Screenname Origins

Yurian · Feb 10 2007, 12:50 AM

I always find others' screennames to be interesting, as it really gives some insight into the person behind the online intarwebs browser. Perhaps it would be interesting to share some of the history or personality behind our screennames.

My screenname is Yurian (obviously), and it's pronounced "Eur-ee-en" with the "Eur" like in "Europe", "ee" like in "pee", and "en" like in "hen". On previous forums and other online pages requiring membership, I had always gone as Ninetales, the nine tailed fox from pokemon, because I found that particular character to be the most awesome pokemon character! However, after a while I just thought it was too unoriginal to choose that screenname so I created my own character - "Yurian".

The name "Yurian" evolved from the name "Urian" - just with a "y" added on for a more unique aspect while still retaining the pronunciation. "Urian" is Greek for "from heaven" (according to online name generators).

It sounds rather corny, but I created the character for purposes like everybody's online roleplaying characters - one that I can develop and give an original personality to. Yurian, in his animal form, is a four-tailed kitsune with the elemental affinity of snow, ice, and the rare and unique four petaled lily. In his human form, he is characterized with bluish-white hair and dark-red eyes.

>_>

Inferno187 · Feb 10 2007, 02:09 AM

I'm was nicknamed inferno by my friends cuz I like to set things on fire...
Plain and simple xD
I've actually set a entire sportshall on fire (by accident of course

) and twas one of the biggest fires in the country. I was just skating over there and wanted to light my smoke. But there was this hole in the wall with emm you know foam for ehmm I can't find the word atm xD. You could see smoke rising for 30k away xD
Well its nothing to be proud of actually, thank god twas on a sunday and nobody was inside...

Exodus · Feb 10 2007, 06:23 AM

I'm known as Exodus elsewhere, and Exo is just short for that. I got Exodus from my Early Civ class. Saw it and thought it sounded cool, plain and simple.

I was Raiden on here a while back, which was obviously when I was going through my Metal Gear phase, but I finally found a username to settle down with permanently.

Neal · Feb 10 2007, 09:46 AM

Devil May Cry.

Pulse · Feb 10 2007, 11:37 AM

Haha if you cant get actually guess where my name is from then why are you on this forum!? lol

Josh

Wind · Feb 10 2007, 12:18 PM

Winds are a powerful force. They can be gentle with a warm breeze or vicious with a searing gust. Generally a wind comes and goes while staying the same regardless of the season.

But why I chose it? Fate blew the idea to me

S-r-ex · Feb 10 2007, 03:12 PM

my name....back from the good old pokemon days. it is a short for "Shining Rayquaza EX". or in my vision back then, the ultimate pokemon. it has just stuck to me, and in recent time, I have discovered it is also a programming language.

Xelien_5.0 · Feb 10 2007, 11:36 PM

Umm well, I once started writing a story for essay contest, it was about 4 pages and was called "Xelia" and after that i started writing more into it,with the help of my cousin, and is actually the size of a novel. Well anyway in the story the word "Xelien" is a type of person i there. I use it alot in other places so the 5.0 part is because this was the 5th time ive used it.

Sora · Mar 06 2007, 05:31 PM

Kingdom Hearts.. pretty simple

Momo · Mar 06 2007, 05:42 PM

Back in my H.S days some of my friends used Momo as a pet name for me. >.>
Either that or Mo which I hate, reminds me of the damn three stooges, no thanks. They called me momo becacuse my actual name has M and O. and then i've always had people having problems pronouncing my name wrong >.<
Anywas so there it is plain and simple.

Rekhyt · Mar 06 2007, 05:45 PM

Rekhyt was the name of a character from the Bartimaeous Trilogy. I think it means "the people of the pharoh" or "the people of the lower nile" in ancient Egyptian.

Anyway i had been looking for a good name for a while and then i found it.

Flint · Mar 06 2007, 05:51 PM

Flint is the name of one of the main characters in the Japanese GBA RPG Mother 3 (the sequel to Earthbound on the SNES).

I chose it simply because I liked the game and thought the name sounded good!

Kätharina · Mar 06 2007, 06:13 PM

my real name.

Im so uncreative lol.

Momo · Mar 06 2007, 06:20 PM

::comfort::

It's okay I have problems coming up with Names to.

Ringlets · Mar 06 2007, 09:05 PM

Im Ringlets because thats what my hair is. Plus my original idea for Tigersura didnt sound too good. Now Tigersura is the name of my hat.

Misschoco · Mar 06 2007, 09:54 PM

miss 1st bit choco short for chocolate cause i like it and 17 cause i was born on the 17th july and 17 is my lucky number

Passion · Mar 07 2007, 10:39 AM

Sidderz comes from the fact that my real name is Sidney.

Yes I didn't fall out of the creativity tree. Paha!

Askyria · Mar 16 2007, 03:55 AM

Mine really doesn't have any meaning to it, I made it up when I was on vacation in Washington DC, thought it sounded good, so that's what I use now xD
As far as I know, no one else uses Askyria other than me.
Okay wait nevermind, I just searched Google and I found a couple other people using it. Although some of the ones that came up were mine, too xD

HotLaMon · Mar 16 2007, 01:55 PM

Lol there are only 3 HotLaMons anywhere on the NET and I am one of them. My Uncle was the first, then me... The 3rd guy was from somewhere in California, but he died out (He stopped using the name).

I'm sure everyone has heard or seen Dragon Ball/Z/GT, but did you know that it was based on a Chinese/Japanese/Indian/Thai/Vietnamese/Cambodian/and possibly more--legend? Most know the legend from the Japanese version as "Saiyuki". But from my experiences I think the story originated in China (only because they have more influence in Asia). Okay you will notice in each legend there is a Monkey that becomes a god. The name of the monkey is Son Goku in Japanese, Tong Ngo Khong in Vietnamese, Sun Wu Khong in Chinese, Hanumon in India, HotLaMon in Cambodian/Thai. I'm Cambodian if anyone didn't notice--lol--so I picked that name to show a slight pride in my culture and in honor of my uncle.

Go on Google and search up "HotLaMon", "HotLaMon38" or "HotLaMon14"... Every search result is me

.... Seriously... >.>

38 is for Three 8's in my birthday 08/14/1988
14 is for the day I was born.

Try looking up your name on Google. Lol.

Lifrasthir · Mar 16 2007, 02:11 PM

My screenname is pretty self explanitory. Or rather, it was explained in my introduction.

Tempus Fugit is 'Time Flies' in Latin. Ever since I heard Somnus Nemoris(FFVersusXIII's trailer music) I did more research(Wikipedia) on Latin words, Latin sayings, ect. One day I was looking around at different web layouts(Myspace, Xanga, ect.) and I saw this saying on one of the layouts. It stuck with me cause the quote really says truth. (At least not at school.)

Yeah that's it.