I am a healer in a mercenary company. I am also an Owl bard with an ego. I am a panda bear with the ability to walk on both water as well as walls. I work together with my allies from different worlds, from the towering leader of the vanguard to the small farm boy with the ability to change probability, and go on adventures beyond our wildest dreams. I used to work in a group of thieves and later became the daughter of a Viking warrior. I tried to save a city only to accidentally cause a natural disaster. I have many faces, though none are actually physical. To anybody else in my day to day life, I look like a human girl walking down the street. However, to many others that I meet, they see me as a warrior or a healer. They …show more content…
I have met people from around the world, from Malaysia to Scotland, Brazil and Norway. I have become close friends with people through words alone, only connecting through what we say through the screen to the other being far away. I have been to parties, gone on adventures, and even sat and watched movies with these people all thanks to our bond created over the Internet. This amazing invention has allowed complete strangers to contact each other and form relationships that could never have happened a generation …show more content…
People there were very chatty and I was drawn in to the world of bad puns and fan-girling over movies. It was a cartoon-like game, with short stumpy characters and an endless amount of cute, round enemies that you killed by the dozens without even blinking. It was fast paced and cute, and being the hyperactive teenager that I was it hooked me in and became a large portion of my high school life. Looking back the game itself was more of a chat room site with gaming elements, as most people didn’t even play much of the game and instead sat around the game’s cities and chatted with each other. There was a whole fashion element to the game as people dressed characters up and even spent real world money to get outfits for their avatars. Maplestory is where I found my first online guild, which is like an organized group that is made with a similar interest or out of a group of friends. My Internet social life took off from there. I do not remember quite how I came to join them, but I became friends with its leader and we formed a small group, no bigger than maybe twenty people, who played the game together and talked through the chat. It was never anything serious; we mostly spoke about minor things like recently released games or the latest Japanese anime that had come