Where did your user name come from?

[willpell]

My actual username here is just my name, but on a lot of other sites I go by Envisioner, which is a title I granted myself at a specific moment in my late teenage or early twenties, I no longer remember the exact year but I can still picture the moment. I was at a science fiction convention and announced my decision to my best friend / mentor, who assumed I was joking - when in fact I was deadly serious, and that's been my "truename" ever since. It's a fancy word that means "one who imagines" but also seemed proactive somehow, as if it connoted "one who causes the imagined to be", and I still feel as if it's true, despite an increasing amount of evidence from reality to the contrary.

[Zaggab]

According to this name generator it's my orc name (or, at least it was in Middle School, I'm unable to replicate the results now). Though it was actually Zaggob the Slaughterer, but I misremembered when I created this account.

[Tylorious]

my name is tylor, not tyler...everyone emphasizes the "O" in my name and it eventually became, Glorious Tylorious...but i just stuck with tylorious

[Traab]

Traab has been a name I use for virtually all of my characters since I started playing MMORPGS back in 99 with everquest. Its my online identity, so even when playing other games people know its me.

[Killer Angel]

Mine arrives from here.

(BTW, my previous avatar was the sticky figure of gen. Armistead)

[razorback]

Mine has to do with my prehigh school days in wrestling. When i was 11 i moved to the next town over and joined the wrestling team there, which were my forrmer rivals. New teammates started to refer to me as the Razorback. My former team. It got into school and kind of stuck from there. Old friends still use it.

[Remmirath]

When I first signed up here, I used the name Relvinar. That had been the most recent character I had made. However, I never really like using character names for account names -- it tends to make me feel as though I should write like the character, or always use them for an avatar, and then they have this tendency to die off.

So I started thinking of something that would not be a character name, wouldn't be something I would use for a character name, but I would like and would make sense to me. I eventually settled on Remmirath, because I've always been fond of and interested in stars, and it also ties in to my general fondness of Middle-earth.

This was the first place I used that name, but since then I've been trying to be more consistent with my usernames and use it in most places now. I used to have a different one for nearly every site I went to, and that was annoying.

[scurv]

My user name.

Well once upon a time I enlisted in the navy and though many antics there I got the nickname Mad Dog Moody....ahem yea. I had a hobby of breaking 4 by 4's.

Then when the internet got out of its diapers The name i use to use was Scurvy Dog, Mostly it was a toss away and quite often it was.

Then some years later That ended up being a name i used on a podcast...ahem no comments please.

And from there i shortened it to scurv just because that's what everyone called me.

[CoffeeIncluded]

I can be incredibly hyper, especially with topics that interest me. One joke with me and my friends is that I'm perpetually caffeinated. Since CaffeineIncluded was too long for this forum, I'm CoffeeIncluded!

Ironically, I almost never drink coffee, and when I do, it's got to be as sweet and creamy as coffee ice cream, which I love. Anything else is just too bitter for my tastes. So when I drink coffee, nine times out of ten it's a frappachino or some equivalent.

[TheIanOakley]

Mine is mostly my IRL name. Sad, isn't it?

The "The" part came from a school in-joke.

[noparlpf]

Mine's boring. Comes from the sequence 'nop' in the alphabet stuck onto the random result 'arlpf' from button-mashing on a phone. Both were usernames a friend used during grade school and then middle school, so when I got bored of my older one I just stole his and combined them. He still goes by Arlpf himself, but I don't like capital letters, so I'm just noparlpf.

[Grinner]

I do enjoy a good joke.

[peterpaulrubens]

My favorite painter, of course.

But I started to use it during my first "real" job (i.e., a salaried job instead of an hourly one) which was during the dot-com boom. Among other things, it was my job to log in to customer's websites and verify our ad tracking code was placed properly on their webpages (it wasn't a given that every customer actually had a webmaster for their website). I got really tired of keeping a spreadsheet for all my customer site usernames. Eventually I figured out that "peterpaulrubens" was never, ever taken on any site, and so my spreadsheet got retired in favor of The One True Internet Username.

[Rawhide]

Hit the random button on tvtropes.org.

Best. Backstory. Ever.

[Chilingsworth]

I chose mine after the main villian from A Scarlet Letter when I made my first online account around a decade ago. I don't know why it popped into my head, but it just sounded good.

[Jay R]

1. My first name is Jay.
2. My surname starts with an R.
3. I decided not to use my complete name.

Pretty boring, actually.

[turkishproverb]

He who tells the truth shall be chased out of nine villages.

[dehro]

my first and principal online rpg character. a random digitation of the keyboard cleaned up to make it slightly more elvish.

[Starscream]

Mine's not very interesting; Starscream was my favorite Transformer back when I was a kid and watched that show all the time. But I guess it's kinda important to me, because I am totally obsessed with animation, and Starscream represents a big moment in my becoming so. When I was about six I had an epiphany; Starscream had the exact same voice as Cobra Commander.

At that age I knew just enough to sort of get how cartoons are made, with people drawing lots of slightly different pictures and putting them together like a flip-book. It had never occurred to me that there were actual actors doing the voices, but if those two characters sounded the same, it must mean they were played by the same guy (Chris Latta, BTW), right?

I started actually paying attention to credits from then on, to confirm this. Cartoons back them rarely said who played what, you'd just get a list of VOs. So it became a game for me to try to identify familiar voices (Rob Paulsen! Tara Strong! Billy West!) and then check how I did at the end (much easier nowadays with the internet). I still do it.

Try it yourself. Protip: When in doubt, guess Frank Welker, especially for any sort of animal voice. You'll be right 50% of the time.

[MoonCat]

Best. Backstory. Ever.

Up until you randomly land on the old MEH page.

[AttilaTheGeek]

Back when I first started playing Halo online, in my very first match there was one guy on the other team called "Attila The Geek", instead of Attila the Hun. In hindsight, it's not all that funny, but I kept getting killed because I couldn't stop laughing. Nowadays, I usually use AttilaThePun instead because it sounds more similar to hun, and also emphasizes my terrible puns, but IIRC it was taken.

[JoshL]

My name is as boring and self evident as boring as self evident can be.

But in the past I have gone by gnarphlager, and my self-publishing is under gnarphlager records....which was the first string I could pronounce after an afternoon of random typing back in college. The old line was I would give people three guesses as to what gnarphlager meant. I would then tell people I didn't know, but I'd know it when I heard it. I eventually determined what it meant to me, but I never expected anyone to understand or care.

[Vwulf DeMarcus]

So. This one. Interestingly enough I started one of these myself on this forum...quite a while back. But that's beside the point. This username comes from my 9-10 year-old self. I liked ninjas, and the letters "x" and "q". That's where this one came from. But I've had two other on this forum, one was a shortened version of a D&D character(Shadowhisper) and one was because I was obsessed with Dune(Paul Muad'dib). Tbh I normally use a different one, but I haven't gotten around to asking for a name change here yet.

[Wyntonian]

In the long, distant past, I had a history teacher who thought that Wynton was too boring of a name, so she took to calling me Wyntonian. I liked it, it stuck, it's never taken and I use it for everything now. If you see a Wyntonian elsewhere on the internet, it's probably me.

[turkishproverb]

Was probably you. Now? I imagine an enterprising individual is going to start registering under that name.

[Morph Bark]

He who tells the truth shall be chased out of nine villages.

Only nine? Nice!

[Eldariel]

My nickname is in Quenya - "El"-base was what I was going for (El means star; one of the few words I knew) and I added random stuff from names in the bbooks so I ended up with Eldariel. Which conveniently means something totally unrelated to the word "El"; "Eldar" - "riel" or "Elf" - "maiden". Oops. This was back when I was like 12 and had just read LotR; used it everywhere ever since. Nowadays I use Elealar from "Elen" - "alar" or "Starshine".

[Lonely Tylenol]

Spell it backwards.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Spell it backwards.

Nice! Love those things.

[Anecronwashere]

Inspired by the avatar (still have the avvie see)
Was supposed to be Anecromancerwashere
but I typed Anecronancerwashere and it was too long, so I backspaced ancer (thinking I had done mancer)

THus through 2 mistakes my name was born