Hmm.. backstories eh... Why the hell not...
Once upon a time little Grim didn't go by Grim at all. He had no cool name to go by, but used "Dart" in games where I had to name my character, cause wtf would I want to be called Billy the pokemon trainer for?
Anywho, I have a friend who goes by Raven for his tag, and we've been friends since middle school (we're 23 now). He had always been into Guilty Gear during those days, and showed me how it worked. I screwed around on it, never really getting good at it. Mainly used Kye. I ended up buying Isuka (lolwut) and that was the first "fighting game" I ever owned next to Soul Calibur, which I had always played since 2, just not on any decent level.
1, 2 skip a few years later, I moved out here to murfreesboro and he was still in nashville at the time. We hadn't talked much due to lives being busy, distance, etc. Well I went into Play N Trade up here one day bored looking for something to play, when out of fucking nowhere I saw Blazblue sitting on the shelf. I was like "lolwtf is this weeabboo shit. MAKERS OF GUILTY GEAR?!" I always wanted to try a fighting game again, was sick of RPGs and shooters, so I bought it on a whim, called Raven to tell him about it, expecting him to not have heard of it, and he was like "Oh yeah I have it, but no one to play with, I mainly play SF4." So we ended up playing online BB where I was maining (scrub)Ragna and he uses Hakumen. We weren't bad I supposed... So eventually we were getting more into it, and wanting others to play with. And I was still cautious about trying SF4. Anyways, we looked up online if there was anywhere to meet players, and find out about Game Galaxy.
And mother of fuck what are the chances of this shit... We go up there on some random week day, and just so fucking happen by miracle that TAD'S MOTHER FUCKING ASS IS THERE! The fucking shadow, guy who lives in some different bone fuck nowhere town every week. We happen to come up there a RANDOM day he's there. I think he was helping Jason with something. And at this time, the BB cabinet was still installed. So once he saw we were playing it, he came over and beat our asses at it. At the time neither of use had used a stick before, so it was difficult to play him like that.
Hours of gaming and chatting later, he tells us about K.i.T. where we first met the man we all know and love (yes homo) Astaroth. Midnight was also there, being a bitch using Nu, so fuck him I didn't talk to his dumbass he beat Bishop in finals.
This is also where Lee made his first "omfg this dude is a badass mofo" impression on me. Not gonna lie, when we first played I was hesitant and curious on how to approach facing him. I got stomped. Repeatedly. No mercy. I was wtfing all the way home to mama.
After the tournament (I think I got 7th or something?) we met with Tad outside and I met Phil there, realized he lives in murfreesboro too, etc, etc.
Then we dropped off the face of the earth for quite a while. Raven moved to Washington. I had no one left to play. So I finally said fuck it. I bought SSF4, played some more BB, and somehow made it out to the very first MTNBB tourney. I don't even remember how I heard about it. I think Lee told me over XBL, but I honestly can't even remember. EDIT: Actually now that I think about it, I ran into Phil posting on dustloop and messaged him about Blazblue, then we found Chandler and Naimat, and we all got together and played at Phil's one day didn't we? That's probably how I ended up hearing about the tourney and going.
So I went in my buddies' stead since he now lives so far away, I wanted to pick up our old hobby and get more involved, not let that die ya know?
And here we are today. The Grimstar you all know and love.
Although at first I tried the name "Tyrant Rave" Sol's old move... before I met Patrick and thought "wow Boomcube is cool, it's two random words!" trying to think of a name I could use like that... Ended up watching that stupid anime Soul Eater on Netflix.... There's a character named Black Star on the show, and I thought it sounded kinda cool, but needed some work... Then I thought "Hey, he's working for the Grim Reaper... Oh shit... BLACK REAPER!!! ...no fuck that... GRIM STAR!!?!?!? YES" make it all one word, try it on XBL, it's not taken so I snag that shit and here I am ladies!