How on earth did you pick that name?

I am just wondering how people choose their names. Did you chose at random, picked a fantasy name, or were you communicating something important (that everyone is sure to miss)?
Now exactly, what is a "[spincrus]"? Why a "[Calico Tiger]"? And what on earth was Nathan thinking with "[I stabbith ye]"?

^_^ I'm waiting!

How to add:

- New names should be posted under the proper letter in Alphabetical order! Then add below the line here that your name was added.
- Names that have been changed and no longer fit their description are removed.
- If you post your explanation in comments your name will not be posted.

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New Names:
[Pnelma Tirian]
[Nehirwen]

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-A-

   [Akayume] is a word that a friend of mine liked to use. He always said, "If you need to find me, search for this name." So when I came here, I decided to use it. 'Akayume' is a Japanese word, a combination of the words 'red' and 'dream' to create it.

   [Anti_Anti_Groups]: I have had so many people say this is odd or what it means. To begin it must be analyzed in two parts. The first is just 'Anti.' It means exactly what it says. Now the second part '_Anti_Groups' is also simple. The underscroes mearly show that they are connected (as some online spaces do not accept spaces, but do accept underscores). To properly show what it means it would be easier to change "groups" to anything you want. For this examle, one that I use a lot, I will use Harry Potter. So it would be "Anti Harry Potter Groups." Very despisable group, no? They will be doing what they do and annoy everyone and just be really stupid. Now insert the original 'Anti' to create Anti_Anti_Harry_Potter_Groups. This means you are against those 'Anti Groups' and thus make you 'Harry Potter Groups' (two negativves cancel). So, just insert any name you want and it will work for you. Honestly people should mind their business more (which is why it is up there). However, this does not apply to politics just as the rules of reality do not apply to it. If you try you will hurt yourself and look really stupid. For those who still don't get it, it is a cynical statement of all those nosy people who will complain a lot (and might cause some problems!) about a certain thing and form to stop it. Even though everyone may like it they may volentarily twist some part of it so much that it stands against a small tiny, uknown pillar in their religion/views. Thus, they hinder society. Thus, they deserve to be mocked.

   [Aradon Templar] I went through a number of name changes. The current one has most of its basis in a wiki I used to be actively involved in. I wanted a roleplay name that sounded fantasy-type, so I thought and thought and came up with Aradon Triten (because any name that's about that long, starts with A, ends in n, and has a d/r/o sound in it ends up sounding fantasy-type- Aiden, Aragorn, Allanon, all teh cool names). I picked Templar for the second word, however, because I was previously [Templar of the Lord], and all teh non folks said I was staying Templar/Tempie whether I wanted to or not.

   [Atayemi] - Well originally my name was 'the darkness within' which I thought was slightly twee and emo..so I wanted a name which was just one word. I ran to [Zab] and she thought of [Atayemi] for me! Thanks, Zab! :D

   [Avatar15] - My name is a combination of my favorite show and age a month or so after I joined Elftown. I figured I would change the number with my age (for whatever reason), but that only happened once and I can see why. xD; My favorite show/cartoon/anime was Avatar The Last Air Bender. I also love element(s) in general. Sometimes, I think I could describe my life or personality with Avatar/Icon. It works whichever way you assume the reason is, I suppose, but it was my love for the television series and fictional element powers that really created it. I thought "Avatar" looked too plain and weird but it wasn't until a month after I created my username I started saying "Avatard" and by that point my username was stuck and I didn't want to change it.

-B-

[Bleeding_Black] - Its mainly from one of my favourite songs by AFI - Bleed Black. However I made it a long time ago on another site and when coming here I chose to keep it. For me it means when all that is inside is rotting and feeling like your life is fading your blood isn't red with life, its black with poison. The song was important to me so I thank AFI.

-C-

  
[Calico Tiger] - OMG my nerdiness shall be shown! Years and years and years ago (back when I was 19) I had a superhero character called Cat. She was a humanoid/anthro calico woman. When I did the picture for her, I realized that she needed more to her than just the calico markings. So I added in stripes. And lo and behold, Calico Tiger was born! I still use that character design for appearance for this character name in general. Add to it that my favorite animals are tigers, and I adore calicos, and there you have it :) And as a side trivia, calico tiger is an actual cat coloration! They're very pretty cats :D

   [Cia_mar] well, actually i was studying gaelic and the first lesson i learned was the "how are you?" lesson.. and in scottish gaelic that is written "ciamar a tha thu?" (pronounced "key-yah mar a ha oo") i liked the name Cia, but it is always taken so i started using Cia_mar so that i could get Cia as my nick name! *huggles*

-D-

  
[dayahnaira]- When the tv show Hercules was on, his wifes name was Dayahnaira (surely spelled differntly) but ever since then it has stuck, not to mention its the name of the main character in the story I am writing.

   [Deadlock jester] decided to add deadlock to my name when I was new to big cities, and I got into deadlocks on a dayly basis. The jester part is a nickname friends gave to me for my..jester-ish behavior :p

   [deeterhi]the name came when watching t.v. there was this guy on it who's name was deeter. i don't know if it was his real name or a nickname but i liked it. deeterhi came together during my visual computing class in college when we were making our own webpages, i was making a webcomic. we needed to sign up to this domain. etc. etc. basically, i liked the name deeter, can't remember if there was someone else who already had the name. i thought "hey, i'm a decently friendly person, so i'll just add 'hi' onto the end of it" and that's how it came together.

   [de Morte] came to me a few years ago because I've had a slight obsession with death and I wanted a new screen name (my old one being Elskestar) Well somehow I came to a translating site and looked up the word "death" and came out with a few versions, one that I love being "morte" meaning "a dead woman" I added "de" in front of it so that it now means "of (the) dead woman" This name also suits me because of my vampiric tenancies.

   [dew_farie] My name was actually chosen for me. I was looking through pictures of faries and saw one that just literally jumped out and grabbed me. The picture is on my homepage as well.

   [Draugluin]*Stole it from reference pages in the back of the silmarillion XP.(added by Jitter, originally posted in comment)

   [Duhe Rahn] My name is just my penname. I actually have a really strange story behind it, but for the basic jyst it means Dark Phoenix. Kind of cheezy, I know, but I still like it (added by Jitter, originally posted in comment)

   [Duke Devlin] Well, basically as a child I adored the anime 'Yugioh'. It was amazing to my young mind :) And of course my favourite character was Duke, or Ryuji as he is known in the original Japanese version. Sadly I only ever saw the 4kids dub version, so I can't say I loved his original character, but he really appealed to me when I watched it. So much so that my Elftown name became his, and I have grown a deep obsession with Dice, plural. Seriously, I am never seen without my hanging die-earring. :) Very special is he to me.

-E-

[Easterling] - At the time when I was becoming an elftowner we were in the middle of the frenzy about the Lord of the Rings movies. I remember that a friend of mine dressed up as an elf when we were going to see one of them (I think it was the second one), a group of other friends were learning the elf language and so on... Myself, I've always liked the Easterlings better - those soldiers from the east who comes with their gigant olifants and really should have beaten the crap out of Legolas instead of the other way around.

  
[Elegy - gone] - I actually came by it one day I was browsing through the thesaurus, and it was love at first sight. Something about the word 'elegy' just rang out to me, and I knew I had to have it as my name. I love the sound of it, and the sad associations I get when thinking about it. I've been through many names in my Elftown career, but now I think I've finally found the one that is unquestionably me.

   [Elysiann] I wanted a fantasy name that closely mirrored my own name, so I went with Elys - for Elisha and iann - for Habermann.

   [Estantia] It was the name of a character in my first big story elemental alliance. It means Guiding Star in that language and she is the Great Guide of that universe. I am the great guide of this universe so it made sense to borrow the name. It came to be more than just borrow though... It's my well established internet alias now, if you search it in google you either get me or a city in mexico...

-F-

  
[Feasting on Needles] Well, I was really into this song called "Needlefeast", and I just warped it to my own tastes and it stuck. :)

 [Flisk_girl] "Flisk" is my favorite of all my created characters. He is from my book Through the Sky, and yes, I did kill him. I had to. The book was getting too Flisk-centric. "Girl" is because Flisk is quite clearly a guy, and I am so not, true? I had to make that distinction. I don't know why I put the underscore, but there it is. I started with this name and I haven't changed it because I don't want to go through and redo all my wikis.

-G-

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   [hanhepi] I've always been teased about being pale. (grow up in Florida and never get a tan, see if you dont get teased too). my cousins started telling me i had a "moon tan"... well years pass and i start dating this Lakota (thats Souix Indian, for those that dont know) and i was teaching him the language, the little i knew anyway. he looks at me, says "How do you say 'Moon'?" "Hanhepi Wi." so he says "what about 'woman'?" well, thats either winyan or wi, depends." and started calling me Hanhepi Winyan. winyan is a bitch to type when paired with hanhepi, so i shortened it to hanhepi wi for my yahoo account. that was a hassle too, so for here i shorthened it again. so, i've gone from Moon Tan, to Moon/Night woman (hanhepi being night, wi being sun, litterally) depending on the translator, to just Night. lol

   [HardRockAngel] I chose this name because I like rock music and have a weak spot for the winged creatures. I draw them a lot and listen to the music alot, hence the name was born ^^.

[Hendercrazy] - When I first got online back in early 2001 (I was a bit of a late worldwidewebber)... I needed a unique username that would stick with people, not use too many letters and still describe my personality to some degree. I wanted something that resembled my last name and could still connect it to Henderson. Hender had a nice touch. Next up was the second half. Sooo many people have called me a lunatic, nuts, bonkers, outta my mind, whacked and crazy. Crazy sounded good with my last name. Thus Hendercrazy was born. :D Hey... it beats my childhood nickname "Ninja Hippie". Don't ask. :P

[H3_six]: This is a strange sort of a nickname to choose but I like it. It is a contraction of a much longer name I used to have ,centuries ago, Heaven_666. Get it a sort of duality angels and demons thing. So H-heaven and 3, 6's= 666. There you go. It's good because it's blank, people don't tend to form assumptions about me before talking to me first. Even though the first question is usually, "how'd you pick that name?"

-I-

   [iippo] Very simply, I was given this nickname, back when I went to 7th grade - a 9th-grader tutor friend gave me this name (we have to change schools at that age, so the 7th graders are the youngest in the school, and that's scary so the oldest students become tutor friends to help out with the scariness), I guess she ended up with iippo because my first name starts with 'I' and my last name with 'Po'. I've used it as long as I've been in any internet community, and along the way I've found out that you can write it upside down as "odd!!" and I am odd. You can write it backwards "oppii" which means "learns" in Finnish. And it fits perfectly in the Marx bros. series Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo and iippo! Also, when you spell out the letters I, I, P, P, O, it sounds like you are in pain: ai is ow in Finnish, pipi is booboo in Finnish, (like what kids say "I got a booboo" :C) and oh is oh. x)

   [imperfectionist] erm its hard to explain it came around after an hours long descsion with a friend about peoples imperfections making them who they are.

   [Ir-Iddyn] My name came from the fantasy novel that I'm writing. Ir-Iddyn is the main character.

   [irulan] - after my favorite character from Dune by Frank Herbert

-J-

  
[Janouk] I guess mine would be pretty boring, it's my real name ^^

   [Jewl] I actually have a wiki on my Screen-name up already, take a look! Here's a bit of history on my name

   [Jitter] I think I should also reveal the history behind my name... When I first started getting online I was only on mIRC and I got "Ksessaloniki" there but that makes sense only to greeks and I was tired of everyone taking me for a guy. After that there was a Harry Potter forum where I cam up with the amazingly fangirlish sn of "Sirius Padfoot Black" Guess what? They thought I was a guy again <_< LOL Well when the fangirl phase passed I decided I should get myself a decent screenname that would totally represent me. I was on the bus and was thinking of names when "Jitterbug Perfume" popped and I grabbed it. It was the first book of Tom I read and it has to be my 2nd favourite. It's girly yet not silly and the book also mentions Greece and greek mythology in :D Apart from that it's a book that has to do with how nice is to live. And I also couldn't resist the beets... :> My alter-ego though is named 'Cassandrart' Cassandra is my favourite name+art. This popped out of nowhere as well while trying to find a quick screenname for DC++. If I wasn't known by JP I would pick Cassandrart most probably or Fionavar(another favourite book)... I tried editing my sn to 'Cassandrart' but I couldn't get used to it. In WoW I m definately Cass but I'll always be Jitter on ET [Obsolete Darkness] and [Southern Deathstyle] are cool but very dark and I'm not this dark most of the time ;) It was changed to [Jitter] after 4 years for shortness and to chease people calling me "Jitters" and "jitterbug"

-K-

   [Kay-chan] - Yay, the lamest name! When I was little, I made up the most intense Mary-Sue on Earth with my friend, and her name was Keiko, because that was my favorite Japanese name. No idea why, I just had one because I was WAY more obsessed with anime than I am now. Anyway, I made 'Kay' short for 'Keiko' and when I got on ET I decided to use it for my name... The chan is because, again, used to be WAY more obsessed with anime and whatnot. But Kay is my main online nickname and I will respond to it in real life.

[Kelaria] Well... honestly... it's hard to remember. All I remember is that I was watching Lord of the Rings and then trying to think up an Elven name for myself and Kelaria popped into my head. It immediately felt right and I've stuck with it ever since. Kelaria is the name of my Elven self. She is the daughter of Galadriel and the wife of Legolas! Now the name is so much mine that I use it everywhere and if you called out "Kelaria!" I would answer!

   [Kiddalee] - I love jazz, and singing, and singing jazz. My voice is well suited for jazz and showtunes. I also consider myself cute. Kidda is an affectionate jazz slang nickname for a girl/lady. I slapped the lee on because Kidda felt too short for me on its own, and I was reading a book with a main character named Siddalee at the time, which sounds very similar (oddly enough, I don't even love that book more than others I've read). I'm considering changing my name to Kidda in the future. Something's stopping me. Maybe I find it limiting? I don't know. Even if I change my official nickname to something totally different, Kidda will still last; it will always have a place in my identity. That's why, when I want to stick my name in wiki-names, I use Kidda just in case the day comes when I don't want to be Kiddalee any more.

   [Kileaiya] I made this name up 6 or so years ago, for my Neopet (at the time I was addicted). I decided I liked the name enough to adopt it as my online persona and it has been with me ever since.

   [Klaproos] it's my favorite flower and also because it likes to hug noses and kiss it ;) (i also like to give a kiss on somebody i like his or her nose) ^^

   [Kyrinn] when I first came into ET I wanted something fun, not to mention when I did come into ET the first time, I had this Earthdawn character on my mind and was feeling fun, so I named myself after my fun loving elven swordmaster Kyrinn Makorla. I tried changing the name to a newer character, but everyone ordered me to take this user name back. So, it stuck. XD

-L-

   [Lady Chaos] - the name of a statue worshipped by the villain, Thanos, in the Silver Surfer cartoon. I just thought it was an awesome screen name, and summed me up because I can be a bit chaotic at times, but can also be like a statue. I found out that in the actual Silver Surfer comic books the statue was called Lady Death, but they had to sanitize it for the kiddies and called her Chaos instead.

   [LadyMoon]- Well..it's a long story. For starters, I've always loved the Moon. I can stare at her for hours and not become bored. Moongazing and worshipping is one of my greatest hobbies. And some years back, me and my sister were totally Sailormoon crazy. We were even that crazy, that we decided to built a fan- website. We also decided, not to use our real names, but screennames and my sister called herself 'LadySun' and I decided to call myself 'LadyMoon' because of my love for the Moon :)
The rest is history. I never got rid of the name because it fits me perfectly and I've been calling myself 'LadyMoon' for the past four years now :P

   [Lady Neit] i wasn't always called this. when i first joined up, i was called Arima, because it was going to be the name of my first character. but then i made more and i made a race called Diaelo. so i changed my name to Diaelo. after a while, i got more interested in egyptian names so i found the cat nae 'Neit' meaning huntress, and i like the 'punctuation kitty' (=^..^=) so i changed it to 'Neit=^..^=' but after a while i got tired of having to type the symbols all the time so i changed again to 'Lady Neit' to make myself feel special ^^ (it worked)

   [lady nytmare] is my nickname, and it reflects the bond I have with a very close friend of mine, [Lord Nytmare]. It also reflects how even though i'v been through a lot of really crappy stuff, the stuff of nightmares in fact, I've come through it, and I can still joke and laugh, and yes, be a lady. :)

   - [Lady of Lore] I've always been delving into mythologies and bestiaries and so loved studying lore. Somewhere I got dubbed the Lady of Lore for always writing novels and reading lore, and so thus I am the Lady of lore.

   [lady of vampires] it just poped into my head like a daisy and well i was feeling vampish anyway........

   [Lerune] Years ago, I was sitting down at the table, returning to tabletop D&D after years of not playing. I started rolling up a little green-eyed elf ranger while a friend across the table started to roll up an elf scout. I didn't know what he was doing, he didn't know what I was doing, and when we finally showed the GM our papers, he lauged because we had two wood elves named Leralam and Lerune. He gave us a small percentage chance that we were related and it turned out that the two were siblings, so we decided to make them twins. It was such a fun, unexpected thing -- and I have always, always loved the name that came to me for her. Originally, I pronounced it Lah-roon, as I am sure most of you do, but after learning Quenya, and the pronunciation of the vowels in that language, I discovered it would be pronounced Ley-roo-ney in Elvish, and it made me love it even more. It absolutely came to me out of the blue one day, and it's now my name on every single site I belong to. 

   [Lifebringer]- You know why :) I like to make people laugh at their downs so I've been Lifebringer for a long time :)

   [Linderel] is the name of a character of mine. Actually, two characters have carried this name, and the original had a 'surname' - Silverbell. However, I decided not to take it into my username. Nowadays this is one of the names I go with all around the net. (The others are Calann and Lamichu.)

   [Lite] is a race of elves from the future in my stories(my favorite race, though my fave char will always, ALWAYS be Crystal Nova), and my unfinished RPG. If you want to learn more check out my rpg site, War of the Races, and the character creation sheet from there.

   [litle ego]Got it from one of my favourite songs. Litle Ego by the swedish band Kent. The original title is Lilla Ego.

[Lord Nytmare]: This name is the same name I use everywhere online. It has gone through quite a few changes through the years, but it has finaly decided to stay as such. My full name is Lord Midian Nytmare, But I dont feel like typing that in every time I want to log into ET. Nytmare is the callsign I was given during the wargames trials in London, Midian was a name I used to use by itself, before deciding on making it my new first name. My friends back home are all elitists, and I am one to a degree as well, I dont assosiate with rifraff in real life and I though to show that fact online, therefore my title was born. Funny thing is, If I search for my birthname in goolge, I get practicaly nothing, However, searching for 'Lord Nytmare' brings up lists of stuff pertinent to me. I think one of the few reasons my name has stopped fluctuating and changing is [lady nytmare], She is one of the few people out in the world that actualy inspire me to try and be better than than the rest. an excellent artist and photographer, her work was what first got me interested in Photoshop, which in turn led to me getting my current job, so I owe her for that!

  [Lothuriel] I am a Tolkien fan...too much perhaps. Eomer is one of my favorite characters. His story I found the most interesting of all the supporting characters. Not to mention my insane obsession with Karl Urban. I chose to spell the name with a u instead of an i in order to make it a bit more my own.

-M-

  
  [Melocrie] is the name of the lead character in my PristonTale fanfiction. I became a full-time member of the FGPT-clan under this nick, so I chose to adopt it as my regular online username. How I can by this name in the first place, I can't remember...

   [moira hawthorne] is my name. really. moira is my birth name and it means stubborne. (moira is the anglaized name of morag the gaelic name: mor is the sea = great high (so morgaine is high queen) ag is will therefore stubborne.) hawthorne is my pagan church name. it was given to me in ritual. hawthorn is ancient flowering shrub/tree with pretty white flowers and lots of sharp thornes. use for hedge rows to keep unwanted people out.

    [Mom] is my name...24/7.My kids, their friends all call me Mom or Momma D. It just seemed like the natural thing to do.

    [moonscale] I think I dreamt my name. I just needed an internet name. I also call myself Silkscale sometimes and someone called me a windfish once but its also sort of draconic.

   [Mortified Penguin] is the ripped off code name of a terrorist from Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (a game).

   [muffin_killer] In high school I used to eat muffins, a lot--nearly every day for breakfast (I still would, but I can't find the kind I like). One of my friends asked me why I ate so much of them. So I struck a dramatic pose and declared, "Because I am Sophie, the Muffin Killer!"
(borrowed from her house)

-N-

  
[NamelessMerc] - Hmm, I gues thi name comes from before I knew what my mercenary character was called. I've used this handle in chatrooms since I was 14, while I was developing the character Tethis Ironfold for use in a failed novel. It stuck, as it seems more enigmatic than simply "Tethis" (I know, how vain am I?), and nowadays I use this everywhere, seeing as somehow it's never taken, as popular as mercenaries are in most communities as characters.

   [Nehirwen] - I wanted to make myself a unique name when I was 15 or 16. I started out with Arwen, since I liked that name a lot, and I began adding and removing letters until I had a name of which I liked the look and sound. I puzzled for more then an hour, and ended up with Nehirwen. :)

   [Nocternity S.] I was trying to mix, Nocturnal and Eternity, and i got sanctuary from Dark Sanctuary, my favorite band. :)

   [Nonchalant] mine is just the it is my favorite word

-O-

   [Ocean Soul] - "Ocean Soul" is the title of a Nightwish-song. This is a very emotional piece of music - and art - for me. It kind of describes me a little, but in a more between-the-lines sort of way.
I only wished to become something beautiful
Through my music, through my silent devotion

-P-

  
[padurarul] Well, I am a fan of, the NHL hockey team, the New York Rangers and I also tend to roam around alot like a Ranger. So, since I found out that Padurar means "Forest Ranger" in Romanian, I ignored the "Forest" part and picked Padurarul (which means "The Ranger") to be my name here on Elftown.

  
[Patri] It's just the short form of my real life name: Patricia. It's also the way my family call me. I also have other nicknames (Pato, Pat, Patito, Patita, etc.) but that's the most popular one. So yes, it's very boring, it's my real name :-(

   [Paul Doyle] When I first joined in June 2003, I thought about using any of several character names from my first novel, which at the time was only semi-done. (I finished it in 2005.) Then it dawned upon me to use my real name---thanks Mom and Dad! Why did I go this route? (Pauly the Anthro-Dragon did not even exist yet!) This is why (and it's the same reason why my name in the furry fandom is also Paul Doyle): (1.) I joined when I was 29 years old, and though I've got my fair share of personality quirks, I'm secure with who I am and what I am, and am fairly open and honest about myself. It's not like I'm posting my Social Security Number and bank account information online! (2.) Again, the stalker issue: I am neither the creepy jailbait nor the creepy stalker. I'm me. I'm a 34 year old guy, somewhat hairy, and though I've been complimented on my looks plenty of times, I don't think for a second I'm "asking for trouble" by the usual fun bunch of horny guys from Turkey. (3.) The truth can be ugly, the truth can be extremely awkward, but even though I have plenty of characters of my own, I am me, and I do not wear masks. What you see is what you get! I'll leave the imagination for my creative endeavors. 
   [Paz] (I get asked a lot) :P Well back when I started taking Spanish in seventh grade we had to pick "Spanish Names". In other words we all picked a random name from a list. I saw the name 'Paz' and immediately had to have it as my name :D Then it slowly evolved as my nick name for everyone even my teachers! Then it gradually became my username for everything online ;)

   [Perplexity] Hey, [Elegy - gone] stole my story =9 That is the exact same way I acquired my name. I think I could not have made up a better name, and that perhaps it was not by chance I stumbled across the word "perplexity" that day.

   [Pinkdonkey] This is slightly embarrassing, so please refrain from going "aww"... Anyway when I was about 6 or 7, I learnt about forums and chats from the 16yr old girl that used to look after me. She explained that you used a screename, which was often a nickname or something important to you. I quickly exclaimed "so I would be pink donkey !", the donkey in person being my favourite soft toy (no, this isn't cute ...). The years passed, until I was 11/12 and started going onto forums and such. When asked for a screename, I remembered this particular conversation, and decided to type in Pinkdonkey. The name stuck, even though I don't really like pink or donkeys. I am now thinking of changing my name, but can't really be bothered to go through the fuss of warning everyone.

   [prowlie] it's the name of a creature that lives in the world of Brackenwood, as seen in the flash movies created by adam philips. the video "prowlies at the river" can be seen at http://www.biteycastle.com/prowlies.html ^^

   [Pnelma Tirian] it's the proper noun for a singular entity in an alien race(The Pnelma Tiris) that I made up in third grade and they have stuck with me since, lying dormant in a dead novel I have tried to write several times. Yeah, I know, it's dorky, but this is Elftown--I'm not the only one!

-Q-

-R-

  
[Rook] came about a few years ago, actually. I orgionally had the name WillowElf on here, but then I thought it was time to change seeing is how that name really didn't fit me. So I was at church on night and we began to play a game of human chess and, go figure, I was the Rook. It kinda stuck after that. I love the way it sounds and it fits perfectly even though another definition for it is a swindler or a cheat XD

-S-

   [Sagacious Turkey] - My last name sounds kind of like "gobble", so I've been called "Turkey" for a long time. The "sagacious" part of my name is just an adequate adjective that describes me. "Sagacious - having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd"

   [SapphireArcher]- Haha there's actually not much to it. Sapphire cuz sapphires are my favorite gemstone (not to mention blue's my favorite color..) and Im into archery. There, ^-^ mystery solved.

   [schitzo]- Lets just start this story with how to say it. Skit-So. It's not a bad word or me being "funny" and trying to make people say bad stuff. I enjoy the diffrence between Schitzophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder and am amazed at how may people mix them up. My real name is Scotty. So in high school i was alwas correcting people on this minor detail and got nicknamed [Schitzo.] I liked it enough and though short it worked well as a nick name so I've been using it ever since.
My other options were : McGiever,F.N.G. (that is a bad word in there),Newbie ,The Kid. so given the options i liked Schitzo the best. I hope this explanes my name well enough. have a great day.

   [sequeena_rae] Eeee...I barely remember o.O I was on this baby name site one day (as you do XD) and found the name Rae which is german for Ray I believe o.O Anyway, then I was reading through a book on Celtic Gods and Goddesses and found the name Sequena (I think) who is a french river/war Goddess (again, I think. I can't remember o.o XD), I added an e, stuck a _ between the two and there you are :P It works ^^

   [sevengem] I wanted something ambiguous that would apply to me. Since my initials are EGM ("gem," rearranged) and my middle name is Grace, I was searching for something that had either "gem" or "grace" in it, so it would associate with my name and be artistic at the same time. I thought of a compliment a friend once gave me - he called me a near-perfect diamond, or something of the sort. "Nine gem" popped into mind - meaning, a gem that scores a nine on a scale of one to ten, and nine is my favourite number. I didn't like it, though. Seven had a better ring, and the result, sevengem, looked like a word in itself, and an angry one at that - like "savage," almost.

   [shirono]: I have used a total of 3 nicknames on the web over the years, Shiroikaze was a play of my brothers "Kuroikaze" (white wind and black wind), then I recieved the title of "sakka" (writer) from a friend and I used it for a while. Finally, while creating a new Hotmail account about a year and 1/2 ago I was trying to pick something close to the first name and it popped into my head "I'll use Shirono" I have no Idea where it came from, I use it and the name Sakasama_No_Chou (from the SNoW song) almost always on sites.
Unfortunately, my friends decided shirono sounded like a brand of Japanese Beer....but oh well C'est la Vie...
if you ever see a shirono (or Shirono1 or shirono@) on a website, message and find out if it's me ^^

   [Shishiru] I came to the decision of my name, because at the time it was the name of my favorite OG character i had made...and after a while, the name "Shi-chan" people had given me had started to stick..since then ive been known as Shi-chan by everyone, and i dont dare change my name. I also like it too much xD

   [shotokan_gal] - Didn't put a lot of thought into it back when I first joined admittedly, Shotokan is just the name of the style of karate I practise, and was the first thing that came to mind. The gal part is hopefully obvious :P

   [Skydancer] Quite simply is my real name. {chuckle} My Grandmother was a full blood native american. When the time came for my naming ceremony, I would normally have taken her name but because she was the last clan member, I asked to have the clan name rather than the personal name in her honor and to honor all the ancestors of a clan that was wiped out in the indian wars. Thus Skydancer which is not a common or usual native name but is rather the clan name but translated from the native language. And that is way more than enough information.

   [Slavork] during math class I was trying to come up with a random Elftown name for a friend of mine. Slavork also came by, and somehow it was love at first sight :P it's dutch for spork, but no one really seems to realize that, and everyone seems to have an own idea what a Slavork is (a what? slavork?! XD) but it seems to be a name that only has worth and mystery as long as you can't speak dutch :P

   [someelf]. [someelf] is a name I used like for 2 to 3 years now. Ever since I came to Elftown. I atmid I changed it a couple of times. But Someelf is my one and only username I use for over 30 sites. How I cam upon that 'freaky' name? I think it was because I wanted to be someone. yet an Elf. Yet something with fantasy. I wanted to be someone with Elf in it. And that's how I think how I came upon Someelf. I am not sure though.. But I love this name and people just know use it as my nickname now XD And I don't mind it ^^ <3

   [spincrus] Quite some time ago, about 12 years ago even, my parents brought me a framed giant spider and a scorpion from Hong Kong. Part of the Latin species name of the spider was [spincrus], and the name comes from there. I wanted to have something unique, something that nobody else would have. The first place I started using a nickname was Westwood Chat and I came up with these stupid variations of Supercem, Hypercem, etc. (Cem being my name of course). Cut me some slack here, I was what, 11? 12? Anyway. [spincrus] basically stuck with me. This uniqueness and weirdness in its pronounciation has worked for my good, though, as I have become (for some reason) a semi-famous internet persona in Turkey thanks to some of the online communities I've been a member of (an online gaming community and a wikipedia-like community). I've had people come up to me in internet cafes and such an go like "you spincrus?" back in the day. Sheesh, good old days. I've even seen immitaters of my nickname (whom I've dealt with in diplomatic means and asked them to change their nicknames). I'm enjoying the uniqueness of the situation to this day :D

   [Stray Kitty] My initials are SK and I wanted my Elftown name to match them. I've always wanted my nick name to be Kitty instead of Sar. And Stray started with S and thus Stray Kitty was born.

   [Sunny Silverunicorn] Well, Sunny, is actually my nickname. You see my own name being Sanaz (which is pronounced like 'Sun'+'Oz'), so the short form would be to call me Sunny. And as for the second part; well, it all started from my email adress, which at first was sunny_bricabrac cause I was born a mouse, according to the chinese zodiac, and I do gather everything and anything. But since many didn't think that was a suiting name I started thinking about a new one. At that time the Harry Potter fever was so high and I had read about the unicorns, and that they were first golden and then silver, and when they were mature, they turned white. So I figured, since I'm always acting a bit younger than my actual age, I'll never be mature enough, I'd probably be silver; And there you have it: 'Silverunicorn' became my new second-half-of-a-name. Sunny Silverunicorn is the name I'm known as, on the net, and it's initials S.S. match my own real initials too. :)

   [Sunrose] The origin of my Elftown name: <diary:323707>

   [Sweet chariot of fire] Now this is confusing, but even im not sure where i got the name O.o But i think... *delves back into the cobwebbed empty cabinets of my brain* that it may have been the name of a horse driving group that toured the world giving shows with ponies that had been bought from abbotoires (were being sent off to be killed because no one wanted them), i think they were the 'chariots of fire' and i liked it so i incorportaed my nature in with it :D lolsie

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   [Tableau Vivant] My very first name here was SJV, and those are my initials. But after I started to understand Elftown, I wanted to change it. I've been Heaven's Fall and such in my darker period =P But after that I started searching for something better. A tableau vivant is a theatrical word, meaning: Living Painting. It is used when people on stage completely freeze. They are the living painting. =] And I am very much into theatre, so it feels like it really suits me.

  
[The Cruel One] My great grandfathers last name was Crudeli which is a derivative from the latin word Crudo which means to be cruel or The Cruel One- pretty self explanatory

   [The Fuzzily Psychotic Llama of Death] I chose this name partly from the Llama Song seen around the globe and llama's rock!!!! (sorry!) And [A sweet lil' egg named bob] Helped me to decide as well, as before I had a really rubbish name. I chose fuzzy, because the fuzzy llama on the song was funny, psychotic was bob's idea, and I just chose death to make it sound cool!!!

   [The Scarlet Pumpernickle]
My name went through a variety of changes over the 5+ years that I've been on ET. I started out as Cat's Eyes... became "Lady Cat's eyes" for a RPG that went nowhere. About a year or so later I decided that Cat's Eye's really wasn't my thing. I had been watching Daffy Duck <http://www.spike.com/video/looney-tunes-scarlet/2758284> and loved it.. besides that, I have a thing for Wayne and Schuster who also did a Scarlet Pumpernickle Sketch.. and it appealed to my sense of the ridiculous. So there you have it. Although most people just call me Scarlet.. I doubt I'll change it for a while...

   [thuthuca] *quotes text from his house*: "It comes from the song of Axe Bahia, "Thuthuca", which is I believe a funny song and was popular once in Greece. Axe Bahia is a music band from Brazil, so, not knowing Portoguese I didn't know what the word means. As a girl from Brazil here in ET (whose name I forget, sorry) informed me, "thuthuca" is a vocative word in Brazilian meaning something similar to "baby" and the correct spelling is Tchutchuca. On the disk of Axe Bahia though, the word was spelled thuthuca.
My name is pronounced as "tsuh tshu kah" and not with a "th" like in the word 'theory'." The song wasn't something special, and was lost after some moments of fame, but the username stayed. <_<

[Tickle Me Emo] - Well, one day I thought I was pretty clever when I suddenly realized if you removed the 'l' from "Tickle Me Elmo," the wildly popular toy of the 90's, it became "Tickle Me Emo," which was kind of a stab at the emo trend. Besides, I have always loved plays on words (seeing how my last screenname here on ET was "Anne Thracks pm").

   [Titanic]- the reason why I chose it is because i'm just obsessed with it. I know nearly everything there is to know about Titanic so it only made sense that I make it my name.

   [Triola] - there is a very simple explanation to my choice of name. Tri = the first three letters of my first name, Ola = the first three letters of my last name. It's true, people, it's really that simple, and that boring :P

-U-

  
[Urmando The Elfling]
Urmando is a combination of 2 names: Fernando and Umur,
it's a Javanese (Indonesia) boy's name!
And "Elfling" was inspired by "The dark Crystal" here they talk about Gelflings...

-V-

  
[Veltzeh] is a conglomeration of letters I made up about four years ago for the Elfwood moderators' IRC channel. It has the initials of my real name (V, E and L), two letters I like when they're put together (TZ) and a sound I find very nice (EH). I was just thinking that if I'm going to make up a nickname for myself, damnit, it needs to be short, simple, without special characters and unique. I've also gone by the name Varjo-olento (shadow being/creature), Lozenge master (don't ask), Aamuaurinko (morning sun, this was just to smite the list of nicks on IRC channels where I was often on the bottom and with a nick higher up in the alphabetic list I got to be on top, yay) and Ruler_of_the_Universe (mainly on IRC as a joke when we had an apocalypse in the mod channel).

-W-

  
[Wolf_Wings] I've loved the idea of winged wolves ever since I heard of them. "Wolf" wings have to be the most beautiful, of all.

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-Y-

  
[Yoruno] More than ten years ago, I started playing Vampire: the Masquerade, and RPG. My first and most beloved character happened to be a vampiric Geisha. I was trying to add a slightly dark feeling to her personality, so I made up the name Yoruno from two japanese words: "Yoru", that means "Night", and "No" that means "Of"... so her name means "Of the Night". When I came to Elftown, I was working on a pic of her... so the name was stucked in my head, and I used it. I still love it!

   [yusuf] It's my real name

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[Zab] Yay! First on Z! >_> Anyway, my name here is just the nickname I've had since third grade when I changed my name from Sabina to Zabina. So it was pretty natural to use it :P

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[5thwitch] I'm the 5th witch of a coven! but this is not a gratuation, just the symbol/lucky/favourite number of every witch. I mean, the 1st witch was not the chief, but only had as symbolic number the number 1. the 2nd witch had the 2 and so on. we had also a nature inspired name. I was Acacia the 5thwitch. noe to let it simple i'm just "quinta" =5th in italian.

   [*Night_Shade*] About 3-5 years ago I was surfing the web for Cybersix sites and came across one by a girl named Nightflower. When I went to look it up on Encarda 95, it gave me a list of words, Nightshade being one of them. So, a time later when a friend and I went onto a Yugioh site (long story), I picked it as my user. Now I'm attached to it, it even describes my personality.

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