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Title: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Pfil on May 26, 2013, 04:22:29 PM
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!  :)
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Phoenix7786 on May 26, 2013, 04:35:16 PM
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 :D
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.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: GuyStarwind on May 26, 2013, 05:14:01 PM
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.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: K.G. Morder on May 26, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/malicepants/klaha20.jpg)

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

Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Phoenix7786 on May 26, 2013, 06:37:03 PM
Kinda looks like a goth Michael Jackson.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: K.G. Morder on May 26, 2013, 06:50:32 PM
That's just the lighting. He HAS a nose.

(http://imageshack.us/a/img521/4444/klaha114.jpg)
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: crisis on May 26, 2013, 06:58:21 PM
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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;;
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Ratty on May 26, 2013, 07:21:58 PM
My avatar is a reference to what is possibly my favorite TV show of all time.
MST3K Season Five-Six Intro (High Quality) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puFHjs9YaOY#)

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.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Successor The Cruel on May 26, 2013, 07:41:20 PM
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...

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"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:

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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/1368604773.jpg)

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

http://www.comicbookresources.com/assets/images/articles/1368604665.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.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: K.G. Morder on May 26, 2013, 08:17:24 PM
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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"
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Successor The Cruel on May 26, 2013, 08:32:00 PM
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:

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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 (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.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: VladCT on May 26, 2013, 08:33:49 PM
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...
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Phoenix7786 on May 26, 2013, 09:28:51 PM
Any special plans for your 1000th post, Vlad?
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Lashen on May 26, 2013, 09:38:15 PM
Jerk Belmont (Part 3) - Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFRjdVKxPrM#)
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: K.G. Morder on May 26, 2013, 09:40:43 PM
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 (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.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: VladCT on May 26, 2013, 09:44:50 PM
Any special plans for your 1000th post, Vlad?
Nope, nada. In fact I just wasted it on this. lol
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: X on May 26, 2013, 11:26:14 PM
As some of the dungeonites here already know, I chose my user name after Capcom's Mega Man X. It started as an artistic sig for my art long before I was even part of the CV forums so I kinda just stuck with it. For me, it's simple yet cool-sounding. This simple letter of the alphabet has become a favorite. I don't have an avatar as I've yet to figure out how to put one in (not sure about size ratio and all that jazz). Of course it's the same issue with trying to put up an image on a thread without having to link to another website and such. And finally I chose my signature as being a quote from Elbert Einstein and his views on how we can even remotely try to view God, and still come a way with little to almost no understanding about Him/Her.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on May 27, 2013, 12:30:18 AM
Well, my username translates to white bat and my avatar is a white bat (well, it's Soma's bat form from DoS).
The Honduran white bats are really cute. I didn't know that such bats existed until after I researched on white bats after beating AoS the first time.

Oh and for my current signature, aside from the links to my translations, is a part of the lyrics to a Japanese anime song titled "Maji Love 2000%" that is from the show Uta no Prince-sama. Yup, I am currently so into this show...
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Bloodreign on May 27, 2013, 01:20:15 AM
Username: means nothing, could be an homage to Slayer, who knows.

Sig: link to Retroreality forums, mainly for classic gaming.

Avatar: my favorite game making company of all time, also had one of the best game musician groups in the business with Zuntata.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: A-Yty on May 27, 2013, 01:55:28 AM
Avatar is Soma fan art. I added a slight glow animation to the eyes, which is virtually invisible because of avatar restrictions. I don't remember who made that piece, which is a shame. I picked it, because it is one of the coolest works I've seen, fan art or otherwise. If anyone recognizes the artist, tell me. He or she deserves the credit.

Sigs speak for themselves. Silly pictures I made years ago and kept them. I don't know why. It wasn't exactly a meticulous scientific process. Medusa Heads are signature CV enemies and the world "seal" got me thinking of..well, seals and Seal. Also, to bait people into clicking those links.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Nail_Bombed on May 27, 2013, 04:52:29 AM
Av: Fairly obvious what that is, just the end title pic of Portrait Of Ruin inverted to have the batwings the right way up (and also the cross upsidedown, natch).

Sig: Just something I found funny about a Bioshock meme.

Username: I've had this username for ages across many boards. Eventually it evolved into being my metal DJ name for all of 4 years. Comes from the sideproject of Max Cavalera from Sepultura, called Nailbomb.

Nailbomb Wasting Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvb8r_ls0E#)
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Chernabogue on May 27, 2013, 06:18:05 AM
Username: used for ages and from this
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110925140030/khpedia/de/images/6/6f/Chernabog.jpg)

Avatar: I need to explain? :D
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Aridale on May 27, 2013, 12:58:26 PM
Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9...
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: crisis on May 27, 2013, 01:24:57 PM
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Avatar is Soma fan art. I added a slight glow animation to the eyes, which is virtually invisible because of avatar restrictions. I don't remember who made that piece, which is a shame. I picked it, because it is one of the coolest works I've seen, fan art or otherwise. If anyone recognizes the artist, tell me. He or she deserves the credit.

According to the Anti-Chapel, it was drawn by "AttansRabarber." I tried looking on his/her DeviantArt page but it's currently inactive. His/her gallery can be viewed here (http://www.chapelofresonance.com/fanworks/art/attans.html).
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Successor The Cruel on May 27, 2013, 02:25:08 PM
Oh, I remember her. She was a member of the Anti-Chapel forum way long ago (meeeemorieees). She's a really good artist.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: uzo on May 27, 2013, 03:29:27 PM
Name? It's a very old name. One of the earliest I've used on the net. UZO stands for Unit Zero Omega as a reference to Megaman X's Zero.

Avatar is currently Hazama from the recent fighting game BlazBlue. He is the smooth criminal, the trickster, and the final boss of the second game. It use to be Simon Belmont as pictured in the signature. The signature is something I made using the Kojima art. There hasn't been any Castlevania art recently of that caliber to update it with, so it's been there a while.

A full body picture of Hazama.
(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121211155236/blazblue/images/a/a0/Hazama_(Chronophantasma,_Character_Select_Artwork).png)
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121211155236/blazblue/images/a/a0/Hazama_(Chronophantasma,_Character_Select_Artwork).png (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121211155236/blazblue/images/a/a0/Hazama_(Chronophantasma,_Character_Select_Artwork).png)


EDIT: Oh wait, I did change from Hazama. I wrote this post without even thinking. I forgot all about it!

I'm now sporting William A. Zeppeli from the series JoJo's Bizzare Adventure. It is one of the best anime/mangas of all time. Worth a read/watch for sure. The anime is ongoing. Zeppeli is a master of the ripple technique, born in Italy.

Will A. Zeppeli as seen in the 2012 anime.
(http://theglorioblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/jojo4zeppeli.jpg)
http://theglorioblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/jojo4zeppeli.jpg (http://theglorioblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/jojo4zeppeli.jpg)
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Abnormal Freak on May 27, 2013, 04:58:40 PM
Bleh, well...

When I first registered for the Dungeon, I used the name castlevania_freak, which was also my email login. Wasn't long until I registered Abnormal Freak, and I registered a myriad of other "Freak"s as well. Which is probably why everyone at ICVD just calls me Freak, whereas almost everywhere else I'm addressed by the full name, Abnormal, or Ab(s).

Avatar y'all know, and I lubz her.

And meat&soda. The girly is Punk Giana from Giana Sisters DS.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: TheouAegis on May 27, 2013, 05:04:35 PM
Theou: Greek possessive of "god". (In other words, it means "god's".)
Aegis: Greek, a shield cover.
Thus, Theou Aegis = God's shield cover. ... Something like that.
Origin: Diablo II Smite-adin Bnet name.

Avatar (current): Pinkamena Diane Pie
Relevance: Of course none of you would know...
Previous avatar: Medusa Head

Signature: just some stupid joke that popped into my head.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: PyramidHead on May 27, 2013, 06:11:41 PM
Avatar is Simon's Quest's Simon. Nickname is PyramidHead from Silent Hill. Love the guy. :)
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Mooning Freddy on May 27, 2013, 11:22:46 PM
I'm using the Freddy Krueger name and avatar for a while. Used other nicks before but wasn't satisfied with them.
Freddy Krueger is an awesome nick on the dungeon because the original CV was based on classic horror movie monsters, and Freddy is one of the "new" horror movie villains. He's an awesome character because he's both sadistic and cynical; And he murders annoying teenagers, which is great.

The mooning makes sure nobody takes me too seriously.

The sig is an awesome quote from "Schindler's list".

@UZO

Damn man, I always thought your name is a reference to Ouzo, you know, like the anise-based Greek liquor. (which is a really good liquor)  :P
(http://www.luekensliquors.com/images/Ouzo-Metaxa-lg.jpg)
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Kale on May 28, 2013, 01:22:49 AM
Lenneth is awesome... that's all there is to it.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: uzo on May 28, 2013, 02:09:10 AM
@UZO

Damn man, I always thought your name is a reference to Ouzo, you know, like the anise-based Greek liquor. (which is a really good liquor)  :P

Haha, sorry. Nothing that cool. It's full on nerdy.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Inccubus on May 28, 2013, 07:53:20 PM
When I first joined the original forum waaay back in antiquity there was a cool chick that went by Succubus. So I decided to be her counterpart of sorts by adopting the name I use til this day.

The avatar is a custom sprite frame of the Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition Fighter modified to look like sorta like the Squire from Final Fantasy Tactics. I did it for a contest or something and then stated using it as an avatar on the site the contest happened at. I liked it and never used a specific avatar before, so I started using it everywhere.

The sig are just links to my various Facebook pages.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Gunlord on May 28, 2013, 08:57:29 PM
My avatar is Gunlord Belmont, i.e a sprite edit of Richter's NiTM sprite with Gunlord colors of black hair, brown skin, black clothes, gold gilt, and red background.

My sig is a quote from the Bible. u_u
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: son_the_vampire on May 29, 2013, 06:39:30 AM
Cool topic.
As some of you know already, my avatar is Kenshiro from what i believe to be the best anime of all time Fist of the North Star. I could spend hours upon end speaking about this but its best to watch this for yourself if you haven't already (The original movie is a good starting point)
The name Son is what im known as in the online world as well as the actual world. Mostly i think it comes from the fact that im from NY so the name kinda stuck well beyond my teenage years.... The vampire portion stems from my current lifestyle. I seldom find time for sleep, most of my activities are done in the night and  i literally have  fangs, four to be exact (not blood sucking ones just 4 strangely pointy teeth :P) ... very strange i know but i get asked all the time about them (get it from my momma!)
I haven't established a true sig yet tho. The man with seven scars in reference to Kenshiro. He is known by a couple aliases (The Savior of Century's end being the other). Basically he is the 64th successor of Hokuto Shinken (martial arts) and it proved a prophecy to be true when he received the mark of the North Star in his chest.
(click to show/hide)
Long story short he will single handedly save the world from destruction during a time of hardship. so yeah, that's the gist of it...
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Laina on June 01, 2013, 10:59:23 AM
Avatar- c'mon, you cats know who that is. I liked this one cuz hey, pants, and we have similar hairstyles (length, parting of the bangs, slight curl, color) & skin tone. Also, I like to think I'm good with animals & as momma always says, I "don't have the sense to be afraid of things", just like Maria (even Dracula remarks in the DXC how Maria's innocence was a key factor in her victory over him & Richter is pretty shocked & confused at Maria's lack of fear & desire to fight despite her situation/surroundings when he rescues her from Shaft in the beginning).

Personal Sayings- I like Elena Fischer from Uncharted & I adore Twin Peaks. 'Nuff said.

Sig- A quote from X remarking on my shitty luck regarding a medical condition that makes my favorite season, summer, a kinda rough time for me.
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Laina on June 01, 2013, 11:37:36 AM
My avatar is Gunlord Belmont, i.e a sprite edit of Richter's NiTM sprite with Gunlord colors of black hair, brown skin, black clothes, gold gilt, and red background.

My sig is a quote from the Bible. u_u

Gunlord, I zoomed in on your avatar with my phone & your legs look remarkably similar to the color of your hands & face...are you...are you not wearing pants? (seeing as how you transform into a talking cat like Yoruichi from Bleach, this is perfectly acceptable-no judgment here, just curiosity.)
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Gunlord on June 01, 2013, 03:44:24 PM
Not in this case, my avatar's pants are just dark red, which is close to brown XD
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Neobelmont on June 01, 2013, 05:43:20 PM
I have to rewrite this all over again man.

The reason I chose neobelmont is because neo comes from Neolithic meaning new stone + Belmont and bam.

I started at the chapel but stayed here because well I like it better here and it did not close down yeah I know it reopened but ehh...

avtar/personal saying thingy
as for my thing with anime chicks with blue hair it's because of a topic Pfil made about which vggirls you like and I have a slight crush on Lilina from fire emblem just a little hence the pic and saying thingy.The other one is because I look toward the future not the past.

my sig was a los2 two sig and line from a English 101 book I have then I switched it because MS has hurt my trust in them with mof so I replaced it  with  Naoto Shirogane from persona 4 then I took that off and replaced it with a backloggery
 
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Laina on June 03, 2013, 03:39:02 PM
Forgot to explain my name.

Username- There was a female character in Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight that I liked. This was her name.

Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Gunlord on June 03, 2013, 06:20:15 PM
Which one was that, Laina? The thief?
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Laina on June 03, 2013, 06:38:57 PM
Which one was that, Laina? The thief?

Yessum. She has a whip. :3
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: Gunlord on June 03, 2013, 06:45:16 PM
Oh yeah, I remember her. I really like Chronicles of the Heroic Knight...it was one of the anime series I got on boxset when I was young, and I treasure all of those :D
Title: Re: Explain your avatars and user names, signatures...
Post by: JR on June 04, 2013, 02:45:22 AM
My name is just my initials. My avatar is an enemy sprite from Ghouls 'N Ghosts that I've used in various forums I used to post at. My avatar represents my undying love for Saga of Crystar is the Danzig skull, accompanied with some lyrics from the point in time where Samhain ended and Danzig began.

...man, I gotta go listen to some Samhain now...