Cammy
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Date of Birth: 21/07/1984
Camille first came across the Final Fantasy series when her sister purchased a Sony Playstation along with Final Fantasy VII. Initially dubious about videogames, she was quickly seduced by the astonishing magnetism of the game series. Like many, she turned to the internet to feed her interest and, in 2000, she decided to establish her own website, Final Fantasy Symphony, dedicated to Nobuo Uematsu’s captivating soundtracks. Although only a beginner at webdesign during the early days of the website, Camille has since gained enormous strength in the field, and has recently started producing websites on a professional level through customer demand.
Her interest in webdesign aside, Camille is an aspiring violinist and has completed six years of study at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, graduating with a Master of Music degree in June 2008. She has given solo recitals and taken part in competitions, most notably in winning the Staffordshire Young Musician of the Year award in 2002.
Camille now works professionally as a freelance violinist, based in Manchester, UK, performing with some of the UK's leading orchestras including the Halle and the BBC Philharmonic.
Sephiroth
News Reporter
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'Seph' is not one of those fans, who takes on their character's personality traits in order to be cool. However, he is talking about himself in the third person.
This does not bode well.
Arriving at this website two years ago by accident, he managed to get the name Sephiroth on the forum and decided to stay purely for that shallow reason. He then found out that everyone else was really nice and continued to post irrelevantly and hyperbolically. Now Cammy has given him a job as a news reporter. Isn't she a star?
LittleCactaur
News Reporter
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Date of Birth: 09/05/87
LittleCactaur (also known as LC, Anderson, MisterObtoons or simply Jon) works on many projects related to gaming. In addition to posting news on ffsymphony.net, LC is a news hound for SquareAMP.com, has written reviews for games at Square-Haven.com, and submits the occasional editorial to RPGamer.com. He also writes, directs, voices and produces a Flash Animated series titled "The Department". To find out more info, visit LC's extended profile/blog over at www.myspace.com/Obtoons
Robert Russell
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Date of Birth: 22/11/85
Robert is a musician and mathematician originally from Brisbane in Australia, but now living in London in the UK. He is currently over here with his band, Lord Byron.
Robert's main interests in music lie in song writing and composing, especially in the musical and computer game genres. His desire to have his computer game compositions heard is what brought him to FFSymphony.
After a while, Robert became an important member of the FFS forum community, and ended up taking on the role of Content Manager for the main site.
Robert enjoys listening to other composers out there in the video game fan world. He has set up a monthly competition known as the FFSMCC (Final Fantasy Symphony Monthly Composition Competition) in the forums section of this site, and encourages composers from all around the world to join in on the fun.
Ethan
Soundtrack Reviewer
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Date of Birth: 64/13/1519
Ethan claims to live in Midgar, and that he was born in 1519. Nevertheless, this should not be taken seriously for the oldest man in the world does not exceed the age of 150 and Midgar is a fictitious city registered to Squaresoft ® Co Inc. 1997.
Kalin McKevey (of the staff panel below) claims his love of final fantasy is unparalleled. Unfortunately for him, at the time of writing, he did not realise that Ethan is just as paralleled as he, in the love of final fantasy.
Ethan is a lost soul forever doomed to be undecided in what he will be in life. He has tried to diversify his skills and abilities, in an effort to understand what career would suit him best. He mainly plays the cello, but can also play the piano to a trifling degree. Currently working towards making an art portfolio for uni, but also doing a Cisco certified diploma in networking.
In regards to soundtrack reviewing, it should be noted that Ethan may show a bias tendency to like alternative, rock, metal, electronic styles while showing a dislike for frilly, fluffy peter pan music. This should not be of significant concern nevertheless for most of final fantasy’s music is composed in a classic orchestral style, which Ethan also enjoys.
For anyone who is wondering who wrote this biography - that would be me, which gives rise to the question of why it was written in the third person in the first place. In an effort to not feel out of place with other staff biographies and for the fact that it is also not entitled as ‘autobiographies’, Ethan has also decided to conform in writing of himself, in the third person.
MoogleGenocide
Soundtrack Reviewer
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Date of Birth: 3/10/88
When not writing posts about himself in the third person, Matthew Brady, (usually just refered to as "Brady" by his close associates,) does nothing too worthy of intrest. Aside from writing unecessarily long posts about the glories of the elder days of Final Fantasy, and sounding like an old man in general, he enjoys playing Dungeons and Dragons, making nerd jokes, chillaxing with buddies, and watching obscure films. When he isn't doing that it usually means he's bashing the republicans somewhere, or pointlessly replaying FFIIIj in an atempt to get a fully equipped Onion Kid party.
He lives in the chicken wing capital of the world, and enjoys his overly greasy bar food. Right now he is a Senior in Highschool, and after highschool is considering becoming a teacher of History.
Introduced to Final Fantasy at the tender age of 4, before he could read, he played Final Fantasy IV, religiously, and was equally engrossed with VI, which was given to him by his father almost immediately after it came out. The rest just fell into place.
Evan Young
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Date of Birth: 03/21/1989
Born into the world on March 21st 1989, Evan Young was destined to become a musician. He shares the same birthday as the acclaimed composer Nobuo Uematsu.
Beginning at a tender age of 5, he started playing piano and played for 3 years before starting his first wind instrument which was the Alto Sax in his 4th grade year. At age 10, he started to sing.
In 2003, Evan started playing the french horn and to his surprise became something he truly enjoyed and loved. He was part of the nationally acclaimed groups like the South Brunswick Viking Marching Band as lead mellophone and South Brunswick Wind Ensemble as the principal Horn. He is currently majoring in music education and horn performance at Mason Gross in Rutgers University.
On the side, he is a private horn teacher and teaches his former HS music program. He enjoys playing video games, listening to music, watching TV and going out with his friends.
Don't you just love writing in the 3rd person? It's fun. You guys should give it a try sometime!
T. Schulley
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Date of Birth: 05/19/87
T. Schulley (whose friends often fail to acknowledge a first name of any sorts) loves his Final Fantasy. Ever since his friend Dan introduced him to FFVII, he was hooked. His favorites include IV, V, VII, IX, and X. He often wonders why not many people like V or IX, and why so many people love VIII. Not that it's bad, it's just... well it's not BAD.
Anyway, T. Schulley started his musical experience playing the trumpet a good decade ago, moved on up to guitar a few years ago, and more recently started playing piano and harmonica. Alright, he's not that great a performer, rather, he enjoys composing, arranging, and gets a strange satisfaction out of analyzing scores. Weird!
Also, T. Schull enjoys jumping on bandwagons, particularly those of the third person nature.
Neil Cullen
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Date of Birth: 11/05/1989
Neil has what's called an obsessive personality. Not in any kind of sinister way, it's relatively harmless but it does mean that when he likes something, he likes it with a passion.
One love that has fallen victim to this fact is his love for Final Fantasy, which he has been obsessive about since he picked up the platinum re-release of Final Fantasy VII eight years ago. Since then, he has been losing himself in the series' many worlds, thanks in part to the magical work of Mr Nobuo Uematsu whom Neil has developed an immense admiration for.
When Neil isn't playing videogames, conversing on MSN Messenger or supporting Andy Murray, he is often found messing around with a guitar (which he picked up around three years ago... as in started playing, not literally picked up... that would be unecessarily precise) or tinkering on his piano (which he started playing at the age of 6).
After finishing his final year at Glasgow's infamous Shawlands Academy, Neil has absolutely no idea what he will do, but has narrowed it down to Journalism or something Art based, however notions come and go on a weekly basis so his plans will undoubtedly have changed by this time next year.
Music is his drive.
Arusephan
News Reporter
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Date of Birth: 23/04/1989
Branded with many infamous names, such as "The Walking FFXI Encyclopaedia" or the "Dictionary of Nugatory Words", Arusephan - or Franky - had become the new definition of sarcasm; of course, in his Dictionary of Nugatory Words.
All sarcasm aside, Arusephan has been a constant visitor of Final Fantasy Symphony, and has made many friends in the home he had discovered. Somehow, his profile you are currently reading is a strange outcome, as he also became one of the many news reporters of Final Fantasy Symphony.
As if that wasn't to be expected.
Being a sucker to a phantasmagorical story, it's only natural that Arusephan would be attached to the Final Fantasy series so closely, and always being more than impressed with the stories that Square-Enix has to offer in one of their biggest projects of the entire videogame industry. Also, being the oddball person he is, he enjoys keeping his ear out for many new things that get thrown around in the vast pool of pornography - also known as the Internet.
As of current, Arusephan is completing his final year of high school, and will - soon enough - be attending university. Arusephan also does not like speaking in third person.
This is also why Arusephan is going to stop talking.