25 Things You Didn't Know About My Characters

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Everyday, our characters reveal little bits and pieces of their ever forming personalities to us. There is always something to learn about your characters. Why not share with the rest of the board? Here, post a list of 25 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Characters! You may post as many lists as you’d like, but each time you do, it must equal 25. For example, I can post two lists for one of my characters, but I will end up with a total of fifty facts.

Post each fact in first person. For example, you would say "My favourite colour is orange" and not "His/Her favourite colour is orange." Other than that, same RP board rules apply.

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[Mrs Nadir Khan]

25 Facts You Didn't Know about Santiago Ortiz

1. I hate the winter because I grew up in Malaga, I’m used to sun year-round and cannot wait for summer.

2. For a little over six months, I was homeless. I was travelling, mostly, and living in inexpensive hotels and taking odd jobs until I made my way to Paris.

3. I don’t sing or play an instrument, but I learned to read music while in school.

4. I swear I’m not religious or superstitious, but I’ll cross reflexively when the situation calls for it.

5. I actually don’t hate kids. I joke that I do, but really, they are probably the only honest people in the world.

6. I do not sit with my back to doors at restaurants or bars if I can help it.

7. The hip flask I have isn’t actually mine. I took it from my father when I was sixteen. The engraving on the bottom Says “Por C con toda mi amor S”. My mother gave it to my father two years before she died. I took it to keep Papa from drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

8. I am named for my mother, Sancha. My full name is Santiago Luis Guadalupe Ortiz.

9. I haven’t set foot in a church in roughly four years.

10. I hate going to gyms because they’re impractical. I’ll go to lift weights, but if I want to run, I have to be outside, regardless of weather conditions.

11. I hate soda. No real reason, though.

12. I have never owned a car. I learned to drive Vargas’ convertible as a getaway car when we were eighteen, though… Which means speed limits have no meaning.

13. I have three tattoos and am considering getting a fourth.

14. I only started wearing my helmet consistently five months ago.

15. I prefer fish to steak, but would never admit to that while eating dinner with my male friends.

16. I have broken my nose four times—three from fights, and once because I was being stupid backstage when I was in school and got hit in the face with a pillar some other stagehands were moving.

17. I enjoy dancing because it’s a physical activity that demands passion and energy.

18. I care little for movies or television, but interrupt me during a play or soccer game, and you might as well have asked for a bullet to the brain.

19. I do not believe in gift exchanges—for Christmas, birthdays, or other holidays.

20. On average, I sleep five hours at night.

21. My favorite meal of the day is lunch and if I could, I’d take two hours off for it.

22. I don’t like blondes.

23. I think the Louvre is too sterile a place for real art. But part of that is based on bitterness for the poor reception Picasso’s work got while on display there.

24. I don’t own an iPod because I thin that it would be too much of a distraction and liability in the workroom.

25. I want to learn German so I can understand Wagner.

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25 Facts You Didn't Know About Ashton Greene

1. My favourite colour is red, but I don’t own much of it.

2. I think bubble gum is really disgusting, although chewing gum is okay, but only if it's peppermint.

3. I’m a pescatarian. No, that is not a religion. It means I don’t eat meat with the exception of fish.

4. I have a weird love for mountains. But not just any mountains. I love Mount Everest and Kilimanjaro. For my honeymoon, I wanted to climb the latter, but Damien said no.

5. My favourite domesticated animal is a cow. My favourite non-domesticated animal is is a warthog, an orangutan, second

6. I took ice skating lessons from the time I was ten to the time I was eighteen.

7. I have a fear of subways. That’s not a flattering thing to admit.

8. I am highly allergic to cats.

9. I owned a turtle once. But my sister’s boyfriend fed it yogurt and it died.

10. I absolutely love cheese. I don’t even know why, but fish and cheese are probably my favourite foods.

11. I don’t sing in the shower, but I sing in the bathtub. Very loudly. I also text in the bathtub. That’s actually where I hold most of my phone conversations.

12. I sprained my right ring finger during a piano concert. I was playing Mozart's piano sonata in G Major, K 283, Movement 1 allegro.

13. I don’t like summer. It’s my least favourite month. Winter is my favourite, and then autumn.

14. I read my horoscope.

15. I liked very physical activities. I can’t stand being bored and having lazy days.

16. I really want kids, but I don’t want to be married.

17. I have never been sailing

18. I love plane rides.

19. I love soaps of all kinds. I have several drawers full of it.

20. I don’t own a fire extinguisher. Is that bad?

21. I can’t sew. I’m rubbish at sewing.

22. I am addicted to shopping. I’m a compulsive shopper. My wardrobe loves that, my wallet hates it.

23. I really hate purse-dogs.

24. I’ve had the same cell phone since 2001.

25. I don’t like paining my nails, but everyone buys me nail polish, so I paint them all the time so I don’t feel bad about hating the gift. Sometimes, I sell it and tell the person who gave it to me that I used it all up.

[Daroga]

25 Things You Didn't Know About Jean Sauveur

1. I took piano lessons until I was 14, when I was allowed to quit because I was so bad it.

2. I was actually decent at the piano I just pretended to fail because I prefer to listen than play.

3. My mother was an accomplished chef who taught me most every thing she knew. Thus I am an excellent cook.

4. I wear a flowered apron when I cook. I say its because I don't want to get my clothes dirty. But its really because it belonged to my mother and I think of her every time I cook.

5. I worked and lived on a ship for four months when I was 16.

6. I speak four languages.

7. I've been shot three times.

8. I pray regularly.

9. My favorite movie is Casablanca.

10. I call my father every Sunday evening.

11. My favorite drink is cognac.

12. Despite being French, my father's obsession with it, and high class upbringing, I do not know and do not care a thing about wine.

13. I hate going barefoot.

14. I have a mild fear of heights. Actually its a nearly paralyzing fear of heights but I'm too stubborn to admit it even to myself.

15. I love New York City. It represents everything I despise about American "culture" (or lack there of) and yet embodies so many things I love that I sneak away there on occasion for private weekends.

16. I don't celebrate my birthday. I've never seen the need in it.

17. I can't stand sitting anywhere that my back is exposed.

18. I will never get married because I can't stand being married to anyone besides the mother of my son. But I still dream of the happy married life.

19. Even though I had no knowledge she was pregnant I had sympathy pains for my son's mother while she was pregnant. I gained 10 kilos, had morning sickness, and had weird food cravings.

20. I am frugal. I have a substantial amount of money both earn and inherited and I enjoy the finer things in life. But I can still remember living on the streets and being penny-less so I am ALWAYS aware of how much I have.

21. I am EXTREMELY self-conscience about my age. I always that tthe way I live my life I would die before I was 30. Now that I am 40 I feel old nearly every moment of every day.

22. I am a technology-whore. I do miss a simpler way of life but being on the cutting edge of technology helps me stay in touch and feel young and fascinates me at the same time.

23. I love to read spy-novels. Having lived and participated in much of the subject matter I find them more humorous than intriguing and I read them to find how they are wrong. They are a guilty pleasure for me.

24. My favorite food is capers. I have been known to buy a jar and eat them with a fork.

25. I love my son. I am a self-centered person in many ways, especially to those who do not truly know me. But there is not a minute of my day that I do not think of him. I would give or do anything for him without a moments hesitation.

[A_Single_Rose]

25 Things You Didn't Know About Jennifer Hennings

1. I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, especially when they're cut in half diagonally.

2. I jog almost everyday (usually in the early morning), but sometimes I get lazy and skip a day.

3. I had my first kiss when I was 15 on a street corner outside of Giovanni's Pizzas. The guy I kissed was 17 and his name was Tyler Duffy. It was just a quick kiss, closed mouth.

4. I cried at the end of The Notebook. I've never told anyone this.

5. My favorite song is "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones.

6. When I was about 12, I really, really wanted to become a fighter pilot, just for the fun of it.

7. I'd die for Chinese take-out.

8. My favorite words are "shenanigans" and "baboon" because they're fun to say. Go ahead. Say them.

9. Before I die, I want to travel the world and see and do a bunch of exotic stuff.

10. Porcelain dolls scare me. It's that empty, dead look in their eyes...

11. I can accurately shoot a target at 50 - 75 yards, depending on the gun. So don't piss me off.

12. I'm not sure about the whole marriage thing. Or kids. I just don't know.

13. I never believed in Santa. My mom never bothered to set up the whole Santa illusion for me. She just flat out told me he wasn't real.

14. I'll never move to Australia because of their frickin' huge spiders. Frickin'. Huge.

15. I can't play any instruments. Can't even sing. Although that doesn't mean I don't like to sing, even if my neighbors don't like it. Screw them.

16. Even though war was an awful near-death experience for me, I can't say I regret going to Iraq. God bless America. (And Ray ;) )

17. I'm not really religious, but I do believe in some sort if higher power, whatever you call it.

18. I don't like drawing with pastels. Not really into the texture.

19. I accidently hit a friend's dog when it darted into the road. Fortunately, the dog didn't die. I told my friend that some guy hit the dog and sped off without stopping. My friend believed me and still believes me.

20. My favorite drink is a gin on tonic.

21. I think that bad guy with the bleeding eye from Casino Royale is hot.

22. I hate cold and rainy weather, but I like to walk and play in snow.

23. I tried smoking in my senior year of high school. Didn't really like it, so I've never smoked since.

24. I've always wondered what it would feel like to have an acid trip or something like that.

25. I don't like my name. It's boring.

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25 Things You Didn’t Know About Rafael Lamaroux

1. My full name is Rafael John Lamaroux III. My grandfather is Raphael Lamaroux, and somewhere the spelling got changed.

2. My mother and my grandfather work at a vet office (Gramps owns it, actually), so growing up, I had so many pets! My favourite was a sheep named Nacho. I also had a parrot at one time named Stanley. I was the one who named all of the animals.

3. The only food I can make well is a PB&J sandwich.

4. I am dyslexic. That’s actually quite embarrassing. But I am.

5. I am deathly allergic to coconuts. Which is sad, because I love them.

6. I don’t drink alcohol. I haven’t in about twelve years.

7. I made up my own religion. Do I really believe in it? No. But it gets me out of doing things because they “are against my religion”.

8. I never believed in “cooties”, and I’ve never really believed in gender lines.

9. I still have my Scooby-Doo sheets from when I was a child. I took them to Iraq with me.

10. My first job was at Chuck E. Cheese. It was really fun until I had to clean up gum off the capet. I never want that kind of job again, and for a while after working there, pizza would make me sick.

11. I’m great with kids, but I don’t know if I want my own. I think I’ll be a horrible parent, but a fantastic uncle, godfather, or child wrangler.

12. I have two mothers. No, they aren’t lesbians. They are actually sisters. My parents are divorced, so my mother moved in with my dad’s father and her sister. My dad, like, fell off the face of the Earth or something, so I was raised by those three. Personally, I like my aunt more than I like my real mother, but don’t tell them.

13. I have three tattoos. One on my right shoulder, which is all abstract and Asian, one on my back, which is a chevron to commemorate my days in the military, and one somewhere on my abdomen. That one is special. It’s dated. The date is the date I was shot on.

14. I can’t sing, can’t play any instruments, but I can rap. In fact, I can rap while tap dancing.

15. The weirdest thing I’ve ever woken up in bed with was a Christmas ham. I still have no clue how it got there, but I think one of my mother’s is in on it.

16. I can open a Starbursts wrapper with my tongue. I read somewhere that that means I’m a good kisser. I’ll believe that.

17. I don’t drink coffee in the morning. Actually, I wake up in the morning a make myself a nice hot brew of hot cocoa. With a lot of marshmallows.

18. I have a sister. She’s my half sister from England. She’s amazing. I just don’t see her ever.

19. I like the smell of embalming fluid. I’m not too sure why, but I’ve always liked it. It makes me kind of sleepy.

20. I’m not scared of commitment or marriage. I’m scared of doing marriage and commitment wrong.

21. I’m kind of obsessed with Febreze. Now if only there was embalming fluid scented Febreze…

22. Before I discovered dance, I wanted to be a superhero. I still kinda do…

23. I love to surf. Surfing is extremely fun. I used to do it almost every weekend.

24. My grandfather is old enough to be a slightly-too-old dad. I don’t find this creepy, do you?

25. I want to travel the world and do EVERYTHING I can. Especially swim with penguins. Yeah. That’s high on my list.

[Mrs Nadir Khan]

25 Facts About Madeleine de Chandon

1. I regret my first kiss. It wasn’t really my choice, per se, but there’s something that makes my skin crawl when I think that my mother’s boyfriend planted a big, wet one on me while he was drunk. Maybe that’s why I usually count my second kiss – with visiting danseur, Viktor Ivanov six months later—as my first.

2. I can’t stand pork. It’s not a religious choice, I just don’t like pigs.

3. My childhood wasn’t all bad and neither was my mother. There were times Blanche was a lot of fun. She was more like an unruly older sister than a mom, though, and sometimes a mom was what I needed most.

4. I took a lot of flak for my body when I was a young ballerina. One newspaper even called me “fat”. And I guess I’m not built like most ballerinas. Most are flat as a board, poor things. And, let’s face it. I can still dance circles around the best of ‘em.

5. I had my first cigarette at thirteen. I didn’t like it. And yet, twenty years later, I’m doing this survey on my cigarette break.

6. I have never slept with a man my mother’s age or older. I refuse to because I don’t know who my father is and I don’t want to ever run the risk of finding him that way.

7. I’ve considered going blonde, but I just can’t bring myself to dye my hair.

8. I don’t want kids, but lately, when I say that, I wonder who’s going to take care of me when I’m eighty… Or at least, who will pick my nursing home.

9. I can sing, I can dance, but I can’t cook. I actually burned Christmas dinner this year and Myron had to salvage it.

10. Since I started brushing up on my Yiddish, I’ve begun wondering what actually going to college would be like. All that studying, reading, learning… I mean, if I’m not going to be in the limelight anymore, I might as well sharpen my other skills.

11. I splurge on manicures, but all my skin care is done at home. I love making my own skin products.

12. If I wasn’t a dancer and choreographer, I suppose I should have been a lawyer. Think about it. Sharp wit, good at finding loopholes, shameless flirting with interns, and a pretty sweet paycheck. But then I think about it… And have you ever met a lawyer?!? Ugh. Just… no.

13. I don’t have any tattoos. I had one on my hip until I was twenty-two. I got it when I was fifteen, just to piss off my mom, and had it removed when I got to London. It had been pure rebellion. Getting it off hurt like a mo-fo, but I’m glad I did.

14. When I was eighteen, an artist told me that I was his imagination brought to life. It was the kind of pick-up line no girl should fall for. Especially when his skills with his paintbrush weren’t all that much to brag about.

15. I love Myron, but if he thinks I’m moving out of my apartment to marry him, he’s crazy. And if he moves in with me, he better not throw out my zebra-print throw blanket. Or paint my walls. Or make fun of my dress-form art. Because my apartment is one of my proudest accomplishments. I decorated it all myself.

16. I think I might have been Cleopatra in a past life. That would rock so hard.

17. When I was eighteen, I failed my driver’s test. I think the instructor’s exact words were, “Holy sh*t!” and then “Were you trying to kill me?!?” No, I wasn’t. But for the first ten minutes, he’d been falling asleep against the window. I had to wake him up somehow… Speeding is fun!

18. My iPod is red and silver and has eight days worth of music and TV on it.

19. I want to use more pyrotechnics at the Rouge. Y’know, flamethrowers, sparklers, explosives… But we have a budget.

20. Attitude makes sexiness work. Seriously. On a good day, I could throw on a burlap sack and look hot. On a bad day, it doesn’t matter what glamming up I do… I look miserable.

21. Schedules are merely suggestions. Meeting at noon? See ya at twelve-thirty, suckers!

22. Sometimes, I consider going back to being Ballet Mistress. Other times, I think I should just be made Prima Ballerina and the Populaire can give the Ballet Mistress job to some retired, arthritic old dancer from Moscow. And other days, I look around the Rouge and go, “Well, hot damn. This is my playground!”

23. I actually went to a school run by nuns. Can you believe it? Thank God I switched to the conservatory once Maman was done with her schooling there.

24. I will never get plastic surgery, but if I did, I would be unashamed and vocal about it. Think Dolly Parton. I mean, seriously, people can tell. Why deny it?

25. Look, I’m not flippant or irreverent about life, I’m just—Okay, yeah, I am. But you know what? Life sucks. Then you die. So you might as well make it fun! And if my idea of making it fun is making fun of you… Get out of my line of fire.

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25 Things You Didn’t Know About William MaCarthy

1. I know sign language. My brother Frederick is completely deaf in one ear and slightly deaf in the other. When he was 10, we were skating and the ice broke. He and Geoff both fell in and caught pneumonia, casing Fred to lose a lot of his hearing.

2. In secondary school, I was suspended twice. Once, for eating lunch on the roof; the other for driving my motorcycle through the school. Good times.

3. My favourite band is “The Arctic Monkeys”. I just really love their music. You can’t understand the words like hell, but, I like them.

4. I am left handed.

5. I have five siblings; two sisters and three brothers. All younger. I used to have another brother; he was the twin of Frederick. But he died from pneumonia. It was nine years ago... I don't talk about it.

6. My youngest brother, Gimpy, is really named Rupert. But one summer, he fell out of tree I dared him to climb, breaking both of his legs. Ben and I teased him to know end and the name stuck. I think he even enjoys it. He startles when we call him Rupert.

7. I was born in the back seat of a car on the road while my father was driving my mum to the hospital.

8. I hate facial hair, but it makes me look suave.

9. I am deathly allergic to bees and wasps. I found this out when I was working in my father’s shed.

10. I’m a really good cook. I love my family, and I learned from my mum one way to show that love—through food.

11. I own a cat. Named Cat. It’s not that I don’t care about it; I’m just not too creative with names.

12. I’m going to get my ear pierced again. Correctly this time.

13. I don’t have any tattoos. I’ve considered them. Suggestions?

14. My favourite food isn’t really a food. I absolutely love cinnamon. I literally put it on everything.

15. I’m not exactly a sports fan. I mean, I enjoy a good rugby game as much as any man, but where I’m from, going to the pub with some friends and playing darts is entertainment. The whole family goes.

16. I hate popsicles. I do. I don’t know why.

17. I actually enjoy opera. Not only do I work where I work because I’m fantastic at what I do, but also, I secretly enjoy opera. Especially Wagner.

18. If I could have another job, I would like to draw for calendars.

19. I can’t function without a morning coffee and cigarette. Don’t speak to me until both caffeine and nicotine are in my system.

20. I like crowds of people I love, but crowds of pointless, random people, I can’t stand.

21. I have to have some sort of noise constantly. When I sleep, I have to have on the radio or else I’ll sleep in my living room and listen to the radiator.

22. I don’t know what my first job was. I don’t remember if it was babysitting or my paper route. I got them both when I was thirteen.

23. Wolves, lions, and bears are my favourite animals.

24. My favourite colour is gold.

25. I have a huge extended family. Every year is either someone’s wedding, birth, or funeral.

[Northman]

25 Facts about Valter Gottfrid

1. My favorite color is ice blue.

2. My first kiss was the girl who lived across the street in second or third grade. Her name was Lillibett. We'd been racing each other on the play ground.

3. I would say that my favorite sibling (as bad as that may sound) is my only sister Frida. She and I have been the closest of all of our siblings. My brother's names are Edvard and Christoffer.

4. My secret talents:
I can roll my tongue.
I was a master sea monster fighting viking when I was 5...in my bathtub....

5. I'm allergic to peppermint, the herb not the candy. No mojitos for me!

6. My favorite holiday is Våffeldagen (Waffle Day), March 25th. For those of you who don't celebrate, you're missing out on the best holiday of the year.

7. My favorite musician is Jens Lekman.

8. I can cook! I'm especially fond of making Swedish food.

9. I love to be in the water and under the sun. I also love the snow.

10. I work out a lot and try to eat only what's good for me granted, that isn't always easy or a successful endeavor.

11. I love football! I mean...soccer...no, football.

12. I support saving the whales, we should respect all of earth's creatures. However, no I am not a vegetarian or anything of the like.

13. The cheesiest pickup line I've ever used: "Excuse me, I think you have something in your eye....My mistake, just a sparkle."

14. I'd say my favorite ice cream is the all-American classic, Rocky Road.

15. I like my coffee black, sometimes with a little sugar. Coffee is an enormous cultural element in Sweden.

16. I'm a rare combination of early bird and night owl. I like to wake up early and get my business done but can also stay up to all hours and enjoy the night life.

17. I'm not entirely fond of hats, they don't look good on me and can tend to ruin my hair.

18. I don't really drinks soft drinks. Coffee, water and various forms of alcohol tend to be my main staples as far as drinks go. They're also listed in order of the most prevalent, I'm not a lush or anything.

19. I'm not religious...at all.

20. I really enjoy reading and have always been fascinated with Norse Mythology.

21. I love cookies...really sweets of any type.

22. I have a single tattoo (http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa463/NorthmanTruebie/gw200h290.jpg).

23. I watch the FIFA world cup every year, even though Sweden never really gets anywhere.

24. As much as I try to ignore that I have family I don't keep in touch with, I really do miss them.

25. I served for a brief time with the Swedish Marines.

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26. My full name is Valter John Istvan Gottfrid.

[Raoulsgal0689]

25 Things You Didn't Know About Reese Cordova

1. I LOVE spicy food!! I think its because my brother got the bright idea to feed me chips and salsa when I was 6 months old.

2. My favorite book is "Fahrenheit 451".

3. I went to the midnight release of the last Harry Potter book...dressed like Hermione.

4. I obsessively apply Chap-Stick every night before bed. I can't stand dry lips.

5. I believe in ghosts 100%. I'm convinced my home back in England is haunted. Not by anything dangerous though or I would have never left my mother there.

6. The one piece of jewelry that I never take off is a simple little gold cross necklace. My father gave it to me when I was born.

7. I kept my Barbie Dolls until I was 15. I didn't say I played with them. I eventually gave them to this little girl next door to have.

8. To this day I am terrified of The Wicked Witch of the West from "Wizard of Oz". And yet I love "Wicked".

9. My favorite weird food combonation is dipping Cheetos into mustard...of course I don't eat it often. Same with the spicy foods.

10. I use to have a huge crush on Nick Carter from The Backstreet Boys when I was younger.

11. My sister had her first child when I was 10. So I am only 10 years older than my niece.

12. I have 4 nieces and 3 nephews. My sister has 2 girls and a boy and my brother has 2 girls and 2 boys.

13. As a dancer I find myself really enjoying shows like "So You Think You Can Dance" and "Dancing With The Stars".

14. When I was in 9th year I had to go to summer school because I failed my math class.

15. In order to help for ballet lessons I took a job at movie theatre when I was 16. The smell of popcorn still makes me sick.

16. Honestly, I'm still a little tiny bit afraid of the dark. If I have to get up for something in the middle of the night I have to turn on my lamp before I open my eyes and I have to be back in bed and have my eyes closed again before I turn it back off.

17. The movie that makes me cry the hardest is "The Iron Giant".

18. I've actually smoked a cigarette before...it made me throw up. Never smoked another one.

19. I taught myself how to ride a bike by pushing off the picnic table in our backyard and trying not to crash!

20. I actually really enjoy Country music. I like Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts.

21. My family has actually done the math and discovered that I got lost (like, seriously lost) at least 14 times before I was 18. Probably 5 or more times after that.

22. I adore James Dean.

23. I get rediculously excited over Christmas. I'm the kind of person who sets up decorations December 1st and doesn't take them down till like mid January.

24. I like to wear Converse sneakers whenever I'm not wearing ballet slippers...they're comfortable.

25. One of my greatest dreams is to someday go to Disney Land.

[A_Single_Rose]

25 Things You Didn't Know About Evelyn Aldridge

1. My favorite song at the moment is "Hackensack" by Fountains of Wayne.

2. I am allergic to bee stings.

3. When I first moved to New York, I bought a cat. One day, it ran outside and it never came back. I was quite depressed for several days.

4. One of my greatest pet peeves is plagiarism. It's lazy, disreputable, and creates too much controversy, especially when you work for one of the most read newspapers in the United States.

5. When I was 15, I had a dream of becoming a famous mystery writer with a large house. An enormous wing would have been devoted to books in the style of a 19th century personal library.

6. Sometimes, I feel guilty when I date. It is irrational, I know, since Jonathan has been dead almost four years, but the feeling is there nevertheless. This is why I don't date very often.

7. I dislike many of the men on the New York Times board of directors. As cliche as it may sound, they are pompous pigs.

8. There are times when I wish I wasn't Editor-in-Chief. I should have chosen a less stressful path.

9. I love stress - and yet I despise it. The relationship is complicated.

10. I take my coffee black.

11. I might maintain that I dislike skirts and dresses because they feel constricting... But I can't help feeling like a girl sometimes and absolutely adoring wearing skirts and dresses. A woman needs to feel pretty once in a while.

12. In the lower desk drawer in my New York office, I have a picture of my family in the days when we were whole. I refer to it rarely.

13. My favorite drink is a flavorful, whispy red wine.

14. I have had episodes of insomnia. It's quite frustrating.

15. I have contemplated suicide more than once - sometimes in jest, mostly in seriousness. Thank God I've talked myself out of it so far.

16. When I was younger, I was slightly embarrassed about the fact that I was "half white" and "half Chinese." I remember being teased by a caucasian boy in 3rd grade. I bursted into tears.

17. Rooftops are a favorite location of mine. Looking out across a city and into the horizon can be very soothing.

18. My phone almost never leaves my side. However, I am courteous. I won't pull it out in the midst of a conversation with someone else. That is another one of my pet peeves.

19. No matter how confident I try or appear to be, there are times when I feel self-conscious about my appearance and my reputation. I am human, not a machine.

20. I dislike romantic comedies. There are very few decent ones. All the rest have tired out, predictable, unsatisfyingly unrealistic plotlines.

21. I am a closet alcoholic, but I never let it interfere with my job.

22. I have always wanted a dog, but I've never gotten around to getting one.

23. Even though my life is hectic and I have little time even for myself, I very sorrowfully wish I had children.

24. One of my favorite novels is Atonement by Ian McEwan.

25. The end of The Notebook didn't make me cry.

[witch]

25 Things You Didn't Know About Cara Blaze Andovea

1) I was born on a Wednesday
2) I Was born in the year of the monkey
3) I am a Capricorn
4) My fav colour is pink
5) I love the Winter
6) My fav flower are lilies
7) I love chocolate
8) Once upon a time my fav holiday was Christmas though now I'm not so sure.
9) I HATE V'day (need I say why?)
10) I love the number 16
11) Though I'd never say it I love the fairy tail that seems to most reflect my life. It happens to be an old fav of mine: Beauty and the Beast
12) My fav pass time once was drawing. It then changed to spending time with my family and friends but now it's riding my horse.
13) I hate my back though I do love the heart on my shoulder (at least what it means)
14) My fav article of clothing is my locket and it always shall be
15) My greatest desire is to find true love (which I thought I had)
16) My greatest fear has already become true.
17) My fav time is midnight
18) I love the full moon
19) Though people say it to tease me I do live in a world of dreams
20) When I was younger I studied the world of 'magic' it was how I knew abut runes and such and maybe the reason why I truly believe Mark has an 'evil side'
21) I secretly hate being called 'innocent.'
22) I fear what will happen to my children if something happens to me. Even when Mark was still around.
23) Sometimes I believe everyone was right when they said I shouldn't have married Mark.
24) I still have dreams about a man I once met awhile ago. For my own sake (and his) I won't say who.
25) I am mostly blind in my left eye.

[LaSeine]

1. When I was little I read The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. I couldn't sleep for a week, and still have nightmares about it now and then.

2. I have been known to burn water.

3. My favorite "food" is hotdogs. All good French people may hang their heads in shame now.

4. I have a stuffed hippo that I've had since I was six. His name is Monsieur Popotam. Yes, I named a hippo "Mr. Hippo."

5. I learned to cuss when I was eight years old, backstage during one of my mother's performances, from one of the stagehands. God bless that man.

6. I can hold a (rather grammatically incorrect) conversation in German. Great language for yelling in.

7. Wet paint is my least favorite smell in the world.

8. My favorite book of all time is The Princess Bride. Damn good movie, too.

9. My favorite movie is Bram Stoker's Drakula, though the old Godzilla movies have a special place in my heart.

10. I read Victor Hugo's Les Miserables cover-to-cover and liked it.

11. When I was very little, I was terrified of horses.

12. Nails on a chalkboard is the sound of my personal Hell.

13. While Les Mis will always have a place in my heart, my favorite musical will always be Cabaret.

14. My arms and legs are covered with tiny scars from when my cat, Hugo, was a kitten.

15. Speaking of Hugo, all the dogs in the neighborhood are terrified of him.

16. In 9th grade, I shaved my head. Something about non-conformity and being an individual and the like. I honestly can't remember my reasoning.

17. Once a year I try to visit Oscar Wilde's grave, read some of his poems, and leave flowers if I can.

18. I'm something of a master at arcade crane machines.

19. I have read all of the Harry Potter books, and even attended a couple midnight releases. They were fun.

20. I'd quite like to get married one day, but I'm fairly sure that the man who would put up with me doesn't exist. Besides, I'd be a horrible wife.

21. When I first joined the Paris Opera, I was actually a little worried about running into the ghost. Now I'm a bit disappointed that I haven't, yet.

22. I saw each of the Lord of the Rings movies twice while they were still in theaters.

23. My favorite drink is mint tea with honey. I have a special mug for it at home and everything.

24. I've carried a can of mace in my purse since I was ten. It's more of out of habit now than actual fear.

25. I've actually had the privilege of using "a homeless man stole my backpack" as an honest excuse for not having my homework.

[Daroga]

25 Things You Didn’t Know About Pieter Lachen

1. I love bratwurst, kartoffelsalat, German chocolate cake and all of the rich foods my mother used to make. I eat them rarely because professionally I know that it is ridiculously unhealthy and personally I know that once I start I can’t stop.

2. I took steroids regularly from the time I was 13 until I was 16. Knowing what I do now I am utterly not proud of this fact. But at the time they were given to me by my Coach and asking questions was not an option.

3. I sometimes fear my own strength. I laugh most things off not only because after all I’ve seen in life so few things seem as dire as they do to most people, but also because I’m honestly afraid of what I might be capable of if I were to allow myself to get too angry.

4. I am very self-conscious about my size sometimes. I understand that everyone has those moments when they wish they could “just disappear”. That is almost literally impossible for me. I am, of course, used to it by now. But that doesn’t mean I’m not more than averagely aware of the way I stick out in most crowds.

5. I cannot cook to save my life. The microwave is the only appliance in my kitchen that ever sees any use.

6. I always wished that I had had a brother or sister. My mother and her brothers were so close that it made me envious.

7. I have been engaged three times. The first time I was 16. It was a relationship “encouraged” by the authorities of the Sportvereinigung. She was a gymnast named Svetlana. Basically I realized later that my first love was little more than a PR stunt that I was unwittingly a party to. I thought I loved her, but the day I “left” East Germany she publicly denounced me.

8. The second time I asked a woman to marry me was Clara, who met in medical school. She and I spilt amicably when she realized that I wasn’t going to stop doing the things I did for underground movements in the Cold War. We still exchange Christmas cards every year.

9. My third fiancé, and the standard by which I unwittingly judge all relationships, was Lena. She was an art thief. She specialized in art stolen by Nazis during WWII. I met her through my Uncle’s black market connections. She was killed during a heist three months before we were supposed to be married.

10. I know nothing of art except what Lena and my best friend have taught me. When I acquired a little bit of wealth (and with some help of family and friends) I purchased legally the piece of art Lena died trying to steal and donated it back to the family it was originally taken from. Two years ago the old woman, who was a child during WWII, passed away and left it to me in her will. It hangs on my bedroom wall.

11. I always thought I would have loved to be a father. But the thought terrifies me as well. I never had the traditional father figure in my life. The closest I’ve ever had is my godson, which is perhaps why I spoil him so much.

12. Though I was a teenager when I met my Uncles for the first time I consider myself “raised” by them. They were very varied role models. Warrin, with his wife Eva, let me live with them in Hamburg. He was an accountant and also ran numbers for my Uncle Günter. Günter was a rough and tumble bachelor in Berlin who had his fingers in any illegal activity he get them into. My Uncle Steffen, who resides in Munich, was an artist and part time forger who still lives happily with his partner of thirty years, Klaus.

13. I sometimes still deeply regret that I never had the chance to compete in the Olympics. Almost forty years later I still wonder if I really could have won gold.

14. I didn’t become a doctor because of some righteous desire to save lives. I went into medicine at first because of my fascination in anatomy from my years of weight training and wanted to learn the physiology behind all of the muscle groups and such that I had spent most of my life to that point obsessing about. (The desire to save lives came later.)

15. On the rare occasion I get to take a vacation I like going someplace cold. Keep the beach. I prefer snow, a ski lodge, a roaring fire, a hot beverage, and a good book.

16. I love sport. But watching it on the television makes me restless and want to move so I never watch it for very long.

17. The only ornament on my mantle is a hunk of concrete splattered with spray paint. It is a piece of the Berlin Wall that I ripped out with my own hands as students tore it down with sledgehammers.

18. To this day I’m not entirely sure how but I managed to cross in and out of East Germany three times during my med school days without being caught or recognized.

19. I am ambidextrous. But what they say about doctors is unfortunately true in my case and though my handwriting is only slightly better with my right hand, they are both fairly illegible.

20. I have never in my life owned a car. I’ve always lived in large enough cities that I didn’t need one to get around or known people who would loan me theirs.

21. Though I’ve never owned a car I do have a fascination with motorbikes. My Uncle Gunther had one when I was 21 that I used to take on long drives through the country to clear my head. There’s something about the speed and open air that is intoxicating.

22. I can’t stand wine. Especially “dry red”. Who wants to drink a beverage that makes your mouth more dry than before you took a sip? Give me a beer any day.

23. In school I was required to learn two languages besides my native German and one of them had to be English. I chose French for the other. But I also speak Russian, a side effect of my coaches in East Germany. I use it very rarely as it conjures more than a few bad memories.

24. Before my mother died I took her 13 times to the Opera. Sometimes we travelled for hours just to find one we hadn’t seen already. She taught me the appreciation of the art and I’m happy to say I filled her final days with as much of it as I humanly could.

25. My mother taught me a love and appreciation of Opera. My best friend taught me the joy of jazz. My godson showed me the glory of classic rock. But my favorite kind of guilty pleasure music is 80’s rap and hard rock. Big hair bands. Anything with a hard thumping beat. It was the first sort of music I discovered after I left East Germany and it remains a perpetual favorite.