DracoHandsome
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| Aliases: | "Draco" Draco Icebane Baroque Vaati | ||
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DracoHandsome, who seems to change his name a lot, is an ezBoard-era member who was once an angry young man and is now a bitter old not-even-30-yet coot.
Draco is an artistically-orientated intellectual with a fondness of fantasy and adventure. Though he has many interests, he does not care for labels (e.g. furry / brony) due to the false implications naturally accrued by them, and prefers not to be called by such.
Interests and hobbies
Draco's interests are primarily fantasy-orientated. He is a digital visual artist and occasional (rare) writer and composer.
Visual arts
Draco is a moderately-experienced digital vector artist. His artwork centers around non-human characters such as "furry", My Little Ponies, or sometimes dragons, but he has recently considered transferring into pseudo-anime humans and perhaps later into more detailed styles.
His artwork is largely softcore in nature, though he hopes one day to extend to cleaner material.
Multimedia
Draco believes that multimedia such as video games have the potential to be the perfect art form, as they can recognize and respond to the player's decisions and questions. As such, he has an interest in working in multimedia.
Controversy
Arguments
Draco has a long history of argumentation, easily unparalleled by any other legitimate account. He can type and reply very rapidly, and in the past has been blunt if not outright inconsiderate, passively making enemies and grudges that last long after he himself has forgotten the original offense.
Although he may consider all viewpoints of a debate, Draco is not guaranteed to agree with or show basic respect to any such viewpoints, though he has been actively recognizing and adjusting this behavior.
Draco holds the dubious honor of building up one of the longest warn logs without a ban, and possibly the longest time spent with a two-page warn log without a ban. He held these warns for so long that the accounts that gave them no longer existed (due to Kritter's frequent deletion of his own administrator accounts.)
Furry
Draco has a love/hate relationship with furry that causes him to express different attitudes towards the subject. He once attempted to troll the forums by adopting a super-obsessive furry persona, but this merely resulted in him being taken entirely seriously and generally shunned.
Member History
Draco Icebane
Draco joined as Draco Icebane shortly after the Great Kyle Flamewar in October 2002 on the ezBoard, where he released a demo of Ultimate Mario, the "worst best Mario game ever", with his first post. It held one test level, and myriad horrendous programming errors, not the least of which was playing extremely loud noises for no conceivable reason; it remains a fitting analogy for his posting style. At this point, Draco was extremely polite and borderline naive, because he understood and respected the idea of The First Impression.
It took less than a year for familiarity to breed contempt, and as such, most of Draco's board time was spent in arguments with the more prissy regulars, such as Quicky and Kritter. Constant arguments led to Draco receiving warns and bans at an alarming rate only rivaled by King Piranha Plant's specific attempts to receive as many bans as possible. Draco would later make fun of the KPP problem in many mock plays, which the administrative team did not entirely appreciate, with one of his comments about a standard member (likely Parakarry) resulting in another ban.
After the chaotic shuffling of the strike system, and the eventual switch to issuing temporary bans instead of warn points, Draco was often only in posting condition for a week or two out of every month, which is a very depressing reflection.
Draco eventually shifted into a laughably arrogant otherkin persona, talking down to the "pathetic humans" of the forums because he was a dragon or something and dragons are so badass. Draco's terrible memory, and desire to block this phase of his netlife from said terrible memory, makes it difficult to remember the details. His primary "nemesis" at this point was perhaps Dr Wario. Eventually Draco got a clue and knocked that crapola the @*!$ off.
Draco had never been on good terms with Trasher, the infamous "asholw mody", on a business level; Trasher was infamous for giving very long ban times for relatively minor infractions, and then filling the member's signature with huge red text calling them an idiot. This happened to Draco rather frequently.
At some point, after an extensive argument between Delmore and SonicProject, Trasher banned SP for fifteen days for accidentally replying to a topic simultaneously with and just after Trasher's order not to. Draco was informed through an instant messenger by SP, requiring him to help somehow as SP would otherwise not stop talking about it for hours. Draco contacted FanGuy and asked him to take a look at the situation.
At FanGuy's best judgment, SP's ban was lowered to somewhere around five or ten days, while Trasher was suspended for five days along with Delmore. This sparked public outrage, because everything a moderator does is wrong, and FanGuy was branded as some sort of traitor for banning another moderator.
Draco wrote a poem entitled The Graven, a parody of The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, to explain what had happened in a comical light. Although it satirically vilified Delmore and Trasher, it was generally well-accepted and received moderate praise, although it broke the rhythm. Draco was never issued any warning, verbal or actual, for its timing or theme, although there were a few complaints.
Eventually, for some reason, Mugen decided he wanted to take over the forums. He chatted with a few people about how best to swipe accounts, and Draco made the rather large mistake of giving him advice on disguising fake log-out redirects, as he did not think Mugen would actually do it, and underestimated the general idiocy of MFGG members. This dramatically increased Mugen's initial efficiency at stealing everybody's accounts and led to Draco being privately embarrassed at his own ignorance.
Personal bias led to Draco's refusal to inform Parakarry and Trasher of who was responsible, but after Mugen signed off, he contacted ShadowMan to inform him of the culprit. The length of time for which he withheld this information significantly dulled administrative appreciation. Mugen signed on the next day and promptly delivered a classic line: "You rat! See if I ever trust you again!" It would have been nice to see his face over the Internet.
Various dramatic events led to further problems in Draco's relationship with the administrative team, including an argument with Yoshiman, who was actually trying to lessen one of his sentences. Draco had become incensed because Yoshiman was naturally also scolding him for the offense in question, and his overall message was thus counter-productive.
Draco was indefinitely banned on August 2, 2008, when he performed a Super Whoa-Damn Freak-Out on a relatively innocent bystander and stormed off of the boards.
Baroque
On August 21, 2009, Draco made a return as Baroque, who spoke with about the same occasionally pompous nature as Draco, but rarely swore and often avoided or conceded arguments. This name was chosen in reference to a PlayStation 2 (and later Wii) game of the same name where the death of the main character is part of the storyline, and dying and resurrecting repeatedly is required to advance through the game.
It took less than a week for Baroque to have an argument with Joey over something trivial, which immediately alerted Yoshiman's suspicions as to his identity. Yoshiman is apparently a total doozer, as Baroque was able to sway his convictions and prevent him from satisfactorily proving the connection, owing much to a dynamic IP address.
After Yoshiman revealed that bans would be rescinded in the phpBB board system, Baroque revealed himself to be Draco after he was quite certain Yoshiman was not a fibby-boy. The community reaction was mixed, depending on each member's relation to people Draco had insulted over the past 6~7 years.
In the "New MFGG Resolution" era, Draco made a promise to swear less often and concede or simply drop arguments more often after New MFGG came around. It took him probably a year to start doing this in any noticeable fashion.
Projects
- Ultimate Mario was a The Games Factory game posted with Draco's first topic. This game repeatedly played the Shine Get noise from Super Mario Sunshine when no shines were got, due to a coding error.
- Hexis was a game whose name Draco explained with complicated Greek etymologies when all he had to say was "hexagon Tetris". This was going to be submitted for a minigame competition in 2005, but Draco spent too much time planning amazing things for it, and it never reached a functional stage; the screenshot is a mockup.
See also
- Awesome Police, or one of its other members:
External Links
- Wayback Machine archive of Draco's original ezBoard profile (note: he joined when he was like 12.)
