What's the story of your avatar?

[BathorysGraveland2]

"His name is Geralt of Rivia. A witcher. A professional monster slayer..."

Geralt is one of my favourite fantasy characters, and my favourite video game character, of all time. Pretty simple, I guess.

 

[MHR]

MHR was my name in Wurm Online, an obscure survival/building MMO. I got the idea for my avatar because I freakin love thorn bushes/cactuses ever since I made it my mission in Wurm Online to plant thorn bushes everywhere and turn as much of the landscape as I could into a horrible trolly nightmare to traverse. Thorn bushes in that game HURT A LOT and the healing system in that game was "realistic" in that it took a long time to heal wounds (10 mins to an hour depending on severity) and you'd need bandages or home-made poultrices to speed up the process. It took a few days for the thorns to grow and mature enough to start doing damage, but this just added to the insidiousness as it could be very difficult to tell if the bush was big/old enough for it to hurt you.

So yeah, thorn bushes could get VERY problematic in that game and chopping them down was a chore. I planted them MOFOs everywhere I could in my free time. I even caught some noob corpses stuck in them occasionally and I could loot whatever nooby crap they had sometimes. At once point even my own buddies were getting pissed about stumbling into them since in my zealotry I closed off 40% of our settlement's surrounding area with thorns and another 40% was an impassable mountain. It was really a fire/raid hazard now that I think about it, but MAN did I think it was awesome. I was working on a painstakingly long multi-month project to obtain the ability to bless the thorns with indestructibility and unending life (LOL) which had many devious cock-blocking possibilities, but I quit the game before I could do so.

The avatar itself is of a thornbush in a swamp in Don't Starve which are far less dangerous, though they do hurt you if you try to pick them for twigs.

 

[Hazy992]

DBZ is my favourite anime and Vegeta is by far my favourite character. Simple as that really.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Me at a viking event with a small shield, not much else to it.

 

[stormeris]

Just my Lone Wanderer/Courier from Fallout series.
Full drawing http://stormeris.deviantart.com/art/Fallout-WAR-NEVER-CHANGES-416093331

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Because flamers are awesome, also the wastehound helmet+Regulator's duster = Epic

 

[SirDeadly]

Mine is of Luffy from One Piece sneaking past a guard. I think it's a funny picture.

 

[SirPigglesworth]

It was meant to be this because I liked it http://imgur.com/6w0Itjc
but it broke and wont move. p.s I'm trying again and if my avatar starts moving then I have fixed it.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

It's Madoka Kaname from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, who's one of my favorite characters. This particular .gif is from the opening of the first two movies, Christmas-fied, of course.

 

[JoJo]

Once upon a time I voted to make Aliens: Colonial Marines the 16th option for the GOTY competition and in recognition of my noble choice, I was given this avatar and title to last until an unspecified date.

As for my original avatar, which you can see below, it's me after I transferred my brain into the body of an orphan to save myself from dying inside a Big Daddy suit. I'm wearing a Christmas hat to be festive. My new face does bear an odd resemblance to the character Mordred from Merlin though...

 

[Esotera]

I animated mine using an awesome strip from lastplacecomics, it's probably the best line ever in the whole archive:

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Although this one also comes pretty close, I might have to animate it and make a change

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[DasDestroyer]

I just went with Kud from the Little Busters visual novel. I might change it for Christmas, but then again I can't really be arsed.

 

[Artina89]

Raul Julia is one of my favourite actors, and I love The Addams family films from my childhood, and I thought that he was perfect casting as Gomez Addams, so it seemed natural to me to have Raul Julia as Gomez Addams for my avatar.

Here's the scene it was taken from:


I would love to have any part of the duel as a gif avatar, but my skills are nonexistent in that area.

 

[not_you]

Well... I shouldn't have to explain mine....

Spitfire is best pony...
Rainbow is best main...

The choice was natural...

 

[Zeraki]

It's a picture of my dog, a Yorkshire Terrier. A dignified creature... or so he likes to think. More like 18 lbs of fluff with a Napoleon complex(yeah, he's big for a yorkie).

I think I've been using this picture just about as long as I've been on this site. I can't even remember if I had a different avatar before this.

 

[DanielBrown]

Mine comes from a picture of during a party where a friend and I wore cowboy hats for shits and giggles. Later on that friend fooled around with it a bit in Photoshop. Decided to use it as an avatar here to have something unique.
Should really update it with a more recent one since it's over six years old by now, and I've never really liked it, but changing avatars on forums I'm active on always feels hard. No one(if anyone even does) would recognize me anymore!

 

[smithy_2045]

I liked having no avatar before they brought in that stupid forced avatar for no avatar, so I made a small transparent square and made that my avatar.

 

[JoJo]

I would love to have any part of the duel as a gif avatar, but my skills are nonexistent in that area.

Ask and you shall receive my friend:

 

[IceForce]

I liked having no avatar before they brought in that stupid forced avatar for no avatar, so I made a small transparent square and made that my avatar.

No one ever explained why they did that.

Anyone know why they forced the default avatar on avatar-less people? Because it's annoying seeing it everywhere.

 

[Legion]

I wanted a Christmas avatar, but my previous one wouldn't have worked too well, so I grabbed the gif and requested somebody made it fit into a Christmas theme.

I shall decide on a new one in the New Year.