My avatar is the character "Cohen the Barbarian" of the discworld novels, a parody of an aged "Conan the Barbarian".
He showed up in a few Discworld novels as a side character, but my old avatar picture was from the illustrated novel "The Last Hero", where he was the main character: https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Last_Hero
Before that I used other pics of him:
A few years ago I found this awesome fan-art:
Since I got into VR games that time, I added some VR accessories.
"But why this character?", you might ask.
Well, I love movies, TV-shows and video games, but my main passion when I grew up was reading.
My favorite genre was science fiction, my favorite author Isaac Asimov (I can't wait for the Foundation series on AppleTV!) followed by Douglas Adams. I read most of Asimov's books in German and English and all of Adam's books in German and English.
When I couldn't get enough of Douglas Adams' unique humour, I found Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels in the fantasy genre... since then it is my favorite book series. I read many of them in German and all of them in English.
When I began sozialising on the internet in the mid-nineties in (German) IRC-chats and (German) internet forums, I had to choose a nickname/avatar.
The main Discworld characters were way to popular and mostly claimed, so I chose "Cohen" and sticked with it for years.
My buddies even gifted me a license plate at one of my birthdays:
After a few years I joined some English forums and found out, that the name "Cohen" is quite popular in other countries and already occupied in most international forums.
So I switched to "Conina", the awesome daughter of "Cohen the Barbarian":
Maybe I switch the avatar picture to her in the future.
Last edited by Conina - on 15 August 2021
