Username Origins

[ahoyFriendo]

I'm opening this partially out of genuine curiosity and partially in a shameless effort to put out enough posts that I can get verification. Is there any special story behind your username? Mine is a combination of the fact that Alexander Graham Bell wanted the standard phone greeting to be "Ahoy hoy," which amuses me greatly, and the famous scene from No Country for Old Men in which Anton Chigurh has a tense conversation with a man running a gas station

 

[Alice Villainess]

Pretty simple.

Character is named Alice because it's one letter away from Malice and Villainess because that's the role I specialize in!

 

[Sludgewave]

I'm named after the pokemon move. My email/discord handle that i use for roleplaying (venomdrenched) is also derived from a pokemon move. I also use PoisonPowder as a handle, which also comes from the same place. I guess you could call it a theme I have for my current era.

 

[Baka]

Probably told this on the site somewhere, but: Wanted my name to be short, simple, reflect on some character type I like to play as/against and preferably be a word in Japanese. My first pick, Ojou-sama was taken, so I rubbed my two braincells together and settled with Baka. Nod to a tsundere-archetype which I like to play as/against and reflects the player behind the username quite well (Baka meaning idiot or stupid) and fits with every criteria I set for the username. If I had used more time to come up with an username I would've probably come up with something better (like my favorite Japanese word, which is Magukappu), but this is what I ended up with.

 

[Carpe Diem]

There's already a thread like this here, but to engage with the thread subject;

It's pretty self-explanatory, I feel like. I'm a huge Persona fan, starting with the "contemporary" Persona 3 that completely rehauled the game series as a whole. In that game, the theme of "Memento Mori" - remember to die/remember you are mortal - is a big part of the story. It is a part of a motifs, of many of the character stories and the overall plot. It came out in a time where the idea of mental health was first starting to gain traction. Depression is a big part of the story and the game as a whole gives you a perspective as to why it is that life is beautiful, even when there is a lot of pain and suffering involved.

"Memento Mori" was already taken, so I went for its more positive answer to the philosophy - "Carpe Diem", or seize the day. It means living each day as if it was the last. Living to the fullest, because you never know what day will be your last.

 

[Amberyn]

I wanted something fairly anonymous, and it randomly popped into my head.