User:SwordsAreShiney

Life Before The Internet

 * SwordsAreShiney, called Jeff offline, was born August 1, 1989, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 * Before joining the FE community, he went through many obsessions, such as Pogs, Crazy Bones, Pokémon, Lego, and Orange (which is still an obsession today).
 * In the late Fall of 2003, everything would change, however, when he would play his first Fire Emblem video game, Fire Emblem 7: The Blazing Sword.

Early Internet Life: "Old" FESS and FEF

 * While on GameFAQs looking for help on a chapter or something of the like in FE7, SaS descovered the web forum known as FESS. He decided to join in January 2004. While here, he was a VERY big n00b, but none the less it laid the foundation for his progression to fame in the FE community.
 * He chose the name SwordsAreShiney as he was a reader of 8 Bit Theatre, and it was a line Fighter had said one at several points during the comic.
 * In March 2004, he began teaching himself to rip sprites. While he wasn't the greatest at first, this was a very important step for SaS.
 * After a few months, a member directed him to FEF, another Fire Emblem forum, which he joined as well.
 * At FEF, SaS met Dutchbest, a regular member at FEF and a sprite ripper at Flaming Emblem.

Pre-FEP: Ripping Sprites at Flaming Emblem

 * In April 2004, SaS offered to give his sprite ripping skillz to Flaming Emblem.
 * Seeing that the young spriter had great skill, he was granted a staff position at the site.
 * Here he met XtreameDayz, who would be come a close friend, and important for his future career in the FE community.
 * Following the site's death in June 2004, SaS, Dutchbest left Flaming Emblem to be staff at XtreameDayz's site, Fire Emblem Planet, which was on the verge of a new domain, a new host, and a new life.

FEPlanet.net

 * In June 2004, FEPlanet.net officially opened (not the official opening of the site, only of that domain), with SaS, DB and XD as it's staffers, and forum's administrators as well.
 * SaS was the fourth member to join the forums, preceeded by XtreameDayz, Dutchbest, and HizakiHitori.
 * SaS had no experience running a forum, and during the first month or two, often lost and regained his powers over night due to silly disputes with RP Moderator, HizakiHitori.
 * SaS continued to rip sprites, as well as being a content writer and forum administrator, and helping with many other tasks untill late summer 2005.
 * In the summer of 2005, during a forum argument over the Role Play, SaS deleted the much more popular and played half of it (thinking the backup he had previously made would be able to restore it).
 * Following this incident, SaS decided he no longer wanted to be an administrator, and quit his post.
 * SaS's activity would continue to decrease after this, and eventually, part way through December 2005, he would unofficially leave the FE community.

FEPlanet.net's fall and the rise of FEPlanet.be

 * SaS continued a lack of communication with the FE community all through the first few months of 2006. Once and a while he would check out the forums, and later after FEPlanet.net fell, their Invision Free forums, to see what was happening.
 * Just over a week after the move from Invision Free to FEPlanet.be, he joined under a different name, Stewie89, reflecting his obsession of Stewie from the show Family Guy, wanting to start fresh. He was the 84th member to join this time.
 * After lurking in the shadows for 20 or so days, SaS revealed his true identity to administrators Exxeh (XtreameDayz) and Vyhter.
 * Nowadays, SaS is still a high-profile member of FEP, and writes some game content for the website, however, has chosen to remain powerless in the forums.

SaS offline today

 * Today, SaS is a senior student in high school. He excells in foreign languages, noteable French, German and Spanish, as well as Mathematics.
 * Offline, SaS enjoys spending time with his friends, playing card games such as Euchre, or just hanging out and watching TV or movies.
 * He works part time at a grocery store.
 * After high school, he plans on studying German, Spanish and French, and translation.