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Since I already posted the origin of 'Cobalt Kid', I'll give another tidbit:

When I began posting on the DCMBs in 1999, I mainly spent time on the Legion boards and "Other DCU" boards. I did find one other Board community that I became a part of, and that was the Batman Board, which was perhaps the most active board on the entire DCMB's besides the 'Other DCU' board. There was a ton going on there, lots of fun threads, and it was like how the LMB's Legionnaires Board was a few months prior. I lurked as Cobalt Kid and didn't really post there. When I finally 'delurked', I took the name 'Dark Conan'. This was because in a thread called 'Poster Versus Poster' or something, the posters were battling themselves and somehow this made-up general character made his way into several posts, so I adapted the name. Essentially, they had created him, and I took the name for myself. That only lasted a few weeks as not long after I came, the dreaded Robgoblin Moderator put the kibosh on the non-topic fun at the Batman board (and most of those posters I've never seen since).

When I was with the LMB, I decided to ressurect my 'second' name and made Dark Conan an LMB villain--mainly to create an 'in-story' purpose for why I was leaving for the summer (because I then had no computer at home, only my roomates at college). Thus, Dark Conan became an LMB nemesis, but his origins lie with Batman.

PS - he doesn't exist anymore because I killed him off

I have an inexplicable fascination with the Egyptian god Set, who was one of the first recorded beings to be extensively retconned, much in the style of Hal Jordan, from the god of war and fertility who sat at the prow of the solar barque, protecting the sun from the serpent Apep every single day, to becoming associated with that very serpent and said to be a god of darkness who wants to snuff out the sun (the same sun he used to protect from the same serpent that he's now identified with!).

The comic book geek in me loves the idea that retcons have been around for 5000 years, and the comic-book-guy in me likes to rant about how Set's re-interpretation by the Greek occupiers of Egypt was the worst. retcon. ever.

Set, like Quetzalcoatl, was a red-headed god, believed to be 'foreign' somehow (from a distant land, even considered a 'god of foreigners'), and if I really wanted to, I could go all Hot Rods of the Gods and say that he, and Quetzy, and Thor, and various other red-haired dieties associated with wind and storm, were all manifestations of the same individual...

Plus, it's an easy username to remember, being only three letters long and easily typed with minimal finger movement, since the keys are close together.

I'd say that I was 'efficient,' but lazy is more accurate and easier to type.

Thats pretty awesome Set....I'm into Egyptology too, I always wondered if thats where your name came from.

I know I've posted this somewhere before, but I've collected penguins for many years and my favorite species is the rockhopper. I've used variations on "Rockhopper" as screen names (rockhopper, rhopper, rockhopper10r [my choir nerd name ]) for a long time. When I joined up here, I added "Lad" in homage to the Legion. Now I use "Rockhopper Lad" or variations thereon more often than not.

In the summer of 1975 (when I was 3 years old!), my mother (foolishly) brought me to see the movie Jaws with my older brother and his friends ... I've been fascinated with sharks ever since (I also didn't learn to swim until I was 12) ... when I began posting on the old DC Legionnaires board, my original screen name was Cozmik Boy ... when the LMB started, I wanted more of a "character" screen name ... I used to post almost exclusively "in character" but there's only so many arses you can chomp ...

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My absolute fav was Wufei! I have two Gundams on my bookshelf, the Shenlong Gundam being my first one