"I take my Visage games very seriously.

Often times you read guides telling you to play one hero obsessively, to develop a specific mindset for when you're playing that hero. You see, I take it a step further - especially with my Visage. I take him, as a character, and my games as him, very, very seriously. I not only develop a specific mindset for my Visage games, but I essentially become Visage. I am in tune with him.

My birds, they are my children. They are my kin. I protect them at every cost. Every death of one by the hands of the enemy is just another reason for me to fight, for me to never live down the memory of my lost bird. I take it personally when someone even considers attacking them. I am banned from my local Net Cafe, for physically attacking someone who harmed them. I name each and every one of them, with no recurring names, so that each one is special. I'm running out of names, and will soon have to call them Bird the second, or Bird the third. Either which way, I love them as if - no, I love them because they are my family. Sometimes, the sadness of burying poor little Bird, struck down by a stray dagger, or Bird, who died to Sven's cowardly cleave, is overbearing - but their sacrifice brings me closer to tranquility.

My Gravekeeper's cloak is my shield, it is my rock, the anchor of which I center my life on. It is my balance, it has saved me and I have saved it. I feel vulnerable, naked without it, to the point where I have taken several pebbles from my driveway and put them around my chair, to simulate the feeling. My Soul Assumption is my sword, my greatest weapon. It is only earned through pain, as most good things are - I must be hurt, but I must power through it to reap the benefits - and so often do I reap, with every golden yellow strike. My grave chill is the cold hand of justice encroaching upon my enemy, it is the spell on which I cannot fight without. It is something I can fall back on not only for when I am fighting, but for when I am fleeing. It is my ying, and my yang, it is what tempers my anger, and it is what tempers my melancholy.

I am one with Visage. Without me, Visage cannot exist, and without Visage, I cannot exist. My birds are my children, my spells are my soul, each game won is another reason to live, and each game lost is another call for discipline. Every rise in GPM is a sign that I am improving, that my enlightenment closes in, and every deepening is a chance to improve.

I take my Visage games very seriously."