mega thread Why you chose your user name.

[DragonAria 314]

Well, I love dragons, especially the pokémon Dragonair, and I also love music, so I mixed it all up

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Everybody calls me V. That's pretty much it.

[Sommar 1,289]

I've had several username changes, but I'm only going to mention the one I have now.

 

MissBookworm doesn't have a long backstory. I love books, so I'm a bookworm. And I put "miss" in my username because I'm a girl. That's all there is to it really.

[DubWolf 17,254]

Aside from the seasonal usernames:

 

Wingin'Wolf: I like flying, so I thought of putting something like "wings" in the name (but not winged wolf).

 

Super80 Wolf: my favorite airplane (super 80) plus Wolf. Not a bad name for a while.

 

SparkWolf: I wanted a name similar to my special somepony's, so I changed my name to SparkWolf for her .

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

Senatus Romanus! It is Latin for "The Roman Senate"

[Sonic Shimmer 4,131]

When I first signed up here my username was SonicRainboom27 which is the most generic username ever.

 

During Christmas 2014 a lot of my friends were changing their usernames to be Christmas themed so I changed mine to Sonic Reindeer.

 

I decided to keep it after Christmas because I liked it more than my old generic username.

[capnlatenight 30]

Capnlatenight.

 

Cap'n Late-Night

 

Captain Late-Night

 

I stay up late.

[A Black Circle 1,586]

ooBrony = my nickname oob + brony C:

I like calling you ooby

 

Username stands for Flinchy Elbow.

 

Because I have a very flinchy elbow.

[EquestriaGuy 1,074]

My username is a statement about the oligarchy in America, and also world hunger. it also means "pizza" on Beta Reticuli 7. 

[Wind Chaser 4,768]

Wind Chaser was referred to me by @Sunny Fox. The name came to symbolize a nihilistic worldview and a striving after the unattainable, illustrated in the Bible passage Ecclesiastes 2:11:

 

"Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind, nothing was gained under the sun."

[Lacerna 1,302]

Fallentrench-

 

I was in love with the band Mariana's Trench so much when I was 12-13 ish? I was making a tumblr name and I was like..what goes good with trench? Then I saw someone with the name with fall in there, and I was like, Fallentrench! It's been around for a good time now!

[PlunderSteed 1,252]

Earlier this year I merged a couple of my online identities, which effectively meant this account (which I've used since 2012) was absorbed into "PlunderSteed", which is the identity I use for my MLP-related music, voice acting and dramatic readings.

 

That said, I chose this name in late 2013 as a reference to the Plunder Seeds of S4E01/02.  I added a "t" so that it had a more distinctive masculine feel, and to make it a unique combination of letters, which is important from a "branding" standpoint.  Everything from Dethklok to Froot Loops follows the same advertising principle.

[Shady23 175]

As a kid my best friends aunt always called me Shady Shaun. Apparently I always looked like I was up to something and it had a nice ring to it. When I got older I became a Eminem fan so when I made my PSN username when I got the ps3 on release I had no clue what to use as a name. So I thought to myself I would use my childhood nickname since the whole Slim Shady thing reminded me of it. So I went with Shady23 and used it for just about everything. 23 is my favorite number so that's where that part came from.

[Lisa 5,553]

It's French for "Colour."

 

I thought I'd do everyone a favour and bring colour to their lives. I mean, life would be boring without colour right? But if you're wondering about the origin, most people would probably think it's new and recent considering I change my name a lot, but this name is actually one of my oldest internet aliases. 

 

Back in 2010 (I think it was, I can't even remember), I needed a username for this online game called Megoland. My friends and I used to play it... in fact I think everyone in my grade played it around then. lol. Anyway, back then I considered myself pretty artistic, I'd win all art contests in my school and everyone from my friends, family to teachers said I was exceptionally good at art. So I was thinking of an artistic-sounding name, and the most prominent word that came to my mind was "Colour."

 

And that's how I got the name Colour, although I only translated it into French recently because I'm obsessed with anything French. ;p

[ChikaChan 7,323]

Well I like the light coming from the moon,it look so beautiful like this

[Cosmik Vek 764]

Here the anatomy of my username

 

Obliveon: When i wanted to change my username I was thinking of Oblivion but then I taught about one of my favorite Metal bands from Quebec, Obliveon

Br0ny: Since I could call myself a brony then, I just decided to put brony in it, but I then chose to change the o for a 0 to fit with the thematic of my username

[PrincessDiscord 14]

Princess, a reference to my 2 Hub network usernames, PrincessCrystalPony36, and PrincessTwistedChaos36.

Discord- My favorite character.

May you Rest In Piece HubNetwork!

[Horse 63]

I am Horse.  Neigh.

Enough said.

[DashYoshi 9,565]

DashYoshi: The name is a combination of Yoshi, my favorite character, and Rainbow Dash, to fit in with the MLP theme.

[Time Shield 402]

I like things relating to time travel, and Time Shield sounded like the kind of name a pony would have if his talent was protecting the timeline.

[Gernia 691]

Mine is named after Gernia from Yu-Gi-Oh! It's not a great card, but I love the name and the design of the monster. It may seem hideous, but I find it to be a beautiful kind of hideous.

 

[Guest90210 3,568]

My favorite game of all time is World of Warcraft. I have spent an unhealthy amount of time playing it. It's a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned.

 

I've adventured through all of the game's race's starting zones, and the one that interested me the most was the Death Knight's. I've gone through it at least a dozen times on different characters because of how fascinating the lore and quests are. One of the characters in this questline is named Baron Rivendare. I first encountered him in Stratholme (before the Wrath of the Lich King expansion), where you slay him for a quest to save what is essentially a hostage. Then, he is resurrected by the Lich King and helps your newly created Death Knight along his/her path of doom.

 

After the opening zone, he retreats to Naxxramas and becomes one of the new "Four Horsemen". I was drawn to his character because of his design, and his pure insanity. He is lethally committed to the Lich King and will stop at nothing to achieve his sinister goals. He's awesome.

 

 

 

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This was even the first avatar I used on the forums after switching my name to "Rivendare" a few days after joining:

 

[Bright Bastion 241]

My name I'd obviously from my OC, but he's sort of more than just that. When I first got into roleplaying, I played on wow as a younger character named rellenor, and I met so many people that I cherished deeply through it. And maybe that sense and love of friendship was why mlp resonated with me so much. I mean the show sort of reminds me of those days where my time was spent in a magical land making friends and even learning about losing friends. And also making that character, rell, opened up my creativeness too. I owe a lot of who I am today to wow and rell.

 

So there was a while between I started watching mlp and when I stopoed roleplaying on mmos and junk. But when my brother introduced me to it, a little bit of rell came back to me. So when I joined the site I decided that my name would have to do with rell in some way. So I got stumped and decided to work him into an oc. Bright and bastion came up in different names in a name generator so I put them together and that was my name.

 

Rivendare

Both of us have names with deep roots in wow huh? Lol. I knew we would be friends!

[skbl17 199]

So, my username is skbl17. At first glance, it seems like a random string of letters and numbers, but there's an actual meaning behind it. To see it, we have to break down "skbl17" into two parts.

 

skbl17 = skbl + 17

 

The skbl is short for "school bus lover" (if you want to know why it's then not "scbl" instead of "skbl", it has to do with Gmail.) When I was younger, I was a school bus enthusiast. I was fascinated by these giant yellow vehicles that are given the monumental task of getting millions of students to and from school every day. You could say that I became a bit obsessed; I had several school bus models, owned a red notebook full of school bus drawings, and could name almost every brand of school bus (IC, Thomas, AmTran, Ward, Blue Bird, etc.) and could even tell what year they were from just by looking at the exterior and listening to the engine note. I'm not like that anymore, but I can't deny the fact that I was an enthusiast. Looking back on those days, I will admit that it was an odd phase of my life, but it was just as much a part of me as black hair and glasses.

 

The 17 is much simpler. That's how old I was when I created this account and my "skbl17" accounts on all related websites.

Edited March 21, 2015 by skbl17

[Steel Accord 6,660]

I was oft told the pen is mightier than the sword. I always got annoyed at that. 

 

"Yeah, say that when the blade is to your throat." I thought. The phrase sounded so condescending. It was always uttered by people who would never stand for anything. To those speakers, danger was always something far away and they preferred it that way. Not to say I wished violence and strife to be visited upon me, but if such does, I'm not going to throw my hands up in surrender and let red tape save me after the aggressor has made me a victim.

 

Later in life, I discovered a work called The Book of Five Rings written by Samurai and greatest swordsman to have ever lived, Miyamoto Musashi. My favorite quote from that work is,

 

"The pen and sword, in equal accord."

 

That made so much more sense to me! If the pen represented art, communication, expression and the sword represented physical action then it was my belief one needed both. Strength without direction is destruction, but knowledge without strength is impotence.

 

Swords are made out of steel so I took the phrase and turned it into my username and ponysona name.

 

Steel Accord. 

Edited April 11, 2015 by Steel Accord