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[emeraldrafael]

<color=green>Username: Its a combination of my birthstone and my nickname from Spanish Class. Its also something of a combination between fitting nicknames. The first is that my birth stone is an Emerald, and so my friends call me the Emerald Knight (its something that would take a away to explain, but suffice to say, I set up a local chapter of chivalry more true to the way it ran back when then what people like to think it is). The name Rafael (Raphael in English/French) means "God's Healing". My friends and I thought it fit, because they say God has both healed me, and used me to heal others. So I just took it and ran with it, using it for my user name.

<spoiler=Avatars><color=blue>Avatar(s):
<spoiler=Avatar 1>http://i52.tinypic.com/2lub67a.jpg
Protagonist (nameless in the game, but his manga name is Minato Arisato) of the game Persona 3 and Persona 3 Fes. Its my favorite game, and the character I can most associate too. Plus, I look like him (kinda) I just have to dye my hair blue (which is always a hassle but worth it when it comes out right) and get contacts, but I dont like to bother with those.

<spoiler=Avatar 2>http://i891.photobucket.com/albums/ac113/Onigiri_Iconz/Persona/Minato%20Arisato/26.jpg
Just another picture I like of Minato Arisato.

<spoiler=Avatar 3>http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/82024595/17251171
Protagonist (again, nameless in game, but in the manga series his name is Souji Seta) of Persona 4. Its one of my favorite games (top ten) but I dont like it as much as Persona 3 Fes (I know, its so much better, I dont care, personal opinions,a nd I like Persona 3 Fes' system better since you can use all weapon types and the fox doesnt rob you blind to replenish your HP/SP). Plus I didnt associate to this character like I did Minato (which is weird since you choose both's actions). Still, I like him, and I look like him more easily, since I just have to dye my hair silver (though although I do have glasses, I dont have glasses like his), but again, thats a pain to dye it and I dont do it often.

<spoiler=Avatar 4>http://i56.tinypic.com/2ccx7va.jpg
I'm an NHL fan, but a general hockey fan. My favorite team is my hometown team, the Pittsburgh Penguins (got into them around 2000), and my favorite player is Brooks Orpik. So I wanted to get a pic of him in his jersey (preferably his home [black] jersey, cause I have one of those), and that was the best one. He's number 44, the other guy is Kris Letang, who's a rather good young hockey player and his defensive partner this year. His number is 58.

<spoiler=Avatar 5>http://i52.tinypic.com/qrmzvb.jpg
Its the green Castle Crasher, but my friend Jake calls him Anthony (my name) or just the Emerald Knight, so I went out to find a pic to use as my avi.

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Thats... thats my gaming love, Chihiro Fushimi of Persona 3/P3Fes/Persona 4. Its really creepy I suppose, but I have an obsession of sorts with this character that is borderline unhealthy for two reasons:
1) She's my type of girl. And cute. I mean look at her!
2) She reminds me of my first girlfriend that I really, REALLY loved (who passed a way a few years ago) cause she looks so much like her, and she acts like her in the game. So its something of a last link, which made it really hard in the gamestop when I sold all my PS2 games and came to this one last. I'm glad my friend was working and handling it, cause I just couldnt let go of the game. Yes, its sad, and yes, its weak, but I think my life warrants me a little bit of weakness (Fair to say it hasnt been exceedingly well so far).
So yeah...

Anyway, those are my avatars. I usually switch depending on my mood, and I use a lot more on different sites where I can use sigs with pictures in them, as something of a monthly matching set that matches my Sigs to Birthstones of the month. Plus just a bunch I have that I like to show off.

 

[Sould1n]

Username: It should be Souldin but someone already had it. Anyway the name Souldin came from the idea of a burning soul or souls. The soul is to represent life and my belief that I have reincarnated whilst the Din was inspired from Legend of Zelda as an alternative to saying Burning soul. So really my name translates more into soul fire than burning soul but the intent was burning souls. I just wanted to have it sound original so Souldin. Whenever someone else has the name I simply change the 'i' to a 1.

Avatar: I change my laptop's background every month to reflect mood and hobby. It was Halloween and as I love witches I found this picture. I had it as my background for the month but as I liked it so much I kept it as my background for my YouTube account. It then started becoming my avatar for the other sites I began to join.

 

[Siyano_v1legacy]

Username: It been a long time with this one, it came from one of my great name creation I did back then when I started playing City of Heroes, I made a Asian looking guy using a katana, at the point where I had to choose is name I typed random letters witch gave something like "Tiyans", after several fix and mix of letter I came up with Siyano because I liked it and sounded very close to a French dramatist name (Cyrano de Begerac).

Avatar: One of the best picture I found of a Royal Griffin. I don't exactly know how it comes up but from time to time I just started to Love that Mythical creature. The only thing I remember is that I may wanted to be unique and marginal and try to insubconsciously like something different than a Dragon from all the mythical creature.
A griffin is majestic, fierce and a great mix of 2 great creature, a lion and an Eagle
Also it has a slight connection to Heroes of Might and Magic wich is a game I liked alot through my gaming years

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Username:

Earned during my college years when I was helping everyone in my dorms with video games. Showing them hidden areas, secret codes, etc. However, in 2001, when I wrote "Heroes of Arcadia - The Gamemaster's Legacy", it became related to that fanfiction.

Avatar:

Because of the popularity of my fanfics, I needed an avatar to match it. So, since I had NO artistic ability of my own, I asked people to come up with something based on my fanfic persona. One person, known as Calypso on Netraptor's forums, came up with this [http://premium1.uploadit.org/GMAnthony///GMAvatar.jpg] based on the information I gave. I loved it...and thought it was even better than I even imagined my own character. So...I made it the official look of that character.

 

[WorldCritic]

Username: It was originally the name of a backup youtube account that I made that I could use to troll people I didn't like, but eventually I stopped and instead decided to use the name on the escapist.

Avatar: The exploding man from Heroes, I love the show, and I love that painting.

 

[mr. genocide]

USERNAME: I commite the act of virtual genocide... regularly...

AVATAR: Every one loves Jason, right?

 

[MDDC]

Username - It's my initials. "Matthue Derek Daniel Cooper".
Picture - I don't remember, it's been like this since I joined...I think it's me acting like an idiot.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Mass effect is my favorite game
Black hawk down is my favorite movie and blackhawk super 64 was the second one to be shot down. Her pilot, Mike Durant was taken prisoner and delta snipers Gordon and Shuggart died protecting him.

 

[karatekid19]

Username: My username dates back to when I restarted playing Runescape back in 6th grade. At the time I was in karate lessons, and I considered my self a kid so karatekid. I tried that name in the registration and it said it was already taken (At the time I didn't realize there was a movie called Karate Kid) and karatekid19 was the first "karatekid" with numbers after it that the registration showed. From that point on, I've been attempting to get karatekid19 for all of my usernames. Thus karatekid19.

Avatar: It was just a picture that I found on Bob's House of Video Games. I liked it and it had my favorite TF2 character in it.

 

[Noxshadow]

My username used to be "Nightshadow"; which I got when I was in middle school and watched too much X-Men: Evolution. My two favorite characters were Shadow Cat and Nightcrawler. Being 13 years old, I combined the two into something only a 13-year-old would think is cool. But the more sites I registered for, the more I found that Nightshadow was taken; so I swapped some synonyms and got Noxshade. I use variants like "Noxshadow" and "Nyxshade" occasionally.
My avatar is the main antagonist of the BlazBlue series, Terumi. The man spends most of the story viciously mocking the other characters, so I opened photoshop and made an Obama "Hope" parody with him.

 

[Ice Car]

My username used to be "Nightshadow"; which I got when I was in middle school and watched too much X-Men: Evolution. My two favorite characters were Shadow Cat and Nightcrawler. Being 13 years old, I combined the two into something only a 13-year-old would think is cool. But the more sites I registered for, the more I found that Nightshadow was taken; so I swapped some synonyms and got Noxshade. I use variants like "Noxshadow" and "Nyxshade" occasionally.
My avatar is the main antagonist of the BlazBlue series, Terumi. The man spends most of the story viciously mocking the other characters, so I opened photoshop and made an Obama "Hope" parody with him.

Haha yes. Terumi FTW.

If any of you are wondering, people call him the "King of Trolls" because in the main story of Continuum Shift, he succeeds at trolling just about every character at one point, never dies and when he's "defeated" he just taunts them before proceeding to kill them. In many instances, he just appears, trolls someone, then leaves before they can do anything. Always has something troll-ish to say.

 

[Dapper Chap]

I am Dapper Chap because I just made it up and didn't think it through much...

My avatar is from a desktop imaged of Big Boss from MGS3. Because he is cool. I shop'd it and came up with what it is now.

 

[Shadu]

Username - Shadu is sort of my "internet persona." It's my default choice for anything requiring a username. I've been using it since I got my DA account 6 years ago.

Avatar - It's Conrad from Hanna is Not a Boy's Name, but as a kid. The actual story takes place when he's like...twenty four, but this is a picture from his past. The title is "Nothing was wrong originally." He didn't start out to be a nervous wreck, but after his mom took him to doctor after doctor because she thought he was destined to be a pyscho killer, he began to believe it.

 

[DevTrek]

DevTrek is my first email address from when I was totally into Star Trek. Dev is part of my first name, and while I'm not that into Star Trek anymore I've decided the Trek is a neat little expression of my journey through life or whatever and kept the name.

Avatar is a picture from the very find webcomic Crimson Dark.

 

[bak00777]

BAK are my initials, as for the 00777 i am as cool as three James Bonds.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Name: A song from the latest Dark Tranquillity album, We Are The Void. I did not know it's a Russian city.
Avatar: The tenth Doctor in Doctor who, played by David Tennant, covered in snow.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Username- 'Fiz' is a nickname I got from this bar/restaurant that I frequent. The bartender and the bar manager gave it to me that started as a play on my name, and then condensed down. 'Toaster' is an inside joke between me and a couple of my friends, and one of them actually made a cloth toaster figure for me. I thought it was hilarious that you can kill an enemy with a toaster if the game lets you use anything.

Avatar- It's Heather and Alessa. I love SH3 and I just liked the pic.

 

[Apostacious]

Username: Apostacious derived from the word apostasy "The term is used by sociologists to mean renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, a person's former religion"

Avatar: captain Picard epically facepalming in the color scheme of a team fortress 2 achievement

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I think America's gun laws a silly and I love Anthrax.

That's pretty much the gist of it. Although it used to be 'wasder' because it's so easy to type.

 

[StealthyNinja]

Username: Completely and utterly random. I may have been reading Naruto at the time.

Avatar: Spheal from Pokemon not giving a fuck about your problem