Namely: iomccoy. Then I'd get called iom, and that got typo'd to ion. And then things like ion coy, so obviously I had to be a shy ion, right? ^_^

XD In all seriousness, though, Skarmory comes from Pokemon Silver; I haven't played ANY of the main Pokemon games, alas, but the Gold/Silver generation is my favorite aesthetically, and carries a lot of damn good memories due to The Power Of One being a big part of my childhood. And yeah, Skarmory is obviously my favorite Pokemon.

My Boarder name is also the same as my Tumblr username. I would've used FawkesTheSkarmory, my first dA account name, but it isn't as iconic and probably wouldn't make as much sense.

That's just what little car enthusiast me came up with many, many years ago both as a nickname and the name of his self-insert characters.

A bit silly, but I never bothered changing and probably never will.

(The only exception about using that so-far is League of Legends - I go by TurboAvenger in-game. Probably just as silly, but I had to come up with a different name than my usual.)


P.S. If there's any LoL-playing Boarder, I suggest against adding me as a friend in that game. I'm bad at it. Hopelessly so.

I used to frequent a gaming client called Byond back in my RP days, way in back the yonder times of three years ago. There was one game in particular called Mitadake High (every bit as anime as it sounds) which I used to play almost daily. It was great fun, but the gender of the character you played as was linked to your profile and I liked a little bit of variety.

So, long story short, came up with a female profile which I called Doureimi (phonetically doe-ray-mee, because this was during my musical phase), then since everyone I knew had at least three accounts, I went ahead and gave her a male twin, Fasoula (fah-soe-lah) whose purpose turned out to be gathering digital dust. I decided a couple years later, though, that I liked the sound of the name and made it my all-purpose internet name.

As for my old name: Matthew was the name of one of the primary characters of a story I gave up on years ago. 72 is a number I picked out of my birth date that happened to rhyme with Matthew.

Hieronymus – deliberately misspelled Anonymous, because I wouldn’t tell my real name on the internet.

Hieronymus – a.k.a. Saint Jerome, because I’m trying to be a decent person, although I will never reach saintly levels. Also, I may have misinterpreted "ascetic" as "hermit", and I’m not a sociable person.

Hieronymus – a.k.a Jerome of Prague (burned for heresy at the Council of Constance), because my critical mind doesn’t take anything for granted.

(Wikipedia has many more of these guys, but when I checked with an old printed lexicon whether the name would be suitable, I found only these two, and I felt that combined they fit may personality quite well.)

Graubart – just look at me (it translates to "grey beard"). I won’t hide the facts that I’m old, male and German.

Also, I like to share my initials with Hermione Granger.

HG

Mine is a reference to to things: First off, I'm a soprano (except I'm a lyric, not a dramatic), and secondly I have a tendency to be very dramatic. Tawaki can testify to that.

I picked it because it meant one less username to remember, honestly.

my main medium of interest.

The "doctor" part comes from my real initials: D. T. R. If you squint, they sort of spell out "doctor." I actually came up with the doctor thing when I was very young, as a secret representation of myself in my mind. Years later, when I started using the internet and needed a name of anonymity, I incorporated my old secret name into my new screen name.

Though my original name was wobblestheclown, and that has a little more story attached to it. Or at least growing on it, like vines on an old building that the architect totally fouled up.

See, I love clowns. Always have. I'm not circus people, don't get me wrong, I stay in one place and don't keep animals in a tiny locked room in between parading them in front of gawping misborn with wits drowning in candyfloss. But a clown is different. Just, as a concept, a clown is different. Someone has devoted their adult life to making people smile, to making a little child's day brighter. That takes... that takes the kind of person I can respect. It is an expression of love for one's fellow man that is without peer, at least in my book. It is a gift that you can give when you have nothing.

The clown is a smile on a dark day, and I cannot help but love it.

'Kaitlyn' was my anonymous throwaway for reviews on FF.N. Since this was a fandom-y space, and I didn't expect to stick around, I used Kaitlyn.

Twelve years later . . .

A friend of mine requested OCs for a story when I was relatively naive as far as fanfiction goes. I wracked my brains and came up with a centaur named 'Kitty Eden'. It was accepted into the story, and I enjoyed reading the author's portrayal of the character so much that she snuck into some of my stories, as a background character. Somehow, I started using Kitty as a screen name instead of my real name- which is, of course, ▋▋▋▋▋. And it ties in nicely with my actual username, which is 'TheBigCat'. And here I am now!

I came up with my name when I needed my first email address; it's actually only the second name I ever used on the internet (and the first was a throwaway). This was late 2002 (I actually got an email address to talk about The Two Towers during the Christmas holiday!), and I'd just read the Silmarillion - so I combed the Index for two words to put together. 'Shadow' and 'Eagle' stuck out, so Huinesoron I became.

hS

^^^^ Oh, that thing? That's a Latin-alphabet representation of my Tengwar monogram, which looks like this:



The 'S' (silme is larger than the 'h' (hyarmen), so that's how I write it in English, too. (The silme is also backwards, but writing 'Zh' would be a bit TOO obscure.) ~hS

But I never get around to it.

...And I was trying to make a seventeenth account on an online game I don't quite remember. I needed that many accounts because I kept forgetting my information. Anyways, I tried to make my screen name, and everything was taken. So I just came up with the single most random, memorable thing I could. Ratbrainbasher is usually what I use for things I don't mind being unsecured, because it lets people find me easily across games and forums. I think I got the inspiration from an Andy Griffiths book I grabbed off the shelf when I was pretending to work. It was a demented, crude, yet funny choose your own adventure book, and part of it involved a rat, you and a rolling pin. I don't know why I named myself after that.

I saw that not many people did did multi-dimensional beings very well, especially in fanfic. I wanted to have a crack at it, so I did what I usually do when making a character: find archetypes. I flesh them out later, but I like to see how others have handled certain character types to get some inspiration. While browsing TV tropes for multi-dimensional organisations, I came across the PPC article. I was intrigued, and decided to check it out for myself. Because I was looking for how to make a World-Jumper at the time, I decided to call myself such. Since then, I have used it for many other websites, and has become my semi-official username.

And, before you ask, no. I have not written a single thing with him yet. I've been trying to, but I just can't work it out. One of these days...

...that your username is "Bella" backwards? That's a relief. :-p
Mine comes from Pokémon... in a rather obscure way. Y'see, when I was young and stupid, I signed up for my first ever forum, with the username "ManaphyLv100". About five minutes later, I realised that that was a stupid name, but I couldn't change it.
Instead, I had to come up with something... subtler. Something cool enough for 13-year-old me. Now, Manaphy's a Seafaring Pokémon, which makes it a seafarer. 'This is genius!' I thought. And it stuck, because I'm terribly bad at making new names.

Superfluity means an over abundance.
I found this word when I was trying to find the term for a group of nuns. I was looking for something similar to the names for groups of animals i.e.: murder of crows, school of fish, etc. Eventually I came upon Superfluity from this book written about two hundred years ago in England that was basically a book about the names of groups of things.
I just really like the word and I thought that it was more mature as a username than some of the other names that I've used in the past.

Though some of my other monikers have more interesting histories. :P

I was sixteen, dumb, and I was obssessed with The Lord of the Rings, specially with Elves and Wizards... So, that's why: "Edhel + Istar = Edhelistar". And I use it for everything, so if you have seen this username somewhere else, quite likely it's me.

My real name is a tree name and I like Ents. Baroom is an approximate transcription of an Ent-noise. That and it's easier to type/remember than Laurelindorenan.

I was 10, and used mostly the same username and password for everything. Both were based on my name, and I used them for a while. It was secure, though, because I sometimes swapped the username and password! (Yeah, I'm not kidding when I said I was dumb.)

At this point, I was playing lots of browser-based games, in which I mostly used the aforementioned username and password (except for Club Penguin, where I had to use a different username for some reason I don't quite remember). I eventually came across one in particular: it claimed to be "the most interactive web game", and was a "real-life-based" penguin simulator. Didn't know that penguins had guns, industry, stock markets and slave labour.

So, I naturally found it to be the most awesome thing ever. However, I didn't pick my usual username for... Some reason. I think it might have been because I wanted to do some RP and decided an all-letter name was better for that, but I'm not really sure. So, I picked 'domirossi'. Also based on my name, but I was still stupid.

I used that site for around two years, and then I got tired of it and deleted my account. (Incidentally, I've just checked it and it's still a thing! There's no one on there anymore, though.) However, I had started to use this name for some other games, and it eventually became my "use-it-everywhere" username. The only times I don't use it are when I don't want people I know to find it (such as my Tumblr account).

I remember at least two with the same premise.
Anyway - this particular handle comes from the forgettable and ultimately useless Yu-Gi-Oh! card Des Dendle.
Funny story - at least some people first thought I was a girl. Probably has to do with the 'elle' suffix.

I've never had a proper nickname. Never. Not in school, high school, college, nothing. And, since my circle of friends was so heavily restricted, I've never socialized with other enough to earn me any type of name.

For a long time, I was using a combination of my first and last name, which resulted in MacBud. Over the course of time, it started sounding stupid so I've decided to use the Joker (I still do, when at conventions).

And about the current one? Well Matt, or 'Matthias' is the closest English equivalent of my actual name - Maciej (pronounced Mat-yey). And Cipher is because of "Gravity Falls" and the character, Bill Cipher. I don't know why I've decided on this, I don't even particularly like Bill, the whole concept just seemed to work.

Comes from when I was twelve and a huge Runescape addict. I wanted my character to have a normal name, not 'CamelotOrc' (Yes, that was my first's name. Yes, I still remember that. Shut up.), but the filters were sneaky little things and I played around with letters for a bit before settling on Iximaz. After a while, I just started adopting it as my internet name.

My first name on here was RinaAndRanda (Rina), which should be fairly self-explanatory. After the Randa half lost interest in missions, I decided to pick up a different name and went with this.

Funny story though, it was not my original tag, one day I was having a discussion and one of the players started going off on a crazy conspiracy theory rant, and so I decided to act like a hyper-advanced government AI and changed the name, I liked it and kept it. I was also going for something that sounded a bit pretentious.

My name came from an intentional mary sue that I made for Homestuck and I made her God Tier prototyped with a first guardian and in Homestuck, Becquerel, a first guardian, likes irradiated steak.

One: I've always been fascinated by the concept of oblivion, emptiness, nothingness, whatever.

Two: I'm in love with the letter V.