Your username's origin?

[Wombat]

I just like marsupials

 

[Jesus_marley]

Well....

I own a Christmas cactus, and it needed a name. Being a CHRISTMAS cactus I figured that the best name would be Jesus (although I decided to use the pronunciation "Hey-Zeus"). As it grew, it's various stalks and leaves began to resemble dreadlocks, hence the last name addition of "Marley".

After that, I thought the name was cool, so I co-opted it for my own on-screen use.

 

[FireLance]

(Also posted in the other thread)

You can blame G-Force for my username. If you're not old enough to know what G-Force is, I will just say that it's a Japanese cartoon featuring a group of five people protecting the earth and stuff (kind of like the Power Rangers, but less campy). Among the vehicles they piloted was this massive airplane/spaceship that could turn into a fiery phoenix-like blast of energy. Many episodes ended with them using this ability to blast through and destroy the threat of the day.

That image kind of stuck in my mind, and when I needed to name a phoenix NPC for a 1e D&D game, I used "Firelance". Since then, every time I needed to use a phoenix in the game, I would call it "Firelance". During 2e, I started creating a homebrew inspired by elements of the Death Gate Cycle, the Dark Sun setting and the Birthright setting. The basic idea behind the setting was that the world had been split into eight pieces because of a massive struggle between good and evil. Firelance became a hero of the old world who had best embodied the philosophy of Fire. Formerly human, he had evolved into a phoenix. His weapon, also called the Fire Lance, was what would be a holy, flaming lance in 3e terms.

I have long abandoned that setting, but I'm still fond of the name and the (NPC) character and weapon who bore it. So, I've been using it as my user name on ENWorld and a few other forums I frequent.

Sialia was kind enough to make me a nice avatar of both the phoenix and the weapon that shared his name.

 

[LeifVignirsson]

Mine is one of the five characters that I have run or am running now for my current DM. I have been involved for 4 yours in his game and have helped out in creating nches that he hasn't had a chance to do yet. Leif was the one htat broke the mold though, he was a swathy nordic man in a fleet full of greek midgets (ok... Leif was 6'10", the avegare sailor in that part of the world was 5 feet... I win). It was dne as an adventure to get the rp's out, it turned into this... Heck, I even named my website after him! I am such a loser!

 

[Salad Shooter]

A long time ago...in a galaxy far far away (okay, it was right here in my computer chair, and not really all that long ago) I was playing the Tribes Demo, and decided that Salad Shooter would be a good username for that...it sorta stuck with me through several other things, and here I am! I think it originally was from some weird super slicer thing that chopped up veggies for your salad...or something...

 

[Viking Bastard]

Mine is one of the five characters that I have run or am running now for my current DM. I have been involved for 4 yours in his game and have helped out in creating nches that he hasn't had a chance to do yet. Leif was the one htat broke the mold though, he was a swathy nordic man in a fleet full of greek midgets (ok... Leif was 6'10", the avegare sailor in that part of the world was 5 feet... I win). It was dne as an adventure to get the rp's out, it turned into this... Heck, I even named my website after him! I am such a loser!

Hey, y'know, I know a guy named Leif Óskar Vignirsson.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

My name dates from my interest in neopagan religion in my mid-to-late teens (16-18); it's Irish Gaelic for "son of the goddess", or near enough. I use it everywhere because it's entirely unique.

It's not pronounced anything like its spelling - "vock the von dee ah" is a decent approximation. I actually like that - it's kind of an entirely textual identity, a name not generally pronounced, without being entirely "digital age" like a handle like cjad9351.

 

[SpringPlum]

Springplum is the name of one of Gabriel's daimones (personalities) from Walter Jon Williams' Aristoi.

 

[Testament]

My favourite character from some of my fave video games, the Guilty Gear series. Nothing complex really, I just love the fact that the big bishy goth guy with a scythe, a style that SCREAMS BBEG, is actually a lovesick penitent.

 

[Impeesa]

Some of you may know the name Lord Robert Baden-Powell, but I'm guessing most do not. He had some epic ranks in Bluff or something. According to another site:

Robert Baden-Powell had been educated at a private school in England where he often slipped away to track animals in a nearby wood. He loved surviving on his own out in the countryside, hiding, stalking and discovering. The army called such activity ‘scouting’ and by 1876 Baden-Powell found himself training army scouts in India. He had already seen action in Africa during Chief Dinizulu’s rebellion. Then he developed his military scouting skills in Ashanti, West Africa and in Rhodesia in 1896. The warlike Matabele so respected his scouting skill and constant watchfulness that they named him Impeesa, ‘the wolf that never sleeps’.

Lord B.P., of course, went on to found the modern Scouting movement, which only bears some resemblance to his original awesomeness if you know what you're looking for. I thought it was a cool nickname, and it's served me well for at least 6-7 years (I really don't feel like counting ). Someday, I will play a middle-aged rogue in a war-oriented game, and pull off off the butterfly enthusiast scam.

--Impeesa--