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There were a great many things she could be doing at such a timely time as this time.  She could be doing homework, scribbling in her journal, or perhaps drawing on the walls.  She could be reading or studying, or maybe even organizing her army.  Instead, Palace was sitting by the lake, feeding her Squid.  Well.  Perhaps the Squid didn't technically belong to her, but she certainly didn't let that stop her.  Little by little, she pulled bits of left-over breakfast out of her pocket and tossed the foodages out onto the lake.  Mostly bread and muffins, of course.  She hadn't thought to burgle any meat-type-items for the Giant Squid, or else she might have made quite a mess.

Peacefully, she sat cross-legged by the water and watched for any response from the Squid.  She always thought it funny that he never came to eat when she brought food for him.  Or maybe it was a she?  Tilting her head to one side, platinum blonde bangs falling into gray-blue eyes, she thought about that for a time, before stifling a yawn with her sweater sleeve.  Things would get done, of course.  Those important things she should be treating more importantly than she was...just...later.

Thank you for the welcome!  ^_^

You know, I've never read DearS, but I work in a book store and the covers I see are really really pretty.  I like Love Hina a lot--Su is my favorite.  :3  Ah! Megami-sama was actually one of the first anime series I'd ever seen and fallen in love with.  And *lalala* Hunter Robin is just cool.  :D

My favorite manga (at the moment) is Fruits Basket (well, I am a girl... ^^;), though I'm a big old-school fan of Here is Greenwood (also a shoujo series)(the Greenwood anime was right up there in the first anime series I'd ever watched and I scrounged to get my hands on the manga, even though back when I was doing this, it wasn't translated. ^^;;)  Oh!  I like FullMetal Alchemist too!  :D  And Tokyo Mew Mew and Eva, though I haven't read/seen any Naruto yet.  <--really needs to get on the ball. xD  Excel Saga is an amazing manga/series, too...amazingly psychotic, but amazing!  ^.^

Still, though it's been years and it was an OAV only, my very favorite anime is Vampire Hunter D.  I'm ecstatic that they came out with the books, so now I can read about all the cool stuff I didn't understand in the original movie and in the newer movie, Bloodlust.  (The book is wildly different than the movie--it's pretty neat. :3 )  Although, One Piece (manga and anime) comes in a close second!  *squishes Sanzo!!!*  I love Sanzo~  :3 

I really need to get back to playing on Lethal Shadows...  ^.^;  My posting activity died when work ate my soul, but now that they've eased up on me I've actually had my computer time again!  Wooo!  I'll sign up!  :D

And...  L-O-L!!!  *diiiiiiiies!*  S'ok, though.  Cuz, you know.  I'm not naturally blonde, but I think the blonde dye ocassionally gets shifty and seeps into my brain.  xD 

Hello!  Nice to meet everyone!  I'm Ruka.  I play Palace Gaytes.  ^_^

I like RP-ing (obviously), drawing, writing, making dolls, messing around with graphics programs, watching Flash cartoons, playing video games (currently I've just finished FFX and am back to playing FFX-2, which I'd started without ever even playing FFX...which was why I went back and finished the first game, because it's pretty confusing when you don't know the back history! lol!), reading (Harry Potter--again...obviously... xD  I also like Neil Gaiman, Rumiko Takahashi, Max Allan Collins, David Eddings, Mercedes Lackey and lots of others), aaaaand...stuuuff...  xD  I like anime and manga, too.  Anyone have a favorite series?  :3

Uhm!  That's all for now, really.  I just wanted to introduce myself!  ^_^

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It wouldn't let me post the whole thing in one post, so I split it up...

Power:  She doesn't really have any special powers or anything like that, aside from being a witch.  The most I can say is that her charisma is through the roof.  She's a very likable person, and not in the "omgVEELAiloveyou!!" way, either.  She just enjoys spending time with people, even if she doesn't always know what to say or what to do and that fact just radiates from her.  Animals and bugs tend to like her...maybe that's a power?  Bug power?  (Driver's Note: Some power! bah ha ha!! xD)
History:  Palace Gaytes is the daughter of Corinth Gaytes and Illustria Courtessian-Gaytes. Corinth was a strapping young lad from a relatively well-off American wizarding family. He left his beloved home and family for a holiday in England where he fell in love with Illustria. Illustria was the daughter of Ophelia Courtessian, a rich widow from a long line of mentally unsound witches and wizards. For many years the Gaytes House was set in England, but had left a couple generations ago to escape the madness that plagued their bloodline. That left the Courtessian House and the Bloodgood House to mingle with one another. The gene pool tends to get a bit shallow under such circumstances and many who know the history of the families believe that there's a sort of mania therein that takes the men well before their time and makes their women pretty creepy. The Gaytes House became more stable for having left England to marry into other pureblood houses. As a result, Corinth is actually a fairly balanced individual, though granted, with a poor sense of priorities.

He married Illustria and moved in with her. Shortly afterwards, they were blessed with their first child. Something wasn't quite right with Palace's mother. After a long series of odd events, she ran off with the baby and left her husband to wonder as to where she had ended up. She moved back in with her mother–Palace's grandmother, Ophelia. Years later, Illustria died. Palace hasn't heard from her father since it all happened. She's somewhat bitter about his absence in her life, but she doesn't let that get in the way of having a somewhat normal relationship with him, (even though she now has brothers and isn't quite sure what to make of that, since her father got remarried to a Muggle woman.  The fact that the woman is a muggle doesn't really bother her that much–she's a Hufflepuff, so I suppose it really wouldn't–but rather that he remarried without inviting her to the wedding–that's what upsets her and she brings it up every single time she sees him.)  More than anything, she yearns for some semblance of a"family" in her life, because that's something she hasn't really had before.

In the years that followed her mother's untimely passing, Palace barely ever left the estate. Her grandmother thought that everyone in the world was crazy and so she must never leave the safe sanity of the mansion (nevermind that Ophelia herself wasn't completely mentally healthy). This made making friends very difficult for Palace. The only friend she ever really had was Ilex, her cousin from the Bloodgood House that occasionally came with her mother to spend the day with Grandma Ophelia. She was a seemingly sweet and intelligent girl who was much wiser in the ways of the world than Palace. Palace found herself hanging on the girl's every word about the outside world. She learned a lot about the way things worked and how witches and wizards were supposed to behave, although she tried not to internalize her cousin's closed-minded view on the world. Something about hating someone just because they haven't married their cousins didn't sit right with her. Illex's mother taught Palace how to read and write–she saw it as her Auntly-Duty, seeing as how Ophelia obviously wasn't making a move to educate the girl. Palace's Aunt encouraged her to do lots of reading, because the more she knew, the better prepared to deal with the world she would be. Palace took this to mean read everything she could get her hands on and even now has a bad habit of just picking up books and magazines and running off to read them, regardless of current ownership. In the process, she found some of her mother's old Hogwarts things and read through all the old books and notes she could find (which wasn't much, mind you. Her mother had been something of a slacker...) She found herself daydreaming about Hogwarts and what it must be like to see more than three other people at any given time--the thought made her slightly uneasy.

Life at the school still makes her pretty uneasy, though she's slowly getting better about it.  She's more willing to talk to people now, though that's largely thanks to having "The RipperSquad", (her so-called "army"–-they get uniforms!),  which is just an elaborate game for the kids involved in it. Except for the "Helping Those In Need" part–-that's the only thing she takes seriously. Thanks to some great herbal nerve-easing teas, (she learned about them in Herbology!), she's calmer now, though she dislikes having to rely on special teas to get her through life. Having friends will really help her pull through, although she'd still be pretty...well...odd. Something will eventually have to be done about her strange sugar addiction, but not any time soon.

Okay!  So that's Palace.  She's extremely friendly, so if you see her in a thread, feel free to send your characters off to say "hi"!  ^_^  Hope I get to meet everyone soon!

~~Ruka

[Name:]

Name:  Palace Corinthine-Ophelia Gaytes
(She goes by "Palace" or "LadyGeneral" for the most part. She doesn't really care what people choose to call her.)
AGE:  15
Height:  5'6"
Appearance:  Her hair is platinum blond and short-cropped, looking very much like she chopped it off herself. Her gray-blue eyes sometimes hide behind a pair of silver-framed glasses, though she only seems to wear them to read.

She's rather tall for her age and rail thin. She's only just hit puberty and she can't seem to figure out what exactly is going on with her body. She's going through some changes and unfortunately, Palace doesn't handle "change" very well.  Her limbs are long and lean. Her skin is pale...too pale, mostly because she decided to hide inside the castle for most of her time at Hogwarts. She has been spending more time outside lately and as a result, her paleness is fading into something much less sickly.

For the most part, she continues to feel more comfortable in boys clothes, though you can catch her in a skirt every now and again when she's feeling particularly quirky. She is ill-equipped for dealing with teasing, so far as her looks are concerned. She knows she looks a little strange, but then again most kids her age look strange, so she tries not to think about it much. Even so, she's very touchy about the subject and often tends to ramble on about it in her journal. Concerning clothes, she tends to favor black, different shades of blue and certain shades of teal. It's very rare to see her wearing jewelry of any kind, but when you do, it's generally in silver. Her ears are pierced once, though she doesn't tend to wear earrings unless they're simple silver hoops.
RACE:  human Pureblood  
Parents:  Corinth Gaytes and Illustria Courtessian-Gaytes
Personality:  She has a pleasantly twitchy personality most of the time. She rarely takes little daily dramas very seriously, though she often ends up in the middle of them for reasons beyond her own comprehension. The only time she gets too deeply immersed in such things is when her friends are involved...which ends up being a pretty dangerous situation.  She would be the first to jump in and break up potential fights–she would also be the first to throw a punch if you happen to be attacking someone she holds dear.  Violence is something that deeply troubles her in general, but it bothers her even more when she is the one engaging in it. It takes a lot to anger her to the point where she'll consider using physical violence upon someone. Unless you're tossing her friends around. She doesn't take things like that very well.

Palace feels very determined to prove her worth to people and isn't content with "second best" in anything that she does. If she's going to do it, she needs for it to be done correctly and ideally, better than anyone else. She works very hard to come out on top. If you need something done and done well, she's the one you want to talk to about it. She would do a lot of things that she normally wouldn't dream of doing to come through for someone she considers to be a friend.

When it comes to friendship, she tries to be very supportive, though often falls short of her goal. People and emotions are very foreign concepts to her. She's viciously loyal. She's bright, determined and a very dangerous enemy if you are ever foolish enough to push her that far. Once she establishes a grudge against someone, (generally someone who is a jerk to a friend of hers), she isn't likely to let it go any time soon, unless serious demands are met. She isn't willing to just sit back and watch other people be pushed around–something in her just can't watch it happen.

Her weak points tend to be/involve people.  She was cooped up out in the countryside before coming to school, (where there really wasn't much of anyone to get to know), so she really doesn't know how to handle people very well. She tries and is getting a lot better about it, but often she finds it mentally and emotionally exhausting to figure people out. As a result, her first reaction is to avoid people when and where she can, though she just can't say "no" to someone in need of help. Even so, she will just meander off when she's done dealing with people at any given moment, whether or not it's the best time for it. Her patience in that respect needs improvement...

Her moods tend to be very unstable. Sometimes when she's in a crowded room, she'll start to feel as though she's being suffocated and will seek the closest exit, or pass-out trying. Those fits started years ago and she thinks they could be some form of anxiety attack, but she'd rather not think about it too much. Recently, she has finally gotten help for this mild problem and possibly may have even developed an interest in mediwitches as a result. (I'm not sure of that–still working on what she may want to do with her life.)

She often goes from one extreme to the next--either she's calm and socialable or she's falling to pieces somewhere alone. There's rarely a middle-ground with her. She'd get better if she'd confide in people, but that's something that doesn't come very easily to her. She doesn't trust people--even people she considers to be friends. She doesn't tell them anything about her innermost thoughts and feelings--if she can help it. Sometimes she just blurts things out without thinking, though that isn't very often. Her pain is her own and she doesn't see how sharing it can possibly make things any better for anyone. She doesn't quite understand yet that sometimes just talking things through with someone can make all the difference.

She's over-confident. She thinks she can handle everything herself and just doesn't see how very wrong she is. She tends to try to do too much too fast and gets burnt-out. She needs to take it easy every once in awhile, but it doesn't look like she's slowing down any time soon...  Lately, she's been trying to form an army--mainly because she likes the uniforms she designed for this "army" of hers and thinks it'd be fun to prance around the school in them.  (Driver's Note: Like I said...she takes on too much too fast...  If anyone's characters are interested in joining her little "squad", just let me know and we can work it out.  To her, it's just playing dress-up, saving caterpillars, and hanging out and stuff.  Nothing dangerous--hopefully. xD)
Likes:  Palace likes tea, squashy chairs, insects, warm fires, autumn leaves, people who don't crowd her space, staying up late, SUGAR (and candy in general), Muffins, bagels, trying to form an army, giving presents and nice, quiet, alone time.
Dislikes:  She can't stand someone who feels the need to pick on others smaller than them, classes she's not good at, family gatherings, being alone when she wants people to be near, waking up in the morning, sharing a room, not getting a spell right and falling out of the trees she likes to climb.