It's me! Sorta. Well, it's me if I were a cat. And yes, this is the expression I wear 90% of the time ^_^

I'll keep this brief, if that's possible ;) If you've read my fanfics (well, two of them) you know that my name is Katie. But if you've corrosponded with me in e-mail or read my fanfic other places, you probably know me as Elaby. Elaby (Gathen) is a faerie name, one that I guess you use to summon faeries or hold power over them... I dunno if it's even female ;) And then there are those in my Utena RPG who know me as Fuyume the umbrella-toting introvert, and even the select few from Redwall Sim 2 who still refer to me as Peasie ;) I'm not sure if any of those even exist anymore. You'll find pictures of Fuyume on my Utena Fanart page, and eventually I will draw Peasie again... she's a mouse.

Anyway, I got into anime about... *counts* four summers ago? That sounds right. Summer of 1996, that'd make it. Anyway, I have always loved Japanese animation, I've just never known that it was Japanese animation. I just referred to it as "that style of drawing I love." But I found out, thanks to Animerica magazine, and my first ever real anime (that I spent money on ;) ) was The Irresponsible Captain Tylor. I got into Evangelion after that, and some Slayers, and Pokémon, of course (free anime! Free anime!) and then, finally, on Chrismas 1999 I got the first Utena tape. Watched it that night, and had the rest within three weeks ^_^ (with some help from my mother, of course, who I have thoroughly corrupted by introducing the wonders of Akio (and, more appropriately for her, Touga.) Heh.) By February vacation, we had the entire series in fansubs and thank Kami-sama I didn't have school that week. And so it began.

I created this web page after I had seen the first 13 episodes, but I didn't upload it until I had seen the whole thing. I was seventeen at that point, and in eleventh grade (that you could tell from my super-crappy first fanfic). I'm older now, of course, but I think if I ever write myself into a fic again, I'll probably stay that age. Just so I can say I'm in the same class as Saionji and Touga ;)

My other interests include...

Sailor Moon. Drool. I love this show so much... I have the entire thing except for the Doom Tree series in Japanese, and I even watch the evil DIC dub every Saturday on Fox. I don't get the Cartoon Network (*cries*).

As for things that don't have to do with anime, I love The X-Files (well, I used to. I still do, marginally...), furry stuff (anthropomorphic animals, although all I do in that respect is Redwall stuff. And our Redwall sim is far removed from Brian Jacques' Redwall ;) ), anything that has to do with Celtic folklore (urisks and bean sidh and fuaths, oh my!), and just about anything that doesn't take place now. Like Robin Hood. I love Robin Hood with a passion. Future stuff is good, too, like Star Trek... I also like to draw (duh), write (fiction is our friend!), and act. But I don't get to do much of the latter very often anymore. I make up for that by RPing as much as I can, even though I don't know squat about technical RPGs... I have little interest in D&D sorta things. The only thing I love about AOL is my message boards, and I love those unconditionally. RPing through posts is the best way, I think ^_^

So, that's me. Zoi. If you want to reach me, you can e-mail me at elaby_moon@yahoo.com And in case you've never been to my other pages, my homepage is here.

Click here to go back to the main Utena page. Oh, yeah, the picture at the top is © Katie R, 2000. Yeah, yeah.