It's a really fascinating story, I was 14 and I was trying to think up the perfect username, so of course I came up with 'Beauty In Disguise'. After a while I started to think it was a bit silly, and I was also sick of typing it out, so I shortened it to BeautyID. Then people started calling me BiD, which someone said made them think of dog food... so there's that.

I honestly don't remember. I think I was browsing the Pit and found a passable author who's name was something like thisblueeyeddemon or something. Yeah, I'm a copycat, but it's been years since I chose that as my mostly default online name so, why feel bad?

It is, simply, my own real name. When I first made my way onto the internet, unsupervised, I couldn't think of a username to introduce myself by on the Board, so I just gave my real name.

I've got variations around the internet, but nothing very extreme.

I already answered this back in the other thread. This time around, I've brought you the quote that first put the name in my head. It is from "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield:



“Answer this, Alexandros. When our countrymen triumph in battle, what is it that defeats the foe?”

The boy responded in the terse Spartan style, “Our steel and our skill.”

“These, yes,” Dienekes corrected him gently, “but something more. It is that.” His gesture led up the slope to the image of Phobos. Fear. Their own fear defeats our enemies. “Now answer. What is the source of fear?” When Alexandros’ reply faltered, Dienekes reached with his hand and touched his own chest and shoulder. “Fear arises from this: the flesh. This,” he declared, “is the factory of fear.”




I'd recommend the book, if you haven't read it. It is quite good.

-Phobos

My surname can be directly translated to Crimson, or Vermilion, both of which are pretty much "bright red", while my given name: 翾, can be translated as "flight".

My username came about after I decided I wanted something relatively unique to use on message boards and so on. I tend to use it and a variant (steampunk_pretzel) as usernames, but as an online nickname/handle, I usually go with 'Owl', as I've always loved owls, particularly barn owls. Not the most epic of stories, but that's how it goes. Funnily enough, I can't stand most pretzels; the yeasty taste throws me right off.

Originally I was on this community with basically my real name, but I changed it up for security stuff. Basically, I try to keep all my online stuff separate from each other and there was a lot of overlap building up.

I was very much Hermione when I was a little kid - brown haired, slightly arrogant bookworm with good intentions. Honestly, I'm the same way now, but without the straight A's. But obviously just Hermione would be taken, and it felt incomplete anyway. So my Star Trek obsession filled in the rest. I'm not really all that stoic, though.

Fun fact, though - if I'd created my online username earlier, it would probably be Dorothy something. Like the Wizard of Oz. It was my first fandom, and even now you don't want to get me started on Oz because I'll never shut up about how awesome it is and how everyone needs to read the books.(Seriously, read the books.)

Storme Hawk is the latest (and third-most permanent) name I've used on the internet.
The journey truly begins about 5 years ago, when I first started creating internet accounts and I'd go by the name of Thorn94, Thorn having been the name of the hero in a piece of creative writing that remains to this day one of two bits of work I've ever got an A* in (the other was an RE essay) despite me being overall, a mathematician. That piece of writing was also the start of me trying to write a book/piece of original fiction that is still in work today (see Agent Apollo and my permission piece for proof). 94, because well it's year I was born in.
From there I shortened it to Thorn shortly before expanding it to Thorne, something I still use today on a couple of sites (Pokemon Online being the most used).
When I got Steam and hence worked my way into the gaming community I wanted a new username, and Pulse Eagle was born, birds of prey have always been a fascination of mine and I'd recent begun playing Warhammer 40k as the T'au, their basic weapon being a Pulse Rifle. So there are probably still records on TF2, Dawn of War, BF1942 and a small collection of other games of Pulse Eagle. After about a year I liked the structure of my name but agreed with my best friend that it didn't quite sound right (which sounds weird but we both agreed that it could be better), Whilst trying to come up with a new name I went back to using Thorne on Steam and continuing to use Pulse Eagle elsewhere. I came up with Hawk pretty quickly, following the bird of prey theme and realizing that Owl just wouldn't fit and Hawks are my third favorite type of bird (Eagle's being second). The first part of my name I wanted to be something fast, so I tried various things before I thought of Lightning and from there Storm. Why did I want it to be something fast? because I wanted my name to be a literal description of me, especially in strategy and FPS games, I hit hard, hit fast and get the **** out of there before anyone can realize what hit them, so I needed my name to be quick, strong and potentially deadly something both a Storm and a Hawk can be.
I added the 'e' to Storm shortly after I got to Uni, having joined the uni's gaming society I obviously started to play games with them both inside and outside the club hours, however if you look on Steam for StormHawk, well let's say there's a lot of results and even having a picture of Genghis Khan as your image (long story) doesn't help. However, look up StormeHawk and there's one hell of a lot less people who share the name.

BTW, I did not intentionally name myself after a children's cartoon series called Storm-Hawks that I watched as a kid, I only realized it afterwards (although it may be another reason why I added the 'e')

Storme Hawk
the guy who probably wrote WAY too much, but hey.

I just wrote down a list of possible names and picked my favorite, which happened to be Legacy.

Jesus is Lord. :)

... by a Danish band called Sort Sol, who are very well known here, but not in the rest of the world. I couldn't even find it on Youtube or find the lyrics.
Anyway, the song doesn't have any special meaning for me, but it's a nice upbeat song with some cool lyrics and I started using it as my username in various places, because it was always free. So when I joined the PPC it was the natural choice.

But I forgot to continue and now it's just a dormant idea.

Ok, maybe not so long time ago (like, four years) I was obsessed with the meaning of the Phoenix animal, a bird that rises from the ashes of it's old-self.
I was pretty badly bullied, so I liked to imagine myself as a Phoenix risen from my constantly kicked around old self. Of course, I was also ten so I misspelled it on my original ff.net user "A Pheonix Rises Inside of ME" (caps included) where I then posted a really, really bad series of House fics. I wrote one good poem which I then ruined by writing subsequent chapters. Those were then deleted into oblivion, after thankfully not having been read by anyone. Now I have an eclectic collection of Sherlock fics and omegle RPs posted.

When I first came to the board I was unsure how much I wanted people who knew me by my other two net handles to be able to trace me to sporkings. Because I used to worry about stuff like that. Also because I used to think that I'd get permission in three months and then spork all the things... which, due to my course schedule and the fact that I now know that my usual writing style is quite different from the usual PPC antics (hooray for self-awareness!) didn't exactly happen.

Long story short, I'd been reading fairy tales for work on some original fiction of mine, and the last one I'd read and seen analyzed was the one where the little sister has to save all seven (sometimes nine, but I like alliteration) of her brothers who were turned into swans.

Also, Seven Swans a swimming... it will get quite confusing if we get anyone named Sixgeese in the future.

It is my name, although I changed my last name slightly.

...here, so I won't repeat that. Instead, I might as well put in some more detail!

I have to assume I pulled the two component words - 'huine' and 'soron' - from the end of The Silmarillion, since the name predates my possession of The History of Middle-earth and my knowledge of the awesome Ardalambion. 'Soron/thoron' would definitely be in there - it's part of the name of the Lord of Eagles - but I don't know where 'huine' is in Silm. Rather distressingly, Ardalambion suggests that the term was associated with Sauron's coming to Numenor - so that's fun.

Interestingly, the alternate form of 'huine' is 'fuine', which is apparently Telerin rather than Noldorin Quenya. The older form of 'soron' is 'thoron' (this change was resisted by Feanor). So it's just as valid to use the form 'Fuinethoron' - though I don't think it's as nice.

(As to what the Telerin for 'eagle' would be - I'm not that good of an etymologist, but Ardalambion suggests 'Thoron' may well be the Primitive Eldarin for 'eagle', so this suggests it might be 'foron' - which gives 'Fuineforon', which is just embarassing)

hS (or fTh, or fF... let's stick with hS)

My name? Oh glod. *runs fingers through hair* I have no idea why I chose this name out of others. But I can give you a vague idea of how I pieced together "Autumn68".

1)"Autumn" Weeeeeeeeeeell, autumn's my favourite season, and it also sounds good as a name. Completely random pick, other than that.

2)"" The underscore serves as division between "Autumn" and "68". Thought it looks better than "Autumn68"

2)"68" 68 is derived from 628, a number that means quite a lot to me. 628 is not only the date of my mum's birthday (28 June), but it also means something about luck in Cantonese (Chinese dialect). However, I thought "Autumn_628" sounded too long, so I chose the two numbers than means most to me: "6", my favourite number, and "8", the Chinese's lucky number.

So there you have it; how I picked my name.

~Autumn

Fasoula is a (almost) phonetic mishmash of the second set of three syllables from solfège. I chose it over my old "Matthew72" handle as I was never quite fond of the nickname-number combo. "Fasoula" is leftover from a relatively recent infatuation with and envisioned talent for music. This notion lasted for all of three months, and I have learned nothing more about music for it! But the name stuck with me, as with its sister "Doureimi" (which didn't seem quite as suitable). This is mainly due, I think, to my huge soft spot for bizarre and silly names!

My father thought my name meant Divine Queen, so I went by that meaning when I entered Tolkien phase. I translated it and changed the Queen to Lady, because I thought addressing myself as Queen was too arrogant. Erquentien just means Daugther of Sam. Sam is Erquent, One's Word, because I wasn't going to put Eruquent or something so disrespectful.

I do like cats a lot. In drama class, we were required to do an animal impersonation and I meowed like a cat for about half of the class period. Ever since then, I have received the nickname "Kat".
I chose Kittythekatty because I wanted to be a kat, but not any. I am a KittyKat. Or Kittythekatty.

See, I used to go by Starpetal, but then I got tired of that, and, since I hadn't really started making accounts until then, I was perfectly able to change my handle. I picked Ailavyn Siniyash out of my language that I'm idly making (though I feel like I really should restart it, or something, because it's going nowhere except places I'm not sure about ---that is, boring and trite, as much as a fictional language can be---) It means Light's Daughter, which, looking back, is incredibly pretentious, and I sort of wish I could change it. Maybe I'll just change the meaning of siniyash to something other than daughter... Yeah, that sounds more plausible...

...As for Aila, well, it's a very long handle. I needed a nickname.

-Aila

Hm, maybe not on the Board. Oh well.

Basically, my friend and I used to be really into the Warriors books--you know, the ones with the cats. They were pretty good, actually. Anyway, one day we played a game that ended up giving us two names--Brightshadow and Dawnfire (funnily enough, I was Dawnfire. I was also in ShadowClan, I think.*) Soon after that, I ended up needing a screenname, so I started using Brightshadow (I don't remember everywhere I used it, but I definitely commented on Deleterius once or twice under that name). At a slightly later point, I needed another screenname for some reason, so I chose Dawnfire...and wrote it as DawnFire for some reason. And that's the story.

You may also have noticed that my wiki handle is DawnFire360 (and that that's also in the email I give for beta-ing). Why 360? Very simply, I'd recently been dealing with geometry in school, and no one else had taken the username. So...DawnFire360.

Of course, now my name seems to be heading more towards simply Dawn, which I'm okay with (not least because I keep having moments where I feel that DawnFire is a little childish. I have been using it for at least seven years, though, so...makes sense :) I don't have any plans to change it, though--too confusing...although I suppose I could take a hint from hS, and translate it into Quenya or Sindarin, or take a hint from Neshomeh, and translate it into Yiddish. Although the Yiddish isn't looking very exciting or English-friendly...I suppose I could be ShacharEsh--the Hebrew--but it looks kind of odd. I think I'll just stick to DawnFire.)

And, with that bit of storytelling/rambling completed...peace out, guys :)

~DF

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*My memory is apparently very bad right now. I'm fairly sure I was actually Brightshadow, from ThunderClan. Makes a lot more sense, as I wrote that parenthetical statement feeling that it was rather ironic.

...but this time? I'll go ahead and link to the opera itself. So here it is, guys. It's a scene from my namesake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcVAAyP7Vhw

Back in '08, I really wanted this game called Spore (just search it up) and got it on its day of release. After a few weeks if playing singleplayer, I wanted to sign up for online. Since I was obsessed with Sonic, I tried "Hedgehog" as my username but it didn't work so I put "99" in front of it and that has been my online handle ever since.

I also discovered the Internet in general through a group of RPers (THE Spore RPers), since my interactions with it were minimal at best.

The Emperor Protects!

P.S Spore is dead, I left it a while back.

I just liked the word "Armada", and since I usually put some sort of adjective before nouns when it comes to names, I choose "Green" (because it sounded better than other colors and because I like green).

...but I might as well say it again.

My name comes from a character I was, and still am, writing when I first found the PPC: Jumper. I created him out of a mixture of wanting a character that could travel to fictional worlds, and and wanting to prove that such characters could be written well. Unfortunately, the first incarnation of Jumper was very much a Stu. Just take a look at Jumping In to see why. When I found the PPC, I was looking for multiverse-spanning organizations on TV Tropes and found the PPC entry. Because Jumper was the reason I found the PPC, I thought I might as well introduce myself with that name. Ergo, World-Jumper; the guy who keeps talking about ponies insistently and insists he is this close to finishing his mission after 8 months of 'writing.' By the way, first mission, this close to being done!

Since I'm lazy and have nothing to add, I'll just leave a link to my reply to the old thread. And a plate of Belgian pralines.