OK, Tuubje, since you asked for it, I\'ll endure the hunting and pecking to give you the full scoop on my nickname.
My wife\'s grandmother (a wonderful old world type) used to call her Dear heart as a term of affection during her childhood. My wife didn\'t know what this term meant and assumed she was calling her Deer (the animal) heart. Which she thought was a bit sick, but didn\'t want to argue with her gram. Many years pass and the Missus relates this story to me. At which time she is still under the assumption that she was being refered to as an animal heart... So I explained what I thought her gram was talking about and we had quite a good laugh (that degree of air-headedness is very out of character for her)
I have always been an avid player of role playing games (esp. D&D) as well as their computerized brethren (esp. all the Baldurs Gate series), and I had fallen into the rut of always playing a super do-gooder, holy-sword wielding, righteous paladin type. Fun, but getting dull. So I decided it was time for a change...
I asked myself, \"What\'s the opposite of everything you are accustomed to playing?\"
The result was a homely, alchoholic, short tempered, anti-social, self- centered, rusty hammer wielding dwarf who was completely base, vile and decadent. He entered our campaign as a flesh peddler, and although difficult I\'ve tried to carry this through to the computer games as well. His name? DeerHeart McFocker (said loudly like a pirate, go ahead it\'s fun...) The McFocker stems from both the film \"Meet the Parents\" and an old Bugs Bunny cartoon with this insane scottish golfer in it.
So why DeerHeart? It\'s nutty and fun, reminds me to try new things with my painting and gaming as well as fun times with my gal.
I\'ve also never had this much fun with a character before.
Keep painting-n-posting. I\'m off to bandage what remains of the stumps of my index fingers...
