DeviantArtist Questionnaire

...Okay, this is going to be a long story about how I got this username because there really was a lot of thinking that went behind it to be honest (and I will be admitting... sorta personal things haha)- just a heads up. |D

To start off, a long while back before I was Dante-Aran, this account went by the username "Dante123ICanBeAnyone". x'D I was 13 years old obviously when I started off on dA, and named myself for the following reasons:
(Dante) I had a Devil May Cry obsession at the time and had a tendency to name my accounts after characters I really liked- i.e. Cloud, Sephiroth, Wander, etc.
(123) I thought I needed numbers and clearly I wasn't too original with the choosing. |'D
(ICanBeAnyone) Growing up, my acting was really the only skill I could bank on to get through school; on the internet I already knew you could literally "become anyone" thanks to anonymity, and I also early on was interested in roleplaying. So ICanBeAnyone was pretty much me playing around with the idea that I could literally be anyone in real life via acting, be anyone on the net due to anonymity and also be anyone via roleplaying.

The biggest thing I was really hiding about myself with the ICanBeAnyone part though if I really had to be honest... It was mostly my gender. Haha. 8'D

I admit also that as a kid, the things I took a really big liking to were objects most often associated to boys. Comic books, action figures, video games, certain tv shows- all the stuff that back then your mom or someone older than you would see and probably end up telling you "Only boys play with that- go get a barbie doll instead". Being the rebel as I was early on, I didn't care what other people said so immediately attached myself to the stuff that really interested me. As young as I was, I honestly already believed you didn't have to be a boy to like these things and that girls could like them as well. Problem is, I was raised in a country and around a time when gender stereotypes had to be the norm. In turn, other kids thought I was the odd one out, so I was pretty much bullied for it and ostracized almost. Young boys didn't want to hang out with a girl; girls just couldn't connect with me because our interests were different, so  they didn't want to hang out with me either. It didn't help that I was eventually brought up in an all girl grade school and high school, so it sort of got harder from there (i.e. Why are you only drawing boys?).
Eventually I go on the internet, get introduced to deviantart, and under my username, everyone immediately would think I was a guy, and I could get away with the interests I had without people judging me for it- without people telling me I can't like the things I like just because I was a girl. And I guess it just made me feel comfortable having people identify me as a dude thanks to that? Ironically though, I'm in no way trans if you're really going to think about asking me about that... Haha.

As for where Dante-Aran goes into all this- Easy. When dA announced the rename feature, I took the option immediately once I got a premium because the old username was getting too nooby for me but at the same time I didn't want to let go of the account since I already built a lot of history on it. When the change happened, I decided to keep the "Dante" part since by that point everyone knew me as Dante and referred to me as such, and the -Aran is actually based off Samus Aran from the Metroid series. In a way, I felt my situation as I grew up on this account similar to hers when she first debuted on the NES: Everyone I met thought I was a dude up until I finally revealed who I really was.

Aaaand that's what my username means and arguably what it means to me. |'D

TL;DR: I was 13 when I made this account as Dante123ICanBeAnyone, liked DMC enough to name myself Dante and thought I could be anyone on the internet, including a boy since I was highly bullied for my interests. One day I matured and replaced the 123ICanBeAnyone part of my username with a respectable "-Aran" after Samus Aran whom everyone thought was a dude until she removed her suit and revealed her gender.

Ur wildest dreams ;D
LOLJK

Read above... And I know it's not different since I've tried it, but still. ;3;

If I'm not mistaken, it's digital paintings.

Now this is a hard one because I'm honestly not particularly attached to any dA artist to call them a favorite huhu-
But narrowing it down, I think it's arvalis, namely because his art development and improvement is the kind I am hoping to achieve myself.

Oh man- Now where to start. x'DDD
 and tbh the list goes on.

Special shout out though to the peeps I met IRL prior to dA. You know who you are 

In more ways than I can count tbh. C'8 Like I just know I wouldn't be the same person I am today if I didn't come across the tons of people I've met. Sure, I've had my fair share of bad and good moments with people, and I've seen great friendships crumble instantly just by one single move, but hey, it's technically all part of growing up, and I'd say deviantart was where I really grew up in and actually could see how much I have.

Wacom Tablets, Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop

I'd say either at home or at school. Though to be honest it's been hard for me to find my current niche spot for drawing lately. I've sort of grew out of some places. 8'C

Man, there are just too many things that happened to me that I can't even name what would be my favorite to be honest. C'8
If I really had to narrow it down to 5... I guess it would be...
1) That White Day prank us people did on a few years back.
2) The counter troll measure I pulled off in one of my groups. Essentially a troll entered the chat and I managed to shoo him away with the usage of . Absolutely hilarious.
3) ...I'm probably going to get my ass kicked for this but...
MAKES YOU FEEL EXCITED RIGHT
4) The day I "sort of" revealed Aradann's face. I honestly logged everyone's reactions because it was that priceless. x'DDDDDD
and 5).......



This thing probably took the cake in terms of the hilarity that ensued from my craziness. x'DDD

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