DoveRaptor

I have gotten a few requests for the story behind my own username, so I suppose this is as good a time as any to post it!

When I was in elementary school there were few things more important to me than imaginary games. I missed far too many teacher directions lost in my own head, thinking about my charachter's next big adventure. After about 2nd grade my "princess" fantasies were long over, and superhero adventures took their place.

I made a friend that year, a girl with the same overpowered imagination and obsession with saving the world as me. The morning bus ride that had once seemed neverending grew shorter and shorter as the two of us spent the time sharing stories with one annother. The desire to share our make belive games with others is what sparked my love for writing, a love that hasn't wavered even years later.

It didn't take long before my friend and I realized that every great superhero must have an allias. My charachter had wings, thus the name Dove. As time passed, though, a bird who symbolized peace didn't fit my charachter. My charachter had become a girl who was strong and unstoppable... the girl I so desparately wanted to be. So, Raptor was born. The feirce, merciless cousin of the Dove. But for there to be one, there must be the other. Chaos and peace. Innocence and guilt. The two titles may have been born of a childs mind, but they have come to mean far more to me than fodder for a simple game.

I suppose they define me.