Your Pseudonym, how did you come up with it?

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Rusty pumpkin

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Well, funny story... wait, no. Um... I have no clue. I assume it had something to do with halloween, can't remember my thought process at the time. Also, if you feel like asking how this is possible according to nature, I don't know.
 

ThreeWords

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ThreeWords? It just kinda happened; I need a name, and a name there was. It would be nice to have some kind fo cool story, but I just sort of ... knew it.
 

Death-of-Penguins

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Mostly down to Terry Pratchett books. In Reaper Man, Death is split into many Deaths- Death of Rats etc.
I like penguins. I used to have a picture of a penguin reaper somewhere. So Death of Penguins.
Not death to penguins, as people on youtube seem to think.
 

Cavan

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I looked at my first name, wondered if anybody had taken it, found nobody had, ???, profit.
 

Qtoy

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When I was 8, I really liked the game "AdventureQuest" (Don't judge me.) My sister was making an account for herself and you get to have more than one Player Character, so I asked if she could make another one for me, despite already having my own account. She said yes and asked me what I wanted my name to be with an underlying tone that signified that she was going to cause this to backfire on me somehow. At the time, I didn't understand what the tone meant at the time, so I said, "Make my name 'Qboy'!" about 5 times because that's what I did when I was young and annoying.
Look at my name and you'll see how it backfired, but it stuck and I was okay with it.
 

Rook

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I've got three names really. Morovon349 is of unknown origin,I honestly have no idea how i came up with it but it's my gamertag on both psn and xbox.

My most recent and my more preferred one is Faintly Psychotic. For the past couple of years I've been described as insane by my friends and have actually scared someone because I shared a few 'thoughts' with him. He said I should really try and get some help, not in a mean way but out of concern. I say random things and have unbelievable thoughts that I haven't been able to describe to anyone yet so I thought "Fuck it,why not." and called myself FaintlyPsychotic.

The other is from Guild Wars and is Faint Darkness.I was too young to have a reason for it and just thought it sounded cool.
 

RaffB

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My Middle name is Raplh , which i shortened and changed a bit and my last name starts with a B so hence this one

My other one is normally RaffBiffy, comes from the same thing, but when I was a huge fan of Biffy Clyro
 

KnightRider0717

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theres a few i tend to use

knightrider0717 or 0791 is because my name is michael knight which was hasselhoffs character on knight rider and the numbers are my birthday and not just due to random or rarity

magnet is from when i used to play socom 2 years ago i was shit at first and was dubbed the bullet magent and it just stuck

mudcaster is because i didnt know what to call my wow character and looked at my stratocaster and mixed it with mudkip :p

and fender is because i love fender guitars haha
 

Trolldor

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I changed my name on an old forum to demonstrate how flacid and superficial were. Kept it for here because I couldn't be arsed making a new one and occassionally saw the same results without ever intending to.
 

SadakoMoose

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Well, I was a big fan of The Ring, which is where Sadako comes from
And way back when I used Gaia a lot, this one friend of mine used to call me moose as a nick name.
It just kind of stuck, and I've used it for my user name on most forum based sites since.
 

A Free Man

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dkyros said:
My name comes from a struggle from within, conquering crushing depression and coming out the other side. By this I mean that this was the name of my first D&D character. The half red dragon half drow that kicked everyones asses.

The d is a surname that is actually not pronounced (so its not da-kyros its just kyros). The surname is a mysterious word that starts with d. Kyros was a mix between my real name and the word zero. (10 virtual dollars to the first person to guess my real name).
Sorry if its already been guessed couldn't be bothered reading, but I'm going with Krys. Weird spelling but only thing I could think of : (
 

Cargin

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All the major character names in all my favourite books were already taken when I was setting up my first email account (ever) so I decided to pick one of the minor characters. Hence Cargin, as in Captain Letro Cargin of the Vervun Primary (see Dan Abnett's Necropolis). It is my online handle for pretty much everything.
 

Johnny Impact

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ace_of_something said:
I was in a band called the 'deck of many things' where we all had names like '____ something' mine was Ace Something.
That is one of the highest nerd point acquisitions in a single sentence I've ever seen. And I'm not making fun of you. Well done, sir.
 

Johnny Impact

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I usually go by Maladjester but apparently I signed up to Escapist a looooong time ago and just can't remember because that name is taken. Can't remember my old password or email addy. Maladjester comes from being a maladjust and having a cynically barbed wit.

Johnny Impact is the name of a superhero I created a long time ago. He was in my head for a while before being played on City of Heroes, then again on Champions. He also appeared as an NPC in a superhero dice-and-paper I ran for some friends.