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minkhollow :acts_of_gord is taken from a Web site of the same name, but has nothing to do with Half-Life- the Acts of Gord site is about a video game store owner in British Columbia and how he says he deals with horrible customers. Fun, though, and it sounded good for Gordon.gone_byebye is taken from the end of Ghostbusters. "Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon. What've you got left?"hecu_marine - Adrian's original username on LJ was a reference to something the G-Man said, but I changed it when we moved to DW because I wanted something that more directly spoke of who Shephard was and what he did. HECU was his old unit, the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit.hands_of_blu is because Medic has about as much regard for human life and dignity as the Hands of Blue in the Firefly 'verse.pattersongs is because Mordin notes that he performed small parts in community theater for cultural exploration purposes and they mostly had him perform the patter songs in Gilbert and Sullivan. Journal names referring to his most famous singing number, "Scientist Salarian", were already taken.igetthatalot for Varric is because of a line where someone claims that oh, they're just maaadly in love with him (or something along those lines), and he responds with "Yeah, I get that a lot."chimpan_a is because I was a little stuck for a suitable name for Zira, and then thought of the Simpsons episode where Troy McClure performed in the Planet of the Apes musical. "I hate every ape I see / From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z!"covert_bandage is because if you crouch and go into stealth mode while playing Fallout New Vegas and you have Arcade Gannon as your follower at the time, he often notes that 'okay, but my covert bandaging skills are a little rusty'.aaaaaaaagh_sky is because Ellen grew up underground and on my first Fallout 3 playthrough I kept thinking that I was controlling a nineteen year old agoraphobe, who probably did a lot of looking straight up and spinning in circles and screaming at the top of her lungs in panic.death_fangirl is named that because the first time all the surviving trolls and two of the humans met up, Terezi described Aradia's enthusiasm for having a funeral for the dead trolls as a 'death fangirl thing'.venusadept_2 is very simple: Felix is the second playable Venus Adept in his canon.baron_dragoon is likewise simple (I'm not really all that creative, name-wise): Kain's a Dragoon - the Dragoon, more or less - of the kingdom of Baron.needs_fern is a little more intricate: Fluttershy, when I was first watching her canon, reminded me quite a lot of Dorothy, from the video game Rune Factory 2. Now, Dorothy is able to deal with people - as long as she has her stuffed kangaroo-thing, Fern. (I was amused, a couple of days after making the journal, to realize that Leesha and I had quite independently picked usernames that were references to other canons. Sadly, the pattern has not continued with subsequent ponies.)magnetic_hair is kind of a möbius reference, in that it references what Youtube Autocaptioner inspired fans to call an earlier MLP character. (Specifically, Steven Magnet.)psyched_you_out is a legacy name from LJ, where two different people gave me Shawn journals with nearly identical usernames. I tweaked the spelling when I brought him over to DW. It's a reference to the theme song, of course.spaceboy3000 has a few different layers to it. It sums up his life as an intergalactic delivery boy, and "Space Boy" is also the name of the comic he reads at a few points in the series. It's also a vague reference to the show's pilot episode. harvard_bounty is pretty straightforward. I wanted something that would encompass both his well-educated book-smart side and his rougher trail-savvy side. doing_science - because of this. (Major earworm alert.) eagle_shredder - a combination of his name and the nickname on his official website bio. (I also find it strangely amusing that the official site spells his name about four different ways.)venturedean is solely because I couldn't think of anything wittier. :/ operates_cobra - Henry Mills and his Operation COBRA.presspasskey - I am not always pleased with it, but it sticks in my mind. Steph via Kati is to blame for this. Combo press pass and a Dr. Fate line in SV S9 about with reference to her in Clark's life ("She is the key").rememberswhy - Perry says no one will remember why Lois won a Pulitzer, just that she did; she can't forget. Also, either she doesn't remember and later does about how Jason's half-alien, or she remembers and doesn't say. Possibly mildly ironic, but possibly not.solisfilium - A) pretty, I like the sound in Latin; B) Jason was born under our yellow sun and, well, his dad's almost like a sun god?)student_of_impossibility - I am least happy with this one. It's Tavi's post-canon name, approximately. Ditto my Des journal. I want a new one.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
brandybuck -- people who didn't know LotR kept assuming my name was Brandy Buck). My favorite color is red, and I'm a shoe fiend, and there's nothing quite so dandy as having a new pair of red shoes, is there.valiantrebel is something Hal calls Hotspur in their final showdown (which you can watch here, though I can't, because it breaks my heart and makes me angry!).Paraphrased:Hotspur: If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.Some other discarded possibilities were icannotchoose (he's always going on about how he can't choose not to be angry at someone who says something stupid), andtoconclude (he ends a lot of rants this way, and I find it kind of endearing) and whoshallsaymenay (because dang, he's just that good).
Prince Hal: You speak as if I would deny my name.
Hotspur: My name is Harry Percy.
Prince Hal: Why then, I see a very valiant rebel of that name!
gorgonfondness came from the part in SSSC when Alex and company are in Damon's Spire. They have to pass a series of tests and the final one is to sculpt a huge piece of clay into a treasure. Since the clay's so big, they decide to take turns with one person directing the efforts of the others. When it's Mia's turn, she has them sculpt a gorgon, apparently her favorite animal. This prompts Nash to say, "I never knew you had such a fondness for monsters." Her journal was originally going to be fond_of_monsters but I screwed that up. I like what I've got better now, anyway.pullsneedles is all about Lucas's goal and ability throughout canon. Only two people in the whole world can pull the Needles keeping the Dark Dragon asleep: Lucas and the Masked Man. It's become a race between the two to see who can pull all seven first.knightoftheswan is from Lohengrin's adopted backstory based on Arthurian legend. There's trouble in some far off land and a lady is in need of a champion. Lohengrin arrives on the scene in a boat drawn by a giant swan. His one condition to his service is that his lady is not permitted to ask his name, so he's called the Knight of the Swan instead.the_lioness: Alanna's war name is 'The Lioness.' It will take me a while to get Alan to that point in canon, but I pounced on the name while it was available. Also, I wanted to differentiate a little from LJ!Alanna, who was a_lioness. Conveniently, a_lioness was already taken on DW!peerless_thayet: Renowned for her beauty, Thayet is known throughout Tortall as Thayet the Peerless. In truth, the name makes her mildly embarrassed, so she pretends it's extolling her other, more useful virtues.snowy_river_man: Um. He's The Man From Snowy River. See? Clever. :)doc_evil: He is proud of his evil medical degree, ok?try_corsets: This username doesn't really fit Elizabeth anymore, but I'm rather attached to it. Anyway, it's a result of her "Try wearing a corset!" line in PotC: CotBP.headed4hell: Earl tells Grace she is headed for Hell if she doesn't turn her life around, so the username is both literal and a feisty "Up yours, Earl."truckasaurus_mitts: It is a running gag in canon that Lana has ENORMOUS hands. Archer himself is to blame for the name. My other option was danger_zone. For reasons.a_mad_hope: There are actual layers to Karou's username! Layers which are extremely spoilery. Er... how do you do white text again? becareful_boyo: It's something Abigail says a lot, especially to Raph.cantkill_truth: You can't kill the truth is one of George's mantras. And there are other reasons I love this name. Yup.river_meimei is because mèimei means "little sister" in Chinese, and is something River gets called as an endearment a lot in canon -- mostly by Simon, but other members of the crew call her that too. And being a little sister is pretty fundamental to River's personality. (Plus Batya and I wanted to match in format, so it was and is river_meimei and simon_doctor.)regan_tam... is her name. Because I couldn't think of anything more clever for a one-scene character. Next!3nanashi is the name I inherited from when Ji played Trowa, but I like it! I'd've changed it to 03nanashi when we moved to DW if I'd thought of it, but I didn't. "Nanashi" means "nameless" in Japanese, and it's what Trowa used to be called as a kid, and he was Gundam Pilot 03, from colony L3. It's a name that's very tied into his canon and pre-canon life and issues, but I like having a callback to his history inherent in his journal name. Even if he's grown and changed a lot, that past is still very influential on who he is.demisemidemon is because all Claymores are part demon. But Clare is (spoiler!) only a quarter demon, not half. (I only wish I could have justified naming her demisemihemidemon, because I am really easily amused.) Also I like the reminder that Clare isn't exactly human anymore, and that that yoma part of her is always there and relevant, no matter what else is going on.mjolnir_retriever is varadia's fault. Mjölnir is, of course, Thor's hammer, and regaining it is a major part of the plot and his character arc in his first movie. Also, Thor gets compared a lot to a giant dog. It's easy to overstate that (thanks, a lot of fandom), but there's also a lot of truth in it: he's big and energetic and full of bounding self-confidence and loyalty, and he makes friends fast, and if he loves you he'll love you forever even if he stops trusting you, and also he's a wall of muscle who could kill you if he felt like it. Also, he's got floppy blond hair and the comparison's funny.avariel_wings introduced me to crackchat as "Phoenix," and the rest is history.a_bolin_stone. I have no excuse for that username besides liking really, really terrible rock-based puns. >.> I have a feeling Bolin would appreciate an awful pun like that, though! Just be glad somebody had already registered bolin_in_the_deep.a1enzo: The "a1" is short for "alphanumeric," Enzo's catchphrase which means "awesome" for no very good reason. (Although the A-1 actually makes it make sense, in a backwards kind of way!) On LJ, alphanumeric was taken and alphanumericenzo was over the character limit and just plain unwieldy.justiceoverlaw: From his original short story:The Nightmare Detective looked at each of the AJC members in turn as he spoke. "I understand why you draw the line at the law, because to move past it is to move into an arena with no restraints, no boundaries. I have chosen, unlike you, to live in that region outside the law, because that's where you have to go to hunt down the people who would destroy the world encompassed by the law."
"So," Constitution sneered, "you're admitting you're a criminal."
"No, I admit I am an outlaw, and there is a difference. I do have a guide out there: justice."
anxietycloset: It's where he lives, or at least where he appears and operates from.chameno_koritsi is Greek for lost girl which really fits Thalia's story once she becomes a Hunter. She used to be aigiochos back on LJ which meant Aegis bearer which also worked but I like lost girl more as it covers more of her story.ever_lovin For those who've never read or scene Ben Grimm in any medium, he tends to talk like a boxer or wrestler before a match and one of his most used lines is "I'm the ever lovin, blue eyed Thing" second only to "I'm the idol of millions".justdyedit Comes from the recent (does within the past five years count as recent?) rewrite of Spider-Woman's origin, named appropriately enough Spider-Woman: Origin. In the story, Jessica disappears for two years after killing two big HYDRA brass and neither HYDRA or S.H.I.E.L.D. were able to find her. Nick Fury finally tracks her down in San Francisco, attending college and he mentions how impressed he is that she was able to do this. She replies, "Yeah, well I dyed my hair."no_more_hiding was a line of Raven's that will become Hank's goal in life. He spends his childhood and early life hiding his mutation and once he turns furry, Raven tells him this is who he is, no more hiding.olive_and_clove In Palamedes' canon everyone who can do magic can control their aura. UNlike other depictions of auras however, in this canon everyone's aura has a specific color and smell. His is a dark olive green that is almost black and smells of cloves.hermit_of.)dark_dancer: Originally post_whitewash, because... I was feeling very uncreative when I made Cata's journal. I took advantage of the move to rename it; now it's a reference to Sam waxing poetic about her at one point in canon (since that's about all the canon she actually has).never_misses: Sam mentions at one point that, before the Assassins' Guild completely disintegrated, people would ask for 'the blade that never misses,' meaning him (there's a certain amount of magic involved in that ability, but he ignores that, considering). I couldn't get it on LJ, so that one was doesnotmiss, but the permutation I wanted in the first place was free here, so!claudiometer: "Oh no no no, you do NOT shut down the Claudiometer." Couldn't go wrong with words out of Claud's own mouth.iamso_awesome: After some bandying about over syllables, this is the last line of Apollo's first terrible haiku in The Titan's Curse. Sums him up, fit the character limit, boom, done.not_elvish: HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THIS ONE NINE YEARS AGO, SERIOUSLY. Throughout Soul Music people keep asking Imp if he's elvish and he has no idea where they get this idea. (Incidentally, that's why I use Orlando Bloom for Imp's icons. He's got the right look, and what with Legolas, adds an extra layer to the joke.)no_martyr: I have... Issues with Regulus' fate in canon. Let's just say.itrunsinthefamily: This is easily the most convoluted of my set.abetter_shot: In last season's '60s flashback, Rebecca tells Jack she's a better shot than he is. There's also the fact that devoting her entire life to the Warehouse was never her plan.)aberration is sort of left over from very long ago days when I was more into anime (really, I think this was something I chose when I was 12 or 13), but it doesn't really mean anything. I've thought about changing it, especially now I'm more over at DW and my tumblrs have different names anyway, but I'm not sure what I'd change it to.ellectrical is a play on Elle's name with the word 'electrical.' It's probably still my favorite username - I did deliberately choose the word 'electrical' to make a pun of instead of something like ellectric or ellectricity or something, I think because I wanted the word to be an adjective, and I guess I thought this form of the adjective more encompassed the idea of her being like electrically connected/charged/full, whatever. Or maybe I just wanted it to have four syllables instead of three, I don't know.friendswaffleswork - I'll just let Leslie say it: We need to remember what's important in life: Friends, waffles, and work. Or waffles, friends, and work. It doesn't matter. But work is third.thisgrimfandango - Obviously includes the title of the canon in the username, but it also comes from a poem that you can choose to hear during the game if you bug Olivia Ofrenda enough. The last two lines, I think, make the words "grim fandango" a metaphor for the story of the game itself: But now we dance this grim fandango/And will four years before we rest.mix_it_up - This is from a line in canon, in which Asami tells Korra that "You can't be afraid to mix it up sometimes." I also think of it as a play on the fact that Asami's the non-bender of the group, so she's more often the one who has to think outside the box when it comes to how she acts and handles herself. And as she's someone who's been fortunate to both be talented and exposed to the processes that develop new technology, she's pretty good in that role. notsweetenough - This is Marceline from Adventure Time. The username comes from her song "Just Your Problem," in which she sings to Princess Bubblegum, Sorry I'm not made of sugar/And I'm not sweet enough for you.vance_prime - In canon, the Combine refers to Alyx as "Vance Subprime," but she's been "promoted" now that her father's dead.g00d_d0ggie -Pretty self-explanatory.no_vampires_plz - When you have a character named Twilight Sparkle, Stephanie Meyer jokes are kind of inevitable. This was my attempt to head them off at the pass.always_the_moon - Title of a Jonathan Coulton song.with_his_tail_high - A quote from his canon.dragons_emrys is my least favorite name: Emrys is what the Druids calls Merlin, he's a dragonlord...yeah, there's got to be something better. Unfortunately just "Emrys" is taken. I will take suggestions.jack_inthegreen is one of the Green Man's names/identities/related mythologies.dont_turn_around is because he's standing right behind you. Don't look. Run.bagginsofbagend: "I'm a Baggins of Bag End, we don't go on adventures."pushtheboatout "So I thought I'd push the boat out, so to speak."thekidfrombrooklyn: "What makes you so special?" "Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn." akidfrombrooklyn was already taken, though, so he became the kid from Brooklyn.holytaxaccountant (Castiel), mightbeagoodone (Sherlock Holmes), and basically_run, (Eleventh Doctor.)ceitfianna comes from two things. Ceit is the Scots Gaelic spelling of Kate, one of the few languages that has plain Kate as a name in it. Fianna is the name of some mythical Irish warriors and a Werewolf: The Apocalypse tribe and a word I just liked. Its become one of my main online identities.will_scarlett was my first character journal and his name is his name. I didn't realize I could do more complicated names until I actually got into Milliways. Then I went ooh look at all those interesting names. I'm still surprised that no one had grabbed this username before I started playing him.agloriousthing is fairly obvious, his most famous line of song, "For it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king."wheatencrown Demeter is associated with wheat and sometimes shown with a crown of wheat. It fit and I like the symbolism of it.friend_of_lucy Chat helped me create this one, Bethan in particular as I had no idea of a good username. Then she said this one and I went yes, because Tumnus defines himself through his friendship with Lucy as does a lot of canon.janebecomes The movie is called Becoming Jane and this was the combination that wasn't taken.makesthing This comes from a canon quote and is another username that I'm surprised wasn't taken before. The quote is "that's all I'm good at, making things."morethanprops I had a hard time coming up with this one as I couldn't find the right way to show who he was in a few words. In canon, he talks a lot about his props as furniture that help sell a new identity and I hit upon this one. I like it but it doesn't click as well as some others do.not_his_pa William defines himself against his father throughout his entire canon and this was the name that came together.balancingminds This is one of those cases of I couldn't get any of the names I first had an idea for and ended up stumbling on the perfect one. Charles is all about balance and deals constantly with minds.piwakawaka is the Maori name for a fantail, the name of the type of bird that Tiwa is.nitro_is_ace: This is, actually, something she'd say, and a holdover from when I was first signing up and miss-read the 'naming your pup journal' instructions, and thought that the pup's actual name had to be in the journal name. Yeaaaah. Some days, my brain, it has problems.gondolin_noble: Because there's only one Glorfindel. Really. And he's refusing to say if Balrogs have wings or not.katyafeline: Is an echo off of Olga's username - the diminutive form of her name (Yekaterina) and her common shifted form.pickled_tribute: Haymitch was a tribute in the 50th Hunger Games, and came out of it through a whole lot of determination, orneriness, and sheer luck. He has since turned to liquor as a coping mechanism when he realized that the really lucky ones died in the arena.notabricklayer: Stolen from the very frequent repetition of the complaint of "I'm a doctor, not a...", this one coming from an episode where Kirk decides Bones is the best one to put together a creature that better resembles someone's abandoned pottery project.properpolice: Shazza just wants to be a proper policeman, do proper police work, not this everlovingly idiotic 'care in the community' or, more predictably, filing and fetching tea.777thdegree: Is Balthazar's ranking, and one assumes something no one else is going to get to for a while, since he's technically the sorcerer longest in practice, even out of the three of Merlin's apprentices.souffle_girlek: When the Doctor finds Oswin, he calls her 'Souffle Girl' and she retorts with 'Chin Boy' because wow, that thing probably registers as its own area code. Also spoilers: And seeing as Oswin is now a Dalek, or at least stuck in a Dalek form (and I honestly have no idea how Moffet is getting her out of this) she gets the 'girlek' added on. Poor Oswin.mnt_raph, mnt_mike, and mnr_splinter are pretty self explanatory. Mutant Ninja Turtle or Rat depending. When Raph made his first entrance he was 20, so...the teenage wasn't really relevant. split_your_lip is from one of my favorite Ida lines from "The Middleman".v_knidh8er The Loompas don't like Vermicious Knids. They just don't. Wicked bad, those Knids.12goingon113 I'm kind of proud of this username for Aang. Not quite sure why, but I totally am. It, like most of my username choices, is pretty self explanatory, but on the off chance you're not familiar with the canon:abitofawildman Is the first description we get of adult Bumi in canon. "Bit of a wild man, but the bravest commander you'll ever meet." visible_sariel is a reference to the fact that throughout canon, she's all but invisible to most people, even when she's abducted and rescued. It's also intended to show that through Milliways, she gets the opportunity to have a further life and story of her own. not_my_sandbox was created.death_gone_mad is inspired by a song by Garbage that resonated for Amascut. It is also inspired by some headcanon that say the destruction caused by the other gods and their followers will guarantee the world will never be free of her influence. AmascutCares, which started out as a secondary AIM account and is now my primary, was inspired by a friend online who tended toward the trollish/chaotic evil, mostly because her own life was so full of chaos. I don't really know why I attract those types of people, but it's fun. sometimes. heartbreaking, too.fowl_beast got his name because he is a beastly chicken, but mostly it is a reference to Warcraft III and Prince Arthas constant shouts of "FOUL BEAST!" during battle. The AIM handle Bragolcoireion is a fuax-elvish name that resulted from typing in Evil Chicken or something like that in the Barrow-Downs Name generator myriadbeautiful came from a line in the game about the state of the would in the Early Second Age, before everything fell to pieces (incidentally, before Amascut was driven insane, too).Myriad and beautiful were the creatures and civilizations of the early ages of the world. Gielinor was a work of art, shaped lovingly over the millennia by the creative mind of Guthix. Only the sturdiest races survived the Godwars, and even then only by abandoning their high culture and gearing their societies towards war. Of the more delicate races there is now no trace, and almost no memory.
waco_jim is simple. His name's Jim and he's the Waco Kid. If I were apping him now, I'd probably go with something like "letsplaychess" or something like that.fromtheoldcountry is another easy one. Borgel comes from the Old Country. After he left, he used to live in the Old Apartment in the Old Building, in the Old Neighborhood. But then the Old Building burned down, and he moved in with the Spellbound family.janisthorn is named after one of Leela's weapons of choice, which she fires out of a blowgun. In her words, a janis thorn paralyzes, then kills. And that's exactly what she'll do to you if you're not careful.closesecond is named after a line of dialogue from Tiberian Sun. "You're not God, Kane!" "No, I'm not God. But I'm a close second."notyetwritten is also taken from a line of dialogue in canon ("...perhaps the ending has not yet been written"). Specifically, it's from the intro to the first Myst game. The screenname pretty much had to reference writing, given the importance of writing to the D'niverse.gotpoetryinme. This is taken from another line in canon, which he mutters to himself while talking about how he feels about Constance. It was one that pretty much encapsulated the "He's secretly a pathetic romantic" aspect of his character pretty well.el_feo. See if you can guess who this is supposed to be without peeking.
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