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The Devil Man
08-01-2006, 01:34 PM
After reading through a lot of the Threads, I've noticed many, many, many interesting usernames. I was curious... why did you choose your user-name? Apart from the Final Fantasy inspirations, was there any other reason why you chose your user-name (I quite like the name: Loony Bob :D Is that because Bob is a... loony? And I like the name Old Manus too)

As for mine... I chose it because my favourite band is God Forbid and my favourite guitarist in that band is Dallas Coyle. I switched the 'a' to an 'e', miraculously coming up with 'Dellas' and I chose the number 18 because it's my lucky number (That sounds like a boring story but I think Dellas18 sounds quite cool :P)

So... what are your reasons? :mog:

Craig
08-01-2006, 01:36 PM
I chose KFCruelty because I was Anti-KFC at the time.

I chose Jellisaurus because I was playing Ragnarok Online at the time and liked the little Jelly things and because I saw someone say the word Jesusaurus in a chat room once and found it funny.

I chose Craig because that's my name.

Mo-Nercy
08-01-2006, 01:37 PM
A cool sounding typo initially.

It doesn't really make sense anymore. And it makes me typo both 'no' and 'mercy' a helluva lot.

Cookie
08-01-2006, 01:40 PM
Because about a week ago i was really into blitzball... now it's kinda boring again...
Oh well

Shauna
08-01-2006, 01:46 PM
I quite like the name: Loony Bob :D Is that because Bob is a... loony?

I find that funny because his name isn't even BoB. :roll:

Anyway, I picked yuna_elena, cause Yuna (FFX) and Elena (Grandia 2) Were awesome. *lol fangirl days*

Now I am Shauna, because it's my name! =D

Jojee
08-01-2006, 01:49 PM
Because it's the best username ever :)

Blitz Ace
08-01-2006, 01:53 PM
Because it's the best username ever :)
no... your username is whacked. :p

Jojee
08-01-2006, 01:54 PM
Jealous! :p

Zeldy
08-01-2006, 01:55 PM
I don't know why I chose Zelda. Im not even a huge fan, really. I was.

Shauna
08-01-2006, 01:56 PM
Jojo's name is... ...umm... cool... I suppose...

Christmas
08-01-2006, 01:56 PM
The username chose me.

EDIT: I am posting in a thread where Devil man isn't posting in third person!

licence
08-01-2006, 01:56 PM
I get mine from James Bond's license to kill. But I spelt license wrongly on the first place I ever used this username, so I just kinda stuck with the spelling error.

Chloe.
08-01-2006, 01:56 PM
I did have Tidus is my man because I used to love Tidus (FFX)......but now it's Reno is my man because I love Reno (FFVII) :love: ^.^

Meat Puppet
08-01-2006, 01:59 PM
Angels brought the name to a dream I had.

Rocket Edge
08-01-2006, 02:01 PM
Fate.

Shoden
08-01-2006, 02:08 PM
Boredem.

Tavrobel
08-01-2006, 02:11 PM
Because names that really mean "Pine of Balurien" (a type of tree) in Tolkien literature are always the best.

Dreddz
08-01-2006, 02:14 PM
Because I can still dream of getting what I cant have :cry:

Flea
08-01-2006, 02:24 PM
I was playing Chrono Trigger at the time I started joining forums.
If you don't know; there's a character in Chrono Trigger named Flea (http://www.rpgplanet.com/chrono/images/ct_Flea.gif).

Twisted Tinkerbell
08-01-2006, 02:26 PM
Kitten is what my fiance calls me.

Bart's Friend Milhouse
08-01-2006, 02:28 PM
The username chose me.

Ditto
Do you think I'd embarass myself on purpose?

Peegee
08-01-2006, 02:32 PM
My brother essentially tagged 'ghettoprops' (@hotmail.com....which I'm working towards having it deleted), so I swapped the letters GP and made PG.

Xenyth
08-01-2006, 03:04 PM
I swapped letters from the word 'zenith'. So therefore, Xenyth

starseeker
08-01-2006, 03:07 PM
I thought it sounded cool, its also the name of a book I had been meaning to read.

KentaRawr!
08-01-2006, 03:09 PM
A huge story that has to do with my love for Forces on PSO. In short, I got A Link to the Past, then when I played PSO again, chose the elf dude (FOnewm), and I wanted to try out another force. I figured "I'll make a midget FOmar.", so I did. I looked into the booklet of FFX and went into the credits, and saw the name "Kentarou". Then, a long while later, I'm playing with my Green Hat wearing, Orange Haired, lvl 62 Kentarou, and a stumble across an old site called EoFF. At first I wanted to rant about how some pages were red and others were blue, but then I joined the forums instead. I went with my FOmars name, Kentarou. Shortly after, I became obsessed with FFXI. And I was the master of stupid newbs. >_>

So that's the short story about my User-Name. I ditched the lame Hunters and came out on top with the totally 1337 forces! :D

Qurange
08-01-2006, 03:09 PM
I like both Quistis and the color orange. ....it sort of went on from there.

YTDN
08-01-2006, 04:36 PM
firstly... Y_U_F_F_I_E because I like Yffie and think underscores are great

My name now.. because I still like Yuffie but after listening to the song Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja by the Lostprophets, I thought Dragon Ninja sounded cool. I also like Dragons and Ninjas.

Venom
08-01-2006, 04:37 PM
I dont even know why I chose my usernames, I'm bored alot so it gave me time to think.

Spammerman
08-01-2006, 04:45 PM
cause Link kicks butt for nintendo, and 31793 is myt birthday.and its easy to

AdVenT
08-01-2006, 04:54 PM
AdVenT was the most random thing I could think of.

Sefie1999AD
08-01-2006, 05:10 PM
I was trying to come up with a new nick back then, and I was starting to get interested in FFs. My two favorite Square games used to be Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger, so I named myself after them. Those two games are still very high on my list of favorite SE games, although they aren't my favorite two anymore. Even though more people probably know FFVII better than CT, I still have a feeling most people remember me from the 1999AD ending. If I changed my nick to SephirothSomethingRandom, nobody would recognize me anymore, but if I changed it to SomethingRandom1999AD, something tells me people would still know who I am. :p

Omnislash07
08-01-2006, 06:06 PM
I could tell you but then i would have to kill everyone who read this thread...

Spiffing Cheese
08-01-2006, 06:10 PM
I don't even know. :love:

stuffing
08-01-2006, 06:10 PM
Mine used to be "Thisguy"

No idea why I changed it

Reine
08-01-2006, 06:15 PM
My username is my name. Simple

Alive-Cat
08-01-2006, 06:17 PM
I didn't choose it. I didn't really have any aspirations to do anything more than post for a little while on EoFF at the time, so I just picked the first thing that came into my head.
But the name Alive-Man has grown on me. :bigsmile:

Miriel
08-01-2006, 06:19 PM
I chose it cause I AM A HUGE DORK.

XxSephirothxX
08-01-2006, 06:32 PM
It's from a (bad) book I wrote in sixth grade.

Jessweeee♪
08-01-2006, 06:34 PM
My first name is Jessica :P
no one calls me Jesse.
now that i think about it my only nickname was puh-sy-cho (an odd way of pronouncing psycho)

Rye
08-01-2006, 06:37 PM
Well, my original username was RikkuYuna89, because I was unoriginal and 12. In #eoff, BoB ended up calling me Rye, and the name stuck. Everyone started calling me Rye, and since I was sick of my horrible username, I changed to Rye. It was a good change, especially because most people weren't confused and they knew I was RY89. :)

Madonna
08-01-2006, 06:39 PM
Because it's the best username ever. :|

Lost Number
08-01-2006, 07:01 PM
A few reasons...mostly cos im dichotomous myself. Also, I entered my real name in a al bhed translator one day, and kept running it through til a got a real word. Almost Lost Number.

McLovin'
08-01-2006, 07:27 PM
I decieded that my former username was complete crap. And I liked Sephiroth better. That's basically it.

Pure Aerisbeauty7
08-01-2006, 07:45 PM
I choose my username because Aeris is my favorite Final Fantasy character and she is a good person so that is where I got Pure Aeris. To me, I think that I am beautiful so I wrote beauty and I got 7 from Final Fantasy 7.:) :kaocheer:

rubah
08-01-2006, 07:48 PM
it's cuter than other online names I have used :) and I wanted to be cute!

Peegee
08-01-2006, 07:56 PM
Well, my original username was RikkuYuna89, because I was unoriginal and 12. In #eoff, BoB ended up calling me Rye, and the name stuck. Everyone started calling me Rye, and since I was sick of my horrible username, I changed to Rye. It was a good change, especially because most people weren't confused and they knew I was RY89. :)

Rye....chu?

http://pokemon.tcgplayer.com//tcg/scans/ex_fire_red_leaf_green/012%20raichu.jpg

Shoeberto
08-01-2006, 08:12 PM
I thought it'd get me azn chix.

Nominus Experse
08-01-2006, 08:13 PM
I chose my name due to the fact that I love the important sounding dead language known as Latin.

SammieBabe
08-01-2006, 08:44 PM
I chose my name due to the fact that I love the important sounding dead language known as Latin.

;) You and me both...

My first username was "Parvus Edea". Parvus in Latin means little or small in stature. That's me. :) And VIII is my favorite game, plus I've been called names similar to witch...:D
My name now is an old nickname that I decided to use. I may change it eventually to something else...;)

Owen Macwere
08-01-2006, 08:47 PM
My username is a name of a character in a story I wrote. but it is a mix between mine nd the character's name.
I thought it might look kind of cool?, don't know, but I like it. :D

Distain
08-01-2006, 08:50 PM
It's from story I'm writing (gotta keep yourself busy ovewr the summer right?) and becuase it kinda of resembles my name. Same amount of sylables and whatnot.

Psychotic
08-01-2006, 08:50 PM
"Reno" was taken. I consider that to be a lucky escape.

Hambone
08-01-2006, 09:58 PM
I changed mine twice because my brother thought each one sucked. And so did I. I want to change my name to Glasses and Ponytail Freak but I have to wait 5 and a half more months. :(

lovehurts
08-01-2006, 10:01 PM
How do you change your name?

Why I choose this one?....yah...NO I wont say.

Old Manus
08-01-2006, 10:14 PM
And I like the name Old Manus too)
Who doesn't?

Shiny
08-01-2006, 10:14 PM
My former one, Shiny_Griever was chosen, because I happen to like Squall's shiny necklace. But then I realized, Squall's choice in fashion is not that great. So I dropped the griever.

Northcrest
08-01-2006, 10:22 PM
Okay the reason why I chose my name was because when I was signing up I also was playing FF9 when I was playing against Trance Kuja he had finished me off with the Ultima spell. So I used the word Ultima. Then I was thinking of my favorite Final Fantasy character which, u guess it Cloud. How does the user-name Omega Cloud sound like. O and how do u change your user-name? :D :tonberry: :choc2: :quina: :fencing: :shoot: :bigbiggri :mario: :luigi:

Mythra
08-01-2006, 10:34 PM
My first name, Thanatos189, was just something I thought sounded cool. My current one, Mythra, is the name that the band 30 Seconds to Mars uses as a name for their really cool phoenix logo. So I just chose that

Levian
08-01-2006, 11:02 PM
The Black Mage - I was currently playing FFXI and I was 15.
Leviathan - I had to be a summon monster to become a mod at some deleted forum.
Levia - People shortened it.
Levian - Levia is girly.

loinharte
08-02-2006, 12:01 AM
i chose loinharte(supossed to be loinheartbut taken)cause i love FF VIII

lovehurts
08-02-2006, 12:05 AM
Is terra a product of rap?

Luther X-Rated
08-02-2006, 12:14 AM
I think my username speaks for itself : )

Fonzie
08-02-2006, 12:18 AM
My name comes from a holy quest...of HOLYNESS!!! Well, i was climbing mountains in Norway with Levian, and Old Manus, in the middle Christmas. We had found a bright star and we decided too because...well...we were bored(and the angels old us too. So we followed it and decided to bring gifts cause we felt the birth of a new Queen. Well we get their, and we see a little Christmas. I give her a Casino Coin, Levian gives her some ale, Old Manus gives her a hat of the finest plastics made with red and white ball on the end. An angel them comes and calls me Jackpot. So yeah thats the story of how i got my awesome name. Oh yeah at the end we all got ice cream and decided to go to a RammStein concert.

ff7+ff10 gurl 100
08-02-2006, 12:24 AM
I have no idea why. Srsly.

Levian
08-02-2006, 12:33 AM
My name comes from a holy quest...of HOLYNESS!!! Well, i was climbing mountains in Norway with Levian, and Old Manus, in the middle Christmas. We had found a bright star and we decided too because...well...we were bored(and the angels old us too. So we followed it and decided to bring gifts cause we felt the birth of a new Queen. Well we get their, and we see a little Christmas. I give her a Casino Coin, Levian gives her some ale, Old Manus gives her a hat of the finest plastics made with red and white ball on the end. An angel them comes and calls me Jackpot. So yeah thats the story of how i got my awesome name. Oh yeah at the end we all got ice cream and decided to go to a RammStein concert.

Wow, that's a pretty cool story you got there. It wouldn't by any chance include LSD?

fallen_angel9000
08-02-2006, 02:19 AM
i chose mine cause i took this quiz called "what angel would u be?" and i ended up as a fallen angel. the number was just random in my username =P

GooeyToast
08-02-2006, 02:27 AM
Taken from a song of my brotherins.

AnnaBannana
08-02-2006, 02:33 AM
It's what my friends call me...T_T....
^_^

Hambone
08-02-2006, 02:41 AM
Okay the reason why I chose my name was because when I was signing up I also was playing FF9 when I was playing against Trance Kuja he had finished me off with the Ultima spell. So I used the word Ultima. Then I was thinking of my favorite Final Fantasy character which, u guess it Cloud. How does the user-name Omega Cloud sound like. O and how do u change your user-name? :D :tonberry: :choc2: :quina: :fencing: :shoot: :bigbiggri :mario: :luigi:
You ask an admin. How many times have I told you? 3?

Ruskies
08-02-2006, 02:52 AM
Because back in the day I liked Russian Gals alot and bacame my nick. Now its turned into my Initial D nickname.

Madame Adequate
08-02-2006, 03:30 AM
My reasons for this username ought to be self-evident.

renoa
08-02-2006, 03:30 AM
my BF gave it to me :heart:

Rye
08-02-2006, 03:32 AM
My reasons for this username ought to be self-evident.

Quite. ;D ;D

Cipher
08-02-2006, 04:04 AM
Umm, let's see. Cipher's a tool for encrypting stuff...and I have this habit of making simple stuff sound complicated because of how I explain it. I've been using this username for a looong time. Before the whole Matrix thing, and before the Pokemon Cipher craze. >.<

Also, 'cuz I sometimes hang out at some computer geek sites that are always like Ew girl!, and Cipher is blissfully gender-neutral.

Sooo yeah. That's the story ^^

feona17
08-02-2006, 05:40 AM
Feona's my name and my favourite number is 17. Hm, rather unoriginal. -__-

The Devil Man
08-02-2006, 02:29 PM
Feona's a pretty cool name :D

Is it pronounced like 'Fiona'?

Your name sounds kinda exotic, glamorous...

theundeadhero
08-02-2006, 02:56 PM
Well, when it comes down to it, I just kinda like it. I wasn't going to name myself Bill, or George, or Sue or anything like that.

DudeSon2004
08-02-2006, 03:01 PM
2 of my 3 sisters, one calls me "Dude" & another calls me "Son", "2004" was the year I came up with the name.

blue phoenix
08-02-2006, 04:11 PM
cause i like phoenixs, and love the old blue magic.

Etak-Evol
08-02-2006, 04:13 PM
reverse my name. ie read it backwards

im amazed no ones ever took it.

i like it very much

Sylvie
08-02-2006, 04:17 PM
Because daddy says that if I didn't, he'd hit me.

ljkkjlcm9
08-02-2006, 04:43 PM
well each letter of ljkkjlcm9 means something, and 9 is my favorite number.

But THE JACKEL is another story altogether, namely being I think JACKAL is awesome, and I am THE one and only JACKAL, that's right me. I also name the main character in most of my games JACK.EL (no period) with an EL, just someone made it so I can't type it that way. Anytime I write any variation of jackel it automatically gets capatilized and with an al, no idea why or who did that.

THE JACKEL

Doomie
08-02-2006, 04:57 PM
Doomsday because it was a Final Fantasy site, and I needed something at least slightly related to the game. Then I changed it to Del Mordor as a knock on Del Murder. Finally I changed it to Doomie because I think that was my nickname or something. Or actually, people called me Doomy. But then Doomgaze made a thread and started whining, thus it changed to Doomie.

feona17
08-02-2006, 05:11 PM
Feona's a pretty cool name :D

Is it pronounced like 'Fiona'?

Your name sounds kinda exotic, glamorous...

Yes it is pronounced like Fiona, thanks :p. I think my dad was a little out of it when he changed the spelling. At first I was going to use the username Yunalesca, but decided against it.

Breine
08-02-2006, 05:25 PM
It is one of my real-life nicknames, so... I've thought about changing it a lot of times, but I've decided not to - at least for now.

JKTrix
08-02-2006, 08:07 PM
The JK in my name stands for "Jedi_Kakarott", my original alias on the interwebs and some online shooters (mostly the original Unreal and UT). Trix came up from one of those 'hi score' games when I was younger, the first time I did it and I could only put 4 characters. This was around the same time i was learning algebra, and that the curvy 'x' was a 'variable', so I put in the first 3 letters of my real name and then 'x' for the last letter. It's stuck since.

Evastio
08-02-2006, 08:10 PM
I liked the name Evastio ever since I was a kid.

DanteV9
08-02-2006, 08:21 PM
Dante= My favorite name. 9= My lucky number. V= Verison. You get it.

Mirage
08-02-2006, 09:30 PM
I chose it because I had to select one in order to complete my registration.

Behold the Void
08-02-2006, 09:32 PM
I first acquired this name a long time ago when I was trying to think of a more original name than The_Eldar for Starcraft play on Battle.net (I played Protoss at the time and I had felt that the Protoss were a knockoff of the Warhammer 40k Eldar). I was mulling over it, and my mind wandered to one of my more recent obsessions, Legend of the Five Rings, which is based around the philosophies in Miyamoto Musashi's Book of the Five Rings. He identified five elements, Earth, Fire, Air, Water, and Void. Obviously Void is my favorite.

The "Behold the" part came in because it sounded cool to encourage people to contemplate oblivion.

Especially people who've seen my room.

Anyway, I rather liked that name, and thus it became the name I use everywhere.

Owen Macwere
08-02-2006, 09:34 PM
I first acquired this name a long time ago when I was trying to think of a more original name than The_Eldar for Starcraft play on Battle.net (I played Protoss at the time and I had felt that the Protoss were a knockoff of the Warhammer 40k Eldar). I was mulling over it, and my mind wandered to one of my more recent obsessions, Legend of the Five Rings, which is based around the philosophies in Miyamoto Musashi's Book of the Five Rings. He identified five elements, Earth, Fire, Air, Water, and Void. Obviously Void is my favorite.

The "Behold the" part came in because it sounded cool to encourage people to contemplate oblivion.

Especially people who've seen my room.

Anyway, I rather liked that name, and thus it became the name I use everywhere.

So that's it, I always loved your name, it sounds strong. :D

StarChild
08-03-2006, 05:02 AM
Especially people who've seen my room.


you do have quite an interesting room I must say, though I haven't seen it in awhile.

Anyways, my name came from a song my dad used to sing to me, i think he actually made it up, because I've never heard it, only from him. Also the fact that I love to stargaze. the child part is because I consider myself a child at heart, and I probably always will be.

Rostum
08-03-2006, 07:15 AM
First it was Nutshell because of the Alice in Chains song, then it was Mojo Pin because of the Jeff Buckley song. Now it's Omecle because I used a random fantasy-name generator for my FFXI character, and stuck with it since.

Aesthete
08-03-2006, 07:25 AM
I chose my name because I love art, and the arts.

...I used a random fantasy-name generator for my FFXI character, and stuck with it since.

Fantasy-name generator? Oh, I would like to know where you found that...

Moon Rabbits
08-03-2006, 07:32 AM
S is the best aisle to find interesting ornaments.

Jojee
08-03-2006, 08:49 AM
I changed my username... :p It still was the best one ever, though! XD

Slade
08-03-2006, 10:37 AM
My username comes from the villian 'Slade' from 'Teen titans'. He was hell cool :cool:

Jess
08-03-2006, 10:41 AM
I was given it at birth.

Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World
08-03-2006, 10:48 AM
Because I get called crazy a lot. So, I be crazy=IBCrayZ.

Hehehehe. But I am sane, I think...I hope.

Xaven
08-03-2006, 10:48 AM
I put some random letters together one day when thinking of a username to use for myself. :D

GhandiOwnsYou
08-03-2006, 03:39 PM
Because GandhiOwnsYou was taken on AIM already, and I changed all my screen names to match my AIM name over the course of the last few years. Makes logins hella easier.

Dell
08-03-2006, 04:08 PM
Because Vivi is my favourite character and Ultima......such wonderful and brilliant name. I'm thinking of changing my username......

Cloudstrife4003
08-03-2006, 11:59 PM
Cloud from ff7 of course-the 4003 is bcus um...i dunno,lol^_^

daggertrepe
08-04-2006, 02:01 AM
Dagger Trepe is a name I made up myself. (I love Qusitis and Dagger)

And as for my sig, I LOVE Janice Dickinson! :love:

Rokk
08-04-2006, 10:21 PM
Well i fancied a change from my previous username, and i spent time thinking, i though of Midnight, or something realted but i finally decided on Darkness, then i though of something to come before it, haze, dark (Oh dear, dark darkness?!) and i went with deep, the choice to use '3' comes from playing online games with freinds who use that too much!, But hey, i thought it looks cool...:tongue:

LunarWeaver
08-04-2006, 10:24 PM
I made this name almost 5 years ago, and I've just used it ever since for most internet things. I wish somebody would tell me what it means I can't figure it out.

Iceglow
08-04-2006, 11:45 PM
Lasuria was a character name from a computer game (online rpg you make your name) that I created in about 5 seconds when trying to say something very different drunk, the character was a psycho drow elf bitch (pardon the term staff but it's the best for the character)

Iceglow was another character name I made for the same game for a friend it was an imp which were a major magic race and so it fitted well.

Mattokenzi
08-05-2006, 09:56 AM
I was bbhood86 (I like BBHood and I was born on 1986)
I am now Mattokenzi (If I stared in my own anime... that would be my name). :D

Incinerator
08-05-2006, 03:46 PM
One Word, origonality. (Spelling?????)

I Don't Need A Name
08-05-2006, 10:34 PM
well: "Final" fantasy, and "Andy" cause its my name. also no one ever has it...and Christmas told me to have it (and dont say that she joined EOFF AFTER me cause its ALL LIES...*cough*)

KoShiatar
08-05-2006, 10:54 PM
It's the name of a roleplayng character I've had for years, which in turn I ripped off a DBZ fanfiction. Before that I was called Werecanary, because it was the translation of an old username I had in a forum and I thought that it sounded funny.

Vaincast
08-06-2006, 12:51 AM
My nickname in school,...yes really and at home...actually everywhere I go...

NeoTifa
08-06-2006, 01:01 AM
me and bri were so best friends, people thought we were twins. in our rpg's online (made up storylines people did back in the day all the time like dungeons and dragons) and i couldn't think of a good name to suit me. she was kameko which means everlasting serinity or something like that in japanese, so, since we were alike, yet different, she suggested yuki, which means snow. (unfortunatally usually a boys name). snow is cold, independant, never the same, yet serine (like me). thats how we were the same yet different, like all twins ^.^. she just came up with hitaru as a last name. dunno what that means.

Hell_Vangaurd
08-09-2006, 06:54 AM
I got mine from the very first boss in Devil May Cry 3 :D

chaos_ghost
08-09-2006, 12:10 PM
A commercial for Ghost Recon gave me the ghost part and the character Havik from Mortal Kombat Deciption gave me the chaos part.

Daryl
08-09-2006, 01:03 PM
For the NPC in FFVI.