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Tagged by :iconcharleethecat-bat: 

Rules: (you don't have to follow all of them)

1 - You have to post ALL the rules.
2. Answer 12 questions that you have been asked and then create twelve more questions for the others that you tagged to answer. (If I immediately knew that many question to ask I would have become a journalist)
3. Choose 12 people. (Do I even know that many?)
4. Legitimately tag these 12 people. (Nope)
5. You can't say you don't do tags. ( *throws chair and replies with a happy "Fuck you :heart:"*)
6. Tag backs are ALLOWED.
7. You must do the journal entry. (THAT rule I can follow)

Questions: 

1. What is your birthstone? 
Rose quartz but I can't say I like it.

2. And if that isn't your 
favourite, what's your favourite gemstone? 
Oh, there are a few which I love. Amethyst, onyx, emerald, turquoise, agate,... - well, basically mostly gems that can be green or violet.

3. What are you craving right now? 
Right now a hot bath. Not only because of winter and I just came home in the cold but also because it could ease my muscle pain that I have from sports.

4. If you could live in any fictional universe, what would it be? and where in that universe would you say?  
I have two main choices I couldn't decide between.
Mass Effect - among the crew of the Normandy
Knuckles comics - sneaking around someplace I probably wouldn't be allowed to be in (like Haven, a Legion camp, the Master Emerald chamber,...)

5. List of animal species questions, if you were a marine creature, what would it be? 
Maybe a whale. Although - being an angler fish could be an interesting choice if species as well for a change. :XD:

6. Now, what if you were Avian creature? (Bird)
Either a northern raven (the huge ones - Corvus corax) or some kind of falcon or hawk.

7. Now, what if you were an Insect/Bug? 
Either a cute little ladybug or a praying mantis.

8. Now, Reptile? 
A chameleon or tortoise.

9. And finally, Mammal? 
(Can I pick the whale again? That's a mammal after all. :XD: )
Nah, I think I would like to be a fox.

10. Okay, look up Yandere Simulator Personalities, Which would you be out of them and why? 
I'm a Loner because, well, sounds like me. :XD:
Although, looking through the list of personas not yet included the Sleuth could be fitting as well.

11. What would you rather have, Fangs or Claws? 
I already have fangs - kind of. My teeth at that place are a bit longer. (As a child I seriously tried to file them off at one point)  Having claws like Wolverine would be kinda cool.

12. What's your favourite series, (game, book, tv series, movie, you can do one or all, up to you), would you survive in it? 
Game: Mass Effect, Survival rate: quite high as long as I don't live in the Terminus system or there's another Reaper invasion. Should I be part of the Normandy crew my chance of survival might not be that high anymore though.
Book: the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Survival rate: uhh, well... I think if I don't live near the Unseen University (or anywhere near Ankh Morpork to begin with), don't walk into a Koom Valley reenactment between trolls and dwarfs or am not eaten by a crazy Luggage I could live a more or less normal life. Until a screaming wizard flies through my living room an the house gets raided by an army of little blue man...
TV series: MacGyver. Survival rate: As long as I have my Swiss army knife I could survive even the apocalypse. :XD:


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Truth Meme

8 min read
Taken from :iconcoraleana:
Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a journal with 91 truths about you. At the end choose 5 people to be tagged.


Guess my journal needs a bit of change again.

~BEGIN~






LAST TIME:



Last drink: self made orange juice

Last phone call: my mother
Last text message: a friend of mine

Last song you listened to: New Age by Marlon Roudette (and I thought it would sonehow fit for Locke)
Last time you cried: Uhm... Hard to say. I have felt quite teary eyed lately but not like actually crying. I guess the last time must have been when I had a fight with my mother a few minths ago.

HAVE YOU EVER:



 
Dated someone twice: No

Been cheated on: No
Kissed someone and regretted it: Yes. I basically regret that relationship as a whole. But at least it added towards my life experience.
Lost someone special: Yes
Been depressed: Yeah...

Been drunk and thrown up: Yes, just once in my life and it also had to do with the previously mentioned relationship.


IN THE PAST YEAR HAVE YOU:




Made a new friend: Not that I can remember.
Laughed until you cried: I usually get a coughing fit first. And then I get tears in my eyes because of the coughing fit. So technically yes.

Met someone who changed you: Not that I can remember. I don't think I met any new people this year. Even my colleagues stayed the same.
Found out who your true friends were: I'm with the same few of real life friends for at least the past 15 years. Would have taken me quite long if only this year I finally found out who my true friends are.
Found out someone was talking about you: I haven't found out anything but it is very likely some people do. And if they really do I think it's quite parhetic that they are too frightened to say it into my face.


GENERAL:




How many people on Deviantart do you know in real life: only one - my sister
Do you have any pets: No
Do you want to change your name: Yes. I don't know which other name but I just don't like having a name that literally every second person my age has.
What time did you wake up this morning: The same time I do every day on normal workdays. Around 7 am
What were you doing last night: Uh... getting turned into a snowman while walking around at a Christmas market, reading something that made me have coughing fits from laughter and then playing Pokemon while in the bathtub. And yeah, that pretty much was all I did last night before I went to sleep - somewhere around 3 am.
something you cannot wait for: Mass Effect Andromeda :happybounce:
What’s getting on your nerves right now: the freaking cold. Sometimes it's like we have nine months of winter.
Blood type: 0

Nicknames: Uh... too many. Mostly I am called Aqua, Terr, Xenin or Sandy, at work I am also known as R2D2, Robot, Edi and Captain, I also was nicknamed Eric a few times. And I am probably missing some of my lesser used nicknames.
Relationship status: single :la:
Zodiac sign: Taurus

Pronouns: Uh... what? :o

Favorite T.V show: I am barely watching tv anymore since years. I still watch MacGyver, Stargate and M*A*S*H once in a while since I own the DVDs.

School Status: Graduated a long time ago

Hair color: blond

Long or short: If my hair didn't at least have a function (protecting from the sun in summer and the cold in winter) I would have just shaved it off. Right now I am wearing it at shoulder length since that way my neck is also protected from the cold but I am looking forward to the time I can cut it short again.
Do you have a crush on someone: no
What do you like about yourself: My sarcasm. 
Righty or lefty: Ambidextrous. I was born left handed, was trained to write with my right hand, generally have a preference for my left and learned everything faster with it but with most tasks I can use both hands equally good.


FIRSTS:



First surgery: Just a minor surgery. I had a wart on my knee that was removed. Don't even remember how old I was. Maybe 8 or so. The anaesthetic injection hurt like bloody hell, even more than the wound or the stitches did after I could feel my knee again. At least I got rid of an annoying wart. And the scar can still be seen.
First piercing: I don't even have earrings.

First best friend: Eva. We were friends for maybe three years but then drifted apart after she switched to a different school. By now I have completely lost contact with her.
First sport you joined: I never joined any sports because it always meant I had to be in a team.
First vacation: I think I was like four years old and we were in Linz. 

First pair of sneakers: How should I be able to still remember that?

RIGHT NOW:




Eating: My last meal was a few hours ago and it was a pack of instant noodles. Right now I am not eating anything.

Drinking: The last I had been drinking was my self made orange juice. Tight now I am not drinking anything.

I’m about to: Get this quiz finished so I can go to bed - it suddenly turned 1 am without me noticing. ^^;
Listening to: the ticking of a clock and the humming of my laptop

Waiting for: December and also January to be over - I can expect so much more work, have to be prepared to even get into the office on weekends during January - I just want it to be over already.
Want kids: Nope
Get married: I already can't stand the thought of having to stay over night with someone so marrying is out of question.
Career: Aside of working over hours it's fine. I finally seem to have found a stable job.

WHICH IS BETTER:



Lips or eyes: Eyes I guess.

Hugs or kisses: How about neither? I might accept hugs from people I know very well but I hardly ever return them. And kisses - well, I first had to drink myself into oblivion before I could give my first kiss and even then it was awful.
Shorter or taller: both have their pros and cons. I mostly feel too tall even though I am just of average height.

Older or younger: again both have their pros and cons. I don't really want to be younger again though.
Romantic or spontaneous: romantic - at least on paper. I mean, I do like reading or writing romantic things. In real life I might not be that romantic but I am also far from spontaneous.

Sensitive or loud: sensitive 

Hook up or relationship: Neither. I am content on my own, thank you very much.

Troublemaker or hesitant: Hesistant

HAVE YOU EVER:




Kissed a stranger: No

Drank hard liquor: Yeah. I don't drink often but I also can't say I haven't at least tried stuff.

Lost glasses/contacts: No
Sex on first date: Hell would freeze over before that would happen

Broken someones heart: I hope not.

Been arrested: no

Turned someone down: yeah.

Cried when someone died: From the people I know only my grandparents have died and no, I didn't cry. Don't get me wrong, I loved my grandparents and I even still miss them to this day (my grandfather died 25 years ago, my grandmother 9 years ago) but they were the strongest people I have ever known. Crying only would have meant showing weakness. 

Fallen for a friend: No

DO YOU BELIEVE:




In yourself: Who else would believe in me if I didn't do it myself?

Miracles: no
Love at first sight: At best I would believe in the soultouch - if I was an Echidna.
Heaven: not anymore

Santa Claus: never believed in him

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Another 9/11

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When I saw social media this morning I at first thought a civil war had started or another plane had crashed into the non-existing Twin Towers (the date would even be fitting - if written the European way the 9th November is 09/11). People being afraid of the future, calling out to their friends and family members in the US if they are safe and with someone they love, people saying they will pray for the lost souls in the US and so on. Only when I read the news I found out that the election was over - and then I thought it was an early April Fools joke.
I have no idea what to say about that. I don't even know how much power a US president actually has (our own presidents are basically just there to give their signatures on documents - because of problems with the last elections we don't really have had a president for the last few months and it wasn't noticeable). But I think I can be glad that I am not in the US and pray to any god who gives a fuck that it won't have bad effects on the rest of the world.


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1) Post these rules.

2) Post 8 facts about your character.

3) Tag 8 other characters.

4) Post their names along with their creators' avatars.

Tagged by :iconcharleethecat-bat: to do this with Charon. I have just been working with him yesterday so I still feel very much in-character with him. This could be interesting. Since he is one of my already most fleshed-out characters I won't even have to invent much on the spot. It could still happen though that some details I write here might change in future stories.

1) Family matters: Charon's father once had been a commanding officer at the Dark Legion. Mostly thanks to his drill from childhood on Charon turned into a soldier worthy to soon join the elite force. His father was one of the many people to later perish in the egg grape chambers. His mother he hadn't seen anymore since he was 10. He hopes she is alive and well in the Twilight Zone. He has no biological siblings but he sees Kaya-Na as his little sister.

2) Elite: Being a loyal soldier and great fighter he soon was considered to be qualified for the Legion's elite force. At first he was proud but after just a short while he regretted it. His new and still untested cybernetics - replacement of the majority of his skin to form an exo skeleton - felt heavy and were hard to control. Soon he became the laughing stock for nearly the whole elite team. Being a really quiet person and also one of the youngest members of the team didn't really help when he had to deal with loud-mouthed veterans. At this time he also learned to know Kaya-Na - still a child in training back then. She helped him in a lot of matters, not only in how to train his new cybernetics but she also was the first person he could really pour his heart out to. With new self-confidence and better control over his cybernetics he was able to regain his status as worthy elite. At the current time due to wars and the near eradication of Echidna kind there are only two members of the original elite team left alive.

3) A complicated "condition": During his teenage years Charon barely noticed how little interest he had in females. His training and performance on the battlefield were of more importance. The closer he got to adulthood however the more he realised that something about him was different - and it frightened him. Homosexuality was nothing that found a lot of acceptance in the Dark Legion. Should anyone find out he would have been frowned upon, despised, seen as a freak of nature. He tried to force himself into relationships that were normal in his eyes but it only ended in awkwardness and never lasted long. Kaya-Na was the first he had the courage to tell about it but despite his fears she didn't turn away from him but rather encouraged him to accept himself as he was. Once he called it a "defect" but after he learned to accept it it's just "his condition" to him.

4) Sometimes the soultouch is just a bitch: Among the elite team there was one other member about the same age as Charon - Xenin - who despite being the joker of the team did not laugh at him. If anything he sometimes supported him in his training (though not as much and effectively as Kaya). Due to that Xenin was the first team mate he started talking to and became friends with. Their friendship became under threat though when Charon's feelings developed into something more. It wasn't threatened on Xenin's side at all - Xenin still has no idea about it and sees Charon as his friend to this very day - but Charon unconsciously drew a gap between them. They drifted apart for a few years before they finally started to be on missions together again but not even distance could completely erase his feelings. Beside all that completely breaking off their friendship is the least Charon wants to do. 

5) What am I even fighting for: The Dark Legion had fought for many things. Their right to use certain technoligies, their freedom away from the Twilight Zone, their independence from Echidnaopolis. Serving under a couple of Grandmasters - Kragok, Dimitri, Moritori - Charon had always simply believed in their cause and that he was fighting for the greater good. With Lien-Da's politics to rather make allies among the other Echidnas than enemies however he started to think. The people of Echidnaopolis, heck, even the Guardians used the once forbidden technologies, there already were former Legionnaires peacefully living among the other Echidnas, in fact there wasn't so much difference between the two enemy parties at all. He now saw them as allies too. Should ever another civil war between Echidnas happen he would feel really conflicted - there was no way he would betray his friends but he also wouldn't be able to raise his weapons against a former ally.

6) Iskander who?: There is something like an on-and-off-friendship between the two of them. Once he just knew Iskander as "that dude Xenin has to share a room with". But thanks to often hanging out with Xenin - that also included his room - he also started to talk to Iskander once in a while. And after some time Charon and Iskander started hanging out together as well. The two however are like fire and ice. What Charon sometimes was lacking in self-confidence Iskander had three times too much, while Iskander is really easy-going, an air-head and often doesn't take things too seriously Charon takes his duties too seriously and spends too much time reflecting on things. Sometimes Charon just feels annoyed by Iskander but sometimes he also just needs people who can break him out of his shell, just joke around and show him that he can't take life so completely serious all the time. He can't live with him, but he also can't live without him.

7) Siblings at heart: Kaya-Na on the other hand he truly loves (in a fraternal way). Her optimism often gave him the uplift he needed while his grounded personality kept her from lifting off too far with ideas, fantasies, certain relationships or whatever could go too crazy too fast. She was always there when he needed someone to talk to and in return he hardly left her side during the time she was grieving for Iskander when he was believed to be dead.

8) The sounds of silence: His quietness doesn't necessarily mean that he is shy. It more has something to do with his upbringing and training. Rather listen than talk, follow orders rather than questioning them, think about what you are saying before you say it out loud. Due to that when he is not around friends he often only talks when it's necessary and in conversations before he gets the chance to thoroughly think what he wants to say over the conversation topic might already have changed to something different. He also has a reason to stay quiet about certain topics - like when asked about relationships.

I don't really want to tag anyone, mostly because I don't want to bother people. Instead I will give an additional author's note fact.
9) Author's note: Born to die: Charon originally was just a name with no real character behind it. I needed a throwaway puppet for a story, just another additional soldier so it wouldn't look so empty. There also had been other throwaway characters in that same story whose names I can't even remember anymore right now. But for some reason this one guy stuck with me. I suddenly felt like having him in memes, then he was back as another side character in a story. Over time he had more character development than my planned OCs. The sturdy exo-skeleton I gave him when he started appearing as a side-character again kind of had a symbolic reason - this guy won't die easy.


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Get hyper

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The Aninite will be this weekend. To get hyped for it in advance I had been spending a lot of my spare time watching anime, reading manga and playing visual novels and I also subscribed to the Anime Man's channel. In between I also listened to a few Terry Pratchettt audiobooks, mainly the ones with the Ankh Morpork city watch, just so I won't go completely crazy on Japanese media. And now after a couple of weeks I managed to get myself completely hyped for ... the Ankh Morpork guards. :lol: I'm still looking forward to the anime convetion but I think if I spotted even the slightest reference to one of the Discworld novels (like the Rat Death cosplayer who had been there each year so far) I will go completely nuts.

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