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Name: luvscharlie
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Age: 36
Location: Southern USA
Occupation: I'm a paralegal/law office manager




All About You

1. Describe your ideal house/home. Please go into as much detail as possible, and be sure to include your ideal geographical location in the description!. My ideal home is a place where there are servants—you've never met a girl who hates to clean house or do yard work more than this girl. I like a neat house. Mom was a stay-at-home mom so it was always neat growing up—at my house, however, you're lucky if you don't fall over something walking down the hallway and gods forbid you should open a closet door! You take your life in your own hands. I currently live in the Southern USA, far enough south for hot summers, but not so far that the seasons aren't lovely. That being said, I'd much prefer to live somewhere that we get snow more often and if it rained every day (with thunder and lightning preferably) I can't imagine anything that would make me happier.


2. Imagine you’re given the classic opportunity: a genie granting you three wishes. What would you wish for? Please be as elaborate as you can. Wishing for more wishes is not permitted!

1. Enough money so that I wouldn't have to worry about retirement or what would happen to me after my boss decides he's going to retire, not to mention money for college for my kid. There's really nothing worse than working for someone for 16 years only to discover that there's really no place for you when they decide they're done working. So I'm currently putting in job applications for any governmental agency that might need me.

2. To have a job where I work with animals all day long. I'm not all that fond of people, but animals I love. They're so non-judgemental—feed them, pet them, offer them unconditional love and it's returned ten-fold. People could learn a lot from the average puppy.

3. The third wish (and since you've prohibited cheating *glares*, I better make it a good one) -- I wish to have a library of my very own. To kick all of those people out of the public library near my house, who chomp gum loudly, read the books with dirty hands and inevitably take the book that I was just reaching for on the shelf. All those books for my very own. Oh, a happy me that would be.

3. In your life so far, what accomplishment are you the most proud of? Why? You can list more than one if you have trouble deciding. ;) There's nothing more pride-inducing (and equally terrifying) than procreating and seeing a little mini-you walking around. I have to say my daughter is the accomplishment I'm most proud of; I'm raising her alone (at least without a co-parent) and that's a different kind of relationship than any other.

4. Which of the following is most important to you: Love, Money, Knowledge, Family, Friendship, Adventure, or Pleasure? Which is the least important to you? Please explain why for each choice.

Most important: Family, I love my family. I love holidays and "game nights" which are spent every Saturday at my parents' house. I would be lost without my family. (Knowledge is a close second—I'm kind of a snot about my intelligence, and I hate being around people who are stupid. Boy, being honest on these things is kind of brutal!)

Least important: Adventure. I'm honestly perfectly happy (and probably at my most content) when I'm curled up in a chair with a book as the rain beats against the window. About the most adventurous I get is driving somewhere that I don't know where I'm going and then I'm a nervous wreck until I get there. I think I'm kind of a follower—I can enjoy an adventure, as long as someone else is leading the way. I prefer being Guinea Pig #2. If Guinea Pig #1 takes a header off a diving board and splatter, this guinea pig is climbing back down the ladder.

5. What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values? Explain.
Knowledge is the one thing no one can ever take away from you. A friend's grandfather told me that, and I've carried that with me ever since. There is nothing you can learn that is useless information. Everything should be stored away for later. You never know when you might need it, and once it's yours, it's yours forever.

6. How do you manage your money? On that note, how important is money/financial security to you? Go into as much detail as you can.
Financial security grows more important to me the older I get. I hate not having a nest egg (where the hell do people find the extra cash?) I shudder when I think how I used to spend my money (and I'm still not great with it). I've started "extreme couponing" in recent months, so now it is the highlight of my day to get a bargain. That being said, finding money in the bank at the end of the month is still a struggle.

7. Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?

I admit that I'm kind of boring. Fandom is my biggest hobby. I love to write and read fanfiction, and spend numerous hours a week doing it.

Also, my shows require a lot of my time. I have an embarrassing addiction to reality television (SHHHH!!!! It's like a train wreck, I can't look away!), the Big Bang Theory, Game of Thrones (of course), Supernatural and Merlin.

When I'm not playing in fandom, I'm usually reading or out trying to get a good deal with my coupons (which drives my child crazy—she's not a fan of my couponing).

I know, boring!Luvscharlie is BORING.

8. Name three things you are afraid of. Explain.

1. High places—If I'm having a nightmare, be assured that I'm dangling off a building somewhere or just about to tip over into the great unknown. I don't climb on ladders, I don't get on roofs and if anything needs to be accomplished that requires me climbing above waist-level, someone else is going to be doing it. That being said, I still can't believe I did the Tower of Terror at Disney World—and I had dreams of the way my stomach felt as I was falling for months afterwards.

2. Underground—I know, right? I'm an enigma. Just can't please me. I don't like high places or low places. I find nothing more terrifying than the thought of being buried alive.

3. Messing up my kid. You know, you gotta wonder sometimes what someone was thinking giving me something to shape and mold and make into a real grown up person one day. What if I'm doing it wrong?

9. Name (and elaborate on) your top three BEST and top three WORST qualities (personality-related, not physical). Please answer as fully as you can, as this is an important question.
Best:
1. I have a huge heart. There's nothing I wouldn't do for pretty much anyone if I felt they truly needed it. If you're a kitty cat or puppy dog, there's absolutely nothing I won't do to take care of you. I think that's part of my needing to be needed.
2. I'm extremely witty. And if I don't know the answer, what I lack in smarts I make up for in determination. I'm not a quitter and there's pretty much nothing I won't tackle at least once. I can't stand to feel like something beat me, and not knowing an answer is unacceptable.
3. I will never treat anyone in a way that I don't want to be treated. I won't lie to you, I won't be mean to you, and I won't take you for granted. I'm a good and loyal friend, who stands by people even sometimes when they've proven they don't deserve it

Worst:
1. I can be a bit bossy, and I'm certainly a control freak. Everything must be done a certain way (and I really can't stand seeing someone do it differently—cause that's not the right way). Control issues, I haz them.
2. I often have trouble empathizing with people. I want to feel something, I want to be able to understand what they're going through, but sometimes that's harder for me than I'd like and then I end up coming off as rather cold and detached. It sort of makes me feel like I'm cold and detached too, like I should feel more than I do.
3. I don't know when to hush. There are times I could walk away from something, but that damn desire to get the last word in will get me every time. Sometimes I even whisper it, just because I can't stop myself. I really do have to get the last word. If it's something stupid that doesn't matter at all—still must have that last word. I should have been born with a button on my chin to attach my top lip to when the urge becomes too much.






A Song of Ice and Fire Related

1.Who are your favorite three characters in the series? Why?
1. Robb Stark—My second favorite moment in the series is when the Greatjon *loves the Greatjon* says that Robb's the only King he'll serve, and names him King of the North. He's just fearless, and he takes up his bannermen and he rushes off to save his father—he knows what it means to be family and what it means to be his father's heir and he never blanches at that responsibility. Also I love Robb/Jeyne like whoa.

2. Stannis Baratheon—Oh Stannis. I love him, and at other times I want to sock him in the nads so that he'll be on his knees and forced to listen to reason. I think he's good down deep. I think he always means well and he think he wants the best for Westeros, but boy, that unbendy side of him makes you want to whack him one sometimes. I remember in Book 2 that line about Stannis always being a little hard to love, and maybe it's that underdog-ness, or the always living in his brothers' shadows that makes me want to love him a little harder.

3. Robert Baratheon—I have to admit this is at least partly because Mark Addy IS my Robert Baratheon. I watched the show before I read the books, and I fell in love with the jovial, harsh, oftentimes misunderstood King Robert. I think GRRM summed him up best when he said he was the person most capable of taking the throne and least capable of keeping it. There is nothing I would rather see in these books than a glimpse into Robert and Ned's childhoods growing up; I think that bond between the two of them and Robert's complete faith in Ned and total love for Jon Arryn that endears him to me all the more.

2.Who are your least favorite three characters in the series? Why?
1. Ramsay Snow (Bolton)—OMG, can you say EVIL? I swear I think he could teach a class on evil and if Lord Voldemort attended, he'd need to take some serious notes just in order to keep up with Ramsay in the ways of evil villain. That being said, despite my detest, I found myself gobbling up his chapters in A Dance with Dragons and dying for the next one. *is a sadist*

2. Daenerys Targaryen—I don't hate her. I'm not even sure I really dislike her, but I surely do find her boring as hell. I hate the Dany chapters.

3. Varys—What the hell did K ever do to him???? I liked K. K was nice. K wanted to do the right thing, so yes, we must kill the NICE one. Stupid Varys. [Edited so as not to spoil anyone for ADWD]

3.#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far? Why?
When Stannis rides to the wall with his men in A Storm of Swords. It is at that moment we are reminded what a King is supposed to be. I'm not sure I've ever loved a character more than I did Stannis (and Davos for reminding him of what is important) at that moment.

4. In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end, and why?
Well, see there's this potion created at Hogwarts that is delivered to Westeros and it re-attaches severed heads, and… just kidding… mostly.

The hardest part about this question is knowing the domino effect of what you want to happen and how it will bear on the other characters you've come to love. I would love to see Jon Snow sitting on the iron throne, and if not him, I want to see Davos there. I love Stannis—love him, and I think there's a very good person underneath, but his inability to bend when it's important is not the making of a good king… and that hurt me to write. I'm sorry, Stannis, I still love you!

Also, I'd like to see the Seven Kingdoms reunited and Varys's head on a spike somewhere (and not one that the Harry Potter potion being parachuted into Westeros can fix)—Also, I want Theon's teeth fixed (why must writers break teeth in stories? It gives me the creeps!) and a Stark back in Winterfell! Also Tree!Bran does not make me happy. I wish he'd go another way with that storyline. Also, surprise! Beric Dondarrion is really alive (what can I say? I'm a dreamer *sigh*)

Comments

Tully

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Like everyone else seems to be doing, I was waffling between Tully and Stark, but your book answers pushed me towards the Stark end of the spectrum. Putting Robert into your favourite characters is Starky, and your happy ending makes me think of Sansa.