I guess I oughta get around to doing my profile.

Alright, so I'm Niera12 but I'll go by either Niera or N, doesn't matter. Niera is pronounced "Ny-eera", not "Nee-eh-ra". I'm in high school at the moment and I live on an American base in Japan. I'm in Japanese 2 right now, so I can speak a bit, ust enough to help me get around but not enough to make a casual conversation with a native speaker. I don't usually go out a lot so I don't see much of Japan (though there isn't much to see in my area anyway. It's one of the more boring areas where everything interesting is hours away), but I do like to see historic buildings and villages. I'm American, not Japanese, so don't jump to conclusions. (Although I have been called Japanese before because I "act Japanese". Weird, though, because I don't look Japanese and the people who called me Japanese live in Japan with me!)

I'm a shy girl unless I'm around my friends, but even then I still feel somewhat uncomfortable. I actually try to compress my body when I almost/accidentally touch people, even friends. It's a reflex. I'm uncomfortable sitting across from people I don't know well or I knew but I don't think like me. I also jump to conclusions about how people feel about me. I don't like talking to people a lot, and I'm actually afraid to talk to a lot of people. This is because I don't want them to think I'm an idiot. I've got a lot of social anxiety. Even talking to people on the internet or doing something as simple as roleplaying gets me all nervous. I also (sadly) don't speak my mind a lot to people I talk to. I don't want to hurt their feelings.

I like to write a lot and I want to be an author someday. I really want to be as great as J. K. Rowling. I'm also an artist (not as good as I'd like to be, but pretty good). I'd like to make my own comics, too, and I've got an idea for a comic I'd make if I put aside time for it. I play a lot of video games and am pretty crazy about them (in a healthy way, I think).

My absolute favorite book/movie series is Harry Potter. It's been my life-long obsession. Once in fifth grade I read the books so much that my parents literally banned me from reading them. They didn't stop me when I started reading them again, though. If I could, I'd have bought a whole Hogwarts uniform at Universal (cloak's too expensive, though). I also get defensive when I see/hear someone say something bad about Harry Potter, but only a little and then I get over it. Hey, you don't like it, good for you. Just don't bash me about liking it.

I can be considered pretty geeky, I guess. I like having posters of movies or games, I'd love to have some clothes related to things I like, and I like to have game and anime OSTs on my iPod.

Some of my favorite books are: The Harry Potter series, the Hunger Games trilogy, Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Heroes of Olympus series, Kane Chronicls, and May Bird trilogy.

Movies: The Harry Potter series, the Hunger Games and Catching Fire, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit (I'd have included these in the books but I haven't finished them yet), Ender's Game, a lot of Disney movies, Avengers, and pretty much anything fantasy/sci-fi/supernatural-y.

Comic: The Walking Dead

Anime and manga: Hetalia, Black Butler, Ouran Highschool Host Club, Soul Eater, Death Note, Attack on Titan, Saint Young Men, Midori Days, After School Nightmare, Shugo Chara, Future Diary, and Otomen (actually, this is all I know, I think.)

Games: Assassin's Creed, Skyrim, The Walking Dead, Last of Us, Tomb Raider, Fable II, Catherine, GTA V, Final Fantasy X, just to name a few.

Here are some things I don't like:

I hate when girls say that the color pink is evil or dresses/skirts. I get not liking them (I didn't like pink once myself, but now I could really care less. I still don't really like skirts and dresses, but I don't completely hate them), but saying they're evil is stupid. Did a pink dress/skirt ever try to take over the world? No? Didn't think so.

I don't like spiders. Creepy things. I freeze up when I see one; I don't like grammar/spelling errors. They irritate me to no end; People who try pushing their beliefs on others or who beat up/insult people just because their beliefs are different. Not everyone can like the same things you do, sweetheart; When people don't understand the difference between pedophile, hebephile, and ephebophile. This is a small thing, but it really, really bugs me (Just so you know, pedophile is for being attracted to little kids under the age of ten. Hebephile is for kids ages 10-14. Ephebophile is ages 15-19); Pedophiles, hebephiles, and ephebophiles; Making a big deal over which term to use (yes, I know I'm contradicting myself, sorry); When people think that a four-year age differences are bad ages for a relationship (it's not that big a gap, really); sexists; when people touch/hug me when I don't want them to and they know I don't want them to; when fans hate on female characters because they get in the way of a gay ship or get in the way of the fan and their "husband"; when fans claim a character as their own and threaten anyone who dares to say they like that character, too; when people blame America. We're not all bad! We just have some bad apples (I'm actually a little paranoid about going out in Japan because for some odd reason I'm afraid they'll judge me for being American); people who think gays are evil or something like that and bully gays or think gay marriage shouldn't be legal. Okay, you can not like homosexual relationships, but is it really hurting you? Like, is it screwing with your own marriage? No? Then shut up and leave the couple in peace.

When people use Japanese words in a story. Okay, so things like -chan, -kun, and -san are alright (unless the setting isn't in Japan and none of the characters are Japanese), but throwing in a "kawaii" or "sugoi" bugs me. I really hate reading "Okaa-san" this and "Otou-san" that. I especially hate this when the setting is Japan. Like, your characters are speaking Japanese (yeah, everything's written in English, but why would Japanese people be speaking to each other in English unless they were practicing?) Why add in a Japanese word when they oughta be speaking it instead of actual English? I don't exactly know how to explain it, so that's the best I've got. I also just hate seeing a random Japanese word thrown out for no reason, especially when people were speaking some other language before. It just bugs me, even though when I speak to people I do say things like, "Hai", "Douzo", "Arigato", and more, but I don't use excessive Japanese in an English sentence.

Weeaboos. Japanophiles. Wapanese. These people irritate the hell out of me, moreso because I actually know some of what Japan is like and I can speak some Japanese. I hate how they misinterpret Japan, use broken Japanese, say that Japan is the best country ever, etc. If they glorify Japan and say it can do no wrong, I really hate them (ever heard of the mass rape a bunch of Japanese soldiers committed? Or the dangerous testing they did on human subjects? Bombing of Pearl Harbor?). I also hate that a lot of them can't respect personal space. I even heard that some attempt to have sex with people because they match up their crazed image of some anime girl/boy!

Hetaboos. I'm a big Hetalia fan, but I'm embarrassed to be in the fandom because of all the Hetaboos who give us a bad name. I also really hate when they misinterpret the characters. By this I mean calling France a rapist (he's said in the anime and manga that rape is bad), calling Prussia a rapist (pretty certain he's not a rapist), calling Spain a pedophile (he's never shown sexual attraction to Romano when he was a kid, or any kid for that matter), etc. The France one is a big problem with me.

Mary-Sues. I've seen a lot of these, and they piss me off. I'm not going to act like I've never had a Mary-Sue character before (you should see the clusterfuck of old stories I've got on my computer), and I've hated all of them, too. I hate when an OC just beats up someone for the hell of it or when the character made the OC angry over something small and trivial. I also hate when an OC's better at something than a character who is known for being just that (for example, being "awesomer" than Prussia, stronger/scarier than Russia, etc.), can control a character when no one else can (can make Russia be less cruel and creepy (he doesn't even know he's cruel or creepy), America less obnoxious, etc.), is something that a character is known for (the son/daughter of Zeus or Poseidon or Hades but was born after Percy or after they agreed not to have any more kids, the other person who survived the killing curse, the other boy-but-really-a-girl in Ouran (not saying I'm not guilty of some of these things, because I am), etc.), they're something that's impossible (child of Artemis), and more.

Fast romance. It shouldn't be "boy meets girl" in the first chapter and a week later in the second chapter it's like "BAM! I love you!" I've been in a roleplay before where the two characters met and not even an hour or so later the other one decided that they were in love. What do you "love" about this person? You haven't even known them long enough to love them!

If you want to talk to me, go ahead. I don't mind at all, I'll just be a bit nervous. Just know that I might reply with a somewhat long message.