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Name: brittany
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Age: nineteen
Location: alabama, usa
Occupation: student/retail supervisor




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!.
location wise, i would have to say i would enjoy somewhere just outside the city. i'm so used to being 20 minutes away from a simple mom&pop gas station, i believe i enjoy the solitude, but i would prefer my solitude with closer resources. i enjoy having the seclusion of woods surrounding my house, but again, it's just not practical when i live so far away from civilization. though to be honest, i've never been very far from home, so i'm very limited on specifically where i would like to live. i do know that i would require it to be away from this suffocating state, preferrably somewhere that's rather mild in climate.

in terms of details, i have two ideal homes. one would be an apartment, because the coziness of it just draws me in. but i don't like the idea of finances with apartments, so home-wise i would probably go with a one-story brick house. i've never been able to see myself in something that wasn't an apartment unless it was brick. it just seems the coziest, the safest to me. i don't enjoy the huge, empty, elaborate houses that end up being four stories. i'll be honest, they're interesting, but i have no use for four stories. definitely tossing up my colors with each room, but definitely being very meticulously picked to make sure they go well together. each room would likely be dosed in muted colors, as i'm very fond of steel blue, a soft green, etc. and i prefer softer colors because those don't burst out at me, because to be honest, when i'm at home, my purpose is to relax. to help me unwind at the end of the day. i find the softer colors to be more relaxing, quieter, so to say. aside from that, i imagine to have a study, in which a wall from ceiling to floor would be coated in books, nearby a nice, wooden desk. a fireplace would be nice somewhere, too.


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!
i. happiness and good health for my father this is quite frankly, the most important on my list of things. my father has already had a life harder than it should have been, and it kills me to see him dealing with depression as he is. with how constantly he's supported me and taken care of me, i feel he deserves nothing more than to be free of all the troubles he's dealt with.

ii. an unlimited source of money i'm a very proud person in terms of money, and so i really, really hate taking money from people. i will admit that i do this, but i do so grudgingly. and i always intend to make sure i don't just 'forget' about the favor they've given me. i would definitely pay back everything i've owed people in the past, and definitely take care of how much money my father has poured into my education and use it to buy him a brand new boat he's been itching for. plus, i can't deny that having this money would provide me an entire list of new opportunities i didn't have before to further myself in life.

iii. an alternate reality. come on, i had to be pretty selfish with some self-indulgent fantasy. i could just imagine myself having a secret narnia-esque wardrobe that allows me to live out my childhood fantasy of sailor moon or whatever else comes to my imagination.


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. ;)

at first, i thought i would say that i can't say anything i'm proud of in terms of accomplishments, merely because i haven't accomplished anything. but i sat and thought for a moment and realized it wasn't true. it's not something i disclose to others, as it's my life, but i am quite proud of my internal accomplishments. i am proud of overcoming sexual assault. i know it will always be with me, but regardless, i was indescribably proud when i first thought: "this doesn't control my life anymore." i am only nineteen years old and am quite embarrassed at my lack of achievements, especially seeing as how i have no physical accomplishments yet, but these are still things i consider to be important milestones for myself when i have nothing else.


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.
honestly, i find adventure to be the most important at the current time in my life. i imagine once i've had my own adventures, i would choose another, but right now, it is definitely adventure. i've been raised in a very sheltered, conservative household and have never been out of the tristate area. i've always wished to visit the other states, other countries. i want to experience other cultures, as i've experienced none but one that i don't even belong in.
i would have to say that the least important is pleasure. to me, this is indulging in things, buying gifts for myself, treating myself to nice meals, etc. i think i could easily sacrifice this frequency for the other categories.



5. What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values? Explain.
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
- sylvia plath
this dialogue has always stood out to me, merely because i feel like it explains all of my aspirations. i truly wish i could attend college for the rest of my life, attaining degrees in various areas. if debt were not an option, i would enjoy many, many degrees just so i could become an expert in all of the areas that excite me. i wish to be a doctor, i wish to be a historian, i wish to be an author, i wish to be an academic. obviously this is restricting to the academic field in this aspect, but i aspire to be a good daughter, an adventurer, etc. it easily sums up how i see myself because i just cannot see there being time enough to do everything that i want and becoming everything i wish to be as a person.

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.
unfortunately, i'm not as good with my money as i used to be as a child. i learned my money management from my father, who is very wary about spending any money whatsoever unless absolutely, win-or-die necessary. i was the same way. not so much anymore, but i still am to a degree. my money usually is only spent because of the cost to get to work. i am incredibly cautious in buying things for myself. i love to shop for clothes or jewelry or other nice things, but even with a comfortable bank account, i'm still too wary to buy it, just out of worry that it could be money i may need in the near future. the last thing i want is to indulge in something and end up needing money for something that would result in my asking for it from someone else.

7. Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?
it may sound a bit sad, but i really don't have that many hobbies. i enjoy reading and writing, lately it's been more fanfiction. i do enjoy roleplaying online, as i find it ways to elaborate on fictional characters, which i absolutely adore. i do consume a lot of movies and television, many of which fandoms i share with my father ( who happened to introduce me to asoiaf). on the rare occasion, i like to exercise, but unfortunately those are reserved for my less-lazy days.

8. Name three things you are afraid of. Explain.
i. dementia. alzheimers is a big factor in my family. i've watched it take away the being of my grandparents, i've watched it break their spirit when they realize they're losing who they are. i don't think i could ever deal with having it. i don't know how i could handle losing my being, my memories. i don't understand how i can even live without an identity, and i would feel even more terrified just to sit and have to watch it slip away from me.

ii. failure. to be part of such an uncultured family and community, it's quite terrifying to know that statistics for my future being different are not on my side. to know that i am the first to go to college, the first to graduate high school, it's already an accomplishment in a sense, but not compared to the average teenager. just the fact that this is an accomplishment i had to fight for is rather embarrassing to me, and i keep pushing back the fear that i will end up living in the middle of nowhere like my relatives with nothing significant to show for my life.

iii. motherhood. really, it's not exactly pregnancy that scares me, which that does too, but motherhood. while i do consider pregnancy a curious and slightly worrisome thing, i think i would enjoy it more than actual motherhood. i've never been good with children whatsoever, or people in general, and i've always had a secret fear that this trait would carry on through my relationships with whatever children i may have.


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
i. empathetic. i do find this to be a good and bad trait of mine. i've always had an incredibly subjective perspective of people, and can very easily try to recreate the situation someone is having, provoking legitimate responses from myself. i find it to be quite problematic sometimes when i do not wish it to happen, but in others, such as in the case of an upset loved one, i find it can be more useful in understanding their situation and problems.

ii. perfectionist. i am incredibly detail-oriented with my work. i enjoy organizing, labeling, getting down to every little detail to ensure that i've given a good example of my abilities. i find it to be a good way to show that i'm respectful of the tasks handed to me, and a way to push through the mediocrity i feel to be surrounded in.

iii. curious. i really consider this to be my defining trait. i feel that without this characteristic, i would not have become who i am. i feel that my family's sheltered views would have dominated my mind and i would be completely uneducated about the rest of the world. my curiosity has driven me to educate myself in every way my community has denied me. it allowed me to find my love for books, my love for writing, it really has just led me to everything and i'm always going to be grateful for it.

WORST
i. naive. i am incredibly, incredibly trusting. it's almost scary how gullible i can be to another person's lies. i recognize that i should be more wary of people and their intentions, but unfortunately, i tend to go against that. i feel being more wary is me giving them an unfair judge of their character when i have no place to yet, and my foolishness has not always led to the best situations.

ii.accommodating. sometimes, i can be too accommodating. i do put a person i care about's interest above my own, simply because it's first nature to me. i suppose i don't consider what i want as important as what another person wants. frankly, i tend to just forget that i have the right to want something different. i just am too weakwilled to really stand up for what i want if it differs.

iii. contemptuous. while i do continue to trust people from my foolishness, i never seem to forgive them for their wrongs. i regard them terribly, just as i regard my culture. i feel guilty for being so cruel about my own community to my father, when i know he wasn't specifically responsible. when i'm angry about what i've been restricted on my future, i can be rather cruel with my words, and do end up regretting it later on.





A Song of Ice and Fire Related

1.How many books from the series have you completed? all of them !

2.Who are your favorite three characters in the series? Why?
i. theon greyjoy. oh my god, do not get me started. while i love all of these three characters, i really love theon the most just because of his displaced storyline. i just can't help but feel the most connected. he knows what he did was wrong, and he suffered far more than he ever should have for it. but honestly, something was going to change regardless. there was nothing that could stay the same for theon. especially after ned died, knowing that everything passed to robb. and in essence, that meant theon. and you can't just have a light-hearted relationship with your best friend knowing you're his hostage, and robb wouldn't have wanted that for theon either, and just ugh the feelings i have for this boy. to me he just feels so relatable because we get to just sit and watch his confusion and misplaced emotions. we get to witness the mistakes that he makes, which he even realizes later on, and we get to watch the terrible consquences that fall on him because of these mistakes.

ii. sansa stark ugh, this girl. like theon, sansa is the other i relate most to. her naive, foolish faith in the songs and stories she was told as a child just strike a chord. i don't understand the hatred some give her, given she's only eleven when the series starts. of course she's going to be childish and faithful in her hopes and dreams when she's eleven years old. and it just is so heartbreaking to watch all of these views become crushed in front of her in the worst ways. sansa is not brave, she is not arya stark, and i appreciate that about her. i know i am not brave as she is, but she's managed to find her own footing. i think she's finding her way beautifully in the way of survival. i feel she's had one of the best arcs, and i just enjoy watching her emerge as one of the most skillful players of the game she used to be a pawn in. the way she adopted the act with petyr was so fascinating, and i just cannot help but be excited at how she continues to progress. this girl has had so much progression that i've enjoyed.

iii. cersei lannister this was a tough tie between cersei and jaime. i would put both, really, since they were stated to be the same person in two bodies, but i decided just on cersei. her character's story is so beautiful and haunting to me, it's just lingered with me. cersei is honestly one of the only characters whose chapters i have always enjoyed reading without the fear of becoming bored. i just cannot even explain how much i love her and how she reminds me of sansa and catelyn in so many twisted ways. her challenging the gender role placed before her and using every tooth and nail she needed to get a small sense of 'equality' in the game of thrones next to her male counterparts.


3.Who are your least favorite three characters in the series? Why?
i.robert baratheon. ugh, i cannot stand this man. his terrible treatment of cersei and women in general just disgusted me to the point where i could hardly bear to read a scene he was involved in. i think just the most defining parts of my hatred for robert were when he slapped cersei, for one. which is entirely self-explanatory as to why. second, would have to be his romanticizing of his love for lyanna. he constantly made it out to be something amazing and epic-tale of true love and how he went to rescue his damsel in distress, when in fact, his obsession with her was rather disturbing and it was obviously mentioned that lyanna did not want robert even half as much as he wanted her. he was just one huge ball of disgust.

ii.ramsay snow. god, i fucking hate him. he's just one of the most horrible characters to me, just in all the things he did to theon. it just is so disturbing to me, reading the true fear he instilled in the mind of a boy. i had to consider for a moment, though, if i hated him or gregor clegane more. i would definitely think they're close to one another in my hatred.

iii. joffrey baratheon/lannister. another one that is self-explanatory. he was absolutely cruel to sansa in so many ways that it made me rage like never before. the way he was so wrongly idolized by her was so horrifically brought to light, and i was not upset at all at his death.

4.#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far? Why?
OKAY, i definitely am torn between two moments here. the first would have to be the sansa/joffrey interaction near the end of game of thrones. as you know, the "or maybe he'll give me yours" dialogue between the two. it really has just stuck with me all this time because this is sansa finally being defiant. she's realized how cruel her prince is, that her stories are not true, and she's finally finding a way to stand up for herself. she suffers greatly for it, but she's never been able to stand up for herself the way arya has, and i think it speaks miles for her character.

second in my heart is definitely the scene where cersei is stripped and paraded through the streets in adwd. it certainly pulled at my heartstrings, but of course my fierce lion queen still managed to show them that she is the true born daughter of casterly rock and hair grows back. god, this scene just gave me so many feelings i can't even begin to describe.

5. In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end, and why?
daenerys would definitely conquer the others with aid from other houses. jon would not be dead, revealed to be the targaryen bastard as so many suspect, and become dany's consort(perhaps, i could do without that though). i believe sansa should be given winterfell finally, and jaime should be the one to ensure that she reaches it in order to fulfill his promise and i believe help putting lady stoneheart to peace and rest, finally. i've always been so muddled in how i truly wish the series to conclude, that i'm sure it will change over time.

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