Basically I started out my internet life with incredibly generic nicknames, none of which I care to say here (mainly because I've forgotten most of them). Around the time I joined the Sonic fanbase via SFGHQ, some time around the inception of SRB2, I was known as VR_Sonic. Then I shortened it to VR (hence my alternate IRC nick) because I wanted to look less like a Sonic fanboy. At some point around 2002 I decided to change to Tetsuo3k because at that point I was totally an Akira fanboy. Gradually my nick shortened to Tetsuo and then to just Tets, as you see me here. It doesn't mean anything particularly now, as I ceased being an Akira fanboy years ago. I'm more of a guy who just has a slight preference for anime and manga now.