V. Richlin, otherwise known on this blog as Avicile Mohaili, was born in 1989 in the Pacific Northwest, though she has lived on the other side of the mountains, where the scenery is brown and not green, for 20 years (She also writes really, really long sentences that encompass many ideas). She is an introvert, preferring to create stories and act them out on her own than playing with friends. Most of her stories take her observations of people and experiences and make them her interpretation and give them her own unique touch.
V. Richlin is a pseudonym of definite origin. The V stands for Vifiale, a name that she took as her own so that she could participate in the stories she wrote throughout middle and early high school. The last name Richlin was the surname of her best friend in late elementary school. However, as time went on, she started hating the name Vifiale and by college she was no longer a character in her stories but an omniscient observer. However, she still signs all of her artwork with V. Richlin and decided to use this name as a full pseudonym. By college she favored Avicile Mohaili as her avatar and has decided on that name as her blogger name, as she runs multiple blogs (notably one about her dealings in the MMORPG, Runescape) and could only choose one name which would be used on all of them.
V. Richlin has always taken great interest in others and is no stranger to roleplaying and coming up with people and stories behind them. As far back as Kindergarten V. Richlin recalls pretending to be someone else, usually someone disabled in some way, to explore what their life might be like. This led to a lifelong love of creation of people, their personality, and how they came to be. By mid-elementary school, these creations were coming to life and by middle school, with the introduction of Avicile Mohaili, each new person was assigned a family with parents and siblings, a birthday, well-defined looks and personality, and a story. As she progressed through high school this method became very refined and even more complex. V. Richlin describes the stories in her head as "a web of stories, all connected. Anything missing will be discovered in due time."
As long as she has been writing, V. Richlin has been drawing as well. She enjoys sketching the people she sees in her mind and as she has aged her signature drawing style emerged and is easily recognizable. Even unlabeled, she is able to quickly identify the people of her drawings. Her memory and knowledge of so many things is great and even she cannot fully comprehend or explain how she knows and retains so much.
Her blog World of V. Richlin was created a few years ago for the purpose of explaining the major points of her imagination to friends, relatives, and anyone interested. Over the years it has evolved into a portfolio of short stories, essays, explanations, character studies, and story series often broken up into personal letters or chapters. She claims that only a fraction of the goings on in her head make it down to paper, due mainly to the size of the task and personal choice. She says that once she starts talking about things and the true complexity of it all comes out, people often tell her to write a book. She confesses that the reason she hasn't is because most of her stories don't have a definitive plot that could be spelled out in a book. This is why she has chosen a blog where she can be as static as she likes and people can follow at her pace. However, some stories do have major plots and these are beginning to be written down as chapters as events shape the details.
V. Richlin describes herself as just a normal introverted girl marching to her own beat. Her other activities and interests include music (she is a music major playing bass trombone), playing Runescape, making lists and rosters of people, creating and studying names, chatting with friends, being with her boyfriend, enjoying nature (though she despises camping), and writing music.
