Tuesday DE: nom de plume

[bjornwilde]

Let's pretend a social intranet has been built within Milliways. What sort of user ID would your pup come up with to use?

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[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka would likely just go with Snipes.

I feel like Sabine would overthink it and try and hide any hints of being a rebel just in case an Imp showed up and put two and two together. She'd likely end up with some Mandalorian phrase or historical figure.

Jess would go with something quippy like her journal name, snarky_spider or maybe snarky_spice.

For some reason I see Viv going with vivion.

[yinyangwizard]

Didn’t Milliways have this for a while? It was Trollian from Homestuck. But it was a PITA to use canonically and also as a practical matter.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Technically it's still there (I'm operating under the assumption that the server Karkat set up is self-sustaining), but the number of pups who regularly use it has dwindled to nearly nothing. Also they don't get to pick their own usernames ICly - the program generates one and through wacky techno magic it's relevant to the user if not necessarily in a way that they like - so it doesn't quite work for the main point of the DE. I could see it being patched into a more general Bar-net, mind you.

Bastion is derelictConservationist on T-Minus! That might not have been their first choice of username but they don't find it objectionable so they might just use that elsewhere.