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[Raynor]

I expect I'll be hanging around this forum a lot more since SoB is going to be a long term project so I figured I would hop on and answer some of these stickied posts.

Raynor is my legal name. It would be a pretty reliable username if Starcraft wasn't a thing.

My avatar is Leorio, from the Anime/Manga HunterXHunter. In the comic/show, the main two characters get their incredibly hard to get "Hunter" license at age 12 or 13 or something because they are insanely talented prodigies. Leorio is more like 18 and gets his Hunter's at the same time during the comic and he pops in and out of the story from that point onward. I always found Leorio the most relateable. He didn't pass this unconscionably difficult test because he was ungodly talented but because he had heart and courage. He was the everyman in the group of a bunch of super heroes but at the same time he wasn't the comic relief at the table either. He brought a certain maturity to the story that is definitely written for kids (the main characters are 13 after all). Anyway, I added his picture as my avatar way back when I first signed up and haven't felt it worthwhile to go about and upgrade. The pic might not be the best but even all this time later I still feel the character embodies enough of my ideals to represent me on the web.