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^ I believe that we will die and that after death, anything is possible. =)
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I also believe that having an afterlife would be a beautiful thing.
V What is something that is beautiful to you?

^ Your signature is quite beautiful, I must say!
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Also, the ocean. I've lived beside it most of my life and I still stop and appreciate its beauty.
V Do you enjoy the ocean?

^ I do! My family used to visit there every summer.
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We used to go to Long Island in New York, where my uncle lives. There was a bay on one side and ocean beaches on the other, and I always liked the bay because the waves were smaller and less scary and you could find cool things in the sand. owo
v Any vacation/travel plans in the near future?

^ If "

Near future"

means within three years, then Germany!! No specific places yet, but I've highlighted a few areas.
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Can't speak a word of German (but will try to learn how to ask for directions)
V Ever gone to a place you don't speak the language?

^ Nope!
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That would be because I have never left Canada. XD I do know French, though, and I took some German and Latin in university.
V A language you really want to learn?

^ Oh gosh, I want to learn all of them. French, Spanish, Chinese, and Sanskrit in particular, but I don't seem to have the patience anymore.
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I also kind of want to learn Swedish after picking up a few words subliminally from movies? But I probably should relearn Japanese and German first because I studied them in high school and then completely forgot everything I know.
v Last movie you watched and what you thought of it?

^ Geez, what was the last movie I watched... Oh right it was Frozen, I think. I thought it was cute and enjoyable!
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I don't really watch that many movies because I have trouble dedicating that much uninterrupted time to them.
V Something that doesn't really hold your interest?

^ I feel the same way about most movies, actually. It has to be something I've been wanting to see for a while or have actors I really like in it, otherwise I can't pay attention. :B
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Same thing for TV shows and stuff. On the other hand, there are a few animes I've been wanting to see for years (like, I've literally wanted to watch Utena since I heard about it like 14 years ago and I really have no excuse for why I haven't sat down and just marathoned it yet and holy crap I have spent LITERALLY HALF MY LIFETIME wanting to watch Utena), but I keep getting distracted because I am a terrible person. XD
v A show (or game or book or fandom or whatever) you've been wanting to get into for a while?

^ The anime Free! I bump into Free! yaoi all over the place, it's impossible not to notice it (at least as a yaoi fan). But since I don't watch anime at all, I've obviously never seen it.
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Idiotically tried helping someone by donating some money, but said person didn't even bother saying thanks, effectively ruining my mood.
v Annoyed by ungrateful people?

^ Not as much as I could be, I guess? I'm more afraid of being called ungrateful by someone else, so I try to go out of my way to convey my appreciation for things.
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Just spent like 15 minutes looking for my cell phone before I found it ... plugged into the charger. D'oh. =_=
V Misplace things often?

^ Unfortunately, yes.
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I still can't find my graduation ring, though that's more of the cat's fault than mine.
V Ever lose something expensive or important?

^ A drawing my partner really liked. Still haven't found it and it haunts me to this day :I
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Lately I've been resorting to really outlandish fantasies about the future to feel better.
V Ever wanna be in a space ship?

^ Bladerunner. For not clear distinctions between man and machine, and a taste for noir and black, dark parts of the world. Dehumanization has been a really important thing that's on my mind as an adult.
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Will always and forever be more affected by individual characters than a whole piece of media
V A character that has affected you?

^ (Heck yeah, Blade Runner is awesome.) I guess this is more of an archetype than a specific character, but characters with a surrogate parent-child relationship are really important to me.
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Literally the only thing you have to do to get me interested in something is throw in an abandoned little kid and a cool dad who isn't their biological dad and I will be all about that thing.
v Do you tend to prefer characters who remind you of yourself, or of qualities you value in other people? Or both??

^ I've realized I tend to dislike characters that are more like me. So I actually tend to flock to ones that are idealized versions of people I care about or am supposed to care about.
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Will always be a sucker for the aloof but ultimately caring older sibling, that usually acts as a parent to the younger sibling. Bonus points if they're not blood related!!
V Ever dream of octopus?

^ Despite often having the most crazy kind of dreams, an octopus has never appeared in any of them.
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The weirdest animal to have popped up in one of my dreams would be a winged horse.
v A fantasy creature you wish was real?

^ Maybe, like, gnomes or tiny magical people in general? I guess because I think miniature things are cool and it would be super awesome to find one in your garden. :B
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Or dragons, but like, the friendly benevolent kind.
v If you had magic/super powers, what kind of powers would you have?

^ I guess shapeshifting would be cool. Then I could just shapeshift into my ideal view of a real-life bishounen, haha.
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Always liked Mystique from X-men (she can shapeshift too!).
v If you could shapeshift into an animal, would you want to try that out? xD

^ Yeah, probably. :3
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I'd like, maybe turn into a bird to see what it's like to fly and stuff, or a cat so I'd have an excuse to sleep on the floor all day.
v Ever dye your hair?

^ Nope, I haven't.
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But if I wasn't too shy to do so, I'd add dark-blue highlights to my black hair.
v Favorite fantasy hair color (i.e. hair color which doesn't naturally exist)?

^ Probably would be a toss-up between certain shades of red that don't naturally occur to us IRL (like crimson-deep-red) and something like cyan.
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I seem to have a tendency of liking side characters in various shows and games much more than the actual main cast.
v Speaking about fantasy colors, what about eyes?

^ Yellow eyes.
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Has an OC with blue hair and yellow eyes, haha.
v Thoughts on two differently colored eyes;

cool or weird?

^ I've seen someone IRL with immediately noticeable difference in the eye color - it looked like about ~40% of the iris in one of their eyes had a different color 'spilt' over it. It looked a bit strange but no more than that. Certainly nothing like close up photos of albino eyes made directly from the front with a flash;

those can be, IMHO, downright creepy at times. So, I'd say 'cool'

Not so much in animation though. A character sporting heterochromia that I've liked the look of is a rarity.

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Surprisngly enough, yellow fictional eye color is about my favourite too. 'Golden' and 'amber' tones specifically, although 'somewhere between green and yellow like some owls and eagles have' would be a close third.

v Thoughts on asymmetrical character design? (Think what Tetsuya Nomura did in the recent ~12 years or so.)