Welcome to Gaia! ::

On December 26th 2003 (that's right, I'm so much better than you Jan 04 people!!) some b***h (Shouj) came over to my house and was all, "Yo, get on this websitezz..."
And so I did!
And I was around for a while. She even gave me an angelic scarf! Then she took it away when I didn't go on for a while. Anyway, I got bored of it and so was on now and then, but not often.

THEN COMES AX06 with Hila, Kimi, Marni, Hila, Zelo and Mala!! They were all chattin, and I wanted to have popular friends too... so I was all, "YO KIMZ, LEMME INTO YER GUILD" and she did. heart

I remember her talking about the pineapple mafia way back when. And Pi calling her while we were driving... and I was like, "OOOOOO she has a girlfriend!!"
And now I know Pi too... how strange is life??

I joined Gaia the same time as Stream did, but I spent far less time on Gaia for the first several months than he did. I was originally going for the screen name Lina Inverse, but we were on a dial-up connection back then and it took FOREVER for me to find out the name was already taken. So, I decided to gamble on Lina's older sister. It was probably after the first 5 months or so that I started posting regularly in the AMC, joined a few guilds, and then finally joined the AG at Stream's insistence...most of the original members I knew about because Stream kept talking about you guys. I think I even posted once or twice in Baku's thread.



That's my first real outfit, (aside from that crappy peasant stuff they used to give us...), and I still have the dress and shoes.

For posterity, here's my first complete outfit. I think one might haver predated this, but it's the oldest one that I could find referenced in my art, from June 2004. xd



By comparsion, probably my slickest look from the "original" Battousai Oni days.



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October 2003. Zely had joined already as had a few of my other friends who don't really frequent Gaia anymore.

Shortly after joining I made the mistake of wandering into ED and getting into a religious debate (See: Root Canal with no novacaine). In any case, I reacted in an immature way and decided that i would never come back to Gaia ever again.

... In doing so I missed out on the November and December 03 donation items. To which I say: crying gonk crying gonk

Anyways, after holding my breath for a few months, my g/f at the time said I was being dumb and to try coming back onto Gaia. So, I did and I stumbled into the Anti Sticky. It was one of the a**-Monday's or something and I made some comment about Grendel's a** that ignited everyone's flamethrower.

Again, frustrated with Gaia I went on a little hiatus. But then Zely said to try again and I wasn't such a nub. So...went to the AS and AMC and chatted around a bit and then eventually got invited here after the AG was made.

So, yeah. fun.

In 2002 I was a pretty heavy forum fiend. I loved webcomics and so I was a reg of both the Fanfiction.net forums (when they still existed then and it's where I met PG) and of the MegaTokyo forums. On the FF.net forums I was a somewhat moderate troll and when the forums went under due to bandwidth issues I had only barely begun to reform myself into a less a*****e-ish poster and a more moderate and reasonable person. This finished up on the MegaTokyo forums where I went from a huge troll to one of the more recognized and likable faces on the forums, one who welcomed new users and tried to get everybody to just get along.

After a while my interests wained, perhaps because the people I had gotten to know and like stopped frequenting the forums, and so I stopped too. At some point in 2003 one of the comics (ClanBob which I hear was rather notorious in the early days for sending people to Gaia) I regularly checked posted up a link to Gaia and I came on to check out it's avatar system. I didn't do much when I first joined, just hung around writers since I was still fairly into writing at the time and posted a bit here and there before eventually giving up and moving on.

As chance would have it, one of my friends of MegaTokyo, Aviendha (Avie on Gaia), became interested in the ED forums and eventually managed to get herself modded. We talked a while in the IRC channel that we frequented and she convinced me to come back and try the site out again. So back I went but this time I went into AMC since it had a higher post rate and began searching around for interesting topics. To my dismay there really wasn't much aside from spam but I managed to find a few things to post about, quickly becoming a frequenter of the not quite so frequent versus threads of the day.

I think then I made my initial fame as being one of the more intelligent, well reasoned, and verbose posters in versus threads, and I also quickly took up the role I had placed upon myself in MegaTokyo, I began trying to point users in the right direction with short but friendly welcomes and reminders to read the stickies and to check around for existing threads. My actions eventually got me noticed by WANDN where I was eventually inducted into it. From there I migrated over to the Anti-Sticky and got myself acquainted many of the regs.

As chance would have it I made fun of Kansai and she got really angry with me. In order to make up for this I volunteered to help in her clean up project to report misplaced threads to the mods, then just Xaala and Desna. I suppose my prolific laundry lists and my friendly attitude on the forums was a welcome thing because I shortly found myself invited to become a dedicated moderator for AMC.

From there, well, that's another story for another time. Maybe someday I'll get around to posting up a biography of myself.

I joined Gaia a few years ago. I only joined because of a few friends that referred me there and because of the personals section. At the time I joined the personals where a filthy, bubbling vat of perversity. It is completely mind-bending what people will do to themselves for the promise of imaginary money. Lots of fun.

After the personals were shutdown, I was still left with an account to muck up. So I kicked around in Barton and found role playing to be a pretty fun hobby.

Gaia turned out to be too addicting and so I left. Then I discovered that infamous image board known as 4chan and decided to return later to my old account to use it to troll. Much to my surprise, GD had become the new 4chan anyway so it didn't even matter.

Well, back again to chat with old friends with the only mules password I remember. Now theres are a lot of nifty features on Gaia, but it still doesn't seem like anything has really changed. pirate

I was referred to Gaia by an old friend of mine in the summer of '03 but I didn't really start to become active until November of the same year. I was originally Orlan Drake as a number of you will remember and was often times at odds with the lot of you oldbies seeing as how I was a rampant troll.

For the life of me I don't remember how it came to be that I joined your ranks... but I did biggrin



This is what my first avatar looked like to the best of my recollection.

Nabs pretty much told my story with her own. 3nodding Yaten started encouraging the #anime-cel regulars to join Gaia in October 2003 and I dutifully went and signed up.

I didn't know what I was doing and was really frustrated. I was nekkid for a few days before I even discovered I had peasant clothes! A few people took pity on me and donated clothes here and there. If it wasn't for the help, I don't think I would have kept coming back to Gaia. sweatdrop

I said it was ridiculous to give real money to any internet website and I wasn't doing it! What an idiot I was...I could have had a bear hat! stressed

Mala and yaten used to talk about anti-something-or-other and being sexy pineapples. ~LOL~ I just figured it was some kind of weird cult thing.

It seems like everyone I know joined the Anti-Guild and Nabs and Mala finally convinced me to join about a year ago. And here I am. smile

This is my first avatar, with the first clothes I bought myself: