My original gaming name started way back on the PSOne. I was always a fan of vehicular combat e.g. Vigilante 8 and Twisted Metal but mostly Twisted Metal. I am not gay, but I have a thing for certain men's voices since I have a very soft voice and I grew up with a bad speech impediment. I was in speech therapy from 3 years old until I was about 14-15 (7th grade) when I was little and during certain movies, or VG cutscenes I would move my lips to the voices I liked and pretended it was mine. My very first game on PSOne was Twisted Metal 2 and I just LOVED everything about it, and after defeating Dark Tooth, which, trust me, was a MAJOR accomplishment in that game, I finally heard Mel Mcmuren's voice. He was shave, arrogant, powerful, menacing and omg that evil laugh of his was just everything I wanted my voice to be. So for many years I would type my name in as Calypso for games that allowed you to enter a name. (of course, this was before I found out the origin of the name Calypso)
-Calypso's smexy voice:
This followed for many years, I was very young when TM2 came out.
In seventh grade, I started hating Calypso because of the severe change they did with Twisted Metal Black, but I found a new, but short lived name for my games: Minion. In TMB Minion was the middle challenge, and drove a giant tanker truck that had a giant flame thrower on top of it, and when you saw his character in his vehicle, he wore a horned animal hide on his head and looked demented as all hell. I chose this name because I was going through a tough time with my mom gone at work all the time and getting only 3 hours of sleep a night since my brother suffered from night terrors and undiagnosed ADHD (I started staying up all night to watch over him) after our father abandoned us for a 16 year old me and my brothers fathers family messing with us like they were AND my bipolar starting rear it's ugly head, I felt this was the perfect name because truthfully... I felt like I was going to lose my mind. Until I got in trouble with the law at school for an anthrax scare so I would be feared, but basically, it was to get the bullies to leave me alone.
-Picture of Minion from TMB:
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After I got in trouble in 7th grade I was homeschooled for eighth grade because of a year long probation that could not violated in any way, even getting a referral or note to the admin would get me in juvenile detention. My mom made me read farther ahead than my time, my two favorite books during that time were Renard the Fox and Grimms Grimmest (the grimm brother goriest story collection). The name that really stood out to me was Mephistopheles from "The Girl With No Hands" this was my gaming name until about 4-5 years ago
I used to watch Adult Swim on Cartoon Network because I liked the mature cartoons (mostly anime) that were aired on them. Reverting back to my childhood lust for manly voices, I fell face first, head over heals for a character name Michael "Schwarwald" Seebach from the anime The Big O, I even memorized his speech during 9th grade. Schwarzwald was my screen name on BBF for a while
-Schwarzwald's voice:
And now, for my current name: Reaver. Reaver is a character I can closely relate to in the video game world. If any of you have played, talked, interacted with, or 'know' me, you can see the similarities between me and Peter Molyneux's Reaver. The only thing I am not like compared to Reaver is his rampant promiscuity and bisexuality. I also happen to like Stephen Fry and I think Reaver was a perfect match for his voice and attitude
So yeah, that is my entire gamer tag history, which purposely excludes my XBL name (misspelled it) and my various forum names
(my XBL tag is meant to be the driver's name in this anime but I misspelled his name and YES I KNOW ITS JUST AN ANIME BUT ITS STILL FREAKING AWESOME)