Name: Brennan Gabriel Bishop (although sometimes it’s Gabreil depending on how well I’m spelling my name nowadays)
Location: Victoria, BC Canada. Upstairs while the fam sleeps downstairs.
Age: 24 for the time being.
Sex: I’m a dude!

Family: My mom lives alone on the other side of a big park after my dad died last winter. She’s re-doing the lawn and the entire house I grew up in. My sister has fancy hair and a sharp tongue. She’s four years older than me and I’ll let you do the basic math. My Brother is eight years older and he works on the special effects you kids see in movies these days. He’s working on Saw III right now much to his eye rollings.

Education: I’m studying English. Badly. My dreams of what I want to be when I
grow up include: Frustrated at my inability to write coherently and older.

Just to test the stereotype - Have you ever lived, or are you currently
living, in your parents' basement? The first place I moved out into was
SOMEone’s basement. Nice place, but we couldn’t afford the rent after our
roommates exploded.

What is the most frightening thing you've ever done? Stood up for myself. It’s a
scary thing to do when you have the choice not to but do anyway.

What was your first word? I was the third kid so no one really paid attention when I stood on my own, spoke, or played with power-tools until I hurt someone else’s child.

What is your favorite word? At this very instant? Onomatopoeia. Nothing says ridiculous like a word that describes a sound-effect.

How many languages do you speak? One and an eighth. Spanish was taken, fallen asleep during, and scraped by with a passing grade through copious cheating, finagling, and downright luck.

What is your favorite time of year, and why? Winter. I love the cool air, the stuff that passes for snowfall in this part of the world, and the fact that my job is seasonal and I get it off.

What is your most prized physical possession? My visa card? It allows me to get other prized physical possessions!

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I’d like to be smarter. I mean, I’m not stupid or anything, but I’d just like to be smarter.

Did you have any embarrassing nicknames as a kid? I had one in high school. Juice wizard. I got this because my mother (yeah, even in high school. I was a lazy, lazy kid) would make my lunches with grape juice boxes in em’ and instead of chucking them out like a regular citizen, I piled them up in my locker. Eventually it got to the point that my backpack wouldn’t fit in there and I got my picture in the underground school newspaper. I took them home and ants attacked the house. It was a classic, “You threw them away?! Why?! How could you!?” moment until I learnt that the ants were willing to destroy all of civilization to get to them.

What was your favorite toy as a child? I had a broken “Light sword” that was a cheap rip off of a Star Wars toy. It glowed in the dark, and leaned to one side. But if I had to go to the bathroom in the dark, it became a +5 holy avenger of evil bumpitties in the night holding-backer.

What makes you cry? Thinking about my dad hard enough will get a tear out of my every damn time.

What is your favorite section of the newspaper? I only read the comics. There’s a huge pile of them at work. I discard the rest as it doesn’t involve my little world.

Do you have a useless talent that no one else that you know can do? If I’m really cold or hot, I can give a good shake and my temperature just sort of adjusts. Poof. I’m neutral again.

What are three things you can't live without? Love, electricity, and free time.

If you could have one superpower, which power would you pick? Walking through things. That’s just so cool and I’d use it so stupidly.

What did you want to be when you grew up? A fire engine. It’s even in my yearbook from elementary school. I was a weird kid.

What is your favorite mode of transportation? I dig walking but I’m one of those “I don’t have the time for walking! I go to work in 36 hours!” kind of people.

If you could pick any other time period to live in - including the future - which would it be, and why? Waaaaay back. We had a crazy animal instinct at one point and we just pushed it under. I’d like to see more of how we are attracted to each other through the size of our pancreases (It’s true!)

What is one thing that you regret that you would go back and change if you could? Ouch. My sister had a birthday party and I had the choice of going to the museum with just my dad, or going to the pool with my sister and all her friends that didn’t like me. Of course, I went to the pool and was miserable. For the rest of my life, I swear that if I chose to go with my dad, we would’ve had a really different relationship. He had such a hurt look in his eyes. Now I feel bad.

What is the one thing you want to do before you die? Tell a terrible joke on my deathbed.

You've just purchased a small island off the coast of any continent of your choosing, and you are preparing to start your own country there. What does your flag look like? Either the yellow sign from Call of Cthulhu, or a sigil I made up.

Tell us about your favorite RPG character that you've ever played.
Ever? Well, that’s a big question. I mean, I’ve got my well-meaning nun who
turned into a wendigo (Too many people in her diet), the split-personality
cyborg, the kinder with four pages of equipment (including three other
player-characters'), the walking stomach, and even an evil lawyer with an
occasional good streak. However, all in all, I’d probably have to say James
Decker. Thief extraordinaire. Instead of using the traditional small
weapons that thieves usually use to defend themselves, James used a
pole arm and an archer’s shield. And in GURPS, that’s a whole lot of being
difficult to kill.