Severus Akina

"Severus Akina" is the name of my avatar in NMC's Second Life. The first name comes from my favorite fictional novel character of all, Severus Snape from Harry Potter. I loved him since he appeared in the first book, a kind of obssession I had with him of especially concentrating on scenes with him in it. I personally do not really know why I love him so much since his hair is greasy and he appears to be "bad," but that is not the point. The last name I chose was pretty random. I was too lazy to look through the list of last names so I just chose from the ones that was on the screen at the moment: "Akina" because it was one of the ones on the top, so it came into my eyes first, and it is a first name in Japanese and I thought it was interesting to have a last name that sounds like a first name. As I have mentioned, I got the first name from my favorite fictional novel character. Now why would I include "novel"? Ofcourse, to distinguish from other stories such as films, short stories, etc. No, I wouldn't think that deeply. My hobby is reading and that not only includes english and japanese novels, but it includes the japanese comic books, or "mangas." I love them so much, I have around 600 to 700 comic books. Well, anyways, I have a favorite "manga" character and I couldn't choose between Snape and the other character so I decided to distinguish it: I thought it would bring down my love for Severus Snape if I had two favorite characters. Yes, that was the reason for indicating that he is my favorite "fictional novel character" and I guess this is getting me off topic.

I chose a male for my appearance because my greatest fantasy is to become a male. Now this does not mean that I am lesbian or I want to go through surgery to become a man in appearance. I kind of wanted to be born as a boy not a girl. But that is impossible. So I decided to think that I would like to reincarnate as a guy. After I die and if I come back to this world, I would want to be born as a boy. Also, I found that I would be able to act out a boy through the virtual world. Therefore I decided to use this chance to become a "guy." The hair, eye, clothing, and other appearances I have on right now is kind of goth, or in a japanese term, "v-kei" (visual-kei or visual-type). This is to show a hint of "Severus" in the avatar. Since his name is Severus, I decided to dress him up all black, in a long black cloak-like coat, just as Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter does. Also, for some reason, I have a lot of friends that are goth, or "v-kei." They listen to songs sung by the "visual-type" bands and dress up in black and white and/or pink...but I don't. I have no clue what kind of songs they sing, and although I think they are cute and/or cool, I do not dress up like that. So I thought it was interesting and fun to dress up kind of like that in the virtual world: since I could be someone that I am not!






(This post was of different style compared to all my other ones, and I would think it would be the only one so different. Unlike the other posts, which I have written about short stories written by other people, I wrote about myself, or myself in a virtual world, and therefore, this post ended up sounding quite inappropriate. I found, however, that it was difficult to write differently and I wonder why. I thought this was interesting...I wonder how it is for other people.)