Danilyn Sanchez was born on July 27, 1998 in the Philippines. She has brown curly hair and brown eyes. She describes having two different personalities - one that is calm and quiet, especially around teachers and strangers, and one that is more random and talkative around friends and family. She gets her personalities from her father, though her "kiddie voice" comes from elsewhere. Her parents are hardworking - her father works as a wielder and her mother runs a small home cooking business. The birth of her younger brother was initially an adjustment but she has come to love him, though he can be annoying at times. Danilyn hopes to become an illustrator and eventually an animator, as she enjoys

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My Story
I am a story. You are a story. My story began on July 27, 1998 . When I was born and named as
Danilyn Mular Sanchez in the General Hospital of Leyte, Philippines. I have brown curly hair and brown
eyes with long eyelashes. I have two different types of personalities. One is when I’m calm and quiet,
usually when I’m at school or when I’m with a teacher. An example would be, when I first started school
and I didn’t know that much people in my homeroom. I also use my “kiddie” voice, my kiddie voice is
when I sound like a little girl. There are reasons for this and one of them is because of nervousness. I get
nervous when I talk to people I don’t know. If I come across a pick-a-partner-activity when I just started
school and I don’t have any friends, I end up picking a random girl. I would usually think that if I pick a
random girl for an activity, she would be my best friend, that worked out, for most of the times. The
other appearance I have is when I’m random and I talk a lot. Which I usually show when I’m with my
friends or when I’m at home. My personalities came from my dad, except for the kiddie voice. My dad,
Danilo Manaligod Sanchez has black hair and brown eyes. He works at the Macdon Industries as a
wielder, he used to work at another Industry called MotorCoach where they make buses for long trips.
Like a ringmaster at a circus, he is important in our family and responsible. In the other hand my mom,
Jocelyn Mular Sanchez has dark brown eyes and hair. My mom’s maiden name was Jocelyn Calybod
Mular. She likes to cook and she even has her own mini business at home. She cooks delicious home-
cooked food like banana lumpia also called as turon, embotido a Filipino type of meatloaf, empanada
which is a stuffed bread which is filled with healthy ingredients and cupcakes. We exchange stories
when she cooks or when we eat together, if she wasn’t my mom she could have been my best friend! If
it weren’t for my parents I wouldn’t be here at school typing this or I wouldn’t even have a home or a
bed to lay my back on. Like a Venn diagram, they both have some similarities, they are helpful, caring
and loving, but that was expected wasn’t it? My name “Danilyn” came from half of my mother’s and
father’s name, if you hadn’t noticed. My grandma on my mother’s side, was the one who thought and
discovered it. Last but not least is my awkward brother, Jayson. Let’s just say that horrible things happen
to you when you get him mad, very unpleasant happenings. I didn’t want you to be kept on hanging on
the edge of the sentence there, so I decided to make a paragraph about my brother.
The birth of my brother was an exciting memory but there were always ups and downs. When I
first heard that my mom was pregnant, I was speechless. I just stood there, open-mouthed and frozen, I
couldn’t move, I wanted to move. I wanted to go into my bedroom and whisper to myself that it wasn’t
true, it couldn’t be true but I just stood there, I wanted to protest, tell them that it wasn’t fair but I
didn’t want to get yelled at. It was 5 minutes later when I nodded and said “That’s great”. They’ve
wanted a son for so long because they wanted an equal family, one son and one daughter, but the
money and the bills for the baby supplies always made them rethink about the idea. I wasn’t going to be
a disappointment, I didn’t want them to be disappointed or saddened so whenever we discuss about the

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topic, I would always answer calmly “that’s fine”. Be a good girl, accept your lot, count your blessings.
Facing reality was always hard if it doesn’t go well or if it doesn’t go smoothly like how you wanted it to
be, but what if reality was perfect? It would boring if you didn’t have bumps or curves along the way,
wouldn’t it? Then finally on February 21, 2009 in St. Boniface Hospital. Where and when my brother was
born, the day where my dad couldn’t stop fidgeting his fingers because he couldn’t go to the medical
room with my mom because I didn’t want to go in and I needed someone to take care of me. When I
first saw his tiny little body, I was amazed of how cute a baby could actually be! He had little hair and his
eyelashes were long. Years have passed and the adorable little brother that I once knew, now has curly
brown hair with brown eyes with temper tantrums, rude and annoying. Behind his issues, he is adorable
and loving. The impact of the birth of my brother made me tired more often because I needed to do
extra chores while my mother takes care of him. I also got more clumsier and I was stressed more often.
At home when my brother gets really annoying and makes me frustrated, as much as I would love to yell
at him to stop, I would ignore him. I thought that that was the only way to make him stop, I was wrong.
Everything was fine with the idea of ignoring him but I never knew that he was emotional, emotional
enough to cry when I ignore him. What I’ve been through? That was nothing, one of the scariest things
that I had to do was sleeping by myself. I was 9 years old and I was afraid to sleep by myself because our
apartment looked scary, too scary. At that time I wanted to get away, find a new house, but that would
be too greedy. It wasn’t long after until we found a decent house, a house I fell in love with. As much as I
like to stay the way I am right now, I need to take a step to my future and start digging up for ideas for a
likable future.
I see myself becoming as an illustrator and gradually becoming an animator because one of my
interests are drawing, I do it when I’m mad, sad or even if I’m bored. I want to know more about art
because for me, art is something anyone could freely do, even if it’s painting to sculpting. One goal I
need to achieve is my drawing styles, I need to learn more about different drawing designs and bases
because in order to be an artist you need to have a variety of different styles, so the project that you will
be working on is more suitable for the audience, like if I was working on a kid’s cartoon comic you
wouldn’t want to draw something realistic, you would want to draw cartoons to grab children’s
attention. So far, the only bases I could do is anime but I still don’t know how to draw some body poses
on anime, so I plan to gather more information. I also need to work on my coloring and shading because
I don’t like coloured pictures because to me, some coloring ruins the drawing but some pictures are
actually much better with coloring. Because of my hatred in coloring I can only do a headshot that is
simply coloured no details, not that much value. A coloured headshot isn’t that fascinating to compare
to a full body base which is coloured. If you were to compare an ordinary headshot to an ordinary body
base, a body base would grab more attention than a headshot because a headshot only has the head of
the character other than a full body which has the whole body of the character. Let’s not get too off
topic here, another goal I need to achieve is to finish high school, so I could get more feedback from
different people with different opinions on how to become a professional artist. Last but not least, I
want to have a family that I will care for and treasure for my whole life because for most people that’s
part of happiness, true love. That’s not where my story stops. My story is just beginning.