User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

[Ryujin]

Some days I find it hard just to get out of bed

 

[Muad'dib Pendragon]

FASCINATING THREAD!

Name: While trying to go more anonymous online and change an old username that stuck out like a sore thumb, the old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ad campaign "YOU got chocolate in my peanut butter! YOU got peanut butter in my chocolate!" came to mind.

Looking at my bookshelves, Two things immediately stood out:

1. I have everything ever produced for the Pendragon RPG, including novels and much literary reference material in one area
2. I have almost everything ever produced for Dune as an RPG or board game, as well as every novel published in another area

Then it hit me: Roleplaying chocolate and literary peanut butter = Muad'dib Pendragon

Avatar: I took some artistic liberties to integrate a representative image of both Dune and Pendragon into one unique image.

 

[Maxperson]

That looks like a case for Bat Shark Repellant.

 

[Ulfgeir]

My name on the forum comes from the name I used for my persona in a mediaeval club. It's a combination of two old norse words: Ulf = Wolf, and Geir = Spear. And it is a name I use on a number of other forums as well.

My avatar is me at a steampunk convention in the Swedish town of Alingsås back in 2013.

 

[Ryujin]

That looks like a case for Bat Shark Repellant.

Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.

 

[Mind of tempest]

my name comes more from a description of my mental state which is not pleasant it is also why my posts are sorter form holding long sentences in my head has always hurt me.
also, I do not use anything derived from my real name despite being young by you guys' standards because someone else far more famous ruined it for me.
my avatar is at present orde who has psychic powers and is a colossal failure, he was a toyless character from the 00's lego line that no longer matters save to well guys like me.
I choose him both for the powers and the fact I am also a failure although not done anything as dumb nor with as large consequences as him but there is still time

 

[Tonguez]

My avatar is a Human Nervous system with brain at the base inverted to look like a tree (which is an important thing in my culture)

Tonguez is, well more of my fascination with body parts, I like Tongues

 

[ilgatto]

(...)
Besides, thunder or no, we all know that the cats are just waiting for us to die so that they can eat us.

Speaking as one, I can assure you that this is not true.

I mean, what would we do for servants?

 

[Mind of tempest]

My avatar is a Human Nervous system with brain at the base inverted to look like a tree (which is an important thing in my culture)

Tonguez is, well more of my fascination with body parts, I like Tongues

which culture is that if you do not mind me asking?

 

[MoonSong]

Name
The original name I was using was a combo of my email name with the word lurker (and it came from mangled Indian to try to spell forty-two n_n). Back then I only registered in order to be able to see the comments in the votes. I was just happy being a lurker, but once I registered I couldn't resist eventually posting here.

Eventually, I wanted to have a more meaningful name, and by then I had already settled on coming from "the heart of the Moon" (LoL!). And I have the soul of a darkie -I listen to a wide variety of metal, hard rock, and heavy rock-, so coming down with Moon + song was easy.

Avatar
I've gone through lots of avatars. The current one is a Dark Elf from Yugioh (my favorite card, recently I found it when looking through my old cards and I just changed the avatar to it). The previous one was a picture of a Little-people figure of Arwen. Before that it was a drawing of two cat-like/bunny-like characters who love each other very much. I think that I had a Pinkie Pie for the longest time before that. (Though maybe I had a random ocelot-bunny in between, and perhaps the photo of a dinosaur plushie for a short time) And I'm not sure what I had before that. Maybe a random drawing of a vampire I had made on a whim? I don't remember. I change avatars relatively frequently.