About Sonny & Ais

3/12/07 by Sonny & Ais

You know you wanted author bios. Lying only hurts yourself as well as us.

Sonny

• Name: Sonny (Santino if you want to be technical about it)
• Nickname: ...Sonny
• Age: 29
• Gender: Male
• Favorite colors: Black/Silver
• Occupation: Two jobs + go to school full time.
• Hometown: Born in Sicily, raised in New York City
• Marital status: Divorced but with two cute sons to show for it
• Orientation: Bisexual
• Likes: Writing, reading, pizza, steak, cigarettes, alcohol, illegal substances
• Dislikes: Most people, stupidity, the MTA, people who are whores and say they are 'sexually free', my ex-wife
• Favorite authors: Neil Gaiman, George RR Martin, Milton, Charlotte Bronte, the old Terry Goodkind, Poppy Z Brite
• Favorite movies: Napolean Dynomite, 300, The Godfather, Lost in Translation, A Love Song for Bobby Long, STAR WARS!!!!! (the original trilogy of course), any movies made by View Askew (Jay and Silent Bob are my heroes), The Departed, War of the Worlds

Entrance into Slash/Online Writing:

It's strange how I got into the whole online world of writing. At first it was because my friend (and now ex-wife) was into GW fandom and I kind of started reading it because she told me about it since we both liked the show. Eventually she lost interest in fandom but I didn't and I branched off into different ones, doing more reading than writing although I've made a ton of friends (one of which is Ais) in the GW fandom, most of which aren't in the fandom anymore.

I didn't start writing fanfiction or anything until after the fandom was dying so I didn't really post it anywhere or have the desire to show it to anyone. I kind of lost interest in it after awhile and instead turned to original fiction and autobiographical writing. I stopped posting autobiographical writing out of sheer self consciousness about a lot of stuff in it and instead started a ton of original fiction (most of which can be find in the memories of my journal) but I never finished any of it. This story is the first one that I've actually continued on for a long time, mostly because I love working with Ais + the characters + the world.

Sin is another funny story... he was developed long before this story came about but that's a tale for the Story Origins section of this site.

Ais

• Nickname: Ais (previously known as MikAAislin Nymph in the GW community, or Karaleyn at ffn for One Piece and Naruto fics)
• Age: 25
• Gender: Female
• Favorite colors: Blue/Silver
• Occupation: Full time job, occasional part time student, webmistress on another site.
• Hometown: Born and raised in midwest, USA
• Marital status: Single, probably forever. I suck at meeting people.
• Orientation: Bisexual
• Likes: Writing, reading, drawing, sitting at the computer, anime, manga, being a nerd, other nerdy people, popcorn, and-- most importantly-- DOGS!
• Dislikes: People who don't let others be themselves/push their views on others, arrogance, selfishness, judgmental people, things which are anti-gay rights or anti-choice, alcohol and stupid drunk people
• Favorite authors: Neil Gaiman, Jim Butcher, Terry Goodkind in Wizard's First Rule and Stone of Tears, Terry Pratchett (especially the Vimes books), Emma Bull in 'Finder' and awesome mangaka like Oda Eiichiro, Maeda Tomo, Kawai Toko, Takanaga Hinako, and a list that would get too long
• Favorite movies: American Beauty, Memento, Pirates of the Caribbean, 28 Days Later, Death Becomes Her, Surf Ninjas, Disney's Sinbad and Little Mermaid, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Donnie Darko, Boondock Saints, The Departed, Spaced Invaders, Moonchild, Resident Evil, Murder by Numbers, Serenity

Entrance into Slash/Online Writing:

I got into online writing, and through that shounen ai/yaoi, by watching Cartoon Network's Toonami religiously through high school. I liked Ronin Warriors but felt something was missing from it so I tried checking online one day to see what else was around. Through that I discovered the massive world of fanfics and, on accident, the only slightly smaller world of yaoi. From there I started watching Gundam Wing when it showed up on Toonami and started writing fanfics for that. I was initially a Trowa/Quatre (3x4x3) enthusiast but somehow, probably due to the large number of fangirls in the mailing lists at the time, that morphed into Heero/Duo (1x2x1).

I wrote a lot of fics in the 1x2x1 fandom -- about 40 or more I think -- but most of them were oneshots or unfinished series. No one really knew who I was XD If you were ever in the GW 1x2x1 fandom in its peak period several years ago, you'd probably know me as MikAAislin Nymph. And, if you'd recognize a story, it would probably be the Dreams of the Soul Arc: Dreamweaver, Enter Sandman and Nightwalker with the sequel Of Life and Death. Otherwise you'd know me for Vivid, in which Duo runs around with anterograde amnesia. Because I was taking a psychology class on the DSM at the time and I'm a total nerd. They're pretty much all terrible stories but if you're interested, Aenai Ai still has my fics up. Look under fanfics / MikAAislin Nymph. If you know me as a writer from One Piece or Naruto fandom at all it would be for my ffn name karaleyn. Why so many names? Pretty much I'm just neurotic.

I've been writing for forever, mostly fantasy. I started a novel when I was... I forget the exact age. Twelve? Thirteen? I wrote that pretty hardcore for awhile, got about 150 pages into it and decided it was shit. So I scrapped it, started all over, got not nearly as far and hated it again. Repeat this cycle for awhile until I gave up on all writing for a year or so. Then fanfics sideswiped me for a few years and only recently have I been trying to branch back into original stuff again.

I go in cycles of really hating my writing style and often think it's shit. Because of that, I don't finish a lot of my stuff before I become so annoyed by all the imperfections that I find it difficult to feel the love for it again; times like that I need to take a break. I'm quite happy with this story because it's the longest thing I've consistently written with anyone. Also, in a mirror of what Sonny said, I enjoy working with Sonny + characters + world. I think making this story a collaboration has made it even more fun for me as a writer. Even if I know what plots are coming up, I don't often know the dialogue until it appears, so it's sort of like reading it as we write it.

Sonny & Ais

So that's all well and good but how did we come to know each other? Basically it was through a mutual friend -- Nitid, who founded GWYaoi.org. Somehow we kept in contact over the years and eventually started this story. A bit more can be found on that in Story Origins.

Trivia Facts!

• 'Ais' comes from her Wiccan name, part of which was 'Aislin' -- 'dream' in Gaelic.
• Sonny's parents loved the movie The Godfather and since the character Santino was nicknamed Sonny, he got the same nickname.
• Ais loves dogs.
• Sonny loves cats.
• Ais loves languages and knows a little of Spanish, French and Japanese.
• Sonny knows Italian and various words and phrases in a number of other languages.
• Ais likes anthropology, art, and web design as subjects.
• Sonny likes English, history, and classic literature as subjects.
• Ais thinks pirates would win.
• Sonny thinks ninja would win.
• Sonny and Ais are both research nerds who have been known to sidetracks themselves from simple parts of the story by trying to find accurate information and factoids.
• Sonny and Ais both are interested in Anthropology.
• Sonny and Ais both liked Gundam Wing; Duo was their favorite character.

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Our identities remain a secret! -- Even from each other?!!

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