1)What's your favorite Final Fantasy Job Class?
Time Mage. How has nobody else picked them yet? Messing with time is just such a badass concept for a spell set, and they tend to be immensely powerful without being overt about it, which I like.
2)What's your favorite fantasy race that is not Human?
Elves on style points. El Cid has a pretty good point about how well fleshed out other races often are in practice, unfortunately. Hobbits are good, but only because they're basically a type of short human, so that doesn't really count.
3)Who is your favorite historical leader of a country not your own? Why?
Probably Augustus Caesar. In my teenage years I had a period of fanboying over the Roman Empire, and within the context of the Empire, Augustus is just The Man. He was a political power player who rose to the top of a nasty civil war, then settles down and becomes the most effective peacetime leader of Rome ever, pretty much, passing all sorts of practical laws which took a decaying state and revitalised it (he created Rome's standing, impartial army, its police and firefighting forces, its efficient tax system and postal service). Though he was a dictator, he was a strong believer in the rule of law, and left Rome a less corrupt place than he found it without much question. Despite no shortage of incompetent rule in later years, the empire survived another five centuries, and that was in large part due to him, and his five decades of running one of the biggest shows of the ancient world.
ASSUME THE FOLLOWING FOR QUESTIONS 4-6
God can call you on your cell phone. He appears as "GOD" in big friendly letters, and he has a personalized ringtone. Sometimes it's important, more often than not, the divine dude is just bored and talks about things way beyond your ken. Do you answer your phone...
4)If you're having a bad day?
Of course. If anyone can help put a bad day in perspective, it's a divine being.
5)If you're having sex?
No. Just shows a lack of respect to the other person involved. This isn't the only such time I would refuse to answer a call from anyone - other similarly personal times would be off limits. I'm not a man who believes in letting a phone interrupt such things.
6)If you're in the shower?
If he has his own ringtone, sure, why not. No creative answers here.
7)You are given the power of perfect empathy. Not only can you immediately tell what someone is feeling, you can tell everything they're feeling. Sometimes, you understand things so beneath the surface that the people you're dealing with don't even comprehend it yet. Eventually, you realize that all of your friends think you're an intrusive dick. Do you willingly give up your power if offered, you dick?
I don't think so. I'm too much of a sucker for knowledge, even if it hurts. The real question is if I'd drive myself crazy trying to change myself to meet their standards, or if I'd just accept that people don't have to like all of me to be my friend.
8)What kind of shoes do you wear most of the time? If they're made for a particular sport, do you partake in that sport?
I dunno. Uh... they're sorta semi-casual or... something. I know nothing about shoes.
9)What is your favorite season? Why?
I used to be a summer man to a bone, but of late I find my tastes creeping earlier. I dunno. Summer is just absolutely gorgeous, but there's something so satisfying about the earlier seasons where everything starts to come alive and light starts streaming in earlier and later in the day.
10)Tell an anecdote about someone doing something inexplicably hot (in the attractive sense) or, you know, don't if you don't feel like sharing.
Honestly, I'm not really sure. I'm sure there are some good ones, but they're slipping my mind. Hot is kinda transient, to me, in my memory. Female nerddom is of course hot, as others have noted, but I'm used to it by now, and there isn't really one defining moment.
