mega thread Why you chose your user name.

[Jaxsie (Inactive) 1,343]

My original username was RainbowJaxs16. It's a combination of Rainbow Dash and AppleJack. My name was going to be Appledash, but then I realized that was a shipping name. No, no -- and no! That wasn't going to work. So I thought of how to combine the names without people thinking I ship them. The second draft was born: RainbowJacks. But it's still a shipping name Then I had a lightbulb moment and changed "Jacks" to "Jaxs." And Kazzam! -- RainbowJaxs.

 

My current name is a nickname a user named Sir Cal Stonehoof gave me that I really liked; so I decided to changed my name to Jaxsie.

[Lisa 5,553]

It's a play on words of a singer's name.

I just really like it.

[~Lola bunny~ 56]

I thought it sounded cute mainly, and because I love babies, human and pony ones (Pumpkin and Pound  )

 

Love for all the little ones ^^

[Xiflelin 72]

From RWBY, Pyrrha Nikos' weapons Milo and Akouo.

 

First of all, I love RWBY. More specifically, Pyrrha Nikos, and I thought her weapon was absolutely cool. So, I looked on the RWBY wiki in the early days, and saw that the type of weapon they were was a "xiflelin", which was a combination of a xiphos, a rifle, and a javelin. I thought that name was so unique that I just started using it, and it stuck really well.

[power strike 198]

i figured it would be unique lol.

[Mr Unknown 132]

I got my name by thinking "well, I like the show, but want to stay mysterious about it so my friends IRL don't find out." 

...

That's pretty much it XD

[NullAccount 287]

At the time that I made this account my favorite pony was Fluttershy. I chose fly because it rhymes with shy, and is a form of flutter. 761 is just the number that I use for anything that has three digits.

[dyziomon 19]

i got my "username" back when i was just a little kid with computer earlier it was just Dyzio but when i was creating my first account

it was taken so my 8 year old pea brain decided to add suffix mon idk where it came from but hey nobody else haves my username its bit of like trademark of me since then

[Hazy Skies 1,010]

I usernames I've been know by have been through multiple iterations..

 

My first I got when I started playing Minecraft, I wanted to be shadowfox, because I liked foxes and it sounded cool (plus my dog's name was Shadow )

but it wasn't available, I tried small variations but it didn't work.. I tried about 6 times but then I got mad and quickly typed a bunch of random numbers, and at the time there was no verification system for MC accounts to check if it was available..

So after I pressed enter I was stuck with "shadowfox9356493" xD

 

About a year later I got sick of all the numbers, which I had memorized from typing them so much so i decided to get a new account with a different username, after some careful thinking I ended up with "ALPHAshadowfoxMC" which I liked.. It included my older username, but with ALPHA to make it sound cooler and MC to make it more fitting and stuff.. And this particular username is where my "username using uppercase and lowercase characters to separate words" thing began

 

I stuck to that for about 2 years when I thought it'd be better to have a shorter name and stuff, something that is more unique and recognizable.. So after a lot of thinking I was gonna Choose AURAlupis (as in AURA + lupis (the genus or scientific name for wolf)) but it didn't sound cool enough, and as the previous 2 accounts I had fox in them I though "That's the genus for fox?" and it was "vulpes" and I thought "AURAvulpes.. yeah! that sounds perfect :D" and so AURAvulpes was born, and I still have that username to this day..

 

When I joined this forum I thought I'd like to vary my name a little to keep the same username but something more fitting for the MLP forums.. I was going to go with AURAequus (Equus being the genus for horse-like animals including Horses, Asses, and Zebras) but It didn't sound that good, but then I thought of "AURAequine" then i was like "PERFECT!" and I also still have this username as I'm typing this comment thingy

 

To sum that up:

 

shadowfox9356493

 \/  \/  \/  \/  \/  \/  \/

ALPHAshadowfoxMC

\/  \/  \/  \/  \/  \/  \/

AURAvulpes + AURAequine

(Though in either case I am commonly referred to as "AURA" )

Edited November 22, 2015 by AURAequine

[LunaDream 331]

The reason why I chose my username is probably pretty self-explanatory. I love Princess Luna, and I have always kind of thought a cool quality to have would be going into other's dreams to help them. 

Edited November 22, 2015 by LunaDream

[Night Silent 93]

I picked my username, because I was trying to figure out a name for my mlp oc, and randomly thought of the Christmas song "Silent Night". I figured that would not be a good name, so I reversed it, and here it is now.

Edited November 22, 2015 by Night Silent

[Eipeiknip15 12]

I chose my username because my favorite pony is Pinkie Pie and I was born on the 15th, and I couldn't think of anything else, so my username is just Pinkie Pie spelled backwards with 15 at the end.

[Vulcan 3,254]

Well, when I was a kid

I didn't have all that many friends...

but don't get me wrong, I'm actually the kind of person who enjoys solitude.

Anyways I imagined a world of stories and fairy tales 

centred around different worlds,

One of those stories in particular

had a protagonist named Vulcan peace, an Aévean, who sacrificed his life to end a horrid war.

I've liked that name so much that I've used it ever since

Edited November 23, 2015 by Vulcan

[cmarston1 5,959]

I don't know.

It was just something simple and easy for me to remember.

[StormLantern the 1st 427]

I'm not even going to talk about the 10+ usernames I've used in the past.

 

Back when I first joined the fandom, I wanted a username that could also be used for an OC, so I came up with Storm Lantern. That, of course, was taken, so I added The First, since I dislike xXusernameXx and username[randomnumber]. It doesn't always work (usually because of length), so in various places I am Storm1st, 1stStormLantern, Storm Lantern, Storm the First, and a few others.

[pook 37]

I saw a Filthy Frank video about bad Internet rappers and he used a character named "pooky" 

I thought it was funny so I stuck with it and I actually do raps with the name "P Dot," lol

[ILikeNightmares 163]

Because I love nightmares. I love it when I dream nightmares, it is so fun to be running through a green hallway full of pipes being chased by dark smokey figures. But Equestria dreams are the true bae, no doubt about that. 

[mccuish1525 55]

Mccuish was a nickname given to me by some friends.

[Primarch Fulgrim 163]

I use two usernames (The one you see here for pony and warhammer stuff and MAniACK_Magee for gaming) So I will explain both.

I've been using my gaming one for longer so it's explanation will be longer.

 

For Fulgrim, I started out as TheRainbowDashNinja because of a picture I found, but it seemed too generic. So I decided to take the name of my favorite character from the WH40k universe and use it instead. (Short explanations of the universe on my profile)

 

For MAniACK_Magee, I started out as HitlersCookBook, but I got tired of being banned from servers, and I changed it to Maniac Magee because of the book by Jerry Spinelli, but put in capital letters and an underscore for added autism. (People never pronounce it right on the first try and 95% call me Mage Magee) I had just joined a regiment on Mount and Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars and the name stuck because of how I act in certain situations. (MAniACK is a maniac! Was the coined term for me)

[Bogrick Grey Mane 2,594]

It was a nickname an old friend gave me years ago. Because My name is Richard {rick}, and that fact that I live in the middle of a peat bog in Ireland, Hence Bogrick

[redshell 195]

It's the name of my OC, and a nickname p

[3Dode 55]

My username was based off a poorly made army men game I used to play when I was bored.

[Clawdeen 15,066]

 

This gif pretty much explains why I chose this username

[Elysia 269]

Just made it up, super similar to my actual name

[@lpha 41]

My username is just what i prefer to be called on the internet, except the A in "Alpha" is replaced with an @