Post by pieandchips on Apr 6, 2008 14:31:42 GMT -5
Full Name: Ethan Ryan Macmanus
Nicknames: None
Age: 25
Height: 5'11
Weight: 145 lbs
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Unknown
Franchise: Ctrl+Alt+Del
Physical Description: Kinda tall, kinda skinny. Brown hair, gray T-Shirt with light blue sleeves. Blue pants
Weapons: Has been shown to have Brass Knuckles.
Abilities/Powers:
Skills: Playing video games
Personality: Loves video games.
History: A 25-year-old of Irish descent, somewhat crazy game fanatic and amateur artist. He is 5'11, 145 lbs. His antics and plans - usually very-off beat, often nonsensical, sometimes straight-out moronic - are the focus of the strip, and have resulted in many a story arc. He has always thought he is good at video games, until he is beaten very easily, even by Scott on an Xbox. Once, he has tried to play Lucas' game, Warhammer 40,000, but quits after eight comic strips because of the absence of a video game in it. He is engaged to Lilah, after proposing to her on Valentine's Day in 2006, having done so by getting all seven high scores on a video game in the arcade to read "LIL" "AH_" "WIL" "YOU" "MAR" "RY_" "ME_". Recently, he has learned that Lilah is pregnant and he'll become both husband and father soon. He notionally works as a sales clerk at GameHaven, though he wants to be a video game creator and has shown the ability to be an inexplicably brilliant inventor when he wants something badly enough. He has problems with Rob, his coworker and a Counter-Strike enthusiast. Author Tim Buckley, a fellow hardcore gamer of Irish descent, has admitted in the FAQ setting that Ethan's appearance was initially loosely based on his.
Ethan is also the king and creator of the gamers holiday that is known as 'Winter-een-mas'; see below for more information. He also has an unhealthy obsession with the Fallout series and Lucas often has to make a huge effort to ensure he doesn't make contact with the series again. He got stuck in a vent in Bethesda studios when he had originally planned to steal a copy of Oblivion before it was released, through the grill behind him he could hear producers commenting about Fallout 3 alpha and tried to turn round in the vent, resulting in him being tangled up within the vent with the fire department being called to free him.
In 2007, Ethan is shown to be an extremely ethical gamer and as such, he started a new religion ("the Sacred Church of Gaming") by compiling a book, "Holy Instruction Manual", and delivering sermons, "massively multiplayer prayer". The religion has faced strong opposition among several "popular" religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, to the point of "roughing him up", according to the leader of the three faiths. The start of the religion was triggered by a customer at GameHaven, when he asked Ethan for a strategy guide for a game the customer was about to buy. Ethan declined, stating that "cheating is a grievous sin against the natural order of gaming".
He has been known to do just about anything to get a new video game. In one story arc, he breaks into Besthesda Studios to get an early copy of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and in a recent story arc, he pretends to be Lucas to sneak into Bioware Studios, as he is not allowed at any video game company anymore, so he can acquire Mass Effect. This time he actually succeeds, only to discover that Zeke can't play it, as it is not a finished disc.
It was later revealed in a recent story arc that Ethan was obsessed with Everquest to where he dropped out of high school and had to get detox to stop playing. Lucas and Lilah try to kick his addiction by teaching his brain to handle it normally, he was later seen at 4AM trying to log on, and was thwarted by an alarm set on the account. Most recently, Lilah used what she referred to as a "level eighty female-only persuasion spell" (a.k.a. Flashing) in order to have Ethan treat Everquest normally. So far, it appears to be working.
Other: (Anything else you want to add about them, it’s optional)
Picture:
He's on the left
Nicknames: None
Age: 25
Height: 5'11
Weight: 145 lbs
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Unknown
Franchise: Ctrl+Alt+Del
Physical Description: Kinda tall, kinda skinny. Brown hair, gray T-Shirt with light blue sleeves. Blue pants
Weapons: Has been shown to have Brass Knuckles.
Abilities/Powers:
Skills: Playing video games
Personality: Loves video games.
History: A 25-year-old of Irish descent, somewhat crazy game fanatic and amateur artist. He is 5'11, 145 lbs. His antics and plans - usually very-off beat, often nonsensical, sometimes straight-out moronic - are the focus of the strip, and have resulted in many a story arc. He has always thought he is good at video games, until he is beaten very easily, even by Scott on an Xbox. Once, he has tried to play Lucas' game, Warhammer 40,000, but quits after eight comic strips because of the absence of a video game in it. He is engaged to Lilah, after proposing to her on Valentine's Day in 2006, having done so by getting all seven high scores on a video game in the arcade to read "LIL" "AH_" "WIL" "YOU" "MAR" "RY_" "ME_". Recently, he has learned that Lilah is pregnant and he'll become both husband and father soon. He notionally works as a sales clerk at GameHaven, though he wants to be a video game creator and has shown the ability to be an inexplicably brilliant inventor when he wants something badly enough. He has problems with Rob, his coworker and a Counter-Strike enthusiast. Author Tim Buckley, a fellow hardcore gamer of Irish descent, has admitted in the FAQ setting that Ethan's appearance was initially loosely based on his.
Ethan is also the king and creator of the gamers holiday that is known as 'Winter-een-mas'; see below for more information. He also has an unhealthy obsession with the Fallout series and Lucas often has to make a huge effort to ensure he doesn't make contact with the series again. He got stuck in a vent in Bethesda studios when he had originally planned to steal a copy of Oblivion before it was released, through the grill behind him he could hear producers commenting about Fallout 3 alpha and tried to turn round in the vent, resulting in him being tangled up within the vent with the fire department being called to free him.
In 2007, Ethan is shown to be an extremely ethical gamer and as such, he started a new religion ("the Sacred Church of Gaming") by compiling a book, "Holy Instruction Manual", and delivering sermons, "massively multiplayer prayer". The religion has faced strong opposition among several "popular" religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, to the point of "roughing him up", according to the leader of the three faiths. The start of the religion was triggered by a customer at GameHaven, when he asked Ethan for a strategy guide for a game the customer was about to buy. Ethan declined, stating that "cheating is a grievous sin against the natural order of gaming".
He has been known to do just about anything to get a new video game. In one story arc, he breaks into Besthesda Studios to get an early copy of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and in a recent story arc, he pretends to be Lucas to sneak into Bioware Studios, as he is not allowed at any video game company anymore, so he can acquire Mass Effect. This time he actually succeeds, only to discover that Zeke can't play it, as it is not a finished disc.
It was later revealed in a recent story arc that Ethan was obsessed with Everquest to where he dropped out of high school and had to get detox to stop playing. Lucas and Lilah try to kick his addiction by teaching his brain to handle it normally, he was later seen at 4AM trying to log on, and was thwarted by an alarm set on the account. Most recently, Lilah used what she referred to as a "level eighty female-only persuasion spell" (a.k.a. Flashing) in order to have Ethan treat Everquest normally. So far, it appears to be working.
Other: (Anything else you want to add about them, it’s optional)
Picture:
He's on the left
