Happy 2nd Birthday Omniverse!

[Dave Strider]

Damn it you guys are making me all sentimental and endearing at the same time. I guess i might as well make an omniverse ppech like the rest of you... well Everyone seems to start somewhere, but right now, we are all connected in this world that Greg has built from the bottom up. I honestly wish I had found this site earlier, because there is NO SITE THAT CAN EVER HOPE IN THEIR GREATEST DREAMS TO EVEN COME HALF AS GOOD AS THE OMNIVERSE. I've browsed a lot of other sites, put in a few apps, but in the end, it all feels the same, static and almost zombie-like, as if everyone was being forced into it. But the feeling you get while you're here just leaves you feeling inspired and awestruck, and the people here pour their very soul into their posts. And that's what I think really makes the omniverse different than other sites. Us. We have a community like no other, always willing to hear each other out and solve conflict, even when the tension is high. When we write, we aren't righting for ourselves, we are writing for each other. We write for our characters. We write for glory, or some do at least. But most of all, we write to bring our world to life. When you read a post on this site, you aren't just reading another story, you are being sucked into a world where characters both famous and unknown meet to go on epic adventures and live their own life in a world they barely know. It's as almost as if the characters are writing for themselves. Every line feels so real, and its almost as if you can watch each straining battle, as if you can feel each injury dealt, as if you can hear their voices when they talk. No other site has been able to instill this feeling of realism and connection. Personally, when I begin each of my posts for Demetri or IRIS, I have no idea what my character is going to do. Yeah, maybe usher him this way, guide him that way, but in the end, it feels as if I am not the one making the decision. That even though I am the one who created this characters and given them life, I have no longer in control of them. After I brought them to the omniverse, the world controlled them. Every action they made was as if it was their decision, and I was just the one telling their story, telling their legacy. I'm sure that many of you feel this way about your characters as well, and I'm convinced that if we were to drop everything and just watch the omniverse, we would come back later to find our characters in new places with posts we don't remember writing. and each of these characters have been created by such creative and imaginative people, we, the supporters of the omniverse. Every person here is friendly and supportive, and it really makes it feel like home. Hell, its even my homepage. And every bookmark on my bookmarks bar for that matter. Greg and those who started the omniverse gave it the spark that it needed to begin, and each person that has joined has contributed to enlarging its flame. So I would like to say thanks to all those who have been here before I have, for making this flame bright enough for those like me to see and begin to enjoy its warmth, thanks to those who write beside me for keeping the flame alive, keeping each other warm and supporting one another, both IC and OOC, and finally, thanks to the omnians in the future, that will help make the flame even brighter, bringing even more closer to its warmth, and bring new life into the world we share.

Happy omniversary Greg, staff, and everyone in our community!