DKC Atlas Forum

One day, I stumbled upon a Super Mario fansite which I thought was cool. It was named MFGG, where one could submit various Mario-related fangame material, as well as sprite rips. Since I was playing Super Mario RPG at the time, and I was in a rush for a name, I selected 'geno'. I soon regretted not using the SHIFT key.

Anyway, after a long while of having my stuff declined due to "Oh, this is stolen", or "This is a recolour of something else" (by the way, both of which were NOT true), I got fed up and left (more like faded away). I found 2 more sites to invade rather quickly, one of which was named Cutstuff (mainly Mega Man themed), and the other one is so obscure, I do not think you will know what it is, but it is called "DKC Atlas". After some vast improvements in my custom spriting skills, I decided to test my sprite EDITING skills. Now, let me tell you a little something about Cutstuff: The "Official Cutstuff game", Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch, has a bucketload of custom skins which are edits of the character Roll. So I edited Roll a lot, as I thought it wouldn't look too out of place. I was wrong, but the thing was, one of the characters I chose to edit Roll into resembling, was (you guessed it,) Geno. This prompted me to change my appearance, as it was originally just the regular ol' Geno from SMRPG. Then, it became Roll, dressed as Geno. Although I continued to go by the original name, but with the new appearance, when I was putting my MM8BDM player profile on the Cutstuff, I noticed a problem. "Geno" was already used. So, I used GenoRoll, which is now my alternate name, as well as my character's name.

So, all was fine and dandy, I was mucking about with my acquaintances at both Cutstuff, and DKCAtlas, and having a wonderful time. However, one day, on a Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch server, I got REALLY annoyed at someone, so I said:

I have reached maximun pissed-offness!

Now, the response immediately after was

Aw, aren't you cute!

That made me more angry, and I started to think it was about how I looked.

Much later, I was digging around Cutstuff, when I found the topic of an individual, who had the novel idea to age his own character(s) to correspond with stuff going on with their own fan-fiction thing. Now, I thought "Hey, that's cool, let me try something like that!"
So I got to work. Since I haven't really wrote any sort of stories about myself, I aged the character based on my own appearance and age, so I had to look tall, and look like an adult, even though I'm not quite there yet. I also modified the costume a bit, due to problems with arm movements, and not wanting to look TOO indecent.
IT was described as (I'm paraphrasing here)"An OC made out of two existing ones, and it managed to not look like a ripoff", so I succeeded, and here we are!
And for anyone who cares, all 3 of me.

Also, unrelated to that, I have a nickname that everybody from my high school called me: "JP Swag." My initials are JP, and "swag" came from one day in 10th grade math class when I answered a question using some new method I made up that was way faster than the method they were teaching us. The teacher said "Wow, I guess we'll use that from now on," and someone shouted "Yeah, JP Swag!" And it stuck forever... In the following years, everyone continued to add to the running theme that I had the most swag on the planet, and there was even a "swag index" measured in "percent JP" that somebody invented. What can I say, maybe they're right.