The Introduction Thread

[Hazel]

Seppuku on Wiktionary.

[jolt]

Hi, I feel like I'm walking into one very strange conversation, but my name's Jolt.

Hi.

*akward pause*

So I'm from ellysiansails.googlepages.com/home. Going back now. Pretend I wasn't here.

*scurries away*

[owl]

Hm. Come back, jolt! Your home page is a 404. I'm sure you'll want to rectify this mistake?

[Myrani]

No problemo, just take the end period out of the URL and we are cruising. ;D

[jolt]

Thankyou Myrani, for anyone who didn;t catch that it should be

ellysiansails.googlepages.com/

[fiverrabbit]

[shadow=red,left,300]Hello everybody.[/shadow]

Nicknames: 'Fiver' is good.

Gender: Male.

Age: 20

Height/Weight: 5' 5" & 130

Favorite Games: Infinity Engine games, like Baldur's Gate.

Favorite GC character: definitely Gamma!

Favorite sport: well bicycles are nice I suppose

Favorite Book: Haha "Pick your favorite child." Em, there's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents and The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett, The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, anything by Amy Tan, anything by Patricia C. Wrede, ah and Watership Down is good . Oh, erm, if mangas are allowed then I suppose anything by Kiyohiko Azuma.

About yourslef: I suppose I'm another quiet person with their nose in a book, but inside is thinking up a storm.

Nice to meet everybody...

[spritznar]

*jumps on the bandwagon late*

Real Name: ...

Nicknames: spritz, while online

Age: 20

Height: 5'4"ish

Weight: 130-135ish (we don't actually own a scale)

Gender: female, occasionally mistaken for male

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): cinch (and anyone who knows what that is can probably narrow my location down to a 20 mile radius), cranium, does D&D count as a board game?, yatzee, mario cart and twisted metal when i can get a hold of a gamesystem, riven, freecell,...

Favorite Court character: kat

Favorite sport(s): swimming, badmiton, baseball without the scorekeeping :-P

Favorite movie(s): monty python and the holy grail, snatch, everafter, the parent trap, ...

Favorite book(s): the hitchhiker's "trilogy", most anything by mercedes lackey or julie anne peters, animorphs, the westing game, i'm gonna stop now...

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: um, i have very little life so i spend most of my time reading about or watching fictional lives. well, that didn't sound too pathetic.
i went to a very challenging college for 3 semesters before dropping/flunking out and am currently in a sort of no-mans land while i try to figure out what i want to do next.
i also enjoy learning strange talents that have no real purpose such as minor juggling and writing backwards.

[nikita]

Age: 20

Height: 1.79m
Weight: 70kg
Gender: male

Favorite Games: cod4
Favorite Court character: Boxbot! I can't decide... Kat, Annie or Reynardine, they're just all fascinating.
Favorite sport(s): Ju-Jutsu (a self-defense system derived from jiu-jiutsu, judo, karate and various other martial arts)
Favorite movie(s): LOTR
Favorite book(s): The Nightwatch tetralogy
Favourite Music: popular band

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: I'm studying computer science in Leipzig. I like drawing, programming and cg art in general.

[Ed130]

Real Name: Hate it

Nicknames: Alex, Ed, Eddie, Mr Hood and Eskimo

Age: 18

Height:160+cm

Weight: 55 kg

Gender: Male

Favorite Games:Diablo, Starcraft, Warhammer 40k

Favorite Court character: Robot

Favorite sport(s):Soccer

Favorite movie(s): anything Sci-fi or fantasy

Favorite book(s): Anything by Terry Prachett and Asimov

A little about myself: I live in New Zealand and found Gunnerkrigg Court from The Crimson Dark, www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic
Like to create Civilizations in my head and I wear a hood

[Ptollu Vux]

Real Name: I'll pass.

Nicknames: None yet, haven't used this alias on the nets before.

Age: 15

Height: 5'9" (.5)

Weight: 125lbs.

Gender: Male

Favorite Games: Guild Wars primarily, among other popular console games such as SSBB, Halo 2, etc. Also Dance Dance Revolution.

Favorite Court character: Tough one.. Reynardine's snarkiness is charming, but Annie's blunt comments are pretty humorous.. I'll go with Rey.

Favorite sport(s): Meh. Football, loosely.

Favorite movie(s): Spaceballs, PotC, Newsies, Dodgeball, and the Matrix, just for the immersiveness of the film. I always feel like running up the wall after watching it... Time to take Judo?

Favorite book(s): Anything by Brian Jacques (Redwall series & Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series), White Fang, Dragons in our Midst/Oracles of Fire series.

A little about myself: Do you really care about some stranger across the interwebs?

[Wark]

Real Name: Dan Schmidt. Part of me didn't want to post it, but it has less to do with fear of creepy stalkers and more to do with the fact that I never, ever go by my real name on the internet. It's posted here for curiosity only.

Nicknames: Wark mostly.

Age: 22 (getting to the point where I'm older than most of the internet )

Height: 5'7"ish

Weight: 160ish lbs.

Gender: Dude

Favorite Games: Uhh... lots. Guitar Hero series, Castlevania series, Disgaea 2, Magic: The Gathering, Fluxx, and many, many more.

Favorite Court character: Coyote amuses me so far... don't know how much of a recurring character he will be.

Favorite sport(s): None, really. Typical geek response.

Favorite movie(s): Shawshank Redemption, Dogma, Paprika. among others.

Favorite book(s): Stardust used to be my favorite up until my last reading of it, but now I'm not really sure.

A little about myself: I have a tendency to join webcomic communities when the webcomic they represent is REALLY AWESOME. So, uhh, here I am.

Besides that, I'm just kinda some guy, you know?

[tmechanic]

Well I guess as the newest member I should introduce myself.

First off, I don't usually write in to these forums, but I've been enjoying the comic for a few years now and I just wanted to support it with a donation and tell you how much I'm enjoying it.

My name's Brian

I'm from WI, and I approve this comic.

[polindsay]

Real Name: Lindsay

Nicknames: Polindsay (which comes in insanely handy as a screen name. I've never been to a site where it was already taken)

Age: 20

Height: 5'4"

Weight: waiting....waiting

Gender: female

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Tetris. Psychonauts, Grand Theft Auto (When I saw the GTA comic I was dying!)

Favorite Court character: I see a lot of myself in Kat, minus the being good at science part

Favorite movie(s): It's a very long list.

About me: I found out about this comic last night and I read every single one before I fell asleep at about 1 in the morning. I was groggy for work, but it was totally worth it. What drew me it was the storylines and the visuals (which are absolutely gorgeous, Tom) and the twisted little jokes at exactly the right moments.

[Monkey Roids]

'Ello 'ello 'ello. Thought I'd make a nice introduction about myself.

Real name: Nick Edwards

Nicknames: Nick, as far as I know

Age: 17

Height: 6'5" (for real)

Weight: No idea

Gender: Male

Favourite Games: Hrmmm, so many to choose from.. Bioshock, Half Life 2, Starcraft, Battlefield 2142, Wii Sports and MARIO KART 64

Favourite Court Character: Mr. Donlan - Gotta love those glasses

Favourite Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Battle Royale (any of the Asia Extreme films I guess)

Favourite Books: Overtaken - Alexei Sayle, Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt, any Terry Pratchett book

Other jazz about me: I'm a history man, really into Russian and Middle Eastern history. I also enjoy a good cup of tea with some biscuits. Oh yeah, just like Polindsay I just found out about this comic last night (and read all the strips until early morning), which is pretty awesome.

[Aspen d'Grey]

Merry meetings and many welcomes to all the new people! Thanks for showing up, more people make abetter forum. ^^

[Tenjen]

AH greetings. I noticed this while looking around.

Iam Tenjen Kouken, Love of arts and bizzare intellectual with a penchant for wandering about the nature of existance all the damn time.

Iam about 20 years old, love in the UAE and dont really have a specific race since i have direct ancestory from 5 to 6 different races.

Iam about 6'2'' and male. I like anything that appeals to my nature, i dont let pre judgements get in the way. Same goes for everything else in my life.

My Real name is Shaun Albert Stump.

I enjoy many persuits. Sports like Badminton, rugby and wrestling with my girlfriend are my Fav. And ya the way we have fun together wrestling on bed, it definately should be a sport.

My animal spirit is a lynx. Or totem is you so prefer.

Iam a sensualist. Doesnt matter if its suffering or pleasure i love it all. But Steph's inability to avoid hurting her favourite toy almost every day is not something i enjoy.

You'd think being a confidante to so many people would help me keep my own secrets...

[fr4tbrn]

Real Name: Sorry, not going to share

Nicknames: Banana, Reege, Clay, and on rare occasions, La.

Age: 14

Height: 5 feet even, I'm short for my age.

Weight: 462.6 Newtons : )

Gender: Female

Favorite Games: Video Games: Super Smash Bros., Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass, Animal Crossing Wild World, Pokemon Pearl. And for board games... Apples to Apples, hands down : )

Favorite Court character: I'd have to say Kat or Mort.

Favorite sport(s): volleyball. But I suck.

Favorite movie(s): Howl's Moving Castle, Whisper of the Heart, And Now for Something Completely Different,

Favorite book(s): Don't really have a favorite, but I like Artemis Fowl, Catch-22, and Things Fall Apart... yeah, not much in common.

Favourite Music: Anything Damon Albarn has ever uttered! And Carlos Santana, Emilie Simon (who I found out through a GC thread... love her song "Annie" : )

'bout me: I love drawing quite a bit. My deviantart: gateaunoir.deviantart.com. ('m working on some GC fanart, haven't finished yet) While I love drawing, I also like the performing arts, singing and acting. Erm... I study French, it's my best subject in school. I'm a tea addict, I drink 2-4 cups a day of peppermint tea. I have one pet: a dog, Pembroke Welsh Corgi. My favorite colors are a tie between bright orange, blood red, lavender, silver, and spring green. I have an abnormally large thumb in proportion to the rest of my hand. (If I put it next to my index finger, it goes a bit past the middle knuckle) Nobody else in the family has a large thumb.

And I've already got my friends annoyed with my GC addiction

[cenit]

Hi everyone

Real Name: Julian Arce

Nicknames: None that makes anysense in english. When I lived in the US it was just "J".

Age: 23 years old

Height: 175 cm according to my passport

Weight: 85 kg (that's like...170 lbs I think)

Gender: Man

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Playstation=Final Fantasy!!!!
Computer: Starcraft, Warcraft, Age of Empires, Civilization, and now WOW. And for my everlasting shame (as someone else said it too)....Harvest Moon.
Other: D&D

Favorite Court character: Ties bewteen Annie and Kat.

Favorite sport(s): Swimming and Aikido Iwama Ryu (japanesse martial art)

Favorite movie(s): Not very movie person...LOTR, Harry Potter's, Amelie, Monty Pithon, and lots more that I don't (and don't care) to remember

Favorite book(s): A LOT. To signal some of what I ha read in your introductions...I like Asimov, the Harry Potters, LOTR, Les Miserables. Other, Stephen King, The Prince (by Machiavelli), Daniel Defoe....and lots of sci-fi.

Favorite Music: Lots....classical stuff, jazz, rock, rock in spanish, metal, goth and power metal.

Finally, tell us a little about yourself:
I'm psychologist fresh from college. Working right now in a consultant firm. I'm crazy for Anime/Manga, literature and history. You can say that I'm a nerd, but also enjoy to waste lots of time doing fun activities...so that makes me weird nerd??? (I am doomed, I knew it)
Not that much into web-comics or communities...started when my brother showed me Questionable Content...jump there to Dr Mcninja, and triple jump to Dresden Codak, Minus and Rice Boy. Found out about GC last year, spend two days reading it whole and loved it.

This is the only forum-community-web*thingie where I post anything

[cenit]

Some have said where they lived...that was missing in the original post

I live in Colombia, South America.

[another]

Hello. realised I've been registered for a little while and didn't introduce myself.

Real Name: Ah now, that would give the whole game away early.

Nicknames: First time using the alias another, so I dont have "another" nickname.... oh the humour.

Age: 19

Height: 6(.1?) feet

Weight: 12.5 stone?

Gender: Male

Location: UK

Favorite Games: Monopoly, Articulate, Poker, cards

Video Games: The legend of Zelda, Goldeneye, Mario, Starfox (most things Nintendo since I was like 5.)

Favorite Court character: Kat, she make me laugh.

Favorite sport(s): Badminton, ultimate frisby, Tennis, surfing.

Fav movie(s): Equilibrium, Crouching Tiger, Bourne Identity, Bulletproof monk, Serenity

Fav TV show(s): Family guy, 24, Spooks, Top gear, Neibs, Tudors, Scrubs and many many more.

Fav book(s): Dark Materials Trilogy (Northen lights/Subtle knife/Amber Spyglass), Labyrinth, Garden of beasts, most things tolkein

Favourite Music: Jimmy eat world, postal service, Muse, Bloc Party, Brand new, Levellers, Scorpions, and a load of other things but they are the top bands that spring to mind, a very diverse mix.

'bout me: I am a design student studying at an english uni. I draw as part of my course, but have never thought of doing webcomic so all respects too Tom. I did do a guest comic for a random, not very well know comic once though. When I draw outside of my course I draw things mainly for myself. Other than that I've been told I'm out going and up for a laugh.

[audrey]

Hi everyone! I discovered the comic this week and went through the entire archives in a couple of days! I love it!

Here's some info on me!

Real Name: Audrey

Age: 23 years old

Gender: Woman

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): I'm not much of a gamer, i keep falling in the holes in the old versions on Mario Bros on the old nintendos! I'm really bad I do like board games though, most of them!

Favorite Court character: Antimony

Favorite movie(s): Hard Candy, Clockwork Orange, the perfume, August Rush, L'orphelinat, Pan's Labyrinth, A series of unfortunate events, and all sorts of weird and not so weird movies

Favorite book(s): I'm a big fan of Stephen King, and Patrick Senecal (a quebec author who writes amazing horror novels), Some of Anne Rice's novels, and all my comic books (yes, i'm a bit of a geek, althought not that much )

Finally, tell us a little about yourself:
I'm also from Montreal, Quebec. I'm a translator (english to french, and no i don't speak any other languages ), and i don't know what else to say!

Nice to meet everyone!

[willjermin]

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[alya1989262]

Hi! =)

Real Name: Alya

Age: 19 years old (well, almost)

Height: 158 cm (5'1" ?)

Weight: 50 kg (around 105 lbs.)

Gender: Female

Favorite Games: Well, I love the Sims 2, so that wastes a lot of my time, and I also play Pharaoh, Midtown Madness 2 and Diner Dash 2. Oh, and I love all computer pinball games.

Favorite Court character: I'd have to say Antimony and Eglamore. They're the most compelling and intriguing.

Favorite movie(s): Amelie, the Hours, Dead Poets' Society, Dancer in the Dark, the Incredibles, Yellow Submarine...

Favorite book(s): Harry Potter and LOTR figure somewhere on that list, but I'd have to list Camus' works, Baudelaire's works, and a whole bunch of books (mostly poetry) by French writers frist. So, not going there.

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: I'm Egyptian, and I live in my hometown, Cairo. I study French literature at Cairo University, and sometimes work part-time as a webdev. I have a fascination with all kinds of arts (including literature) and probably want to work in the local cultural field once I graduate. I'm very irritable and the fastest way to fire me up is to exhibit extreme ignorance towards my culture. I think that's all you need to know for now.

[Tenjen]

Ah yes i forgot to include a few more points of interest.

Iam interested in Stephen King and many other books, anything that appeals to me [as i mentioned].

I'd have to say Kat is my favourite, though i do quite like Annie. Rare for me to like the main charectors.

Movies...they pretty much come and go.

Favourite games? hmm WoW takes up a lot of my time. You might see me making off hand references to it.

O and alya, what about people who are ignorant but show interest in finding out more about your culture?

[alya1989262]

Tenjen: I don't mind at all. It's the 'ZOMG all Arabs are terrorists' variety that grates on my nerves. But I wouldn't mind answering any question you might have about Egypt (as long as you don't ask me if I ride a camel to school... )

[cookiethief]

I'll most likely end up as just a lurker, but I figured I'd fill this out anyway.

Name: Becca.

Gender: Female.

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Bomberman, Kirby, Zeldas, Final Fantasies, Kingdom Hearts, Soul Calibers, Dynasty Warriors, Tekkens, Portal, DDR. I love playing cards, but can rarely find anyone to play with me.

Favorite Court character: Reynardine! He's so cheeky.

Favorite sport(s): Wii sports! Just kidding, I'm a dancer (not that kind), otherwise I tend to stay immobile.

Favorite movie(s): The Lion King, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Labyrinth, Pan's Labyrinth, The Fifth Element, Joe's Apartment, Dragonheart, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Memento, LOTR, POTC, musicals, comedies/parodies, and most movies involving dancing. I'm also still in love with the Animaniacs.

Favorite book(s): Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, anything by Piers Anthony, Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth Adventures, John Moore's books, Cornelia Funke's Inkworld, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, and others I can't name off the top of my head.

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: I'm a Eurasian mutt. My family moves every three or four years, so I've spent most of my childhood overseas, in Japan and China. I've been dancing since I was four. I like to write, and delude myself into thinking I have talent. What else?

[Tenjen]

Ooooo sounds like like girlfriend!

She's eurasian too, russian/german father and japanese/chinese mom. She's moved around all her life too due to her dads job. His job is quite a stereotype, or so she says. He's a security consultant [more to do with armed combat and emergency security situations]. She's multi lingual but couldnt dance well even if my life were at stake.

We're like two of the same nails hammered together into a shatterproof glass pane.

she'll probably read this at some time since i told her about the comic. Hope i put her in good enough light.

[cenit]

alya1989262 said:

Tenjen: I don't mind at all. It's the 'ZOMG all Arabs are terrorists' variety that grates on my nerves. But I wouldn't mind answering any question you might have about Egypt (as long as you don't ask me if I ride a camel to school... )

LAUGHING ON LINE, I tought you might be referring to that, when I live in the States I got so angry when people asked me if there were gorillas near my home... and they didn't seem to understand when I told them that they're thinking of the wrong CONTINENT

[alya1989262]

Dude, you, like, have forests. That's where gorillas live, right? Also, you all walk around topless all the time.

Someone once actually asked me if I lived in a pyramid. Now, apart from the teeny weeny fact that pyramids fell out of use over 3000 years ago, I had to point out they were actually used as tombs. I mean, sheesh.

[pulvissolaris]

Real Name: Ben

Nicknames: Benny

Age: 23

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 190 pounds

Gender: Male

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Puerto Rico, GTA: Vice City (sorry Annie!), Caylus

Favorite Court character: Kat

Favorite sport(s): Running, Ju-Jitsu, aerobics, hiking

Favorite movie(s): Dr. Strangelove, Persepolis, Star Wars

Favorite book(s): Anything by Thomas Mann or Franz Kafka

Finally, tell us a little about yourself:
I am half-German, half-Austrian, all scientist