Origin of Username

My name, mixed up with an 'x' added in.

It's a corruption of the name of a video game character in a game that I've never played.

I ... do not recall when I started going by "They Call Me Tomu." Huh.

I used to use Traian Resident and Marcus The Dramatic, both references to Trai Universe, the fantasy setting I've been working on FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS <twitch>

The Dresden Files.

Forzare is a spell Harry Dresden uses to conjure invisible force.

Kingdom Hearts.

The bad guys in Chain of Memories and II, Organization XIII, all have names that are an anagram of my old name with an "X" added. E.g. "Lea" becomes "Axel". I pretty much did that with my real first name. This is also why my usual avatar is an Org XIII cloak.

Sheila's my name, and Starlight, idk, I just like stars. XD

I saw Yojimbo in High School and was fascinated with the fact that the main character didn't have a name. Been using it ever since.

I am a huge nerd when it comes to mythology, so I named myself after Momus, the Greek god of sarcasm, criticism and writers. (Momus is about as close to a god of snark as you can get.)

I added "Lady" to the front of it, so no one would get confused about my gender. You know, for the five or six people who would recognize the name of an obscure Greek god and mistake me for a guy.

edited 5th Jun '11 2:10:49 PM by LadyMomus

Couldn't decide between The Savage and The Heathen, so I slapped'em both together.

Because it was the username assigned to me at school. At some point later on, one of my friends derided someone else's use of their assigned username as an internet handle. Mine got stuck in my head when thinking up my own internet handle, so it stuck.

Glad to see I'm not the only who used their Nobody name as their username.

For the guy in Final Fantasy VII who did the good things for the bad reasons, and somehow saved a lot of people and got the Big Bad to be vulnerable (you may be a cool white-haired pretty boy with billion fangirls, but when put against a BFG from a Mega Corp, you do like everyone else, and piss your pants).

And, he was a guy who really knew how to die (cause AC never existed :-P): facing a Beam Spam without flinching at a single moment.

My utter lack of ability to make good usernames.

I couldn't think of anything, and I remembered the episode of The Simpsons where Bart uses the pseudonym "Santos L. Halper" and used that.

I was going to choose Inhopeless, but some jerk-off stole that. So I added 'guy' and voila!

I saw Inhopeless on a poster, while on holiday in Bangladesh. Obviously, English isn't a first - or second - language for many there, but I understood the message.

In - meaning 'opposite of', and hopeless - meaning 'without hope'.

Altogether, that makes 'the opposite of hopeless', therefore, I am always with infallible hopefulness.

I was reading a Sandman comic as I registered, and "Matthew the Raven" is close to my real name if you translate it and change the species of bird.

Dan = My name.

Eile = Irish for "Other" or "Another". Pronounced "elleh" or "ella", for reference.

Therefore, Dan Eile; "Other Dan". It's imperfect, grammatically speaking, but it was a nickname given to me once and I was rather attached to it.

edited 18th Jun '11 10:33:12 AM by DanEile

I've used this user name for over ten, thirteen years. It all started when I traveled to Washington, DC for freshman orientation at American University, and to visit one of my aunts who lived in the DC suburb of Falls Church, VA. I was a pack a day smoker, so three days for orientation, three days of visiting family and travel, I needed to take six packs.

I was running late, which is unusual for me, on my way to the airport, so I just threw a carton of cigarettes in my backpack and went on my way.

On the first night of orientation I was hanging out with some guys who would later become my closest college friends, when one of them ran out of smokes. I pulled out the carton, opened it up and gave the guy a pack. They found it pretty damn funny that someone would bring a carton of cigarettes to a three day orientation, and started calling me the "cigarette smoking man", like the character from the X-Files. Later that night, after the joke had grown in proportion, it was shortened to the Cancerous Man, then to Cancer Man.

We exchanged contact information and when I got home I tried to get a cancerman AOL IM name, but it was taken, yet cancerlad was not. Thus cancerlad.

For my obsession with the Shinra Electric Power Company as a whole. My favorite villains in all the final fantasy games to date. Sephiroth is overrated.

Well, I actually made an account for Sooper, because it is a different way of spelling Super. But, I forgot my password for that account. So, I made a new account using one of my older, already memorized passwords and instead chose Coopor, because my real name starts with a C.

edited 18th Jun '11 7:22:50 PM by Coopor

mass murder spelled backwards...

I should have added a " " but I didn't and now I'm stuck with it.

Not that I have any experience with this issue.

edited 20th Jun '11 7:04:50 AM by ssamredrum

I thought it was a name of a fuzzy little animal that sounded cool.

wiki walk. I went until I got something I liked.

Alfric is the name of my favorite character from the story The Book With No Words. It's an obscure enough name that most people wouldn't get the reference, but it fits as a small, simple, memorable name.

edited 20th Jun '11 1:30:14 PM by Alfric

Victorian but with a Vy instead of a Vi.

Sidenote: All these nobodies got me thinking - Tyoxvicran

edited 20th Jun '11 2:23:38 PM by Vyctorian