Name: Nadare
Nicknames: Hikaru, Rydia, Hilda
Birth year: 1984
Astrological Sign: Sagittarius
Chinese Astrology Sign: Wood Rat
Martial Status: Single
Occupation: None at the moment (Graduated High School as of 6/8/03)
E-mail (s): [email protected], [email protected]
Located: Michigan, USA
Interests: History, anime, manga, yuri/shoujo ai, yaoi/shounen ai, writing, foreign languages and cultures, reading, HTML, poetry, horror films (old and new), and mythology.

Influences (on writing): Laurell K. Hamilton, John Saul, Marjorie B. Kellogg, Mercedes Lackey, Anne Rice, William Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien, Elizabeth Haydon, Kim Harrison

Likes: Pocky, cats, Asian cuisine, dragons, hanging out amongst close friends, books of the fantasy genre, cold hard cash, fire, rock music, Streets of Rage 2, thunderstorms, Batz Maru, freaking other people out

Dislikes: children, dishonest people, crowds, close-minded individuals, math, bad grammar, headaches, waiting, the forever oblivious (aka ignorance), and winter

Favorite
Books: A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens), The Merchant of Venice/Hamlet (William Shakespeare), The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), Burnt Offerings (Laurell K. Hamilton), Symphony of Ages (Elizabeth Haydon), Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice), Brother to Dragon, Companion to Owls (Jane Lindskold), The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars (Steven Brust)

Musical Artists: Lifehouse, K's Choice/Sarah Bettens, Linkin Park, VAST, The Counting Crows, Matchbox Twenty, Our Lady Peace, Gackt, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Kanno Yoko, Tsuneo Imahori, The Rasmus

TV Shows: Family Guy, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Friday the 13th: The Series, The Twilight Zone, Witchblade, Hogan's Heroes, The Invisible Man, and The Outer Limits

Movies: Peter Jackson's Lord of The Rings trilogy, Fight Club, Snatch, Memento, Equilibrium, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Ravenous, The Last Unicorn, Flight of the Dragons, Moon Child, Benny and Joon, Unbreakable, The Last Samurai

Anime: Rurouni Kenshin OAVs, Cowboy Bebop, Ai No Kusabi, 3x3 Eyes, Jin-Roh, Gravitation, Boogiepop Phantom, Fruits Basket, Mirage of Blaze, One Piece, Last Exile, Wolf's Rain, Saiyuki, X, Scryed, Full Metal Alchemist

Manga Series: Fake, Kizuna, Clover, Parasyte, 3x3 Eyes, Island (Korean manwha), Berserk, Afuresou na Pool, Love Mode, Yami no Matsuei, Wild Adapter, Saiyuki Gaiden, Stigma, One Piece

Mangaka: Minekura Kazuya, Ishihara Satoru, Naono Bohra, Uchida Kaoru, Ichinomiya Shihan, Kodaka Kazuma, Koide Mieko, Matoh Sanami, Shimizu Yuki, Oda Eiichiro, Takashima Kazusa, CLAMP, Miura Kentaro, Ayano Yamane