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[edit] Ehem

"His codename refers not to his vampire-like abilities, but to his bisexuality. " I have never heard the game mention this, only GigaVille. It was entirely Hideos intention for his name to relate to his Vampiric likeness, as mentioned in numerous interviews. I don't think we do the game justice with such comments. --OSDever 22:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually it's true, if you keep pestering plisskin on the codec he'll tell you. It's on this site 0x1533b13 through to 0x1533bdc. While we're on this topic Volgin is also bi and Ivan Raidenovich is gay.

--Drawde83 00:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

• yes, all he said is right, although the last part didnt need to be put forward...

and it was ME who put the quote in, just for the record ~Tryzon