I was, at one point, *scythe (star-scythe) because CT is a kickass game, and at that point I hadn't even heard of Magus' DoomSickle. It still use the same MSN account from those days on MSN messenger, though. Can't have some other schmo claiming it.

"ShaunOfShadou", a lot of people credit "shadou" as a misspelling of "shadow", but in actuality it's a combination of the first three letters of my first and last name. I came up with it trying to think of a name for my amateur game-making site (which for the record, never took off ). I was in need of a message board handle one day, and because *scythe contained illegal characters, I decided to do the cocky thing and refer to myself as the president of my own in-the-works community. "ShaunOfShadouGames" was too big, so I went with just, "ShaunOfShadou".

Needless to say, it stuck.