Sender: Bellerophon
Subject: Re: No Subject
You can choose to believe what you like. That's the beauty of making your own decisions, isn't it? Your opinions are eternally your own, regardless of what other people tell you about themselves, the world, or yourself.
Although being too bull-headed about it isn't particularly good either. That's how you get those weird conspiracy theorists who think that school teachers are in the pockets of Big Orb and that the Earth is actually flat.
In any case, my parents have decades of work experience in their fields, but I wouldn't consider them famous. Still, they are successful - you just wouldn't recognize their names without an online lookup. Or perhaps you might, if you're into animated movies? My father is a decently well-known anime director, though he sticks to movies rather than the episodic format, and he used to do a lot more work back in the day. He's grown a little disillusioned with the current industry and has chosen to only work with studios that don't work their animators to half-death and can actually prove it.
As you might imagine, in the modern animation industry, that's difficult.
(My parents are very pro-union. I love my family, honestly.)
In any case, I don't live with them and I provide for myself, so I would consider myself independent.
I know Japanese and English natively, and I have learned German, French, Italian and Spanish. As I said, I'm working on a seventh - that would be Mandarin Chinese. I can already read passably, but don't ask me to speak it yet!
As for my purpose in playing this game... The World is distantly based on the Epitaph of Twilight by Emma Wieland - a somewhat obscure epic poem that was used as a basis for the prototype of this game, Fragment, and the remnants of which purportedly remain in this game to this day: namely, the Lost Grounds, as an example. Wieland's site was ostensibly copy-protected, so the poem doesn't survive in full to this day - all we have is chunks and fan translations.
But more to the point, it is a poem for which a series of fairly successful MMOs has been created. Isn't that amazing? A poem inspiring something of this scale...
I want to figure out more about the original poem, in interests of studying what made it so inspiring for the game's creators, and seeing if I can replicate that particular magic in my own work. That's about it.
A little dorky, I know.