ways_back_room | OMG, another meme.

95_tan - "-tan" is a cutesy corruption of "-chan," which is the close/familiar version of "-san" in Japanese. It's how most of the people in TW fandom refer to the various OSes.

hideousprogeny - I looked for something interesting in the Frankenstein book. This fit.

shockinglycute - should speak for itself, with Pikachu.

no_devo_quotes - The whip is the Belmonts' signature weapon. And there's a certain song by Devo that applies there.

mark_of_samael - this is what Dahlia calls the symbols that Alessa put all over the nightmare version of Silent Hill. Um, and it was the only thing I could think of that fit and wasn't taken.

The sad thing is, I kept trying to figure out Sonia's name because I knew it was a joke... but I never got it until now.

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First, and totally unrelated, I would like to express my undying love for that icon.

Okay, as for the username, it's terribly unoriginal. My girl is from a short story called "The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" so...

*gestures to username*

I did consider creating something based on a line from the story; somebody described her as having 'D-cup guts and trainer bra brains', but I couldn't think of any combinations that really worked.

*seconds motion for meme tag*

First, and totally unrelated, I would like to express my undying love for that icon.

...which I did not recognize at first and thus spent a moment trying to figure out why Patrick Swayze would be talking about traps. *headdesk*

*falls over dead asleep*

the_seafarer comes from The Last Battle, where Caspian is referred to as both "the Navigator" and "the Seafarer." (I liked "seafarer" better)

galactic_prez and

avonlea_girl are fairly obvious.

la_calice came with Utena when I adopted her, and I'm not sure of the significance. When I have money again I think I'll change it.

_hear_no_evil is a bad pun on Nick being deaf and on the "good" side in The Stand.

man_of_all_work is how Perry describes himself when he doesn't admit to Amy that he is King.

herr_farrenen: James is thrown off by Siegfried's first name before they meet, and imagines him as a German vet whose name had been warped by years in England. He was wrong, of course.

subtle_will: Will is subtle in character, and he is the keeper of the subtle knife. All right, I'm terrible at puns, yes.

For some reason (I'll blame it on Murphy), I want to say 'la calice' translates to 'the rose'*, which would make some sense given the canon.

*I make no promises on how accurate said translation is, though - the chara may know seven other languages, but the mun does good keeping the one straight sometimes.

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I do not know how the usernames for

jackdriscoll and

jed_leland arose. Sorry.

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killer_bride because she's an assasin and was known for a movie and a half as the Bride.

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iwasalevel6 because he whined in season 4 that he was once had a level 6 access to CTU...stuff...and that regulating him to a lower access level was just wrong.

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agreathunter because that's what he sees himself as. That's what he wants to be. That's what he is, really.

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narrator_rod because he's a narrator and his name is Rod. Right.

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terroristlady because she's a terrorist and a woman. Yup.

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_driscoll ...fah, I'm not answering that.

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not_that_bill because he's not Bill Weasley.

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_myloveisreal, helloooo movie tagline! That, and, well, yes, his love is real.

Behrooz -

kayip. It's a Turkish word for "lost" with some connotations for "sacrifice." This is also known as Veronica had NO idea what to use and refused to use something like 'terrorteen'

Jane Saunders -

scares_me. Comes from a line in the show, when Jane says that Jack Bauer "scares me." She had rather good reasoning for this.

Ingrid -

_whiteflame. Comes from a line near the opening of the novel White Oleander, as Astrid, Ingrid's daughter, describes her mother looking out at the city from the roof of their apartment building. "I climbed to the roof and easily spotted her blond hair like a white flame in the light of the three-quarter moon."

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I feel like

diamndcourtesan and

gooddoggromit are kinda obvious, although one could argue that Gromit is not always terribly good in the traditional rule-following sense.

renevatio is a misspelling of the first thing that really cues Merrick off about what's going on in Lincoln's brain, i.e. that he's remembering things that his clone sponsor knew or experienced -- it's the name of a boat Tom Lincoln designed that features prominently in Lincoln's dreams, called Renovatio. It means "rebirth" in Latin.

Oh hell, that was boring.

This is a great meme, though -- some people's usernames I see and squeal, they're so clever.

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Inquisitivehero for Hank McCoy came from a story that told how he always asked Why about everything, and was very curious. Hence the name.

Conflictedhero for Bruce Banner was easy, as here was this guy who tried his best to be a good guy but was saddled by all these multiple personalities. Most of which werent so good.

Originalmarvel, for Captain Marvel was a double. He was both the first to use the power of Shazam and the first Captain Marvel, even though Marvel Comics basically stole the name years later.

Magius_unlocked was because I was letting Magius out of Krynn, which, in DnD, is a locked system.

Teyfera is Teyfera's name.

knight_sparhawk is because Sparhawk is a knight.

elrond_healer is because one of Elrond's strongest attributes was his healing ability.

cain_walker is because Cain was cursed to be a walker on Earth till the final trump.

bohemia_spirit is because Bohemia is a Spirit.

He was both the first to use the power of Shazam and the first Captain Marvel, even though Marvel Comics basically stole the name years later.

Heh. In my Survey of Sequential Art class, we got to learn all about the legal hooha surrounding the various Captain Marvels, Marvel comics, and all that. Fun stuff.

Re: most of mine are obvious ones but some arent so...

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syfte,

eilinel,

dequincy,

red_as_rose,

mctrillian,

wizard_kit,

thursdayn and

arch_sariel are all forms on their names. So, boring, out of the way!

manofthecity: Carrot just is.

indolent_vet: Tristan is an idler. And unfortunately all other takes on Siegfried's various sweet and loving ways to phrase 'bloody bone idle' (including that) were not working.

backwardname: "Does it matter to you that your name's backward? I mean, your first name's a last name and your last name's a first name."

notablessing: Tagline of his canon is "Not every gift is a blessing."

qsilver_keeper: Claire's official title is The Keeper, and nobody even knows her name is Claire until a few episodes in.

crimeandpolitic: "Crime and politics, little girl. The situation is fluid."

dnaromantic: ... the conversation between Nick and Greg inspiring this is in his userinfo.

forthsdaughter: Willie Forth is, in Peabodycanon, actually a rather famous historian, and there is a Forth Trust Foundation now in Nefret's name -- so being Forth's daughter is, in fact, something significant, as is being Emerson's.

pen_velui: Direct Sindarin "lovely one."

live_to_feel: The meaning of life, EQ style.

reapsandcons: She does both. Sometimes at once.

horseblanket: Ash casts Sheila's first gift (a shawl) away by stating he will use it as a horse blanket. Instant username.

erstaunlich: Direct German "amazing," can also mean "incredible," like how in the Munich circus he was often known as ...

notsoharmless: The name of canon is Mostly Harmless. Well, it turns out she's actually not harmless at all.

I want to point out to interested readers that Carrot in one of the early books (Guards! Guards!? Men at Arms?) makes a continuing big deal about 'polis' meaning city, and all the words that derive from it, including policeman, which means 'man of the city'.

Actually I think it is Men at Arms, because it's the book in which he very visibly declines to be king, choosing instead to remain a policeman.

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rebel_falcon - Han Solo - came that way, name picked by the previous mun, but it's fairly obvious. :)

i_spoiled_it - Stephanie Brown - 'cos I was getting desperate for one that was free, Steph's first 'hero' codename was Spoiler, and she died in the middle of a gang war that she started, so she's got lotsa guilt going on.

safetyoverstyle - Cassie Sandsmark, when she first became the second Wonder Girl, used to wear kneepads and giant safety goggles. Then a different writer took over and she moved into spandex and boob shots and lost her personality grumble grumble grumble etc.

blackbanthaboy - Face Loran was a galactically famous child star when he was younger, even though he's incredibly embarrassed about the fact now; one of the holos he starred in was called The Black Bantha. (Or something similar. *too lazy to check canon*)

chilliking - Ollie Queen makes the kind of chilli that only Batman can eat straight-faced. (Even Superman uses his ice-breath on the stuff before putting it in his mouth.) It's joked that it's part of a JLA entrance ritual to try to eat Green Arrow's chilli.

...Oooh dear.

silver_flecks: Flecks of silver once obscured Delirium's vision. Now, she can see around them, but hey, still there.

prydeful: ...Her last name is Pryde. It is a bad pun. I'm sorry.

talented_biter: Sunny bites. And she is good at it.

just_mad_about: I'm just mad about Saffron, and she's just made about me...yes, also bad.

follow_me_in: Because Lucy went first into Narnia and the others followed her.

pure_ebony: ...S'kinda self-explanatory, no?

just_elaine: because that's what she most likes being

ay_el_ef: Also not hard to figure out.

captain_falafel: Is a line! In show!

Did they call you Mellow Yellow?

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*considers*

fathers_cleric because-well initially preston was the only person on the dose at the beginning of teh movie. Father's ultrimate tool against the forces of ebil that make of the violence and emotions.

hollywdcockroch...I loved the line in Kong about Carl being a cockroch, and since hollywood is/was populated with people like Carl I felt it rather fitting to add "hollywd" to the name

parlor_tricks the BEST line in Batman begins was when Ra's did his thing about image and shape being "parlor" tricks. Hence this title.

jusa_littlelion I wrote a dim fanfic where I accidentally mistyped the world librian and lion so it became stuck in my head that robbie would be a little lion cause his dad was a big one. *grins*

undrgnd_leader Jurgen's name is what he does. *shrugshrug*

lassotrickIn the making of Sin City book they made a big deal about how Robert Rodriguez had a stagehand who knew how to do rope tricks and taught jessica Alba um. That and it seemed like something she'd be able to do.

(That and the line in BFK where Rafferty goes "And call that gal Nancy, and tell her to bring her lasso" brought strange images into my brainmeats)

and because I feel like including him-

notanormalfox. Which just-describes him to a tea.

I wrote a dim fanfic where I accidentally mistyped the world librian and lion so it became stuck in my head that robbie would be a little lion cause his dad was a big one. *grins*

Cutest reason EVER.

bad_in_latin: In the FF episode "The Train Job", Mal's just gotten back from starting a fight in an Alliance-friendly bar, and he walks into the infirmary where Simon and River are talking, as he walks out, River's only comment is, "Mal. Bad. In Latin."

realmrsreynolds: *adjusts Ma Reynolds voice* Because someone attempted to marry Malcolm without his bein' knowledgable of it, and she is here to explain to everyone that she is the real McCoy. Er. Reynolds. Yes.

Sadly repeating m'self, I adopted the journal for

saint_aequitas but am willing to bet the name came from the movie title (The Boondock Saints)/the fact that the press calls the boys 'The Saints of South Boston' and Murphy's tattoo of AÉQUITAS (Latin for Justice) on his right hand.

Didn't have this chara last time, though -

eagleoftheglen got her name because the Ravenclaw badge is an eagle and the Sorting Hat once mentioned her as being 'from the glen' (which the fandom generally takes to mean she's from Scotland).

b_hawkins Self explanatory.

oldromansaint "Santino, the old saint of Rome. He has wandered into the disasters of the modern era with all his beauty unblemished," etc. Armand, on Santino, in 'The Vampire Armand'.

musical_muse is the Muse of Music

loverly_lady is the Muse of Erotica and Love Poetry, therefore, of lovers.

magick_willow is a witch.

oh_frak_me is one of Starbuck's catchphrases.

regina_nivalis translates approximately as "Queen of Snow" in Latin.

proud_titania is one of the Faerie Queen's epithets in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

_kisskiss_ is Karla's way of telling people to fuck off.

noir_pi is a film noir style detective.

surreally_yours's name is Surreal.

arrakis_witch is a practitioner of the ways of the Bene Gesserit with special powers who was born on Arrakis.

holy crap, you play Surreal? *fangirls madly*

always_k_i_t_t - Even though he goes through changes in canon and in Milliways, the one thing that's not changed is that Kitt is Kitt.

not_a_surgeon - In season one, Bonnie mentions that her father wanted her to be a surgeon, but she couldn't stand the sight of blood. She chose technology instead.

ucav_tinman - Talon Three, Lieutenant Henry Purcell, gave Eddie the callsign Tinman on their first flight out, and Eddie is a UCAV - Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle.

h_constant - This is taken from the value of exchange in Vurt - Hobart's Constant.

ok, here we go.

watcher_g_man for Giles, pretty straightforward. He's a Watcher, and Xander liked to call him "G-man" in the canon. Bwah.

doc_venkman for Venkman, again straightforward, and while Venkman usually doesn't act seriously, he still likes to bring attention to the fact that yes, even guys like him can get doctorates.

cellist_dana for Dana since, her name, and she is a cellist for the New York Philharmonic.

ferretboydraco Of course, this refers to the famous scene involving the "Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing Ferret" from GoF. And he gets twitchy like a ferret at times.

mumbling_truth for Poetboy, aka Todd, refers to the impromptu poem he created in class in his canon, and further more, mumbling due to his shy nature, and tendency to mumble and stammer. Yet, he's willing to speak truth via his writings and poems.

reluctantcleric for Partridge since while he was a Cleric, he's not at all violent by nature. Furthermore, it refers to his reluctance to the mission he was given before the beginning of the film's events.

lesser known pups:

kawaiiorihime, because she's cute.

gaelic_fae_girl, because Molly's Irish, and canon's repeatedly linked her with the Fae, plus she's been described as being fey. She's had precognitive episodes, and has had visions at times (usually thought she was crazy, and had taken medication for it)

ushouldcwhatic - for Johnny Smith since that was the tagline from the show's opener.

notasaint_joan Simply because while she and the first Joan both talk to god, this one is anything but a saint. She's definitely not perfect.
And also... *g*

explorertruman because it was mentioned a couple of times in his canon how he wanted to be explorer, and also how he ended exploring the truth in his surroundings, and "reality".

*coughs* And damn enabling and headvoices... there's likely going to be this one, too.

shakenstrfaith which comes courtesy of a quote in Memento Mori, and basically describes her religious faith, and her faith in logic and rationality has been shaken and strengthed over the years in her work.

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t3h_kyp -- ... I would totally change Kyp's now, because I made this a year ago and had absolutely no ideas.

i_love_kettch -- *shifty* As anyone inna crackplot knows, Kettch is a stuffed Ewok, that Wes always plays pranks with. Who ... may or may not still have a transmitter sewn in him. *eyes Wedge*

makes_it_rain -- bit spoilery, but it's from episode twenty-five of FMA. Anyone who's seen it knows the line Roy says near the end, right?

yankeedoodle_dr -- from an episode in the first series (season~) where a film about the M*A*S*H 4077th was made. *grin*

whats_bad_wolf -- Series 1/26 (man I get so confused) of Doctor Who had this running plot-thread of "Bad Wolf" appearing everywhere. See the last ep for why it's so appropriate to Rose. :)

Also, just-apped...

dead_brit -- Because I was highly unoriginal and Mason is a dead Brit. *shifty*

anotherlifebro -- First three episodes of Lost S2. Says "brother" and "See you in another life" a lot. Yes, I'm apping him.

Haha, I totally enabled the Desmond app, didn't I? That's gonna be awesome. :D

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femme_wizard is female and a wizard and I am unoriginal.

slayer_fray is proof of how unoriginal I am. But it did spawn

dreamer_fray and

copper_fray, so that's all right then.

last_human - the title of a novelisation; what he is; what he's resigned to be; and what makes him special.

somebodysdog is a slightly altered line from canon, referring to Carrot:
"Anyway, I'm a wolf living with people, and there's a name for wolves that live with people. If he whistled, I'd come running."
Vimes tried not to show his embarrassment.
Angua smiled. "Don't worry, Mr Vimes. You've said it yourself. Sooner or later, we're all someone's dog."

vanwithaman again comes from canon:
"I'm a carriage with no marriage, I'm a van without a man."
except she's post canon, so she has a man, see?
although I really want to change it to

recoupled.

no_justice: "THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE'S JUST ME." - all that needs to be said, really. I'm just surprised it wasn't taken.

feintsoncue and

faintsoncue - they're homophones, dammit!

tinyceratops is just cute.

goodboyladdie -

wonderdog was taken.

mortisbelle - 'mortis' is the proprietary magical discipline of Serena's clan. 'belle', because she is a beauty.

vaapadmaster - 'vaapad' is the signature lightsaber style that Mace Windu developed. Interesting is that he is not only the master of vaapad, he is the only person in the universe that knows it.

lastczarnian - having killed all the other czarnians to make himself truly unique in the universe, Lobo is the Last Czarnian

grovecj - CJ is from Orange Grove Street, in Los Santos.

firmus_piett - that's his full name, according to Star Wars canon

I think this is self explanatory. Not only is it the last line of her canon, but she has always been named after clothing. And now, she no longer wears the riding hood.

qsilver_lab_rat - Darien thinks of himself as a lab rat most of the time, a convenient host for the Quicksilver gland until either the government or someone else decides to pluck it out and kill him. It irritates him, but also has a lot to do with his issues.

wellthrownstone - there is a story told to Garion to explain exactly what he is in the middle of the Belgariad: basically, the universe was a stone on a course for a target. Somehow, it bounced off course. Garion is, for all intents and purposes, a second stone thrown to set the first back on track. I quoted the canon story once but there's the small version.

eternal_boy - it's the description for Nick given by just about everyone at one point, but for different reasons. Some of it has to do with the fact that he has the patience of a puppy on speed (or, *g* a ferret on a double cappaccino). Another has to do with the fact that he never really gets to get OLDER or mature because of what he is. the last is just an expression of irritation...because, really, sometimes he has all the maturity of a 14 year old girl with a blog...

dead_in_chicago - Jack's got a lot of issues but the one that perks up most of the time is the fact that he is technically dead. This causes him no end of trouble and despite the benefits, it's something that causes him doubt and fear a great deal of the time. Also, hey, he died in Chicago. Figure that.

sir_apropos - well, aside from just being his name, it's also something we both find rather amusing. Him...a KNIGHT. For one, he's got such issues with knights, I have no words for it. For another, he's definitely not noble. Not. At. All. For last, the fact that he scrabbled up from whore's son to knight is something that shows you just how devious he is.

always_thirsty - Thomas is an incubus. Worse, he's an incubus who tries to be BETTER than his peers...or rather, he doesn't like to be like them. Thus, he never feeds as much as he should since to do so would injure the human he was feeding from. Thus, he's always Hungry. He relates how this is by racing his brother down a sandy beach. When his brother beats him to the car, BARELY, Harry reaches for a bottle of water to cool his thirst. After the first sip, Thomas smacks it out of his hand and into the sand. "That," he tells him, "is what it's like."

And it never gets better.

fell_in_battle - well, that's all we ever hear of it.

mini_matantei - little detective. and that's what he is.

mailorderjunkie - Yamino LOVES mail order items and will get just about every thing and anything to deliver. It has to do with the fact that for most of his life, he was sitting in the cold and the dark, alone and bored and hated. I mean...if you'd been there, would you think a voice-activated toaster would be neat too?

_computer_wiz_ - Computer Manual. Wizard. And really, she's part computer herself in a way. Thus - Dairine.

...more later

artsmartscarlet: Taken from a big, big Daria fanfic series. (I was strapped for ideas, and also it fits Jane very well.)

withrocksin: ...Look, after the plot, do I really have to explain? XD

the_antiangst: My theory that if Rent!Angel and Buffy's Angel ever met the universe would explode (oh... wait) came before the app, though not by very much at all. Rather than matter and antimatter, you have angst and antiangst, so.

darling_alexi: "Or email me at darlingalexi at buzzline dot net!" (Also known as canon making my life easier.)

callmefelicia - Adam's drag name is Felicia Jollygoodfellow, and his friends sometimes call him that even out of drag. He likes the name.

spectral_skin - he's dead, and his team codename was Skin.

street_sparrow - a variant on "street rat", because canon refers to him as a sparrow.

nobilityrules - no one in canon is nobler than Norrington, and he believes in rules to a point.

jonathanparagon - based on the episode "Superstar", where he casts a paragon spell to make a world where he's good at everything.

qsilver_md - he's a doctor and the head researcher of the Quicksilver project.

youalleverybody - the title of Driveshaft's most successful song.

rockfriend - he talks to rocks in the movie and says they're his friends.

herbal_waitress - she works as a waitress in canon and has a thing for herbal remedies.

rebelheartalien - this is self-explanatory, if you know Michael's character.

stopped_signal - his catchphrase in the movie is "can't stop the signal", but he's dead, hence this particular signal was stopped.

petriedino - self-explanatory.

and_far_away - a line from the TV show's theme song

royal_guarantor - he's the king of his world, and one of his other titles is Guarantor.

pink_sombrera - he owns and often wears a pink straw hat in canon.

ulfin_kingsman - his name and his role in life. He's the king's chamberlain, and loyal to the death.

unique_moments: Do I need to explain? *sigh* When Sam feels ordinary, she makes a little noise, to have a unique moment. And...she just is a unique moment.

Yeah. She's the only one with an interesting username. >.>

*prods* I don't think that's true. Even the simple names have a story behind them.