Ryuu Suoh, or as most of us know him, Nero, has been a part of my Brotherhood experience since the beginning, casually dragging me from another community to The Brotherhood into Clan Odan-Urr seven years ago, telling me about a good fiction writing community and gaming haven, failing to tell me about the (at the time) lack of standardized Roleplay (despite bringing me from a roleplay community) and throwing me into the maw of the Gaming Centric COU, where I was handily beaten in Jedi Academy by Blade, every available weekend until life pulled me from The Brotherhood.

Over the next few years, Nero would occasionally reach out to me and try and bring me back to the Brotherhood, occasionally I would pop in, and check the community out for a few weeks without rejoining a Clan because nowhere felt as homey as before. When I did finally alight, Nero was the one who set my feet on the ground and reintroduced me to The Brotherhood at large again, helped me regain my bearings, and got me settled with our friends back in Arcona.

Now, a year and a half later, he serves as our Magistrate in charge of COU's Gaming run, full circle with the ultimate reason he brought me to COU nearly a decade ago, bring friends, game with friends, get more people in the Clan Gaming. Something he has been proficient at.

Since he came to us as Magistrate he spun up competition after competition, following gaming trends, and keeping our boards loaded with activities for our members to partake of. The response was nearly immediate, faces we hadn't seen in some time began to stir, others began to add gaming to their regular activity log the program established has been widely successful.

Nero has proven to us that if you provide activities, members will join them, and routinely performed outreach within the Clan to stir those who had been quiet, to make sure they knew that the activities were there.

You've definitely earned this, Ever Onwards, Nero!