Screen Name Origins

[Peelee]

You know what they say about sequels!

They're totally better than the originals?

I kid, I kid. Half the places in this state are named after England, apparently.
Also, the picture they have of Birmingham, UK looks pretty idyllic. Maybe I should switch Birminghams some day...

[Alent]

Mine's a Phantasy Star pun.

Years back, when a friend had me play Phantasy Star Online with her, I was doing the "make a bunch of characters to see what I liked" thing, and had more or less decided on a main, but ended up making a RAcaseal alt to try one last character. (for the uninitiated, that's agility type android gunner.) I'd ended up using up most of my interesting character names, and needed a new one, so I decided to look back to the real Phantasy Star games' naming conventions. In PS3 and PS4, there were two androids named Wren, which in the japanese versions of the games were named Shirren and Forren respectively. There were also a host of random android enemies in PS4 with various name variations on -rren. So I arrived at the pun "No Wren" which I wrote "Norren". It ended up being somewhat popular with my friends on there even though I spent most of my time on my RAmarl.

Some years later, when I quit playing MMOs I decided to retire the screen name that I'd used across all the different games as I didn't really want a constant reminder of all the drama and idiocy that happened during my WoW raid career. The next forum I went to register on I went to use the screen name I'd used prior to when I started playing MMOs, and for some reason I will never quite get, I ended up using Norren instead.

I've been using it ever since. Never have figured out why I prefer it to my old SN.

[Mx.Silver]

My first name is "Jay", and my last name starts with an "R".

Huh.
And here I thought that it was a 1980s pop-culture reference, given your location.

My favorite element is dysprosium.

Interesting choice.
Mine's carbon.

[Psyren]

I like psionics, and I like manga. Shortly before joining this forum, I came across a manga about psionics, where the main characters (well, two of them) are a male Wilder and a female Psychic Warrior.

The image in my extended sig comes from that manga.

[dysprosium]

Interesting choice.
Mine's carbon.

And I would have guessed silver for you.

[pita]

It's a type of bread.

[FinnLassie]

It's a type of bread.

Deliciously simplistic.

[DataNinja]

Well for ages I'd been shortening my name, Derrick (no, it's NOT spelled Derek, thank you very much everyone, ever...) down to DRK. What can I say, young and foolish and all that. Then when I went to play Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Ace (only Mega Man game I've ever played, sad to say), it was the first time I'd ever had to have a profile that could go online. So, I figured DRK would be too common (and I see that there's one on this very here forum...) so I tried to think of a second part. Looking at the box art, I was all "ooh, black cool armour", so thinking carefully for all of a nanosecond, I picked "Shadow" as the first thing that came to mind, which I use as my general name for Characters and stuff now. One day, I actually noticed that the letters DRK could be taken as a shortening for Dark.

So, yeah, moderate-long boring +3 exposition story.

[paranoidbox]

You'd like to know what's in the box, would you? Is that what you're asking? What's in the box? Huh?
Well, maybe the box knows what's in you. Have you ever thought of that?
Maybe the box holds every dark secret you've ever had, scrutinizing and archiving everything you've ever done, collecting every last little bit of your life, and holding it in reserve for when it really needs it. For when you step out of line. For when it needs to put you down.
Do you still want to know what's in the box, huh? Do you?

[Wraith]

Ever since I've been out on the internet, aged about 17 or so, I have used the handle "The Illusionist".
Unsurprisingly it's taken just about as often as it's not, especially anywhere that's even vaguely connected to a fantasy theme - such as, for example, a D&D webcomic.

I then went to my second - and currently most preferred - choice "The Infernal Contraption" which, sadly, has hit the character limit as roughly "TheInfernalContrap" on every website other than the first one that I tried to use it, as it did on GitP, and that just won't do. I've managed to grab it only a small handful of times since.

My third choice was "DarkbladeWraith", which is also my Steam account, but because I was a little bit older and wiser when I joined GitP than Steam I wanted something a bit less.... teenage angst-y.
Thus; Wraith.

[Eldariel]

Once upon the time, I spent a lot of time on LotR and the elven languages. I like stars. Eldariel, which I used here, was written with a rather poor understanding of the Elven language; "El" means star, "-riel" is akin to "maiden". Nowadays I use "Gilalar", "starshine".

[Kiljori]

As far as I know, I made mine up. I love playing dwarves in DnD, LoTRO, and WoW, so I went with the most dwarven sounding name I could think of. So far it has worked out pretty well for me. So, nothing really funny or special, just me being a little creative and then sticking to it.

[cavalieredraghi]

I used to go by BiggestANTMAN, which is because when i first created a Xbox Live account, the name ANTMAN which is a common nickname for my real name, you guess what it is , was already taken. It gave me options for a differant name and BiggestANTMAN was the only one that did not have numbers. I eventually decided to change it, and I wanted something that was something I liked, but not in english. CavaliereDraghi, means Knight of Dragons. you figure out the language.

[Lord Raziere]

I made it up. I just experimented with letters until I found a word that sounded cool, slapped "lord" in front of it then used that as my screen name ever since.

....wish I didn't put "lord" in front of it now though....

[cavalieredraghi]

I made it up. I just experimented with letters until I found a word that sounded cool, slapped "lord" in front of it then used that as my screen name ever since.

....wish I didn't put "lord" in front of it now though....

you could request a Username Change.

[Lord Raziere]

you could request a Username Change.

I did. 10 months ago. I'm still waiting on that to take effect. Never got any word back on why it wasn't changed.

[cavalieredraghi]

I did. 10 months ago. I'm still waiting on that to take effect. Never got any word back on why it wasn't changed.

maybe ask the Mods what is going on.

[BannedInSchool]

Hmm, I could mention the other names I've used. My BBS days were "Thanatos" because I was a teenager who read Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse. Come to the Internet and that's not so unique. I've used Infocom spell names in a variety of places. I spent some time studying the artificial language Lojban and used lojban words as names in a few places, likely not entirely correctly, heh. Oh, and in a reference to my less than common in the US Scandinavian last name I picked a Danish word for use in several related forums and in playing Civilization that I'm afraid is the wrong gender. Ha.

[rs2excelsior]

The "rs2" part is my first and last initial, and a reference to the "II" suffix on my name (my parents did that instead of "Junior" because they didn't want people calling me junior). "Excelsior" is both the name of my favorite Star Trek ship, and a really cool Latin word that I've kind of adopted as a personal motto--it means "ever upward." I can't remember exactly why I chose that combination specifically, but it was what I used when I made my first personal email account, and I've stuck with it ever since.

[IZ42]

This is actually my screen name from my minecraft account, since my alt. screen name was already taken, so I couldn't use it. My brother and I used to share the minecraft account, and created it together. The first two letters are our initials, and 42 should be rather obvious.

[Lentrax]

I always thought mine came from the old noggin, but one day I saw a thread for "Google your username." So I did, and found out Lentrax is actually an antibacterial suppository for animals. Which means I probably got it off a brochure at the pet store my friend used to work at back in high school.

[VincentTakeda]

Hmm, I could mention the other names I've used. My BBS days were "Thanatos" because I was a teenager who read Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse. Come to the Internet and that's not so unique. I've used Infocom spell names in a variety of places. I spent some time studying the artificial language Lojban and used lojban words as names in a few places, likely not entirely correctly, heh. Oh, and in a reference to my less than common in the US Scandinavian last name I picked a Danish word for use in several related forums and in playing Civilization that I'm afraid is the wrong gender. Ha.

Some of my favorite books, those... Evil, then death, then war were my personal favorites.

[factotum]

Some of my favorite books, those... Evil, then death, then war were my personal favorites.

I always thought the Satan book was just an excuse for rewriting the major scenes from the other books from a different viewpoint, which is either a bit unimaginative or a writing challenge depending how you look at it. Certainly wasn't my favourite, that would probably be the Chronos (time) one.

[ghost_warlock]

I've been using my username in various places online since the late 90's or early 2000's.

Back in high school, I was basically a ghost - I was there but didn't participate tangibly.

Back in college, a bunch of friends took to calling me "warlock" because I looked like Julian Sands from the movie Warlock.

[VincentTakeda]

I always thought the Satan book was just an excuse for rewriting the major scenes from the other books from a different viewpoint, which is either a bit unimaginative or a writing challenge depending how you look at it. Certainly wasn't my favourite, that would probably be the Chronos (time) one.

I always felt like the entire series was an attempt to rewrite the whole thing from different viewpoints, which I quite enjoyed.

I think if there were a character from that author that I more identify with than parry, it might possibly be Crombie. Just figured Parry and Crombie are not exactly cool sounding screen names, heheheh.

[Kurt Kurageous]

Name is the stage name of a current DnD character, a messianic kobold.

He left the clutch to avoid being bullied to death for superior stats. Starving to death he lucked into a village of hobbits, probably the only being who wouldn't kill him on sight. He was bonded out to a sensei, trained to perform katas, staged fights, fire breathing, and acrobatics routines while wearing a ridiculous gold dragon costume and body paint. Kurt is a contraction of the Kobold gods' name, Kurageous for alliteration and the laziness of the sensei. The sensei actually refers to the kobold as "Worm," a disrespectful name perverted from "wyrm."

Kobolds generally don't live long enough to have a name, so Worm/Kurt has a limited concept of his name as well as everything else in the massively confusing humanoid social rules.

If you care, the first sensei died and was replaced by a kinder sensei who doesn't compel Kurt to perform anymore. He's currently a 5e LN L2 monk with a performer(gladiator) background who dreams of some day finding and reeducating his own god to stop kobolds from worshipping dragons, or preaching a new way to live to kobold tribes. He's still terrified of dragons, though.

[Gnome Alone]

I thought, "what's the dumbest possible vaguely fantasy-themed pun I can make?"

[Psyren]

I did. 10 months ago. I'm still waiting on that to take effect. Never got any word back on why it wasn't changed.

Roland and Rawhide moderate that subforum - I would PM one of them directly and (politely) point out the long timelag on your request. (One of them would have to process it anyway, unless I'm mistaken.)

[Fragenstein]

I always thought the Satan book was just an excuse for rewriting the major scenes from the other books from a different viewpoint, which is either a bit unimaginative or a writing challenge depending how you look at it. Certainly wasn't my favourite, that would probably be the Chronos (time) one.

To this day, I would kill to have a Sning. But I think I abandoned the series somewhere around Being a Green Mother. I'm not sure that I made it to For Love of Evil. But now I'll have to go back and start reading through again....

[Balain]

Years ago I played Everquest. My main character was named Balain Cobblpot. So Balain got used as my user name here and there.