User:Keibear

Hey, I'm Keibear!
Welcome to my homepage! Here you can read a little bit about me. :)

About Me
I am Keibear (AKA Lady Ruffntumble, Rynfyre, and Emarella), the creator of Gateway and head administrator of the Gateway RPG forum. I'm a follower of Jesus Christ who has her BA in English, Creative Writing. I'm a proud older sister and a self-professed nerd with an obsession for fantasy and sci-fi.

So Why Gateway?
Well, the idea first came to me shortly before the first Chronicles of Narnia movie came out. I couldn't wait to see the movie (I've been a fan of C.S. Lewis since I was little), and as the older sibling of two, I couldn't help but identify with Peter Pevensie. I started to wonder what it would be like if my siblings and I got dropped in a fantasy world with nowhere to go, no one who we knew. It all kind of bubbled up from there. I combined it with a villain, a plot, mixed in another of my fantasy favorites (Ted Dekker's The Circle Trilogy), and voila! Gateway was born.

Intitially, I really wanted to create a whole site for it, but wasn't sure how to get going on that, and knew I'd need a lot of other great roleplayers to get it started. That's why I started Gateway slowly by starting it up as a single thread on a roleplaying sub-forum of a player-based Toontown forum (of all places)! I'd been roleplaying on this site for a while and had already started a few roleplays, so I decided to see if anyone would be interested in Gateway. It had some pretty good success, and when I found out about Invisionfree, I decided to move Gateway onto a forum of its own to realize its full potential.

Likes

 * God
 * Family and friends
 * Reading, writing, and roleplaying
 * Video games (ICO is my all-time favorite, but I also like fantasy series such as Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy)
 * Fantasy (especially The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia)
 * TV shows with great characters or creativity (The Weekenders, Monk, Teen Titans, and Phineas and Ferb are some of my favorites)
 * Some sci-fi, including both Star Wars and Star Trek (I'm a newly-converted Trekkie, but I also have a childhood reverence for Jedi and lightsabers)

Fun Facts About Me

 * Although I love fantasy, I have only read the first Harry Potter book and didn't like it. I've also only read the first few chapters of Eragon.
 * My ex-boyfriend got me interested in Star Trek by telling me about Klingon culture (I also first fell for him when he was telling me all about Yautja culture).

Gateway Characters
Currently, I play...
 * Zaleila Talmien
 * Andrea Taylor
 * Aven Wistar
 * Renalia Nemara
 * Basically all the Gateway NPCs