Name: Kisara
Previous Pen Name: Namida Crystal
Favourite Music: Anberlin, Blindside, Skillet, Jars of Clay, SafetySuit, Relient K, The Classic Crime
Favourite Anime: Inuyasha, Detective Conan, Cardcaptor Sakura, Chrno Crusade, Slayers
Favourite Manga: Special A, Kamichama Karin

I'm a Christian, and I love anime and writing fantasy romance fiction. My imagination never gives me rest, which results in me coming up with too many stories to keep up with. When I'm not writing or watching anime, in my free time I enjoy playing video games! My favourites are the Tales Series, Final Fantasy X, the Golden Sun Series, Odin Sphere, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy VIII, Eternal Sonata and Mana Khemia. I have a lot, really. :)

Some of my biggest writing inspiration comes from Blindside's music and lyrics. Christian Lindskog is amazing, incredible. He has a way with words that just gets inside of me. And the melodies that carry those words are sometimes unworthy, as much as I love their music. ;D

About my stories, thank you so much for the support and reviews I've gotten over the years. I often re-read them, and feel so happy that people enjoy reading my stories. It's dreamlike! hehe, thank you so very much.

~Story Progress~

Complete:

Racing Fate ~ This 37 chapter long run was the first and only story with which I managed to completely avoid writer's block or anything like it. I think that's some sort of accomplishment all by itself. 8D In any case, this one is my most popular story. I have to thank all the people that reviewed! It's because of you I was able to make it as far as I did.

On-going:

Ame Agari ~ (This story is in the process of being rewritten, being novelized. Instead of the collection of short stories it used to be.) Before I started Ame Agari, I knew I wanted to eventually write a story about unreal devotion. A love story, perhaps. Devotion, and how strong love can become if you let it. Ame Agari became just that, except it is a story of unrequited love. This allows for an unhealthy amount of angst I think... and in Akito's case, sometimes even I feel overwhelmed by his strong devotion. But, unlike most of my characters, he's an inspired one, and even based on someone, I could say. And then Nakuru is a little imperfect mix of strength and weakness. She struggles with having a one-track mind, and being an unlikely target - overly so. When I began working out the story in 2003, it was completed in my mind in such a way that it would be difficult to write properly. Well, not completed... it took me all these years just to get to this point. Anyway, writing it strangely like this as a collection of really short stories was so much easier for me than trying to piece it together normally, and making it flow. Depends on the story, I guess, some are easier to write a certain way. Ame Agari is kind of long, but it can be explained in a few words that would probably baffle the reader. "How should I summarize it?" ...until now the question had never crossed my mind. It is about a dude and a chick and there is love and pain etc. (laughs)

Jagged Dusk ~ A side story from the perspective of one of my main characters from Racing Fate, Shigeru. I have ideas built on uncertainty about where this story has to go, if that makes any sense. The theme is darker than I'm used to writing, so I warmly welcome any feedback.

Vestige ~ This one will never be completely dropped, and will never have "no planned continuation" because it is one of my two favourite stories. The second is another fantasy story I'm currently working on now (I will most likely post it here eventually). I particularly love Vestige because of how far I've thought it out. I've not only designed all the characters, but I've been working on the overall story for a long, long time. I started writing this in 2006, and it didn't really turn out like I planned, but I think once I continue it I'll touch up a few of my mistakes in the first five chapters. (I didn't post the fifth here for some reason...) Vestige is also probably the longest story of mine, I've planned it out to take place over the course of eight years -- Rakuen first comes to Veraneylia in the beginning at age 13, and by the end of the story she is 20 years old. There's also two arcs with three parts to each of them, and they all have names. I've only gotten to part 1 of the first arc in my writing so far. Honestly, with all the planning and work I've done on this story, it's pretty surprising I got a writer's block on it for so long. I look forward to continuing it soon, but I'm trying to concentrate on getting Racing Fate and my other fantasy story completed before I do so. When I start writing again, I want to concentrate solely on this story. That's another one of my flaws, I suppose... having so many stories to tell that I get overwhelmed and then sidetracked. :\

Up-coming:

Sage of Silence ~ This is a rewrite of my original story, Sage of Silence. Both versions will remain on my account just because I have a soft spot for stories I posted so long ago... and it might be fun to compare the two.

No Planned Continuation: (aka gems of the past)

Essence ~ This is my first work of fiction. The first one with chapters in which I really spent a lot of time thinking about it and building it around my dreamy little world. I still can remember my future ideas for this one that I never got to, and someday I just might go back and continue it. The writing makes me cringe, however, so I'd have to rewrite the entire thing first, hehe. I fear it would become a completely different story if I did that, though. This was also my only special work of fiction that I handed in for an assignment in English class, back in middle school.

Sage of Silence Original ~ This one I really enjoyed writing, for what little time I actually did. I loved the idea, and playing with it was a lot of fun. It is a story centered on Ciara Nayren, a character from Essence, and she is probably my favourite. I have a soft spot for the dark tragedy of her past, and I definitely think this one is worthy of a continuation. Someday, maybe!

The Mystics ~ This was the second world I created, so my official second work of fantasy fiction. Looking back, it's surprising I only wrote one chapter and didn't continue it. I don't remember why; it could've been for any reason, but I'm guessing school was the culprit. This one was also planned and worked on for a while in my notes and in my head, character designs and everything. I don't think I've ever in any of my other stories changed my characters' names as much as I have in this story. (laughs) When I first named them, I was a little Japan geek that knew absolutely nothing about the language. I actually thought I'd invented the word "hikari" from the name "Hikaru". Not to mention, the name "Makeru" I thought up actually is a Japanese word and it means "to lose"! Oh dear! (laughs) Now, having seriously studied the language for about six years, I can seriously laugh at how lame I was back then. Hehe. For the record, the first names I came up with for the characters (so the ridiculous ones) are the ones used in the chapter I posted here.

The Jester Arts ~ Now this one was a fun idea. It was an action/battle story loosely based on Angelic Layer. It took place in the same universe as Essence, on the planet Amparier. I also planned on some of the characters being connected by blood between The Jester Arts and Essence/Sage of Silence and also a later romance between Sana and Tyrell, but sadly never managed to make it that far.