Yan-Yan said:
Yan-Yan is just Ryan, with the 'R' missing, times two. A friend at work started calling me Yan-Yan, and I've run with it.
My Avatar though, is something 'requisitioned' from a Bisexual website, to show my Gaymer Pride.
Oh, so that triangle inside the other triangle is in fact... Ugh... I won't be able to look at triangles the same ever again ~~
The name I divulged during a lunch break in middle school while trying to think of a name for my Death Knight-to-be MUD-character. I hadn't had lunch because it was something disgusting, hirsch-pizza (and as a peasant says in The Seven Samurai "Hirsch? You go blind if you eat that!"). So, I was hungry and suddenly the recepy for sponge cake slipped into my mind. 2 dl (deciliter) sugar... Oh! Dec, like ten, sounds sort of cool... I just added the last part for effect.
As for the Avatar, that's Nanaya from Tsukihime, the a conceptual character in the main character's head that wants him to kill. The idea of a "dark side" or more like an evil influence isn't exactly new, but in this instance it's actually a genuine part of the personality of the protagonist that he fights not to become, rather than something he can actually find and defeat. Your greatest enemy is yourself, sort of.
Also, I've always liked insane characters in stories. Partly because of how they get to say and do the things we sometimes would like to, and also because they are unpredictable. They're excellent plot devices since they can suddenly switch sides and not really think twice about it : )
