Ty wrote:
Woot! Finny's a FotC fan! Go New Zealand!
kptk92 wrote:
Initials/year of birth
So mine would be phds87.
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Ty comes from... shit there's a history to this one...
Er, right. Back in Intermediate school I befriended a bloke called Jadi. Together we started writing a comic strip called "Arch Nemesis" which was a nonsensicle cartoon which centered around two main characters - Idaj Abaddon, a sort of mercenary from H.E.L.L, (the name for the organisation or whatever it was,) and Vampete DeVour, a vampire-of-sorts who was pretty much a lacky from the same organisation. Obviously Idaj was Jadi's character, (hint: it's Jadi backwards,) and Vampete was mine, (Did the "Pete" give it away?) The comic basicly had Idaj either trying to kill Vampete for basic ineptness or both of them or either of them attacking other more minor characters, (From "Me" the self-obsessed TV personality and part time singer to "Bob the Gay Genie.") I guess it was kind of like Mad Magazine's "Spy vs. Spy" except with more characters/character development and dialogue. For two 11/12/13 year olds Arch Nemesis was quite admirable.
Anyway, the cartoons kept going as they were until the end of form two when we were both twelve and went to separate colleges. Jadi went to St. Patricks College and I went to Wellington College. I haven't seen him since except for a brief time when I spied him reading a book in the bleachers at a Wellington Coll/St. Pats sporting meet.
Anyway at my new school I didn't really do much work in class, to be honest I never have. I spent most of the time continuing to draw Arch Nemesis cartoons. The stories were getting more complex and the characters were evolving and more people were getting interested in the cartoon. They suggested that Vampete probably wasn't a Vampire but some sort of alien and needed a new name. I settled on the name "Tyferra" after mishearing the planet "Thyferra" being spoken in the premise to a mission in "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D" because it sounded quite alien but still "cool" and also fitting for the cartoon's universe. The cartoon continued, even launching a spin off where a friend of mine decided to create his own series of comics based around the character "Cliche", a red-haired weirdo who had a habit of being killed in utterly predictable ways.
Anyway, in my second year of college, (2002,) I was introduced through some friends to the world of online gaming, namely one game - Battlefield 1942 - (the Wake Island demo.)
I was required to think up a gamer tag for myself - well what more fitting than my now three year-old cartoon character? The name Tyferra stuck up until July 2006. I had recently been made a Moderator on this site and was getting an influx of e-mails from people wondering about my thoughts on various Star Wars topics. Upon realising that my name was a Star Wars planet, (I didn't make the link between the name and Star Wars until fairly recently,) I asked Jeff to shorten my user name, so Ty I became.
Nothing's ever simple when it comes to me. That's the whole story, I left nothing out.
(I'm bored at University waiting for my next lecture, don't judge me.)
