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Nyan Cat, but different

Honestly, Halo 3

I couldn't come up with shit so I put a random word through a cipher and switched a few letters around

I love Dorohedoro, and Aikawa happens to be one of the manga's kindest and least prone to violence characters, despite being very capable in the domain. The turned k comes from my thoughts flitting from the character's nature to the Portuguese velar (to watch, conceal, vigil), and finally to back-released velar clicks...

Cave Story

I combined my dog's names (Kona and Loki) but fucked it up the first time I ever used it as a username. It was supposed to be "Kolonaki" taking the first two letters of Kona and the first two of Loki then alternating in the second half of both. KoLoNaKi. But I accidentally entered "KolAnaki" and just ran with it.

I liked it so much, I made it my fursona's name since before that name was just "Raccoon."

I was really craving pancakes with maple syrup, but I was at home without pancake mix or syrup, and everything was closed because it was 3am.

Akuma is a boss. Been my favorite all through my childhood.

Nakari has "existed" since I was a teenager. Started off as a character I used in writing as an outlet, but slowly the name also became a handle for me. Hell, I guess an entire "presence" since it's my go-to for most sites.

Lexfortaine came around because I wanted something vaguely "proper" sounded in a D&D game, and I never actually got around to giving the character Nakari a "canon" last name. It worked well enough for an asspull, and has just been tracked on ever since. Grown to like it, actually. Feels more like a proper name.

It’s a thought

I'm a fan of BNA's tanuki main character Michiru, and Summer Tanuki's storyline, and how Tom Nook's name is pun with Tanuki and...

The stars just aligned for me, I swear.

"All the things that used to be inside of me, now they're outside... But the inside of me is empty."

Take a wild guess

I was in a little cafe in Taiwan and that's what we ordered.

My preferred username was already taken a long time ago. This was meant to be a temporary replacement, but now this is my preferred username.

I was hungry

Because it's a pejorative term for a loud-mouthed know-it-all bloviating idiot and I like to keep myself humble and try not to take myself too seriously.

I thought it was funny

Am arcane and slimy, was descriptive.

I guess I’m a sucker for puns.

I used the same moronic username I got from a name generator for 20 years before Reddit was trashed. I took the opportunity to reinvent myself. I'm a techie with a beard....

Among us name generator

It's been my internet identity / haxxorz handle since the 1990s, and the story is about as benign as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner and his black-and-yellow striped sweater.

I used to really love William Gibson. It's the name of a fictional musical duo in one of his novels, Idoru.

I am too lazy and boring for a username, so I just use my RL name.

It just seemed fitting.

spider

I love thinking about the universe and I'm a guy. Not much too it. lol.

TJA – A German reaction to the apocalypse, dawn of the gods, nuclear war, an alien attack or no bread in the house.

From an old clip that played on a radio station back home "Sittin' on the porch with my ol' lady, eatin' a ham-sammich"

Been using it for so long, that I forgot how I chose it

At the time I hadn't tried limeade

bears

I just like dogs...

Boom, still got it

Good music.

Because I had to to create an account...

I'm your best friend.

Years ago, when I was around 13-14, I wanted a "cool" sounding username, since I was also sick of coming up with usernames for websites. I did some thinking, and came up with "Mr.Champion". Used it ever since.