How did you choose your username?

[Sgt. Griff]

If you haven't already guessed, my username, Sgt. Griff is from RVB season six. When Griff Becomes a Sergeant, Briefly.

[liquidus118]

Years ago, it's to do with MGS (Les Enfant Teribles project). I don't like the name, but I use it out of habit and can never think of an acceptable replacement. Now that I think about it I really hate this username.

[Azathoth]

Azathoth, for the fragment of the prologue of a novel that H. P. Lovecraft wrote in 1922 and never continued. He reworked pretty much the same concept into The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, also one of my favorite Lovecraft pieces, but "Azathoth" is probably my all-time favorite of his works, and a perfect example of everything wonderful about Lovecraft.

Of course, the name itself was also repurposed for Lovecraft's blind idiot god Azathoth, lord of all things, monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space, who is rather endearing in an "oh shit everything's fucked" sense. And Blind Idiot God were an amazing band, too, while we're at it, so there's something else.

[Allemann]

An unintentional mistype (Allemann) of the same-titled novel by Alfred Kolleritsch. I have no particular reason why I chose it.

[Xana]

I don't like the name, but I use it out of habit and can never think of an acceptable replacement. Now that I think about it I really hate this username.

I chuckled at this, sorry :(
OnTopic:
I actually wanted "Jolly Ranchers" or "Evan Jelly On", but they were long. Too lazy to type long names.

[symbv]

I guess once a username is chosen, you cannot change it, right? Of course you can create a new username but that would mean lose all the history. So if you grow to hate your username, I guess there is little one can do about it...

[Fireball]

I don't think double accounts are allowed, symbv. Where is your name from if I may ask?


Cool to hear Azathoth's story btw. I had the slight suspicion it was something like that.

"Evan Jelly On"

You should have totally used that one.

[Xana]

You should have totally used that one.

Hell no, it's, like, what, 13 characters long!!

I refuse to exercise my fingers.

[symbv]

I don't think double accounts are allowed, symbv. Where is your name from if I may ask?

I wrote in this thread earlier
http://forum.evageeks.org/post/460734/How-did-you-choose-your-username/#460734

[Fireball]

Ah, thanks.

Hell no, it's, like, what, 13 characters long!!

I refuse to exercise my fingers.

Understandable considering your proud age.

[Seele00TextOnly]

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[symbv]

Thanks Seele00TextOnly for explaining. I have thought even mods would not be able to change username without impacting the history (old posts, statistics etc) but it seems that mods do have the necessary power and it is up to their discretion after all.

[ONIAgent150]

Mine comes from Operations of Naval Intelligence organization in the Halo universe. They always struck me as the unsung heroes, getting the data that you hear about in the games. Shadowy, clandestine, but well-meaning. Kinda like NERV, I guess? It's just been my name across other boards since then.

[Dream]

Well, might as well jump in.

Mine is partly based on the Lord of Dreams, from The Sandman. And partly on the concept of dreams and what they mean to people, as well as exactly what constitutes a dream.

Also, it's a simple and (i feel) a nice/good-looking or interesting username

[Valyou]

I don't even remember why I call myself Valyou, but I know it was a random spelling of "value" though.

[Xacebans]

Once upon a time there was a little tiny village in northwestern Spain. From it immigrated, decades ago, a couple and their young daughter. Years later that daughter had her own daughter, a fangirlish creature who spent far too much time on the Internet. That little girl needed a username so she chose the name of the little farming village as her username for all kinds of things. Thus, the internet's Xacebans was born.

[bobbyfischer's ghost]

^
I had no Idea you were Spanish, so that makes three people so far including myself.

[Xacebans]

^
I had no Idea you were Spanish, so that makes three people so far including myself.

I'm only half Spanish and live in the US, but I speak Spanish and Gallego and have been to Spain eight times. It's nice to know I'm not the only one here with Spanish heritage. :)

[Someone]

It wasn't taken yet.

[CX1329]

I've been using this username on the Internet for as long as I can remember, so I might as well continue to use it until the end of time or something. It comes from a time when I was obsessed with airplanes, so CX stands for "Cathay Pacific", and the 1329 is just a random suffix. Not the most brilliant of usernames, but it's got an entire INTERNET TRACK RECORD.