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My name comes from a book, Memnoch the Devil, by Anne Rice....

a book? what's that? A book is what we had before internet. Books have a very user-friendly interface, and you can always go back to where you left off, or even re-read things! Books recharge instantly, and can be used to prop up a wobbly table or couch when you are done with them. My favorite feature about a book, they become nifty gifts around the holidays, and in some cases, a good self-defense weapon (I have a hardcover version of War and Peace that could knock out a pro wrestler).

I have always been Ordinaryman, since 1992 when I first connected to the internet. There have been many Ordinaryman wannabe's, but they can never stand up to the scrutiny of the original.

A couple of my friends and I tend to look for a word in a foreign language to use for a name, typically with some symbolic meaning. Mine is a phonetic spelling of the Hebrew word TKLT which approximately means the color blue, because I really like blue. So, yeah.

Everybody just calls me TK for short, because they can't spell/pronounce it, and that's fine. Heck, a couple of my friends call me TK in real life more than they use my name, so that's fine too. It identifies a conceptual part of who I am, and thus it is *my* name, in a sense.

MineCrak was the name my parents gave me after finding me as a baby tucked into a crack in the floor of an old uranium mine in Colorado. It's my understanding that it was my exposure to environmental radiation that accounts for my super powers.

The other explanation for my name, the one more people believe, is the following:

It was inspired by how the old EverQuest MMO was often called "EverCrack" due to how addictive it could be to play. I just did the same thing with the Minecraft name to show how addictive I found it to be. I started using this nick "MineCrak" back in 2010 with my first minecraft account then eventually when I made an account here. I dropped the second 'c' in Crack because I thought it looked better.

Wala! "MineCrak".

Of course, the first story is the truthiest one.

My first on-line game name I used was 'kermit', as this was a nickname given to me when I turned up for my apprenticeship (the story goes I turned up wearing everything green.. even though I'm SURE I never had green trousers )
Of course THIS name was used by other people - so started using variations (k3rm1t, kerms, KermitTFrog - you get the idea)

Later I started playing Team Fortress 2 / Day of Defeat - but instead of using tactics as a newbie I just 'went for it' & of course kept getting killed...
A few players in chat started saying things like 'Are you suicidal ?' or 'Thanks for being easy cannon fodder' (stuff like that)..
So I changed my name to 'SuicidalCannonFodder'... just to describe the type of gameplay I used (if there was a sniper no-one could find. I sacrificed myself so they could figure out where)

When joining up to other on-line games, communities etc.. some sites wouldn't allow the word 'Suicidal' in the nick so I dropped it...Also found that 'Cannonfodder' was being used in many Forums, so started playing with alternatives just like I did with 'kermit' to find something 'unique'

One day I mis-spelled my name on joining up to yet another forum - I forgot the '3' - and the name sort of stuck

Well I liked Saber swords and Sabertooths so I kept a Z and called my self 'Zaberztoothz'

So, we aren't getting the option to change our character names, are we?

Anyway, mine is a rather obscure cartoon character from The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse.

In the Robot series by Isaac Asimov, there is a character who is an an assistant to the Big Bad Amadiro called Maloon Cicis - he isn't particularly admirable, but the name struck me as interesting. I added an "l" so you pronounce it Mal-loon instead of Ma-loon. I often add the last name "Tarka" which is the name of an otter in the novel "Tarka the otter" by Henry Williamson, of which I read an extract once. It also struck me as a very nice name. Plus the character was brave, quick and clever.

So that's I got "Malloon" and "MalloonTarka".

I used this screen name because someone had already taken my first choice for a name,
and I just really like Strongbad and the other characters from the Homestarrunner web cartoons,
Strongbad's computer was the lappy 486, and in his action movie (not actually a movie)
he played a corrupt detective named Dangeresque,
so that is how I got my screen name and I'm actually really happy with it,
even though people have trouble pronouncing it.

Im a huge nerd for ancient greek myths, hence AlphaCreeper542.
Alpha being the first letter of the ancient greek alphabet.
Alphabet is also greek. lol
SpawnKill542 on the other hand was my youtube name idea.
I didnt want friends to recognize my profile.
I wanted them to subscribe for what I did, not because it was me.
And as for redneck_ninja, that was created in one of my random rants.

I got my IGN, "_Keldt_" from a World of Warcraft character I made maybe 3 years ago. "Keldt" was one of the names generated by their random name generator. I liked it a lot, so I decided to use it for Minecraft. When it said "Keldt" was already taken, I added underscores before and after the name, and the resulting IGN was available, so I used it.

I use "_Keldt_" for most profile names now, and "Keldt" for most singleplayer character names.

IndigoAK

Indigo is my favorite color and I live in Alaska. Pretty simple really.

In most RPGs though, I name my male characters Eminick and my female characters Emari. Why? Because I just came up with them off the top of my head and they stuck.

Four years ago, my friends started to call me 'Kyoko' for no reason. The nickname stuck, and I liked it better than my real name. I added the last name 'Nora' to it, so I could have a full name for a facebook account, two years ago. One year ago, I got my Minecraft account card... 'Kyo' was taken, as was 'Kyoko'. I started to cry... then I remembered the last name of the facebook account. After adding the first two letters of that to the name, creating 'Kyokono', the account maker said I was good to go! I've loved the name Kyokono ever since... 'cause it's the me I wish to be.

So I used to not walk exactly right. I used to shuffle!

So as you can tell, my brothers picked my nickname for me: Mr. Shuffles.

Later on, I came up with the name shufflesninja. OH YEAH, I'M A NINJA AT SHUFFLIN'! Maybe. Waffles to all!

I was driving behind a Scion one day...

As for my IGN, Versus_MC was chosen because I liked the way the word sounded, and also it has an aggressive feeling to it. I thought it may be memorable!

My old IGN "np27" was from a childhood game. Unfortunately the name was detected as a profanity in many cases, so it eventually became np27. 27 was for age of the said character in the game.

i got masterX244 back on lego.com cuz masterX was taken and somehow the numbers stuck and are now part of my name. I dont even leave em off when i know i wont need em

I have three main names:
1) Jester2799, which is a nickname for my first name that people call me plus some personally significant numbers.
2) Pergamon256, which is from a book I read with a hacker in it named that...I don't use this one very much, but I was using it when I made this account.
3) TheAtomicGoose. This one is weird. So, at some point in 8th grade, one of my friends who was really tall started calling me Little Goose because I was so much shorter than him (I was wicked short for my age). Then, I tried to use that for an IGN, but it was taken, so I looked up synonyms for little and came up with atomic. Then I tried AtomicGoose, but that wasn't available, so I tried TheAtomicGoose, and it was available. Hence my picture.

0xFFF1 is a data value (not a color) that in the Animal Crossing games meant an empty inventory slot. I found it interesting that they didn't instead use 0x0000, as I would have. So the choice to use this name is that I am interested in programming languages, pretty simple. Also, since 0xFFF1 is not an item, so am I not an item too.

now execute this in your mind:

main:
nop
bra main
cake:

Oddly enough I've had the name Wilch Habos for around 17 years now, although it started as the name of a very short-lived bounty hunter in an old Star Wars PnP RPG I used to play in my teens. It's actually one of those names you get by combining parts of your own name with other details about you.

It's been fun reading all of the above origin stories, I guess it does tell rather a lot about people. Some definitely more amusing than others :-)

I became Altaria because it's my favourite pokemon, as well as being my first. Platinum is just my character's name...