Name: Lufia Metallium (you didn't honestly think I was going to give you my real name, did you?)
Age: early 20s
Homebase: I flit between northern VA and Hampton Roads, VA
Profession: Teacher in northern VA
Nicknames: Naru, Lufia, Kat, Chica
Titles: Self-Proclaimed Xelloss no Miko, Co-Crawford no Miko, Keeper of Brad's Evil Glasses (TM), Keeper of the Flood of Chibi-Farfies
SO: yep, my ashke-chan. We've been together three years and counting. Plan on making it permanent when we're both done with schooling.
Hobbies: webpage, reading, writing, drawing, anime, WWRPGs, theatre
Places I hang: SBC, Jersey's Comics and Cards (Sunday is Anime Club!), the Dark Muffin house, the Wave (every so often on Fri. nights)
How in the heck did you come up with Lufia? --Lufia is the name of a character in an online novel, Wildflowers, by Naru and Pitzy. Lufia was one of Zoicite's four sisters. I thought it was pretty. Also, in Old English, the verb "to love" is "lufian." Turn it into a noun and feminize it and hi! Turns out, there's a game named after me! Well, the game came out before I took up the moniker, but I didn't find out about it until this summer. The character of Lufia in the game even has blue hair! Yare yare.
Fields of study: Imperial Rome, Latin language, Ancient Greek language, modern Japanese (self-teaching, so very slow going).
Anime-Relavent Blobs
Otaku? --Yes, sir!
Cons attended: Nekocon Flash!, Anime Mid-Atlantic 2002, Otakon 2002, Nekocon Victory!, Katsucon 2003, Madicon 2003 (lil' ol' sci-fi con at JMU), Anime Mid-Atlantic 2003, Nekocon 2003, Katsucon 2004
Cons anticipated: AMA4, Otakon '04, Madicon '04
Cosplay? --I'm a Dark Muffin, aren't I? I've done most of the cosplays so far. First one was "In the Beginning," an Angel Sanctuary cosplay. Second was "Bloodlust Gone Wrong," which featured the main characters from Bloodlust, plus a few guest characters. Third was "Bloodlust," our dramatized version of the new D movie. Then came "SM: Evolution," aka SMR in a nutshell, followed by SM: Classic (guess), and SMSuperS?, which was the funny one. Most recently did "Naruto Ninja Rap" at Neko '03, and Sailor Stars at Katsu 04.
Costumes: Uriel from Angel Sanctuary, Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon, Kanae from Utena, Caroline from Bloodlust, Prince Diamond from Sailormoon, Queen Beryl from Sailormoon, Hawk's Eye from Sailormoon, Sasuke from Naruto, Super Sailoruranus from Sailor Moon
Future Costumes: improvements to Beryl (need a new wig!!!), MAYBE a Hokuto costume (she has such cute outfits!), Hogwarts Slytherin House uniform, Lisa from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Kaitou St. Tail (for my sister, but I'm making it!)
Favorites:
Anime: Slayers, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Weiss Kreuz, Yu Yu Hakusho, Excel Saga, Great Teacher Onizuka
Manga: Marmalade Boy, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing: Episode Zero
Television: Doctor Who, The Tomorrow People (70s and 90s versions), Smallville, Changing Rooms, House Invaders, Iron Chef, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, House Doctor
Sports: Sumo wrestling, NCAA/ACC Basketball (Go Demon Deacons!)
Books: Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey, Eloise by Kay Thompson
Movies: Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, Harry Potter, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, But I'm a Cheerleader, X-Men, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Comic Books: Marvel Comic's Excalibur (I have the full run!!!)
English-language music acts: Meatloaf, Savage Garden, ABBA, Evanescence
Japanese-language music acts: Malice Mizer, Gackt Job, Do As Infinity, X-Japan
Celebrities: Mana-sama (Malice Mizer), Camui Gackt (Gackt Job, Malice Mizer), Hikari Ono (BSSM Musicals), Saitou Rei (BSSM Musicals, Utena Musical), Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen (Interior designer, Changing Rooms), John Levene (Sgt. Benton from Doctor Who), Johnny Depp (Jack Sparrow *swoon*), the Queer Eye
Romantic Pairings:
Naru and Nephrite: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Trowa and Quatre: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Zelgadiss and Amelia: Slayers
Clark Kent and Lex Luthor: Smallville
Utena and Anshii: Shoujo Kakumei Utena
Juri-Ruka-Shiori: Shoujo Kakumei Utena
Mikage and Mamiya: Shoujo Kakumei Utena
Haruka and Michiru: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Kurama and Hiei: Yu Yu Hakusho
Crawford and Schuldich: Weiss Kreuz
Shinji and Kaworu: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Touya and Yukito: Card Captor Sakura
Subaru and Kamui: X/1999
Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom: Excalibur
Nightcrawler and Amanda Sefton: Excalibur
Willow and Tara: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Spike and Snake: Degrassi: the Next Generation
Clockwise from top left: My favorite Trickster Priest, Xelloss! Me in my Uriel costume during our AS cosplay. No, that's not my real hair, it's a nappy old wig, and it was icky! Ah, my other favorite bishounen, the elusive Bradley Crawford. The fire-angel represents Folken-sama, my best friend in the whole world. The happy rainbow girl is my typical demeanor. The goth girl is how I want to be: demure, good fashion sense, etc. I love Lolita Goth, and If I had the money, I'd be a happy genki goth chick. It also represents my ashke, who is very graceful and sweet. She'd be a happy genki goth too.
