I was eleven years old when I first started doing 'net time because of this artificial life sim called Creatures. The point of the game was to raise and breed these... well, creatures called norns. Being a young and writerly sort, self-insert fics followed, leading into the concept of a 'half-norn', and it stuck. The name's become pretty much symbolic for my entire internet existence, so I've never really bothered to even consider changing it (though I do go by Righteous in some venues for, uh, reasons I'm not too clear on, except that's what I call my computer).