User:Noctefleur



"Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt."

- Virgil





Introduction Hey, I'm Noctefleur (or just Night), a semi-active user on this wiki. You will probably see me editing on new articles, offering book summaries, or helping out with code-oriented duties.

I first started reading the Percy Jackson series sometime around the release of The Lost Hero. I quickly fell in love with the world of Gods, monsters, and demigods, with the complex characters and their epic quests, and of course with Percy’s distinctive humor, which never failed to make me laugh. I proceeded to read every subsequent volume in the HoO and Carter Kane series, and I’ve recently started reading the Apollo series and the Norse books as well.

I joined this wiki in the spring of 2014 under the username Arctic Blue, though I quickly left due to scholastic stress and other wikia duties (being the administrator of other wikis). I still read Riordan’s books, often a few hours after they were released, but I did not think of making any more edits on the wiki.

Needless to say, much has happened since then. I’ve quite missed being an active contributor on wikis, I’ve missed the feeling of being part of a community that loves something (in this case, Riordan’s books) with the same passion that I possess. With the publication of the Hammer of Thor in the fall of 2016, I decided to come back to the wiki, perhaps not as an active contributor, but still one involved in the community and the creation of new articles. If you want to discuss anything Riordan related, or talk about Greco-Roman/Norse/Egyptian mythology, please leave a message on my talk page: I’m generally quite nice, though I will be savage occasionally.



About Myself
 * My username was once Arctic Blue - now it’s Noctefleur, after I requested a name change. Why Noctefleur? Well, Nocte is the singular ablative form of Nox (Night) in latin, and could be translated at Night, or by Night. Fleur is the French word for flower. Night was a nickname I’ve had for a while, and I really liked the way Noctefleur sounded. If you’re wondering, my name is pronounced as Nock-tay-flir.
 * You could always address me by my full username - or you could call me Night, which is still my preferred nickname. Noct, Nocte, and Fleur are all fine, too.
 * I would like to keep my gender mostly ambiguous, so male, female, and gender-neutral pronouns are all more or less acceptable whilst referring to me.
 * I took Latin in high school, and am still currently enrolled in a Latin course. Though I am not very proficient at it, I still enjoy reading Latin works of prose and poetry. Some of my favorite works are: Metamorphoses (Ovid), Ab Urbe Condita (Livy), and of course, the Aeneid by Virgil.
 * I absolutely love mythology - mostly due to Riordan. I would not say that I’m an expert at Greco-Roman mythology, but I have read other works (such as the Metamorphoses) on the topic other than PJO & HoO.
 * My favorite book in general is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I’ve only read it once - which is not surprising as the novel is gargantuan in size and convoluted in nature. I would highly recommend it - provided that you have a ton of free time, and provided that you do not mind flipping to the back of the book to read the 100 page long collection of footnotes every 3 pages or so….
 * I have been playing the piano for more or less a decade now - and I love music. My playlist is an unorthodox mix of classical music (Chopin, Beethoven), anime themes in Japanese (SAO, Re:Zero, Your Lie in April, etc.), Nightcore (Reality, Zero, Melody, Cherry), video game themes (Final Fantasy, Bloodborne, Undertale, Dark Souls) and of course, k-pop (EXO, BTS… mostly boy groups.)