Where Does Your Nickname Come From?
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I know this is a classic, but it’s never been done around here so I thought it’d be neat to have one!
Basically, why do you use the nickname you currently do? Is there any little story behind it? Juicy details?
For my part, FriendlyFire comes from me wanting a more general nickname which I could use everywhere. I wanted something a bit… catchy, without setting a negative tone. I then remembered how I used to participate in small friendly Halo games where we’d always end up team killing eachother (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter suffered from the same treatment) and took the precise lettering from the “Allow Friendly Fire” checkbox on a game (not sure it was Halo, maybe Battlefield or Counterstrike). The name stuck and here I am ;D
Now, to your stories, hehehe!
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All the other decent names starting with the letter ‘M’ where taken.
Hence this.
I also have ollivier and markus,
ollivier comes from my dog, whose original name was Ollie.
markus comes from the same strain as mapoubelle. -
Back in the day… I played with various names… xai / Xaries… ect… untill i found
my “niche” with Xarian… on closer inspection though… there were others… so i had to amend
something… being a G1 transformers nut… i went with “Prime”… hehe as a joke… lolNow… lol im more known for “Xarian” than myself… some ppl even think were coexisting in the
same “host” … rotfl…
all i know is that since my “rebirth” in the fires of war during a clan operation…
Its hard to tell the difference anymore… hehe… were as much one as the same…main difference being… i dont wanna blow up everything in my crosshair… well not today anyways hehe
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**In my case my nickname came about long before FL was even thought of. It did fit in perfectly though once it came about.
Talking about ancient history, back in 1986 I spent some time working with a group in HS teaching others how to care for children and one of the women there pulled out a lance. She was showing me how to properly use it so that is when I came up with Lancer, that is what I called the person who performs the lancing. Solurus came from an extension of Sol, our home star system. One nice thing is I have never found anyone else using that name anywhere so I continue to use it to this day.**
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tongue in cheek
It all started back in WW’Nam. Were were fighting against battalions of VC. We called protective fires ‘danger close’ from artillery and close air support to keep our position from being overrun. But it was hopeless, there were too many of them for our small reconnaissance patrol. To allow my team to get to our extract. I stayed behind to man the 40 mega watt plasma cannon while the rest of my patrol ran to the verti-bird. Apparently the crew chief got the headcount wrong and they left without me. Needless to say I had to fight my way through 30 clicks full of enemy fighters. Thankfully I rescued Chuck Norris on the way, and we lived off nuts we picked out of bear poo, and killed hundreds of enemy fighters with our mono-blades and throwing stars.
When we got to our base, it was empty because politicians decided the war was immoral and they couldn’t find any WMD. Despite the fact I found 2 kilos of enriched uranium in a VC tunnel (which Chuck Norris “keestered” for safe keeping). So in the end, Chuck and I ended up trying to swim across the ocean to get home but got swallowed by a whale. Chuck killed the whale and we floated on the cadaver until we stumbled upon a raft manned by Cuban immigrants trying to get to Florida.
During this whole trip, Chuck didn’t know my name. He asked what it was, since I wanted to be as cool as his beard and spinning back-fist I said, “My name is Forsaken, commander of the 10th legion and loyal servant of Rome”
The end.
lol no more Jim Beam and Coke for me lol
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mein first nicknames were ? ?? und Phönix, but i used ? ?? only for one reason: i dont know any better nicks
After some months my friend and me founded a Clan names [Phönix-Staffel], so i cant call me Phönix ;D
So i look for some nicks and played FL-SP…
i belived not many ppl. know about this name, and i was right
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<- RL name Sebastian
abbreviated Basti abbreviated Bas ^^
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I like Dragons so wanted somethign involving them, mostly the decent names were taken so i sat and thought about it for a while and decided abbreviating it to draga dn adding a nite sounded good so here i am.
ps. Oh and like some silly people believe it has absolutely sod all to do with flaming pokemon.
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I don’t have a real story behind my nick and it doesn’t have any connections to my RL name
All i would like to have is a short and concise name for in game and forum names. In former times i had a different and longer name - but it turned out that long names are inappropriate if you like to talk with persons and name them by their nick. (and we all know the fl chat is limited)
So i tried to find a short name and somewhat the “Huor” came to my mind (this is often used as shout in military either
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Later on i searched for an appropriate last name for Huor - and there i found Súrion (where google helped me to find the last name). So once i decided to name my nick “Huor Súrion” - and later had to learn this name is used in Tolkien’s stories as name for a Hobbit But i didn’t know of this relation as i have chosen this nick^^ weird accident - but nice -
All the other decent names starting with the letter ‘M’ where taken.
Hence this.
I also have ollivier and markus,
ollivier comes from my dog, whose original name was Ollie.
markus comes from the same strain as mapoubelle.Just out of curiosity, do you know what your name means in French?
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Well, I’ll have a go. Nightstalker comes from the 160th SOAR Night Stalkers, These guys flew us into Somalia and watched our back while we did our job. Their sacrifice to stay on station and cover us will not be forgotten.
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Mr ED is the horse from the show – I and the horse go way back – my name is ed – and that show kinda haunted my youth – so i made that damm horse my own – kinda slay the demon so to speak – cant get rid of him sooooo join him – has worked to my benefit eversince ( teach me to argue with fate )
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My nickname started off with a character name for a Star Wars chat-based role-playing game. Basically, I wanted something for a name that sounded like it came from another galaxy. Who wants to play with a boring name like Bob or Bill or Tom, y’know.
At the time, I was close with a Finnish girl and after seeing some of the language, I got the idea of seeing what an average saying would be when translated into Finnish. Loosely, according to some online translator (so I don’t vouch for the validity of these translations :P) - Omapainen Yksilo was one of the results when I put in ‘Maverick’.
The name stuck, although on more than one occasion have I being approached by people thinking I am Finnish. They get a bit of a shock when they find out I’m Irish. Omapainen quickly was shortened to Oma, which in turn started some ‘grandma’ jokes amongst those who speak Dutch. ;D
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Return to Castle Wolvenstien and Battlefield 2 and my anti social behavour with the sniper rifle.
