I think I've done this in other forums, but I just love hearing how other people came up with their pseudonyms. My personal favorite is Nicolas Cage, looking for seperation from his uncle Francis Ford Coppola, took the last name of Marvel Character Luke Cage.
Sep '20
Sep '20
"Lilith" is a variation upon my actual first name, while "Fairen" is an allusion to Claire "Lightning" Farron from Final Fantasy XIII, one of my favourite female characters in fiction.
A misspelling of Fennec foxes I made back in like..2002. Username just stuck. I ended up going by Art By Ashley later on though and that's a bit...self explanatory. 
Well. I go by Overlord Bao. My nickname in college was "Overlord" so I rolled with it here. (...that being a nickname IRL was and is not great.)
"Bao" is because my face is spectacularly round and it's been compared to a pork bun on many occasions by my partner. 
Hazumirein was some BS I pulled off of a Japanese-English dictionary site when I was like 12 because was a weeb and needed a username for my Neopets account. For some reason it stuck, though I usually go by Hazu or Hazuarts these days.
Liz/E.L. Louder is my actual first name/first+middle initial and a fake last name that I just liked the sound of. Mostly because no one can spell/pronounce my real last name...and also because I didn't want people I know IRL tracking me down online 
I like having flowers as my pseudonyms. The difficulty is finding the right flowers with their accompanied meanings to fit with the persona I wanted lol.
Ever since high school people called me "Gis" (spanish for chalk, spanish is my first language), and once I had a programming project at university, we had to make a blog in english, and I thought, "what if I come up with a pseudonym just for the lulz?", and so I thought of The Talking Chalk (initially "the talking chalk passing by" but damn is that name long!).
And I draw stuff as the Talking Chalk, so it fits well...
Still thinking of a proper avatar that isn't just a simple chalk with a face though.
Cherry is close to my given name. My given surname is a word found in natural, so Stark was a natural fit. Plus Tony Stark is one of my favorite characters.
I'm dyslexic and before the invention of spellcheck my spelling was atrocious. We're talking looking downright illiterate at times. I had several words that I always misspelled. Foto, traphic, carriot, and several others. When it came time to pick my name I decided to take one of those words I couldn't spell without the aid of spellcheck as a nod to my past because spellcheck has since trained my brain how to get them right 99% of the time though I still catch myself doing it wrong the other 1% and have to fix it. Thus Prisim was born.
You know that toucan pokemon from Sun and Moon, Toucannon? It was one of my favorite pokemon when the games were coming out and there's something funny to me that its beak can sort of explode whenever it gets angry. So I just put them together and boom, ExplodingToucans. Then I just shortened down to explode and that's what I've been using ever since.
My name here is "agunceto" which translates to "lamb" and it's a reference to my Zodiac sign - Aries, as well as the fact that my family used to give me plushy sheeps as presents.
"Springmaid",in the Tapas webside, comes from the fact that I am born in the spring(March) while "maid" comes from my name being that of the Roman goddes Diana.
If I may, "A" came from a comic book idea about the everyday life of an amateur author, who publishes his work on the web. He was also to be the mascot of an amateur webzine but which did not hold up.
And why the letter A? Because when I was looking for a name for my character, I was faced with the problem of wanting to make this character the representative of ... almost, all types of amateur content creators. And this whatever the sex. Suddenly, I thought of having two characters, instead of one. A man and a woman, who would form a duo of authors.
But what could their pen name be? I had in the idea of using the X and Y chromosomes, but it would be a little too specific, and especially not original at all.
And in the end, I don't remember why, but I thought about the letters of the alphabet, and the expression: "from A to Z". This made me think of the word "author" which in my language begins with the letters "A", whether it is written in the feminine or the masculine. So I ended up adopting the nickname, of A. The signed in front is just a reference to the signature at the end of a letter or at the beginning of an article, etc. My nickname itself is A.
P.S. : Later ... well, not long ago, I discovered that my nickname was even brighter and more meaningful than I thought. Because not only does the word "author" begin with the letter "A", but the words: Amateur and Artist, too.
More than anything it's a play on words with "wandering albatross" (which are amazing birds), but also a reference to me being a bit of a dork
My name is Margarita and Mag is a short form. and Margarita Navarra (valoit), queen of France and Navarra is my historical idol for no reason ))) also it feels like somethig gaelic and also has ma-n-owar vibes lol
When I was looking to change my old username to a new one I wanted something that sounded vaguely like a real name while also not being too much like a real name, to kind of hit that middle ground of professional. I also wanted a name that represented both art and writing. Eventually I stumbled on Artem Ficta, meaning the Art of Fiction in Latin.
My username "Alexandritea" is based on a character which is present in my most recent comic. She is a robot with a human soul, created by a mad scientist long, long ago.
Her soul rests inside an Alexandrite crystal, which was once given to her. She derived her name from there, but decided to give it a little twist at the end to "feminize" it and make it into more of a name in a sense.
(For certain pages where they require a last name, I decided upon "Winter". I was thinking about a relatively common last name that I had some kind of connection to. I am born in winter, and I absolutely detest it. So Winter it is 
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My actual name is Sarah, so there's that lol But no for McSquish, in college my last name seemed to stump literally every teacher. I gave up and just put Mc on everything, and later a joke about something or other being squishy lead to McSquish. I now have people who genuinely think that's my last name.
and I really like willow trees so I just went with it
