Raphael/Akioh/Moon
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29 Years Old

Hey, I'm Raphael and I love OCs! Yeah. Also I study linguistics. Idk what to put here.

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Update + Tag

Mood: Hungry.
Currently working on: This Comic, a pic of Noland and Chrys, I don't even know what else anymore... xD;;
Recently added: This Comic, pages 1-5

Hey guys! :D I'm officially on spring break, now. And also...
~*~I GRADUATED!~*~
Which is weird and stuff, because I still feel like I have to go to school on Monday. :V;;; But yeah, graduation was fun! My family came down, and we all had dinner together. It's been a while since my grandparents from both sides of my family have seen each other, so they seemed happy to talk to each other. My mom's mom and my dad's mom are such complete opposites, though... My mom's mom is very strict, and my dad's mom is very fancy-free. 8D They seem like the kind of pair I would come up with as characters. xDD
So there you go. That's where my love of opposites comes from: my family. -u-b

Also, I went to prom two weeks ago. :o It was unsurprisingly boring. I didn't have a horrendous time, just a very unemotional and normal time. I didn't dance much, because it just felt weird to me. :V It was also a lot louder than I expected! .____. But at least I have the experience, now. It was a good research opportunity. :m Which is actually the main reason I wanted to go, I think... if I never went to a dance, I wouldn't be able to write about one, if it ever comes up in one of my story-things.
I have photos, though!


Yep. Takara did my hair, make-up, and picked out my accessories. I wanted to wear a short dress, but decided against it because I would've gotten flack from one of my friends. xD;

On another different note, I saw Third Eye Blind play last weekend! :DDD They're one of my favorite bands right now, so that was exciting. What I wanted most was for them to play Wounded and Motorcycle Drive By--which they did--so that was good. :9 They even closed with Motorcycle Drive By, which the singer said they never did before... SO SPECIAL US, IN THE CROWD. First people to see them close with that song. 8D
And yeah. That was a thing.

Lastly, I've been tagged by Hifsa!

1.Where do you live?
I won't give specifics, but I live in the United States. ;o

2.Where would you rather been, if you got to chose?
Aha, I like it here just fine. :9

3.Have you ever slept in the bathroom?
Nope! Well... maybe I've fallen asleep in the bathtub while bathing, before. I don't know. xD

4.What are you up to these days?
Not much! :m Just hanging around and playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf. IT'S GREAT!! :,D

5.Have you ever eaten noodles with your hands?
Nope. :M

6.An anime that made you cry?
Hm... I don't know if I've seen one that made me cry. :o Anyone have any good recommendations for animes that will make me cry? xD

7.Which anime character would you wish really exist?
ROY FROM FIRE EMBLEM... OR DONNY, MY OTHER BOY... but they're from video games, so I guess they don't count. :M;;;
I think it'd be cool if Kotetsu from Tiger & Bunny was real... but if he was real, all the other heroes would have to be real, too. >:M

8.Who are you most close to in your family?
My sisters, but I love everyone in my family. ;u;

9.Do you have a job? If yes then, what is it?
Nope. I want to open art commissions next year to help me with college, though! ;o In real life. Idk if it'll interest anyone online, and I don't have a paypal account. >3>;

10.Alone in an island what would you miss most?
Computer. orz I always have my characters in my head, so drawing isn't the biggest issue. It's youuu guyyyys!!!! ;u;

11.Did you like my questions?
Yep!

I may add in more questions and tag some people later, but this is all for now! :D

Update + New Character

Mood: Blugh
Currently working on: NAH-THING. I've been so unproductive...

Hey, I forgot my blog existed... Well, not really. I just feel like nothing interesting goes on in my life, so I haven't had to post lately. xD I wonder if I should post here more often?

Anyways, I recently made a new character! Sort of. He's actually been a character in my mind for a long time, but he never had a face or character so much as a reference to existing. His name's Noland Strong, and you can read a short-ish profile on my charahub. (Also, I have a charahub! I don't think I'll use it often, but now that it has a searchbar I might use it more often. It's a bit difficult to find users, though...)

So. Noland. He's Stefan's ex-boyfriend from college. I don't know if I've ever talked about Stefan's backstory with you, but back in college Stefan had a girlfriend and later a boyfriend--both of which ended up breaking up with him. The point of Noland in Stefan's backstory is that he cheats on Stefan, which influences Stefan into becoming disillusioned with love for the next 8 years. I've always known that Noland exists in the back of my mind, but he never really had a name or a design or anything definite until just a couple days ago. For a while, he was a cool and mysterious foreign guy. (???!??!?! so vague!) Then he was a bi-curious generic sporty boy guy. (Why?) Now he's a kind of bashful intelligent guy with an air about him similar to Dean Johnson, which seems more like the kind of person Stefan would associate with in college. I'll talk more about him in Various Planning some other time when I scan my sketches of him.

What's useful about Noland is that I can use him for a different story I've been thinking about for a while. :V HOORAY. It's about Teacher Noland and a student of his named Chrystal/Chrys, with little to no real storyline like most of the stuff I come up with......... But I'll talk about that too when I post those pictures. The chances of me actually writing or drawing any sort of story about Noland are slim, but you know. At least it exists. 8D
I secretly like to make my real world stories connected to each other. OFAV and RB:SI/A Life LIke This are in the same universe, but in different parts of the world. Foreigner might also be in the same universe, but the fact that Kor is an alien kind of ruins the whole "real world" thing so... probably not. But anyways, an example is that I want Stefan's ex-girlfriend to appear briefly in A Life Like This (it never comes up explicitly that she dated Stefan), and I planned an OFAV-RB:SI crossover when Something Impossible goes to Europe. I think if I made Noland's story, it'd be another one of those stories in that same universe with a specific connection to OFAV. It's completely unrelated to OFAV besides Noland and Stefan's past, so idk if it really counts as a spin-off of OFAV...
But anyways, I'm rambling. I'll talk more about that in a different post.

As far as life goes, prom is next week. GUH. Idk how well I'll fare since I don't really like dancing or loudness, but hopefully I'll have fun with my friends. Aside from that, I'm almost done with the school year! :V Just final exams. AP's seemed pretty okay, except my horrendous AP Physics C test. orz I think I got a 3 on both the mechanics and E&M section. AAaaaagh. ;m; I wanted to get a 4! I've only gotten an A on one of the tests in that class this year, so I don't think I did too well. orz PHYSICS, YOU WERE SO EASY LAST YEAR. WHY WERE YOU SO HARD THIS YEAR.

And um... yeah. Graduating soon. orz I'm kind of sad, because time passes by so quickly. Hopefully college will be a good experience, though. :D;

...That's about it, I guess. Yay!
Happy Memorial Day weekend, folks! :V

New OFAV Pages

I just realized that Stefan is lying in the first page of OFAV. He claims that he's the contradiction to Tomato's statement of "everyone loves me," but in reality Stefan has a crush on Tomato, too.
Now, I could be a butt and claim that THE FORESHADOWING WAS MY INTENTION THE WHOLE TIME...! But it wasn't, that was just a coincidental choice of dialogue. At this point, I really can't remember if I was thinking about the fact that Stefan likes Tomato when I wrote that line. xD

By the way, I re-drew the first 4 pages of OFAV some months ago. I added the 1st page a while ago, and I want to add the rest of them sometime soon. So yep. Stay on the look out for that! :V Or don't, I'll probably just post when they're all up.

Just a quick update! :m I'm actually almost done with the next page, but I'm booked for the next couple weeks because of AP exams. "orz But hopefully an update isn't too far away.

...that's all.

And here's the re-drawn page, if you don't feel like going to my portfolio but still want to see it:

(Click it. :m)

Back from Florida

Mood: Energized

Hey guys! I'm back from Florida, in case you didn't gather that information from the title. I went to Universal Studios and Busch Gardens with the band and fellow orchestra students. :D I roomed with some friends with the trip, so I had a lot of fun.

I went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal Studios, too. I'm not the biggest fan, but the movies are fun to watch. :D One of my friends is a huge fan, so she was really excited. She couldn't decide what to buy at the souvenir shop. xD They were selling "butter beer" there (which I is a drink from the movies/books), but DISAPPOINTMENT: it's just cream soda with whipped cream on top. I don't think my friends had ever had cream soda before, because they were quite baffled with the flavor.

Surprisingly, I went on some roller coasters. I hate roller coasters... and it's not unusual for me to just sit and wait for an entire trip at an amusement park, the while others ride the coasters. I didn't want to be a complete party pooper this time around, though... xD I didn't want to ride anything that was more than 20 feet tall, though. ._____. The scariest roller coaster I rode was the indoor roller coaster based on The Mummy movie. WEHHH. I needed to channel my fear of roller coasters into one of my characters after that...
So now Stefan has developed an inability to ride roller coasters. Sorry Stefan.
(??? Idk, it's what I do. ;u;)

The weirdest thing about the trip was the award ceremony, though. Since it was an band/orchestra trip, we had to play a concert for it to be approved by the school. We competed against about 10 other schools. But for some reason, the band managers (who were mostly in charge of the trip) told us not to cheer loudly or scream at the award ceremony. I don't normally scream in the first place, but I know it's fun for other students to do that; it seemed like the right environment to cheer loudly, too. So I found it extremely weird that they wanted us to just sit quietly and clap. I wasn't angry so much as confused, but some of the orchestra kids were ENRAGED. They ended up cheering loudly anyway, for the orchestra director.
I think the worst thing though is now there's just going to be more conflict with the band and orchestra. ;A; I don't know why there's so much rivalry.

But anyway, we won the grand prize, yo! 8D So that's good.

And that's about all I have time to say. I need to study. :M
Oh, I'm also going away again... xD on Thursday. I'll have internet access, but I might be busy.

Have a nice day everyone! Be good, and stay safe! :)

Wow, It's a Song!

Mood: So lazy and unorganized. orz

Hey, remember that wallpaper I made last year? The one with Wakusei Aoshi's awesome artwork and the lyrics that I wrote? Yep.
Well, I recorded a portion of the song JUST FOR YOU GUYS! Or because I'm bored and avoiding homework...
So yep. Have a listen, if you were ever wondering what the tune of that song was.

WARNING:: I can't sing and my microphone is horrible.

Takara wanted to see all the lyrics, so here they are (I sang from the chorus and the first verse):

Run-down, dirty, and grey.
It's kind of sad the way you're living.
I've got nowhere else to stay,
So I can stand this way of living.

You're all the way gone--not yet.
All the way gone--not yet.
All the way gone--not yet.
Almost gone, but not yet.
Almost gone, but not yet.

Kind of ridiculously long because I DON'T KNOW WHEN TO STOP...! There are lines that annoy me which I want to change. Boo yah. I never actually finished the lyrics all the way... but I almost did! HAHAHA. Maybe one day they'll be finished................... The song is actually about Tim and his mom, not Tim and Rick. But you know. WHATEVZ!

I also have an unfinished song about Stef and Gabe lying around somewhere, but the tune is goofy and the lyrics are weird, so I don't like it as much. :V But who knows, maybe that one will surface onto theO some day, too...!

And yep. I have a picture to upload, but I don't feel like scanning right now. ;u; Sorry. I'll upload it soon, though!
Oh, and I'm going to Florida from Thursday until Monday on an orchestra trip. So... yeah. Won't be online, then. :M;

Also, my birthday's this month. ;D *hint hint*
(jk about the hint hint-ing. But it is my birthday this month.)

So. That is that, then.