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Yeah, he had his hair straightened out and stuff so it was all flowing. I can tell that alot of his influences are from the from the 40-60s rock era with the jazz and rock mixture. He brings a whole new dimension to the rap game with that.

YEah, i'm a big Outkast fan. My personal favorite being "Fresh and Clean", i like how they have the edge of the Funky dude and the tradtional hip hop dude all in one duo. There gonna have a bunch of guests in there new album including Snoop Dogg, as far as i heard. I can't wait for the album and i really wanna see Andre's solo video, but i can never catch in on MTV.

Honor is a lost thing. Like a lost language, very few practice it now a days. I covered this subject a while back in my martial arts thread, discussing how many people fight to win no matter how dirty. By dirty, i don't mean kicking in the groin, i mean stabbing an unarmed man with a knife or taking out a 9mm and shootin a person who wants to fight you with their fists. Honor is something people no longer use. They just deny that they have no honor like its a game or an object. It should be with held, or people will look down on you, even if they too do not have honor themselves.

Good. Now i only need two more anti slayers and mabye one more good guy, preferrably a vampire on the Allaince of Vampiric Defense, so that i may have a partner and i can afford two more good guys. One on the Lowendove and the other on the Guild of Vampric Alligance.

I never said anything to the Yoai writers either. But i'm expressing it here because i was asked to express my opinion. I'm not a homophobic bigot, i just feel this way about the subject. Regular yaoi, i don't care about, if they use original or gay characters, i could care less. I wouldn't read it, but it would get me a little ticked. So, don't try to make me out to be like that. (thats not directed to you Mal.)

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i] [B][color=#707875]Aside from the fact that the vast majority of fan fiction is horribly written and ill-conceived, I still don't think you have much of a case here. If people aren't allowed to change character personalities AT ALL, or explore possibilities within these characters, what's the point? That's what fan fiction is all about! It's about exploring these possibilities with existing characters. If everyone tried to stay true to the conventions of a series, I think you'd see a great deal of fan fiction die out. That's just not how it works for most people. And you are mostly raising complaints about yaoi...I just don't know why it's anything to get upset over. If you don't like it, don't read it. That's what it's all about. And that's why your complaints are totally illogical to me. Surely you should be more concerned about people writing their fiction [i]well[/i] and providing depth and meaning to what they say...rather than whether or not a particular character is a "homo" or whatever. People get so defensive over this, but really, there's no reason to. You don't own the anime. Who cares if someone wants to write a stupid, ill-conceived, illogical fan fiction piece? [b]Most[/b] fan fiction is like that anyway. I don't think I've ever seen ANY fan fiction that I really enjoyed -- or at least, that was very well written. There are exceptions...but they're just that; exceptions.[/color] [/B][/QUOTE] Yet again, i never said i was against Yoai, I, as in ME, just dislike it because i rather see a writer use a character as they were ment to. They can change there personality, but to the point were they make a complete U-turn in the way they think or the way they love. Whaat i mean is that, in the Miroku/InuYasha case, is that Miroku is a caniving womanizer and spends his time trying to get with Sango while InuYasha is in deep hearted love with Kagome and Kikyo. Then a fanfic writer comes and says that InuYasha totally drops the two women he HAS KILLED FOR and Miroku has stopped his womanizing ways, which he has followed for his entire adolescent to adult life, to go for each other. I'm not trying to say that the people who write aren't true fans, but there just using the characters to act out there fantasies instead of creating an epic sequel to their much loved series and furthinering the already set character's love life between the people they had fallen in love before hand. And again, I don't care if they use characters that are or possibly gay. I don't care. Do what you want with Kurama and Hiei or whatever. Go ahead. this is my opinion, i'm not trying to say that these people are wrong and thats the gospel truth, i'm saying this is the way i feel and if you peeps can change me of my way of thinking, then please do.

We obviously have different thought on what a fan is Mal, so i'm not gonna argue with you, as much as i want to. All i have to say on the subject is that if you fell into Fandom with a character and series, you shouldn't want to change them and it gets me angry to see them do just that and call it a FANfic. They may not get things right, but atleast they gave it a try instead of taking the easy way out and changing what the entire series is about.

yeah, the pillows ruled that soundtrack! I lovedeverysong htey played. The slow sad ones and thefast up beat one. I espceially liked the ending theme. So CB and FLCL all the way for best sound track!

Don't get me started on soundtracks cuz .hack dosn't even compare to Cowboy Bebop. Theres a custom song for every episode, for which the episode is named (usually) and the music is pure energy. It is either very driving or very deep. That is anotehr reason i love CB.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by MillieFan [/i] [B] Thing is, I'm a fan of hetero on obviously hetero characters and of shounen ai/yaoi on characters that are undefined or gay. i.e. I cannot stand the Vash/Wolf pairing either (although I love Legato/Knives), just the same way I don't like the hetero pairing of HeeroxRelena ~.^ Some pairings are just not meant to be or just don't appeal to everyone. [/B][/QUOTE] Exactly MF! Exactly! See, i don't care about the LegatoxKnives pairing because there is absolutely NO proof against it and the characters never show there sexuality, so i don't care! that is th point i have been tryingt o get threw. Now, Dou03, what i have to say to you is this. When i say FANfic, i mean that if a person is a true fan of a series or character, they wouldn't want to bend them to suit them. Thats what maks characters cool. There are bad and good things about them to everyone, BUT if your true fan, yor work with what you thnk is your characters flaws instead of changing them. Ala, changing there sexuality and there for changing there full personlaity in full. So, if they are true fans, they would make it to were they use the characters as they are instead of changing who they are. That is my opinion. (PS- before you say somethng like "Oh, i bet if you saw a Tenchi Muyo yuir you'd read it. Probably liked to see Ayake and Ryoko." No this, I wouldn't ever! I'd be jsut as angry and i'd be here saying the same thing that i've always been sayin'. But i would like to see Kyone go for Tenchi. Go Kyone!)

Otehr way around buddy. She says she could have killed him 3 times and he says he could have grouped her atleast 5 times, but then say "Well, make that four." then the buttons fly. Q: How did Vash aquire the wound that he concentrated his pain on during that episode?

Gundam Wing was the 8th countinuation of the series. I actually favored the more militairy Gundams in the UC Gundam series over GW. I especially liked 0080 War in a Pocket and 0083 Stardust Memories. Gundam ahs the countinuation factor cuz it doesn't reuse characters, just history, Gundam has its own universe that you can immerse yourself in, that why it too, is one of my faves. :D

A: I beleive it was "Live Through" or "Flying Ship" it depends how you look at it. But she really admits it in "Live Through". Q: In episode "Demon's Eye", How many times could Vash have 'grouped' Domenic the Cyclops? (sp?)

Well, your sign up is supposed to be original. Yours is just an exact copies of Goku's using your cahracters name. That is why it is a "REMIX".

Listen to this Lumin, i go to FF.net looking for a cool Naruto fanfic, seeing if any one tried to make a cool coutinuation of the series. When i go and check, all i see is a Yaoi! yoai! Yaoi! Yaoi! Nothing else, and all concerning Naruto and Sasuke. Its dissapointing to see that all these fanfics are nothing but Yoai and its the best these so called 'fans' could come up with. Instead of coming up with a cool, new, and inthralling story, they throw out a yaoi that changes what the series was about and calling it a coutniuation! Saying that Naruto and Sasuke fell in love with each other? They freakin HATE each other and Naruto is in love with SAKURA! If it were a true FANfic, it would show something that is faithful to the series instead of putting out often times cheap smut. I'm not homophobic, i just wish people would either use gay or there own characters in fan fics instead of changing the series or characters.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i] [B][color=#707875]I still personally don't see why it matters. Firstly, people might take Vash and put him in fan fiction where he's still heterosexual. In that case, they may still change his personality somewhat. Would you be as offended in that case? [/QUOTE] yes, i would be angry if they changed his personlaity. I never said i was only against the yaoi part, i said i was against them changing the characters personality, and changing there sexual preference is a REALLY BIG part of their personality.

(alright, back. Now for my sign up) [B]Name:[/B] Leon Lakistaupolis [B]Race:[/B] Human (genetically altered) [B]Gender:[/B] male [B]Age:[/B] 59 (looks 23) [B]Organization:[/B] The Allaince of Vampiric Defense, but former Lowendove. [B]Height/Weight:[/B] 6'2"/176 ibs [B]Appearence:[/B] Slick in appearence and personaltiy. He wears a sharp black suit with white undershirt, unbuttoned and without tie and black leather shoes, and he wears a silver cruvifix around his neck on a silver chain. He used to have blue eyes until expirementation, then they turned a greenish yellow. He has a dark complexion and his hair is jet black and slicked back low. He has a little stubble on his cheeks of a just barely visible goatee. he is usually seen smoking a cigarette. [B]Weapon:[/B] A complex yet simple weapon. He carries with him a large crucix with a sharpened tip at the bottom leg, which he uses as a sword and carries at the intecetion of the arms, leg, and head by holding the arms with hims index finger on the right arm and the middle and ring finger on the left arm, he uses his pinky and thumb to imbrace the head. At then head of it there is a long chain that attaches to another, smaller crucifix that acts as a weight. The entire weapon is produced from silver. This his primary weapon, but he also uses a vareity of other tools and fire arms. He personally likes the Colt .45 Berretta and occasionally takes two on missions. The bullets are silver and incased with a small amount of holy water. (for comlete de-vampiration!) [B]Nationality:[/B] Half Greek/ Half British [B]Attitude:[/B] Lazy, laid back, slick, desisive, and in battle..... laid back, he justs has fun when he fights which makes him do it a lot better. He plays it like a game and fancies to show off. But he has a very strong sense of justice, so is the reason he left the Lowendove Brotherhood. [B]Special Skills:[/B] Due to the expirement (see bio), Leon has been gifted with several vampiric abilites including advanced speed and strenght and the ability to regenerate from almost any possible injury and regrow any limb, and because of constant regeneration, he does not age from his current state i.e. the constant regeneration of cells in his body. This enables him to fight to his fullest potential. Enjoys to show off in combat and uses his abilites to the fullest. [B]Bio:[/B] Born in England to a Greek father and English mother. He was raised as a greek orthodox follower and to be a strng man, often working at his fathers resuraunt by unloading boxes from the morning shipment trucks. He grew strong at an early age. At the age of 13, his father an mother were outside, smoking a cigarette while Leon was talking to them from there apartment balchony when a gang of vampires rushed by them and slaughtered his mother and father. It happened so fast Leon couldn't beleive it. Leon went insane with rage and sadness and lived the remainder of the next few months on the streets when one day, he was found by one of the members of the Lowendove Brotherhood. His name was Brother George Harliston. For years, Brother George taught Leon how to fight, and Leon could only get better. Fueled by his hatred for the vampires thta killed his parents, he constantly trained, and in no more than three years of training, he was sent on his first mission. He was amazing at it, the Brothers that went with him were amazed aswell. Then, there came the slayer advancment project. Created to give humans the abilities of vampires with none of the weaknesses, Leon full heartedly volunteared to be a guinea pig. The expirement was a complete success. Leon had become one of the first 'super slayers'. He exelled at several feilds and he was the happeist he had been since the death of his parents. But then one day, it happened. While on a vamp hunt, Leon found and killed several vamps. He killed and killed ruthlessey and came across a young and beutiful vampiress. She coward in the corner, terrorfied of Leon. Leon looked at her and found that he was no longer a justiful vampire slayer. He had become a vampire murderer. He killed inoccent, unhostile vampires and found that they were no different from humans on the inside. Leon broke down and left the wicked Lowendove Brotherhood under cover fo the night. For months, he wandered the roads until he came across a vampire slaying OTHER VAMPIRES. Leon was amazed at what he saw. Then the slayer turned around and saw Leon. The slayer couldn't let the public know about the vampires and attacked him. Leon fought the slayer and nearly killed him. The vampire was impressed by his abilites contrare that he was clearly a human. And so he inveted him to join the Allaince of Vampiric Defense. Leon gladly accepted, for fighting was his only talent. He is now the happeist he has ever been. And then 'IT' happened.......

My try at an Epic. Co-Created by SilpheedPilot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is a known fact, that every animal has its natural enemy. And that is no exception with humanity. For ever since the begging of humanity, there has been vampires as there natural enemy. Vampires always had the upper hand. The early humans had no defence against them and had no clue waht there weaknesses were. That is, until the introduction of christianity. The vampires finally had a weakness, The Blessing of the christian preists. A bloody war began as the vampires fought against the christians, but for years, the christians lacked numbers as christianity wasn't a popular relegion. The vampires countiued there slaughters and hunting for many years to come...... Then he came...King Charlemaine of the Franks. King Champlaine popularized christianity among Europe, there for increasing the numbers of the christian vampire slayers. And so the war bega again, and this time, the vampires didn't come on top. For years, small wars waged agaisnt the vampires and the human slayer guilds. But the humans still lacked the vampires physical ability. Then a new invention came...The Fire arm. This is what the humans needed. The battles became even bloodier and now the playing feild was leveled slightely. The wars countiued for hundreds of years...... Organizations were formed with the advancment of civilization. The queen of England, Elizabeth formed together with the monarchs of the other european countires to create a mutual allaince of warriors to combat hostile vampires, hoping to minimize the casualties and form a peaceful world with the vampires. They called themselves [B]The Alliance of Vampiric Defense.[/B] A more velegant organization was formed by devote slayers who's family line was filled with slayers. They were called [B] the Lowendove Brotherhood[/B], named after their founder, Father Alistair Lownedove, a powerful vampire lsyaer and chatolic preist to the vatican. They were formed to totally destroy the race known as vampire with any force necessary. Then there was the organization for purely vampires. Called [B]the Guild of Vampiric Alligance[/B]. They were formed to defend vampires and insure that they have blood and defense from [B]the Lowendove Brotherhood[/B]. And so started the Anti-Slayer project.... Now, in the year 2013, the three organizations are still alive and running. A bloody and violent war is waged between the Lowendove and the Vampire Guild. And the advancemetn of technology had started a violent spark. The Lowendove organization have take their members and began to create a powerful new breed of slayer who have teh equal physical abilites of the vampires. In counter attack, the vampires have began to up the ante on the Anti Slayer project, taking root in there main HQ in London, England. Using genome therapy to create the ultimate slayer killer. But somethin horribly worng has happened. The first gene inhanced vampire broke fre from his confients and killed many of his creators and freed his brotehrs and sisters. These ybrid vampires are highl dangerous and powerful, but very unstable. They kill vampire and human alike and no one knows what to do...... Now the three organizations have to put aside htere differences, if possible, and fight there common enemy. But how will they resolve this??? Sign ups: Name: Race: Gender: Age: Height/WEight: Appeaence: Weapon: Nationality Attitude: Special Skills: Organization: (includes the hybrid anti-slayers) Bio: (This takes place in London.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I will sign up later. Please enjoy my RPG and i hope you all have fun. See ya tommorow.

But theres also the fact that there taking the characters that they took and put there souls into and the fanfic authors totally change there characters. What if you created a brave, corageuos and herioc character. Make a series, have him save the world, and come out as the ultimate good guy. Then a fanfic author comes along and says that your character was evil all along and he only did it so that he could be trusted then turns on the world and destroys it. Thats pretty much what the fanfictors are doing to the straight characters of anime. Miroku is the straightest character i have seen since Vash. The writers make him into a very smooth guy who is always lookign to grabsome booty, namelu Sango's, and he is all ways in the look out for a true love in a female companion. Then a fanfictor comes around and says that he fell in love with InuYasha and they tottally drop the women they have spent there entire lives protecting and deep heartedly loving, in turn for each other. Thats totally BOGUS!!! That just gets me angry. Atleast have some respect of how hard the writers tried to create a loving relatinship between Kagome and InuYasha and Sango and Miroku!

A simple life to me would be not having to move every two to three years to a new state, town, or country. But i wouldn't want a simpler life. Complexity and twists are what makes life interesting and livable. I like my life and wouldn't trade it for anything but its equal. As the saying goes, "Variety is the spice of life..." and i tottally understand.

Atleast you understand Mal. Oh, and PS- Tsukasa lost his/her memory so he/she doesn't know if she's/he's a girl or not, although he/she thinks she's a girl. So if they used Tsukasa in a fanfic, it could either be shoujo-ai or straight. And i wouldn't care if it were either cuz theres a big possiblity that he/she is gay/leabian/straight/bi. I never said i was against it. I never said i hated those who read it. I never said i hated those who wrote ORIGINAL ones or ones using real or possible gays as there characters. But you also have to take in that the person reading it, never knowing what Trigun is, would probably know that it is by a fan, but they couldn't know that it is using straight characters. Turning Vash gay is changing a large portion of his personality. So, that person reading it might not know that Vash is really straight. But again. If they use gay characters or there own original characters, i'm cool, but i just dislike it when people use the characters that are obviously straight and they change the characters personality alot by turning them gay. Ex: Miroku or Vash. But if they use characters like Kurama or characters from Gravitation, i'm cool.

That is another reason i dislike Yaoi. I understand the whole "what if" concept the authors of yoai fanfics imploy. But hey take it too far to the point were the take a very, very womanizing and straight character such as Vash or Miroku and turn them into the authors own little fantasy. Now, imagine this. A person heres about how Trigun is an awsome anime and they go online to get some info on it. They come across a fanfic that depicts he characters as gay, they would think the whole anime as nothing but gay hentai. I also disliek how they say "it for the sakes of a more sensitive side...." VASH HE STAMPEDE IS SENSITIVE!!! He cried several times over the course of the series while also displaying his love of women. I jsut don;t like it when people take characters that i dearly hold to heart, and turn them into there little fanstasy characters. Make your own characters if your gonna make these things!!!

yeah, it is. I watched it on iControl movies, so its obviously been promoted pretty well. THe DVD is out aswell. But expect more blood and swearin than you did in the edited series on AS. ( i watched in AS aswell, i jsut no this cuz i saw the movie.)

I'm not gonna sit here and bomb on DBZ becuase if it wasn't for that, i wouldn't be were i am today. Which is here, nor would i be interested in martial arts and writing. So i owe most of my current life to DBZ. Although i have far since past it and its no longer on my favorite anime list. I treat anime like any other form of entertainment. If i dislike it, i won't froce myself to watch it. Like, i hate the popular anime shows like Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon, and the current trend starter, SD Gundam which tottally disgraces the series. I'm fixed on shows with complex plots, cool, yet realistic characters, and great depth. My current favorite anime are Trigun cuz it has probably one of the greateststories around and its characters, in my opinion, are the coolest around. I love Cowboy Bebop because of the fact that "This could actualy be what the future hold for us" and that the animation is probably the best around. I also like FLCL, for obvious reasons. And the only "Bishonen"-esque anime i like is Tenchi Muyo cuz its the funniest anime around with FLCL. Like i said, anime is like any other form of entertainment, You watch what is good, you bomb what you don't like. Plain and simple.

Well, if women like seeing more sensitive males, why don't they just go for an anime with a STRAIGHT sensitive main character? Like Maison Ikkou. I think its just for the whole, "Guy on guy" thing. Mal might like her Gravitation and what no becuase of the story and everything, but i think most of the fan service is just a bunch of, well, fangirls looking for something to turn em on.