How did you come up with your pen name?

[joe_galindez]

. . . Anmar-ree? . . .

[Mari]

Try reading it as if you were reading romanji fast I'm not very good with english phonetics

[craicin]

irish slang for good, GREAT GRANDSURE.
stemmed from a character name, who people thought i was/looked like because i used them as a display picture throughout my internet life/career

[ashersz]

been my nickname forever lol. My uncle used to see me and sing "ashes, ashes and it all falls down" (my real name is ashley) and my young self would sing and fall to the ground lol. Ashes evolved to ashersz and well here i am

[CalixLucas]

Kingdom Hearts is the best! That's the reason I added the X to my name

[Jabbage]

Argh, me too. Those things terrified me as a kid in the best way.

[SpavVy]

Mine is just a nickname my friends have been calling me since high school.

[SoFt]

Hey hey! Guess I get to join the club =P . I use my real name on my novel 'cause it's cool enough, but I got my username by combining the Latin name of my Zodiac sign and a portion of my Nobody name, Noxomols. I've used the latter by itself as a screen name for over a decade now, I think. The ScorpiusNox merger is only a year or two old.

[CalixLucas]

Were both Scorpios! Scorpio pride!

[joe_galindez]

Scorpios are hard to raise tho. So demanding.

[CalixLucas]

I wasn't that bad, I was the only child. But I was so annoying, my god my voice.

[SoFt]

I'll have you know that I was a delightful angel of a child! Sometimes I wish I hadn't been, but I turned out a'ight =P .

[MatthewDavidGonzales]

Couldn't come up with a pen name, so I just used my real one.

[ziplequick]

I am just that fast.

[Heliox14]

You know, this username was a name I used for an Internet-chatroom type story. It was about "Heliox" and "S3M3L3", just talking and chatting about life's little (and big) problems and stuff, while enjoying each other's company.
Then, as that story became another story to add in the pile of unfinished stories, I decided to use that username.
Here's hoping I'll find my S3M3L3.

[stevendeluxi]

My username isn't actually far off my actual name. I wanted to go just by "Luxi" first, the nickname I had in school, derived from my last name (Lux), but I thought it's too common and also taken by most websites so I had to add something to it.
"Steven" is basically my actual first name (Stefan) in English, because I think it just sounds better (for some reason I just don't like how "Stefan" is pronounced in English compared to German). And the "De" in the middle is just there so everything rolls off the tongue better

[Rayenae]

Technically my name is my real name, but I use my middle name. I started using it as a username everywhere because it's so unusual that it's guaranteed to be available, lol. Except twitter for some reason. I nearly went through an existential crisis when I realized there was already a "rayenae" on twitter.

[joevallen3]

Lost a kid during pregnancy with my ex. Was going to name him "Vallen" so I adopted "Joe Vallen" to signify the transfer in my paternal side to my creations...

[joe_galindez]

I'm sorry. How do you say that?

[joevallen3]

My pen name? 'val-en'