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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Ok I’ve seen threads on character names, but none on display names. (For those not sure, it’s the name on your forum posts. Mine is Astral Projections.7320). After reading the forums for a while, it sometimes seems that people have chosen an account name that reflect some part of themselves. It might be unconsciously done, but I sometimes wonder.

So I started wondering, why did you (yes you) pick that one display name out of all the possibilities?

I’ll go first, nothing deep here I’m afraid. Astral Projections is the name of my Ritualist in Guild Wars 1 and my Mesmer in Guild Wars 2. I chose it because it’s the character I got to GWAMM in Guild Wars 1 and she was my favorite of my alts in that game.

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Posted by: Adine.2184

Adine.2184

Its just what people knew me as in GW1 so why the kitten not .

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

It’s what I’ve used almost everywhere online since I first signed up on a forum about 15 years ago. I think at this point I actually have more friends who knew me first under this name than my real one.

It’s also a mash-up of my real name (Katy) and my main characters name (Danielle) so it seemed appropriate.

Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).

“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”

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Posted by: bluestocking.6148

bluestocking.6148

It’s one of my usual online handles. “Bluestocking” is an archaic term for a woman who was considered over-educated, unfemininely intellectual, and basically unmarriageable. I rather like it (although my spouse disagrees with the last bit.)

I am destruction itself. I also bake cookies.

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Posted by: Arthos Ravron.3796

Arthos Ravron.3796

Because, when I first bought this game, I didn’t know there was a difference between display name and character name…

Commander of FoW, Lieutenant of [AKP], and Proud Human and Guardian

“Humanity cannot grasp Utopia for it refuses to be worthy of it”

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Posted by: neko.9028

neko.9028

It’s what people call(ed) me in Guild Wars.

mehh

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Posted by: Judge Banks.9018

Judge Banks.9018

Guild Wars, that is all.

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Posted by: Requiem.8769

Requiem.8769

Because it was playing in the background.

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Posted by: Nate Anabe.6091

Nate Anabe.6091

Nate = Short for Nathaniel (oldest son)
Ana = Anastasia (daughter)
Abe = Abraham (another son)
Note tried with 2 A’s in Anabe just did not look right (anaabe)

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Posted by: Syrpharon.7491

Syrpharon.7491

I created the name because I wanted something majestic, that transmits wisdom and power while sounding natural and fluent.

I don’t regret it and I’ve used it on my online identity in all this years

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Posted by: daimasei.4091

daimasei.4091

I was so desperate to play GW2 I just chose the first nickname that came to my mind. Totally unrelated to GW and one of the my biggest regrets in this game -_-

Why fix the Necromancer for free when we can charge $$$ for the Revenant
-ArenaNet

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Posted by: Fortus.6175

Fortus.6175

Old name, isnt even mine, I was playing some obscure MMO where you could buy characters, and I’ve always hated leveling, that game was beyond boring to level up, so I bought myself some nice mid level character. It had this name, I liked it.

After that I looked it up, turns out it stands for “he who is strong” so ever since then it has been my namer tag. TUrns out somebody had picked the name already though, but not the username, until this day I still look for he who owns the name so I can claim it mine.

[GoM] Gate of Madness Server Elementalist|Guardian
Legendary SoloQ

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Posted by: TriggerSad.2597

TriggerSad.2597

It’s been my online handle for years now.

It’s supposed to be a play on the term “trigger happy,” and describes my complete inability to play FPSs at the time. I’m not as horrid as I used to be, but I haven’t made much improvement.

IGN: Despada
Guild: I Can Outtweet A Centaur [TWIT]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriggerSad

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Posted by: Dragonax.6487

Dragonax.6487

10 years ago I was a big fan of Dragon and my favorite weapon was the axe

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Posted by: Melchior.2135

Melchior.2135

This is the first name of my main character, who has a history in various other MMORPGs and tabletop RPGs stretching back more than 20 years. The name is one traditionally associated with one of the Wise Men who visited Jesus as an infant, and I heard it in that context as a kid and thought it (as well as Gaspar and Balthezar, the other two traditional Wise Men) sounded like a rad wizard name. Later on I did more research about the etymology and a couple pretty excellent actual real-world people named Melchior, and discovered that I was 100% correct in that assumption.

It also helps that it’s pronounced the same as Melkor, who the elves called Morgoth, who was Sauron’s boss in the wars that caused the Gods to remove themselves from Middle Earth and send Wizards and such as their representative instead. That’s a pretty sweet fantasy pedigree, overall.

Former Guild Wars 2 fan. RIP, ArenaNet’s integrity.

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Posted by: knives.6345

knives.6345

knives = Millions Knives from Trigun Anime.

Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici

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Posted by: Lunar Sunset.8742

Lunar Sunset.8742

Luna is my black cat.

Sunset because people called me that after my main character name in GW1 which derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_By_Sunset

Sunset
50/50 GWAMM x3
I quit how I want

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Posted by: Weasley.5614

Weasley.5614

because Harry Potter was my childhood.

(Javok Spurr) Leader of The Warriors Creed
‘They Want You, They Want You, They Want You As A New Recruit’

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Posted by: Hannelore.8153

Hannelore.8153

Because its my name.

Daisuki [SUKI] LGBT-Friendly Guild Leader | NA – Jade Quarry
I’m usually really sweet… but this an internet forum and you know how it has to be.
/i’m a lesbiab… lesbiam… less bien… GIRLS/

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Posted by: SandraSolace.7682

SandraSolace.7682

Solace is the last name I use for all my chars in both GW and GW2

Sandra is my actual first name.

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Posted by: ozmaniandevil.6805

ozmaniandevil.6805

My dog’s (yorkie) name is Ozzy. When he was tearing around the yard one day we commented that he was like the tazmanian devil. That morphed into Ozmanian Devil. I stole it for my screen name.

Isle of Janthir – Knights of the Rose (KoR)

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Posted by: Behellagh.1468

Behellagh.1468

The meaning of my name seemed appropriate at the time.

We are heroes. This is what we do!

RIP City of Heroes

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

Vayne was the character name I used in Rift and it sort of stuck when I started moderating a fan forum. Because people already knew me, I kept it.

Just wish I knew that Vayne was a female hero in LoL before I used it. lol

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Posted by: Figlilly.3907

Figlilly.3907

Mine comes from a combination of two characters from a previous game I played, Princessfig and Lilly. I thought Figlilly sounded rather Mary Poppinsish and all I can hope is that it isn’t some dire insult or name of a body part in a language I don’t know.

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Posted by: Guhracie.3419

Guhracie.3419

It’s one of my usual online handles. “Bluestocking” is an archaic term for a woman who was considered over-educated, unfemininely intellectual, and basically unmarriageable. I rather like it (although my spouse disagrees with the last bit.)

This is the coolest thing I’ve learned all week!

“Be angry about legendary weapons, sure, but what about the recent drought of content?”
-Mike O’Brien
Because we can’t be angry about both?

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Posted by: Delmain.5167

Delmain.5167

I chose my display name because it was the first character name I ever came up with online about 8 years ago. It came when I was trying to get the name The Man, but it failed, and started going with various variations. The Man = Da Man = De Man = Delmain.

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Posted by: Fror.2163

Fror.2163

Because Frór.

I played an MMO where dwarves were the only playable race. Everybody had either a dwarf-related joke as name or Gimli or some Tyrion Lannister (before the series) reference. I went into intensive researches about dwarves in LotR (read: 5 minutes) and decided that Frór is a good name. I kept it ever since.

Frór (yes, with the accent!)

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Posted by: Yumiko Ishida.3769

Yumiko Ishida.3769

My GW 1 Character name is like the OP’s. Also she is the name of the main female lead in a series I was writing but stopped. She also was my main in GW 1 so this makes her my GW 1’s descendant. They were also both elementalists. She is my GWAMM and my 50/50

Also every MMO I’m in has at least one red haired chick named this.

Yumiko Emi Ishida 80 Ele, Hikari Kyoko Ishida 80 Guard TC-NA. Active RPer of NA megaserver.

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Posted by: Viking Jorun.5413

Viking Jorun.5413

It was my Xbox Live gamer tag, wish I could change it ;(

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Posted by: Kylah.7391

Kylah.7391

It’s mah name! ^.^

Kylah Bliss a Thief in the Shadows
[ASOS] Asuran Society of Socialites
Skype -Kylalalah-

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Posted by: sneakysneasel.3542

sneakysneasel.3542

Because Pokemon.

Isn’t anatomy beautiful? – Nurse Lexxi

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Posted by: bluestocking.6148

bluestocking.6148

It was my Xbox Live gamer tag, wish I could change it ;(

Mine actually is too, after discovering my other choices were all taken. I got an Xbox kind of late.

I am destruction itself. I also bake cookies.

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Posted by: HardRider.2980

HardRider.2980

Got this name from a flag many many years ago and was my name in an old MMO (CoH)
So I kept it for this

We are heroes. This is what we do!

RIP City of Heroes

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

In any MMO my guild tends to call me by my main character for the game. I knew before the first beta that I would be Donari Mal Di Bette, as I was recreating a previous tabletop character to fit a friend’s planned adventurer’s guild (had to drop the “o” from “Malo” to make it fit, and I was careful in beta to never name him fully in case of name thieves). In fact, we used the 2RP site and then our own guild site to do extensive RP before and during beta, and Donari developed nicely through all that.

Thus I chose Donari for my account name so people would know it was me whatever alt I was on, without them having to memorize some odd nickname.

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Posted by: Mileinnor.7125

Mileinnor.7125

My real name written in reverse. Pretty common name from where I’m from.

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Posted by: imbalancedhero.3968

imbalancedhero.3968

because of reasons ^^

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Some interesting stories and reasons, and some cryptic ones. ^^

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Posted by: Mastermavrick.2439

Mastermavrick.2439

Hmm screen name i used 15yrs back when i started playing mmo’s/online games. Just like how my main character is my Persona/Shin Megami Tensei(game series)→GW1 carryover name.

The Revenant Apostle [Rvnt]→ DragonBand
Kaiji Ruko – 80 Ranger, Revanat Shadowdeath – 80 Necromancer

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Posted by: Deacon.9725

Deacon.9725

Because I am a Wake Forest alumnus (Demon Deacons are our mascot…), and it’s been an online tag/name for over a decade now. Also helped to form the idea that all my characters’ names start with a “D.”

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Posted by: Palador.2170

Palador.2170

It’s the name of an old DnD character of mine that became my RL nickname among the members of that gaming group.

The name itself is a reference to Pallas Athena, for reasons that I won’t go into other than to say that it involved the very abusive mixing of house rules and 2nd Ed ADnD Psionics rules.

Sarcasm, delivered with a
delicate, brick-like subtlety.

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Posted by: Zero Day.2594

Zero Day.2594

I used to have one name in every game until GW1 where I couldn’t use it… It had my real name and some numbers (which gw1 didn’t like). That name had been through a bit… Plus my interests changed. Now I’m Zero Day/ZeroDay in games.

Zero Day (taken from Wikipedia):
A zero-day attack or threat is an attack that exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in a computer application, meaning that the attack occurs on “day zero” of awareness of the vulnerability.

Thief Nerf/Change Wish List. Advice List
Join the TEEFs!

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Posted by: GuzziHero.2467

GuzziHero.2467

When I got my first motorbike (a Yamaha RXS100-N), I was keen not to be stuck with a forum name tag based on a little Ronnie Ring-Ding bike. I was just known as my real name on IRC biker chat channels. I bought my first Moto Guzzi, a V50, so became GuzziV50.

Later on, I survived a MASSIVE motorbike crash (nearly 100mph, 65ft into a field) unscathed so was invariably known as GoldenB****x, but one friend suggested GuzziHero, and that stuck.

Most people do not know my real name, which is good because I despise it.
—-

It’s one of my usual online handles. “Bluestocking” is an archaic term for a woman who was considered over-educated, unfemininely intellectual, and basically unmarriageable. I rather like it (although my spouse disagrees with the last bit.)

Interesting. There is a lyric in a Nick Cave song that goes “She’ll be wearing those blue stockings, I’ll bet”. It helps to explain that lyric. Cheers!

(edited by GuzziHero.2467)

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Posted by: Riiko.4512

Riiko.4512

“Riiko” is what most of my friends call me so it kind of stuck as my default MMO name.
Its a rough translation of the meaning of my actual name into Japanese.
i.e. : “Child of the Forest” .

[AHMA] – Rev
Perpetually in the mists

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Posted by: bluestocking.6148

bluestocking.6148

To be fair, men could be known as bluestockings too, but as with so many things it was only negative when applied to women. ;-)

I am destruction itself. I also bake cookies.