Where Does Your Nickname Come From?

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 )
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

Mines just a contraction of my name, Matthew Knote. Nothing complex, really, and I use it for every screename I can.

MK

Vital is my name.

the bulldog shits everywhere, thus

hehe dunno where mine came from, dunno why i used two g’s at the end :S

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.

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 )

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

Return to Castle Wolvenstien and Battlefield 2 and my anti social behavour with the sniper rifle.

needed a name for a character and i was eating cheese on toast at the time. pretty boring tbh lol

Well, I used to go by the name Chestomagnetic (and many still know me as chesto), which came from someone at school. It’s a shortening of my last name, Chesterton, and I’ve got no idea where he pulled the magnetic from. Anyway, I needed a name one day for a forum and it popped into my head.

Later on, it became untenable for me to continue using that name, so I cast around for another.

I’d just started using Avenger as a shipname, and it seemed to fit, so I started using it.

Nothing too special about it, really.

Durimo

i always had that name when the worms came out and i named one of those little worms Durimo so i stuck with that name since then

my other nicknames are Pathfinder / Acelin / and some other ones but my main Nickname is Durimo

{~CELTS~}~Durimo

Roo Avery is taken from ‘Rise of a Merchant Prince’ written by Raymond E Feist.

Ramirez was taken from Highlander. I used it for my character as a Corsair (which I started a month after joining MP FL.) It’s stuck since then, and now I’m more known for that than any other name I have used since.

My original screen name, Descender, came from my undying love for the Descent video games. I was young and unoriginal and wanted to be called “Descenter”, but it didn’t quite work, so I changed the T to a D, and viola.

The iteration of the name “Descender021” came from a story I had written that featured a character who had been identified as the 21st member of a Genetic Enhancement experiment, and had been given the name Descender for his style of falling from behind and above the opponent.

The most recent iteration (first seen on Shattered Worlds) is “Descender|LE”, which stands for “Limited Edition”. I felt since I’d been using Descender for as long as I had, it needed a bit of change. And so, I added Limited Edition to it. laughs Quite the name.

Though, Serious Steve is one I’m fond of. Got that from playing Serious Sam with my dad for a very very long time.

Bet You all thought i made Soup didnt you ? ;D

Not True

My Last Name is Campbell and growing up my friends all called me Soup or Soupy… Soupman wasnt much of a stretch… and i have always used it in every game i play…

Well i go By CKYRules everywere else, but my name here. David is my first name, Starbuck is my real Radio handle, and Hunt after Keven Sorobo’s character Cap. Dylan Hunt from Gene Rodenberrys Andromeda.

I was always a fan of foxes as a kid, but “fox” by itself was a bit too generic - so I slapped on a “Unit 01” at the end and here I am.

That name’s about 9 years old now, and I’ve since started using “foxBox” where able (from Dr. Seuss, “would you eat dinner with a fox in a box?”), as that’s got decent ring to it and nobody else uses it.
However, I still use “foxUnit01” for forums, out of habit - otherwise, half my logins would be one name, and the other half another name, and remembering different passwords alone is hard enough. =P

As for the Tails avatars, I was a fan of Tails from the Sonic games as a kid, and that has stuck ever since as well. Guess I’ll always be a kid at heart. =3

Flint -Marko = not my true identity Google it my other Alias name is connected to it. But to be honest i have had that many i forgot who i started out as.

-=DUNE=-Angel-Azreal my original name my noob name as it was pointed out to me when i first played Freelancer.

Since I’ve been a Bountyhunter for a long time i used different version like soulhunter, brainhunter, bountyhunter or simply hunter and also Mindhunter.
At some point i started using mindhunter as my only nickname and used it for over 3 years on different servers before it became my Admin nick over at NU.