Origins of OHNHAI: (pronounced ”On-High’ if you hadn’t guessed)
As an artist I used to sign my works either ”Rush’ or ”Mac’ (Rush being short for Rushbrook and Mac for the hell of it) but many moons a go when I got into Manga a friend and I started work on this story called “The Good Goddess Guide” or “GGG” for short. The story was meant to be in a similar vein as Ahh My Goddess. For the organisation in the story I wanted a Japanese looking name that was also a pun on heaven and goddesses and all that. I came up with the name OHNHAI. With my friend doing the writing the story found it’s legs and ran off into a far darker corner than originally intended.
The story focused round the character of Meyuki Saito who was just starting out in the world of Law Practice when on the way to work one day she hit a petrol tanker and went
BOOM!!
She is ”saved’(
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Page2) by this mysterious organisation called OHNHAI, and it is explained to her that OHNHAI rescues people from certain death and then after a simple procedure to the brain
trains them up in paranormal skills to act as ”Goddesses’ who’s primary function is to help others.
Anyway . . The story went nowhere, but when I joined Stainless Software (of Carmageddon fame) They used Nicknames for email and system logons so I was asked for my Nickname. I said ”Rush’, but our admin said ”nope, Russell Hughes uses ”Rusk’ and that will only cause confusion. Pick another.” So after thinking I said ”Ohnhai’. Then after spelling it for him that became my name at work. Shortly after that it also became my global Online identity.
So that is how I became ”Ohnhai’
PS: and yes I would love to go back and re-visit this world now I’m a better artist.
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