Lynk

Lynk is a net.hero created by Dave Van Domelen.
Alter Ego:	Anna Tanner
Aliases:	Rotanna
Primary Writer:	Dave Van Domelen
Status:	Member of Dvandom Force, reserve member of the LNH (Classic Team)
Usability:	Usable With Permission

History

Lynk and The VAXX, from Dave Van Domelen's art page, 9/5/95

Rotanna first appeared on a quest for revenge on Schwa Khan for seemingly killing her father, Rotara. She met up with Squidman and joined the Secret Dvanders. Soon, the team transitioned to Dvandom Force and moved to Sig.ago, and Anna joined in on their adventures in Earth-Goon.

Before long, the team faced its first true crisis with the battle against DeFacto V. To break the time loop that had originally lead to his creation and prevent him from ruling the world, Squidman killed Sig.Lad. Anna couldn't accept this, and walked away from the team.

She soon found herself as a target of the spammer Mr. Gain and his monstrous Biszes. Her life was narrowly saved by The VAXX, a bizarre being with a CRT monitor for a head. He brought her into the dreamworld of Harnegu. There she learned many things about herself – that the dreamland was the true source of her powers, that the VAXX was a scientist from the Raiders Universe who'd been pulled into Harnegu by a failed magical experiment, along with her father... And that her father had been corrupted by that magic into Mr. Gain. To save him from it, she had to kill him herself.

Understanding better now why Squidman had made the choice he did, she returned to Dvandom Force with a new form of magic drawing on the power of dreams, and a new name – Lynk. She found it much harder to forgive Kopikat after finding out what she'd done to Macroman, but reluctantly agreed to let her stay on the team.

After facing down the Century Pact, Dvandom Force resolved to take down the loose ends left behind by their enemies, and Lynk faced her father's old enemy Baron Umlaut once again. He had attempted to merge with Ellipses King to become a punctuation elemental. She defeated him by opening a gate to Harnegu and summoning... a duck. <and then many other things>.

Personality

Started out kind of reckless, with a sense of playfulness that sometimes got out of hand. Became bitter after the death of Sig.Lad, but dove into the darkness within her in Harnegu and got a grip on it while battling Mister Gain. Was more serious after, easily turning confrontational over problems, but slowly learned to take a broader, more patient view, occasionally getting playful again.

Powers and Abilities

From Dave Van Domelen's art page: Scene from during the Evolution arc. Text below Rotanna's logo says "casts spells in rot-13 cypher" and that below Kid Macro's logo is "super-speed via predefined macros." 7/31/94

As Rotanna, could cast spells by speaking in ROT-13. As Lynk, had more powerful and vaguely-defined magical abilities based on dreams, including manifesting dreams from peoples' minds and seeking out information through the dreamworld's Net. She gained the ability to generate small objects at will by absorbing the emotional/mystic resonance of Sig.Lad's Gauntlet of GIF after his death.<more>

Appearance

From Dave Van Domelen's art page, 12/1/98

As Rotanna, wore a light blue tuxedo top and bikini bottom with fishnet stockings.

As Lynk, <more>

Appearances

• First appearance: Constellation #32
• Constellation #33-36
• Dvandom Force #37-100
• RACC Presents v1 #3