Valorant: KDelano23’s Avatar

Kdelano23 is an athletic and funny guy that enjoys playing baseball and video games. KDelano23’s favorite video game is Valorant and his favorite character is Chamber. He also enjoys listening to music and his favorite artist is Juice WRLD. When KDelano23 isn’t playing video games or listening to his favorite artists he is playing baseball. KDelano23 also lives his life as a Christian and devotes his life to his religion. 

While trying to create his avatar he dug deep and thought about the aspects of life that he values and enjoys. He included the elements music, baseball, religion, and gaming to express the activities he likes to do with his time.  KDelano23 explained that he made multiple drafts of his avatar in an attempt to capture the perfect representation of himself and his life. 

KDelano23’s avatar includes the colors red, black, yellow, green, blue, purple. On the edge corners there are squiggly shapes and in the center there is a circle that is divided into four parts by a cross that runs through the box. Within the circle there are three 9’s and a 5. The squiggles on the corners are black and gold and they represent KDelano23’s love of gaming, specifically his favorite character, Chamber from the game Valorant. The cross going through the center represents KDelano23’s religion, Christianity. The cross is colored red to represent his love for baseball. The circle is blue and has green numbers in it to make it look like the earth and it represents his favorite artist Juice WRLD. One of the numbers in the earth represents his baseball number, 5, and the 9’s represent his favorite artist again. KDelano23’s avatar uses really vibrant colors that draw my eyes towards it and the big red cross through it makes a really big statement that attracts people’s attention. 

The process that KDelano23 used was simply thinking of elements of his life that represent who he is the best. After choosing he thought of symbols that could be used to show these elements without making it too obvious. He attempts to allow the person looking to have to think about what the avatar could be showing. Which is similar to how I started creating my avatar. I also began with thinking about elements that could be used to describe me as a person but I went with a more literal route with my symbols. I used fairly obvious symbols that would just slightly make someone think about what it could mean about me. 

While talking with KDelano23 he spoke about how his symbols show the aspects of his life he cares about most. When asked about baseball KDelano23 said “I’m better at baseball than I am at anything. So apart from trying it when I was little, this is what’s kept me hooked” looking back now I would never have known this about KDelano23 just by looking at his avatar but I understood that baseball was important to him. Which is what symbols do. The cross symbol was a little bit more obvious but the meaning it held was not something that could be inferred. KDelano23 said that “Once I discovered Christianity it became a big part of my life. I revolve it around my life, my decisions, the way I treat people, and the way I look at my future. It’s a big part of my everyday life.” and this shows a lot about how devoted KDelano23 is. Another symbol that he used was a blue circle with green numbers in it to try and make it look like the earth which was used to represent his love of the artist Juice WRLD. While talking with him about his love of Juice WRLD he said “ He’s got the perfect combo of genres. I like his lyrics, flow, beats, and personality.” which are all good reasons to like a certain musician.

Overall I feel as though KDelano23 had a really good thought process when it came to creating his avatar. He worked really hard to try and create a colorful and fun image that represented who he is. 

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