Origins of Names

[Drake_XIV]

Going to bump this since we have more members that I'm curious about.

[jarozaoz]

my nick is nothing speical.
It's just fusion of shortcut of my name (Jaro), first letter in my last name (Z) , second letter in my last name (A), totally random letter (O), and (again) first letter in my last name (Z).

[Espithel]

My name is a corruption of a pokémon's name. You'll never guess which one...
Lugia.
No greek gods at all. Ha.
I also like the cold, too.

I have multiple aliases, and I don't use this one for new accounts I make anymore. I tend to use Espithel, which is a... Weird, weird RP character I have... Like, er... Really, I could just quote things this guy's said and you'll... *Shudder.* Espithel is a corruption of the word spite. I love corruptions. Espithel loves corruption. I would have used Espithel here if my elements and kong account wasn't Frozengaia,

And my imgur account, because some people give me dirty looks... I don't know why I named it what I named it. I must have been in a bad mood.

[Zawadx]

My name's Zawad. Because that's not cool enough, I added an X at the end  8)

[Drake_XIV]

My name's Zawad. Because that's not cool enough, I added an X at the end  8)

That made it 9001x times better than it already was.

[CCCombobreaker]

tl;dr - was transitioning between gamer names, picked something that sounded cool to start using in card games, but had no idea what it was a reference too.

per my interview with glennfoo:

Spoiler for excerpt:

Well back in 2006 I was playing Yu-Gi-Oh! and the WoW card game competitively but because I was attending college, my practice partners and I lived far apart.  So we all got LackeyCCG which was a free card game engine we could download all the card images into and play.  At that point I did't have a unified gamer-name, so I made my avatar the image from the magic card "force of will" and named myself combobreaker, which is ironic because I love combos in all card games and generally dislike having my combos get countered.  My first elements account was in 2009, and since I was using combobreaker as my name in card games at the time, I made my elements account ccccombobreaker (4 'c's).  But I was new and terrible and never went to the forums or wikis.  So when I started playing again in 2011 I made a new account with 1 less c - cccombobreaker (3 'c's) so I could start over.  Often in PvP1/PvP2 people would say "sweet killer instinct reference" and eventually I googled that.  Apparently it is a fighting game where people get a bonus for breaking out off their opponents combos and the announcer yells "C-C-COMBO-BREAKER".  If I could change my name I would, but it is way too late for that.

[skyironsword]

I was an idiot and wanted something that sounded cool, and I had Skyward Sword on my mind at the time, despite not having the game. Too late to change it now, at least it turned out well. The community has yet to disown me.

[theelkspeaks]

I had a name on a couple sites made from the initials of the speakers of quotes on a coffee mug filled with writing implements that used to sit next to the desktop in my basement.  It was something like elkwjdvc, can't remember for sure anymore.  This got shortened to "elk" a lot, and I decided to do people a favor and make it pronounceble as elk12429, because I liked the "elk" part.  I went to sign up for some site that didn't allow numbers in names, so I coined "theelkspeaks" to keep the "elk" part.  I now use that most places, unless it's either a really old account or one I use one of my other usernames on.  (I have a couple others).

[Aknelo]

Who doesn't like a good necro?

Necro-ing because I've been looking for a thread just like this.
Would love to know from everyone else origins of IGN/Forum names

I'm Aknelo here and ign because it's my name backwards.  I also use it on Kongregate.

[foxrain4]

foxrain4 is not some randomly created name to login into any
random websites.

foxrain4 is an official name i used for important websites.

fox refers to nine tailed fox in asian folktales.

some fox are bewitchers, some are protectors,
the worst and most famous ones are destroyers.

nine tailed fox can morph into human shape form in an instant
and living among you right now.

the fox i chosen are all three bewitchers, protectors and destroyers.
thousand of years ago, a fox demon destroy village and kill innocents (i have no idea why, lol),
and was captured by a monk and sealed into a painting.

now, the fox demon is released when a guy unwittingly
unlock the seal on the painting.

the fox demon bewitched the guy to learn about the
new world and take advantage of him.

but soon the fox demon unconsciously falls in love
with the guy victim.

the guy realized that whenever it rained on a clear day,
it is called fox rain, its the rain that falls whenever the fox demon is sad.

foxrain4 means im sad, that the one i like and i had to go separate ways,
even though its for the best of us, its still raining day and night whenever im thinking of you.

fox music

fox drama

fox temple http://suggestionofmotion.com/blog/japan-kyoto-inari-temple/
fox anime https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=nine+tails+naruto&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=925&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI8ZiP--GqxwIVEY6OCh1WFQ0V
fox manga https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=54684

[Zawadx]

the guy realized that whenever it rained on a clear day,
it is called fox rain, its the rain that falls whenever the fox demon is sad.

Over here it's also called a fox rain when it rains while the sun is shining, or to be more accurate, 'a fox's wedding'. I never knew where that came to be from though. Your story is very touching :/

[dawn to dusk]

i facerolled