Topic: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...

[Pfil]

Just for fun, so that everyone can know what's behind each other's avatars and user names, signatures...
My user name, as I said on another topic that gave me the idea to make this one, is from a manga character named Pfil, who is a fairy, and who is also my avatar.
My signature is a fragment from a poem I wrote, already posted on Fan Stuff some time ago, and my phrase is a line from Charlotte, from Portrait of Ruin.
Have fun! 

[Phoenix7786]

Good ole Joshua from the Sega Genesis gem (seriously this is one of the Genesis' best games and yet seemingly none have heard of it) Shadowrun, with his Street Samurai class (note the larger muscles, gun, and hand-razors cyberware). I ripped the pic myself
It's a sad testament that a game (as of now 1 of only 4 Shadowrun games) released in 1994 (nearly 20 years ago) is STILL the best videogame representation of Shadowrun despite 80 billion D&D games being out there. By the way I do NOT hate D&D (in fact I heartily enjoyed stuff like BG, IWD, NWN, and even the PS2 BG:DA series) I just cannot fathom why so few SR games exist.
And my signature is self-explanatory. I USED to run with Zero's taunt from MMX2 ("You should have studied the blueprints closer Sigma; there is only 1 Zero!") but without a Zero avatar, it lost a whole lot of its effect.

[GuyStarwind]

The Guy is a dumb joke my friends and I came up with, Starwind is from Outlaw Star. My picture is of Christine Watson who is the actress who plays the Demon Hipster Chick from Scott Pilgrim. I have an unhealthy obsession for Demon Hipster Chicks.

[Flame]

Klaha, from the defunct band Malice Mizer. He since went solo, doing pop music, and then disappeared from the radar completely.

[Phoenix7786]

Kinda looks like a goth Michael Jackson.

[Flame]

That's just the lighting. He HAS a nose.

[crisis]

Klaha, from the defunct band Malice Mizer. He since went solo, doing pop music, and then disappeared from the radar completely.

Do you think he was kidnapped? o.o;;

[Ratty]

My avatar is a reference to what is possibly my favorite TV show of all time.
MST3K Season Five-Six Intro (High Quality)

The picture in my signature is a pun on the phrase "Space, the final frontier." which was used in the opening to the first two Star Trek shows.
I plan to temporarily change both my avatar and signature next month though.

[Successor The Cruel]

Nobody knows what happened to Klaha... he just disappeared. Japanese Visual Kei musicians aren't like celebrities over here in that their personal lives are often very private, and if they want to stay out of the limelight, they do. For example, no one knows what happened to Bou, the guitarist of An Cafe and why he left (at least I don't think they do). No one outside of family, the band, and perhaps unknown others know what the cause of death was for Jasmine You, bassist of Versailles. And speaking of Malice Mizer, no one really knows why Gackt left the band or why they broke up.

Anyway, my avatar is of Green Lantern John Stewart; a superhero I think is cool. A new creative direction is being given to Green Lantern after suffering nine years under writer Geoff Johns. I really don't like Johns, so I'm excited about the new creative teams. The new writer of Green Lantern Corps is Van Jensen, a fellow from the indie comics world. I'm really happy that someone who isn't used to writing superhero titles will be doing this. It offers a fresh perspective, and I like what he's said in interviews, such as...

"Green Lantern Corps" is a book about space cops patrolling the universe, so I want to make sure it's fun. It should be fun, and there should be a level of high adventure to it. It's going to be very character focused, but it's not going to get bogged down with overly serious naval gazing.

Which is great, because Green Lantern is something that has been taking itself way too seriously lately, with a series of never ending cosmic cataclysms. That stuff gets tiring and boring after a while, and there is no room for characterization or more personal stories. Which leads into...

Jensen on the status of John Stewart:

He's a pretty fascinating character just in how much stuff has happened to him. As the central character of this book, the first issue is all about setting a new starting point for him. We're not changing the status quo or anything. It's more about figuring out where he is. He's gone through these things that have affected all of the Corps, but he's also gone through some changes on an individual level.

One of the most interesting things is that he has this military background, and there is some history in his military experience with him questioning the leadership and what his place is in the Marines. That's a great analogy for what's been going on with the Corps and the Guardians. Things there have changed to a significant degree. But John has always been the good solider – which is funny because soldiers and Marines are different things – but what happens to the good soldier when he realizes that the higher ups are not reputable? John is taking a moment here to be introspective and wonder what he wants out of his future and whether that will include the Corps.

There's definitely going to be humor. And the thing with John that I want to bring out is that he's a well-rounded person. He has a humorous side, he has a serious side, and he does have a fun side.

Sounds great!

Also the art is absolutely gorgeous. Really beautiful to me. It has an elegance that I like a lot. It's not feminine or anything, but it is pretty. Some samples.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/assets/images/articles/1368604773.jpg

http://www.comicbookresources.com/assets/images/articles/1368604663.jpg

http://www.comicbookresources.com/assets/images/articles/1368604665.jpg

So yeah. I'm currently in a Green Lantern mood. I believe this new direction happens June... 10th, I think. So I'm excited.

[Flame]

why they broke up.

Their Drummer died some time around or after Gackt left. They were really close with him and never replaced him. Klaha was actually a session singer at the start from what I hear, but they decided to take him on officially as a full time member. Any drummers who followed in their events or recordings were uncredited.

They even made a single dedicated to him (the drummer).

The death of the drummer was pretty much the reason for the split.

though they announced it as an "indefinite hiatus"

[Successor The Cruel]

The death of the drummer was pretty much the reason for the split.

Source?
I've never heard that mentioned anywhere, and I'm a pretty big MM fan.

The closest thing to anything official I've ever heard about it, was Gackt somewhat arrogantly saying in his autobiography:

If I think about it now, the cause of Malice Mizer's breakup was my own individualism and self-confidence, and the widening difference between things that the other members were concerned about .

http://gackt-vanilla.tripod.com/id45.html

But I think that can be taken with a grain of salt, seeing as how he wasn't even a member of the band when they broke up, and if you asked another member, like Mana, something tells me he wouldn't say that the band broke up because of Gackt's self-confidence :p

Likely, Kami's death was a contributing factor, as was Gackt's departure. It was probably a number of things, but I do not believe Malice Mizer has ever officially set the record straight as to why.

[VladCT]

One of the few things liked about PoR was how they decided to go for a little throwback by giving Dracula a Bela Lugosi look.
As for my username, it was something I quickly whipped up back in the old CV Fighter textboard days. For some reason I thought appending Cronqvist as Drac's middle name was a good idea back then.
And about the signature, it sounded like something that wouldn't be out of place in SotN's original English translation, and Jorge's avatar is Alucard, so...

[Phoenix7786]

Any special plans for your 1000th post, Vlad?

[Lashen]

Jerk Belmont (Part 3) - Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

[Flame]

Source?
I've never heard that mentioned anywhere, and I'm a pretty big MM fan.

The closest thing to anything official I've ever heard about it, was Gackt somewhat arrogantly saying in his autobiography:
http://gackt-vanilla.tripod.com/id45.html

But I think that can be taken with a grain of salt, seeing as how he wasn't even a member of the band when they broke up, and if you asked another member, like Mana, something tells me he wouldn't say that the band broke up because of Gackt's self-confidence :p

Likely, Kami's death was a contributing factor, as was Gackt's departure. It was probably a number of things, but I do not believe Malice Mizer has ever officially set the record straight as to why.

I wouldn't say Gackt had anything to do with the break, although I've seen rumored that their split was not very amicable, whereas the split with the original vocalist was on much more friendly terms.

They never said, but considering they never replaced the drummer, it is very likely his death was one of the biggest factors. I wish they'd get back together really. Mana's current band, (considered his "solo project") is alright, but after a while, the music starts to all blend in. Mana's strength truly lies in symphonic rock/metal, not pure gothic metal. Vocals help too, and I'm personally just not a fan of the current MDM vocalist.