Jay

questionnaire #1: the basics

your name

Jason David Graymer...at least that's what my parents thought. It's really just Jay.

your age

241 and some odd change. But do I look a day over 16? Nope!

describe yourself

Sexy!
...

Okay, okay...(but I am sexy...) As I said before, I look like I'm sixteen...and since Niki and I look almost identical (even though boy-girl twins can't be identical), I'm a lot prettier than your average guy. I know some guys who would complain about it, but I like it that way. Anyway...I'm short, but not as short as my sister...I can generally be confident that I will be taller than most of the females in the room, and I have the kind of body that would be called boyish on a girl, but I'm not a girl...though I suppose it would make more sense to describe a guy as boyish than a girl, wouldn't it? My hair is green, has been since I was sixteen...dark green. At the moment I'm wearing it long enough to pull back, and my bangs seriously need a cut...they get in the way whenever I lean forward. My eyes are blue...the exact same shade as my sister's are, by the way. I do wear glasses too, even though I haven't needed them in over 200 years...because I happen to like glasses.
I'm a pretty laid back guy in general. I've been through a lot, having lived for almost two and a half centuries, and I've found that most things just aren't worth getting worked up over. At least, not if it'll be a hassle to try to do something about it. If it's getting worked up just for the excitement of getting worked up, that's all cool. I think I'm overall a nice guy too, though I've met lots of conservative and uber-religious types who are convinced that I should burn in hell... Of course, I guess that's what happens when your openly gay (and have been since you realized it in the first place) and not willing to take the crap that the bible thumping assholes who think you're evil just because you love someone of your own gender like to dish out. Um, yeah... That would be the one thing I'm not laid back about...

describe your mate (if applicable)

Well, do you mean mate as in someone who I'm going to reproduce with? Because that will never happen. I don't do girls, never have, never will. And I suppose I could make arrangements to have some fertility between me and my partner of choice at the moment with my magic...except that's been denied to me since I was 16.
And if you mean mate as in someone who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with... *snrrk* That won't happen either.
But, if you mean mate as in my current partner of choice...he's a great guy. A little too fanatical about his stupid war, but he makes up for it by being good in bed. He's tall, handsome, blonde...and has the most absolutely gorgeous gray-green eyes in the whole world (and I say this after more than two centuries of experience looking for good looking guys). Yeah, he has a bit of a hang up about his last lover and her new lover, but most of the time I can make him forget about that. Besides, he likes to pamper me.

where (and when) do you live?

Omega Colony...which was supposed to be the last Moon colony project ever. That was about fifty years ago...and there have been six new colonies formed since then. I live in a pretty nice apartment in the residental quarter...though I spend most of my time on the Earth's embassy base, with Keif, recently. The year is 89 SE (Space Era...isn't that such a wonderfully imaginative name for a calendar system? Though it's better than Anno Domini...)...which corresponds to 2222 AD.

what's your favourite sweet?

My first (and definitely not my last) trip to Japan got me addicted to strawberry Pocky...yum.

questionnaire #2: favorites

what is your favorite...

season?

Winter, definitely. Sure, it's cold, but snow is really cool, and when it's cold you have an excuse to curl up in front of a fire or stay buried in bed as long as possible before getting up.

food?

Tortellini, you know, the pasta that's circular and filled with meat or cheese...or sometimes something else. Dad always used to call it turtle soup when we had tortellini in broth, and I still call it that sometimes. It gets me lots of weird looks, but it's fun.

animal?

Humans. They're animals too, and it's not gross to have sex with humans. ^_^ (Not that I would ever consider having sex with an animal...)

color?

Green. That's why my hair's green, and even though I've been stuck with it like this for over 200 years now I'm still not sick of it.

time of day?

Night. Mom always thought it was all in my mind, but I'm pretty sure that I'm naturally nocturnal, so obviously like like the time of day when I feel most awake. Besides, the fun people don't come out until night most of the time.

weapon?

I like being able to feel someone if I'm hurting them...not that I really like hurting people, so I think I'll go with my fists here.

questionnaire #3: background

tell us about...

your place of birth

Good ol' Appleton...a bit small for my tastes. There wasn't enough stuff around there to do, even with all the people. It made Niki happy, though, so I put up with it... Besides, Mom and Dad never wanted to move. I still got out of there as soon as I hit college.

your childhood

Surprisingly normal, despite how I turned out. I was the hyper, energetic kid who never shut up. But I was always with Niki too, and I always made sure that she didn't get left out, since she would have done nothing but stay at home and read or study if I hadn't.

your parents

Loved 'em. Mom was a saint...not literally, but she should have been, and that's even without believing all that religious bullshit. She was what kept all of us from dying from neglect. Dad was...interesting. At least it was hard to be bored when talking to him, even if he wasn't the best role model in the world. As for our real Dad...would have been nice if he had lived long enough to get to know him, even though that would have meant Dad not coming into our lives. But, it also would have been really nice if our real Dad had at least mentioned the whole "not human" thing to Mom, so that it wouldn't have come as such a surprise to Niki and me. But I guess since he was ashamed of that I don't blame him for wanting to forget about it.

your siblings

Niki is too nice for her own good. She was always letting me drag her out, even though she would rather have been doing other things. She never dealt well with people, but I would force her to do it. She always thought I was doing it for her own good...which I suppose was part of it. But mostly it was because I didn't want to be alone. But she's still too nice. That's why she's stuck in that stupid bottle of hers now, because she was too busy worrying about me after I fucked up and she forgot to pay attention to her own life. Maybe someday she'll get out so I can apologize...
And Zack... Zack is weird. Up until Niki disappeared he tried to ignore the weird things about us, like having a big brother and sister who chose not to be human. I think he might have been more like our real Dad in that way. But then when Niki got shut up he got weird... I'm not exactly sure what he did, but he embraced some sort of change while he was in high school. Haven't seen or heard from him since then, though I have a feeling he's still kicking around somewhere.

your (current) home

Omega Colony is okay, I guess. I miss Earth, though, and if it weren't for Keif I'd probably go back. Everyone here is too focused on work...not enough people who like to enjoy life and take advantage of the fun you can have. Besides, the people who designed the colony liked summer way too much... Yeah, it's nice, but not all year 'round.

your favorite "hang out"

I don't have one right now, unless you consider the parts of the Earth embassy where I'm actually allowed to be a hang out... I spend most of my free time there, since that's where Keif is, and he's pretty much the only thing keeping me on the Moon. Gods, his room could use some decoration, though. It's so bare!!!

questionnaire #4: skills

can you read?

Who can't? Okay, okay...that's a stupid question. Half the kids I see on the streets of cities can't anymore, especially on the Moon colonies. But I grew up in a family with a super smart Mom and later on a writer Dad, not to mention a sister who decided to teach me after she taught herself at age three... I didn't actually get the hang of it until we were almost in kindergarten, but yeah, I know how to read.

can you write?

Yes...yes I can.

can you sing?

Only when drunk. Very, very drunk. I've been told that I actually sing pretty well when drunk, though. I'm not sure how that came about, though...

can you play an instrument?

Nine fucking years of piano lessons, because the school counselor told Mom that music "nurtures the gifted soul," and she bought it. Niki's the smart one...but she made both of us take the lessons.

what languages do you speak?

Three different variants of English (American, my first, British, and Australian...I can sound like a native of all three places...it's weird), Spanish, German, Japanese, a little bit of Russian and French... I've lived in lots of different places, and it helps if you know the language when you live somewhere.

what weapons can you use?

I studied karate for self defense, and am pretty good at it. One of my past lovers insisted that I learn to use and then carry a gun, also for self defense...though the one time I tried to use it to save myself there were some interesting repercussions with my magic. And I've studied two different sword styles for fun. Of course, one of those was fencing, which really shouldn't be considered, since it's not for fighting, but for sport.

questionnaire #5: secrets

are you good at keeping secrets about yourself?

Some...not all.

what is your best kept secret?

That I'm not human... The others of my kind know it, and if Zack's still around he does too...but they are few and far between compared to the humans. And I tend to run away rather than explain to my lover why I still look sixteen even though we've been together at least that long already...and that I will never age while he grows old and dies. Yeah, I'm a coward that way.

what is your worst kept secret?

Ummmm...well... It's weird saying this after saying that my best kept secret is not being human, but it's that I lost my magic. Of course, it only makes sense with those who know about my not being human, since they're the only ones who would know that I am supposed to have magic. I really don't want everyone to know about it...but it's pretty much become a joke among our "community."

are you good at keeping secrets about others?

Sure. I know there are some things about myself that I don't want people to know...so I like to respect those wishes in others.

what secret about someone else have you kept and wish you hadn't?

I knew that Zack was planning something before he disappeared. I didn't know what it was, but I knew that he wanted to do something, and I didn't tell Mom or Dad. They might have been able to talk him out of it.

what secret about someone else have you not kept and wish you had?

I kinda let slip that one of my lovers was my lover to the wrong person...even though I knew he was still closeted. It was an accident, but he got really pissed about it. Needless to say, I lost my only non-human lover that day, and that sucked.

questionnaire #6: sex

are you a virgin?

*snrrk* Are you kidding? A 241-year-old virgin?? That would be funny.

do you mate for life?

Hell no. That would really, really suck. First off, I'm not quite sure how long I'll continue to live, so if I wanted to mate for life and not spend many, many long years being miserable after my "mate" died I would have to choose another of my kind. And they, besides not being the most numerous in the world, tend to look down on me for losing my magic in the first place and then not apologizing to my Master and getting it back...so those who are interested are too busy looking down on me. And two...the word mate implies that reproduction is happening...and there is no way in hell I am going to choose a woman and stay with her for life.

who was your first lover? (or, if you are a virgin, who would you like your first lover to be?)

I don't really remember his name...if I ever actually found it out. I was confused, and almost scared, but determined to explore this revelation that I had received that told me that I liked guys. So I went into a gay bar, avoided getting kicked out for being underage, and went with the first guy who hit on me. It was very, very stupid, but I was lucky that I didn't get caught in something bad. He just fucked me in a hotel room and slept next to me that night...we parted ways in the morning and I never saw him again. I was fifteen years old at the time. He must have been at least twice that...

who is your current lover?

Keif...he's something else. I never would have figured him to be interested in guys if he hadn't started hitting on me at a bar one day. It was originally to get back at his old lover...but then it continued. I wouldn't go as far as to say I love him...but I definitely like him a lot.

what is your favorite sexual position?

Can't decide... I like pretty much anything as long as I don't have to be on top.

what are your kinks?

I like being tied up. I also like a little pain...not a lot. I don't need them, but they do add a little spice to sex.

questionnaire #7: best and worst

what's the worst thing that's ever happened to you?

It's a tie between losing my magic and when Niki got shut up in her bottle. Losing my magic sucked...I just kinda feel empty without it, and it's made my life a hassle since then, since I need to do all the human things like eat and take care of myself, and I can get hurt...but I don't die if it gets too bad. The magic is just there enough to keep me alive, but nothing more than that. But when Niki got trapped...that was my fault. I made her worry about me by screwing up and losing my magic, and she was too preoccupied to notice what she was doing, so she got punished because of me. And when she went away, my bond with her went dead... And that is almost same as the lack of magic, it's always been there, and I never really realized how much of a part of me it was until it was gone.

what's the best thing that's ever happened to you?

Our sixteenth birthday, the day that Aunt Kira came to us, told us about Dad, and asked us if we wanted to choose what he had given up. Then we got the magic, and that rocked...until I fucked it up.

who is your worst enemy?

Who needs enemies? It's not worth it.

who is your best friend?

Well, it was Niki. It still would be, probably, if she were around.

tell us about your worst kiss

I'd rather not remember it...*shudders*

tell us about your best kiss

And that one is a secret. I may be willing to tell you about my sex life...but kisses mean more to me. They're more special.

questionnaire #8: mornings

what time do you wake/get up?

...I, unfortunately, have a real day job that forces me to keep the hours that the majority of the world keeps, so I get up at seven am during the week...unless Keif forgets to shove me out of bed...in which case I tend to sleep until noon. On the weekends I get up at noon or later, or whenever Keif decides that I need to be up and about.

what's the first thing you do upon waking?

Reach for the covers to pull them back over my head and then realize that I'm on the floor because Keif shoved me there. (I don't wake up if he doesn't do this...)

are you a morning person?

I'm nocturnal...what do you think?

what is your typical morning like?

Grumble grumble grumble shower grumble blink grumble get dressed grumble breakfast grumble COFFEE...off to work, feeling slightly more sentient now that I have some caffeine in my system.

do you drink coffee?

Only in the mornings. It's effective, but I can only stand the taste when I'm not awake enough to notice it.

do you need coffee?

Anytime I wake up before noon, yes.

questionnaire #9: are you?

are you...

smart?

Sorta. They had me labeled as above average in school...but I'm still nowhere near as smart as Niki. She's close to genius level.

arrogant?

Hell yes. I know what I'm good at, and I know that I'm usually better than everyone else when it comes to those things. And I'm not afraid to tell people that.

good-looking?

Yep. At least, I think I'm good looking. If you want a big manly man, that's not me...but I'm extremely pretty, and proud of it.

sexy?

Hell yeah.

capable?

I've been around for how long and I'm not still starving to death but unable to die?

dangerous?

Only when angry. I know how to fight, and I'm not that opposed to violence that I won't use my skills when someone pissed me off of threatens me.

questionnaire #10: marks

do you have any scars?

No. I didn't have any before changing, and they just don't stick around now...

do you have any piercings?

I forced Mom to let me get my ears pierced when we got into junior high. Since then I've added many more holes in my ears...but I've never really gotten anything else pierced, even though more than a few of my lovers through the years have tried to convince me to at least do the nipples.

do you have any tattoos?

Nah, never really felt like it.

do you have any other markings?

Just a weird birthmark that both Niki and I used to have on our backs. She thought it was gross and got rid of it, but my boyfriend at the time really liked it, so I kept mine. And then, by the time I broke up with him, I had lost my magic and couldn't get rid of it.

do you wear any jewelery?

One black metal bracelet on my right wrist...came with the whole genie thing and didn't go away when I lost my magic. It won't come off. Then, usually, lots of earrings, at least one necklace, and sometimes more bracelets.

have you ever broken any bones?

Yeah, besides some actual accidents, I went through a sort of self-destructive period sometime in the mid twenty-first century when I realized that I wasn't getting any older and wasn't going to age and die just because my magic was gone. That pissed me off, so I started doing really stupid things that hurt a lot, including throwing myself off a building...and then walking away. I've probably broken every single bone in my body...and the magic actually patched things up whenever the bone wasn't going to heal correctly.

questionnaire #11: grab bag

what is your favourite mode of transportation?

I like flying. There was a time when I could do it on my own, and I miss that. But, even better than flying in an airplane, is moving through space.

can you cook?

Fairly well. I'm no gourmet chef, but at least I can make myself meals that are at least somewhat healthy.

do you have big feet?

I wish I did...I swear my feet look abnormally small, especially for a guy.

what is the square root of 169?

13, and I knew that before Niki decided to start forcing me to learn more math.

if you could change your name to anything you wanted, what would you change it to?

I would get rid of any record that I was ever given the name Jason. Jay is so much easier... Of course, I haven't had Jason on any official documents since I got enough money to afford to change my name.

what is the sound of one hand clapping?

Why do I care?

questionnaire #12: rituals

do you believe in a higher power?

Hell no.

do you belong to a formal religion?

Atheism is far from a formal religion, so no.

do you have any religious rituals?

Well, I like to tease the religious fanatics whenever I see them. Does that count as a "religious ritual"?

do your people have any sort of coming of age ritual?

Not really. I got the feeling that the whole "Hey, you're sixteen now, wanna become a genie?" thing was not a usual thing.

do you have any personal rituals?

Not really.

do you have any sexual rituals?

Nope...sex should not be a ritualistic thing.

questionnaire #13: your lover

If you do not have a lover/mate/significant other/spouse, please answer the questions about your best friend.

how long have you been together?

About six months or so as lovers. I've known him for about 5 years, though.

what do you like to do together?

Cuddle. I really like closeness of any sort, and Keif, despite his tough guy exterior, is a very big fan of cuddling in bed.

what do you do to make your lover happy?

I don't try to find out more about what he does. Half of his job involves really top secret stuff, which just makes me want to know about it even more...but I restrain myself and stay quiet about it because I know that being pressed to talk bothers him.

what do you do even though it upsets your lover?

I like to tease over-religious people...he doesn't like that, even though he's not really religious himself.

if someone was going to meet your lover for the first time, what one thing would they need to know?

Don't be rude to him, even if it's a joke. He only puts up with that kind of stuff from people he's close to, and even among us there aren't very many who can get away with it.

what's your absolutely favourite thing about your lover?

He takes himself so seriously. It would be annoying in most people, but I just find it amusing for him. Maybe it's because he's brilliant, so he really does deserve to be taken seriously.

questionnaire #14: if you were...

if you were a ____ what would you be?

a metal

I've always been a fan of copper...I don't really have a reason, but that's what I'd like to be if I were a metal.

a plant

A dandelion. You try to get rid of me...and I just keep going. Besides, I'm prettier than most weeds. ^_^

a fault

Lust...it's all about the lust.

a virtue

Ummm...love? I really don't know...

a color

Green! My magic was green, I am green, and haven't grown tired of it... Yeah, I'm just green.

a season

Summer, cause I'm always so bright and cheery...
Jay...
Okay, usually so bright and cheery...when I'm not being self destructive and depressed.

questionnaire #15: what is your most distinctive...

what is your most distinctive...

physical feature?

You don't see many people around with green hair.

physical mannerism?

I have a hard time sitting still, so I like to kinda bounce in place when I'm sitting or standing.

character trait?

I almost never have a hard time making friends, even when I have nothing in common whatsoever with the people around me.

turn of phrase?

...some people think that I almost have an antiquated way of speaking when they first me. There are the slightest hints of twentieth century American English in my language, though they've mostly disappeared over the years. It's really only something that people notice the first couple times they talk to me too, oddly enough.

pet peeve?

Religious bigots, like the Christians who still cling to the belief that all homo- and bisexuals are evil because their Bible says so. They piss me off, so I like to tease them. The sad thing is, I know their religions better than they do half the time.

habit?

I bite my fingernails...and when my hair is long enough I chew on it, even though it doesn't really taste all that good.

questionnaire #16: wants

what's one place you've always wanted to go?

I've heard that the space colonies...the ones that orbit the Earth...are nice.

what's one thing you've never been able to do?

Apologize to my last Master so I could get my magic back. I should have done it while I had the chance, since he's dead now, but I thought it was too embarrassing to do that.

what one thing have you always wanted to learn but never have?

*shrugs* ...I usually go out and learn things that I want to learn when I realize that I want to learn them.

what's one thing you've always wanted to do and never have?

It would almost be cool to see how my self-preservation magic deals with being stranded in space. That, of course, is left over from my self destructive days...and I haven't done it because I didn't have the chance back then and now I'm a little too wary of the pain.

what's one thing you've always wanted to have but don't have?

How about a job that doesn't suck after ten to twenty years but still pays well and doesn't eat up all of my free time?

who do you envy?

Meh...everyone. My life doesn't suck that much...but it might be nice to just be able to die someday, like a normal human. Or be free like lots of the older genies out there. Or at least have the magic like any other genie.

questionnaire #17: animals

do you like animals?

I don't hate them.

which animals don't you like?

Little dogs. Normal dogs don't bother me...but little dogs are annoying, and way too easy to step on.

do you hunt? if so, for food or pleasure?

Nah...easier to just go buy something from the store. Besides, there aren't really any wild animals on Omega Colony.

do you eat meat?

Yep. Humans are omnivorous...and we genies are based off of humans, so so are we. So why go against nature and avoid eating meat? Besides, it tastes good.

which animal do you most closely identify with?

*shrugs* A human? After all, I used to be one.

which animal do you most closely identify your mate with?

Keif is definitely a wolf...as in the lone wolf type. He's strong, and proud, and could survive just fine on his own.

questionnaire #18: superstitions

are you superstitious?

Only a very, very little...not really enough to count.

what is your most embarrassing superstition?

Well, my only superstition is the whole breaking a mirror brings you seven years bad luck thing, so I guess that has to be the most embarrassing one, doesn't it?

what is your most strongly held superstition?

See what I just said.

do you believe in the devil?

Only the devilish tendencies of human and geniekind...those are devil enough for reality.

do you believe in karma?

Nope.

do you carry a talisman/lucky charm/etc.?

The only thing like that that I carry around isn't because it's supposed to be lucky, it's because a lover gave it to me...but I do carry around this little stone figure that he told me would bring me good luck...or was it supposed to ward away bad luck? I forget.

questionnaire #19: either or

country or city?

City! Not enough people and things to do in the country.

water or alcohol?

Alcohol. Especially since I don't really get hangovers. ^_^

black or white?

Black.

day or night?

Night. I can't think during the day...and I'm so fucking tired!

pain or pleasure?

Both, please?

life or death?

Seeing as I'm not in a self-destructive mood this decade, life.

questionnaire #20: fear, pain, and loss

what are you afraid of?

Being alone. Being completely and utterly alone, like how I felt when the link between Niki and me went dead.

how do you deal with your fears?

Sex. Sex almost always makes me feel better. Well, that and cuddling.

why did you cry most recently?

I had a nightmare that Niki came back...but that I still couldn't feel her, and she didn't want to try to reopen the bond between us. I woke up sobbing, and Keif was nice enough to hold me the rest of the night.

what was the worst pain you've experienced?

Mentally...when Niki disappeared from my head. Physically, probably the time I threw myself off of the top of a ten story apartment building. That sucked...

what is the worst injury or illness you've experienced?

This would also be the taking a dive off the apartment building. Rather than healing me completely, the magic just healed me enough so that I didn't die...and I spent the next two months in the hospital. They never quite understood how I survived that. ^_^

what do you most dread losing?

Well, unless Niki comes back, Keif. I know he'll grow old and die eventually...and I won't go with him, but I still don't want it to happen. If Niki ever comes back, though...her. After losing her once, I couldn't stand to do it again.

questionnaire #21: Christmas and New Year's

do you celebrate a winter solstice type holiday and if so, which one?

Not really, unless you consider Christmas one of those, and it really isn't.

do you believe in Santa Claus? Kris Kringle? Hern the Hunter? The Ice Fairy? someone else associated with the holiday?

I used to believe in Santa...until Dad ruined it for me when I was seven by accidentally letting slip that Mom had gotten me the Ninja Turtle toy that I really wanted...and then I got it from Santa, since she didn't know that Dad had told me.

do you like giving gifts?

Yeah...I like it when the people around me are happy.

what's the best gift you've ever given someone?

For the last Christmas before all of the fun stuff happened, I gave Niki this book of "homework coupons" that basically said that she could order me to do something early or over and beyond what I had to do for class...since she was always trying to get me to apply myself more. It wasn't anything fancy or expensive...and I've really gotten a lot more significant gifts for lovers since then...but you would not believe how happy it made her, so I consider it the best.

do you like getting gifts?

Who doesn't?

what's the best gift you've ever gotten?

Drake...my last lover before Keif, was really, really shy when I met him. He was afraid of sex because of some less than pleasant things that happened in his past, so even once he decided that he loved me, he didn't want to go all the way. And then, for my birthday, he gave me his first time. I know that it meant a lot to him, and it meant a lot to me as well...so that's probably the best present I've ever gotten.

do you mark the coming of the New Year in some way?

Drinking and a midnight kiss, the usual.

are you making a new year's resolution? if so, what is it?

Why bother? Even if I do it, I rarely stick to it.

have you made resolutions in the past?

A couple...

if so, which was the most successful?

None of them. I don't think I ever managed to stick to a single one.

if so, which was the least successful?

Well, there was the time that I decided that for the new year I would try not to dwell on the lack of Niki...I think I lasted a whole three days with that one.

if you could make a completely fresh start, would you?

Yeah, probably.

if you had no choice and were making a completely fresh start and could bring one person with you, who would it be?

Niki...especially if I could free her to bring her with me.

questionnaire #22: dreams

what is your favorite dream?

I like dreaming of the past...like from before I lost my magic. Those were happy times in general.

what is your worst nightmare?

It's just a little worse than the dream I mentioned before...about Niki coming back, but not being able to feel her. In my worst nightmare, she's actively blocking our link...and doesn't want to have anything to do with me ever again.

do you dream in color?

I used to. Now I sort of do...ever since I lost my magic I've dreamt only in green. It freaked me out at first.

do you have recurring dreams? if so, what?

I dream of Niki a lot...

how do you keep bad dreams away?

I cling to my bed partner. That's a big part of why I don't like to sleep alone... Niki used to help just by existing, but since she disappeared I need to have someone else there when I have nightmares.

what did you dream last night?

I dreamt that Niki came back and I had to choose between staying with Keif and having our bond... I couldn't make a choice, so I lost both of them, and that really sucked. I hate nightmares.

questionnaire #23: either or (2)

clothed or naked?

Clothed...I feel more secure with clothes on.

loud or quiet?

Loud. Quiet means not enough's going on.

rain or snow?

Snow. It's nice to look at, and it means it's winter!!!

happy or sad?

Well, I would rather be happy...but unfortunately, more of my life has been spent sad than happy.

boots or shoes?

Barefoot. ^_^ I hate both boots and shoes. But if I have to choose one...shoes.

ant or caterpillar?

Ants are strong, so they're cool.

questionnaire #24: likes and dislikes

what is your comfort food?

Well, it's kinda cliche, but chicken noodle soup. It reminds me of Niki, because it was her favorite food.

when do you reach for it?

When I'm feeling alone...or when I'm hovering on the edge of the feelings that make me do things like throwing myself off apartment buildings.

what textures do you like least?

I've never really liked the rough, abrasive texture of sandpaper. I think it has something to do with an accidental meeting of my arm and a piece of sandpaper at high speeds when I was younger that resulted in losing a nice chunk of skin.

which textures make you most want to reach out and touch?

Furry things...because they remind me of a kitten that I raised and kept as I pet. Her name was Misha...and she's been dead a long time, but she was one of the softest things I'd ever touched.

what scent do you like most?

*shrugs* nothing really comes to mind...

what scent do you like least?

Burning hair and flesh... One of those self-destructive things involved failing to run from a burning building in hopes that my magic wouldn't be able to keep up with the fire. And that sucked...though I healed faster than I did after jumping off the apartment building. Still, burning hair and flesh don't smell good already...having smelled your own hair and flesh burning just makes it worse.

questionnaire #25: appearace/clothing

are you vain?

Yeah...though I'm nowhere near as bad as some.

how important is your outward appearance?

A lot. I look good, and I know it. I don't like it when I don't look good...so I make sure that I do.

do you notice how other people look and what they are wearing?

Usually. I tend to notice the guys more than the girls, though.

describe your favourite outfit.

I have this pair of pants...I cannot for the life of me figure out what they're made of, but they are the most comfortable pants ever... They sit kinda low, and they're soft and long, so that they kinda pool around my feet at the bottom. And they're just a little shiny. I love them to death. I like to wear either my favorite shiny silver skin-tight t-shirt with them, or a dark green button down long sleeved shirt, unbuttoned and open with the sleeves also unbuttoned. Either way, it's comfortable, and I look good, so all's good.

describe your mate's (best friend, etc) favourite outfit if they were to choose it.

If he could only have one outfit, I think Keif would choose to always wear his uniform. It doesn't look particularly comfortable...but I will at least admit that it looks good on him. I think he's one of the few people who it does look good, and right, on, though.

describe your favourite outfit to see your mate (best friend, etc.) in.

Well, I have a very hard time with this one. See, I tried to get him in an outfit that I thought would look good on him...but he refused. So, the closest I got him was jeans and an almost tight t-shirt that matches his eyes almost exactly...which would be gray-green. I wanted him to wear this pair of tight black leather pants...but he didn't want to. Still, he's gorgeous no matter what he wears, so it doesn't really matter all that much.