Where Does Your Nickname Come From?

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.

I find it is really funny how many people have asked me over the last few years why I picked this name.
But to explain, this particular name was for my aggressive hunter character so this name was chosen for three reasons.

First: My mate makes it quite clear I spend way too much time growling.
Second: I have a minuscule, microscopic amount of actual Native American Blood Heritage.
Third: So I like animal persona’s, but some of these, such as Snarling Sparrow, just sounded hilariously rabid.

So I chose to be the Timber Wolf or Grey Wolf, The nastiest dog of them all.

Seemed simple to me at the time, and It has fit me in the end…

reasson 4 he is old and grey

@Predator:

reasson 4 he is old and grey

Yea, they prolly figured that one out, some of them have never seen let alone still owned vinyl record albums, heard of a MFM Hard Drive, or knew there was a op system called CP/M.

I am in the same boat, but I still got a couple years to get as “Grey” as you Predator.

@Grey:

some of them have never seen let alone still owned vinyl record albums

Vinyl ?? What’s that j/k

I still regularly play my collection of singles and albums so your not that old

As for my nick, I’ve said it before (a few times) but not on here (I don’t think), it’s the phonetic spelling of my initials.

B.J.Mc becomes Be jay mac