Hey everyone ! My name’s Ariana, but you can just call me Ari ! I go by he/she/they pronouns; any are fine. I’m an english major and also a senior with only one semester left. It’s been a wild ride ! A lot of people ask me what I plan to do with my major and assume I’m planning to teach, but I actually really want to work in the video game industry ! I love video games as a storytelling medium and aspire to tell my own stories through games someday. In the meantime, I’ve been enjoying sharing my favorite games on stream as my streaming persona, Sunnie. Some of my favorite games are OneShot, Hello Charlotte, and Omori.
I’ve been spending a lot of time indulging in my many hobbies this summer. After a long hiatus, I finally returned to the anime convention scene with a new cosplay and performance. I’ve also been playing several tabletop games (I just finished our Sunday session an hour before writing this and OOF was it rough) and catching up on a few games I’ve been meaning to play and replay. If you couldn’t tell, I really like to draw and I’ve recently joined an annual art gifting competition called Art Fight. All the while working full time in the cheese department at Whole Foods. Needless to say I’ve been keeping quite busy this summer !
This class is a requirement for me, but I’m so happy about the theme that I’d probably have taken it even if I didn’t have to. I always appreciate it when alternative mediums are considered in literary discussions and I fully intend to drag my passion for games into this class. I hope you’re ready for it !
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Hi Ari,
Great to have you in class. I am very ready for you to bring your passion for games into our conversations!
What TTRPG do you play? My friends and I are very, very into D&D. We play every Friday night (though some weeks, like this one, we sneak in an extra session of Thursday. 😏😏😏 We play all homebrew and I co-DM with a friend. She is running this part of the campaign and is traumatizing the hell out of my poor PC. But that’s fine by me. I am happiest when he is at his most miserable. Tell us a bit about your PC!
Also, love the images that you included. They’re great!
Jessica Hautsch
It looks like we have a lot in common ! I also love it when my PC is miserable haha. I’ve been playing Monster of the Week and D&D on and off but on Sundays I’ve actually been beta testing a game a few friends of mine are working on ! I’ve been helping out with a bit of the development and can’t say too much, but I will say that it favors roleplay which I really love ! My character is an eccentric dreamer with a flair for the dramatic. He tries to seem edgy and mysterious but he’s actually super gentle and kind. The only good guy in the party ! I could go on about him for hours, but I imagine that as an english professor you tell some great stories for your players. I LOVE that you guys are playing a homebrew that sounds AWESOME ! I wanna hear about YOUR PC.
arbuonaiuto
Hi Ari,
I love that the game that you’ve been beta testing and helping to develop (!) favors role play! My group is also heavy into roleplaying (combat not so much). Your character sounds like so much fun to play! Love the inversion of the edgy archetype. And I think most players are very happy to talk about their PCs for hours (I know I never shut up about my boi). He is a half-elf draconic sorcerer and a courtesan background 😏😏😏😏, but he started dating one of the other PCs pretty early in the campaign (they are both terrible at being boyfriends, so that is a constant source of drama). Right now we are visiting the court of his abusive elvish grandfather and he’s being gaslit and (literally) haunted by his past. He is an absolutely wreck. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Here is a family portrait of our group that I had commissioned:
https://you.stonybrook.edu/eng309scificogsci/files/2022/07/Family-Portrait-labeled-for-confernce-pres.png
And here is a pic of Tak that a friend commissioned for me: https://you.stonybrook.edu/eng309scificogsci/files/2022/07/commission_dnd.jpg
Jessica Hautsch