What made you choose your pen name?

[DarkSena]

My artistic name DarkSena I'm using was originally created back in early 2006. There was a character who's name was Sena and his story was so close to mine that I took this name as mine however... also the same year I wanted to join a forum and that name was already taken SO I was so utterly creative right so I had to improvise with an alternative and that's how I happened to create the name I've been using ever since

[RiidDisBuk3]

Ironically, the name RiidDisBuk (Read-Dis-Book) comes from being predictable in Smash Bros games. As in people reading me like a book.

I use the name everywhere I go on social media. And now that I am using the name to write books, people are gonna take me for a book lover. Which I am, but it's not where the name derives from if that makes sense

[thepenmonster]

My favorite camera is the Olympus Pen EE2. A half frame camera from the 1960s. The pictures look like something half remembered.

But it's really difficult these days to find one where the meter is still working so I haven't been able to use one for many years now.

[cherrystark]

For a couple years, I had heart trouble so Stark became a good surname for me.

[Katzalcoatl]

I feel conflicted giving a heart to your comment.

On one hand, I like how you took a bad situation with good humor and now it's your strength.
On the other, I don't like giving a heart to the part that you had a heart problem for years.

[abigaillmartin]

I got my name from the planet I created called Cila which was the name of the main planet of the aliens in my first story Go Omega which was the foundation of the worlds I created.

Cila

I got the number 17 from my coach from high school who said the number 17 was the best number in the world. He had a quote on his wall that said, “The number 17 is responsible for insight, compassion and a desire for peace and love for humanity.”

Don’t know why specifically but it just stuck with me so I used the number 17.

Cila-17

[candiedcotton]

Ironman is the best.

(I simp over Tony Stark don't hate me).

Ahem.

I fully support this.

[InfiniteLine]

My author pen name is the name of one of the first characters I wrote for a failed novel who was basically a self-insert/I-want-to-be-you character... hah... Use the name kind of as an inspiration and reminder that I can be who I want to be and not limited by the low confidence I restrict myself with.

My pen name on here is just a geometry joke because I'm a dork and it sounds kinda cool. It's a circle.... an infinite line is just a circle. I wanted to do something with circles because I think they represent my style of storytelling well. I like to have themes from the very beginning show up again at the end.

[cherrystark]

It's fair. I'm in a much better place health-wise now so my is behaving itself. Stark's my reminder to keep fighting.

[AxemanRifflord]

I got my name from my ability to do stuff like this:

(I feel like Adam West Batman naming every account “Axeman Rifflord” and I just realized someone else already used the name...)

[river121693]

"River" comes from my Vietnamese middle name "Ha" which means "soft like a slow overflowing river" which is something Ive been trying to be more of in recent years

[delladz]

Stolen from a dnd character! from there i shortened to a nickname and yeah thats how im known in artist circles now lol

[MarcelotheProducer]

My pen name is MarcelotheProducer. I technically just go by Marcelo but I decided on "the Producer," aspect because I needed a username longer than just Marcelo.

I delve into all sorts of art forms, not just drawing, so "the producer" part of my name fits.

My name is Marcelo and I produce art, so the name is "MarcelotheProducer." Pretty simple but I think it's a catchy name! Lol

[Hipiticus]

I used to watch ownage pranks on youtube a lot, something one of the characters used to say alot was hippity hopitus. I turned that into Hipiticus cause I liked how it sounded

[XiuLyn_12]

I created my pen name when I was in Junior High School, so I didn't give much thought to making something that has meaning to it.
It's honestly just a combination of my name and a KPOP idol I used to like, haha! I've always wanted to change it, but people already recognized the name, so I guess I'm keeping it...

[MarsKittyLuna]

My name Mars comes of course from my love of the roman/Greek god of war, I have an oc named Mars as well and his last name Luna is the Latin name for moon, I love space. As for kitty my oc is also a Japanese cat god of fortune, whether good or bad doesn't matter. I was young when I made him and his whole family story up but maybe one day I'll write it out into a novel

[MarsKittyLuna]

That's so amazing my sister in laws first name is Ha I didn't know it meant river that's so beautiful

[TheLemmaLlama]

My pen name on here is just a geometry joke because I'm a dork and it sounds kinda cool. It's a circle.... an infinite line is just a circle. I wanted to do something with circles because I think they represent my style of storytelling well. I like to have themes from the very beginning show up again at the end.

Eyy, fellow person whose pen name references math!

What is the history behind your username?

I got into math and wanted to start a math channel, which I named TheLemmaLlama (a 'lemma' is basically an oddly specific theorem that has no interest or use beyond proving a more interesting theorem, and it sounds kind of like 'llama') I'm no longer interesting in being a math youtuber, but I still think the handle is neat, so I've decided to keep it

[CloudyMagpie]

Cloudy to represent my daydreamy, head in the cloud personality, and magpie because I love birds, and those little guys don't get as much love as crows, jays, and other corvids (which I also love)

[Lensing]

I have various artist names for my musical projects, I use my real name when I draw comics
but I don´t have a writer pen name because I didn´t need one so far. I´m in the middle of writing
a book and I´m thinking about giving myself a pen name or using my real name for it, I´m really
not sure about it