I usually don't bother with these, not gonna lie. But also I did kinda join 3 games in .... 2 months and thus there's a lot happening and I never really said hi to begin with oops

So HIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

I'm Alex. If you've added me, we're in a game together. I am just playing Maelle from Clair Obscur. I am a one-trick pony at the moment and I'm honestly liking it this way LMAO

And even though I have her in 3 games... she's significantly different in each one and that blows my mind

But anyway, quick me things so I don't accidentally go down a Clair spoiling rabbit hole

I aaaaaaaaaam a teacher sorta. I've taught for about 12 years. 3 years in Taiwan, 4 years in Philly and 5 years in China

I do speak Mandarin, I can read and write (honestly who the fuck writes in this economy so let's say type)

But I aaaaaaaam very much a smol white girl lol

I was in China from 2018-2023, you can do the math on that one. I don't talk about it much but I do get.. uh. Triggered? LOL sometimes. If it bothers you just mute or call me out with a smack on the head

I HAVE 3 CATS. Merrill who is 11 and is named after a character from Dragon Age. Rufio who will be 5 soon!! He is named after a character from the movie Hook. And PETEtunia who is ??? 2?? and she is called Pete because my dad wanted a cat named Pete and was bummed she is very much a torbie and therefore female so PETEtunia it is

Merrill I adopted during a 3 month stint attending MIIS summer intensive language program. A classmate's friend's cat had kittens and she was the only tortie like her momma c:

So I came home from the summer course with a cat OOPS

Rufio is a wild ride of a story

He's an orange tabby, everything about him is a wild ride tbh

A coworker brought a 3 week old kitten in a cardboard box into work

Said he found him wandering a park on his own without momma and assumed MAMA MUST BE DEAD

Sir. Momma gotta eat too. It's normal for them to peace out to get food sometimes

So he stole a baby, basically

I was horrified because at 3 weeks they can't regulate their body temp, they have to eat every 2 hours

I basically scooped up Ru and shoved him against me for warmth. It was the middle of Shanghai summer and the A/C was BLASTING

I asked the coworker when he last ate LAST NIGHT

He was covered in fleas, he was polka dotted and he had an eye infection

So I bullied this coworker into taking Ru to my vet and when he got back I said. I'll pay for his care. If you pay me back, he's yours. If you don't, he's mine.

I warned my vet in advance, cleared it all with the vet. The vet was very on my side

Coworker was not willing to foot the bill so Ru came home with me a week later from the vet

HE WAS LITERALLY SO TINY they couldn't give him flea meds so they had to tweezer off each one

Needless to say, Ru is very easily stimulated, hates being touched and I honestly think tweezering off a literal army of fleas is the cause

So that's my giant menace demon child Rufio. He has a hook at the end of his tale and when he walks around with his tail up it looks like a periscope lol

I didn't want to name him Hook or like James so we went with Rufio. He has the stripies for the hair just right anyway lol and SAME PERSONALITY

Anyway, Pete is an easier story

Neighbors got evicted, left the pets behind

After a month in the wilderness, and I do kinda mean wilderness, we convinced her to take food from us and just before a massive heat wave/t-storm we nabbed her to bring her inside

We intended to bring her to a shelter but she was such a sweetie I convinced my dad we had to keep her

NO REGRETS she's still a sweetie and now a pudgy pudgy princess livin the dream

AND UHHHHHHHHH YES. THAT'S ME.

NICE MEETING YOU ALL

Hope you're as excited as I am to play togetherrrrrrrrrrrrrrr