Who wants me to kill them (in a book)??? [CONTEST]

Michael Kennedy was a good Irish Catholic boy who joined the Marines right out of high school. He never served overseas due to psychological issues and due to his own inadequacies he was an easy target for extremists to recruit.

Dan Curley is a pretty good guy who just so happened to be out and about for coffee. He was also going out to by a gift for his girlfriend

Dan Curley

This is my real name, but it sounds made up because it’s just so kewl... (it’s a curse)

Emiri is a young nonbinary person who tried to make cookies but instead ended up becoming famous for looking like an 0m3g@v3rs3 character on Tumblr.

Joined to support you Lindsey. The Karening must be stopped!

Brian Wagnon a 26 year old nurse who served for 6 years as a Combat Medic in the US Army. He is struggling with his changing more progressive political views while dealing with his very conservative family. He grew up poor and religious, often being told the only way to make something for himself would be the military. After several deployments to Afghanistan he lost his faith and decided to be a force for positive change in society.

Frank Castello

Christopher Rose. A 30 something ex alcoholic who now works as a nurse in an Emergency Department. Truth? Fiction? *shrug emoji* Oh damn, I'm well past closing date for this :(

Damon: dude who somehow managed to get himself to the top of the NWL brigade by letting them use him as the token "I-can't-be-whatever-I-have-a-gay-friend" gay friend.

I suggest "O.T. Zappo." There is a story behind it, but I think it speaks for itself.

Michael Boyle

I know that I’m late to this but here . Phineas Nutting, he went to film school, then the debt happened, and he had to go back home. Struggling artists am I right.

The One And Only Phineas

Bobby Jertberg, you had me at "who wants me to kill them"

Welp, I'm 25 years late in 2020 time, but if you need another name, please consider me! Robert Jones is a 24-year-old man with serious, unexplored insecurities. Once he finds out he can mask that fear with hate, he becomes a new - and deplorable - person.

Robert

Hannes Helmholz, German guy with the name absolutely unpronounceable to English native speakers. PhD student now, about to finish school in back in 2008. A major newspaper recently published an extensive article about the neo-Nazi mafia taking over my hometown. Sincerely hate that shit, but I trust you to make a good "proud" boy. @.@

Michelle Dezso. I guess it's a kind of unique name, Hungarian and not a popular one at that. I'm pretty sure I'm the only Michelle Dezso in the entire world. I kinda resented it at first, the mispronunciations, the mandatory requirement to spell it out phonetically with full emphasis to distinguish the 'Z'.

Jon Ko. Weeaboo in the most classic sense of the word and self-identifies as a "Haruhiist." Creates a Facebook page for his waifu (Yuki Nagato) and sets himself to be in a relationship with her, occasionally posting as her in Google translated Japanese.

Wilson-Benitez. She has an undiagnosed anxiety disorder which she channels through crocheting Plushies of Doctor Who Characters and pop stars. Won’t admit she’s bisexual. Made a lot of money donating her eggs at 19.

Sarah Bee

Carla Misma a girl with ADHD, that has huge library of (feminist) books and a really loving relationship with her sister Luca , that has ADD and struggles to study psychology (because of the ADD). They form a funny (somtimes tragic) support group and both love sailor moon and cats, but their landlords do not allow them to have one.

Carla

Alice Monroe, I am an Atmospheric science student who is focusing on paleoclimatology and in particular the analysis of Antarctic ice cores and historical temperature profiles.

Al’s in the Middle

Luka Grey. Likes to drive around in the pickup truck his dad bought him singing at the top of his lungs. Tries to convince everyone he's a Taurus, but is is obviously a Virgo. Has every Taylor Swift album.

Cosmic Frog

Peter Kates, 19 year old law student from the UK, millennial i guess.

peter kates

Claire Salz began her descent into radicalization when her high school boyfriend was unable to take her to the pumpkin ball.

Alejandra Medina, a millennial.

Alexandra Cronel, french name for a french kill! So I'm a french 27 years old woman, lives in Paris suburbia. A country and a city with much discrimination against, well, everyone who is non-white, not a man, not a cishet.

Thomas McCoy (My middle and last name). I live in rural PA, outside of Pittsburgh, a weird part of America that feels like you've been teleported into the South. It's not uncommon to see Confederate flags out here, there are way more cows than people and the local past time is something called "muddin" which consists of driving your truck through the mud I think? I grew up here but have never been part of that culture. But if there's something you can use in there for a story, have at it.

Hi, my name is Tamar Yarkony, so I guess my main selling point is that if you are looking to kill a character with a foreign sounding name (for American ears, at least), I'm your guy (well, Tamar is actually a girl's name, gender identity's a bitch). I prefer to be brutally murdered, maximum gore, and please make my character as evil as you wish. Thank you.

Tamar Yarkony

Hi my name is Katie and my middle name is Berkeley. My parents don’t have any ties to the city or college, but I guess I am related to some early American political figure? I just took their word for it, and also the childhood bullying.

Harold Feld, I would love someone to have a Jewish character, even one who dies early, who isn't one of the two Jewish stereotypes we see everywhere: the NYC neurotic, cowardly Woody Allen/Portnoy's complaint or the Chassid. Can you just have a modern Orthodox guy who gets killed while coaching some sport he is actually good at? I'm a public interest lawyer in Washington DC, but will happily die anywhere as long as it is not NYC metro area or LA.

You could use either my first or middle name, Ryan Rezkalla, but I don't want my full name used for a proud boys pos. I grew up with Tourette's, neglectful parents and low self esteem. Used a lot of alcohol and drugs in high school, quit, went to college and then medical school.

Ryan Courdy

Matthew Morris. My fictional backstory is I grew up outside of Portland, splitting my time between two divorced parents, even though I hated how my mother berated my father (even though he was abusive to her). Also a high school friend enlisted, then died in Afghanistan.

Matthew Morris

Sakai Maurice Dozier. An indie game developer in his mid thirties. Spent much of his youth traveling the world as a military brat, but a eventually settled in Washington. Self taught martial artist, a musical dabbler and a trained extrovert (but is actually an introvert)

Kevin Wixom, once sailed from California to Hawaii on a 3-man boat crew, played in a Jazz band and married an Opera singer, but now I sell food flavoring and she wants to homestead.

Kevin Wixom

James Murphy, civil servant and software developer who owns a Zune in the year of our lord 2020 and rants to everyone he knows about the efficiency and safety of the railroad.

Lachlan Hatfield, Born Hobart Tasmania, in Australia generally tech savvy rocking and iPod nano and one of those pre iPhone smartphone.

Aziz Twaijri, the misguided right wing middle easterner who thinks that if he becomes a “model minority” he might chance racists’ minds! (Not my real backstory, but inspired by a looot of relatives LOL)

Aziz Tuwaijri

Orang the Orangutan is a genius ape whose home was destroyed by palm oil corporation and now he is on a warpath to take down the corporation by raising millions and starting his own company. But will the corporate world make him what he swore to destroy?

Please don't use my real name but might I recommend: "Boyd Proud" despite mounting debt, he can't escape a dead end job. He's also a NEET.

Miguel A. Solano. My name comes from the painter Michael Angelo and my last name can be traslated roughly to english as Sunanus

Andy Bates. Did I miss the deadline???

Andy Bates

Perks of having a more common name : I've already got a minor character with my name in the first one

Natalie Arnold

Oh goddamnit I missed the deadline for this but best of luck with your writing... just picked up the last copy of your book at Barnes & Noble at Burbank a couple weekends ago.

Wes Beemer. Midwestern elementary school teacher who secretly sells essays to high school and college students on the side.

Wes Beemer

Lavena Johanson. In 2008 I was 19 and in music school feeling very alone because my girlfriend was self-harming and no one cared (or at least, that's what I thought at the time). I was very angry and vulnerable, a perfect target for radicalization. Luckily nothing happened along those lines irl...but it wouldn't have been impossible.

Paul James Price. Born in Los Angeles, but raised in a small Texan town, Flower Mound, whose main attraction was a mound of weeds that “was as old as the dinosaurs”. His first phone was a (RED) RAZR phone and his grandfather was livid that he bought something that supported AIDS research, which meant supporting “the gays”.

Paul

Gwen O'Brien, classically Angry teen with a massive chip on her shoulder and the kind of waiflike appearance no one can distrust. Spent her childhood with a chronic skin condition that kept her "ugly" and isolated; has no idea what to do with years of accumulated mistrust and self-pity now that it's cleared up. Desperate for the world to fit into black-and-white morality and for some sort of Cause—may as well be fascism.

Use any portion or all of my real name: Samori Mshinda Augusto. Samori - West African King. Mshinda - Conqueror in Swahili. Augusto - Emperor Augustus in Portuguese, and, yes, I do have another middle name, along the same vein. I've only written one self-published novel. I have promised but not yet started my one non-fiction book, for a year or two now. PLIS! Please! Please, I clearly need to be a killed villain.

Samori Augusto

Oliver young moved around so much that my accent is mix and match of all English plus I'm almost 7 foot tall

Phracker Jack was my first internet handle and I thought was once oh so clever. PJ for short and it was obviously influenced by the hacker community. But no hacker was I. All people I met online called me PJ for years.

In 2008, Michael Stirling wanted to be a bad-ass warrior like David Stirling, the (unrelated) founder of Britain's SAS. He was discharged from the US military for selling dope before he could get into any action, but there were lots of opportunities for freelance work in Iraq.

Civil Politics Radio dot com (Fridays at 6pm EST on Valley Free Radio)

Andreas Stahl - Graphic Designer with a name that sounds like a German Porn Star or Nazi Lawyer (last name means "steel"), who years ago moved to Singapore as an "ex-pat" but didn't last long.

Andreas Stahl

Preston Exzabe - people always ask him what kind of last name he has. It used to be Eschavez generations ago, but ironically changed it to make it sound more American

Tom Hickey - Anxious but grumpy robotics engineer who gets too much of his social interaction from 4chan.

Tom

Kitty Willow is a 23 year old artist that's neurotic in a way charming enough to be invited to parties. As it's 2008, Kitty spends most of their time listening to Panic! at the Disco's sophomore album "Pretty. Odd." They welcome death with open arms lmao

Connor Dolan - Connor is an 18 year old college sophomore studying political science and is looking forward to being able to cast their first vote in the 08 election. While he has not yet developed the full "always online" mentality that will dominate his 20s, the early signs are there.

Connor Dolan

Garrett Mitchell, thinks himself a ladies man despite evidence to the contrary. Believes Heath Ledger's Joker talks a lot of sense (or would if the Dark Knight didn't come out in this timeline).

Garrett Mitchell

John Sherman, which ranks high on the list of "boring white guy names." Itinerant outdoor industry employee and budding anticapitalist organizer. All good with bizarroworld fash-John dying.

John Sherman

Cooper Jones - Researcher of telecommunications for a government agency. In another life I could have gone down the incel road so go fuckin wild.

Derek Lipkin! As of this writing, I am ranked 822nd best pinball player in the world. I would prefer my name not be used for a fascist villain!

FRESHPOETIC

Aaron Weiner was my name in 2008. That year I graduated college in Chicago and went to work for a Bangalore-based software consulting company so I could See The World. My main online presence was on the official Orson Scott Card fan BBS. Yikes.

Oskar Halmoka - He got his penis circumcised when he was 21 because his girlfriend said it "looked funny". The procedure was very painful and uncomfortable. Later she dumped him and he's been grumpy ever since.

Glenn Ponka

Robert Loeb -- Air Force combat search and rescue veteran turned management consultant with a TS clearance I mostly use for boring paperwork. By 30 I'd already been divorced, done two tours in Afghanistan and reinvented myself a few times.

Ariadne L

Wynne Cooper -- Biology grad student and cartoon enthusiast! Grew up in Canada! I'd prefer not to be a fascist, but if that is the only place for a name, then that's cool!

Cindy Owen - in 2008 I was leaving a christian fundamentalist church and moving out to a big city with my friends. Studying Social work, becoming more radical and yes; learning all the ways that sin was awesome.

Harris Vandenberg (yes, like the Air Force Base. No, no relation) grew up in a small rural town in the central valley of California and went to a fundamentalist Bible college so he could be a youth pastor. After graduating he got a job at a church in Pasadena, CA and accidentally joined a gay bowling league (it worked with his schedule). While participating in the league he fell in love with the bartender and quit his job at the church to write sitcoms.

DeLanna Sterling- Raised her 2 siblings while her white-collar, pill head of a mother only gave her a mother's card every year as a "thanks for raising my kids" Her mother later committed doctor assisted suicide from the guilt and because of her own personal hell

cmdydva

Zachariah Granville. Grew up in KY with a large conservative family. He knows he is gay, but stays in the closet for fear of rejection. Finds escapism with horror and board games.

Francesca Porter, from Houston, Texas. The youngest of 6 and the only girl. Majored in Vocal Performance in college but now is an auditor for the IRS.

Christina Rodriguez

John Wilson. Former Boy Scout who now works as a scuba diving instructor. Father is a historian and (former) Civil War reenactor. Entire family is into conspiracy theories. Mother once fired from an archivist job for dedicating too much time looking into Kennedy assassination. Father believes that Area 51 is connected to Aliens. He never believed much of it himself. Now, his favorite pastime is to watch conspiracy videos on YouTube about the Federal Reserve.

Osirion

J.R. (Joshua Robert) Yost. Research biologist recently out of a job in 2008 because he just finished a 3 year research position that involved spending 6 months of the year setting up LIDAR in various South American rainforests to track the impact of migratory bird populations on local insect populations. The other 6 months required only working part time in the lab (leaving altogether too much free time on his hands that he used poorly).

Jeremy Ackerman-Yost

Sloane Wheatley- former indigo child with fluffy red hair and a smile like a jack o lantern livin in the Pacific Wonderland. I'm sure you have enough to go off based on that, lots of wiggle room for development

swheatheart

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. I'm a proud Southern California Jew on the autism spectrum. In 2008 I was at a middle school for kids with special needs, and had a habit of loudly proclaiming my Judaism with everyone. Seems to me like as an eleven-year-old Jewish kid with ASD I'd be a reasonable choice to get murdered by fascists.

John Curley... Dog loving owner of a Hallmark store who drinks too much. His family doesn't like the drinking but he's never gotten violent or missed work because of it so they can't do anything about it... (I'd prefer not to be in the weird death cult, but I'm willing to sacrifice integrity to be included)

Naama Rak, from Israel (my grandparents are originally from poland, egypt and turkey). In 2008 I was 18, finished my last year of high school and worked as a writer at a magazine for teenagers.

Juuso Hurme. 7 foot tall reptile breeder whose Finnish name is just obscure enough for English speaking readers to be near impossible to connect to any location or ethnic group.

Beccy (or Rebecca) Odell, British ex-goth, recovering archaeologist, now museum curator. In 2007 (nearly 2008!) I found my now fiancé over a series of escalating pranks based around an in joke over sentient custard creams (a type of cookie). Have no problem being recruited into fictional hate groups, as long as narratively appropriate gory death takes place.

Kent Zacherl. A country bumpkin who came of age, found his sexuality, and became woke. He struggles to thrive in racist, red, rural Pennsylvania.

Kent Zacherl

Charles Gossard. Civil War Re-enactor . Born in Baltimore, MD. Writes Civil War Medical articles. Been a re-enactor since 2002(so it fails within your timeline). At the moment, I am in deep discussion with others about the relevance good or bad of the Confederate flag.

Charles Allen Gossard

Aaron Ammerman. Pensylvania Dutch/Irish/German, smart but in a way that can get him into trouble. Caring but capable of harsh decisions when necessary, learned from growing up in a home where his parents had (at times difficult) foster children.

Mand

Björn Thenstedt, I want to be a preppy Swedish exchange student/post-doc graduate coming to America, the land of the "free" (and ignorant) and large amount of people where I believe I can slip away undetected doing whatever I want. And I would have gotten away with it if it was not for my weird accent and too much belief in my own superiority.

Helen O'Loughlin. Military brat who settled in London for a lifetime of access to musical theatre and art museums. Turns out she doesn't do either of those things as often as she imagined, instead taking part in local amateur dramatics and long walks in the park with her friends.

Braden Pemberton. Fresh College grad with a healthy drinking problem. Setting the stage for marriage, trans-continental relocation and a headlong dive into full blown alcoholism. Sobriety and divorce are still 3-8 years off on the horizon.

Julia Bachand. Rancid vibes. If incel-dom wasnt an all boys club, she would be one.

Maura Fertich, dresses like Avril Lavigne but isn't cool enough to pull it off. (Half-Korean, so the pink streak is a clip-on!) I wouldn't enjoy being a Proud Boy, but I don't think they take female members anyway, so...

Maura W

Stephen Feuerstein. German-Jewish, grandparents fled Nazi Germany. Huge comic nerd, has a pet frog that he spend way too much money. digital artist freelancer. (doesn't bother me if I'm part of the fictional hate group that gets killed off, or survives)

Gwynric

Sam Hughes. Kink/BDSM researcher and PhD Candidate who spends way too much time on the internet.

Sam Hughes

Bin Lee. Does software by day, does creative shit by night. Made a movie called Office Ninja, a comic book called Delegates, and currently trying to make a board game.

Bin Lee

Irina Kogan, Jewish, Pastry chef who spends most of the time reading horrible and very long books about food science and making desserts with mushrooms (not magic type), different fragrant greens, shrimps and other savoury products, that are not very common for desserts. Always wanted to be minor bad guy in a good book)

Laquard Pinsman, invented lacquered pins. sold the rights too cheap, embittered. (edit: maybe didn’t even really invent them but is now litigious about it)

Potch

Jesse Karczynki, a late 20's community college dropout with dim employment aspects working meager, low-paying jobs to get by. Mostly a loner, but lives with his parents still. Lacks any and all direction in life. Moonlights as a conservative internet chud and suffers a crisis of ideology with the utter failure of the Bush Administration. As a result, begins to seek out more... radical forms of conservatism.

Professional Chud Watcher

Mackenzie Iyer, she is a down on her lucky university student working two part time jobs to help pay for a master's degree she is uncertain she knows what to do with when she gets it

Mackenzie Iyer

Jeffrey Lamb. Played saxophone throughout high school and may have unironically worn Fedoras. Became successful computer engineer after his first self-taught adventure in programming was customizing his Neopets homepage. [ This is.. my real backstory, wild writing it out in two sentences. No hate group please <3 ]

Jeff Lamb

Rajan Singh: A software engineer who left San Francisco because it was too liberal. Should help with your Proud Boys vibe ;)

Rajan Singh

Gareth Dennis, ex military working class plumber, average height male. When put on paper like that doesn't too far away from someone who would die as a member of the proud boys against aliens or something and that's depressing as fuck isn't it?

Bon Shaa: Graduated from art school but then realized the entire art industry was full of dicks. Has since vowed revenge against society. Also hates spiders but is trying to not kill them anymore.

Bonsha

Jackie Scott. Political blogger by day, over drinker by night. Dating some asshole who treats her badly but is an artist so it's ok right?

Yuri Lev: Escaped the Soviet Union in its dying days, only to grow up as a rare Belarussian in a pseudo-communist bubble inside an otherwise capitalist country. By day, a Software Engineer with an impostor syndrome at a formerly idealistic startup turned large corporation. By night, a neurotic geek with an am-I-geeky-enough impostor syndrome and more books bought than books read.

Morgan Tabier. 26 year old woman halfway through Biochem PhD in kind of a bro-ish bioengineering lab. Kind of a night owl weirdo. Or... More like current me, nearing 40, still kind of a reclusive weirdo, but now working for a big corporate biotech company while telling herself sure, yeah, humanity can handle this tech responsibly...

Elise and/or Thomas Constantine: we married a year ago after meeting online. Elise is in law school and her husband is a computer programmer for a large tech company in the pacific northwest.

Elise & Thomas Constantine

Jeff Pickett. A man obsessed with the civil war and hopes he's related to the confederate general George Pickett. (which is not true but the fact that George Pickett existed has haunted me my entire life)

August Kuuskvere (feel free to change the last name, I’m aware it’s a nightmare). Named for the character August Craptower by parents who misunderstood Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night. Former marine, burgeoning internet troll, only person who knows that my sister-in-law is gay.

Ashley Jo Will: I am a librarian at Salina Public Library in Kansas with a master's degree in library science from Emporia State University and have a bachelor's degree in English from University of Wyoming. I used to be the proofreader and had a column called Under the Radar about movies at the Rocket-Miner newspaper in Rock Springs, Wyoming and graduated from Green River High School in Green River, Wyoming in 2004.

Joshua Cagan. Film student and bartender. I spend most of my time binging Contrapoints videos.

Joshua Cagan

Rob Synned - once wandered onto a rail crossing while listening to alternative rock on headphones, and barely dodged a train he didn't hear coming. Since then, he has been obsessed with the misssed consequences of risky behaviour, drifting from petty theft and private porn into financial scamming and personal gaslighting, then to freelance political trolling and mercenary hacking. He is now ready to try something irrevocable to give God and responsibilty a big middle finger.

Robert Dennys

Skylar Baxter, late 20s. I'm a gay southern boy who loves 90s nostalgia, collecting toys, and blogging about both. Usually quite sarcastic, but will do anything I can to help someone if they genuinely ask for my help.

Skylar Baxter

Susie Webb. Early/mid 20s. Red hair. Wears those jeans with bedazzled pockets and straightens her hair to the point of fry. Unpaid intern at a local museum (something quirky and related to the area e.g. a museum dedicated to some industry the town was built on/known for -- Gold Rush, pioneer heritage, museum of the American Dog Breeding Association, etc). Drinks wine out of a diet coke can on the job. Leads tours and takes shifts in the gift shop and admissions counter. Always texting on her LG QWERTY keyboard phone. Has a new boyfriend every second Tuesday. "One of the guys" (groan).

Josie Gombas, from a tiny ass town in VT (my high school graduating class had a grand total of 19 kids that made it to graduation, and this was a school that served multiple towns). Went to a military college but wish I'd gone to art school. (side note: have fun reading all these lol)

Josie

Nolika Martstein, a half-Jewish, half-Muslim Russian emigrant. Once we were late for an ice dancing show and stuck in traffic, so my father bribed the police and they escorted us to the venue ahead of the traffic. However, the show host was still stuck in traffic by the time we got there, so we had to wait for quite a while anyway.

Markus Joseph Kitsinger: Polyamorous panromantic phallocentric-pansexual ginger from Mississippi. I currently live in Alabama, and the sun has been trying to kill me for 27 years. I'm a software engineer, but not one of the kinds that is currently in high demand. I would prefer not to be a fashy character if chosen.

Markus Kitsinger (SwooshyCueb)

I’d be open to have my regular name (Nick Landis) used, but I have always thought my full first and middle name (Nicholas Alexander) works well as a character’s name. I’m not really a character myself as I’m one of those people that actually wants to be a boring government bureaucrat. But hey. That’s how real change happens

PerfectlyAdequate

Alex Jensen; I was in middle school in 2008, specifically grade 6, kinda nerdy, wore glasses, chubby. Mortified at how awful middle school was and trying so, so hard to not be associated with the special education program I was in. If you need any non-bad guy kids to die I'd be up for it!

SamuelTurn

Paul Showalter: I am a burning man artist, raver, and I write software for a shipping container company. Fat, bisexual, awkward, friendly. Grew up on a farm but moved to the big city.

Paul John Showalter

Rich Stoehr: Warrior of the Website and Ambassador to the Difficult. Back in 2008 I would have been trying to navigate my way out of a marriage well past its sell-by date and doing a poor job of it, rediscovering my love for the bicycle, and doing my best to be a better father to three daughters than my father was to me.

Rich Stoehr

Christopher 'Kit' Finn - over-educated, lazy, under-achieving rabble, who people like more than he thinks is really justified. Is worryingly happy to talk the hind leg of any number of donkeys about any useless subject at the drop of a hat. Likes cats.

Kit Finn

Daisy Hynd- Budding trans aspergers kid who is constantly hyperfocused on special intrests at the time, so didn't pay attention to politics. Could have went either way politically as i was super oblivious, and therefore could have easily been a good target for the reddit type indoctorination.

Daisy Hynd

Marian Moen (or Mary, or Mikay) Last name can be traced back to Norway but has never been there. Works in logistics, cannot tell you where your package is, can tell you which hub it most likely got stuck at. At 33 has a run of the mill life. Raised as an atheist, therefore not married, because why bother? Calls her man "the father of my bastard child". Said child is currently 4 years old. The hardest part of parenting is not laughing at something 'naughty'. Is a hugger, cat person, too empathetic for her own good. Dislikes those comedy movies where they shame the main character. Probably a Hufflepuff. Eh, hope that helped. Is legit my character profile haha.

JaxiFye

Carl Hansen who in 2008 has blown all his money in the all sparkling poker boom and now have to drop out of college.

Amelie Marandet - (if possible non fashy but hey i guess ill take anything) In 2008, sadly back from a blissful year in exchange studies in Australia, just finished mid year a politics science thesis (basically about why green capitalism doesnt work) and got a not so good grade. Frustrated and highly depressed. Was in a somewhat neo metal band a few years prior and still lamenting the disbandment.

Amelie Marandet

Daniel Bickermann. Let's leave out my real birthplace of Nuremberg, Germany, which might be a bit too on the nose for "fashy kind of villain", and just say: of German origin with a weird name to show for it; always fancied himself as some kind of artist, but a lifetime of rejection, undiagnosed Asperger's and social weirdness just left him with really weak empathy and an intense feeling of mind-body-separation - and also wide open for dietary fads and populist people who offer to help him make sense of this complicated mess of a world with simplified thinking schemes. (Damn, I had no idea I would make such a convincing bad guy...)

Daniel Bickermann

Rich Kee - a British graduate of English from a Welsh university, He has Tourettes Syndrome and is definitely working on several novels and screenplays which will definitely be finished someday. Should probably give up on trying to get his friends to watch BoJack Horseman: it's just not going to happen.

Rich Kee

Travis Roth; late twenties accounting supervisor who has his job due to frat connections. Kinda likes what Sarah Palin is putting down and is constantly hitting on his friends sister.

StormTemplar

Evan Michael Goodrich. In 2008, I'm a weaboo who possibly has oppositional defiance disorder (I'm also 14 but we can ignore that). Gay as hell, but trying and failing to bury it under layers of toxic masculinity. Very into Björk.

My name is Emilia Simmons. In 2008 I am 20, a physics MS student, and boy do I know it. I'm also pre-transition, and angry about it without understanding why or what those feelings are. Deadname is an _incredibly_ generic name, so my name really is just cis white generic generic.

Jason Harner College dropout in a dead-end job who thinks he's too smart to work hard. Reallly big into Nine Inch Nails.

Jason Harner

Alexandra Anklew. (It's okay, I don't know how to pronounce it either). Born to Swedish mother and Yugoslavian father in 1990, grew up always asking BUT, HOW? WHY? to practically everything (and still do) which makes it very fitting that I became a librarian. In 2008 I was 18, used a silver Nokia flip phone, my favourite band was System of a Down, and my clothes always matched thematically.

Lexie Lou

My name is Tristyn Pease. It's 2008 and I am an absolute prick. I get into an argument with a dwarf over who has a worse life.

Tristyn Pease

Jeff Freeman a soft-spoken, naïve, more-privileged-than-not HS student who built up the courage to get out of a (mostly) one-sided relationship with an obsessive suicide-threatening HS senior in spring 2008 (while he was a freshman), and who for years won’t know how to relate with people around his own age (seeks validation/approval from much older students/people while ignoring students within 2-3 years of his own age, and isn’t really able/willing to empathize with his actual peers while in high-stress situations) maybe he could get recruited to join/promote a conspiracy group that recognizes (and exploits) his desire for validation from older people (or just those presenting themselves as more informed about “tHe ReaL iSsUeS” than himself), his tendency to isolate himself from people around his own age, and his still-present naiveté

Dylan Perez - a young man plagued by anxiety and existential angst. He is studying medicine with a particular interest in neurology. He is interested in medicine solely for the purpose of solving medical mysteries, not necessarily for the purpose of helping humanity. He is motivated only by the science.

I give permission to use my old dead name if that works. Hell seeing a character named after my dead name die might be helpful. In 2008 the name Garrett Crawford was attributed to me. He was an anger person in general. Fed a lot of lies most of his life and tried pushing his faith on others. Jobless but made that everyone else's problem rather then his own. I no longer am that person so it would feel very cathartic to see that name die.

Andre Gonzalez, an engineer student that found work in the US after moving from Mexico. In 2008 he's very disillusioned with the state of the world and probably depressed.

AndreGG

Spencer Campbell, a college student attempting to major in history and minor in Japanese. Spent most of the 2007 holiday season playing Mario Galaxy. Obsessed with Green Day.

Spencer Neil Campbell

Joy Aokihara - A fifth-generation Californian ofJapanese descent who is tired of being randomly asked by white people, “So where are you from?” or “Can you speako Engrish?” For kicks she travels to Japan to seek out obnoxious American tourists and gives them wrong information on how to take the subway or in what direction an attraction lies.

Joy A.

Matthew Prideaux. A twenty-eight year old white guy from Oklahoma, who has unwilling fallen into a career in IT after his parents forbade him from following his passion and becoming an actor. Suffering from bad anxiety and depression, he spends most of his time in chat rooms and forums, where he has slowly been radicalized by other sad lonely white guys who he considers to be his only friends.

Gath Malok. This was my long-term AOL screen name from circa 1995 to 2002 before finally getting a Gmail account, so I don't think too many other people exist with this name. Back story can be a white need who joined an online roleplaying group that was a front for that fashy recruitment mentioned in the post. Gath is eventually fully radicalized when the depths of government cover up pertaining to first contact is revealed (or however it makes sense for the story). Since it's not my real name and I haven't used it in almost two decades, please feel free to run wild with his characterization. Cheers!

Julia Maciel. A clinically depressed brunette who dreams of one day not feeling dead inside/anxious about minor inconveniences. Way too into “that’s what she said” jokes and overcompensating with humour. Half-Canadian and half-Brazilian.

My name is Jacob Haller. I was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, after being conceived on a commune. My family moved to a small, conservative town in central Massachusetts when I was two years old. At college in the early 90s, I spent way more time than was healthy posting to fringe USENET newsgroups (but then, were there any non-fringe USENET newsgroups?). After being kicked out of college, I got a job at a tech startup in Manhattan.

Jacob Haller

Cathy Lector (to slightly adapt my username to something more realistic). As a disaffected youth who spends my free time watching Blockbuster DVD rentals of all-time American classics like Desperate Housewives and Sweeney Todd, I furiously flip through the internet struggling to find employment. What direction could my life possibly have if tuition costs more than my apartment, George Bush got elected TWICE, and the world's going to end in 2012!? And then, one day, by pure chance--I find it. A chance to give my life meaning...and change the world...and also help me pay Blockbuster's overdue fees.

Marine Cooper, I am a 5ft3 climate scientist from a long line of Belgian barrel makers. Despite my height and overall weak physical appearance, I am pretty agressive.

marine_dc

My name is Dan Ramie-Anthony Carriero. A constantly broke termite exterminator who moonlights as a community theater actor, who would do anything to help others (Whether he actually is helpful is up for debate.). Enjoys sewing, but doesn't want his friends to know it.

Maddy Rolon, struggling actor and playwright who is afraid of heights. Wants to play Hamlet, currently works at Starbucks scalding themself with steamed almond milk. Red hair and a slight lisp.

Ryan Lardge (the combo last name my husband rejected when we got married). A quiet calculating guy who likes puzzles.

Henry Werhane... hey, that’s already a German name, so there you go! I’m a former computer science student that became a film student because I just hate having marketable skills! I spend my days in a 1 bedroom apartment staring at a blank final draft document, failing to force creativity. 2016 hit me like a ton of bricks. I became a socialist, but there is definitely an alt timeline in which I become a Ben Shapiro type debate lord... I shudder to imagine what that would look like... i’m also 6’4” with what I can charitably call the “gamer build”

Aaron Yi, or if you'd like to use my Korean name, TaeHyung. Food scientist, pole dancer, Rubik's cube aficionado. Long flowing locks of beautiful black hair. I would absolutely love if the narrative harped on the hair for a disproportionately long time.

Aaron Yi

Kathryn Woolfenden. I’m a US Navy veteran who is now committed to decolonization but you could use me as a fascist, gun crazy bad guy. I’m in microelectronics engineering and am currently on a robotics project. I’ve also worked in nuclear power and am a staunch supporter of it. Lots of ways for me to turn evil 😀

Woolfonmynoggin

Ben Snow (could I sound any whiter?) 14 year old nerd in a small Pennsylvania town, trying to reconcile being gay and being on fire for Jesus. Probably could have taken a hard right turn through needing to feel like part of something bigger and/or Christian fundamentalism.

Ben Snow

Oscar Escudero. Mexican-American. I’m a linguist and anthropologist and although we’ve been attached to bad stuff in the passed I rather not be I this instance. Of course that’s if I’m chosen 😄

John Kenneth Fisher. Loves chuck Taylors and his new Intel MacBook, and rushes home every week to catch the new Star Trek Enterprise. Which seems incompatible with most fascists but hey, you’re the writer ;-)

Giancarlo Balangue, burgeoning Masters' degree candidate in Biotechnology, and desperately crossing his fingers that the startup he's interning for this summer will offer him a permanent position after he graduates.

Gian Balangue

Andre Cornea (if I were man and took my husband’s last name. Would also be okay if you wanted to use this name for a transgender character): In 2008 I was a junior in High School and bit of a recluse. Mostly stayed in my parents basement playing video games. Socialized only because of marching band, show choir, and vocal jazz. I made poor choices and chose the guy I had a crush on for years over one of my best friends, which resulted in my being the “other woman” in their relationship. Once it was found out I was in relations with this guy, I obviously lost my best friend, but she also turned most of the school against me as well. (She was very popular). So, my friends that year ended up mostly being in video games, books, or straight up imaginary. Things got better in 2009.

Andrea Beauvais

Brian J. Cash: smart, but not as smart as he thinks he is. A sociopath that sees people who make decisions based on empathy as weak. He thinks he can become rich if he can just find someone to financially back his plans.

Rex Francis. In 2008, getting his life back together after leaving his Chinese wife because he had mistaken feeling sorry for someone for actually feeling in love.

Sierra Michelle: My real last name is literally the only one of it's kind in the world. Statistically, if you meet someone with my name, they're probably one of my 3 brothers. In 2008 I saw Ironman and decided that I wanted to /be/ Ironman so I got on track to study Aerospace Engineering. Once IN engineering, I was miserable. Dropped out, faffed around for a while and decided Screw Money and Security, I'm going to film school to ~follow my dreams~, it's working out so far? (I would love to be a villain, but I'm Jewish, please don't make me a proud boy, morally complicated is fine!)

Rudy Basso: failed actor turned radio producer. Currently waiting to hear back from Howard Stern about a PA position on his radio show. Doesn't care for the crass, low-brow humor of Stern, but would really like to afford healthcare for once in his 20s.

Rudy Basso

Noah Mullenix: His political views were shaped by reading into the edginess, rather than democrat-ness, of the Seth MacFarlane shows he began watching at too-young an age.

Hayley Karl: former Evangelical Christian who is trying to adjust to college/secular life. She tells her friends/co-workers she transferred to UW Madison but in reality she was previously a missionary in Vietnam.

Freya Connor: Freya used to be really into Death Metal, circa 1996. Freya has burned all those photos. There is still some black nail varnish at the back of her cupboard.

Evan Hastings, white middle class, never had a confrontation he couldn’t make himself the vitctim, became a republican when his college classmates became democrats because hes “Different”, not like the other youths.

Emily Raymond, also getting her Masters Degree in Library Science. Wants to work in an academic library. Currently works in a bookstore

Bucky Manitoba. A wildly unsuccessful investigative journalist who used his day job in the gun department at Bass Pro Shop to worm his way into a right-wing militia movement for a story he hopes to sell to an outlet that pays in actual cash.

Steve Johnson

Mara Emmons. The name Mara means "bitter" in Latin, and is in the Bible book of Ruth. In the story Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi (meaning "pleasant") loses her husband and her two sons and decides she's f*cked over and will not succeed in anything without men in her life. She brings Ruth to her home town and everyone is so excited, "Naomi has returned!" but she responds, "My name is Mara for I am bitter." Mara is a Sanskrit word meaning "death" and is the Hindu goddess of death. Mara is the name of a Buddhist demon of death, rebirth, and desire (desire/lust/greed is what Buddhism is avoiding) and is a dude this time! Mara is a Scandinavian malicious creature that would sit on top of people when they slept giving them nightmares. So yeah, my name has a lot of fun connotations and history that you can play with or be inspired by.

Stan Oregano is also my code name from when I worked on a UNITE HERE hotel workers organizing campaign.

Hedrigal

Keil Hubert. In 2008, I was a USAF squadron commander with 20 years in service. Pretending to be flamboyant and recklessly cavalier to always stay one step ahead of the stodgy old pilots who wanted me fired for being "too Army, not enough Air Force."

Keil Hubert

Jack Permenter: Afraid to be alone. Fascism is a good way to meet friends.

Dominic Santiago! In 2008, 7 years old! Pretends to be a cat and thinks calling things “gay” is a legitimate insult!

Jordan McRae. Big ol' Canadian white guy. Works in a thrift store and in 2008 was mostly a sarcastic asshole.

Will Hamlin(Hamlin was the dorm I lived in in 2008) Could easily have grown into being an incel if the timing was different. Obsessed with losing his virginity yet remains a perpetual college shut-in due to a yet-diagnosed social anxiety disorder. Spends most time watching anime and early YouTube even spent time studying abroad in Japan last summer(an opportunity he also squandered by being a shut-in). Will be enthusiastic fan of New Atheism and thatguywiththeglasses.com in the near future.

Makeda deComas: overwhelmed nurse with a name I have to repeat 5 times to each person I meet. Has a vision board that is just a list of the books I need to read.

Makeda

Sarah Clary: Sarah is an eighth grade English teacher and the child of an extremely Irish family. She’s a boating instructor on the weekends and because she spends all that time in the sun teaching kids how to kayak and canoe, her freckling has gotten even more ridiculous than it already was.

Alisha Nolin: getting her master’s degree in library science. Plans on being a children’s librarian. Blissfully unaware about how politicians in her state will decide to cut library funding because of the economic recession.

Aimee Dinov. Aimee is a 30-something Mexican-Bulgarian excitedly moving from a job in Hospitality to a career in Civil Service.

Annie Fisher, from Southeast Missouri, raised by liberal Catholic intellectuals. At 15 she joins a fundamentalist Christian group through her rebellious older brother. Is sexually abused by the leader of the church.

Anne Evers

Karel Polt, a 30-something immigrant dude from Estonia, officially the whitest country on Earth, now living in Los Angeles and grinding away at a soul crushing job at a multinational entertainment corporation where all his bosses are younger than him and/or from India.

Tom Blatchford - British expat from Manchester, England. Comp Sci major at Caltech, with hopes of entering the video game industry, but in danger of flunking out due to a crippling WoW addiction.

Kathleen Quebedeaux: A nerdy Cajun redneck from the swamps of the Texas/Louisiana border. She and her family were displaced by Hurricane Ike.

Kathleen

David McDonald is a proud Iowan. Growing up in the rural countryside of a forgotten, "flyover" state, David relished in his pure, manly Iowa Pride.

Sam Pagano: I am filled with shame by the attempt I made to produce a channel awesome style video series when I was fourteen that basically just ripped off Todd in the Shadows but more edgy.

Hedrigal

Elaine Granrå (to-be matrimonial last name) - wayward son turned daughter of petty bourgeoisie, got a management/tech degree only to swear off ever the idea of ever being a manager. The last name is derived from the forest nymphs (skogsrå) of Swedish folklore

Elaine Åhlfeldt

Brendan Hurst will never stop being teased by his friends for being easily mistaken, at a distance, for Richard fucking Spencer.

Brendan Hurst

Jonathan Pinyan spent the latter half of college trying to figure out who he was going to be in the world after graduation. One poorly timed recession and a year of struggling to find work and make ends meet later, he realizes there is no place in the world for him or his generation.

Jonathan P

Josh Spicer: Willingly accepts his position as "not a good person" with open arms and uses a level of fun and spontaneity in order to cope with the fact that he secretly just wants to be a robotic engineer. Since this career is dead (in 2008) and the economy sucks, he focuses almost entirely on working to be President.

Josh Spicer

Tom Taylor: progressive, atheist, polyamorous nerd who has worked in law enforcement for 12 years. Currently struggling with being a class-traitor while financially tied to the job.

Tom Taylor

Rachel Roberts? (Future married name, am currently engaged). Thought the alliteration kinda makes it sound superhero-y. Haha! That, and the fact I would like to pursue my Doctorate in English Lit. (Currently have masters in education, recent graduate). So yeah, eventually- Dr. Rachel Roberts. Think it has a nice ring? Backstory.... uh, in 2008.... I was in The Netherlands, starting 10th grade around this time, eesh. A lifetime ago!

Richard Kavanagh - the man who, inadvertently living his life as a tribute to the late great Linda Smith, literally ran away from the circus to become an accountant.

Kav

Hawk Ginnde - A gamer nerd raised by conservative parents. Always felt like world was out to get him. Discovered a group of like-minded individuals online and finally felt like he fit in. Didn't cry and, in fact, rolled his eyes when Aeris got killed in FFVII because now he needed to find another girl to be the healer.

Hokius

Kevin Brown- A tall man with kind eyes who is easy to talk to. He works full time in the grocery industry and has an uncanny knowledge of the most obscure food items. In his spare time he runs several table top RPGs.

Kevin Brown

Christina Leigh Wright (or just Christina Wright) - In 2008, I was working on a PhD in Sociology, writing about gender in pop culture, and being a smug Twilight-hater. I wrote a thesis on how differing views on gender roles influenced fan shipping, particularly in the Ron-Hermione and Harry-Hermione ships. It sounded really smart at the time because people who didn’t live online didn’t even know shipping was “a thing”. However, at some point, I realized that basing my career on pop culture was causing me to turn things I used to relax (books, tv, film) into work. I also hated teaching, and hated my own writing. I left the program, got a normal job, and right now I am especially happy I didn’t base my career on analyzing Harry Potter fandoms.

Christopher Kring - like Kris Kringle. And just like Santa I’m jolly, overweight and sneak into peoples homes and eat their cookies and judge their children. I’ve done voice acting for anime and due to my low voice I always get type casted as a bad guy that dies in the episode so I’m a perfect fit.

Christopher Kring

Colm Duíne (He/Him). Growing disgusted with the very slight increase in diversity in Ireland Colm moved to America where he felt his racism would be more welcome. Complains to everyone he meets about immigrants. Does not understand irony. 

Ctolm

Margaret Cross retired young from a mysterious career to raise her daughter, but got roped into working for a shadowy government organization to be able to pay her bills. (Less dramatic translation: I was working actor, had a very cool kid, now I work for NASA as a tour guide and lecturer.)

Margaret Cross

Gene Younkin (rhymes with sunken) - A guy who has a degree in math but doesn’t know what to do with it. He works as a stagehand since he can actually find employment with that skill set. If you use my name, feel free to kill off the character as brutally or hilariously as you like but I’d rather not be associated, even in fiction, with fashy groups.

Gene Younkin

My name is Mena Lisa Jacobs. I guess it’s pretty unique, so that hopefully might be a plus. In 2008 I was a waitress, after quitting school in 2006. Sounds like a great stock character to me. Maybe they could be some kind of spy. Idk.. I am from Germany so unfortunately I know a bit about the „fashy“ type of person. So if you‘ll use my name for that type of character, please let them die. Oh yeah and my german boyfriends name is Nils. So why not have both of our names. I went through a lot of shit the past years, including getting diagnosed with two disabilities and loosing any hope of getting a job soon. Your work helps me to stay passionate about my interests. Honestly, thank you. So I need something good in my life right now. Reading my name in your book would definitely be a good thing. Trying to keep this short. So thanks for that great idea of including some of our names. Can’t wait to read Truth of the Divine including my name or not.

Carl Ferris Lunt (I'm NB, this is the masc version of my birth name. It'd be a thrill to see it in print! They/their/them pronouns if appropriate, but given 2008 setting and potential fashy leanings he/him/his also absolutely welcome) Recently graduated with a degree in Medical Genetics. Planned to go into medicine, but was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and struggled to finish undergrad degree even with an extra year due to health issues so didn't. In 2008 looking for a new direction.

Carl S Burg

Harrison Williams. A nerdy guy who left college with a huge pile of debt Wound up with a job travelling around North and Central America installing monitoring equipment in industrial plants that leaves no time for a real life, so he spends a huge amount of time online. His only real hobby is visiting tacky roadside attractions.

GrumpySteen

Just Alec Meyer, I think. The true story of how I almost became fashy for real: I have blonde hair/blue eyes and am extremely trusting/gullible. Back in the early-to-mid-aughts, I heavily frequented a particular Naruto-centric fan forum, and I was targeted by a general /b/ troll and then a straight-up neo-nazi/fan of the columbine killers who came (in retrospect) disturbingly close to convincing me that their worldviews should be mine.

Alec Kubas-Meyer

Amberly Archer - she’s *q U i R k Y*, not like other girls, full on into new alternative rock and no she doesn’t like your favorite band so stop asking.

Jiri Hämäläinen (or Hamalainen if dots above letters frighten you). back in 2018 I was a 17-18 year old fresh out of the closet practical nursing student starting my last year of studies specialising in mental health and social work with substance users. Surname is finnish and first name is Czechia origin that has become a common name in Finland also. I'm ok with being a villain :D

Karen Bachynski. A Canadian citizen forced to move to Australia against her will because her mother fell in love with an Aussie.

canadiankazz

Taylor Slagle-close enough to a deadname already, lmao. Technically I was in 8th grade in 2008 so maybe a college age me who's still incredibly republican after being raised as one....

Hendrik Pastunink - Video game programmer that got radicalized in college. He now makes low quality right wing games, but is rather cowardly when it comes to real confrontation.

Hannah Williamson, "not like other girls" and thinks it's cool to be one of the boys. Laughs at racist and sexist jokes because "it's just a joke. They're not serious." Thinks it's awesome there is a band named Kill Hannah. Truly clueless and the worst.

Gotthardt-- good german name

Daniel B Gotthardt

Eleanor Campbell. high school dropout due to rampant bullying. short, white, slightly overweight, looks like the nerd she actually is. In 2008 I would have been 24, just out of my first bad relationship and spending most of my time looking for a place to belong online, so it wouldn't be unsurprising if in an alternate universe that ended up being a hate group. Eleanor is also my deadname so I am all for having it be symbolically very dead, heh.

Caitlyn Berry - sport girl (softball and hockey) who was too competitive for her own good. Realized way too late that she was just stuck in the closet, but still has some wicked Catholic Guilt (tm) keeping her confused and giving her some massive self hatred

Kyle Rudy was a 24-year-old, white, male, two-time college dropout living in Enid, Oklahoma in 2008. A desperately poor amateur software developer, he hadn't had much luck entering the job market. Blithely ignorant of his upbringing and circumstances and willing to give just about anything a try, he could easily end up falling in with the wrong crowd.

Kyle Rudy

Swan Felin, a failed, closeted businessman with a questionable political background in a custody battle for his teenage daughter, with an ex wife who has a much much better claim.

Swann Felin

I’m Brontë Campbell. It’s an Irish name with Greek etymology, but I’m norwegian so it makes no lick of sense. No one has ever pronounced it correctly, including my parents. Have a nice Sunday

Alan Tur (Tur is actually my second surname, we have those in some countries). Born in Argentina, in 2008 I was living in Barcelona. Catalan heritage on my mother's side, and Jewish on my father's side, so I'd rather not be a nazi type of villain (proud boys or whatever the hell they are called nowadays). I'm ok with a different type of villain.

Michael Vitagliano, in 2008 I was an OTR (over the road) truck driver for Werner Enterprises and still a Republican back then. I got better not long after that, but I hadn't started paying attention to politics yet at that time.

Laurence Phillips - spent youth in special education before eventually getting into Oxford University. Regretted ambition when it turned out Oxford was a shitty place for the neurodiverse. Was a communist as a teenager, obsessed with the iconography of the Soviet Union (I got better).

Samuel Frederich. We can always use more Sams in science fiction!

Sam Frederich

Suliac Le Guillou, My familly name litterally mean "The Wolf"

Maximilian Compton. Uneasy around the sea and deep water after almost drowning while kayaking alone.

Composaurus

I thought this would be a good way to symbolically kill off my deadname but after reading the description of the potential villains maybe not. Especially as my surname is rare, I wouldn’t want that character to be permanently linked to it via Google search or whatever.

Bonnie Fiddis

Menno Hofstra (no relation to the NY Hofstra university), Dutch, came from a small rural village consisting of 100% white people. Reasons to be anywhere is would be too either escape the dullnes of rural love to or for your hate group association wanting to leave the social liberal Netherlands. (2008 here saw the rise of Geert Wilders)

Anna Boer. Went a bit off the rails either her parents divorce and got progressively in deeper and deeper with pretty terrible people looking for acceptance and a sense of family.

Hannah Farmer

Carrick Nisbet, got into new atheism and never had the sense to shake it off.

Name: Raven Razor (can provide photo id for proof it's legit) Would have been 18 in 2008, but feel free to change it Pale with blonde hair and green eyes, slim with an impulse controlling issue and tends to speak/act without thinking. Lesbian and proud. Quick to anger and loves purple and cats. She'll fight to the death what she believes. Pagan with Anubis as diety. Does a lot of internet of the period and down to do what's needed for the group she's a part of. Prefers quick kills to torture. Likely someone who works in a small group. Born and Raised in Kentucky but has no accent. She would favor swords and knives as opposed to guns. Also would love anime and manga to add to knowing the memes of the time. Says y'all and that's the most people realize she's souther in any way. Will not hurt cats.

Raven Razor

I'm not wild about the proud boy part, but hey. might as well lean into it. Felix Waltherr, A german exchange student who met some people he clicked with at a political event. In fact it clicked so good that after his exchange ended he didn't really want to go home, so he didn't for the last 5 years. And since he doesn't care for the approval of "big government" his documentation status is just something he avoids to mention.

Aka_Pcfx

Lachlan Good - Cinema worker who used to like movies. Class conscious, would rather be asleep.

Lachlan Good

Matti Känninen, computer and piano nerd. Kinda fittingly for the bad guys, was falling down the proto-altright anti-sjw sinkhole of the internet back then (crawled out of it since, thankfully).

Matti Känninen

Ruzica Makrin, slavic roots, just doing her job in hopes of a good payment- doesnt have good education which is why that job might be of the shady kind!! More flavor if necessary: Needs money to support a comfortable life with her husband (who perhaps doesnt know of the shady bussinesses?), has Katy Perry's " Hot n Cold" as ringtone :D

ruru

Johan Sten, a very clearly Swedish/Scandinavian name, but spelling or pronunciation variations could Americanize it or whatever you want to do with it. Bachelor's degree, works with children. A fictionalized version of me in a villainous setting would probably do what's asked, but lament it to victims (in a "so sorry I have to shoot you" kind of way). Might get offed for questioning superiors or outright rebelling.

Mokarokas

Björn Lammers, 32 year old, male, single; Java developer at a large financial institution in the Netherlands, train freak and bird lover with weird facial hair (ideal for villains, right?).

Björn Lammers

Kevin Daniels, from Ireland. Studying abroad for a semester. Thought he’d avoided the “I hate the world” phase of his teenage years only for it to hit him with a vengeance in college. Pleasant chap...

John D Ruddy

Gina Thorley. A small child blew a raspberry over my arm at work last week and the ensuing Bleach Bath I took warped my mind. Now I’m a remorseless villain who needs to be stopped. This is your chance!

Not sure if I can fit this particular narrative but I'm Amber, a 33 year old demisexual American woman of Mexican and Iranian descent with a very tenuous grasp on empathy and a Machiavellian nature that I decided to use for "good" after falling in love with a good person in junior high. We're still married and it's still a conscious effort to respect people's autonomy and all that. Our friends joke that we're all in trouble should something ever happen to my husband, and they're probably right.

My bizarro world evil counterpart: Dr. Arnar Olofsen. Nasal surgeon - plays the piano, cooks a mean leg of lamb - on the outside an all round comfortable guy. On the inside however he resents every person that wants an "Aryan" nose, but was born with "another"...

Eliana Ruby, in 2008 I was a freshly minted atheist and fully prepared to be shitty about it. In the present I'm still an atheist, but I've graduated from the shitty stage to the part where I just feel empty inside. Or maybe it's just 2020 and everyone feels like that. I work in tech, so if you want to make me a fashy tech bro (or tech sis?) go to town.

Julian Baker: Born in Spain, moved to dad's country of USA at age 10, survived American high school with a passing grade and a general anxiety disorder, became a musician and... Died in 2008 in a work of fiction? :)

Christina Christidou, from Greece. In 2008, studying to become a therapist and, in her free time, making weird dolls and selling them online.

Billy Spragg - Scottish security guard who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident (not his fault), but returned to full time work within the year.

Line Stenrud Utengen. Norwegian wlw geeky art-student with dreams of making comics.

Lethurblaka

Andres Bucher (or Butcher if prefered). Studied game design but works in a library now. Does not get upset quickly and prefers to keep his head down, but is also often correspondingly emotionally distanced and calculating. Likes puns a bit too much and has a nervous laugher.

Andres Bucher

Dwayne Patterson, 39 (Sign: cancer): Born in Brooklyn, left Biggie Smalls back yard to live in Chicago (West side); works in Insurance, but doesn't sell it. Frankly thinks Insurance sales is as bad as drug sales. Is Black but learned his estranged and never-met Grandfather was Irish-Welsh.

Dwayne Patterson

Philippe Yaworski Is a Canadian music lover who really got into national socialist black metal but didn't think about the lyrics and meanings and drama all that much to the point where it turned him into pretty much a nazi (In a world where I got into black metal instead of prog and death, I guess?)

Carolyn Wang, queer Asian-American college student living with their parents.

Carolyn Wang

Katy Sardeson-Coe is A Welsh woman living in London who views the world from an Autistic/Asexual lens.

Susan Oxburgh, Scottish charity worker with a wasted History of Art degree. In 2008 I listened to classic rock a lot and thought I was better than other women (the feminist education started around 2010).

Elena Weaver. First in family to be college educated, moved far away from home and the results are in: Thanksgiving politics arguments are her specialty.

Aleina

Freddie (Frederic) Broadbent a man from England, who works in Marketing for a tiny company, who doesn't care which brand pays.

Frederic Tyrel Broadbent

Rosalia Boyle, born Queens NY, raised in Northern Ireland during the troubles era. Cat lady and in 2008, a screwed up little ball of misunderstood issues.

Rosalia Boyle

(the villain version of myself) 'Slyss' Fjeld, some kind of Scandinavian American. Small, sleazy, the only non-psychologist in the family; she shows up for free pizza but never eats the crust.

Jeremy Hernalesteen was his name but online and within the narrow podcasting tabletop RPG scene he preferred to go by Kalum. White, bearded and wearing thick-framed glasses, he matched the stereotype of the sort of nerdy man you expected at Forbidden Planet. He had picked the alias in a homebrew adventure for a Star Trek TTRPG now gone out of publication. Brown hair, at the first steps of being overweight for a couple decades and with a growing amount of grey hair, he was at forty still passing for younger. That might have been more due to a form of immaturity in his spirit than actually looking younger.

Also Blast from the past I’m Pbearadactyl from the blip days. RIP Booze Your Own Adventure. ❤️

Aaron Anaya

My drag queen name, "Princess Penelope Vanden Plas". You don't notice Penny Vanden Plas at first through the humid haze of the run down seaside pub in some forgotten coastal town near Orford Ness, but as you settle into your evening, you notice the rumpled orange velour dress, the worn costume jewlery, and the lipstick stained glass of rose, and wonder, is she the manifestation of this town's soul, or just can't afford London anymore.

Aaron Anaya, Mexican American teenager, middle class, from Glendale, but has family in East LA. Is gay but thinks he can hide it.

Aaron Anaya

Oihana Hauet, half latinx, half french, managed to finally achieve my life's one single goal out of sheer stubbornness, but like, after years of failing.

Jasmine S. Thompson, a 19 year old working in climate change predictions.. for major contributors to climate change. She likes wearing goth clothing despite being hyperactive and cheerful.

Jasmine S. Thompson

Gerard Parole. Raised in a broken family, he moved out of his country and changed his name when things got dangerous; just to become part of the same thing he ran from. Because of his looks and foreign accent, people frequently mistake him for an European.

CaitSeith

Vincent Oakwater, MD (Alias, well, technically it is the literal translation of my very french last name). Backstory : Had serious social anxiety issues in 2008. He joined the facist group because he wanted to feel like he belonged somwhere. ( To be clear : I never joined a fascist group, but my 2008 self might have).

Iforgotmyname

Mara Ivers. Slavic descent, bi, adhd. Analyst for a big company, self-taught artist in a free time. Huge cat lover.

Itajn

Felicity Fisher, not my name, one I made up in order to avoid my abuser on social media. Felicity because it's a cute 90s name and Fisher in honour of Carrie Fisher who is my hero. This name has protected me for a while and I would love her to go on and do some more daring things.

Gillan James Latour (Gillan is pronounced like Dylan with a hard G). Gillan was my grandmothers maiden name (Irish). Canadian (torontoian) living in Pittsburgh. Piano teacher. Owned a bichon frise named Aphrodite. Obsessed with Britney Spears,. Loved watching what not to wear and reruns of the OC.

Reece Powell, 24, from London UK. Bi, engineer, geek, rock climber.

Reece Powell

Signe Brun Bugge, it's an old German and Danish name which might be good for fascists? Anyway, I'm female and I write movie scripts and sing in a traditional Nordic folklore choir.

I'm Jason Wynne and there is already an evil character with that name in Todd MacFarlane's Spawn so go nuts, people might think it's a reference and would have been a fact people might randomly know in '08. I am myself a lawyer in Ontario.

JW

Marlene Michalek. 26-year-old queer librarian who grew up in Texas and now lives in Brooklyn with bad lungs and even worse sense of self-preservation.

Marlene Michalek

Mark Smith. In 2008, people still knew him as "Junior", an angsty 20-something 290-pound white male software engineer trying to make a name for himself in Silicon Valley. He grew up in the midwest, felt constantly misunderstood by the coastal liberals, owned half a dozen guns ... and in an alternate universe he could have easily identified with the Proud Boys.

Erwin King

Erwin King

Annette Strange (alias). Owned a Zune in 2008, so perfect villain material imo. Was also super snotty about people reading Shakespeare "the right way." Considered herself to be "not like other girls."

IcyKitty

I have a bit of an unusual name, Kwink Kurze, so if you need something like that, feel free to use it. 🙂

Dina Fiat, 24 year old jewish goth lesbian. Trying to study chemistry and math in university. Also is a drag king. Not sure whether this counts as proud boy material but it takes all sorts to make a world:)

Charlie B

Jared Dennison. My family's been hard rooted in Kentucky/southern Indiana for 200+ years so I'd probably slot into Proud Boys better then I'd like to really think about.

Jeremy Michel. French, math-nerd, pianist, board game addict. Also very fond of Japanese language et culture.

Garth Ginsburg. Because the last name "Ginsburg" screams Proud Boys, right? Maybe if you need a self-hating one.

Uncle Jam

Niki Nicholson (yep, that’s my actual name) In 2008 I was 29 years old and miserable, living in a mid-sized Bible-belt city surrounded by white Southern Baptists.

Greg Bishansky. I was born in 1981, attended film school in the heart of Hollywood, failed to make it in the biz... now I work as a quality analyst at a call center that collects money for cable companies. If my last name is too Jewish for a Proud Boy type villain, I totally understand.

Aaron Burgess, age 36. Husband who is happily married to a woman who loves your work as much as I do and we would both get a kick out of my name showing up in your book. Her name is Stephanie if you decide you need the person to have a wife character.😁 Thank you for the cool opportunity.

Emma Holt, I was 8 in 2008 so maybe not the best to use then me, better to use current almost 20 year old me

Emma Holt

Matthew Strike, age 23 by 2008. 5'9", slim with dark hair and brown eyes. Born and raised in rural areas. Liked to be addressed with the nickname "Striker" so was often called "Mattie", "Strikie", or "Strike a light" as a wind up.

Travis Bish. In 1993, I dropped out of Carnegie-Mellon to be a juggler. By 2008, I was a database administrator for a payroll company. Success?

Dave Walsh. Back in the year 2008 I was living in the high desert working at a public relations middleman company going through the motions of life without much hope for the future.

Dave Walsh

Chad Langford, I was 20 years old in 2008. My older brother had just died and I was looking for something to believe in. I'm still searching.

Chad Langford

Mikko Marttila, a Finnish computer scientist who wants to found the next Silicon Valley in Vietnam

Mikko Marttila

Bradley Crowell. 2008 closeted gay young adult male angry at the world lashing out at everything to avoid facing true ✨feelings✨

Davey

Marigold Simmons (my beloved "pen name" from high school, because you need a pen name when you're 15). In 2008 she's three years out of college with a degree in literature, has recently gone from a contract worker to a permanent hire at an internationally known media company, and is wondering if she should have gone to grad school. She's married to her high school sweetheart--they got hitched 3 months after their respective college graduations.

Zachary Brill. Works in tech (specifically the defense industry if that matters). I'm totally okay with you twisting myself into one of those fashy tech-bros if you have a need for that sort of thing.

Conrad Parker. Real me was an awkward middle school boy in 2008. Fictional me can be an angry conservative screaming at the world on /pol/ about Obama's birth certificate, or something like that.

Hilda Hamilton. A veterinary nurse with a history of mental illness. Working in scientific research in a university animal hospital. Deeply cynical. Likes cleaning infected gooey wounds.

Tanner Hammond, who in 2008 was a closeted gay jewish boy living with his homophobic parents. I'd rather not be one of those proud boys because i am jewish

Shoshana Steinberg, my name sounds made up anyways! At the age of 13 I was one of the lucky few people in this world who developed a stutter later in life and no one know's why...But its defiantly because I was cursed by a witch or aliens or smth

Selkie

William Schwarz, in 2008 I was a lonley kid playing legos in my large, empty house - an old retirement home my grandfather had bought in the 70s and turned into an art school. In it's hay day it was the most advanced ceramics school in the u.s. In 2008 the crash had destroyed my father's small buisness, so we didnt know if we would get to keep the house or not. I'd walk the long empty halls and stare up at the huge oil paintings hanging on the walls, their ghostly figures looming over me and watching as I walked past. There were real ghosts too of course

Daniel Tompkins. Joined the Marine Corps after failing to get into his ideal college. Upgraded to a military academy then left that after some conduct issues. Considers himself to be a good guy, but he definitely picked up some bad habits.

Daniel Tompkins

Fae Bennet. A woman struggling to reconcile her faith and conservative up bringing with her queerness. She is a good speaker who will passionately argue for anything you want her to.

Tim Ecklund, bearded nerf shepard. Favorite pastime is bullseying womp rats my T-47

Timothy Ecklund

Tony Cascio (pronounced cassy-oh). He tried to join the armed forces and follow in his father's footsteps but never made it past bootcamp. Bitter, and without a positive male influence, he turns to toxic internet communities . Thanks for considering me! I loved Axiom's End!!

Anthony Cascio

Dinah Schone - Real Life Dinah: Student in NYC, owner of an uncommon name. Fake Dinah: Student in NYC, owner of an uncommon name, Myspace famous, but concerned about how popular facebook is becoming.

Ryan Mellin. I'm a bigboy transman, in an interracial marriage living in New Hampshire. I work in higher education and I have more degrees than I know what to do with. I'm everything the right hates. No Proud Boys, but I'd love to be murdered in your book!

Ryan

Andrew Randolf they are a barista and a little too into Star Wars. They’re studying in seminary and hope to become a pastor or a missionary.

WedgeFel

Justin Bacon. Would be Justin Alexander, but his first publisher screwed up and printed the book under his legal name instead of his desired pseudonym.

Justin Alexander

Lo Eriksson. Preschool teacher by day, bad ass villain by night.

Paul Bird. Grew up just north of the border. Played "catch the wetbacks" growing up with the boy scouts. Got bit by a scorpion and milked sympathy for that injury way too much.

Paul Bird

Jonas Scott (or Scott Jonas if that sounds better). Snooty academic who thinks his field of study is more important than all others. Coasts by on being an engaging lecturer. Middle-aged but vain - works out and dresses like in his 20s.

Jonas Schiött

Lindsey Pankhurst Works in the call center for a cable company, a bad enough job on any day but even worse during the Digital Television Transition of 2008. Spending eight hours a day answering the same questions and surfing the internet on his work computer, he eventually found his way to the fashy side of the web and became radicalized.

LP

Val Arkady, claims to be the evil half of someone else and with that name...well, who knows?

Murray Sutherland, programmer. In 2008 I had completed my alpine training and had about 10 decent peaks under my belt including a trekking peak in Nepal (GFC happenedwhen I was in Nepal). Also at that time I had been accepted as a volunteer for search and rescue.

Murray Sutherland

Madeleine Mason, an anthropology professor who has been to every single Britney Spears concert since 1999. Always wears big statement necklaces.

Sam Hall, 24 year old psychology grad student. Grew up with a single mom due to dead dad. Loves chocolate milk.

Sam Hall

Mike Booth. Lost his job as a laser scientist in 2006, now writing software in a terrible grey cubicle and, perhaps, falling in with a group of fascist web programmers. Or not, because naming a Proud Boy-type "Booth" might be a little too on the nose, really.

Christen Lauren Casey. I work as a manager in a chocolate store, own two cats and a poodle, and am good at things that don’t matter. Examples are hopscotch, skipping rocks, and Disney’s Scene It.

Lala

Also I’m Jewish so maybe don’t make me a nazi hopefully?

Simi Parquette

yes please do this one. Kaetlyn nailed it. imho thats what a lot of members of extreme groups and cults are doing, trying to find a family that they didnt think they could get elsewhere.

Don Bright

William David Kovacevich, Jr., although my alias back in the day was William Marshall; not to be confused with the star of cult 70’s film, “Blackula.”

Jack kelly, votes republican, cuts the tags out of his uniform and uses hypoallergenic detergent

lostsheep

Aaron Levitz. I'm either an aspiring or failed musician, depending on mood. (Today, it's aspiring.) In 2008, I worked at a marketing agency, coding websites and banner ads for movies and TV shows. (I was overly proud of that, and put a lot of long hours into it. None of that work exists anymore.)

Aaron

Katelyn Moran When young, parents die young and tragic and she is taken in by far right distant family and sent to right leaning private school. Desperate for family approval buys into everything and goes extreme

Poorly Fleshed Skeleton

Ángel Villalpando - 20yo engineering student. Cocky and pretentious. He's dating a really confused girl that's cheating on her boyfriend with him. Not directly abusive but kind of a d**k. Will take advantage of anyone and anything, keeping safe in his friend group. He's smart and knows it, will rub it in any chance he has.

Biff Dingus. He's not so smart, and has fallen in with the fashy types because they were nicest to him first.

Eric James, young white guy from Texas currently living in Japan. Considers himself a proud soyboy and listens to an incongruous mix of K-pop and pretentious American indie rock.

Eric J

Scarlett Dale Goth obsessed theatre major who desperately seeks to get out of backwards Texas and find fortune in Hollywood. At any cost...

Colleen French. I was Very Online, lived in the holler with friends who bought into all kinds of shit, and was 15 in 2008, so its plausible!

Tor Turner - a 28yo antagonistic know-it-all, buried so deep in the closet he needs a flashlight to find his way out. From the UK, but likes to go wherever in the world there's trouble and stir it up. Charismatic, independently wealthy, worms his way into groups, but really has no principles or beliefs, he just wants to feel powerful.

Emil Cardinalli (I hadn't transitioned by 2008, but let's pretend that I did. I would use my dead name, but since it's one of your friend's names it might already be in the book...) - A miserable freshman in high school who thinks liking anime is the same as a personality. You can make him evil or kill him, I think that would be very funny!

Rachael Hulvey, 16-year-old high school student who grew up on a farm in Virginia. Spends a lot of time on MySpace and AIM. Makes her mom take her to Hot Topic where she uses birthday money to buy stuff like spikey necklaces or a Frodo t-shirt. She participates in a lot of school plays but rarely gets anything bigger than Grandma Tzeitl. Extremely repressed bisexual who is too anxious to go out with anybody.

Taylor Thomas. I don't mind if I'm in the hate group if it means I get to be in a book. 🤷🏿🤣  I'm a cis lady but it's cool if my character's not - unisex names are useful sometimes.  In 2008, I was a directionless college age weeb majoring in Japanese but I was a very bad student so I eventually dropped out and joined the military. I was socially clueless, extremely conflict averse, and kinda gullible/naive so I'd probably be easily manipulated by a hate group tbh Thanks for the opportunity!

Taylor T (Eventidally)

Hadley Jones (pseudonymI had when I was on wattpad lol.) Lesbian schoolteacher in mid 20s who's *real dream* was... stand up ventriloquy

Tomboy

Beth Bay (My middle name is Laurel so I’m going with Bay for a pseudonym in case you make me a Nazi): 21 year old film school drop out trying to pay student loans working at Starbucks full time (no jokes, that was actually my life in 2008 😬)

Bethany Laurel

Camrin "Rin" Arreseigor. An LGBTQIA+ Industrial Designer fresh out of college with a lot of hope, anxiety, ideas, and not a lot of job prospects. He's alone in a new city just trying to make friends in a post college life. For Rin, making friends without a workplace is difficult. To that end, (and often to his detriment), he's willing to do just about anything to fit into a group of his peers.. just so he won’t be alone.

Camrin Arreseigor

Can you use my ex-husband's name of Mike Maixner (pronounced max-ner, which is impossible to get people to understand), make him a bad guy, and kill him (preferably gruesomely)? Come from a comfortably moneyed family, is treated like a baby his whole life, marries a woman but never works, allows his wife after five years of this to help him get his dream job of teaching, lands a cushy salary and promises to help his wife pursue her dream career, promptly asks for a divorce instead (while cheating and lying because OF COURSE), holds their joint money hostage for over a year so that she's literally starting over from scratch after supporting him for all those years, and then gives her the most pathetic divorce settlement ever?

Emily Ellet

Jesse Pendergrass: US citizen born abroad. Autistic, but undiagnosed until adulthood. Dedicated to school and christianity growing up, to please physically and emotionally abusive parents. Lonely and angry in college, figuring out the upbringing was all lies, and plugged in with fashy roomies (aka, went down the path I did not).

Prannon Pendragas

Andrew Gibson, wannabe filmmaker. Born and raised in a small racist town in Northern California

Samuel Nguyen - browsing through Tumblr, streaming anime on sketchy sites, and having an unironic love for Naruto. Guilty pleasures include musical theatre, Disney Channel Movies and Zutara fanfiction with hand holding.

Samuel Nguyen

Sara Turnasella. My last name means chair maker but I've never made any chairs.

Genie Hossain. Majored in music and graduated with tons of debt. Been working various customer service jobs (which in itself is I think the ultimate villain backstory) and finally landed a pretty okay office gig before the economy tanked. I guess that’s kind of applicable both to now and 2008. 😂

Rodrigo Deodoro, immigrant software engineer, lives in silicon valley.

Rodrigo Deodoro

Janel Forcier, Californian "writer" with many dogs and fish aquariums. In 2008 I most definitely wore a Twilight shirt with blue-dyed side bangs, so I'd like to think I'd die well in that time.

Chris Snider: Raised in a Southern Baptist home, and having attended a private Christian college, he now teaches high school English as a devout prescriptivist. He teaches every text with a distinctly anti-feminist and anti-gay slant despite his frequent hookups with the flamboyant art teacher.

Chris Snider

Alex England, an 18 yr old goth Texan who got a little too into Norse mythology and German. I never went fash irl, but always looked at as a case of "there but for the grace of gay go I."

Everest Schnieder: Born 1983. Got into computer programming at a young age (5/6), and moved into computer hacking as a teenager (but was never caught). By 2008--employed in the tech industry. Tendency to focus on specific details while losing sight of the context. Loves computers, less thrilled about people; picked up violin as a teenager but never got very good. Always carries a fountain pen if possible, and complains to anyone who will listen when forced to use a ballpoint. (Based on me in the way that movies "inspired by a true story" are true to life--but the name is a remapping of mine and the basic beats are accurate, though the dates are changed.)

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Joel Brooks (pseudonym I had). A self-absorbed jerk that doesn't really understand that people have lives outside of them. Very annoying. Any Age you want or need.

Tori

Huh! Well, my name is Stephen Notley. Lame, I know, to have the last letter of the 1st name be the 1st letter of the last name, but them's how the dice roll sometimes. Round 2008, I was three years into living in Seattle working at PopCap Games... I think Peggle had come out by then, and Plants vs. Zombies was still a year away but looking very promising. Also had a Bob the Angry Flower book, "Pamplemousse," out for San Diego Comic-con that year.

Stephen Notley

Jennifer St. Vincent. My name screams classic stereotype 80s mean girl villain

Jen

Brendan Mooney. Fourth-generation American, but acts more Irish than legitimate Irish people. Thinks the Irish were the *real* slaves in American history. An absolute asshole.

Brendan Mooney

Rachel Talley: self absorbed high school freshman. That's it. That's the line.

Jonathan Adams: morose, pasty Canadian living in Alberta (Canada's Texas with an engorged sense of entitlement), freshly out of work from his delivery job and now an easy mark for some hucksters.

Jonathan Adams

After thinking about it, could my name not be used in the hate group? I'm Hispanic so I don't think that would sit right.

Andrew Croftcheck. Loves dogs, hates people.

Maurice Leslie. Back in 2008 I was a high schooler who "majored" (if you can call it that) in history and who had a crush on a girl who turned out to be an underage alcoholic (because she was acutely aware that high school in fact sucks). So in terms of your book, what's the closest you've got to an archivist/curator/bureaucrat whose jokes are lame and whose wife drinks too much?

Richárd Vaskó, a Hungarian guy who made a fortune out of smuggling exotic animals. A night ownl, a distant person with well developed claustrophilia and with strong foreign accent.

Vaskó Richárd

Loren Harrell: A 24 year old artist/ occasional YouTuber who is between jobs, living with their parents and trying (and failing) to figure out what to do with their life.

Fuck it, villify me mom. I was a shitty high school student in 2008 anyway. Josh Lanning, local high school emo theatre kid that played one to many JRPGs got mixed in with the wrong crowd. He was also one of *gasp* THE GAYS.

JRL Studios

Paul Chamberlain: A recently graduated computer programmer who works for the Government because no one would hire him to make games. He had to move for work to an unfamiliar place and is trying (and mostly failing) to make friends at tech meetups and science fiction conventions.

Miguel Velázquez: late 20's male mexican criminology professor. Kinda chubby, easibly irritable.

Thomas Jeffers is a New Jerseyan who does customer service for an ominously large technology corporation.

Boone Jackson Ayala (feel free to drop the Ayala if you want it more fascy and less latinx). PhD student studying colonialism and the British Empire (for evil?). To his knowledge the only person to ever really “love” being from Connecticut.

Steffie Harfy. (Just a small difference from my real name) In 2008 I was a cake decorator for a small family owned bakery. I spent a lot of time on live journal and was in like 100 different fandom groups. I even had a page dedicated to the avatars I would make. Feel free to kill and/or make her as horrible as you wish

Dewey Williams. Spends most of his day building gadgets for both good and evil, and always has headphones in blasting repetitive electronic music.

Dewey

Catherine Meade. Graduated with a degree in Art Education to totally wash out after one year teaching high school (teenagers are the worst). Now a moderately successful software engineer with an autoimmune disease and a blunt, but endearing, personality. Really into bubble tea.

Ben Loucks, French teacher, queer activist and aspiring writer, big and white and kind of loud. I'm kind of the opposite of a proud boy but I have to admit that I physically fit the bill!

Sophie Elliot: assistant to a high powered attorney, very good with fashion, will make you explain a racist joke to understand why it’s “funny”. Probably wouldn’t be associated with a hate group.

KJ

Gabriel Edge: been super annoyed ever since his name was mispronounced at his high school graduation as Gabrielle. College through 2004 where he found a way to direct that annoyance. (Only the name and the mispronounced part is true)

Julie Casson- snarky, smart, and quick-witted works at a Japanese manag/anime company during the day and table top dances in clubs at night. Has a crush on a trans woman but doesn’t know what to do about it.

James Andrews. A local restaurant reviewer who has been gaining traction on the web and is now making more money from a food blog full of fast food secret menu item articles then the news paper reviewer job he had been working for the past 5 years.

Ginny Brown

Ryan Aston , a psychologist and consultant for the government riddled with DID and a particularly unpleasant, psychotic alter that just loves, loves, loves hurting people

Ryan Aston

Carrie Marshall. My favorite things in high school was my Happy Bunny hoodie that proudly said “not listening” and my Palm Pilot that I totally copied anime fanfiction onto it to read during class. Also 2008 is peak MCR time for me so welcome to the black parade, sign me the hell up!

Carrie Marshall

Gabby Wiley. A high school sophomore who spends her days listening to alternative music she discovers on YouTube and filling up notebooks with unfinished knock off Twilight novels. Low key pretentious and doesn’t understand why she isn’t higher on the social ladder.

Jenny Love. 17yo Horse Girl. Sells Obama t-shirts on the streets of Pasadena. (Does Obama exist in this universe?)

Michele Shaw, a mommy blogger whose also writes self pubbed erotica. She's not always good at keeping those audiences seperate.

Clare (Agrippina) Belshaw

Steven Olson: a Mormon with Tourette's Syndrome and perfect pitch. Living in Burbank, CA, trying to make it as a screenwriter while he works as a tour guide at Warner Bros. Studios.

Omar Sultan - probably not your typical Proud Boys kinda name, but, hey, have at it.

Johnny Moniz: Stage manager/technician in community theatre. Graduated with a psychology major, didn’t enjoy working the field, and climbed the ladder of stage tech work until he made a name for himself.

Kaito Kondo. Moved from Japan as a teen. He works at Starbucks because he can’t find a job. He is perpetually irritated that everyone calls him “kite” (not my real first name but I personally don’t know anyone with that name although it’s common)

Eliza Cabb. Auditioned for the pussycat dolls and is super bitter about their success. Afraid of revolving doors because she once got stuck in one.

Jackie Dever: Unable to reconcile her role as a fifth-grade DARE essay contest first-prize winner with the program’s stunning ineffectiveness, Jackie Dever committed herself to activism favoring the use of hallucinogenic drugs in treating military PTSD patients and accidentally fell for a fashy marine, who eagerly shared his perspectives on women in infantry and the terrors of feminism.

Jackie Dever

Marina Vera! After finding out her last name means Truth/Faith in Russian, she became an insufferable woman of faith. She traded in her love of fiction for scripture and refuses to let any opportunity to let her (often terrible) opinions go to waste. [I'm hoping your fashy hate group is religious and putting all my eggs in that basket. :) ]

Kelly Lorenc - Bewildered crafter who is always very, very tired of everything. Attempting to immigrate to Canada via her husband :)

Kristin Robinson. Nicknamed Karst by her youngest sister. 3rd of 10 kids. Graduated with Elelmentary Ed degree and couldn't deal with kids' parents, so became a secretary and sole employee in a depressing private legal firm working for an attorney with anger issues. Always cries when yelled at on the phone.

Richard Davidson: Government employee, from a military family, who spent too much time in the bad parts of Reddit and kiwi farms.

Well my name is Jean but most people call me Johnny because Jean is an old person name. I hate it so you can have whichever one you prefer. I'm a disabled french canadian (yes like the Wheelchair Assassins from Infinite Jest, thanks I hate it.) although in 2008 I was still able bodied so I don't mind either way. Little backstory, in 2009 I was hit by bus on my way to school, which left me quadriplegic at a C5 level. I have since operated a Local Game Store before going back to school 2 years ago to become a litterature teacher. I have an unhealthy love for shitty 90s science fiction movies and the 00's discography of Linkin Park.

Brian Mead. IT professional, D&D nerd. In 2008? Working in Hollywood at a post house and trying to avoid getting dragged to RHPS for the 18th time by my then-Girlfriend.

Kill my $DEADNAME (if you select it, I can DM you it.) They are a misguided SF fan who wound up losing the love of their life when she found out they were secretly a Something Awful forum goon.

Emma Humphries

Emily Bowyer. Quit academia to plant trees and never looked back.

Melody Daivia. She’s a suburban trad wife who went to an expensive school to find a husband. She has three kids who she’d die for and a husband who goes out at night, but she doesn’t know where.

I will say, if you need somebody stabbed, the name Julia Cieslak (anglicized pronunciation is SIEZE-lack), it's juuuuuust close enough to Julius Caesar without being too on the nose.

Chris Metcalf. A struggling coke addict with a heart of gold.

Skibbityboo

Jason Thomas- Huge fan of Staind. Has followed them around on tour since 02. Has the lyrics "All your insults and your curses Make me feel like I'm not a person" tattooed on his chest.

Jordan Best (this is my real first and last name and I'm fine with you killing me off). Currently is a warehouse worker with the hobby of going out for walks, reading all sorts of books and reading material, listening to music and playing video games.

Jebest4781

Vlad Barash, a finance bro who was on the verge of cashing out and retiring at 35 when the financial crisis hit. Is addicted to CCGs and drugs in equal measure.

Vladimir Barash

Andrés Urrutia, sociologist and writer who hates his part time job because he can't live with any of his titles above alone (this is not a resume btw, nor complaining. well, maybe a little bit)

Toby Burress. I'm a white cis dude. I would like to piss myself before I die. Thank you.

Issa Rodri, day job as a bottom tier jewelry saleswoman, moonlights as a role-playing domme.

Issa Rodri

Marc Aquino. A young Puerto Rican man who fits the Peter Parker-esqe archetype with a hint of Zach Braff. Well-meaning but sometimes stubborn, he secretly pines for his childhood friend Marisa and uses a Flip HD camera to make video diaries on YouTube that no one watches.

Cheeia Vaj (pronounced "Chee-eyah Vaah") Born in US but parents immigrated to US in early 80s due to Vietnam War (South East Asian family). Grew up working class with 5 siblings, is a middle child. Low level office worker bored with their job.

Sam Reed. Wants to be into 2008 scene culture but is too conformist to pull it off. Compromises with "cheer up emo kid" hot topic t-shirts and converse shoes. Thinks this is peak counterculture.

S. R.

Nicholas 'Nick' Masters. Just graduated from college, which made him into something of a cynic and so he's kind of close to the 2008 equivalent of a doomer. Has rich grandparents so has never really struggled but still is under the impression he has? A big follower of conspiracy theories that validate his already chosen worldview.

Asciel

Anessa Barbosa. Proficient in Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop CS4. Character reference available upon request.

Anessa B

Joy Potter, (this is my real middle and last name) It's probably too on the nose to kill Joy Potter since the author seems to have done that already, but it might be funny for something else. (Side note, I'm so glad I convinced my husband not to name our son Harry.)

Maria Potter

Shea Bartlett - Just a Southern girl, living in a sci-fi world. Believes in big hair because that's what gets you closer to Jesus (and aliens) and says 'bless your heart' unironically.

Max Laycock, in 2008 a god-fearing mormon boy of 9 and obvious gay (but he didn't even know what that was yet lol). Now a bitter ex-mormon and theatre guy working at chipotle who thinks community college is hard and goes through an endless stream of romantic dead ends.

Max Laycock

Colleen Siochain. I can pretty much recite "Wayne's World" from start to finish.

Colleen S.

Leonard "Lenny" Monroe. An aspiring lawyer with teeth as crooked and yellowed as his morals. He doesn't honestly believe in much of anything, but he's realized that conservatives have most of the money and if he's going to get any of it he should probably toe the line.

WT Harmon

Maccewill (pronounced Maxwell, so Max for short). I mean, look at it, that's a villain name. One who've started learning varying things and excelling in none, but volunteer a lot in youth theatre, a national science organization, and an experimental/avant garde music festival. Love lots of different cinema, good and bad, that could be pretentious if not for my earnestness and wanting to share what I've discovered with everybody.

Maccewill

Aaron Gittelman. Abandoned at a Cheesecake Factory as a child. Raised by the waitstaff.

Cordelia Staffieri. Long-suffering engineering student in the middle of switching majors who tells ghost stories for a living.

Elena Dominguez. Social work grad student from Washington DC, loves video games, and historical fashion circa 1900-1929. Recently engaged to her long term boyfriend and was looking to buy a house together, although if this is 2008 that might have turned out to be a bit problematic.

Andrew Johnson. Grew up constantly reminded of his racist namesake, though his parents swear that wasn’t their intention.

Tyrel McGonigal grew up in a city stuck in the 80s in an off-brand Texas sort of place. Despite the best efforts of the community growing up, Tyrel didn't end up working in the oil patch but instead teaches children.

Fake Name

Dylan Nugent. Owns a Zune loaded up with Foo Fighters music. Talks pretentiously about classic literature he pretends to have read.

Dylan Nugent

Rachel Mitchell - ran away from home after finding out the horrible truth. Neither of her parents last names are Mitchell.

Daniel Wilson: cynical sports journalist with the physique of someone who thinks a fedora is stylish (specifically the build, not the enthusiasm of wearing fedoras). May or may not support total societal overhaul.

Daniel Wilson

Mark Bryk. Grows a beard whenever he's depressed, and shaves when he's over it. Wakes up to "Circle of Life." Would consider himself "fashy" if it weren't for the meaning of that word.

Glynn Butler. From Australia. Parents heavily involved in local church. Now works as IT Support in the city.

Glynn BUTLER

Vivian Smerdaz. Raised in a hyper conservative, Religious Right home who were 1000% Pro-Bush and now one still terrifyingly a die-hard Trump supporter

Uneducated & Enthused

Elliott Anaya. Senior in high school. Super into the bands Slayer and Death. Hard case of senioritus. Afraid to let his nerd flag fly and embrace his love of DnD, fantasy, and comics.

Emmanuel Smith. Grumpy, literal dwarf with a bad credit score, medical debt, and a wildly uneven name. Good listener, oversharer, and willing literary cannon fodder.

Meridian Eckle, hard-right wing woman. Anti-feminist for her own purposes, but maybe fleshed out enough to be a believable character. This doesn't reflect any of myself, obviously, but I figured this could be a interesting take :)

Luke Thomas Jones. A former soldier wondering where his life has gone wrong as he hops from job to job. After reading the possibilities, I decided against adding my own name and instead threw up a random name with a background close enough to the truth to fit the theme and still be applicable.

Levi Whitney

Amy Trevaskis, a sad high schooler who eveyone assumed was good at computers but was in reality just reading about Disney movies on Wikipedia the whole time

Amy

Alara Jones is a smart person who is at or below average in every other aspect of her life. She spends a lot trying desperately to camouflage the latter by developing a sense of humor. She is the kind of person who wants a tattoo, but has no clue of what.

Thomas Parker. Perpetually single and yearning for a father figure. Recently became enamored with Dostoyevsky.

Tony M Parker

Eric Mulder. And yes, Mulder. At first I was happy when X-file taught people how to pronounce my name, but after getting rejection letters for "picking such an obvious and absurd pen name". Trying to prove that Mulder's a real name that real people have drove to some kind of psychotic break and I started hanging out with gun nuts.

Eric Mulder

Tom Hulse Yeah, that's my name. Yeah, it probably makes my name hard to use in a book. In 2008 I was a math grad student in Rhode Island and I was still trying to do college theater with kids much younger than me. I had to smoke a fake cigarette on stage and it never looked convincing. No fascists please.

TomNoLongerInCanada

The Data Wizard, a queer wizard from North Dakota, that will throw tacos at people for sport if paid the right price.

The Data Wizard

Hayden Fisher. A little bit too into Paramore, but would never admit to being a scene kid. He would dress goth if he had the money, but he doesn't, so he's doing evil things instead for now

Hayden Fisher

Shannon Gibson (You can use it anywhere) Grew up homeschooled in the 2000’s when it was still an oddity?

Shannon

Manuel Dalton dropped out of high school with his principal's blessing. He's a big fan of giant monster movies.

Manuel Dalton

My name is Katie Gerdts, I trained my whole childhood to do musical theater, my whole young adulthood to become a political pundit, so naturally, I'm now head of marketing for an online baby furniture company.

Timothy Winterlin. 36. Cyclist, recovering community theater actor, once bench pressed a little person, enjoys constructing with erector sets, lego, and any sort of chill crafty activity. Drives a forklift like a bad mofo.

You can definitely kill my dead name: Alycea Arline. Regrettably voted for the McCain/Palin ticket cause abortion bad (ugh), the teenager who left pamphlets in the girls restroom (uuggggh), and the kid who ruined all the fun holidays (uggggggggggh). Favorite book/movie adaptation: Left Behind. Yea I’ll take my transition in trump’s America, thanks.

Nick A

Well my name is Marissa and most Marissa’s in books are either the cheated on wife or the bitchy ex-girlfriend. I don’t like my name. So therefore I offer onto you; Marissa. It’s up to you wheater you want to play into the Marissa Streotype or nah. Only Marissa in media I’ve liked is Marissa the librarian from Stranger Things who hooks up with Hopper and he never calls back. As I’m a librarian, I thought this was really funny.

Marissa Richardson

Colin McGonnigal. In 2020, cringing at the connection to Harry Potter in his last name but in 2008 he is L O V I N G it. 1,000,000% bi but at this point thinks he’s just a cool, open minded straight that thinks about kissing dudes a lot but, like, just as a prank, bro.

Andy Boggs is a tattooed drunken layabout that escaped Appalachia to waste away in central Texas with a dog he doesn't particularly like.

Alex Ledum - A very dorky sophomore in high school who spent too much time messaging friends over free websites we made in Basic Computer Skills class.

Apples

My name is Jayne Fields, but my online handle is Elysia Fields. I love the Greek mythology of the Elysium Fields being a pretty sweet part of the afterlife, and as a play on my name, it can't be beaten.

Elysia Fields

Alex. Loves bringing up his Midwestern heritage at every opportunity, despite not having lived in the Midwest for a long time now.

Alex Stephen

Kevin McDonnell. Graduated from a college in DC, and tried to find a job on the Hill while working at a taco place; he couldn't find one, so he moved back in with his parents in Chicago. He likes music, drinking, and video games.

Timothy Hill. Went to prison for sexual assault, but told people he got stationed overseas for the CIA. Now, spends his days collecting computer parts and evangelizing reagan.

Brita Larson. A very tall and lanky woman, with frizzy curly hair that’s been bleached a little too much. Collects silly bands. Can’t find a job in this economy.

Zack Kilmer, works in public policy and lives in Staten Island with his very cute cat.

Julian Trace is the toxic man-boy I easily could have been. He thinks the supremacy of the rational male is just a hard truth of life to be embraced by adults, and has little plans for his life besides expressing his opinion online.

Crescent Minor

Kyle Johntz Connor, finance softboy

Gannon Miller. Young, nerdy, and awkward. Made a terrible mistake that haunts him and is now questioning almost every part of his life (from his sexuality to whether or not he's still on the Autism Spectrum) (P.S. would prefer not to be a Proud Boy type, but if it makes an interesting character I'd be fine with it.)

Phillip Wallis. All around troublemaker and movie nerd. Loves cats

Melatonix

Russ Sangree. Annoyed that women don't like me despite my excellent collection of top hats.

Emma McCartan! 22, owns her own restaurant, here for a good time, not a long time 👉🏼👉🏼

Janessa Frykas, from rural Canada, spent all my time on YouTube and wore big chunky plastic earrings heavy enough to probably stretch my earlobes, and most of my friend group solely talked about Naruto.

Ryan English. Tries to make dad jokes but is too young. Just sticks his finger in your food and says "have you had a _____ donut?"

Toryana Vestal - accountant extraordinaire but in a fun way! (jk I do accounting in real life but it's not extraordinary or fun)

Toryana Frazier

Andrew Henderson. Sheltered son of two far right wing fox news loving parents. Is very interested in the world outside his sheltered home life but because of upbringing is very afraid of it.

Andrew Henderson

Jess Parks is a transit community outreach professional in the recently crowned "Most Unsustainable City" in the nation. She spends most of her time trying to convince people the light rail isn't evil.

Rob Poliseno. Lost the fourth grade spelling bee to a hispanic girl. Has not gotten over it. In unacknowledged lust with his racket ball partner.

Lloyd Chambers. If I ever wrote The Great American SF Novel (think John Green, but with more nerdy Science Fiction elements), this is the nom de plume I would write it under. In my headcanon Lloyd is a stereotypical American of Western Europe/UK mixed descent that is college educated. This name is a variation of my real, given name and not that of anyone I know or have heard of. I've always wanted to be Tuckerized (old fannish term for an SF writer using people he knows as characters in a book - derived from Wilson "Bob" Tucker's practice of such)

Danny

Nicholas Raborn, 22 male. Has a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre Arts, and has spent the past ten years taking care of a one eyed Pomeranian named Lobo. Has a full set of Death Note Manga, but hasn't read a single page.

dogrio346

brian Hubbard. I did college wrong so I enlisted in the Army, just like my dad did. In 2008, I was a communications sergeant in a cavalry squadron, and either wrapping up my 2nd deployment to Iraq or recently returned to Ft. Campbell.

lowercase brian

Also, no children. People tell me I'm lucky I don't have kids due to aforementioned court drama.

Emma Hart

Trevor Newman, if it’s basic it’s me, I mean him, I mean me

Trevor Newman

Adam DuBourdieu, an 18 year old (in 2008) with severe hemophilia and an inclination for clumsy mishaps. I’ll let your imagination write the rest.

Danny Cox And for most of 2008 I’d have been in denial about Indiana Jones 4 and talking the ears off anyone that might listen.

Danny Cox

Anna Maria DeFinis. Backstory...well, I also went to film school so I'm happy to be another film graduate blood sacrifice. Also I have metal rods fused to my spine to correct some pretty bad scoliosis and I've always thought that was kind of cool.

Anna Maria

Russ Harbison. Joined Marines straight out of high school because of misguided patriotism. Left after first enlistment after becoming disillusioned with the military. Works in computers.

Robin

Dick Robello. He's the youngest person you'll ever meet who goes by "Dick," and he really hopes you bring that up to him. He also has thoughts about all these simps complaining about the stock exchange.

Dan Rorabaugh

James Murphy, he's dumb film nerd who likes to cook.

Tolkientaters

Raylee Burns - smol queer woman who lived the simple life on a small farm with her girlfriend while taking care of her younger sister (based on me, different name, figured you wouldn’t put in another Ellis lol)

August Ellis

Simi Parker. I had a bad reaction to The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D and I’ve been scarred ever since.

Simi Parquette

> So basically, leave a comment below giving me your name […], or a made up name that represents you. > Also there’s a good chance that you will be a bad guy (and, spoilers, most of the bad guys in TotD are kind of in a fashy Proud Boys vein, so it's not the "fun" kinds of villain.) I'm rather conflicted now... I'm just going to make one up, if that's OK. Dave Barns, twenty something, long greasy hair, and a pasty complexion from lack of sunlight. Started frequenting niche IRC channels [author's note: I swear, there were high-schoolers on IRC in 2008], and slowly slid down the fashy rabbithole, with no friends or family to pull him out of it. Almost a tragic tale, if he had not turned to violently terrorising "darkies" at university. And he's the clever kind of bastard, smart enough to avoid getting caught.

Twit In A Hat

Evelyn Yohe. Came from an abusive broken home. Took up shitty jobs to make rent because college wasn't an option for financial reasons. Half Korean but estranged from her heritage. (This is my true life)

1st Recon Lylith

Catherine Douglas, 28 years old, in the final years of her PhD program in English Literature. Studies 20th century English literature with dissertation chapters on Pound and Eliot. Spends too much time on message boards in her spare time. Good luck writing!

William Chandler He's a 20 year old studying Software Engineering. Never kissed anyone, but positive he'd be killer at it. Never tips more than a dollar. Refuses to buy new clothes for himself. Gained 20 pounds since starting college and now only has one pair of jeans that fit

Patrick Stephen Called "best-dressed" by one drunk guy because he only brought dress shirts to college after reading a SA forum post on male fashion

Michaela Williamson Queer and dead inside. Really likes horror movies and low-budget documentaries

Theo (icon by Xianiyi on Twitter)

James Westcott. Just... some guy

LumDumGum (Gum)

Joe Kowalski. Back story: A home media blogger who is all in on HD DVD, only to be devastated by its demise to Blu-ray.

PogieJoe

Joshua Braddy. Thirty-four years old. He's a producer working in the video games industry.

Josh

Aubrey Nyberg! passionate and hardworking but rarely opens up to people, very protective of her close friends and family.

Aubrey Nyberg

Emma Chemey like chemistry. My husband is a chemist and I'm a recently unemployed housewife with too much time on my hands.

Margaret Millwood. That's the name of my Harry Potter OC from 2008-ish. She liked cats, logic puzzles and knitting. I cheerfully offer her up to be slain.

janeway216

I forgot, I'm actually 28 now. It's past ten so I've had a fair amount of champagne.

Katrina Skole. I'm an epileptic who grew up in and out of hospitals and I'm practicing to become a midwife. Born and raised in Connecticut.

Stevie Fann was a guy that argued about the existence of aliens for years but was pissed they'd never show up to support his claims. He got ridiculed in school for it and now hates them for never being their for him. Secretly probably wishes he was one.

Steven Fann

Marius Johansen. Former Disney Castmember at the EPCOT Norwegian pavilion

ObMeiste

D.M. Johnson. Coward.

David Johnson

Emma Hart! Chronic baby face, insurance broker of 10 years. Name as common as mud. Spent 6 years in court for a messy separation, but finally won the rights to her house back this year. Is known for saying "My twenties was just my practice round"

Emma Hart

Connla Lyons, real name but made up back story: fashy proud boy leaning into Celtic mythology instead of Norse mythology as they often do

Connla Lyons

I see a lot of people are just leaving names as comments. There is supposed to be a super brief backstory as well right?

Henry R. Seymour

Danny Oliveira, reads only classical literature because it’s a mark of intelligence or something narrow-minded like that. Training to be a woodworker/trade carpenter! (Aka good at building things, not so good at thinking. A perfect proud boy)

Patrick Colvin, likes to tell waitstaff that he needs to eat gluten-free, but he totally doesn't, he just needs to feel special. (If I were a Bad Guy, that's probably the crap I'd pull.) <3

Patrick Colvin

The name is Herbert Christal. He is a twisted and paranoiac driving instructor. He thinks he gives good instructions, but in reality has managed to get his students into multiple accidents (one fatal).

Jack Gattanella

Lauren Byers. I've been extremely anxious my entire adult life to the point where it's integrated with my personality. Now that I'm finally getting treatment at age 28 I'm excited to see who I really am.

Jon Page, 27m, Gay male, former rentboy, married to a software developer, drinks a bottle of champagne every night.

Sam Vercauteren. I went to USC around the start of one of their scandals, to study Computer Science and film and now I sort of wander the earth making people annoyed at Californians.

Sam Vercauteren

Henry R. Seymour. SciFi Obsessed in all of the wrong ways. Loves the military glorification and inherent sexism in 60s Star Trek.

Henry R. Seymour

Kara Kushenov. In 2008, I had just graduated from law school, and was planning to start as a junior associate at a big New York law firm. Little did I know, that only a few years later, I’d be working in high finance, on the types of transactions that would later be blamed for taking down the economy. But hey, it’s a living, right? Is it wrong of me to love it? (Kara is my DnD character, a dyed-in-the-wool, Oath of Protection, Paladin. It would be endlessly amusing if that same name was also attached to a character the exact opposite of Kara, in every way.)

I don't want this to effect my chances or anything but I want to be very clear. This story is 100% true.

Casper Hope-Tindall

Jakob (but he goes by "Jake" because he's trash) He cares more about his dogs than the well-being of other people. He's also a doomsday prepper and bought a tactical vest for his dog. Doesn't leave tips

Huebert Keeper

Hannah Risley is a reference librarian in a metropolitan public library whose primary hobby includes rereading the same series over and over again, and playing D&D. She is caught up in the hope and change being promoted by the Obama campaign, and is trying to talk her midwestern parents into voting blue for the first time. She and her husband have two cats, and are trying to decide if they should have kids—but things are tough for a public library employee in the middle of a housing crisis.

HyeJin Kim (my actual name) or HyeJin Starlight (my first name twice, with English translation). Korean Adoptee nerd non binary trans - with a detour past trans woman cause in 2008 non-binary wasn't a thing I knew about or the world or trans movement cared a bi out - been librarian and archivist... high school drop out... collect vintage swords and books... queer and Catholic.... yeah. or... if you really want to viciously want to kills someone, I honestly will submit my dead name (being trans) for this: ILHWAN DUERINCK or ILHWAN KIM Imma edit out my dead name after the deadline

HyeJin Starlight

Dario Morgan. An Italian Jew radicalized by his gas station co-workers and their fascist rhetoric. He has cut himself off from his family for three years now and hides his Semetic background.

Tyler Jennes

Not my first name, but a name I adopted from a mycology camp instructor (yay mushrooms!) for WoW and early aughts forums: Amanita Finch She's someone crazy enough to spend her summer between 5th and 6th grade learning about mushrooms in the high Sierras.

Karlee Finch

Hi my name is Casper Hope-Tindall and once I almost got sat on by Lou Ferrigno. My life flashed in front of my eyes while The Incredible Hulk's butt grew closer.

Casper Hope-Tindall

Brad

eddie phlash

Javier Vertucio. I’m a recovering conservative but I still don’t know how to treat women with respect. And I won’t for another eight years so deal with it! (Four years after that and I’m still learning.) (I will neither confirm nor deny this is not a teal backstory.)

Jay V

Albert Santos. I was finishing high school in 2008, my favourite band was Kasabian, and spent all my spare time on Tumblr (back when getting 1000 notes on Tumblr was a big thing). Also my fashion choices were bad and I thought the friends one was a thing. I probably deserve to be written as an evil character, based on who I was.

Andrew Robertson. In 2008 I was a law student.

Andrew Robertson

Jacob King tries to live a good life according to high minded ideals. Unfortunately for everyone around him, he thinks that living according to the works of Ayn Rand is the best way to live. He cares not for troubles of others he only cares for his own wellbeing.

Luke Forester. He's an uncle who works for Nintendo.

Emilie DeFazio, made a fool of herself at the spaghetti factory and looks taller than she really is

I’m Dean Hart, and I’m a fashy Proud Boy because Father never held me.

Dean

Deanna O'Keefe- broadway fan, social worker/therapist, loudly bisexual, really into Krampus.

Deanna

Will McGhee. My name was made for this.

Noah Bogart, born in Morocco, raised in Ohio.

Noah Bogart

David Peacock Math teacher who kinda hates doing math

Dylan Lee

Dylan Lee

Morgan Shaunette. I'm an unemployed part-timer living in Portland who is also a recent pet parent. She's a 5-year-old Chihuahua mix. Her name is Minnie the Moocher. I love her. I would also not like to be part of a hate group. Plus I'm a mixed-race Black/Jew so I can't imagine they'd let me in.

Gabriella Mayer, awkward as shit but trying to make something out of themselves

Ryan Bravo

Alexander Tucker!

Alex Tucker

Skylar Vice

SkylarVice

Monica Quirk, big idiot but doing their best

Mo Quirk

Sebastian Simon

Trixie Moonbeam. Backstory: Born to straight-laced parents as "Julia Mason", but desperately wanted a unique "hippie" name. Turns out having a unique name does not make you a more interesting person.

Katherine Evans

Christopher Stoll (and I'm comfortable with you using my name whoever you'd like) Real backstory- Grew up in Texas, studied biology in S. Korea before returning to the states just in time for the current horrible nonsense the U.S. is going through. Now I'd like to go back to East Asia, but can't.

Christopher Stoll

Roman Elazar Real backstory, emigrated from the Balkans (Sarajevo during the civil war in the 90s), in the late aughts/early 10s I was doing a master’s in civil engineering.

Roman Elazar