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[Criptfeind]

(I'm not short dammit!)

Everything I know is a lie.

[kaijyuu]

DF elves are better than most elves, though. They're stuck up and have weird morals but that's more tolerable than stuck up, "beautiful," superior at every art trade and craft, wise, deadly, immortal... Ugh.


The only good elves are Keebler elves. And Santa's elves, those are cool too.

[Blizzlord]

Aren't Santa's elves usually referred to as pixies?

[kaijyuu]

Hrm, might be a location thing. Never heard them called anything but elves, here.

[Pnx]

Ok, my turn I guess?

I'm six foot... something... I think, I haven't really ever kept track of how high I am, I think I'm also something like 190-200 pounds, I don't keep track of my weight either. I have messy, red, double downer hair, a biiiig hooked nose, and a flabby body with a lot of hair on it. I also currently have something like 2-3 weeks of beard growth on account of me shaving infrequently... Yeah, I'm not very attractive looking, there's a reason I haven't put any pictures in the photo thread. I too, enjoy walking barefoot, though not for reasons of balance, but I usually put something on my feet in company because I'm a little embarrassed about my feet, the toe nails are heavily cracked and jagged, and there is quite a bit of hair growing on the top of my feet and toes. I have big acne issues, there tends to be a lot of zits and such on my face, but also on my shoulders, back, and around my chest hair.

What else?

I'm lazy, and fickle, and that's really all I can think of that's especially relevant about me.

[Dutchling]

This describes me pretty well

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There are only three words in there I actually understand

[Araph]

He is quick to anger. He often feels discouraged. He often feels discouraged. He is comfortable in social situations. He doesn't often experience strong cravings or urges. He is confident under pressure. He is somewhat reserved. He tends to avoid crowds. He loves to take charge and direct activities. He is relaxed. He is not a risk-taker. He is incredibly creative. He greatly appreciates art and natural beauty. He has a good awareness of his own emotions. He loves fresh and new ideas. He prefers stability and security to ambiguity and disorder. He is slow to trust others. He is candid and sincere in dealings with others. He finds helping others rewarding. He doesn't like to compromise with others. He tries to be modest. He is easily moved to pity. He is confident. He has a profound sense of duty and obligation. He thinks it is incredibly important to strive for excellence. He is self-disciplined. He takes time when making decisions. He is quick to heal. He has great analytical abilities. He has the ability to focus. He has willpower. He has great creativity. He has a sum of patience. He has an amazing memory. He has a great affinity for language. He has a great musical sense. He has a very good sense of empathy. He is weak. He is flimsy. He is quick to tire. He has a questionable spatial sense. He has a meager kinesthetic sense. He has a poor ability to manage or understand social relationships.

Visually I'm pretty average. Short brown hair, medium-short height. I wear glasses, am somewhat athletic (but only with running; I'm not exactly muscular).

[Ancre]

I am a 23 years old guy, with french and american nationalities (I am also bilingual, although I speak english with a french accent). I am extremely lazy and extremely patient, and I can spend days after days doing absolutely nothing, a trait I am (lazily) trying to fix. I sometimes have short bursts of activity, which combined with an awful sense of reality can lead to pretty strange outcomes. For example, I have wanted to move on my own for a long time, and after dreaming of it for years I have suddenly moved by myself to a state I have never lived in, where I know no-one, and where my closest relatives are 3 timezones away. I'm also trying to go back to college and earn a degree or something. It's pretty fun.

My family on my mother's side is almost stereotypically french - catholic, military tradition, some italian ancestry from a century ago (my grandmother still remembers it) and many kids, while my family on my father's side comes from a bunch of eastern european immigrants who decided to move in the US a century or two ago. I was born in Los Angeles and I have lived almost all my life in Paris, a fact that apparently gave me bonus charisma points (which is good, since charisma is probably my dump stat).

I have horrible social skills, in the sense that I rarely have something to say and that I usually tend to go away and find a place to be alone if there's too many people or if I have been with people too long. Despite that, I have never been bullied as a kid, nor have I had any real problems with creepy strangers in the street (I did met a few nutcases).

Funnily enough I do love language and history and social studies and humanities. If I ever manage to do something else than stare at a computer or read a book all day long, I will learn a few more languages, so I can be socially awkward in your native tongue as well.

I also love to walk. I used to walk for hours in Paris. I miss my old mountain shoes terribly and might try and find a good pair of mountain shoes or military boots here. I am one of those strange americans who actually consider walking to the store instead of driving a car there, even (and especially) if it means walking an hour to go, and another hour to go back.

I love to read and I have an awful eyesight. I can read everything. Everything. Including stuff like user notices, little lines on contracts, official gibberish, and end movie credits. So far, the yellow pages are the only thing I have gave up reading because it was boring. I love poetry and do write some regularly.

And I think that's it ! That's all that comes to mind for now.

[jc6036]

17, tad overweight, blue eyes, brown hair. I like fedoras and ponies. Pictures of me exist in the photo thread if you care.

[Hubris Incalculable]

20, 5'11"1/2, brown hair, getting soft around the middle

I like linguistics and steampunkery, and I am part of the aforementioned "vocal [anti-brony] minority".
I am unable to strike up a conversation with any girl I am attracted to (forever alone)
Hitler Parodies are my favorite thing on the inter-webs.

[FuzzyZergling]

I'm 19, male, very (perhaps unhealthily) thin, and above-average in height.

I have blue eyes, and am both color-blind and short-sighted. My hair is an average brown, and I wear it down past my shoulders.
I also have a beard, but no upper lip hair (though not from lack of trying, I haven't shaved yet this year).

I spend pretty much all day either sitting in front of my computer or helping my parents with their construction business.
I have two younger brothers who live with my grandmother. I have Asperger's Syndrome.

I am fascinated by Japan and Japanese culture, but lack the motivation to learn japanese. (Also not from lack of trying, I took three semesters of Japanese in highschool, but nothing stuck. :[ )

My main interests are browsing the DF Community Forums, reading webcomics such as Homestuck, watching Let's Plays on Youtube, and reading fanfiction.

I have a horrible, irrational fear of needles and medical things in general, and also of large marine creatures.
My favorite pet is the cat, my least favorite pet is the horse. My favorite color is yellow, and my favorite musical genre is Metal, no specific sub-genre.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Sure, why not.

Physical
I am an 18 year old American male and a proud North Carolinian. My genetic heredity is mostly Swedish and German, with a single recent Jewish ancestor. My skin is light white and sunburns easily, much to my dismay. I do have some freckles in spite of my skin tone, but they are very few in number and only on my arms. I have straight black hair that began to grey at the age of 13, and has reached about 5% greyness (guesswork) as of now. This is very noticeable and is questioned by people often, with reactions ranging from shock and concern to admiration. I don't trust the safety of hair dye and expect to be fully grey by the time I am 30, which does not bother me. I was actually born with mixed blonde and black hair, which proceeded to shift fully to black at around six months of age. I have blue-green eyes which have shifted from one end of the spectrum to the other and continue to shift in tone as time passes. I do not know what causes this, and questioned whether or not it was really occurring in the past, but now I am fairly certain of it. They are most often what one would call turquoise, but are more green than not at the time of this post. My officially recorded eye color is blue. My facial hair grows quickly, and I can achieve the start of a beard in a week of not shaving, but I prefer to remain as clean shaven as possible as I hate the feel of facial hair. This evens out to me having five 'o clock shadow almost constantly. I am approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall and weigh 200 pounds, which is dropping as a result of my new jogging habit. While this still leaves me on the lower limit of overweight, my stature is sufficient that this is not obvious unless I am wearing tight clothing. I have several scars, all of which I detailed during the Happy Thread discussion of scars. My eyesight was 20/20 during my childhood but quickly degraded at the start of adolescence to 20/50 in one eye and 20/400 in the other. I wear glasses and have never owned contact lenses. At the start of my adolescence I occasionally would have near-blackouts, or rarely total blackouts. These were especially common when I tilted my head up to drink something, leading me to initially believe that this phenomenon might have been caused by drinking iced tea. I was originally pointed by our own Vector to the condition Vasovagal Syncope, also called Neurocardio Syncope, as a possible cause for this abnormality. What I've experienced seems to fit the description of this condition, but as I have never been formally diagnosed and do not plan to seek out diagnosis, this is still conjecture.

Mental
I am firmly convinced that I am mentally abnormal, though the exact status or cause of this abnormality is something I cannot reliably determine. Self-bias, and all that. I am paranoid, regularly worrying at length about possibilities, situations, and interpretations that even I can see are unlikely. On the positive side, this has allowed me to preemptively address real issues that a less paranoid person might overlook in the past. I am anxious, partially as a result of my paranoia. While I am not usually sent into a state of panic, when I am it is difficult to calm me down and is a generally unpleasant experience for all parties.

I have frequent nightmares. These usually happen 2-3 nights of the week, but on stressful occasions they will quickly ratchet up to a nightly occurrence. This has been happening to me my entire life, and I did not know it was abnormal until last Fall, when I discovered that only 1% of individuals my age have nightmares at this level of frequency. My nightmares have become very visceral as my subconscious has picked up horrifying dream themes over the years. Last summer, there was a trend of me being brutally murdered by people I know and trust in my nightmares. Some of my nightmares reach genuinely disturbing topics and will keep me in a state of unease for hours after awakening, but these are thankfully a minority. While non-nightmares are usually the majority, dreams which I actually find pleasant are very rare. All of these things lead me to believe that I may have Dream Anxiety Disorder.

Perhaps as a counterweight, I have frequent and complex daydreams. It is very easy for me to enter a state of daydreaming, to the point where I can almost do so consciously. I am capable of doing other tasks while daydreaming if I must, such as if I am at work, but if by myself I pace back and forth until the daydream ends. My daydreams can and have gone on for hours. This is a state of escapist relaxation for me and has lead to others coming to see me as distant or disconnected, mostly because engaging me in conversation is something that requires snapping me out of my daydream, which can take saying my name more than once. My thought process is esoteric, and will go off in strange directions that others and even I myself cannot predict. Many of the things I think are bizarre to me in hindsight.

Social
I previously believed that I was socially incompetent, but the events of the previous year have left me wondering about my social abilities.

In my earlier years, I was socially awkward and a target for bulling. By the time of high school, this had changed to people not bulling me but not liking me or wanting much of anything to do with me. My now-mellowed temper and now-discarded cynical misanthrope attitude contributed to both of these. After years of being angry with everyone and feeling more hate and contempt than anything else, I was just plain tired of it. It takes a lot of effort to maintain that level of jackass for so long, and I didn't even realize it while it was happening. I now realize that I very often shunned or lashed out at people who were trying to reach out to me without rhyme or reason.
 
I have always been perceived as being very intelligent by my peers, and I think they're probably wrong. In the past, I bought into the same "MSH is a genius." things they still say now, but that was back during my aforementioned misanthropic asshole stage. I know a lot of factual things that others don't and can bring most of them up whenever it's relevant, but that doesn't make me smart, that makes me encyclopedic. I've never had a great innovation or done anything else that should be seen as "smart". My grades are average outside of the humanities, and in mathematics and foreign language are below average. That's definitely not smart. Any belief that I am an intellectual giant is a false perception and makes me sad, as it tells me that a person saying these things doesn't really know me.

Nonetheless, my social skills have suddenly skyrocketed over the past year, and I have gotten a good grip on stable social interaction. I still don't really have many friends, but people seem to like me more often than not now. I have also discovered a natural skill at public speaking and argumentative debate that I was unaware of. In the romantic field, however, I am and am likely to remain totally uninvolved for the foreseeable future. I have never had a girlfriend, been on a date, gotten a kiss, or even held hands with a crush. I don't see that changing. There are too many things that can go wrong for me to ever feel comfortable seeking out or being in a romantic relationship.



Oh, and if you couldn't guess I have a huge ego and like to talk about myself if given the chance to do so.

[The Fool]

Let's see...

I'm 21, male, about 6'4" and 230 pounds, somewhat overweight but fairly muscular, so the BMI means nothing to me. I have dark brown hair and a beard. I shave with a straight razor, which can lead to hilariously hard to explain cuts if you forget to sharpen the blade. I wear glasses, but I nearly have the limit of human vision with 20+2/20+3 vision when corrected (not sure if I got that right, but I can read  an average of 3 of the 5 letters on the final slide of an eye exam). I have a tendency to sprint at 22-24 km/h, which is odd considering my size.

I play a lot of roleplaying games in the forums and D&D. I drown out my personality in my character, taking a single personality trait and stretching it into a character, writing a history and having the history shape the rest of the personality. I sometimes have to fight myself to stick to the personality I made, even if nothing is stopping me from playing another way. Most of my characters are either obsessed with justice by any means, magic/technology, or simply killing things if given even the slightest reason for it. Sadly I really do have an obsession with unreasonable justice, which I only figured out after I made a series of characters all with that as an unintentional central theme.

I haven't ever had someone that I would call a girlfriend. People hit on me often, but I often realize it too late. I'm a horrible conversationalist anyways, often jumping to the topic of either comics, news most people find horrifying, video games or weaponry. If it weren't for comics and video games I wouldn't have much to talk about because most people don't appreciate a strange obsession with weapons and their uses.

I collect various kinds of weapons, hats, religious texts of all kinds, and classic literature, but the weapon collection is the only one that's big enough to mention right now. I have 2 swords, 1 rapier, 1 naginata, a pair of tonfa, a pair of sai, two sets of throwing knives (heavy and light), 2 fixed knives, and 2 folding knives. I don't like buying cheap weapons, so anything larger than a small folding knife is well over $100. If a weapon gets dull fast there is no point in having it, because it should be practical to use. Also, just a tip, but don't keep something with you unless you're willing to use it if someone tries to take it from you.

Usually I wear formal clothes (vest included), and if I'm not I wear track jackets because I like a layered look. If I have a watch with me it's skeletonized so I can see the mechanisms moving. Normally that watch is a pocket watch that I wear on my belt in a pouch. I always have a knife with me no matter where I'm going. It's handy.

When I drink alcohol I prefer something with a lot of flavor. Scotch, heavy rums, aquavit, and cognac is usually what I get. Wine varies, but I do like port wine, despite it tasting ridiculously sweet. Beer is mostly stouts and heavier ales.

I love most music. I listen to breakbeat, dubstep, classic rock, rock, some metal, ambient of several kinds, fandango music, and jazz. That last one is really to go from one extreme to another. It's not often I find a jazz band that I like, but I still try now and again.

I love video games. I normally play either RPGs or survival horror (Silent Hill or Amnesia, not Dead Space). I make exceptions for Batman games. The last ones have been pretty damn good. I just love the dreading feeling of knowing that something is there and not being able to do anything about it. It makes me scared and exhilarated at the same time. I hate jump scares, because there is no real reason to be scared beyond the one second it takes to realize what happened.

I draw a fair amount on my days off. If I draw something without a suggestion it normally is some kind of twisted monstrosity, often involving corpses. I have a very vivid imagination, which just so happens to have a lot of monsters and dead things. If I draw something that isn't disturbing without suggestion there is usually a story behind who the character is, and maybe future aspirations to use it somewhere else. Then again I often take suggestions, so this isn't normally all that obvious.

I don't mind watching something horrific. I could watch someone break all their fingers and be fine with it. Videos of people gutting animals doesn't faze me, and pictures of dead bodies or diseases don't bother me at all in fact I might stop for a closer look. It might not be footage from a real event, but I ate breakfast while watching peoples faces melt off in the first episode of Fringe.

I have an unending fear of a void. Not death and not space, just a void of nothingness. Don't ask. It's a very strange fear. I'm not even sure of the trigger, just that it occasionally happens.

...Man I sound creepy when I type it out, and it's so long. Whatever. *still posts*

[miauw62]

I dont like describing myself.
Just feels wrong.
But i'm 1m75cm, and well up way to become 1m90 or more.
And shy.

[Reudh]

How does one describe themselves without sounding narcissistic?
I'll give it a go.

Real Life Reudh:

I'm twenty, male, about 180cm / 6'0" and 80 kg / ~170 lbs. I have vivid red hair (akin to Valid_Dark's) courtesy of my Dutch / Dutch-Friesian / British lineage, and the beginnings of a beard. (I hope one day to have a superb ginger beard, but I fear I have to wait I'm relatively muscular, but I haven't really been doing many weights lately, so that's beginning to lapse a little.
I'm studying the first year of a Bachelor of Biomedical Science, which I hope to move into Paramedicine or Medicine later on.

I wear glasses, but I have only done so for the last one and a half years. My vision is more or less normal with the glasses; without, somewhat short-sighted.

I am highly eccentric in my behaviour and am considered rather odd but very kind.
This eccentricity may stem from a diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome, though I'm only just considered over the border into Asperger's.

I have had one girlfriend, which ended poorly for a few reasons, the reason finally being that she was having trouble understanding her sexuality (and had been having boyfriends to convince herself.). I don't think I have had any other girls outrightly state "I am attracted to you" without being joking.
I have trouble telling when others are sarcastic.

I'm quite a good conversationalist, except when I'm tired (talking end of a long day tired) or drunk.

I am well known as quite kind and wise. As a result, many females assume that I am gay, because (This really happened once) "Heterosexual guys aren't nice to me unless they want something."

One time, a friend while drunk described me as a 'Victorian gentleman... a relic of a lost era...'

I have a deep seated fascination with how the world works.
I enjoy bushwalking. When bushwalking, I pack huge amounts of food and water and carry my pocket knife, just in case.

I consider myself reasonably fit. I am in quite good health.

I generally wear jeans (normal fitting or skinny) of either blue or black colouring. I tend to wear relatively trendy clothing, but I hate having logos or visible tags.

I'm well known within my neighbourhood as "That guy who knows random things."

I consider myself quite strong; I can lift one sibling in each arm (one's 14, 65 kg and the other's 17, 60 kg), though the experience is tiring for me and painful for them.

Gaming wise, I'm a big fan of RPGs, sandbox games and similar. To a lesser extent I enjoy FPSes or RTSes.
I'm also a bit of a retro gamer.

As for my name and avatar:

Reudh has a number of origins.
Back when I played Runescape I was excited over the 'Display Name' update that allowed you to use a name that wasn't your username as your display name and promptly drew up a list of potential names. I made most of them up.

I narrowed it down to:

Reudh - A bastardised translation of Ruadh, so it's easier to say. It's pronounced roughly 'Royth,' with a th as in 'that'.
Ruadh - Scottish Gaelic for 'Red' - I am utterly proud of being a redhead due to the hate I have suffered as a result of being redheaded. It's pronounced a bit like 'Ruarth'.
Rauthaz - Proto-Germanic for 'Red'. Sensing a trend here?
Llansing - I don't even. Tried to make it sound Scandinavian but it kinda failed.

I then affixed Lord to it, and struck on the idea of Reudh being so eccentric he insisted on being called Lord, but wasn't really. I could probably find the origin story of Lord Reudh on the Runescape Forums if you're interested.

Anyway, Reudh is roughly an idealised version of me... Ha.