About

Name: Dev
Gender: Female
Birthday: October 23
Age: 22
Zodiac Sign: Libra/Scorpio cusp
Height: 5′7″
Blood Type: ?
Weapon: Words
Limit Break: Harangue

I’ve had a classical education in video games, which has given me a deep love for old games from back when good graphics meant the game had graphics. Text adventures, point-and-click adventures, snes and sega games, and as time goes on, old PSOne games (although back then it was called the psx) – most of my favorite games are older than I am. Don’t get me wrong, I have a PS3 sitting beautifully on my tv stand and I love it unconditionally, but there was a time when the biggest thing a game had going for it was its story and characters, not its gorgeously rendered scenery, and these stories made the games timeless. Well written old games are forever, they are my diamonds.
I got my first game console, the snes, when I was six. I’ve never looked back to a life without video games since. I will write about them here often.

Staying true to geek culture, I also fell in love with anime at an early age, too young to even know what anime was or to notice a difference from American cartoons. Of course, as I grew older and came to appreciate deeper stories than what Johnny Bravo had to offer (although I still loved Johnny), I learned how exactly anime was different, and in due time sought it out intentionally, in Japanese with subtitles – the only way to watch it (and then, only if you can’t understand Japanese without subtitles).

And really, these passions stem from my greatest love of all: a true love of stories. Whether through book or game or show, I immerse myself completely into the stories that catch my interest, and often times I stay there for years after I’ve placed the medium in which they were told on a special shelf in my room. The stories become a part of my life and a part of who I am -  my perspective, my style, my choices are altered, even if only slightly, because of something I have learned or taken from these stories – a new empathy for other people, a new understanding for what choices might be made, an aspiration to be the kind of person I admired in a story I experienced. I’ve always been highly imaginative, and stories, my own and the ones I’m lucky enough to have found or have given to me, make up my world, and it’s absolutely amazing. I adore it and I hope to find and experience so many more stories that affect me this way.

The most important thing you have learned from all of this is that I’m long-winded.