Yes, this is a shameless plug, but once you see it you'll agree that it's worth it.

You need to go look at this portrait:
Pretty good even in the thumbnail, but the real treat is in the full-view. Zoom in, look closely, and TELL me that THAT does not blow your mind away.

_{By the way, the portrait is entered in this contest, if you care to vote for it. <.<;}

So I'm 19 now. Yay. ^^

Just thought I'd let you all know.

_{P.S: I asked a technical person of great power to fiddle with my faulty note system so hopefully that will be fixed soon.}

...'Cause I need to procrastinate actually DOING things on this list by writing a list about them.

Important and practical things:
---Pack my room
---LOOK FOR SCHOLARSHIPS.
---Study Spanish
---Stock up on necesities for the school year

Less urgent stuff I want to do and will try to wedge into my free time:
---Get to work of my reading list, including three Dean Koontz books I still haven't cracked.
---finish character ref. project (gonna take FOR EVAH.D: )
---TRY to reply to all NINE running RPs. (OHGOD)
---Draw my half of an art trade with ~Rikki-the-Great <3
---Edit last year's NaNoWriMo
---write more of my BIG story
---Read Tressa's manuscript

Stuff to do for this gallery:
---Start on all thirteen various fanart projects
---Finish half-started projects and commissions from ages ago
---fill in more memes
---start more new projects in photomanipulation
---start new projects in photoshop coloring and new art

Name: Kasondra Jun Xiang (“Kaz,” – usually goes by this; “Sondra” – only to really close/old friends)
Pronunciation: kah-SAWN-druh JOON SHONG
Meaning: “Kasondra” from Casondra – “not to be believed;” Jun – “the truth;” Xiang – “to soar.”
Orientation: ambiguous
Species: human
Age: (varies with the rp - from 14 to 18)
Build: very petite, skinny as a rail, and shapeless to a point where her gender is questionable to strangers.
Height: 5’2”
Skin: pale tan
Eyes: big; almond-shaped; very dark green
Hair(Color/Length/Style): black; short, a few inches below her ears; kind of stuck out everywhere.
Markings: a small dragonfly tattoo on her right ankle and a thin, serpentine dragon tattoo up her back, with its head curling a little over her left shoulder and onto the base of her neck, directed toward her ear as if trying to tell her something. Its tail twists around her right hip.
Extra: not very feminine at all; just extremely androgynous. She could easily pass as a younger boy, and often does, because she considers it easier than trying to make people take her seriously as a girl.
Scent: lemon grass, oregano, and spearmint

Clothing: loose, black pants with ties at the waist and each ankle; prefers oriental silk shirts, but can never afford them anymore and usually ruins the ones she steals, so she ends up wearing the same old oversized, zippered hoodie in a dirty, faded shade of olive green(it’s durable, waterproof on the outside and has lasted her YEARS, despite her efforts to destroy it); under the hoodie is nothing but athletic bandages acting as a crude sports-bra-ish-thing(which also serves to flatten what little curve she has and complete the male charade); she also wears more athletic bandages around her fists, forearms and ankles, but not her feet. (This is because she is attempting to toughen her soles to the point where she’ll never again need shoes. She has been doing it for four years now, since her last pair of shoes met their demise, and so far all she’s gotten are sore, dirty feet with frequent blisters. But she keeps trying.)
Weapons: she owns no weapons and has never been trained in fighting. She improvises. She picks up whatever nearest her can be used as a weapon and attempts to do some kind of damage with it. If no weapon is available, she uses what little kung-fu(etc.) she has picked up from the movies. Biting is usually her most effective tactic. She has pretty strong jaws. **Also, though she usually doesn’t think of using this when fighting, she knows all the pressure points on the human body fairly well and could use them to her advantage in a desperate situation. (see history for reasons)
Occupation: con-artist; thief, on-and-off stage actress

Family:
 Mother: Heather Murphy-Jun Xiang; deceased
 Father: Qian Jun Xiang
Friends: --to be determined--
Foes: authority figures, anyone she accidentally pisses off
Relationship Status: single; wouldn't say no to a relationship, but she honestly doesn't beleive anyone would ever be interested in her, so she isn't really looking either.

Likes: wealth, coin tricks, climbing stuff, fooling people, kiwis, seafood, silk clothing, making up (bad) haiku, singing loudly(though not necessarily nicely), rhyming, daydreaming, stealing things, sunsets, stars, stories, weird things/people.
Dislikes: restrictions, getting caught, red meat, not being taken seriously, being poor, psychiatrists( “quacks” ), having her real thoughts exposed, mysteries or secrets she can’t figure out, following orders(unless there’s something in it for her), feeling watched.
Skills: slight-of-hand, acupuncture, dodging and running away, climbing anything, balancing, freerunning(that running up walls and leaping across buildings thing), lying/acting, making people believe she’s a terrible liar(thus making her serious lies all the more believable), crying/sweating at will, recognizing other liars(usually).
Weaknesses: she can’t aim very well when throwing things, she is clueless when it comes to real fighting, she never learned how to swim, and she’s attracted to people who are both smart and powerful(which really isn’t good for her, because stupid powerful people are easier to rip off).
Phobias: dying poor. Mind control. Alien probes.

Personality: extremely curious, mostly carefree, usually friendly, bold, outgoing, boyish, competitive, creative, crafty, slightly manipulative, a little bit greedy, a little bit selfish, for the most part untrusting, compulsive liar, kleptomaniac, kind of amoral, a little paranoid of unlikely things(such as mind reading, hypnosis, subliminal messages, and aliens)…

History:
Kasondra was born in upper-middle class China. Her mother is an immigrant from Wales; her father runs a family business of chiropractics, acupuncture and meditation. Her father, Qian, always wanted a boy and seemed to resent that Kaz was female. She therefore tired to convince him in every way that she was as good as any boy, and eventually got him to begin teaching her the ways of the family business. When she was 12-13, her mother got pregnant again and it was confirmed that this time it was a boy. Tragically though, Kaz’s mother took ill and died before she could deliver. Consumed by grief and rage, Qian somehow came to the conclusion that it was all Kaz’s fault, and he kicked Kasondra out of the house, disowning her. Since then she has lived on her own, on the streets, stealing and conning to get ahead in the world, and traveling wherever her whimsy takes her.

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For my RP with ~RayneofAshferd and ~JokersPet, I am making a few changes:
**She is 16 years old
**She has some magical ability dealing with the elment of electricity. It's sporadic, though, and she can't always control it.
**She's not from China, she's from...whatever made-up country we're playing in. XD

I think that may be it; I'll update you on any changes.

This is just temporary until I can get it into the correst format and submit it into my gallery.
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Character Name: Adrian Shayne Charming
(a.k.a. "Prince" Charming)

Age: 18

Physical Description: Adrian is short for a boy at only 5'5", with a light, slim build. He has a fair complexion with only a few light freckles from the sun. His hair is straight and blonde, cut with long bangs so it covers his ears but barely brushes the back of his neck. His eyes are a dark, chocolaty brown. He's very good-looking.
When not in uniform(goes to a private boarding school), Adrian prefers casual clothes - usually just a T-shirt or tank top and jeans, unless he's dressing up for something specific.
Adrian can almost always be seen with a smile on his face.

Personality: Adrian is an easygoing, flirtatious and good-natured guy with a love for music and outdoor activities. He is friendly and energetic with a huge sense of humor and likes to mess with people. He doesn't do it to be mean; he just enjoys confusing people.
Adrian is a really physical person. This doesn't mean he's a pervert, it just means that he considers physical contact a very casual thing. For example, hugging people, patting on the back, resting heads on shoulders, ruffling people's hair...it's all quite automatic for him, and sometimes he has to control himself around his friends who are less...touchy-feely. It's just the most natural way he knows how to express himself.
He is very attractive, and he knows it, but he's not at all vain - on the contrary, he sees it as a bit of a nuisance. He had earned the name "Prince Charming" in his middle school and due to his interesting surname, the label caught on at his boarding school as well.
Orientation: bisexual
Relationship Status: single
Romantic Mindset: He gets a lot of attention from girls. He can be a huge flirt, but he usually likes going after the hard-to-get types best. Since he's bisexual, his targets include boys as well - whether they're straight or not. He actually prefers boys, to be honest, although girls are easiest to get through to. He usually only flirts a lot with girls. Though he can be really silly by nature, when he has a crush on a boy he gets uncharacteristically shy, and won't be quite as over-the-top as usual. He only gets flirty again once he’s comfortable enough and confidant enough to do so.
With girls, he likes the kinds that really stick out from the crowd: bold, interesting, and of course hard-to-get, or else it would just be too easy. When going after girls, Adrian only gets more and more persistent and outgoing. Adrian's taste in boys is a bit different. When he's with a guy, he is always the more submissive one in a relationship. Therefore he likes demanding, more aggressive guys. He has kind of a thing for the bad-boy type, but he won't admit it.

~~Other~~
Adrian is sort of a jock when it comes to boarding sports (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, etc)…And by “jock” I mean “enthusiast,” not “thick-headed tough guy.” He doesn't have the build for most other sports, and was delighted to find one variety he excelled at. He smuggles his skateboard past his parents every year and finds some free time at school in which to practice. He isn't the greatest, but he isn't bad either. Soccer is the only team sport he’s really obsessed with. He tried basketball once and liked it well enough, but decided it wasn’t for him when everyone else began to get taller than he was. Other than that, he likes any outdoor physical activity, like hiking, rafting and cliff-climbing.

He also likes to sing, and has a rather exceptional singing voice, but he keeps that fact to himself most of the time. He has a bad case of stage fright - though he's trying to cure it - and doesn't like signing in front of people he doesn't know.

Likes: skateboarding, surfing, drawing, swimming, singing, flirting, teasing friends, being outside.
Dislikes: shellfish, coulliflour, being ignored, and too much silence.
Weakness: Adrian can't bear singing in front of groups or strangers. He also can't help flirting so much; he's done it so long that it's in his nature now, and it's hard for him to stop. Despite this, he tends to get tongue-tied and awkward around guys he likes.
Favorite Animal: all kinds of canines
Favotire color: blue

Family:
Father – Franklin Charming
Moth er – Natalie Charming
Pet – male Akita named Loki

History:
Adrian was born to Natalie Charming and her husband, the mildly wealthy psychiatrist Frank Charming. Although they were financially upper-class, they did not spend extravagantly and lived in a nice smallish house in a regular neighborhood. Adrian was never spoiled and grew up in a relatively normal way. He was home-schooled in his first few years, then sent to a elementary/middle school near their house. When he hit eighth grade, his parents sent him to a prestigious, private boarding school; the same school his father had attended. While most children would have been dismayed and uncertain in a strange environment so far from home, Adrian got over his initial uncertainty in a matter or hours and tried to make the best of things.
Adrian was a good student, not perfect, but good enough to be untroubled by homework most of the time. In his first three years, he found it easy to make plenty of friends at school. He was also a huge flirt, as he had always been. However, he was never really that into it anymore, to be honest. It was in the middle of his third year that he began to suspect that this was because he liked boys better than girls. He had acted gay before just to confuse people, but everyone else had always taken it as the joke that it was. Now he wasn't so sure it was an act anymore, or that it had ever been.