TheDarkEricDraven

TheDarkEricDraven
Real name	Logan Vaughn
Other names	Herzog Wyrmsyn Kin Kamura ApocolypseMaiden ZeroRei ClowCraw Genocider Zero Grenadier Zero
Date of birth	March 15, 1996
Profession or hobby	student
Kintype	varies
Website	http://herzogwrymsyn.dreamwidth.org/ http://buzz-ax-dominator.tumblr.com/ http://bloodsuckers-unanimous.tumblr.com/
Location	Pocohontas, AR USA

TheDarkEricDraven is either a very persistent troll or a self-professed "proud pedophile" in the otherkin community, claiming to be attracted to six to ten year olds. He has been particularly active on tumblr and dreamwidth, and has attracted significant negative attention to the community from non-otherkin sources.

Controversy

Despite being banned from multiple otherkin forums and chats, Draven remained active on Otherkinsight Forums where Zinergie, a global moderator, declared he had a right to vent and get support because "we are all a big family here so you should get it. No arguments." This fact was made public on both tumblr and AnOtherWiki, resulting in the temporary ban of those reporting on this subject^, but ultimately resulting in Draven himself being banned.

Zinergie has since posted a public response to the controversy, denying that their system or anyone at OtherkinSight ever has or will support pedophilia. Meanwhile, Draven continued to serve as a moderator, under the alias ZeroRei, on the Anime Fever message board owned by another of Otherkinsight's moderators at that time, bloodmuffins.

On July 27, 2012 Draven participated in a conversation with a girl he believed to be thirteen years old in which he engaged in classic grooming behavior such as asking "since you are all desanitized [sic] to sex and stuff, do you look at porn or anything?", and stating "You know, my sister didn’t think you were who you say you are at first. You totally seem real to me, though. I convinced her…still, it’d be really funny if you were a cop from To Catch a Preditor [sic] or something. " and "Lol. It’s part of why I was a little scared of all that sexual discussion going on in the other chat. I’d hate to get arrested for letting a thirteen year old see such language." The thirteen year old he was talking to was later revealed to actually be two older girls who were baiting Draven.

On July 31, 2012 Draven was banned from the Dreamhart.org forums. He had been banned from #Dreamhart on Mibbit for several weeks prior to that, and was preemptively banned from AnOtherWiki on August 14, 2012. A morph account, ClowCraw was blocked on August 29, 2012 and several DNSBLs were put in place to prevent further ban-evasion through TOR or other open proxies.

On August 15, 2012, Draven was banned from the Otherin Dreamwidth community by its moderator DragonWolf, who stated, "I chose to honor the community's wishes, because I felt that not doing so would bring more harm to it by introducing tension and drama. I don't, however, like the decision I had to make, because I do feel that, by turning him away, I'm only increasing his chances of actually doing something illegal."

On November 10, 2012, Draven was refused access to Wulf Howl and HowlNET by their founder, Shiro. His account, ApocolypseMaiden, was deleted and his IP and email address were blacklisted from both communities. The reason for the ban is stated as "[CyberSex/Pedophilia] It is not in our interests to allow a self-identified pedophile to connect to our network.". Shiro has stated that pedophiles, practicing or not, are not permitted on either community.

On December 31, 2012, Draven was banned from Werelist where he had registered under the name ApocolypseMaiden.

On October 5, 2013, Draven was banned from Draconity.org where he had registered under the name ApocolypseMaiden.

On April 12, 2014, Draven joined The Otherkin Community website under the name ApocolypseMaiden. He had previously joined this site on February 28, 2012, under the name TheDarkEricDraven, but was outed that same day as a self-professed pedophile and by July 15th, 2012 requested to be banned. Per The Otherkin Community's policy, his account was suspended at that time. Several members have protested his presence, but moderator Seraphyna has been adamant in shutting down such protests, including giving formal warnings to two users, Noise and Kakrikoran, who were most vocal regarding it.

Support

Draven has found significant support from otherkin on tumblr, with prominent otherkin Tsu, also known as Swanblood calling pedophilia a sexual orientation, comparable to being gay or bi, referring to Draven's treatment as "bullying", and stating outright, "I support the pedophile."

Draven has also found significant support from the moderators and staff of Feral Nature, which is the only otherkin forum he is known to still be active on, posting under the name ApocolypseMaiden. This support has extended to changing some areas of the site from publicly visible to members-only after his presence on the forum became public knowledge.

Draven has since found support from Seraphyna, who vouched for him on Draconity.org and stated "I've seen Maiden's entire forum 'evolution' if you will from 'proud pedophile' to a wiser member who has something to contribute and wants to 'get better' so to speak. A dose of real world opinions and reactions has definitely changed Maiden's conduct." According to Seraphyna, "When Maiden joined a couple of forums I moderate/admin for we all agreed to see where it went and ban them if the need arose, but to otherwise not base our opinion solely on the word of someone from another site." Later, defending his presence on The Otherkin Community, Seraphyna stated "I'm not putting stock into anyone. I'm simply not condemning them based on their history in the greater community years ago. I have seen them be nothing but respectful since learning those early lessons, nor have I seen them lie since those early days. All I've seen are people who know of their early days in the community condemning them for how they mistakenly represented themself. Like I said, people can change and I do believe they deserve, in most cases, a second chance."

Therapy Claims

Draven has expressed, multiple times, that he will seek therapy for his pedophilia. As of December 4, 2012 his posts indicated that he still had not done so and had "not talked to many therapists" since he was fourteen.

Since then, Draven has claimed multiple times that he began seeing a therapist in December 2012, and that he is "not a lolicon anymore" or "not a pedophile anymore". Chat logs from May 2013, however, reveal him stating that he did not discuss his pedophilia with his therapist, saying "It was replaced by something else on it's own. What would I say 'yeah I was turned on by kids now I'm not how do you fix me doc'".

On October 27, 2013, Draven sent an ask to Jarandhel Dreamsinger on Tumblr, stating "And if you want proof I didn't just start saying I'm talking to my therapist about all that stuff, you can ask Kenna." To which Kenna responded, saying "Yeah, that’s a flat-out lie. The last time I spoke to him about his therapist, he specifically told me he didn’t want to talk to them about his pedophilia because ‘Far-kun’ told him he might get in trouble."

Despite this, Draven continues to maintain "I’ve talked to my therapist several times about it even after I stopped being a lolicon, and he’s the one that told me it was a learned phase."

External links

• Eric Draven: Pedophile Chinese Kobold Wizard on AnimeReality.
• Teens Admit to Trolling Tumblr: JK, There’s No Such Thing as Transethnic Autistic Pangender Asexual Demiromantic Otherkin on BetaBeat.
• ItJustBugsMe Thread in which Draven discusses his pedophilia.
• From Otherkin to Transethnicity: Your Field Guide to the Weird World of Tumblr Identity Politics on Gawker.