Tagged by Regulus .
1) How you thought of the name.
2) What made you create the character in the first place?
3) How the character has changed over time (if they have changed).
4) Any random fun fact about that character?
5) (My addition) Have you done anything with your OC that you regret?

1) The name was inspired by Onslaught of Mavel Comics fame. I wanted a similar type of name for a character I wanted to make ... somethign that could man two different things. Gauntlet sprang to mind (might have had an old Nintendo Power showing me the game of the same name, but maybe not).

As for the "101010", that was added becauce there was already a "Gauntlet" on EXboard and I needed something unique. I just kept with it.

2) The character was made as a mysterious guy who would appear in future "Kids Stuff" stories. In the FAR future. So far in the future that he's never appeared in any stories I wrote.

When I wanted a net identity I chose him because he was the coolest character I made at the time.

3) Gauntlet has not changed over time. I've just gotten better at drawing. Lysekoid once made an updated version, but it never caught on with me. Although I did do a sketch of it. It's odd that I've written so many Mary Sue type of stories and Gauntlet has never ever shown up.

Not to be confused with the Shadowman character of the Mechanical Maniacs. Who also went by the name "Gauntlet" until I decided that was too confusing and stopped doing it. He is not the same character at all even if "Gauntlet" is his real name and "human form". "Shadowman" has changed over time. At first he was supposed to be a real slacker. But then he became the leader .... mostly because I was the leader and was doing all the work. I suppose that's the biggest change with Shadowman, other than the design. There's a few subtle things that have changed ... the use of "that is a secret" was dropped a long time ago, the more serious tone applied to some stories have made Shadowman somewhat deeper. Although I haven't done much with him recently.

4) Gauntlet's design is based off a VHS tape. It's boxy with hard angles. His hair is also based off Goku's, but less than one might think ... a lot of my early designs have hair like that. The "back" of the head is where Goku's influence comes from.

5) Since I haven't done anything with Gauntlet at all, I have nothing to regret.

I also regret nothing involving Shadowman in the 'Maniacs. I do, however, regret Bizarro Shadowman. Who was an unintentional Mary Sue. Not the becomign super powerfull part (that was the point behind the character), but the lackluster ending in Series 4 (I ran outta steam). Gary inspired me to kill him off (as he did with his own Sue, Iceman Red), but I regret doing that in my novella as he did in his. Although it was still in a very different way (and it didn't even start out with him being the main villain in that), I never really liked it. Happily the guy's dead now. Although I still like his design and the basic idea behind him (basically a super powerful lost puppy).