Originally Posted by Riku

Apparently I have some crimes to answer for

Steady on there, lad xD


My thoughts, exactly.

Right, instead of you all speculating, I'll tell you exactly what happened. As you all (should) know, my old username was The Sephiroth Gene. Like a lot of fans of VII, I grew tired of Sephiroth and, despite the originality of that name, I grew tired of that too. So, I sought out a different name, one to suit my current obsession at that time which was, of course, Riku. I did ask for my name to be changed to Riku but, unfortunately, it was already taken.

I inspected said users profile, whom I believe to be yourself (). You had made a total of 1 posts in around six months and had last been active five minutes after that single post and so I thought it was safe to say that you weren't interested in the forums. Now, listen carefully:

I asked Darkblade, the site owner at that time, if I could change my name to Riku and edit your name to something else, which wouldn't conflict with any other username. He approved.

I was actually a Global Moderator at that time and so the notification that you should have received WAS actually written by me. I haven't changed my name since around November 2006

Granted, you now have like, 11 posts, but most of them have been tallied up in this thread, if not all of them xD

The bottom line is that I asked permission from the site owner and permission was granted. I doubt that I'll have to "give it back" to you because you can hardly say that you're a dedicated and active forum member. I apologise for taking away your name but, as the saying goes, you snooze you lose xD