Explain Your Username

[Exius Xavarus]

I have a question in relation to mine, how many people read it "Goat thief"?

Well, you're wrong but it happens so often. It's "GOA thief" - explanation is pretty simple if you check Steam from my profile here on the Escapist.

You can change it so that your username reads "Goa Thief." Mine read "ExiusXavarus" before I changed it to the way it should be. You get one free name change and you can change capitalization as many times as you like.

Mine's a combination of two separate usernames I've gone by. Xavarus originally started as Xavar when I was playing as a Water Taoist in ConquerOnline. Exius was the name I chose for my Human Fighter in R.O.H.A.N.: Blood Feud. When I started playing Guild Wars, I needed a first and last name. So I changed Xavar to Xavarus and used it as the surname for all of my characters except one. My main character came out as Exius Xavarus. I suppose it's just stuck with me, since.

 

[NinjaSniperAssassin]

I came up with the name during my Borderlands 2 phase. My character of choice was a ninja who used sniper rifles to assassinate baddies. Fairly straightforward.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Charizard is the best pokemon and Shiny Charizard is even better. That was my thought process on the matter.

 

[Baron_BJ]

My initials are BJL, so people either refer to me as my first name or as BJ. I wanted some sort of title to come before my name if I was going to use it as a username, for alliterative purposes Baron matched best, hence the monicker of Baron BJ.

 

[Darks63]

Mine is a combo of Darkman and my first email address. When i first registered my Email rjh was taken but it suggested adding 63 and I've used 63 on alot of my online stuff ever since.

 

[0 to 3 Sad Onions]

Mine is a Dr. Ashen catch phrase. "Sad onion" is what he calls the logo depicted in my avatar.

 

[Jaythulhu]

I've used Jaythulhu since 1985 when I was playing muds on a local bbs (though way back in those days I had to spell it Jaythulu, cos you could only have 8 letters/numbers max).

My name's Jay and I was (and still am) a huge Lovecraft fan. I wish there was something deeper to it, but hell, I was 7.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

It's my Gamertag.

...

That's about it.

 

[Torque2100]

I've been through a few Net Names. For a while I was Nightspawn (named for a certain Palladium RPG. God I had terrible taste as a kid). However around the time I was 16 I realized that Nightspawn sounds like the kind of name a 14 year old would give his horrible garage band in 1991. My friends and I were talking about cars and the subject of Torque came up. I decided I liked the way the word sounded so I set my username to that on UT2k4 and the rest is history. The 2100 bit came later, it was just a random number I pulled out of my head so that it would be less likely that the username was taken.

 

[chinangel]

Foxy-Boo.

it's a nickname given to me by my daddy, because we have been working on a series of stories together. The character I made is a anthro fox named Licorice Mint Donahue (see also: my avatar) and she is closely based on me, throughout the story planning he started calling me 'foxy boo' and it sorta...stuck.

 

[Hazzard]

It came from using Hazza on a friends Xbox on a CoD, but he said it should be Hazard, only I accidentally put Hazzard and couldn't be arsed to change it. Turns out lots of people like to call themselves Hazzard so I lengthened it to Hazzardevil from a Runescape account I got from a friend years and years ago.

 

[MartianWarMachine]

I listened to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds Musical a LOT in high school. There is your explanation.