Name: Gloria

Sign: Pisces

Zodiac: I am a Sheep!

Gender: Female!

Update for 2017- I am the manager of a martial arts dojo and I train 5 days a week in MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ). I also teach children's Judo classes. I love fighting and seeing how strong my body has become! I have already completed two BJJ tournaments this year taking 1st and 2nd place in no gi. I am now setting my sights on an amateur MMA fight towards the fall of this year. My husband thinks I am a little crazy because I am constantly covered in bruises, have sustained some unpleasant injuries, but I can't help myself. It's too much fun!

Hobbies of mine: MMA/BJJ sparring, watching great anime shows and reading fanfiction after I finish a series, writing, sketching, goals to visit Brazil, the Philippines, and perhaps Japan, hiking in the mountains...

Favorite Anime: Psycho Pass (great characters, plot, & animation in season 1!! Season 2 sucked), Darker Than Black (awesome characters and unique storyline in season 1 and OVAs!), Fullmetal Alchemist-Brotherhood, Attack on Titan (so intense! Got the fabulous soundtrack for Christmas), Yona of the Dawn, The Seven Deadly Sins, Blood, Hellsing Ultimate, Black Butler, Jyu-Oh-Sei: Planet of the Beast King, Hakuoki and Hakuoki Reimeiroku, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Devil May Cry, Vampire Knight and Vampire Knight Guilty, Inuyasha (I think this was the show that actually got me interested in anime).

Some cute, romance anime that I like: Hanasukeru Seishonen, Wolf Girl and Black Prince, Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

Anime that I have seen, but think are all right: Akame ga Kill! (good story and fight scenes), Terra for Mars, Black Blood Brothers, Fate/Zero (good show, but sad. Loved the animation), Fate/Stay Night, Bleach (I enjoyed the first few seasons, especially the Arrancar arc, but it got so repetitive I couldn't finish it), Blue Exorcist, Hiiro No Kakera (never finished watching, boring plot), Pandora Hearts (never finished & thought the animation was ugly), Death Note (great story, but I couldn't get attached to the main characters), Knights of Sidonia (couldn't get into it), D Gray-Man (didn't finish).

Favorite Pairings:

Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye

Ban/Elaine

Hei/Misaki

Shinya/Akane

Son Hak/Yona

Haji/Saya- Really enjoyed the dynamics of their relationship throughout Blood. Loved Haji's devotion and care for Saya through everything and the bond they share throughout the ages.

Alucard/Seras- Usually they have a darker, more seductive relationship that is certainly enjoyable. The whole master-apprentice dynamic can be very sexy in stories.

Sephiroth/Aeris- I like them because they are so unique and I enjoy redemption stories for Sephiroth. They compliment each other- they both are opposites, yet they mesh their strengths together and help each other(in most of the stories I read :) The whole light and darkness thing, yin and yang.

Cloud/Tifa- always been a fan of those two. They belong together.

Obi-Wan and Qui Jon Jinn- I have always loved Star Wars, but never thought to look up stories on fanfiction on it till recently. I adored the fatherly/son bonding stories with this pair and have found a couple really great stories on this site. I hope more writers can create friendship/family/angst/adventure fics with them.

Some Favorite Quotes:

"It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction."- Charles Haanel.

"Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. That's where your freedom is, that's where all your power is." -Marci Shimoff

"Actions speak louder than words."

"Worrying does not take tomorrow's trouble; it takes away today's peace." - Ashley M.

"Our greatest duty and our main duty is to help other." And then he smiled a bit, and he said, "and please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them." Dalai Lama of Tibet

"But we really become human at the point of reaching out and risking and trusting to bring people in." -Leo Buscaglia

"It's our purpose to grow as human beings, to look within ourselves, to find and build upon that source of peace and understanding and strength that is our individual self. And then to reach out to others with love and acceptance and patient guidance in the hope of what we may become together." -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."