Where did your username come from?

edited March 2009 in General
Where'd you all get your usernames from?

As for me, when I was a kid, my friend and I would pretend to be spies and sneak around. And my friend's dad would refer to me as Agentcel, because I was a spy agent, and cel are my initials. So he used to just walk in and say "hey Agentcel, how's the mission goin'?" That's where I got mine, what about you guys?
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  • edited March 2009
    Good idea for a thread...

    Mine came from a bootleg Radiohead CD given to me on my birthday a good few years back...

    The track just before the encore started had about 90 seconds of pure cheering and was named Waiting For The Encore...

    Hence the name. I've been using it ever since! It's a bit long i know but i don't care...
  • edited March 2009
    I was 11. I was registering for my first hotmail account. I wanted "shakey@hotmail.com", but I didn't think anyone would get that Shakey was my cat's name, so I made it shakeycat. Over the years, I learned that almost nobody else uses Shakeycat as a name, so it's always available. And I've never had the heart to change my email address.

    I'd rather just be Tanya. The only Tanya. Tanya@hotmail.com. Tanya here, Tanya there. T - A - N - Y - A.
  • godgod
    edited March 2009
    Started as a joke between me and a friend who hasn't ever even heard of this place back when I used to play Runescape *shudders*. I would have changed it a while ago, but I don't want to restart my post count, even if almost every one before a certain point are stupid and lack punctuation and capitalization.
  • edited March 2009
    I normally use Shade or Zephanus (I enjoy actually coming up with slightly original names for usernames) but when I joined the OB I decided a name that could be used as a joke in many situations would be awesome. I've actually been know to use things like Desryeq (des-ree-eck) Eiris as well.
  • edited March 2009
    I....well I just like pandas.

    Nothing much more to it, sorry.
  • edited March 2009
    Well, I was walking back home from class one day, and I noticed something odd poking out from behind a tree. It looked like a small, multicolored rod that had been jammed in there. But the odd thing was that the colors were constantly shifting and moving, as if they were alive.

    Nobody was around to claim it as theirs, so I decided to pull it out. The moment I touched it I felt great pressure in my body, like when you are in an airplane taking off, except much stronger. The world swirled around me, and the collossal pressure on my chest caused me to pass out.

    When I came to I was no longer on my college campus. I was lying in a gigantic hallway, or throne room, I couldn't really tell. The entire area was shifting in color, much like the strange rod I touched. It must have been some sort of warping device, I concluded. As I got up and began walking down the hallway, I could see something moving at the end.

    I cautiously walked towards it. A massive, flat rune-like object was hovering and rotating in the air. It was radiating a faint light, and somehow I instantly knew that this thing was sentient. I heard a voice in my head telling me not to be afraid, that it was here to help. Our entire planet was in danger, and it would soon be overrun by a dark force from another dimension. The voice told me what they were called, but I think in order to actually recreate the sound I need a second tongue.

    The rune then told me that the fate of mankind would rest on me, the Serephel.

    I tried to ask questions, but the rune interrupted and said that there was no time. It was weak and could not hold me in the temporary reality any longer. The room began to shake, and I could feel that g-force pressure building on me again. My world began to spin again, but this time I managed to hold onto consciousness.

    When the world stopped spinning I was lying in the grass underneath the tree. The mysterious warping rod was gone too. I made my way back home, and then I registered the name Serephel on the Orange Belt.
  • edited March 2009
    *Shudders* At the age of 14, the name "Night Lord" seemed cool and dangerous.

    Now I know it's just stupid and I want to change it, but Mario is a meany :(
  • edited March 2009
    Fuck you, I'm not reading that! Leave it to Ryan to post a god-damned essay for a simple question. I'll just assumed he said, "I'm a pussy and like angels"

    As for me, I was given the nickname Behemoth independently by several unrelated groups of people over the course of my life. So I figure it must suit me.
  • edited March 2009
    Yeah, that was the gist of it.
  • edited March 2009
    I could swear we did one of these if the past, but I suppose the fact that I can't remember it or find it means it's that time again.

    Long story still moderately long: I drew that thing that is my current avatar waaaaay back in the 6th grade. Like, in the 90's and stuff. back when I was less than half as old as I am now. Anyway, I drawed it up and underneath it I happened to write "X'o'Lore". See, that was this little guy's name. Also, since it was a strange name that was is not used by any other person in the whole world that I knew of, I used it as a name for my email address and later username.

    Things of a similar style to that guy once upon a time littered all my notebooks and papers that I had in school. Also stick people. My god I had some sort of purely random stickman comic that went on for long enough to fill a couple notebooks entirely on its own. I still have these notebooks. They are in my private collection and there they shall remain for the good of the world.
  • edited March 2009
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did this already too, but I couldn't find it either. I think it had SN in the title and that's too short for a search, and the rest of the potential words in the title are too common for a search.
  • edited March 2009
    Mine's a long story. Suffice to say, it was an RPG character that I made up partly to disturb the other players. Think miniature gargoyle as the base plan, with a reptilian lower half and a fairy-like upper half. Yep.
  • edited March 2009
    Was you character ever informed to Please stop gnawing on the guests or so help me I will get out the dictionary. The BIG one?
  • edited March 2009
    I used to be rightclickscott but that name was stupid, so while in an IRC chat, I kept changing my name with the same initials. There came to be a ton of different results, but ReallyCleanSocks really popped out at me. Now my name on most sites is Socks Mahoney, but I'm quite content with my name on here.
  • edited March 2009
    Since I like electricity and physics and crap, I had to pick something that was both energetic-sounding and electricity-involved. It came down to voltage and amperage. Amperage is kind of weird to me. Now, my name is Voltage.

    Bringing exactly that to the forums whenever I want to.
  • edited March 2009
    Hmmm... You guys are making me wish I had a better story... Geoff Kottmeier
  • edited March 2009
    Voltage wrote: »
    Since I like electricity and physics and crap, I had to pick something that was both energetic-sounding and electricity-involved.

    Wanna do my physics homework?
  • edited March 2009
    I had just gotten Majora's Mask when I decided to try this new fangled aim thingy. I always thought deku-link was cool, and I always called him the deku dude. So I tried deku_dude. That was taken. So I tried a zillion other combinations and eventually ended up getting deku12345 by accident more than anything. So now I use it for everything. I've never had it taken before, and I just got used to using it. To the point now where if I see the word Deku, I associate it with myself before Zelda.
  • edited March 2009
    I was originally makar on the Inksandwich forums, then decided I didn't like that moniker (though I still think Makar is pretty cool), so I asked an admin to change my name to mario. They did. The rest is history.
  • edited March 2009
    Panda wrote: »
    Wanna do my physics homework?

    No. I have to worry about my own ass in Biology, which I'm much worse at.
  • edited March 2009
    I like Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy, fantasy novels, etc etc. I think Illithids are pretty badass, so I wanted to use that as my name. I think I was also in high school chemistry at the time, and someone said that weapons manufacturers commonly used Uranium-235 to make nuclear bombs. So I decided to go with that. illithid235. No capital letters.
  • edited March 2009
    Actually, my screen name was originally created for a sorc in Diablo II. When I make character names I usually just combine syllables until I find something I like. For this name, I combined the sounds "sere" and "phel", and decided I liked it. I started using it for e mails, AIM, other stuff too. Any allusion to angels or theology was purely unintentional; if I wanted a theological reference I probably would've spelled it "seraphel" or something.
  • edited March 2009
    Heh heh... heh heh... hey Ryan... want to check out my battle sorc? Ha.

    Our freshman year there was this guy who lived on our floor who (attempted to) play Diablo with us. Unfortunately, he started getting into it hardcore when we started coming off the high. He would stop Ryan to talk about how he was trying to create a melee sorceress... and always getting his ass handed to him. What a strange person...
  • edited March 2009
    ...Must resist urge to play Diablo II...

    EDIT: I have a melee sorc. It was the best tank character I had in Nightmare difficulty, but there are too many mana burn monsters on Hell difficulty to function well. But this is not for PvP. I hate PvP and internet play in general. Needs moar LAN.
  • edited March 2009
    Battle sorcs can be fun for the challenge, but they're never going to be as good as a fully decked out barb on hell. The guy Andrew mentioned would frequently come to our room to tell us about how he was fighting Meph for like 15 minutes by himself and dying over and over again. One of those people who would tell a story that didn't really go anywhere.

    I had one barb that had an awesome helmet to shapeshift into a druid wolf. He had leech life and everything, and combined with the leeching abilities of his equipment, he was quite good. Good times.
  • edited March 2009
    I put a "the" between my first and last names.

    I used to be FilleAuFish - which I pronounce as filet-aw-fish. it's close enough to Filet-o-fish that I think it's clever.
  • edited March 2009
    My friend always plays a summoning druid, he killed Meph the first time by running around behind cover and re-summoning crows over and over 'til he died.
  • edited March 2009
    XoLore wrote: »
    Was you character ever informed to Please stop gnawing on the guests or so help me I will get out the dictionary. The BIG one?

    Actually, no. For one thing, the character only bit bad guys. For another, she had super-stealth, and we didn't play long enough for the other characters to see her real form. They just saw the human-sized alter ego.
  • edited March 2009
    Quinlin is my middle name and I was listening to Killer Queen while registering for the Belt.
  • edited March 2009
    I was on a Final Fantasy 5 kick when I got my email, and Bahamut was the first good(ish) idea that came into my ridiculous 12-year-old head as a username for various forums. I tacked Grand onto it cause I thought it would make me sound cool.

    12 was not a good year. I've been Grand Bahamut ever since, though.