mega thread Why you chose your user name.

[Starshine 16,330]

At first I was planning to take the name "Twinkle", but somebody else already took it, so... I just added a 'shine' behind it!

 

Then turns out the name "Twinkleshine" is already belonged to a background pone. Not a single apples was given that day.

[Winona the Dog 1,981]

If i were to change it it would most likley be an impersonation name of a fictional character like a pokemon or something of the like. I plan on sticking with my current name until Chaotic Discord changes his and that may never happen so i guess im never changing mine 

[TheLionPaladin 164]

Chose this name as it is my steam user name and I preferred it to my previous one dariusgib (a compound of my middle and last name) I chose that nickname as my favorite animal is a lion but I wanted a cool name with it so paladin, a holy elite knight seemed fitting

[Nyan Pony 9]

Because I could simply just not think of one at the time, so I then got a tweet from my friend at school saying 'I've nyaned for (numbers) seconds, beat that b***h!'

So then i though... OMG NYAN CAT.

And then I was born

Oh and also this: 

[EcstaticWind 572]

I chose Windbreaker 'coz it sounded cool. Supposed to have an anime vibe to it. In my intro, someone pointed out that there's also fart jokes galore with it too, so it's funny as well

[~Master~ Button Mash 2,307]

I have pretty much the most extreme wanderlust imaginable, I'm always looking for an excuse to travel. Also, I'm an aviator, who feels more at home among the skies than on the ground...like I'm a pegasus at heart. So I took those two traits of mine, and try to make them sound mysterious and esoteric...or at least like something I can name an OC after later. So after some thought, I ended up coming up with Sky Nomad.

[~Asuka <3~ 867]

Well, I knew the new Trixie episode was coming out, and I decided to come up with this username to celebrate it.  Basically, I combined the words Trixie and Lover with my birth year.  Lame story, but yeah, that's me.  

[Just some guy 1,070]

I used to be a huge Viewtiful Joe fan when I was younger.  Used this name when my old one, WarriorEXE, was taken for some random MMO.  Ended up liking the name and keeping it.

[curtistyl 3]

i started using curtistyl since i was 9..or was it 7...i cant remember anyways i was singing up to AOL it was difficult for me to decide on my username. then since i realized that my middle name was named after my grandfathers father. so i decided to user curtis but i had a feeling it was to short and was thinking on what else to put on it. my older brother suggested that i add "taylor" on it. but it was too long so i cut the "a","o",and "r" from "taylor" and it created "curtistyl". and i been using it ever since

[MLP Dazzleglow 56]

i chose my becasue i wanted an alicorn name, and the only name that i was able to find was Dazzleglow that seem to be me. I dazzle people on how i can be so happy all the time (deep down i am always sad) and how i can glow (which i managed to do from years of practice) so Dazzleglow became my name on xbox live and here because i can always pretend to be happy

[Lupus 127]

That was odd, it wouldn't let me reply for a while, saying I was posting too many words and that the Admins had limited my right to post...hmmm

 

Anyway, I was just going to say mine was pretty obvious when I thought of it - elsewhere I'm a wolf of greyness, but that wasn't really appropriate for here (since you wouldn't get a pony called that!). So I went with the Latin word for wolf, as a name for my pony-ness (tho it also appears to be a disease, which was NOT my intention!)

[Dreadmallon 353]

Dusk is the name of my OC, and "the Raider" is an additional, unnecessary thing. He was once a thief.

I wanted to just be "Dusk," but that's taken.

[Swordfishtrombone 384]

Well, I chose this name because I am a juggalo. And a brony.

...

Yeah, there's a longer story for my username, but I can't be bothered to tell it now.

[FALCON PUNCH 243]

I chose FALCON PUNCH out of pure

Edited October 9, 2016 by FALCON PUNCH

[H.P. Lance 138]

My best friend had a heavy crush on someone who I thought was a bit out of his league, so I decided to take matters into my own hands.

 

Absolutely not believing it would work, I swiped both of their most heartfelt possessions from their houses the day before I knew he was going round to her house (I pretended I needed the toilet because my own house is quite far from both of theirs, and luckily both objects were of mostly sentimental value and small).

 

This was naturally to give them something in common which was also very personal, yet I actually regreted stealing almost as soon as I did it.

 

But my little faith in both my friend and my plan was proved wrong when, by a couple of weeks later, they'd become very close over it and they ended up together. She'd liked him all along.

 

Both items were mysteriously found posted through their letterboxes the next day.

 

Now they've been together for over a year and, to this day, neither of them know it was me. 

[Arti 16]

My username is a portmanteau of Taco, a traditional Mexican dish composed of a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling, and Cockatrice, the main antagonist in the episode "Stare Master".

 

I chose Taco because it is my favourite food, and I chose Cockatrice because it is my favourite character.

[Jghx5 33]

Its the name I used for years.  Also it means my real name.  J is me first name (hint: VERY use male first name).  G me middle name. H is me last.  X5 random though. 

[Silver ice 37]

I love Ice(my fave of the magical element) and fire is the oppisite so I guess I thought I wanted to mix the unmixable! Do something that is not ata all realistic.

[Skystrider 11]

i chose mine because it is my OCs name. he is a pegasus so some part of it had to do with flying, and i like star wars. so its like skywalker but i just made it Skystrider lol

[TheDragoniteDestiny 23]

Dragonite is my favorite Pokemon and I wanted another cool name in my username. I thought of the word "destiny" and I thought that it was really cool.

[Forsooth 18]

I chose this because it has been my standard username for years and years. But to be honest the only reason why I used it in the first place is because it sounded cool and it wasn't taken yet on whatever program (the memory of which is lost to time) I was using at the time.

[roptiriolg 49]

I avoid revealing my full nickname or its history but in a friendly brony environment, why not

 

I've been Dark Mage, Mystic Sorcerer because I was interested in fantasy. Then my interest switched to sci fi and space stuff, so I needed a new name. In 2006 I looked through NASA's site for something to help me with a space name and... there was it.

 

http://imtr.deviantart.com/art/ImtRPony-338393498

So... since 2006™ just using abbreviation of it...

 

What's more.. in the uni and after already with this name I took Astronomy courses and had to solve problems where my nickname was mentioned as a word haha.

Edited December 9, 2012 by ImtR

[Ronaan 21]

I chose Ronaan because it means "Archer" in the Skyrim Dragon Language (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Language), and I play an archer/sniper/support type in video games. The name looks cool, and it fits with me, so now everyone knows me for being Ronaan.

 

I originally chose Vornim as a username, because it means honor (vorn) and love (im). I am an honorable gamer, and I hate those noobs who think they can troll you just by saying something along the lines of "You suck scrub, go back to real life." I don't cheat, I don't camp, I don't tea bag (unless it's a good friend and I'm trolling him), and I most certainly don't message anyone after a game to tell them how much they sucked. I might just go back to Vornim though, becuase I kinda stole Ronaan... :/

[VioletLinked 100]

Back around my Elementary school days, My friends and I would run home and play The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. We all picked colors, and I got Purple. Over time it evolved. We used to eat at Cici's a lot, and when we went we went into the arcade and put our names on the machine when we got high scores. Everyone started shorted their name - Green to GRN, Blue to BLU, Red to RED (duh), and I was going to be PPL or PUR. Both shortenings sounded horrible, so I changed purple to Violet and shortened it to VIO. It sounded cool ,So I've kept it all these years. It just stuck. I know Violet's a bit of a girls name, but hell, as stated by 4chan all girls on the internet are guys in disguise.

 

Eventually I'll legally change my name to it, but to almost everyone I know I'm currently...

Violet Belmont Link. 

[Domo 7]

My username is "Domo" because it is off a old Japanese stop-motion cartoon, the full name of the character from the show. I use it for most of my usernames, Minecraft, Steam etc because it fits so well and it is short and easy to remember.