Hello there, my name is Daniel, I'm 24 and Canadian as the above states, and I hope I prove memorable, and well here's my preface.

So.... I'll be honest straight out this is diving into new territory for me, I have tried dating apps or sites in the like in past, but in a weird way they seem... disingenuous, I guess a more free forum style posting of this kind of thing feels less stilted to me. It's difficult for me to crumple down all my aspects into an a appealing datable package, and throughout the course of trying to figure this out this post may ramble on, but it will be an honest and true to self rambling, flaws and all so we shall see how this goes.

Relationship experience

I have only had the one relationship so far, it was long distance, and covid, and her lifestyle, meant that sadly it was three years without ever meeting in person. I was evidently... not real enough for her, and once she found someone who was in her area I was very quickly dropped, and they got engaged within the course of 8 weeks this year. I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm trying to grab for sympathy here I'm just asking that if you truly want to start a relationship that in all practical terms I am very inexperienced. Please be honest with me, I don't want to be hurt like this again, I just want to go through the undoubtedly awkward steps of trying to find someone to love again and be loved in return.

Physical description

I stand about 5"8-5"9 and have never had the desire to verify that, I have a very long mop of blond hair (approaching Hansen lengths though they are out of my pop culture lexicon), and an amber coloured beard. A friend of mine has eloquently described my build as "a fantasy dwarf that got stretched out" given my wide chest and comparatively shorter legs, I am on the chunkier side, I'm working on it but this year has been full of set backs emotionally and lack of energy or time for physical self improvement.

Interests

I would say that I generally fall under the umbrella term of nerd and/or geek, I have a deep love and appreciation for Gaming, manga/anime, sci-fi, ttrpgs, and a eclectic mix of other things, I am fairly into reading as well but as of currently manga has a cheaper buy in. Music again, is a bit all over the place, while I'd say I am predominantly on the rock spectrum of the charts with my favorite being prog/ rock with piano (60-00's) anything that strikes a key with me gets added to my phones playlist. I'll do a quick shotgun of things I like that will probably save us all from a couple paragraphs of explaining.

Games- souls series, Nintendo games, Titanfall 2, FTL, the monster hunter series, Hades, Hyper Light Drifter, Devil may Cry series, Caves Story, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight

Manga/Anime- Berserk, Tokyo ghoul series, Delicious in Dungeon, Vinland Saga, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kekai Sensen, 91 days, Hunter x Hunter, One Piece, Chainsaw Man, Trigun, The Faraway Paladin, Attack on titan, Acca, Jojo's bizarre adventure, Mob psycho 100, Beyond the boundry, Fullmetal achemist brotherhood

that went on for longer than expected but I hope this helps gauge my tastes or shared interests besides a long articulation. I'll say off the bat liking any of these things is far from a requirement or bar from entry for relationship with me, spending time together and fostering new interests together I think is a wonderful thing.

Personality

I would say I am a rather laid back person but if we get into something that interests I find I get very animated. I try and live my life around the ethos "do as many little good things that you can for the people around you, life is tough, if you can help make it a bit easier you should". But be prepared though my humor can be sardonic and yet full of puns since my father loved tricking me with word play I sort of latched onto it myself as well.

If I were to voice my characters flaws I would say that I can be a bit fatalistic, the world hasn't been great lately and covid make me sit and stew alone on these thoughts probably hasn't helped much. I am a tad introverted as well, as a general rule of thumb I avoid large crowds, but social interaction itself isn't the issue, but through no fault of the people around me I just have a limit to social activity sometimes and I just need to stop and refresh my batteries.

What am I looking for

Again this is just staring into the murky abyss for me as I have no clue on my preferences, besides being honest in your intent of pursuing a relationship I have no qualifiers for who you should be, just be yourself. I just want a chance to find that spark and make someone happy.

I know this is a bit bare bones but I think its good for a intro to me, there's only so many preprepared typed words that will describe who I am, finding out who I am, and who you are is something that will happen in the moment and in real conversation, I hope this helped at least express a little about who I am to you, and can lead us both to finding a happier chapter in our life.

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