First used it during the couple of months after finishing college and before my job started. At that exact point in time I wasn't in employment or education or even training. Just lazing around waiting for the next chapter of my life to begin. Hence, the nick.

Ahhhh, those were the days.

It's from a character from a show I liked when I was young. Although it's a somewhat common name so I sometimes find the username already taken.

Hm, do I really want to demystify that here and now?

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it was the end result of a naming progression while i was in high school, started with senkrail followed by sennoan and ended up with saorren, it was also part of a custom character profile i did for english class in high school about a snow wolf which I made art work of in art class.

If we are going by steam, that was given to me by my ex in college, and finally my newest name i have stuck with the last 2 years is Mahdz.

Alex from my name (from Ukrainian Oleksandr, by EN version is always Alexander, greek things etc. :)). Forestry — it was a great mode for Minecraft a long time ago about petals and bees.

last name, it means "wolves".

i am sour pants >:)

A name and a pun. I guess.

Quick poll: what is the origin story of your nick?

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When I was born, my mother and my father were still not agreeing about what name would I have.

It was inspired by my late cat. Means something like "ginger tail" in Ukrainian.

Ok, so 2003 I stumbled upon some ad for a fictional town in lord of the rings universe, where you could write your own character and imerse in the story. Lil' young Nin was intrigued, bc she never heard of such a place and went to apply. Coincidentially I got an elvish dictionary for my B-day and I needed a name for a ranger. So can be elvish, right? Yes. I love Lilies - not the smell, they seem to be stinking to me - and sword is also awesome for a ranger. I went with Swordlily - which is Ninglor in elvish.
Some lotr facts: Sîr Ninglor is a river in middle-earth. I'm not a sir tho. So no river. Just Ninglor is fine. Or Nin. Or Queen Nin xD

Oh right, the 03 part: I didn't want to forget when I actually started writing. Worked like a spell :3

" Igel " means hedgehog in German and is a nickna,e of mine in real life. That's because I find hedgehogs cute, I'm extremely nearsighted and have a short spiky haircut. The " 2005 " part was just randomly picked, because just ' igel ' was already used by someone back when I started here.

navi is Ivan (my name) backwards, but as there are already many navi thanks to zelda, I just added a little bit more.

high-school shortening of my real surname (with the article because why not? xD)

World of Warcraft...
back in Vanilla I shared an account with my brother, so in Vanilla, TBC(brother stopped playing after vanilla) and the start of WOTLK(into part of Ulduar) I played a Warrior with a different name... after some guild drama I ended up going to a different(and better) guild that wanted to recruit my alt for some time now... on its offspec a Holy priest(I enjoyed doing everything, tanking, healing and dps! I just wanted to raid :D)... that my brother had named Carenard, they ended up recruiting another holy priest the next week and let me switch back to my main spec of Shadow and I stayed with them for the rest of the expansion where many players of the game quit after to(lich king was done, so we were happy with our game experience). Ended up deciding the name was unique enough and I liked it so I started using it on site after site after site... and it just became my default.

Fun Fact: my Path of Exile and Runescape accounts... are my old default username which I won't state here.... but it shouldn't be overly hard to find.

Back in BBS days, I had a different handle. The main realtime BBS chat site we used was a commercial site for Broderbund games. They never used it, and they didn't even have someone monitoring it to help people who needed support. So it was a teenager hangout, and we'd help those who stumbled in who actually needed support... usually by telling them it wasn't there and to try somewhere else on the site. (This happened maybe 3 times ever in 3-5 years.)

At some point, the BBS admin decided to try to block all us regular users (something about tying up all the phone lines constantly) by banning our handles. So we had to create more accounts. So many. I used some book character names (because the shelf was there). Eventually they stopped bothering, and Yamara was the one that was left.

Yamara is a comic strip found in Dragon Magazine back in...uh...mid 80s? Somewhere. (Believe there's still a website for it.) And she was a halfling thief. The comic goes some funny places, and I read it a lot at the library, as they had a huge stash (support your library, they have cool stuff!). I usually manage to claim Yamara, but Steam has a lot of people who also read Dragon Magazine, so I went with Yamaraus (which always sounded like a dinosaur to me). Rawr.

Depending on who you ask in my closest group of friends, it has something to do with this prehistorical meme, me having a bad day after a sleepless night and Tyler Durden. Figure out what you will.

CM PUNK CM PUNK CM PUNK ....and tea, its ingrained in the culture of my country.

Shadowshiv was a weapon you could find in the old days of The Bard's Tale games (C64 era).

Fun to talk about it. I put a lot of thought into the name eldonar back then. In the end it has several meanings.
El - Hebrew for God. Donar - Teutonic god of thunder, other form of Thor. So Thundergod and El Don, as in the Boss. ;)
So I'm the Thundergod Boss haha

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Playing UT2k4 onslaught and mostly doing vehicular support... which lead to the nickname vehicularmanslaughterman... which was consistently too long for everything, so picked a vehicular adjacent name and stuck with it. 365 was a clan name and i just never dropped it due to it being easier to consistent get the name over just "ignition"

Well, ok, it's my name and birth year. BUT on Steam I am "WarYore" (pronounced like warrior). The name Chad actually means "brave warrior, defender of the city" or something like that. So, yeah, it's all just my name in various forms.

It's my toon name of the first character I started on World of Warcraft. I sucked at that game, not much of a fighter, lol. Have found an mmorpg which suits me better :)

Kyo came from Kyokushin (a karate style I used to practice), then I joined a Call of Duty team called Resp (and the clantag was RE) so I played a bit with the PSN name adding a G, ending up as Kyog_RE. Then the G stayed everywhere

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