Greetings and good evening, everyone. My name is Ryanti Veanysus. I'm sure the lot of you are expecting Italian inspiration behind that name, but I assure you, I wasn't thinking about that when I came up with it. I know the join date on my profile says October 2010.. been two years already? Sorry to say, I was going to end up doing things on here, but the .. not so great launch of FFXIV didn't help. I think I was probably out of the game by Halloween time that year. So now I've come back with.. a little bit of hope I'm holding onto, that FFXIV:ARR will finally be the game for me.. we'll see.
I'm from Miami, Florida, though now I reside in Birmingham, Alabama. I'm a broke college student trying to get by, trying to deal with my late-teen, early twenty angsts and feelings, and being smart by still living with my parents at a tender 20 years old. Before you ask, I don't don any hipster glasses or drink Starbucks, hehe.. I look pretty normal, from the outside.
Inside, however, is a boy with his head up in the clouds, and his eyes in the sky. I've always been a day dreamer. Reality never satisfied me. I craved that escape, a chance to vent all of my fantasies into a reality. I've been roleplaying since 2003, which means I started when I was 11 years old. I started with forum roleplay, and, my most proficient form of roleplaying, IM roleplaying. My talent at introspection attracted me to what people now know it is 'Paragraph Posting'. During my years roleplaying, I befriended a select amount of people, and I believe myself to practice a really, interesting form of roleplaying, collaborating with those select others to go beyond characters in a world, to actually co-write what would pass as novels. Sadly, I believe my kind of roleplaying, paragraph and in third person, to be a dying breed. I consider myself old school in that aspect.
I have only recently dabbled in tabletop RP. And while it is fun, I don't consider it my forte. Character sheets, stats, and numbers, lead to more roll-play, then roleplay, to me. However, if you are curious about that, I play 3.5 and 4th D&D. (Even though I do not like the universe, because I prefer a solid background vs. concepts).
Beyond what RP I do outside of MMO's, I also RP in them. My first MMO was Phantasy Star Online, and from there I played Star Wars Galaxies. I have also played EQII, Phantasy Star Universe, a little bit of FFXI, WAR, AoC, Aion, WoW (ugh..), FEZ, TOR, GW1, and GW2, just a whole bunch of things. What is most unusual about my MMO tastes (and my tastes in general) is that I gravitate towards a western gaming mindset (An emphasis on PVP, RP, and Dynamic Content), with Eastern art and atmosphere tastes, finding a perfect MMO for me very difficult from a writing standpoint. I like the romance, the idealism of the East, and the gameplay philosophies from the west, I suppose.
My character is undecided at the moment between a male Hyur midlander and a Male Miqo'te. I've always wanted to be a Male Miqo'te, but I am unsure of stepping out of human skin. However, I am leaning towards Male Miqo'te. I also have always enjoyed roleplaying a connection to nobility in my characters, as most of the time in a social setting, I love introducing the benefits and flaws of being born with privilege (and/or forsaken or cheated out of it), and I have a general love for beauty and preciousness. I've always been able to avoid stupid things when it comes to creating backstory, let's see if I can keep that streak alive.. but yes, what you see as my name is going to be the name of my character.
Final Fantasy to me, is something I have always idealized and looked up to, mainly because of the storytelling style. My kind of fantasies, the kinds that I write about and practice, lean very much to JRPG's. My favorite series (The Tales series) is a perfect example of this. I prefer a fairy tale, a bed time story, something unfamiliar to our realistic perception as human beings, living our lives so grounded to earth most of the time. I feel that, Final Fantasy, and JRPG's in general, is the finest expression of creativity and escape I have ever seen, and I will try to utilize my gift of creating to its ultimate potential when and every chance I get.
What I am most looking forward to in FFXIV: ARR are two things. The first is figuring out how much the game has evolved, and whether or not the Japanese can overcome their biggest flaw (having issues evolving with the times). The second is the PVP. Frontlines especially. I want to see what they have to offer with large scale PVP. I want to see if it'll live up to Final Fantasy expectations and no doubt my character will play a large part in that all.
I am also looking forward to how well the RP community can co-ordinate and plot with each other to create truly masterful experiences that will be remembered.
And to wrap things up with something less serious, things I do in my spare time: Video Games, Designing Ideas and creating my world for my life's work =p, Anime (Serial Experiments Lain, DBZ, Black Butler, Eden of the East, Noein, etc.), Spending time with my Father, An obsession with fine cuisine, Some reading (not as much as I'd like unfortunately), and... making friends.
So please, help my last hobby come true. I assure you, come to expect nothing but what would be found in books from me. And if you managed to read this wall of text.. I appreciate your kindness.
