Every name tells a story, what's yours?

[Rhonder]

Mine was an due to a turn of events tied to a MMO I started playing back around 2008~09. On forums where I would roleplay back then, I would usually enter the name "Raguna" because it was the name of the main character from my story at the time and I would usually roleplay that character.

Then a few years later my friends invited me to try this MMO called La Tale, and I figured "cool I'll play as Raguna :D" so I went through the character creation process and got the character looking how I wanted then I get to the part afterwards where you have to enter a name and... bam, name taken.

So I had to take a step back and think of something else. I ended up settling on "Rhonder" which was the main jerky rival character in my story. But I left the MMO Character's appearance looking like Raguna lol After that I just started using Rhonder everywhere as I found that it was often available and the name grew on me~

[TheOne]

I'm the King of the world. It's as simple as that.

[redfrombluelife]

I'm the King of the world. It's as simple as that

Might rename myself as UniverseEmpireRuler to fit that logic.
Hahahahaha

[spadedigsbutts]

HAAHAHAHAHA WEEEEELLLL

My name has always had some variation of spade, even since high school since that was my favorite playing card suite. Usually I’d combine it with things but as I talked to more people online more and more were just like “oh Spade like the garden hand trowel?” And eventually I just gave in. The most recent iteration was jokingly said by a friend for my new username since I always make butt jokes so....now it’s SpadeDigsButts.....puns

[TheOne]

Well well well, why am I not surprised. Only you would do something so petty.

You can't handle the fact that there's someone higher than you.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[ar-ninetysix]

Initials and birthyear, but I feel like the period or dash or underscore (depending on the site) between both is super symbolic

[PapaDom]

Well, mine isn´t that original, to be honest.
The Papa- part is because I look older than most of my friends (I´m 25, but I look like I could be 37). And the -Dom part is well just the first three letters of my name.

[Conrad_Os]

It's just my name if I was a cereal

[Luminosophy]

I like screen names that are just purely random, but can still stick out as something memorable. I got 'Spudfuzz' from the movie 'Hot Fuzz', just played with it till I landed on Spudfuzz lol.

[Luminosophy]

[carloswebcomic]

No. Not every name has a story.

[Rasp]

Just because its not a very good story doesn't mean it doesn't have one.

for example I had a friend who tended to grab the username 'Raspbry' where ever he could. once we were both signing up for this forum and I created the username 'Raspbryl' as a joke. I really ended up liking it and it stuck. After a while people pretty much only knew me as 'Rasp' and that's what I go by pretty much everywhere.

See that story is terrible! I haven't even spoken to the guy I stole it from in YEARS. It's still a story through.

[carloswebcomic]

Just because its not a very good story doesn't mean it doesn't have one.

My name is Carlos. I draw webcomics.
I'm not going to win a Noble prize of literature any time soon.

[Rasp]

My name is Carlos. I draw webcomics.

That's the spirit~!!

[nrgcomics]

Our name is reference to our publishing company, NRG Comics. Our goal is to create the next big superhero universe! We actually have out latest issue 0 here on Tapas:

Zener: Master of the Mind :: Zener: Master of the Mind Issue 0 | Tapas

And we'll be doing a Indiegogo for the first follow in a few weeks.

[Zemoore]

Mine is based off my first OC like ever. I Used his name as a pen name for sometime on other novel sites but i wanted something more poppy for comics.

So on books it was down a Z. Moore. Now I go by Zemoore.

[Possum]

I'm really obsessed with American animals. I'm from the UK but used to live in Romania and honestly, despite coming into contact with bears and wolves and my family owning a wolfdog, I really just love Possums. They're so damn cute, like yeah they look like rats, but they're just so cute.

Also they're really misunderstood creatures, they kill tics, they can't have rabies, they're incredibly docile and refuse to bite people. They also carry their babys on their back and it's just the cutest thing.
Racoons are cool too because they have that attitude, but possums are just yeah, cute as heck!

[MK_Wizard]

Honestly, they were pre-existing characters in the original cast, but then, I researched common names in London, England back in the Victorian age in Jekyll and Hyde.

[Nail]

My actual name actualy means "The one who owns the world" but this is a widely spread misconception since in old Slavic the word for "world" actually has second meaning which is "a word", "an agreement", so technically my name means "the one who keeps his word/ fulfills the agreement". I use a variation of my actual name as a surdo name in some of my accounts. And about "Nail"... When I was at uni I've found a handforged nail at remnanats of old landowner masions (built about at 1890's, I believe) so I made a necklace with that nail and some people began to call me Nail. This was the nick name I used when started publishing my writing the first time a loong time ago (in my time scale).

[ivanskilling]

My current ID is a pen name: Ivan Skilling.

For me, it was a matter of choosing a pen name that would fit the genre (thrillers and science fiction) and my book material (Also had to choose a male-sounding name which is not my gender! ). I think I went through a couple of iterations and googled each pen name to see whether someone already had it. In the end, I think someone did have this name but they weren't famous. So I settled with it.