How'd you come up with your username?

FancyKiwi··15 votes·2,917 views

As the title say.

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8YyNnXljTr13 votes

Everything was taken.

Rosa Parks8 votes

I got my name because Rosa Parks inspires me not to give up my lane(seat) for anyone. I have the right to beat this lane.Karma

The Bearded Bard4 votes

I used to be a Maokai main and I really enjoy the character Groot from the Guardians of the Galaxy comics.

Unfortunately they've destroyed Maokai for me with their accursed reworks.

NinjaToad994 votes

I sat there for an hour trying to think of a name, finally thought "NinjaToad" only to find "NinjaToad" was taken by somebody who hadn't played in forever.

That jerk.

ClockHead3 votes

Lets see... I'm partially a steampunk fanatic and partially mental, so I guess when you put those together you get ClockHead?

Frigid Ice Storm3 votes

I used to watch a lot of Avatar the Last Air bender and my favorite nation was the Water Nation. I loved da fight between Katara and her Master when they went to the North Pole, so my name was just Frigid Ice Storm since I thought their water/ice bending was really cool :P

toe thief3 votes

I saw a thing that said "Don't put the word 'RIOT' in your name" so I tried to sneak it in there with a weird acronym.

Names Are Scarce3 votes

I was searching for a name and after sitting there for an hour, feeling slightly crazed and wondering why I bothered to dismiss all the names I came up with, I decided upon a variation of this. 'Twas true genius, really.

Kitty Darkstar3 votes

I like cats and Darkstar sounds cool. It's basically my online alias by now.

SelflessTeammate3 votes

I remember being drunk when I changed it. I know that much for certain.

7ha7guy7773 votes

Thatguy was taken 7ha7guy was taken 7ha7guy7 was taken 7ha7guy77 was taken Had i thought it through i would have used seven 7s and been 777ha7guy777

disregardable2 votes

I was still a newbie at League (like 3-4 months playing) during the tail end of the Lucian-Thresh meta. I was doing this really weird thing where I'd go IE and then Bork on Jinx, so I could split push very early. I'd usually build two AS/crit items instead of a defense item too, for maximum split push.

I was also watching a lot of Trick2g (thinking that would actually make me a better player). He used the term "AFK Farming" to describe an Ezreal not defending his base, and it just hit me. THAT'S WHAT I DO. I AM that asshole that doesn't defend base. I'm an afk farmer!

Yeah. That's the story.

Chroyo2 votes

Step 1 to recreating my username: Mash my fingers one at a time on my keyboard randomly. Step 2: be satisfied with what i have created.

WyvernEgg2 votes

I like monster hunter and I wanted my name to say "carry me"

DeerGreenwood2 votes

I used my steam one. Draven

Bottom Laner1 votes

I had imagined a skeletal-jester-demon-thing for my Xbox gamertag but it was already taken so I just put the year I was going to graduate.

Tilting in Bots1 votes

Me: Dammit, Space Jam is taken. Friend: Just make a pun. Me: Is the a character named Jace? Friend: Yea, with a Y Me: Jayce Spam. Perfect.

zethose1 votes

og runescape random name generator and now its my tag for everything.

Tentacle Love1 votes

Someone paid money to steal my old username and so I changed mine to this.

Rigbum1 votes

My usernames always involve the world "Salt" it also helps that getting Salty means getting rump in the grump so I just added Crippling for this game... seemed right.

JesterSummoner1 votes

My parents think I'm funny and I thought I was a summoner

I didn't even know this game had a jester champion until it was too late

Ironclad Dragon1 votes

Use it for everything. Combines my two favorite things from my childhood.

RitoCantFixMe1 votes

I got deathtoll from a game that you could kill people with a virus you create

Windi1 votes

I wanted Windy. That was taken. I added solar because solar winds are a thing. Praise the sun's farts. Leona Janna

Only Play Darius1 votes

One day it just came to me.

Galaxy King1 votes

I have Steam and at the time my name was Toxic, so I started thinking of other toxic names for my name, then I thought of Bioharzard but I removed the bio and put a Sir insted cuz I thought it make my name more fancy, and I like fancy things (Like top hats, or tahm) so Sir Hazard was born.

Lugg1 votes

Lugg is pretty straight forward. Lug means carry.

Karen Kujo1 votes

http://orig01.deviantart.net/a4ae/f/2012/307/e/1/sengoku_nadeko_by_jackchrist-d5jw5tb.png

Anime character from the monogatari series.

I had a lot other anime names in mind before hers, but they weren't open, I will have to wait for them, I like this nick too anyways!

the Marth1 votes

(Sorry, mine's a bit of a story)

Well, Marth is a character in the Fire Emblem series, but I first saw him in Super Smash Bros. Melee. I was so addicted to the game and mainly only ever played Marth. When Super Smash Bros. Brawl came out, I was so stoked that my favourite character would be returning, and after a while (I'm not entirely sure why) I started referring to all the characters as "the ____" (such as "the Mario" or "the Ganondorf"). And It was over 2 and a half years ago, I was playing Brawl and my brother tells me "Hey, I downloaded some game, I don't like it, but you try it out first before I delete it" and that "some game" was League of Legends. Now at first, I had to make a username, so I just put in the generic thing I use for everything else, and assumed that would be my IGN. So, I was a little surprised when I was asked to "name my summoner" (or myself as a game character) and I was pretty thrilled that they allowed spaces in the name. I thought for about 5 minutes of what I should name myself, then glanced at the tv... I was in the character select screen of Brawl and the cursor was hovering over my favorite character.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/b/ba/Marth_(Super_Smash_Bros._for_3DS_-_WiiU_Artwork).png/revision/latest?cb=20131107082150

Arcus Diabolus3 votes

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-Snip-

So you're a marth main. Thats all you really needed to say :D

the Marth1 votes

:D

IGotScuttleCrabs1 votes

Season 5 started. I was walking down river and a bug jumped out at me. I got it. Now I have the scuttle crabs.

IwfiKe3qjM1 votes

my real name contain 3 letter D... but "tripleD" already taken...

Fuchinokami1 votes

Anyone heard about FLCL? Blues Drive Monster is my favorite song from that anime's soundtrack.

TheEvilQueen1351 votes

I was drunk and talking to my friends about once upon a time through skype while signing up. So i ended up at theevilqueen (regina) with the numbers i always tend to use haha.

Arcus Diabolus1 votes

Easy.

I play Blazblue. My main in Blazblue is Noel Vermilion. Noel's weapon is called Arcus Diabolus: Bolverk. My name could only be 16 characters.

Poop Jelly1 votes

The world may never know :>

Arcus Diabolus1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Poop Jelly,realm=NA,application-id=Ir7ZrJjF,discussion-id=qeM1JbiI,comment-id=0041,timestamp=2015-07-24T18:33:45.566+0000)

The world may never know :>

hahaha pukes

Qarekeo1 votes

I think mine is a name I used for a WoW character.

Either that or it was a name I used in a game of Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

EndlessSorcerer1 votes

I'm a fan of the Umineko series. One of the character's had the title "Endless and Golden Sorcerer"

Simpumba1 votes

From the song Lets Get physical And I swapped it around when I mained fizz into LetzGetFizzical

ShinyElbowGrease1 votes

well, I was sitting at home, looked to my right, saw a sparkle and realized i had my elbow was shiny, and had grease on it.

Orky Boss1 votes

I originally came up with it because the Orks were my race of choice in Dawn of War II. Once the IG came out in Retribution I switched over but the name's pretty much stuck, I just use it for all my accounts now since I like it and I've yet to find it taken by somebody else.

Catastrop1 votes

Sleep deprivation caused me to insert a 'p' at the end of the name and it just stuck. The intended name 'Catastro' was what Odin's summoning spell in FF3 is called. I had originally wanted to go with Leviath because Leviathan is my all time favourite esper but the name 'Catastro' just had a nicer ring to it. As you can tell, I'm a big Final Fantasy nerd.

Cindikle1 votes

First Pokemon game, had to name the bad guy.

Well he's bad... so sin... or maybe cin? Kind of a dick... Still a slot left, take off the c for an le at the end. Because character space. Cindikle

the Marth1 votes

Maybe Gamefreaks know what you did, and thus named the fire starter of the 2nd gen Cyndiquil"

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

i'm gilgamesh from the fate series

CharQueen1 votes

StarCraft + Drag Queens + 'Drag queens on fire? Can we?'

Acolyte of Steel1 votes

My current name should be pretty obvious, since I picked it up post-retcon.

My prior username was NyanGoesBoom. I chose it because of the many different ways it could be read while still remaining cute. X)

Mister Mackey1 votes

About 12-13 years ago I stole it from a clan mate on Runescape. Been claiming it as my own ever since XD

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