Username: I started out on the internet in 1993 with my AOL Screen name Vampire 1. I made up a character who was a vampire named Lady Rhiannon Sian Emyr to play on the RPG boards. I lost my account on AOL when I racked up $800 in charges when we moved back up north from where I was living. When AOL went to a merely monthly charge, I got back on and had to change my screen name. I chose LadyRhian, and that's what it has been ever since. I use it pretty much everywhere, except on Deviantart, where my name is LadyRhianwriter (because I am a writer.)
Avatar- I started out with a ruby, since that is my birthstone (July Leo), but I saw this in an artbook that I purchased at Otacon a few years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's "Alburnus" a fairy by a painter named Maxine Gadd.