I'm just really curious why/how people chose their forum names.

I chose mine because Orannis is the villain in the Abhorsen series of books.

My last name, plus it sounds so cool: Blixxxxxt

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Hmm , good question , I guess I chose Phantom because that's what I use for pretty much everything. I could have probably gotten it without the numbers , but in everything else I end up having to use the numbers , so now I just use the numbers.

No clue, when i was creating it i was big on the word "resistance" and 205 goes back to the days when i still had a bebo account. I picked a name that wasn't available, so i tired adding 1 then 2 etc.. then eventually i just got bored and typed "205" and they just stuck

Because I would do anything for love.

But I won't do that.

Avida - i was wanting a new name and ive always liked short, unique names that sound good and have no numbers, i saw the advert for coldplay's album and lived the sound of the title, why not

Ah the Abhorsen series,Good times. Anyway I took my username from the nickname my older brother has called me by since...forever I suppose.

Iron Chef + Ninja = Iron Ninja.

Note: Not a metalic Ninja.

I just thought "The Iron Chef Ninja" was a bit to long.

Tacos and Ninjas rule, and I is secret...

It actually started off as SecretTacoNazi but I got sick of it, if my grandad saw it he probably would have killed me...

Mine is based off of a roleplay/comic character of mine... that's also a spin on my own name.

Mine is also based of a Role Play character of mine, plus it was given to me by a friend.

because I'm not very creative, and it's the best I could come up with at the time.

^{if someone can think up a better one I might change it it on the next forum I go to, it might even become my Xbox gamertag once I buy one of the blasted things.}

Jim = James
Doki = Japanese onimatapia for the sound of the beating heart. very much my personality

Molikroth was the pseudonym Mephistopheles, Archduke of Baator and ruler of Cania, used in a plot to exterminate disloyal minions. He staged a coup against himself, posing as "Molikroth", waited until everyone who was going to join had done so, and incinerated the lot of them.

I chose it because I work a lot like Mephistopheles. I copied the above plot to the letter in a text-based game I play, and liking how effective it was decided to use the name. Besides which his personality is pretty much the same as mine.

Wikipedia:
Mephistopheles displays to the public world a face of charm, wit, and civility; however, he is infamous for flying into rages when in private and hides a terrible temper from public view. He is a schemer and although he has told Asmodeus to his face that he will rule hell in Asmodeus' stead, the Lord of the Nine allows him to remain in his position due to his more extreme hatred for Baalzebul. His schemes are also always flamboyant and flashy. For example, before the Reckoning he adopted the persona "Molikroth" and disposed of Mephistopheles using this method to ferret out traitors, killing any who aided "Molikroth" during this time.

I also use a dozen or so other names in various sites.

Mine is German, it literally translates to; Dog of War.

This is the name I made when I made my first foray into online multiplayer at the ripe young age of 12 with Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Suffice it to say, I'm surprised all the other kids I find online these days are swearing, attention whoring pricks. I had a pretty good experiance online and with the community, and many people didn't even bother asking my age (I didn't use VOiP, but I probably acted really mature or something).

I used L's name from Death Note, because that guy is awesome, and then I just added 12 and 50 because L is the twelfth letter in the alphabet and 50 in Roman numerals is L.

meatloaf231:
Because I would do anything for love.

But I won't do that.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

It must have been while you were kissing me, you big flirt you.

Picked mine because I was looking up Amnesia in the dictionary and I thought Amnestic sounded cool. Kinda stuck.

I slammed my hand on the keyboard when trying to figure out a unique battle.net profile name... Gxas came up and it stuck.

its after my gamertag, but i chose my tag because my first account was banned and since I was starting again, you could say I was reborn, ala (my name) rebirth

needausername:
This topic has been done to death

has it? my bad. Got any thing useful to add?

The name black lincon originally comes from a story i told to my friends about the illegitimate son of Marry Tod. I like it so much I made it into my warcraft 3 user name and gained the nickname black. Being that I am whiter that anyone you have ever met, I found this very funny, so it next became my gamertag. At that time the story changed from 19th century bastard to quarter ninja, quarter pirate, half Italian with a genetic defect causing an abundance of melanin in his skin, who gained the name black lincon after stopping an illegal human smuggling operation in New York with his Neo like powers and master swordsmanship. The name black lincon was so synonymous with me I just brought it here.

Me thinks I though to much into this.

Mine's rather unimaginative... first name and last two initials...

Villian from Doctor Who, loved his paint job and was a total smart ass to the cybermen.

Always makes me think of General Song from Mercenaries.

I had an old T-Shirt that was an advertisment for Tijuana Tim's Surf Wax. A couple friends saw it and started calling me it, it kinda stuck ever since.

Honestly?

I took two of the coolest sounding words, and alliteration took care of the rest.

I'm was a transformers nut when I was a kid. Teletran 1 was the name of the autobot's computer. Since Teletran 1 & 2 were used on the shows, i used teletran3.

I chose my name because it's my generic gaming name...

Don't know how it came up, but i think i was playing some old MUD game years ago, and made some stupid dark-ish character and the first name that came up in my head was Gormourn...

So i m still using it in most games and some forums to this day.

Mine's a shortened version of the name of an AC (Armored Core) that I often use. Quite simply, it's 24.

Its Rockstar part from slightly different...
And in CAPS!

No reason, just nothing better came to mind