History
Welcome to the History page. Here, this is where I will explain how it all happened, from the
beginning of my role playing career, to the creation of Mandy Kokoroan and other characters that have sprung to
life. I hope you find this section somewhat worth your while cause everyone starts out somewhere.
The Beginning..
It all started back in March of 2000. My family had just recently bought a new computer from Gateway and we
hooked up a connection to AOL, something I was extremely looking forward to. I have had AOL before, but it was not
until two years before that I was actually online. Anyways, once we were hooked up, my new and improved online life
began.
After a few days of being online, I decided to go into a chatroom to meet new people. As usual I went into AOL member
made chats and into the Arts and Entertainment section, and right before my eyes, I saw so many interesting chats to
go to, ones I have no idea what in the world they were. So out of curiousity, I clicked on a random chat and entered,
watching what people were doing...but one thing confused me. Many of the people in the room were adding :: and ((
as they spoke. Being the newbie that I was, I watched with interest at the activites that were occuring and
tried to learn and grasp this new concept. Once I felt confident, I entered the chat, just like everyone else had
before me, adding the :: signs as I went along (of course this did not go without mistakes. I made plenty in the
beginning). One person who was kind enough answered some of my questions, like "what are mun bubbles?" or "why do
you use these :: signs?" which helped greatly, and I eventually started to get the hang of it, though my descriptions
needed lots of work. As time passed and I made many friends through role playing, and my characters
evolved as well (with help of course).
The Creation of Mandy Kokoroan
- Miranda, or Mandy as she prefers to be called, was created out of a spur of the moment in a chat room. I needed a character
in order to enter chats, so *poof* Mandy somewhat appeared, but she was just a nameless paper cutout char with no
background or depth. Around that same time period, I was totally into the anime series I was
watching at the time called Slayers (I still am) and I knew I wanted a sorceress for a character. So what
I did was that I gave Mandy my name (she was my first character anyway..) and gave her basic looks and outfit. Once she started
to somewhat develop, I decided to hunt for a willing artist to make a character portrait of Mandy.
Mandy was still developing at this point like all characters
do with time and I had placed her in random chats (mostly anime ones, since Mandy is based off of Slayers) and
she finally met Una Sandaldans, Mandy's closest and trustworthy friend. They met under very weird circumstances
(and by things that were just so confusing and messed up you could say) and were not friends at first, but their
friendship blossomed and they became an awesome team. Mandy was often a sturdy shoulder for Una to lean on, while
Una returned the kindness by always staying by Mandy's side through anything. Throughout all of Mandy's travels,
Una has remained to be the closest person in her life and remained that way for a number of years. Now
however, Jessie has evolved Una into a more grotestque and disturbing character who fights
against the illusions and madness that has befallen her due to her Curse. Mandy is oftentimes in Una's dreams but
is a warped image from reality. Mandy is currently on a mission to look for her old friend and see what
has become of her.
Mandy over the Years (2002 and onward)
The peak of Mandy's career as my main role play character lasted only a couple of years and steadily fell into a state of retirement.
The joy, fun, and opportunities to use Mandy in role play grew slim and due to character drama, stress and OOC (out of character)
issues I felt Mandy needed to be put of her misery, so to speak. It was also around this time that I wanted to find new anime to
get into and the result of such efforts helped me enter a different type of role play based around the Legend of Zelda video
game series. Fern is the creation from such endeavors and even today I consider her my most
favorite and most used character to date.
The Present
I really do not use Mandy in role play anymore; her days are over, for the most part. However, my good friend Jessie has taken
Mandy and fleshed her out in an entirely new story of her creation called The Silver Arrow Stories which takes place in the
fictional world of Aen. In these stories Mandy's life and
situation are quite different than her Slayers counterpart. But the essence of the character has remained true. As parts of
the story are written and put down I shall post them here or give links to be read.