Elendra — Roleplayer Guild

Alex said
now hopefully this will inspire others to spill their life story so i can fill up my spam burn book

Deal

Hi I'm Elendra. I got into RPing on some anime appreciation website that I do not remember the name of at all any more. It would have probably been the first result of the time (2006 or 2007) that I googled for it. The reason I got into it there was because it was a thing where I could write and so therefore it was awesome! My hobby of writing is actually much older, stemming back to 1998? I think it was, when I broke my leg left femur. I was no longer really capable of doing more physical pursuits for a long time, so I took to writing and playing Star Craft (Zerg mostly) and the other game I remember is Axis and Allies. I didn't know who Nazis were back then, although young me thought their uniforms were cool. Now I know about all the awful things they did and still think their uniforms were cool. Some things don't change, I suppose.

ANYWAY more background, as I grew older due to various psychological and physical ailments afflicting me, I became more and more introverted and didn't hang out with others as much, so I took to interactions online in lieu of that as that was something I could do without having to leave, which by the time I Was on the guild wasn't really an option. I moved from suburbia to a very rural area sometime around 3rd or 4th grade. Neopets was the first place I went to for years and then I was at an anime fan board as mentioned. I didn't stay around there too long as the general anime talks didn't interest me as much as the roleplaying did, and so I did what I felt was responsible, and went in search for dedicated RP websites.

Now I know I've actually lied about the origin of the name Elendra. Random keys from the back of a CD case, I even picked out one for that story. No, the actual case of it was Elendra was the name of a background mythological figure in the last RP that I did on the anime fan board. And yet, Elendra wasn't my first name when I went elsewhere, and the Guild wasn't the only place I went. I believe I had a stint on Gateway, and another place that I think either had something to do with starlight or whatever. I don't necessarily remember my names from those ties, although I think one of them was Qiatar, based on a fake persona I made up to play tricks on my friends? I forget the specifics. This was also around the time I started to play Cybernations (a game I later confused for Nation States until I actually played Nation States) and I also RPed through wiki pages or something along those lines in that game, which was my first delving into Nation RPs.

Anyway, around the time I joined the Guild for the first time (Sometime around November 2007), I was doing a NRP wherein the people were divided into elemental based castes (a thing I later found done much better with the Tau in W40K) and the ruling caste in my nation was Earth Caste. That became my name on the guild because yeah that had a ton of staying power. I stayed around for about half a year, before I started to get worse IRL and stopped coming around. Also because I started doing a lot of MMOs. Like City of Heroes which was so super fun oh my god I still am not happy that it's dead grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr so many good times RPing there. My first time /crying/ because of something that happened in RP was because of a character, Etoile Fleche, who through a long series of drama (See months) broke up with her girlfriend for another girl whom she spent weeks converting from evil to good and just ugh I can't adequately explain the feels. It wasn't planned OOC, but it made sense IC and it was emotional ;_; much crying by all parties involved in and out of character. The next time I was on the guild was almost a full year later in February 2009 on my second account. Elendra. I had stumbled upon the name again while clearing out old RP documents that I had saved (Rereading any that were interesting). I liked the name way back when, I liked it then, I like it now. So I took the name.

I've been Elendra online for most everything ever sense, and actually as I've had so much emotional healing, good friends, and such with this name as me, it's uh... actually the name I'm thinking of taking when/if I get the sex change I want. I've only gotten sicker in body but healthier in mind, and when you're online so much, who you are online matters and becomes just who you are in general. While Elendra isn't my actual name, I prefer it to my actual name and like... I dunno. Elendra / Elly / El is who I am now, and I'm honestly glad about it. Roleplaying and particularly the Roleplayerguild and its users helped me make friends, work out issues, and become more confident and secure in who I am.

Why was I attracted to spam? Well when I was still a 'new elendra' on the guild, I was really only accepted in the IRC, and well sometimes back then they were HUGE dicks and didn't make me feel welcome or comfortable but I still wanted to talk with people without it being tied to RPs and so that left off topic (which I felt was too serious) and Spam, which at the time reaaaaaaaaaaaaally didn't like me either. I was some new guy who wanted attention, and was an idiot at that. I thought being silly or funny would get it, but nope. I saw that positive attention was given to those who did projects, and so I totally did something to get people to like me. I did AARs and Blorbs and boy howdy did Blorbs work. I mean it also made a lot of people say mean hurtful things to me, but, y'know, whatever. It got me to be a name in Spam, people who were initially hostile to me began to accept me, and well, now I'm where I am now with lots of people. I've matured a lot since then, opened up to others, and now I have more friends than even my constant drive to put up neon signs pointing at myself wanting people to be nice to me could ever have hoped for. It took a big act of 'not being an annoying kid' to get my foot in the door, and now I'm pretty sure that my friends here aren't friends because of the things I do, but because of who I am.

Feels good, man.

But uh, interest besides Roleplaying and writing? I like to draw, blorbs and their wonderful world mostly. I'm getting a lot better at it thanks to like, years of practice. I love reading, I love ancient cultures, languages, and mythology. I could tell you a list of reasons from memory about why Tezcalipoca is a huge dick who ruins everything and yet is still supremely awesome. I could tell you stories from many cultures, and while I get some details wrong, and don't always remember the names (or say them correctly, eeesh that's hard sometimes), it's usually pretty good for someone who's just a hobbyist in it. I like Strategy Games, Turn Based, Real Time, and Grand varieties. I play music, mostly piano, but also trapset drums. I've even written a few pieces, it's pretty fun. Uhm, while I haven't done it lately, I would like to get back into computer science. When I was in highschool before I dropped out due to complications involving my health, I was actually bumped ahead a whole year in computer science because I mastered the first year's material, AND most of the second year's material in a couple of months. I made a tonnes of little games, including a bullet hell, a sidescroller beatemup, and a text based adventure game with turnbased RPG battle system. I've also recently (of the last year or so?) become fans of the Youtube channels of Nerdcubed and Two Best Friends Play. Funny stuff.

But really, my biggest interest is just... making things. Whether it's making a RP, a story, blorbs, a minecraft house, music, things out k'nex or lego, or whatever. I like creating.

KnightShade said
Yeah, the module is based around south america as a whole. From what I know of the tutor that doesn't surprise me, she runs the module that introduces us to all the early civilisations. I think having a mix there is so we can take a comparative approach.

Well, hopefully it's still accurately informative, although I'm not sure I agree with the tutor's categorization. But if they still tell you information instead of stuff that popculture believes, then it's all good. Hope you enjoy it.

And I'm holding my tongue on those civilizations described as early considering how many civilizations they built themselves upon and how late they formed compared to other things <_< okay that's not really holding my tongue but still. Best of luck with that! If you learn cool stuff, lemme know >.>

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