Sunday, August 15, 2004

   SomeGuy Alpha: Rant for July 10th, 2002:
(The following is the transcript of a hand-written thing made the night of the above date . . . it was very late, and I was very bored . . .)


One Saturday night (or Sunday morning, if you're technical) I'm up really late with Korean boy watching animes, downloading wushu movies and taking anime-quizzes . . . yes, there was a theme to it all. If I recall, I can't even think of what compelled us to stay up that late. It may have been our desire to learn more and more about the Wilhelm Scream (remind me to rant about that some time). Maybe it was our professed love for Japanese cartoons and comics. In any case, I found out that of all the "Gundam Wing" characters, I seem to be most like Quatre Raberba Winner. It was funny, because I actually kinda swore when I saw that result. Though Korean-boy kepy assuring me that being like Quatre wasn't terrible. I still wasn't conviced . . . I was so unconvinced that I took another Gundam auiz. 1st response: Lt. Noin; not a guy, next response on the list . . . Quatre.
I swore, Korean-boy laughed.

Of all of them! Why Quatre? I remember specifically that I didn't like people doing work for me - is that in fact the trait of a guy who has a standing army as a bodyguard? What was it I kept exclaiming the whole time . . . "he's like, the worst fighter out of all of them!" So I dunno, maybe I'll need to look into it a little more. I suppose I do have a bit of that whole unification-dream-thingy going on in my head. Also, I have a vest hanging off a chair in my room. But yeah, I'll have to look into that one a bit more.

Oh, by the way, I'm also very much like Ashitaka from "Princess Mononoke", the main guy from "Cowboy Bebop", and the turtle from "Love Hina" (I blame my clicking on 'yes' for all questions that said "Myu!").

Of course, an internet test-taker is nothing without visiting thespark.com; the place to take quizzes. Of all of them, I am most proud of my performance on the "Untelligence Test" that graded survival and streetsmarts. I'm not talking passing grades, either - I'm talking high 90's! I couldn't believe how well I did on that! But, yes, but a single high-point . . . I did do decent on the REAL IQ test though (the FAKE one, on the other hand . . . . .)

I'm actually really impressed that Duo wasn't one of my high picks. As one friend has already claimed, I am apparently a Duo-wannabe due to "the jokes! The jokes!"

Speaking of Mr. Maxwell, Korean-boy is actually most like him, apparently. Personally I don't see it (as everyone can attest to, he is so much more of a Wufei than anyone else ["Strength & Honour!"]). He, however, saw it as fitting since Deathscythe is his favourite Gundam. Yeah, go fig . . . . .

I'll tell you the creepiest test-incident ever, though. A couple months back, I took a "Smallville" quiz. It had a bunch of questions usually based on "what would you do?" scenarios. Well, my hands-on rescuing-ethos in conjunction with my watching the "o. o. m. a" from afar, accumulated into my rating as "Clark Kent". I gues worse things could've happened . . . I mean, what could I have done with a "most like Martha Kent" verdict? But yeah, the scary part comes in about 4-6 weeks later. While on another spree of internet quizzes, I found a "Cartoon Superheroes" quiz. Well, not so much as I found it as I clicked on what seemed to be more interesting than some. But yeay, I clicked on all the little circles, clicked on 'view my results' . . . . .
"You are most like: 'Superman'."

So yeah, I'm sensing a trend . . . . . you? I mentioned this to a few people already. Korean-boy gave me an apathetic, "Ah, I never really liked Superman . . . too nice and lawful . . . give me Drizzt!" X gave me a "nice!" (I'm paraphrasing, I'm sure . . .). And of course, my jazz-girl cousin had to say "Holy! This is a sign!" I'd like to think that my own thoughts lie somewhere between her's and X's. Though I'm not sure if it's necessarily a "sign", I do have a funny feeling that I coudl end up doing something cool with my life for the well-being of those around me and stuff.

[NOTE: it's about this point in the manuscript where my handwriting starts to get REALLY bad . . .]

And yet it's the brother who became the cop . . . hmm . . . . .

But seriously, Quatre? What does he have going for him? And being rich doesn't count, because it's more fun to be not rich. If not for anything else, then for this:
Heero has his pacifist to protect and look over; Duo has his girl back home to go back to; Trowa has his circus-girl to punch him when he's thinking stupidly; Wufei has . . . himself. But who does Quatre have? Rat-face girl to get stabbed by! That's the only one I can think of at this moment! That and a harem of military men! What kind of crap is that?!

But yes . . . who knows? Maybe I'll grow up to be some sort of advocate of peace throughout the world. Maybe I'll even find time to save it. And for the record, I'm not Schizophrenic - though delusions of grandeur are kinda fun to play with now and then . . .

Ogh, and this rant was not meant to belittle the character of Quatre Winner. I'm sure he has plenty going for him . . . . . just that my memory's hazy and we're only at ep. 15 in the 3:00am showings . . . . man, I need sleep . . . . . .
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