HELLO. It looks like you've found me! And here I am in all my weirdness. Please feel free to explore. :)

In Recent News -- Just wanted to let everyone know that I do see your reviews, I do see the "please update soon!!"s and the "I really hope you update"s and "OMG THE TENSION"s ok maybe not that last one but like you get the picture. I see them! And I love getting messages like this! And! Since y'all heard from my last I have graduated from college (!) and moved countries (!!!) to start my first job after graduation, which as expected has been WILD! So I've been setting up a new life in a non-English speaking country and starting work and trying not to be completely socially isolated OTL which had been a lot to handle. But I've been re-reading lately and trying to squash bits and pieces I've written into comprehensive chapters, and as I have declared this the year of kicking my own ass, things should be moving along soon. And that's the scoop on that!

Concerning specific updates (as of January 2018) --
Fearless: next chapter editing in progress!!
Believe in Me: next chapter editing in progress!! I'm a mess!!!!

I do indeed have a deviantart! Right now it consists of doodles, little sketches, and some inspiration art from my own fanfics. http:/// if you feel like investigating!

And now I will attempt to summarize myself.

Current obsessions:

Ballet. Archery. Classical music. Hamilton. French rap. Opera rock. Ink drawings. DIY fashion. Red scarves. Baking cookies.

Basics about run4life:

Gender: Female

Age: Post-college, having graudated by some miracle.

Occupation: English (as a foreign language) teacher! Aspiring author/polyglot/general badass, and not necessarily in that order.

Favorite fandoms include: The Hobbit/LotR, Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra, Being Human (UK version is best version), anything Disney, Final Fantasy VII, Fullmetal Alchemist/FMA Brotherhood, Vocaloid, Fairy Tail, Howl's Moving Castle/Spirited Away/anything Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki, Princess Tutu, Harry Potter, Maximum Ride, Bleach... open to others! :D

Music I enjoy: Hamilton, French rap and opera rock, Breaking Benjamin, Paramore, Shinedown, 12 Stones, Evanescence, everything Vocaloid, Hurts, 30 Seconds to Mars, My Chemical Romance, Mindless Self Indulgence, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Within Temptation, Linkin Park, Vic Mignogna, Three Days Grace, catchy anime openings because they're fantastic... I like my music with a lot going on. I go off what makes my ears happy, really.

Horoscope sign: Cancer. Tough on the outside, squishy on the inside. I'm pretty logical and can make logical removed decisions, and if someone tries to mug me I will kick their ass, but I'm really a disgustingly optimistic realist that can be quite squishy although I don't recommend trying to make an appetizer out of me O_0

Likes: good food (I've been extremely spoiled by my parents in this respect), writing, piano, Pepsi, snow, pole vaulting, chocolate, socks, thunderstorms, rock climbing, dancing, skiing (XC and downhill), running fast, goofing off, drawing in any and all ways, shapes, and forms, making bad attempts at gymnastics, laughing, pranks, friends...many things!

My Myers-Briggs personality type is INFP, or introvert-intuitive-feeling-perceiving (silly psychologists; that doesn't start with an N). In other words, I do well on my own and I'm not particularly dependent on other people. As a side effect, I'm really bad at asking for help. I prefer to sit back and observe most of the time so I'm not a natural leader, but when I do speak up, people sit down and listen since I tend to see things that others don't. I get really strong instinctive feelings about things and people with a little ESP thrown in. I'm also very good at perceiving others' motives and opinions, so I'm really open-minded and can be decisive where other things might get in someone else's way.

But don't worry, I do have values! I'm really happy and very stress-free and laid-back, and very rarely get flat-out angry, but if you mess with someone I care about then you'd better hope I never have the good luck to catch you. Even my friends are scared of my rage mode. And I don't really do the princess-waiting-to-be-rescued-by-a-knight-in-shining-armor thing. I'd probably steal his horse. I appreciate it when guys are nice and considerate, but that's called being human. Also, I'd rather just split the bill. I try to be nice to everyone I meet, just because that's how I like to operate -- and I don't like mean people, although I do appreciate it when people just go ahead and say what they mean instead of hedging or being passive-aggressive. I believe that everything has significance and that things in life happen for a reason even when they suck. I'm afraid of very little, if anything, simply because most of the time there's no point, the way I see it. As a result, I'll be honest, I have pretty much zero respect for irrational fears. I don't fear the future because I figure that by the time I get to a crossroads or a wall, I'll be ready for it. I love to have good clean fun and have a lot of energy, and I'm really expressive. My friends are continually entertained by my weird storytelling facial expressions. I enjoy goofing off, watching the world stare in mild horror, and laughing my butt off about it. I have a tendency to cackle extremely loudly right smack in the middle of an entire roomful of Awkward Silence. Doing funny stuff and acting like it's crazy-super-illegal is also a fantastic form of entertainment, as are well-executed, harmless pranks.

Oh yes, and I'm tall and athletic with blue-ish eyes and brown hair that's currently trying desperately to grow out of a pixie cut. I usually wear glasses and a lot of jewelry, and that just about does it!

So that's pretty much the best I can do at myself in a nutshell! :)

To the stories! The good stuff.

Ongoing Stories:

Fearless: FFVII
Just warning you all: it's gonna get dark, and fast. The humor and emotion has to come through at some points just to keep it alive, but seriously, this is deep stuff. It's downright depressing, but I feel like I really have to include the negatives here and exemplify just how horrible Diana's finding Shinra and its motives to be. Of course, all that does is motivate her to progress so that she can have a hand in changing that someday...:) I loooove her for that!! :D The thing is, at the moment I'm just currently trying to charge through senior year and get into college here, don't mind me...! I think I'm mostly over my way-too-long writer's block and feeling better again, though, even though my appearances have been a bit few and far between. Weird, but once the school year starts I do have an easier time with writing. Plus my creative writing class is giving me a wonderful excuse to do it xD VICTORY! I get to get all my little plot bunnies and random thoughts out on paper -- it's really helping with my little pet projects and upcoming story and chapter ideas alike! So, this one's got a bit yet to go and I am nowhere near bored! xD Drop me a line if you want to :3 Personally I just love this story. To death. And beyond.

Believe in Me: The Hobbit
Ah, yes. Like so many others, I have been dragged into the deep depths of the Hobbit fandom after seeing the movie, and I'm loving every second of it. xD I read the book for the first time when I was eight, and reread it in preparation for the movie. Nearly died when I realized that I hadn't remembered the ending at ALL. Then I saw the movie (or part 1, I should say) and holy CRAP you can't even imagine the fandom/plotbunny explosion that happened in my head. I just read into everything so deeply, and it was all so incredible and gave me so many feels that I just can't even. So I began to explore Hobbit fanfiction and found an incredible story by the amazing lightning-inspiration which in turn inspired me to commence my own fanfic journey :3 It's an OC story (yes, I know you're shocked) and I'm leaning towards a slow burn Kili/OC component. Gradual, progressive, and hopefully, realistic. That being said, I'm combining mostly movie verse with a bit of the book (for example, if one is in Middle Earth and traveling by pony at a walking pace, it probably takes a good eight or nine days to get to Rivendell) and doing a lot of background research because that's just how I am. I shant tell you too much about the OC herself, since I want almost all of her backstory to be a complete mystery to be revealed gradually throughout the fic. But as for the slightly myserious working plot...

Her name is Eisa (say it EYE-sah). She's a bit of a big old mystery, since her mother took off not long after giving birth to her and she never knew who her father was. Born in a city in Gondor, she was raised by a collection of staff members at the tavern where she was born and learned a variety of skills. Once she was of age, she began to travel since she never felt like she belonged there. Eventually, some years later and quite content staying almost constantly on the move, she comes to the Shire and stays a while. She's just leaving when a certain Company of dwarves catches up with her, and they're going the same way. For some reason she begins to grow close to a few of them, and for the first time in her life, she feels an inexplicable connection that makes her not want to leave them. She doesn't fight it, but eventually it begins to terrify her because she doesn't even know what to call it. Her, the fear-no-evil, friendly, unexpectedly witty, solitary wanderer, so caught off guard by something as harmless as what might possibly be affection? Perish the thought. She'd rather not think about why she feels this need to be accepted, quite frankly, since never settling down or building relationships has never bothered her before. And never mind that she finds herself unable to focus and keeps staring at a certain dark-haired dwarf prince; it's all entirely ridiculous. However, not everyone is willing to put up with the presence of the strange female. Even if she does wander into previously unchartered social territory in order to prove her worth, will Thorin and the others ever accept her? And what of the secret quest to Erebor?

Upcoming Stories:

[possible] A Change of Plans rewrite/take 2: Howl's Moving Castle
Alright, alright, you convinced me!! I was feeling very nostalgic the other day and decided to go back and reread A Change of Plans, which was my first fanfic :3 and read all the reviews over again. AND I decided that, while it was in fact short and sweet, there needed to be at least a couple weeks' time in between chapters 4 and 5, maybe even some time before 4. I mean, it's implied that Sophie goes missing for a while since Howl goes to all the trouble to cover up her disappearance, and while the romantic development sort of made sense in my head, it was a bit too epiphanic and sudden to be believeable (in my opinion) so I'm redoing this. The embers of my love for HMC have undergone spontaneous combustion and rekindled the flame in my heart! :'D Ergo, here comes Take Two. I think I'll post it as a separate story, starting out with the chapters that I already have (edited over again, I think) and going on from there. That way, the original won't go away for you people who thought it was adorable and loved it so much the first time around :) I love you all. And if you were one of those people who wanted a sequel... I don't know, I'm not really feeling the married-life or extra-magical-problems sequel fanfics :/ Not sure why, but I've tried plotbunnying for things like that and it really just doesn't come to me. So sorry, but hopefully you'll all like what I come out with :D

Any ideas for a clever second title while still using the original to signify that it's the same story?

[Untitled: FFVII.
Tifa Lockhart and her best friend [OC, as of yet unnamed] are students at an American high school who, while they fit into the high school scene just fine, have always felt a little different from everyone around them. And we're not just talking adolescent insecurities; as in, everyone else that they're ever encountered, except for maybe their families. While they couldn't be more different, they're closer than sisters, and they finally convince their respective parents to let them go camping alone for the long weekend off from school. However, while out there in, well, the middle of nowhere, the impossible just might come to life in the form of two strangely dressed spiky-haired boys who appear to be stark raving mad. They're convinced they're from the military of a parallel universe or something, and what are they, the Martians come to take the girls home again, or something? Come on, they might be a bit isolated together, but it isn't like we're talking from a different world entirely... Right?

The suspense! o.O I'm actually quite looking forward to starting this up once Fearless approaches its conclusion. It's going to be a bit lighter; no horribly agonizing pasts, no terrible war themes; but the honor and friendship ideals have just always gotta be there :) What do you do when someone (possibly insane, but still, someone) presents you with an impossible but somehow - crazily - logical explanation to the questions you don't even realize you've been asking? And why, at this specific moment in time, do so many people seem so eager to get their hands on the girls and their families?

[Untitled: Fullmetal Alchemist.
What's a girl to do when she's the epitome of ordinary and suddenly life goes haywire? Seriously. Her height is average. Her hair is average, and in her opinion, boring. Her grades are average. Her handwriting is average. Her shoe size is average. Her family is average. Her artistic talents are average. Her smile is average. Her athletic abilities are enough to get by, and still, just average.
She doesn't have a problem blending in, sure; because that means that when she doesn't want to be seen, she isn't. So when she's out running errands and sees a suspicious man that appears to be stalking someone in a military uniform home from work, sure she gets a little twinge of instinct and hunts the hunter, so to speak. Who wouldn't? It looked sketchy, all right?
But what she really didn't expect was to finally be noticed that time; well, after all, turns out the guy was an expert at what he did, and one of the good guys to boot! Okay, so gaining herself a watch file in the office of a certain Colonel was definitely not on her list of things to do that week, but she sure found out what she'd apparently accomplished when she was hauled to that very office in Central Command itself by a very persistent Lieutenant. What about that situation even merited any kind of notice? She never wanted a track record, never mind a job offer! And besides, what's so great about her perfectly ordinary skill? It's only mediocre, and it's only natural melting into the crowd. Seriously, how is that grounds for something as dramatic as this (clearly insane) Colonel is making it out to be? The kids at school would never believe this...

And so the crack commences. Every character bounces in and out of this one, and this poor girl is suddenly turning everything (subtly, like everything she does) completely on its head! Non-pairing as of yet, but I may just give in to the Roy/Riza hinting. Also haven't decided whether to run a parallel to the FMA/FMAB storylines. Let the games begin.

Test the Skies (a.k.a. cliche working title) : Treasure Planet.
Yes, I've entered the realm of Disney fanfics xD I actually never saw this movie as a kid. (I missed out on a couple real gems, somehow. I think it's because they were the less-girly ones or they scared me. Everything scared me as a kid. Lol. As if, now.) But I found it randomly through the wonderful world of Youtube, and O. M. G. it is everything I've ever dreamed about for my entire LIFE. I just can't even handle the beauty of the setting and the fact that it's somehow a cross between Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean, and the characters are so wonderful and deeply developed especially dear Jim, and just, GAH!!! It's amazing and I want to live there. I'm serious, it's just like...that's what I was born to do. You know? So of course, now I must live vicariously through an OC xD Not lamely, don't worry. Please. If you've read anything of mine with an OC, you know I don't do the Mary Sue thing or the modeled-precisely-after-the-authoress thing. An odd observation: if I were an animation, Jim and I could 100% be related. Same straight brown hair with a little bit of flip. Same funky blue-gray eyes. Same little bump at the end of the nose and the same little curve of the upper lip. Same strong jaw line. Same death glaring and sneering capabilities. Same morning face xD and facial expressions in general. Not to mention the love of heights, wind, mechanics, legendary stories, the sky and stars, freedom... Yeah. It's a bit unnatural o.O

So the premise for the impending fanfic is my slight disappointment that Jim has no love interest, not even implied. Looking back, it would totally ruin the movie as it was based on family and a father-son relationship, but hey, what is fanfiction for? :3 To make crap more complicated, of course!! (I'm freakin' good at that.)

I don't have any semblance of a decent summary yet, but here's what I'm running with right now if anyone's interested:
A fifteen-year-old girl named Cass (a nickname for a bit of a mouthful that won't be revealed for a while) lives on the arts-and luxury/jewelcraft-based planet of Altheia with her picture-perfect mom-dad-and-four-little-blonde-kids family. Yeah, so she's the black sheep. With a physician for a mother and her father as one of those men that tend to form a sort of unofficial small-scale government of "high society", apparently she's supposed to "make something of herself" as she reluctantly grows up. Her younger sister is a genius who plans to pursue a medical degree; her older sister is beautiful and artsy and is good at styling anything and everything aesthetic, including herself; and her older brother is strong and handsome and moving up the ranks in the Empress' Royal Navy. Cass loves the sky and the stars, and she's made a few very basic solar vehicles without her parents' knowledge (her father is a sometimes-mechanic-handyman type of thing who overcharges everyone while appearing to be such a jolly family man, and she steals parts from him without him ever noticing). Needless to say, her parents don't exactly approve of anything she has a love for. If she had her way, she'd follow her brother, but for heaven's sake that's not acceptable for a young lady under this roof, and who did she expect would be paying the Interstellar Academy tuition anyway? Yeah. Great. What's more is that she gets extremely good grades in school. There's literally nothing for her parents to complain about, except for her dreams. When she finally snaps and causes them to too, she decides to leave home and they literally pay her to travel to a spaceport not so close to Altheia so that no one will recognize her and spread rumors or disgrace the family. The thing is, she's always had an uncanny knack for picking up such rumors, and she's caught one that someone's found a hint to the location of Treasure Planet! A voyage in pursuit of the "loot of a thousand worlds" -- she hardly believes it. So she does some digging and fact-extracting, and makes her way to Crescentia, near Montressor, to worm her way onto the crew of the R.L.S. Legacy. She plans to prove she can sure as hell make something of herself -- on her own terms.

So that's the plan! Oh, and Cass has long dirty blonde hair that she braids to keep it out of the way, brown eyes, a couple freckles, and perpetual cuts and bruises from her tendency to rebel via things that she's never been told a thing about (i.e. the solar surfers/vehicles...see where this is going?). She's about 5'5" and is in good shape but isn't a stick -- she isn't exactly curvy but doesn't look like a boy either. She wears a loose pale blue shirt, brown breeches and black knee-high boots, and ties a navy blue bandana around her head to keep the remaining stray hairs out of the picture, although she has one little uncooperative, gravity-defying strand that tends to spring out over it. She always has on a silver necklace with a circular pendant, has three piercings in each ear (again with the egregiously underinformed methods of rebellion), and wears a wide leather bracelet on her left wrist. I think that's it for now... Anyway! That's in progress. Once I get everything back in running order in terms of stuck plot points and get a decent amount of this written and edited, I might start posting this. :D 'til later!

[Untitled: Being Human
A young woman named Tess is struggling to make it as a young artist in Bristol. She delivers the post to make ends meet, and one rainy day, George finds himself actually opening the door and inviting her in for some tea. She's human and harmless - he'd smell so if it were otherwise - but then why does it seem like she catches glimpses of Annie through the window and hears snatches of her commentary? Eventual Mitchell/OC because Aidan Turner is godly. Honestly this is really just a plot bunny with like eight pages to go with it at this point.

[Untitled: Spirited Away
Teenage Chihiro is whisked into the world of the bathhouse, and it's a whole lot darker than the explicit canon of the movie. (Seriously, have you looked into the undertones/symbolism of the whole thing? Ain't no kids' movie.) That's pretty much all I've got at this point...but who knows, this might just explode into a full-fledged (cough ChiHaku romance) story! 8D

OC INTERVIEW

(Fairly) new OC that I'm wicked excited about: Eisa. Fandom: The Hobbit.

1. Hi! What's your real name and nickname?
Eisa, daughter of Auda. I don't really have a need for a nickname, and I was never given an inner-name.

2. What's your race and gender?
I'm a female dwarf. ...Or I'm at least half dwarf. Would you like to guess what I am? I'm open to suggestions at this point...

3. What about your family? Any siblings?
Well, let's be honest, there's no way of knowing. I never knew either of my parents, and it'd be odd, I guess, having a brother or sister out there that I never knew about.

4. Interesting... what's your current age?
Fifty-two. We think? By the ages of Men, I'd be in my early twenties.

5. Uh-huh. What's your favorite food?
Oh, that's a tough one! I have to say, hobbits just might be the best cooks I've encountered in Middle Earth. Anything made by a hobbit turns out wonderfully.

6. And your favorite drink?
A good dark ale is always nice, but I don't indulge too often.

7. Confession time! Who's your crush/lover?
(blushes furiously) My - what? No - Kili and I aren't - it isn't like - er - that is, not to say I like him like that - which is ridiculous - but - um -

8. (evil grin) Have you two kissed yet?
0_0 I refuse to discuss this further! (mutters) It was an accident...

9. All right, all right, fine! What's your favorite color?
Blue. Deep blue. Like the color of the sea where it begins to get deep, and the sky at night just before the constellations come out.

10. Do you have any friends?
I make...temporary acquaintances. Like this Company of dwarves. Before long I suppose I'll have to leave them and go my own way. Probably.

11. Um... Well then, have any embarrassing experiences in your past?
Heh. Oh, I suppose I have a few stories. I'm rarely embarrassed, is the only thing. Mostly my experiences are just humorous.

12. How convenient. Who's your hero?
Ooh, that's difficult... I've heard of so many legends that it's hard to choose. Although I've always loved the story of Thorin Oakenshield of Erebor. It gives me pride to identify as a dwarf.

13. Okay, who is your worst enemy?
I don't make enemies, really. And any given orc or goblin is your enemy whether you want it to be or not, so that doesn't count.

14. Interesting... What would you do if you met your creator?
I think I'd ask her why she was so tall, for starters; I'd think she'd be nice and normal and dwarf-sized, like me. Then I suppose I would see if I could get her to tell me what exactly she has in mind... (shifty eyes)

15. What's your worst nightmare?
I'm not terribly concerned with much, really. Perhaps if I had an accident and could no longer use a limb, especially a leg. I would lose my freedom.

16. What's your lifelong dream?
For now, simply to travel and get as much as I possibly can out of this beautiful world.

17. What would you do if your lifelong dream came true?
I'm living it right now, aren't I? I mean - (coughs) - not like the adventures with this Company have been the best time I've had in years, or anything...hm.

18. Okay, where's your favorite place in the world?
Stop giving me difficult ones! Do I have to choose? (sigh) Well, Belegost in the Ered Luin was gorgeous, or what's been rebuilt of it. I also took a liking to the kingdom of Rohan, the land is beautiful, and then Minas Tirith is just so stunning, but of course there's also the irresistible quaintness of the Shire... Oh, I can't decide. Maybe it'll be Rivendell, if I ever get to visit.

19. Last question! What do you spend most of your time doing?
Honestly, probably walking! So much travelling takes time, you know.

QUOTES TIME!

It's you and me versus the world. We attack at dawn.

Everyone has skeletons in their closet, but mine are the only ones that found the boombox in there and started a rave.

Drunken sod #1: Was that a threat?!
Drunken sod #2: Sounded like one to me!
Bofur: It'd be a threat if I thought you had the intestinal fortitude to start anything, which I don't.
-The Toymaker and the Widow, by cellotlix

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. -Gandalf/J.R.R. Tolkien

In International
Consequences
the players must reckon
to reap what they've sown.
We have a defence
against other defences,
but what's to defend us
against our own?
--Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

Lestrade: There's something else that we haven't thought of.
Sherlock: Is there?
Lestrade: Yes, why is he doing this, the bomber? If this woman's death was suspicious, why point it out?
Sherlock: 'Cause he's American.
Lestrade: Who press-gangs suicide bombers?
Sherlock: That's an American.
Lestrade: I'm serious, Sherlock!
-BBC Sherlock

A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it... he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. Yeah. A heart made Fullmetal. -FMA

George: You see what you've done? You've turned us into a hello-how-are-you program with the whole sodding neighborhood.
Mitchell: We're valued members of the local community.
George: Yes, until we inadvertently kill one of them!
-BBC Being Human

Mom: There was way too much swearing in that movie.
Me: Yeah, every other scene they were like "get the fuzz out!"
Mom: WHAT! (profanity-inspired indignance)
Me: I didn't even say it. The hell, I was making a joke. Wait. Shit.
Dad: Well, that went well.

"But I'm done! I'm done with hiding! With fearing! With...dreaming. Look at us! We've been living half in our own heads! We're all staring at the darkness and hoping that some day it'll give us an answer. We're looking at options A, B, and C, and we can't make ourselves choose any of them. We're looking north, west, and south and not liking any of our options. What the hell have we been doing all this time? We're done! I'm done! Done with hiding, and fearing! Done with dreaming! WAKE UP! Turn from the dreaming, and look towards the day! If we'd only stop staring at the fading stars and look, we'd realize-- The sun is rising. The night is darkest just before the dawn. We have to look towards the future. We have to pick a direction if we're ever going to start walking! And as long as we walk straight towards the sun, we can never get lost! I'm going to walk straight into the light. If a wall stands in my way, I'll punch and kick and fight like hell, until I knock it down. And if I ever meet a wall I can't knock down... Then Cloud will carry me over it. I trust in that. I trust in him. ... Fiat Lux." -Tifa; Credit goes to the incredible Osiris's Consort and her story Welcome To Fair Help Center for FFVII.

Officer, I swear to Drunk I'm not God.

"If you wanna be a hero, you gotta have dreams." -Zack Fair (duh ;)

"Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary!" -can't remember, possibly a Tamora Pierce book

"Always be kind and polite and have the materials to build a bomb." -Tom from Being Human

Dean: Oh my god, did you see that shot?! I'm Batman!
Sam: Yeah. You're Batman.
-Supernatural

"I feel that we are good enough straight friends that when we are together and creepy guys hit on us at the bars, we can pretend to be each others' lesbian lovers and it won't be weird." -A conversation from long ago at a sleepover far away

"I don't know if you've been keeping up with the news, Leonard, but there have been some amazing technological advances in the field of torture." -Sheldon, Big Bang Theory

Yuffie: Wow, so, uh, you actually did run out of places to hide the bodies?
Di: For the last time, that was a joke!!
-Fearless

"Yes, she had a rant session in my kitchen involving glorified pyromaniacs and many, many circles. You've created a monster." -about my FMA rants

"Gonna go grab some cheeseburgers and some pie." -Dean in UnderdogAngel's Supernatural fic Watch the Sky (hint: go read it!!)

Earthquakes seemed a highly unlikely coincidence at this point, so she took the liberty of concluding that they were all in very deep shit. -Fearless

This is life. Nothing comes in simply black and white. ...Not even the newspaper, 'cause I will have spilled coffee on it.

Cloud (reading off a fortune cookie): Do not despair, for size is not everything. (thinks of his height and makes a face)
Zack: IN BED! -Fearless

My dad: Yeah, he seemed kinda smart - you know how you can just kinda tell when someone's really on the ball?
Me: Or not on the ball...
Dad: Yes, that too. Or the ball is just missing...
Me: Or the ball was never there and someone's just kinda off looking for it somewhere...

"You have socks melting in your siiiiiink...!"

Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood. -Marie Curie

Friend: She just screamed your name across the cafeteria and made us look like freaks!
Me: Oh. Really? Sorry. 'Cause I thought I heard something, but, you know, I have this habit of hallucinating noises, especially people calling my name. Don't give me that look, you're just jealous that the voices like me better.

Angeal: What the—Diana?
Diana: No, it’s the pizza delivery from hell! You want fries with that?
Angeal: Oh my gods I apologize--
-Fearless

Genesis: Fair blabs. Angeal listens. Angeal talks. I hear things. -Fearless

Hughes: Oh, is it over now?
Armstrong: Lieutenant Colonel Hughes, where have you been this whole time?
Hughes: I thought it best to lay low.
Mustang: You didn't think about maybe backing us up?!
Hughes: Of course not! A person like me shouldn't get dragged into a freakshow with you pack of pseudo-humans! It's bad for my health!
Me: Oh Hughes. Bad for your health. Cough. Cough. *suddenly sobs* YOU DESERVED BETTER.

Mustang: If you got out more you’d have a few journalists stalk you yourself.
Hawkeye: I’d shoot them first.
Mustang: Just aim for the knees, Riza. I don’t want to deal with the paperwork it’d cause if you shot dead a civilian.
-At Gate's Edge by Winds of Water

Max: He made a flamethrower? Wicked!
Zack: Not if you're the one getting your ass lit on fire!
-Fearless

Friend: Why would someone do that?!
Me: 'Cause people are stupid. Besides, this is America.

"We eat. We plot. We rock." -Zack in Fearless

Havoc: That psycho just stormed the building!
Mustang: Yep. It's our lucky day.

Well, the chocobo's out of the bag now—our favorite heroes are going barhopping. Everyone hold onto their pants. -Author's Note from Fearless

"My peanut." -Captain Jack Sparrow

King Bradley (to Basque Grand, about Mustang): You wanted him here to keep a closer eye on him, so don’t tell me that all of a sudden you’ve remembered he should scare the shit out of you. -At Gate's Edge by Winds of Water

Angelica: I was ready to take my vows! And you--you had to come in and ruin everything! What were you doing in a Spanish convent, anyway?
Jack: I mistook it for a brothel. Honest mistake.
-Pirates of the Caribbean 4

friend: You should've had a twin brother.
me: Really? Two of me, including one with a Y chromosome? That's a legitimate menace to society, right there.

"Oww! …I guess it was a bit much to jump from the eighth floor." -Bleach

Ed: Tell him: fine, there’s no way I’m dying before you do, you morally bankrupt colonel with a god complex.

Riza: I should get in some target practice.
Havoc (whispers): Doesn’t she just tell the bullet where to go and it does it?
-At Gate's Edge by Winds of Water

Lyric Quotes!

I'm a nightmare, a disaster--that's what they always say. -Me Against the World by Simple Plan

Have you no honor? / Have you no soul? / What is it we're dying for / Do you really even know? / Have you no backbone? / Have you no spine? / Whatever happened to / 'No one gets left behind'? -No One Gets Left Behind by FFDP (sounds like Angeal, don't it? :D)

Time will heal the scars / Be proud of who you are / I came from nothing; here I am / I won the war in my head. -That's What the Wise Lady Said by Angtoria

This is 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will; 5% pleasure, 50% pain, and 100% reason to remember the name! -Remember the Name by Fort Minor ft. a lot of other people

At the end of the day there's another day dawning / And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise / And the waves crash on the sand / Like a storm that'll break any second / There's a hunger in the land / There's a reckoning still to be reckoned / And there's gonna be hell to pay / At the end of the day! -At the End of the Day from Les Miserables

Show me what it's like to dream in black and white. -Unknown Soldier by Breaking Benjamin

Stay real. Stay you. Love yourself, and when you can't then I'll do it for you.

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