Back when I traded dial-up BBS handles for an ICQ UIN, I found myself prompted to create a username. I was heavily into White Wolf role playing games at the time, having recently graduated from AD&D 2nd Edition. Inside the White Wolf universe, a newly created vampire is called a Childe, and the creator vampire is called a Sire. As I was still pretty new, I decided to go by Childe.

Like the Skippy nickname, it stuck. And that’s… the rest of the story.