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So, what's the story behind your user name? Why did you pick it?
I always find it interesting to know why people ended up picking the name they did.

I was previously Kanashii Sakura Uta. I was going to go for Sakura no Uta, but someone already claimed the name before me, and just leaving it as Sakura Uta didn't leave a good impression on my tongue. So I stuck Kanashii in front of those two so that my username would mean "sad cherry blossom song".

my username now is just a mix of the Japanese word for cherry blossom and a French word meaning "perfect" that's used to describe a kind of frozen dessert.

Seinaru ite = 聖なる射手 = Holy Archer

I chose that because that's pretty much what my RP identity is... I'm an avid MMO player and I like to play divine spellcasters that can also use bows. Unfortunately almost no games support characters like that lol

And I chose that exact wording because I thought it sounded the coolest out of the alternatives, e.g. "Shinsei na Shashu" sounds kinda stupid imo. I originally used the name in an MMO and it stuck.

My original online username was Ukryu, which was random typing, but I abolished it because it sounded too weeabooish

I'm a soprano (in choir, that is), I love mochi, and I like cats. smile

Wow, everyone's got such interesting user name stories!

I guess I'll say mine then. At the same time I was getting into the internet, my anime obsession was Inuyasha (this was before it aired on Cartoon Network and I lot of idiot fans started showing up, I still like the series BTW, but I'm not obsessed with it anymore), and I made up different usernames for each site I joined, but that got tiring. I wanted a username that would never be "in use" when I signed up for sites. Inuyasha has a lot of one-episode characters, one of which was an old tree spirit called Bokusenou (the kanji are "wood-hermit-old man", if I remember correctly), he was sort of a sage-like character who was a friend of the deceased father of one of the characters, and gave the character information. I thought he was kind of cool. xd

I took the name as a username, and it stuck. I think it kind of fits me too, because I love to help people with problems (which is why I spend a lot of my free time answering translation requests in the International Forum XD).

I also wanted the name I chose to be gender neutral-sounding. Back in those days, browser RPGs were often a male-only environment, and wanted to avoid the annoying sexual harassment and "not taking female gamers seriously" that was rampant back then. If my username was gender neutral-sounding, and my avatar my male, then I was able to just enjoy playing the games (I still do pick a male avatar if, say, I tried to play a game with a female avatar and got harassed, or if the female avatars look like they came out of a fantasy porn movie. Basically if playing with a female avatar severely restricts my enjoyment of a game, I change it. But overall browser RPGs have gotten better at being female-friendly, so it's rare that I have to use a male avatar). Another reason for wanting something gender-neutral sounding was because I was (and am) sort of a tomboy/geek, and am not that fond of using female sounding names anyway. XD

Dark flames 'cause I was a pretty depressed 5th grader (I think I made this name right around the time period after my grandma died of cancer)
T because I at the time wished my first name was Victoria because i thought Tori would be the coolest nickname ever.
The ~s were added a year or two after just for fun and I think I copied a friend who had them in her gaia username. gonk
As much as I'd love to change my gaia user name, I hate having a buddy list where I don't have any idea who is who anymore and wouldn't want to confuse other people. >.<

Digimon- based name I made up about 8-9 years ago. Every two letters were based off of a different character I liked at the time.

Ta - Taichi
Ya - Yamato
So - Sora
Ta - Takuya
Ko - Kouji (could be Koushiro as well)
Da - Daisuke

I've been too lazy to change it. It became so much a part of me that I'd be pretty sad to get rid of it. I don't really follow Digimon anymore, but so many memories make me keep it as well. I don't mind since people shorten it to "Taya" anyway, which I like.

Agent from Agent P (As in, Perry the platypus ninja )
O from my first name
Cokepower...has nothing to do with drugs! scream My initials are OC and my best friends are KE and one day during class we came up with cokepower.
(Really random? I think so! whee )