][ STEVE HAS JOINED THE PARTY AS A GUEST

Name: Steven Scougall   Gender:  Male   Physical Age: 24
True Age: Varies, depends on the time of day / week / month / year
Also Goes By:  Um... 'Steve' pretty much covers it
Height: 165 cm   Weight: 60 kg   Eyes: Brown
Hair: Typical hair-coloured brown
Contact Info: s_scougall@mailandnews.com

...what, you want those height and weight stats in the empirical system?
Oh, alright.

Height: 5'6"   Weight:  132 lb

Primary Goal(s):
- Have fun
- Write The Best Story Ever (though just A Moderately Successful Story will
  do fine)
- Become a more prolific and better author.

Secondary Goal(s):
- Avoid too much work
- Become a Mad Wind King of Fighters Skeelz God
- Give his webpage (http://www.crosswinds.net/~sscougall/) a graphical
  revamp someday
- Drink vast quanitites of Coca-Cola
- Learn not to be so shy in group situations and around women
- To finish writing this profile someday...  What?  You mean it's done?
  Whew.  Thank god for that.  I thought I'd never finish it.

Strengths/Abilities:
- Mad Wind Intermediate Fighting Game Skeelz (can pick up most fighting
  games and learn and play them at an intermediate level almost instantly)
- Mad Wind A-Bit-Better-Than-Intermediate Tae Kwon Do Skeelz
- Mad Wind Programming Skeelz
- Almost insanely good memory for useless facts and numbers.  For
  everything else, it's just good.
- Patient, tolerant, and not easily annoyed.
- Can speak Japanese reasonably well.
- Near perfect command of English spelling.
- Apparently, can write and draw quite well.
- Can drink vast quantities of Coca-Cola and not be adversely affected by
  it
- Can eat A Lot Of Food and stay thin
- Rambles
- Is Australian
- Can think of more Likes than Dislikes

Weaknesses/Quirks:
- When he is annoyed, though, he gets REALLY annoyed.
- Shy and quiet and doesn't talk much if there are already two people
  around.  More so around women.  Even more so around cute ones.  And even
  more around ones he likes.
- When being introverted and shy, tends to say things he shouldn't and
  makes a complete and utter fool of himself
- Corollary:  Never gets anywhere with women
- Exhibits the sex drive of the common rock (ie, somewhere less than zero)
- So it all works out in the end, sort of
- Makes lots of side comments (like this one) often when correcting himself
  (especially in the "introverted and shy" mode).
- Hasn't stepped on a set of scales for years
- His hair has very firm ideas on where it wants to go and will not be
  dissuaded, even by triple strength industrial grade styling mousse. 
  Which is a pity because it's quite messy in its usual shape.
- Is Australian
- Unusually for an Australian, dislikes drinking alcoholic stuff, but
  sometimes does so.
- Rambles
- Has never actually been to anywhere on the American continents.
- Absolutely useless at Deathmatch games
- Hasn't been in a movie theatre for months
- Thinks he'd probably vehemently dislike the later parts of the Ranma 1/2
  anime if he ever actually saw it
- Can think of more Weakness/Quirks than Strengths/Abilities

Likes:
- Coca-cola
- King of Fighters games
- Writing
- Reading
- Manga and anime in general
- Books in general
- Ranma 1/2 manga
- Computer and video games
- Winter
- Autumn
- Spring
- Writing lengthy profiles like this

Dislikes:
- Scrub friendly fighting games (ie the Capcom characters VS Marvel characters games)
- Drinking alcoholic beverages
- Confrontation
- Seeing improper facts about Japan and Japanese in fiction.
- Summer
- Ties
- Waking up early
- Sub / Dub arguments
- Excessive stupidity

Background:
    During his Entirely Too Long time stay at university, Steve discovered
the joys of the internet and anime fanfiction, at approximately the same
time.  Twoflower's fanfiction was discovered shortly after this
initiation.  A few years later he followed a link or two and stumbled
across Improfanfic.
   More time passed, and he then heard about Improparty.  He thought it
sounded like the perfect opportunity to meet his fellow Improfanfic
authors, so he immediately started plotting on how to get to California
for a while and not get fired from his recently acquired job.

Fellow Authors, please ask me before you:
- Make me lose really embarassingly at KOF
- Make me drink
- Have me behave in a hentai fashion (see above, in Quirks)

Fellow Authors, please do not:
- The usual - get me killed, smoking, or doing drugs.  I dislike the idea
  of all three.  Especially the 'getting killed' part.  I don't have a way
  to come back to life, after all.
- Make me do the "*This* is a knife" gag
- Make fun of my hair.  (Sniggering about it behind my back where I can't
  see you is perfectly acceptable, however.)