing myself, but since I am writing about myself: I'm vegan! My family and I went vegan around 2 years ago now after being vegetarian for most of my life and I'm never going back to eating meat or any animal product. I try to join in animal right's activism as much as I can and have joined in two Cubes of Truth by the Anonymous for the Voiceless. They were VERY painful (standing and holding a computer out in front of you for two and a half hours while moving as little as possible is usually painful) but very worth it. Going to do it as much as I can from now on.