User:Arven92

"Arven92" is the fictional name for the laziest, shortest and silliest Italian you've ever seen. Arven enjoys doing pretty much anything, except sports. Maybe that's the reason why she's so fat.

Her favourite activities include drawing, listening to music, playing videogames, starwatching and eating pistachio nuts. Yes you heard right.

She also likes languages and knows four of them: Italian (you don't say?), English, French and Spanish. She tried learning Japanese once but she failed, and would love to learn German and Polish one day. Since she can't, she rapes Google Translate every day.

About the artist
Maura "Panthera Arven" was born on December 12th, 1992. She currently lives in Rome, Italy, with her family.

Since she was a young kid, she has always loved drawing. Her first attempt to ever draw a picture was to try and make coloured spirals on a piece of paper, as her aunt taught her. Her first big comic project was born in 2005, when she discovered the show "Teen Titans": she turned the heroes of this show into wolves and made comic versions of the episodes. In 2008 she joined the online community DeviantART, and posted her second comic attempt, The Black Guardian, which she later abandoned, in order to give space to her third novel, Black and White: Ophelia's Story. But when she realized that neither this was the right one, she gave it up. At the end of 2008, Arven discovered the PlayStation 2 award winning game "Okami". The game inspired her so much that she instantly saw the making of an epic tale in her mind. She put down the basis to a comic, and planned to make a sequel of Okami, with her own characters. Later on, however, the idea developed, and Chakra, Battle of the Titans was born. No longer a sequel to Okami, but a brand new, original story, yet projected into the world of Okami, as a thank you for the amazing inspirational power the game had on her. She is currently working on another comic project, Africa, which will be released somewhere between 2013 and 2014.

Today, almost half a decade after its birth, Chakra is on its fourth chapter, and Chapter One  and [http://chakrabattleofthetitans.wikia.com/wiki/Here_Come_The_Heroes! Two] were successfully printed. No one, let alone Arven herself, would dream that the comic could get even the slightest attention, and instead, it has got rather popular, and it counts at least four hundred followers. Beside her comic project, Arven attends University in Tor Vergata (Rome), and enjoys starwatching on warm, cloudless nights.

Arven's favourite singers are Max Pezzali and Nickelback. She does not have a favourite TV show, but she enjoys detective series like Body of Proof and Castle.

Arven is typically Italian-like built (long dark hair, dark eyes and... err.. negligible height), and loves Italian/Mediterranean food. Aparts from pistachio nuts, she enjoys pizza, pasta, french fries, meat and everything related to proteins. Although her diet may seem full of fat things, Arven doesn't generally eat much, so she's not obese, but she ain't no top model, either.

Tools of the trade
In 2008, her parents gave Arven a box of 120 Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft coloured pencils, which she still uses nowadays. Arven occasionally uses Derwent, Jolly, Giotto and Stabilo pencils too. She collects scattered markers, especially Copic Ciao. For her lineart, she uses Staedtler Pigment Liner markers. For white highlights, she uses Uni Posca white acrylic markers. Random pencils and everyday's A4 inkjet paper are used to draw.

Fun facts

 * Everybody calls her awesome on the internet, but she is actually the typical "pipsweak loser" in real life.
 * She was stung by a scorpion as a kid. Despite the poison not causing any serious harm, she's been afraid of scorpions and spiders ever since.
 * She enjoys naming pets after stars. Her three cats Adhara, Murzim and Rigel are a clear example.
 * Speaking of which, her cats use her as a cat climber (that hurts!)
 * Arven constantly steps on Rigel's toes because the damn cat keeps getting in the way when she walks.
 * Every once in a while, her cat Murzim catches a lizard/grasshopper/cricket/whateveranimalhecanfind and places it at Arven's feet, to her immense surprise (and slight disgust).
 * Arven's cat Adhara has recently given birth, but it is not known where she hid the kittens or how many they are.
 * Every night her cats try to take over the world.
 * Among the "odd" tools she owns we can find a cat rod (you know, for fishing cats), a space telescope, an army of VHS tapes and an USB drive shaped like the Statue of Liberty.