Hey y'all, name's Nick!

Age: 24 (Great, almost halfway done with my 20s...)

Gender: Male (don't think I've heard of a female Nick... yet)

Hobbies: Almost anything involving the outdoors (especially snowboarding), writing (poetry, stories, music, whatever comes to mind), drawing (if you can call it that -.-), playing music (one man band style, piano, guitar, bass guitar, vocals, drums, NOW THE OCARINA!!!... yea I have a lot of time on my hands), and... VIDEO GAMES!!! XD

Favorite video games:

Legend of Zelda (First game I ever played and first I ever became a fan of!!! Greatest game series ever! Twilight Princess is my favorite, though BotW is starting to earn my favor...)

Kingdom Hearts (Why did it take me so long to put this on here! Well, at least it took less time than Kingdom Hearts 3, SHOTS!)

Mass Effect (Love the story line and choices. Loved Mass Effect 3 and I support its ending (back off haters) RIP Shepherd... Andromeda is pretty good, sucked me in.)

Persona Series (Love 4, 3 was kinda of hit and miss, but 5 was by far the best!)

League of Legends (Welcome to the pit of toxicity that is MOBA gaming...)

Dragon Age (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Inquisition! I highly recommend it!)

Fire Emblem (first game was Path of Radiance, but never finished. Played Awakening several times and am in love with the JRPG turn-based strategy series now. Played Fates, but wasn't quite as good as Awakening, looking forward to Echoes)

Valkyria Chronicles (Holy shit. That's all I have to say. Such a great game! Love the story and the gameplay so much I went directly to a second playthrough. That means I thought it was really, really good!)

Pokemon (Gotta catch 'em all!)

Elder Scrolls (Skyrim was good, but Oblivion is better)

Telltale's Walking Dead games (any Telltale game actually)

Life is Strange (Beautiful story, so beautiful. Artwork, music, everything in this game is brilliant!)

The Sims 3 (not 4, fuck that sequel and quite honestly fuck EA)

Almost any zombie game (especially the Resident Evil series)

and probably others that I can't think of right now

OTPs (one per game/anime/whatever):

LinkxIlia (Twilight Princess)

LinkxMalon (Ocarina of Time; counts as a different game)

LinkxZelda (Skyward Sword)

LinkxMipha (BotW... don't look at me like that!)

RoxasxNamine (Kingdom Hearts)

Corrin(M)xScarlet (Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright and Revelation)

Corrin(F)xSilas (Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest)

RobinxCordelia (Fire Emblem Awakening)

ShepardxMiranda (Mass Effect)

RyderxVetra (Mass Effect: Andromeda)

WardenxLeliana (Dragon Age: Origins)

HawkexMerrill (Dragon Age 2)

InquisitorxCassandra (Dragon Age Inquisition; yeah, I know I don't have very favorable pairings)

MinatoxChihiro (Persona 3; it's cute, dammit!)

SoujixMarie (Persona 4; yes, another non-popular one)

AkiraxMakoto (Persona 5; finally a fan favorite! And a hard decision between her and Haru)

YasuoxRiven (League of Legends)

EthanxKris (Pokemon Gold and Silver)

KaminarixJirou (My Hero Academia)

LeoxWhite (Blood Blockade Battlefront)

KoseixKaori (Your Lie in April, teared up just writing this...)

AstaxNoelle (Black Clover)

Top 5 TV shows: Scrubs, Terra Nova, Ed, Edd n' Eddy, Archer, Falling Skies

Top 5 Anime: Gurren Lagann (so feelsy... I'll admit, I cried), Blood Blockade Battlefront, Black Clover, Samurai Champloo, My Hero Academia

Top 5 Movies: Boondock Saints, Zombieland, Inglorious Bastards, Deadpool, Django Unchained

Top 5 Bands: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coheed and Cambria, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, System of a Down

Top 5 Songs: Older Chests, Peace to the Mountain, Restart, Little Motel, Don't Forget Me

Top 5 Books: A Farewell to Arms, Red Rising (this has basically become my Harry Potter, I recommend everyone to read this book!), The Sun Also Rises, Ready Player One, Too Like the Lightning

Favorite Authors: Ernest Hemingway and Pierce Brown

Writing Playlist: A lot of video game tracks, mostly in the Legend of Zelda, Dragon Age (especially the tavern songs from Inquisition), Persona, Kingdom Hearts, and Mass Effect realm. Restart by Ozma has also become a track that I will almost always play on repeat when I'm writing, same with the entire album catalogue from Coheed and Cambria.

Completed Projects:

- True Bonds Never Break: This, I consider, to be my break through story, which garnered minor attention in the small Illink fanbase located on this website (for some reason, people hate her and Link together. PHOOEY, I say). It's very mushy-gushy and all fluff, little to no adventure in it. But, I needed to start somewhere, write? Hah, get it? "Write"? That was a typo at first, but punny! Okay... I'm done now... Also, to the fans who favorited, followed, reviewed, and just plain out read the story, thank you! Without that love, I probably wouldn't have continued writing fanficitons like I do now! I mean, come on, that story has so many grammar issues and mistakes, a lot of "was"s, too. So, through that story, I have definitely improved. Again, thanks for all the love this short story received!

On-Hold Projects:

- Time's Never Expendable: So, Ekko has turned into one of my favorite champs from League of Legends! Love his character design and with what little lore Rito gave on him, I think it needs to be expanded. From there I thought that I could actually make a compelling and interesting fic starring him and and Lux. Don't know if I will be shipping those two yet or not. Hey, why not? Either that, or Jinx. People ship Ez and Lux, so that may have to happen, but this is also my fic so I can do whatever I want! Yay for free speech! Anyways, these are probably gonna be short chapters compared to what I write for my other stories. Just figured they'd be better that way. Maybe that'll make for faster updates? Who knows! It isn't cancelled just yet, as I still want to transform this into a full-on story at some point and in order to do that I need to write this fully as a fic first. So, not working on it for now, but may return to it sometime in the future.

Cancelled Projects:

- As Twilight Travels: This story was a sequel and in-between-quel to True Bonds Never Break. It goes into Twyla's adventure, which I mentioned in this story's predecessor. I though my second attempt on this story was rather good, but apparently not (again, another reason I asked for the 3-4 reviews thing on More than One Hero can Mend). So, I cancelled this project with very little motivation to continue writing this and hitting writer's block after writer's block. So, sorry to all the True Bonds Never Break fans, but I will not be continuing this story :(

- Origins of the Inquisitor: A Compendium of Collected Tales and Legends: An idea I'm working on at the moment. Right now, I'm looking for a beta or someone to read over this. It looks like a really cool idea! Goes over all six major origin stories and adds more of a background to them through one shots on each of them. Is kind of like a historical research on tales of who the Inquisitor was (fitting considering I want to be an archaeologist haha). I feel like BioWare could have gone more into the origin stories of the Inquisitor like they did with the Warden in Origins. Anyways, this story is not posted yet and won't be posted until part 1 of More than One Hero can Mend is complete. But if you guys have any opinions on this idea, please PM me, it's always good to hear from my fans on future stories. Finally cancelled :(

- Pokemon Tech: Carter's Freshman Year: Just plain out cancelled and had no want to continue it. First attempt at a fanfic and it fell flat, face first, hard into the dirt! Sorry, know very few - if any - people will be disappointed, but not looking to continue at all.

- The Boy Without a Fairy: AU of OoT, and I had fun writing it at first and learning how to write first person POV, but I quickly got over it. So, it was a great exercise, but I'm done with it. Sounds harsh, but just have no want to keep it going. Sorry y'all.

In-Progress Projects:

- More than One Hero can Mend: This story came to me after I had the urge to write another Illink fanfiction, but a longer, more adventure-filled one. This story has received a good amount of attention and I am having constant ideas appearing in my head for this story! It goes into the darker side of Link and his return home, cause, after reading several other fanfics, one could imagine the Hero of Twilight trying to readjust to normal, villager life to be dark and full of hardships. Therefore, I wanted to write a darker, romance-filled, more adventure-packed, and longer story to show what most likely really happened to Link and Ilia (in my opinion) after the "Twilight War". Going back to it. Currently working on edits right now, but expect a new chapter for this one very soon.

- Memories from Another Time: Yup, got sucked into the BotW fics with this one, though it revisits and focuses on most of the previous games. It will be a compilation of short stories that follow different Links and people that influenced their lives heavily, but will also focus on the Hero of the Wilds Link. This one is coming along a little bit slower, but I'm still working on it from time to time! If anyone has any suggestions for future characters or anything else, let me know! I look forward to y'all's feedback!

- How to Find Peace: This, right now, is the fic I'm working on the most, mainly because I wanted to return to an original style of writing and combine it with my current style. So far, it's my favorite fic to have written! I love writing the story between Corrin and Scarlet (FE: Fates), it feels genuine and the scenes between them feel real! Plus, this serves as a healing piece for me right now. I won't go into details, but writing this fic is helping me get over some things really nicely. Finally, this gives me a chance to work with a beta and, in that way, the editing process, which also helps me with furthering my writing skills. Updates are slow for the time being as I'm catching up on chapters and my beta is catching up on betaing.

Random Music Challenge:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool... and alot of the songs fit with the setting

Opening Credits: Battery - Metallica (Actually, pretty good intro song, BATTERY!)

Waking Up: Valjean's Soliloquy - Les Miserables (Uh... put on there by my sister, I swear... *cough*)

First Day At School: Central - John Frusciante (Long song, as long as my first days...)

Falling In Love (oh god, this is gonna be bad...): These Walls - Dream Theater (Oddly fitting, actually...)

Fight Song: The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King (Well, would have been funnier if it was the previous one, or the next one)

Breaking Up: Funky Monks - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Huh...?)

Prom night: 4th of July - Soundgarden (Wait...)

Life: Another Way to Die - Alicia Keys & Jack White (None of these are fitting!... wait the more you think of this one, the deeper it sounds...)

Mental Breakdown: Deadly Sinners - 3 Inches of Blood (Guess I'm gonna break shit, YEAAAAAAAAH)

Driving: Enter Sandman -Metallic (Ooooo yeaah)

Flashback: The Scientist - Coldplay (Well hello broken heart, nice to see you on here...)

Getting back together: Twisted Transistor (0.0 that's... definitely not true)

Wedding: Plush (Acoustic) - Stone Temple Pilots (Guess we got back together...?)

Birth of Child: Airplane - Plain White T's (Holding it in my hands and I already wanna jet... haha punny)

Final Battle: Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers (OH YEAAAAH! GONNA KICK SOME ASS NOW!!!)

Funeral Song: Crack the Skye - Mastodon (Ain't dead, just resting. I'll be back :D)

Final Credits: Prayer - Disturbed (Like I said, I'll be back)

To My Fans:

I love you all! And the constant amount of views, reviews, favorites, and follows you give me make my day! I'm constantly checking my e-mail to see if there are any comments on my stories (a bad addiction I know). But you guys make this all possible! So keep on keeping on, while I write what y'all wish to see!

Yours truly, the wiry, crazed Texan/Coloradan you all have come to know,

nickdaman6