How did you come up with your username?

[Ｓoul Ｅater]

It's simultaneously the name of an anime series, and the name of a character.

And everyone should totally go watch it. Right now.

 

[marcc5m]

My first username was altariaking, which was my title because before I joined, I thought having a level 100 made you the ultimate Trainer. I had a level 100 Altaria. Then I added king to make it sound cool. It didn't :\
Then when I made this account, I named it Fireworks because it's an awesome name and deserved to be used.

 

[Rainy Day]

I'm not sure. I just happen to love Rainy Days, and so I chose that as my name.

 

[Edsbob]

I'm am very interested in that story. For some weird reason.

Restrooms are always a good source of inspiration. You asked for it... THE WHOLE STORY. AHEM.

Spoiler:

I think it was a tender winter day at school. As teachers always liked to sadistically watch as children froze on half broken benches outside the building, there was no real way to get warm apart from hanging in the restroom; a place which no teacher would enter.

Being someone who hates the cold like bears hate poachers, we now switch to Edsbob, who was sitting in the first toilet cubicle of a particular restroom. As well as regretting poking thumb holes in the cuffs of the jumper being worn, I mentally cursed at the person who was stalling in the restroom having the longest chat known to mankind on their cell/mobile phone. By them doing so, I realised I couldn't hog the hand dryer to myself without uncouthly disrupting their three-class long conversation.

So I'm sitting there bored, staring at the ground wishing I had married a heater when I hear a miraculous noise; the person had most likely ended their conversation and was walking out the door. I looked straight at the door in hope. Then I see just one word. Etched haphazardly into the peeling teal paint;

"EDSBOB"

...I stare at it for a while. Is it a code name? Is it just the janitor being rebellious? Does someone actually have this name? I didn't know what it was. But all I thought was...

"I could use that."

I was so taken by this name that I had forgotten that I just missed the chance to utilise the warmth of the hand dryer, because the bell/siren had just gone off.

Since then, I use the name for Animals, for a nickname, for tests I don't have confidence in, for bots, my ever deceasing Tamagotchis (Edsbob, Eddy, Edie, Edsbob, Eds), Pokemon-- You name it. I knew the name 'Edsbob' was meant to be used without hesitation. I had even been suspected of being the one who had etched the word onto the door because of my usage of it at school.

'Edsbob' and the door-scratcher had won a special place in my heart. My Togekiss was called 'Edsbob' and he provided me with the rare victory. Then finally, I reach these forums. During registration, I blankly stare at the room door for ideas for my username. Deja Vu hits me like a sleeping Truckie hitting another sleeping Truckie on the highway.

This was meant to be. All for now...
Username: Edsbob

What? You didn't want to hear my life story? Of course you did, you sly crab! What? Shut up? ...Okay.

 

[NurseBarbra]

"Nurse Barbra" is the spiritual successor to one of my characters from a failed hack, Her name was Nayna and she had huge biceps. When I came back to hacking I went from the name "AnimeFTW" to "Mr.Silver", and I pulled out my old notebooks and found biographys I wrote for characters. I thought some of the Ideas a 14 year old me came up with were good so I recycled them for another hack, Blew up in my face entirely, but people who worked with me loved 4 characters, Nurse Barbra, Nanako, Chelsea and Merchant Oliver, So they were kept, and I wrote deeper backstory, I chose Barbra because she's the character I've came up with WAY BACK in 2008. Yep, Thats pretty much how Ms.Barbra Linsday with her murderous instincts, monobrow and stubble came about~

 

[Swanna ☆]

Swanna is one of my favorite Pokemon, but Swanna has been taken so I used Swanna ☆ instead. :>

 

[Shining Raichu]

Restrooms are always a good source of inspiration. You asked for it... THE WHOLE STORY. AHEM.

Spoiler:

I think it was a tender winter day at school. As teachers always liked to sadistically watch as children froze on half broken benches outside the building, there was no real way to get warm apart from hanging in the restroom; a place which no teacher would enter.

Being someone who hates the cold like bears hate poachers, we now switch to Edsbob, who was sitting in the first toilet cubicle of a particular restroom. As well as regretting poking thumb holes in the cuffs of the jumper being worn, I mentally cursed at the person who was stalling in the restroom having the longest chat known to mankind on their cell/mobile phone. By them doing so, I realised I couldn't hog the hand dryer to myself without uncouthly disrupting their three-class long conversation.

So I'm sitting there bored, staring at the ground wishing I had married a heater when I hear a miraculous noise; the person had most likely ended their conversation and was walking out the door. I looked straight at the door in hope. Then I see just one word. Etched haphazardly into the peeling teal paint;

"EDSBOB"

...I stare at it for a while. Is it a code name? Is it just the janitor being rebellious? Does someone actually have this name? I didn't know what it was. But all I thought was...

"I could use that."

I was so taken by this name that I had forgotten that I just missed the chance to utilise the warmth of the hand dryer, because the bell/siren had just gone off.

Since then, I use the name for Animals, for a nickname, for tests I don't have confidence in, for bots, my ever deceasing Tamagotchis (Edsbob, Eddy, Edie, Edsbob, Eds), Pokemon-- You name it. I knew the name 'Edsbob' was meant to be used without hesitation. I had even been suspected of being the one who had etched the word onto the door because of my usage of it at school.

'Edsbob' and the door-scratcher had won a special place in my heart. My Togekiss was called 'Edsbob' and he provided me with the rare victory. Then finally, I reach these forums. During registration, I blankly stare at the room door for ideas for my username. Deja Vu hits me like a sleeping Truckie hitting another sleeping Truckie on the highway.

This was meant to be. All for now...
Username: Edsbob

What? You didn't want to hear my life story? Of course you did, you sly crab! What? Shut up? ...Okay.

This is the most epic story I have ever read in my life. Oh my god.

 

[Charliezard]

Well, my name's Charlie and Charizard is a Pokemon, an awesome one at that. The 2 of 'em just fit together so well, so Charliezard was born (There's also that whole thing with L and R and Japanese but I didn't realise that until later...)

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

The Buick LeSabre, built from 1959 to 2005, was Buick's mainstream full size sedan. It was the best selling model in its class for over a dozen years and is an attractive, comfortable automobile. I like it quite a bit, and I was *slightly* obsessed with it around the time of my last username change, so there's the story behind that.

As for "Elite Overlord"... well, it just plain sounds epic. And I like things that make me sound epic.

 

[Ryoutarou]

My (current) username came from the main character in Kamen Rider Den-O. Have always been a fan of the main character and really just find myself liking the name quite a lot. (which is how I got a lot of my usernames, except for Blue, that was just random)

 

[Circuit]

Eh, back in the day, when I was obsessed with the Wariors series (by Erin Hunter) I changed my username to this, though just Firestar wasn't really inventive enough, so two asterisks sufficed. I kinda want to change it, but everyone knows I'm the Firestar now, so I'm reluctant to as well. Its alright, but not nearly as inventive as 'Careful with that Axe, Pichu!' XD

 

[RYOUKI]

RYOUKI. Came from Ryo + Yuuki = Ryouki, and no, those two aren't anime characters. I was really obsessed with japanese names back then and decided to merge my top 2 favorites. I capitalized it so it makes me stands out.

 

[BenjiTheKid]

My username is lame. But there is kind of a reason behind it. Kind of. When I was younger (like 13, 14), I was obsessed with "Billy the Kid" and since I call myself Benji (and most people do these days, now) my 13/14 year old mind came up with "benjithekid". It has stuck since.

 

[Hikamaru]

It's a very simple case.

Dawn is my favourite human character in the Pokemon franchise, Hikari is her Japanese name.

10 is the numeral for October, my birth month.

I originally had this name on Bulbagarden before eventually getting dumped like PlatinumDude did.

 

[Pokemon Trainer Touko]

Touko is my Japanese name and she is also my favorite Pokemon character. Simple. XD

 

[vaporeon7]

My favourite Pokemon is Vaporeon and 7 is a lucky number and it's my favourite.

 

[Ho-Oh]

Chris Brown's song, Forever.

Favourite song back in 2008, and then I changed to other usernames after that, then back to Forever which has remained ever since. It's considered my PC identity, really. Though I wouldn't mind changing to shadow_triad.

 

[Echidna]

well i was thinking at the time to starts a group, the Pokemon Extreme Dimensional Rift Operation (PEDRO), and make a hack called Pokemon Dimensional Rift, but then i went with pokemon legends. and 12 is my fav number (fav numbers are usually digits, but since number is, well a group of digits, i thought that 12 was appropriate, and it just sounds good, lol.

 

[Nelauk]

nelauk is the name of an orca whale in these stories i wrote. it was about this pod that lived in alaska.

it means "big wave" in orca language. XD

 

[FreakyLocz14]

"Freaky" was a nickname that an ex-bf gave me in 9th or 10th grade. "Locz" is a common thing to slap onto the end of a nickname in latino urban communities. 14 is how old I was when the nickname Freaky was bestowed upon me.