Pen Name: Cruza

Name: Arielle

Nicknames: Neko, Awelle, Bai Sing Yao

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: 100 Percent Pinay and Proud

My Little Blurb

I'm just this writer who comes online from time to time to put up these works of literature I've created thanks to my writing genius and sudden bursts of inspiration. I was once called Imouto-Neko-Chan, but now go by Cruza so please refer to me as such. I tend not to write a lot if I don't feel inspired and often erase sentences -- even paragraphs -- if I'm not feeling it. I guess you can say I'm a bit prissy like that. It takes me forever to crank out my stories, chapters, whatevers because I can write only when I feel like it -- I mean, when I get hit with inspiration right in between the eyeballs. Inspiration and dedication means everything to my works. I never want to put out something that I feel has been half-assed.

I eat, sleep, and breathe tennis. I mean seriously -- no joke, true story, Amen sister friend. I've played on the varsity doubles squad all four years of high school and have been on Cloud 9 each time. It's no secret that I fall asleep imagining the rhythm of a rally instead of counting sheep like some people out there do. I cannot stress how much tennis is a passion of mine and I simply cannot imagine my life without it. It's also rather unfortunate that this passion comes with a price: triceps tendinitis in both of my arms. Isn't that just peachy?

Incidentally, I am now a second-year college student who is majoring in Bio-Chemistry. I ask for your patience concerning my time-consuming schedule. I also have a habit of starting long drabbles about myself with the prestigious letter 'I' because it refers to the all important center of it all -- me.

( No...I'm not that stuck up... I just felt like writing something obnoxious. )

Currently Writing:

Star-Crossed

- UPDATE: Prologue uploaded 10/17/10

Tenacious - A KaidohxOC fanfic I started writing for my friend - Tenxtena. I'm slowly cranking out the chapters...slowly...

- UPDATE: Chapter 6 finally added 3/16/2011.

A Quest Crew Mini-Series - Collaboration work with Tenxtena and Stinabeeee. It's more for our enjoyment than the general public...but feel free to look anyway. Yeah...we're Questies.

Works Pending:

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Original Character Corner: (new!)

Star-Crossed

- Kazumei: Click

Tenacious (under construction)

- Tenx Medici

-- Tenx Medici, as I say all of the time, is a character that does not belong to me. So, why do I use her for this story? She belongs to my friend: Tenxtena. Tenacious was, originally, a one-shot story between her OC (Tenx) and her favorite bishie from Prince of Tennis (Kaidoh) for her birthday. She liked it so much that the next year I added a second chapter (thus making it a two-shot). And then its popularity kinda grew from there. Anyway, back to Tenx. Tenx is pretty much based off of Tenxtena - the Italian background, the newbie-ness to tennis. So yeah. Tenx Medici.

- Eriol Cruz

-- Okay, so Eriol. Eriol is my "I-can't-think-of-a-better-OC-but-I-need-one-here" default OC. Eriol is also one of my very first OCs - that is, she's a newbie OC I created that's largely based on myself (yes, I admit it). Her name is even derived from a misspelling of my own name. She is not, however, a self-insert OC. She sort of grew on her own and became a separate entity. You may also see her lurking around in the Quest Crew Mini-Series, since she's one of the default OCs Tenxtena and I agreed on for it.

- Ayeka Hinami

-- One of my, personal, favorite OCs. Ayeka, and the rest of the girls' tennis team (minus Seiki, and you'll see why when you get to her portion) are all of my creation. The inspiration for Aykea as the team captain comes from my tennis team's captain my freshman year of high school - the sisterly aspect of her, at least. I see her as a more observant captain; she's the type to hang back and just watch the team from the shadows, then surprise them with an extensive knowledge of the goings-on with a subtle entrance. She's more of a complement to Eriol in Tenacious, but she definitely holds more power than she does. Her everyday personality reflects her tennis style; highly experienced, she's cool on the court and doesn't let anything rile her up. She's more of a singles player, but she knows enough of the basics of doubles to give pointers to her doubles teams when needed.

- Seiki Mayonaka

-- Seiki was, originally, a character who was the protagonist of another fanfic - Fleeting Smile - from Quizilla. It was a TezukaxOC story I was writing for a friend of mine using a role-playing character she created. I tend to borrow her from time to time, mainly because I wrote for her so much. She's an energetic character that I like to use to break the tension between other characters - and you can say that she's a main secondary character (probably because of her previous role as a protagonist). As a tennis player, she's well-rounded and emphasizes speed. She's one of the few characters who can alternate between singles and doubles without much trouble.

- Asahi Yuzuki

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- Yoshimi Uminai

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- Satsuki Takona

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- Hanoo Takenaga

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- Meroko Yuimoki

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Announcements !

- 9/22/2011

I'm not gonna lie - I totally forgot I had a fanfiction account for a while. Classes have started up again, and my time is consumed by my studies again. Is this my farewell message? No - just a 'I'm sorry I've been gone, but I'm back now because I have a lololololol ridiculous seven-hour time gap between my classes on Thursdays so I'll probably be using that to write when I'm not doing homework' message. I've looked over what I was working on for both Tenacious and Star-Crossed, and I'm hoping to have them done. . .soon.

Other than that, I've added a little more information concerning the Tenacious OCs above, so feel free to peruse those at your leisure.

Thanks again for all of the messages and review ~

- Cruza