Two of my very first characters, 20 years ago, was Stung and Shane-o-mac Bry. My real name is Shane Bryant, so I'm sure you can figure that one out. Used that as my alias as the cartoonist on the high school newspaper. And Stung.... well, yeah. >.< ...Though, he was a dreamwalker, fucking with his opponent through their nightmares, so I suppose it was a bit creative. Sting's real name is Steve Borden, so there's the story of my evolution into Reeve Gordon. And Reeve's split side, Rain, used to be spelled 'raYne'. He's always been gay / bi / androgynous, cuz the character's built around the real me. I even used myself as a picbase at one point, along with David Bowie as Jareth from Labyrinth, Jeff Hardy, Andy Sixx, Dahvie Vanity, and Dahvie Havok.