Their love for Kira created a division between the two men.Īfter Parzival wins his egg hunt, Halliday admits he only built things and spent most of his time in the OASIS near the end of his life, telling Wade that he can only experience true happiness in reality. Subsequently, given that James was thus smitten with Ogden Morrow's (late) wife, he chose to break contact with Og for the rest of his life. When Og married her, Halliday's dreams were crushed. He could never find the courage to ask her out. Halliday was outwardly in love with Kira, but so were many others. Halliday took his primary avatar's name, Anorak, from a nickname Kira gave him in their youth. Kira Underwood, referred to almost exclusively by Halliday by her Dungeons and Dragons nickname of Leucosia, may have been the only female that he ever contacted in a casual, social context.

He is thought to have been on the autistic spectrum with the condition once referred to as Asperger's Syndrome. James was a social outcast who had trouble talking to girls growing up, and came off as awkward and unappealing. Pretty good deal.'Ī lot of inspiration for his games comes from his childhood. Black Tiger soon became one of Halliday's favourite games and was mentioned in one of the earliest ever entries in Anorak's Almanac.ĪA 23:234: 'For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. There, he would play Black Tiger to avoid going home to his constantly arguing parents. Halliday would spend his evenings after school in the local bowling alley whenever his parents started screaming at each other. Among his friends was Karen Underwood, his crush, whom he was too nervous to confess his feelings to. Og invited him to come down to his D&D gaming session at his house, and Halliday had made his first friends in Og's basement: a little band of über-geeks just as he was himself. He was a very shy, awkward kid and he had trouble interacting with girls and others, until a younger Ogden Morrow had confronted him in school, as Halliday was reading a module on Dungeons & Dragons. His father was an alcoholic machine operator and his mother was a bipolar waitress. James Donovan Halliday was born in Middletown, Ohio, on June 12, 1972. He described his childhood as 'neglected'.

James Halliday is the creator of the OASIS.

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