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Name: Greg

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Searching for ASOIAF art, Sandor Clegane to be specific :]

Age: 19

Location: California

Occupation: Student



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!

First off, I'd love to live in a place where it doesn't get too cold.. I'm not fond of the cold(rules out stark haha) I mean, I love snow once in a while, but I'm really prone to the cold... Now that's not to say I'd like to live some where Hot either.. Somewhere with modest temperatures and lot's of tree's and forest. My ideal House would be made out of stone and be very large.. with lot's of furniture and statues, something that would be creepy to live by yourself in, with lot's of rooms and doors, easy to get lost. Outside would again have lot's of tree's, making me hidden too the outside world so i can loose myself further from reality.I'm not  saying I dislike my life... quite the contracy actually, but, unless your like johnny depp, fantasy is always more fun :]


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. My first wish..hmmm...it seems to me everyone's first wish from genies always tend to be stupid and unrealistic ,not believing the genie is real... so i must not follow this format, but I probably will end up wishing for something stupid. Ok, time to make my wish. So My first wish would be that I could be immortal.. I'm very afraid of death and hurt my health quite badly in the past year, I'm slowly healing, which is good. But after some tragic event's that happened because, like most youth's, I actually thought I already had my wish and was already immortal... turns out that was not the case... although, the slow healing process is starting to make me think that I can with stand anything again :O..

2. My second wish seems like my first wish, but it's quite different if you really look at it right. I wish I could be given a second fantasy life to maybe.. "teleport" in too, off my choosing.. But it would be as if it were a real life, but once I die in this fantasy life, I get to go back to my real life remembering all that had happened in the fantasy one.. This might not be a fantastic idea for a wish, considering.. that I will surely tell everyone I know what had happened and then I will end up in a strait jacket and padded walls. But I feel the wish is realistic in a sense that, I'd sacrifice my reality to have a great fantasy life :]. unless in my fantasy I die on the first day, that would be unfortunate..

3. TO HAVE A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE BECOME HBO TV SERIES, I WOULD LOVE THAT.. wait......

No really, my third wish would to have had a sister. Yes, this might seem weird. But i have 3 brothers, i love them off course. but i wish i had like a twin sister like Cersei and Jaime, minus the incest.I don't reject the idea of incest either..Just with my family i find the thought absolutely repulsive, so if i had tons of cool and attractive family, then i might be into that kind of thing. Just a sibling who I could, you know, cry with? Just a woman sibling and all the traits of being a woman and a sibling, it just would be nice to have a calm, not pumped with testesterone friend to relate with.

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. ;)

Winning 3,000 USD in a video game tournament. While i am proud off this, i hate that this is my best achievement, I'm not much of a gamer anymore. And I assure you, in a year times, I will have something better for this question, that I'm truely proud off :].

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.
The most important is a tie between Love, Knowledge and adventure.. And the least by far is family..
I choose family for the least important is because, I know their your blood and all, but i have no respect for my family, except my one younger brother.. even then.. not much. I highly don't see why your tied to your family just because the blood, i hate that aspect.. I feel what ties you to a person is the actions that people do, doing favors or backstabbing.... I feel you should be able to decide your family and then maybe make it legally official. Maybe if i had a cool respected family, i'd think otherwise.

This is basically related to my least important one, because i have somewhat a boring life, filled with gaining knowledge, it's what keeps me going.. because i'm slowly making my life better and more adventure filled. It ties to family being my worst, because I feel I need somebody to love(not a jefferson airplane reference lol).. But I need a love in my life to go adventure with and just get out of my shell.

What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values? Explain.
I'd rather live a lion for one day, than a sheep for 100 years.


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..
I'm sorry to say, I really can't go into much depth for this answer.. I've never had to manage money, my parents pay for everything.. my parents used to be rich, so I would spend blindly, but now they aren't, they still pay for everything I need, but, that's it, just things I NEED. But money is really not important to me, sure i'd love to be rich beyond my wildest dreams(which are wild i assure you), but, as long as i'm healthy, i couldn't care less about money... again, that might because i haven't had too much struggle with it..

Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?
Reading of course, or else i wouldn't be here hehe, I do like video games still, movies.. you know "anything to escape".. Those kinds of things i do a lot..
I'm also quite active, I'm into martial arts and working out, helps relieve a lot of stress. I like to play with my dog as well, she is very hyper >.<.. but i love her :]. But yeah, i'm really in the crossroads of getting into more hobbies, i need more, i have too much time on my hands sometimes. Too much solitude can make one go insane, trust me... So literally, i'm down to do anything that doesn't make me thing about random stuff.

Name three things you are afraid of. Explain

1. As i mentioned earlier, i'm deathly afraid of death... I was weakened somewhat recently and it's created a terrible phobia of dying and getting sometype of terminall ilness, it's definately an irrational fear, since i am healthy now, but as most humans, i fear of what i don't know.. I guess, one way that would help this fear.. would to either dye very well known and respected or in a very glorious way, like fighting an arch enemy to the death.. then i wouldn't feel to scared off it..

2. I'm terrified of aliens........think about it, out of all the monsters that could be real, aliens are the most logical :O.. i mean.. comon.. boogey monster.. some guy that sleeps under your bed and comes out at night, pffft.... could never be real.. I also live out in the middle of nowhere and have a house to myself sometimes, so, if aliens were to abduct anyone, it would be me :O..

3. Never being truly at peace.. I'm happy sometimes, but i wish that i could be happy everyday at all times.. i never have been happy for longer than a couple days, i wish i could be happy constantly for months on end as it seems like most people are. I fear i will never have this happen..but, as a human, i can be optimistic :].. so the fact that anything is possible is quite a comfort for this..


WHOAAAAAAAAAAA.... is this suppose to be a therapy session or something, sorry if i've gotten too emotional, but these are rather personal questions..

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 also want you to know, i'm more of a physical person than not...

1. I'm very creative, i don't mean to sound conceded, but that's one thing i'm good at it, if i wasn't lazy, i could be a very good artist i feel... I right poetry sometimes to express it and people have told me that it's good. I always have weird ideas that no one has thought up before and i seem to think differently than most normal people, so yes, i guess i'm creative lol.

2. Motivational and very ambitious, i motivate the people around me.. but it's not really for their sake, it's all in vain. I can motivate well so that i can get what i want, which kind of goes hand in hand with my other best quality, which is very good at arguing/debating.. But i love to argue, not sure why, but i always do it, even if there is no reason, just simply like to argue for the sport of it. I also have a thirst to prove myself to the world and become great. Anything i set my mind too, i get very close to or achieve it. But as a worst quality... laziness hampers this quite a bit

3. Arguing/debating/manipulation... don't know why it is a quality, but it is something i'm good at. I guess i feel that, in this day in age, since i can't just attack someone with a sword, which my instinct tells me to do :(.. i choose the legal route and attack with my mind and mouth, and that's the best and safest way to get what you want.


1.Laziness, I am very lazy, I feel i was a king in a past life and need people to do work for me.. It's somewhat the fact that i hate doing work for other people, when the work is for my benefit, i'm actually a very hard worker.. but when it's for someone else, or someone commanding me too do it. I can't do it, it irritates way to much that someone can control me.

2. Stubborn.. I hate loosing and will never admit I'm wrong, because i am always right :]. probably again has to do with me being a God and everyone else my slave mentality, but in the end, don't most people think like that.. (if not let me know, i'm somewhat lost in my own world)

3. Taking things for granted... Know, i don't do this much anymore, since i really appreciate the little things in life now.. but before, i used to realllllllly not care if i had food to eat for the day, or that i'm healthy.. have a house to sleep in.. always thought that i should be living in a palace, have people worshipping me etc... but this bad trait is slowly fading... but it's still there, so it belongs here for now..


Who are your least favorite three characters in the series? Why?

1.I HATE TYRION... so much...i find him interesting to read, definately.. but i just think he's the one thing that is more ungrateful than i am... i also hate the fact he's hideous, i am somewhat shallow, i value looks.. might be why, but uggh he also has some witty annoying thing to say, bothers the hell out of me.. like for instance when jamie saved him in the third book, he still had this witty insolent crap to say too him. after not seeing him for a very long time and risking his own life to save his...(this is before jaime confessed about his first wife!)

2. Cersei... She's basically an attractive tyrion to me... she thinks she's a god, so do i yes.. but.. ugh idk  i just hate people who keep backstabbing and always trying to be cunning, always finding ways to get rid of tyrion..

3.Tywin.. If he was a better father, maybe he wouldn't of had 2 really messed up annoying kids.. Jaime, he did well with jaime, jaime is cool lol.. but tyrion and cersei have no honor whatsoever, tywin does have some yes.. but i hate how he is so rude to tyrion all the time...As much as i would to be, if he unconditionally loved tyrion, being the ugly dwarf.. He might have turned out to be a good person and used his wits for the greater good, instead of trying ways to defeat his family and friends... Tywin is just a jerk to me...

Who are your favorite three characters in the series? Why?
1. Dany.. I feel i really relate to her. She was robbed of being a queen( as i king hehe) and is ambitious to do whatever it takes to become a great leader and get back what's rightfully hers... She is really brave and had to put up with an abusive brother and her whole family murdered... as much as i'm not a family guy, that just sucks...

2.Jaime.. He is who i wish i could be like sometimes.. He is my favorite character and felt that getting his hand cut off only made it better..I am somewhat like him too, i'm in great athletic shape, but i'm not as brave ..

3.Sandor Clegane I also feel i can relate too sanor, but i'm not like him in any sense.. I jsut really pitty him and felt he could have been a GREAT knight if he wasn't screwed over by his brother, who should have been on the characters i hate list.. I find him very interesting and all a man should be.


#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far? Why

When Jaime saved brienne from harrenhall, i hate brienne and just thought it was very cute and romantic how jaime saved her(I am a guy and 100% straight).. and it was all that ASOIAF... a very twisted fantasy story lol

In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end, and why?

I would like to see dany on the throne marrying someone proper from westeros as it should have been, I really have no epic ending..