Avatars and Names: How'd You Come Up With Yours?

Seriocity · Post by **Seriocity** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:39 am

Alright, I know I've asked this before around 2 years back (I'm probably the second oldest 'spacer acting on the forum), but...

How did you come up with your current avatars and keen-usernames? What about previous usernames and avs? Here's mine:

Avatar: As insane as it sounds, it's actually a "plushie" angel Ian Curtis who's dancing around like he does in the concerts (facial expression included). He's drawn by me and was coloured and ink by my artist. You'll find him on the X'mas advert for These Days.

Username: I stole it off a Chameleons song that I liked very much. And it's not spelled wrong either - take a look at the "Strange Times" tracklist for information. Even worse, I like the band a lot.

Other names:

Herr X: Taken from an Ultravox song on their album Vienna. My nickname Albrecht came from an RPG character that I made up (also taken from Bernard Sumner 'cause I thought it sounded cool... anyone notice a pattern?).

Maladroit: I personally like this username the best - not taken from any song, but it describes me quite well. Uh...

Other avatars:

Circle Headed Guy with mohawk and sunglasses: I don't know where I came up with him. He was cute.

Me with sunglasses: An odd one that I made up from somewhere. I don't know why I'm wearing sunglasses at all, I hardly wear 'em. I did wear them at night once... bad idea. The leather jacket was cool - too bad it ripped up and stuff... it was 25 years old though.

Now you know what a sick demented (80's music freak) I am.

Matt Lim · Post by **Matt Lim** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:47 am

Matt Lim: My name, obviously

.

Avatar: I used to have a hair style like my avatars. I added white skin and blue glowing eyes to simulate Neil Gaiman's King of Dreams from Sandman comic books.

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:56 am

The avatar is a character from my strip. I can't say his name because it's my keenspace password, and I don't know how to change it. I'm not real bright.

My nick goes back about ten years. It's a play on words. It's just a thing. It means about as much to me now as does the word "chair".

I'm only curious to know if YarpsDat is supposed to be spelled backwards, and if so have you seen Jenny Spray's site? Just an odd thought.

Also does the eye keep changing, or am I trippin'?

Seriocity · Post by **Seriocity** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:59 am

I swear, Yarps Dat name has to be something spelled backwards. It was really familiar to me when I first saw it.

Faceless · Post by **Faceless** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:00 pm

Avatar 
Lets get it out of the way, my avatar is one of my mass-made drawings I do every day (for practice). But soon i'll put up a 'better' one... really I will.

 User Name 
My user-name was taken from my personality, i'm faceless to most people. (you know not-well-known...UNknown, read the sig). Also I like to think i'm stealthy...

 Old Nicknames 

Pheonix > Pheo > Pheo X

Mason > Macey > Mace > Mace Windu (my mates are Star Wars nuts)

Faceless > ???

Woapalanne · Post by **Woapalanne** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:08 pm

Username
Woapalanne - my Vigil Honour name, means "Eagle Shadow" in Len

War · Post by **War** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:21 pm

Username:
Usually War, had to use Digital War here. Why am I called War? There's no real reason, it just came about as an accident one day, and the name stuck.

Avatar:
Is me. With a few slight differences. My hair is actually brown. The colour of my cartoon hair is down to a crappy monitor from wayy back when I started DW. I thought it was brown

.
Previous avatars have mostly been of me.

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:44 pm

Username
LAGtheNoggin - Derived from L.A.G (my brother's Doom II call name was K.I.G so I followed the trend), then went to LAG, then LAGtheModeller when I became a 3D Artist and then LAGtheNoggin when I started drawing my comic, Noggin.
I'm also known as Cpl. LAG (most first person shooters) and Cmdr. LAG (most strategy games), say "hi!" if you ever see me online.

Avatar
New Years 2004 avatar of my main comic character Noggy, based very roughly on me, as a few oldies know I'm rather fond of a few too many drinks so I'm keeping it for a while. Other than that I sometimes use a cut down version of a picture of me wearing my Stahlhelm and waving a very cheap plastic Union Jack I found on the tube; Usually on WW2 or small arm related forums.

Old User Names
Raptor (when I was 9) Killer (when I was 11 and played too much Duke Nukem 3D) L.A.G (when I was 12 and got ish good at Duke Nukem 3D) and the rest: LAGtheModeller, LAGtheNoggin, Cpl. LAG and Cmdr. LAG I've used since Half-Life arrived.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:47 pm

Username: rkolter... short for Ryan Kolter, my name.

I've often gone by Hills since the days of 1200 baud BBSing.

Avatar: It's my main character, ABOL, with a christmas hat on 'cause I'm too lazy to remove it.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:51 pm

rkolter wrote:Username: rkolter... short for Ryan Kolter, my name.

I've often gone by Hills since the days of 1200 baud BBSing.

Avatar: It's my main character, ABOL, with a christmas hat on 'cause I'm too lazy to remove it.

You're not lazy, you're just all set for next year.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:55 pm

When my Italian relatives came over to the US some generations back, the family name became "Sortelli", which is apparently unique to our family because there ain't no other Sortellis out there that we've ever found, but there are some close spellings.

I put up my maniacal laughing Dorkness avatar because I'm the devil (not) in disguise.

Jops · Post by **Jops** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:04 pm

Username:
It's basically my nickname, used even more often than my real name (i got it about 7 years ago)
Its origins are from "Cannon Fodder" a very old videogame i really like (as much as Metal Slug, i guess

).
I never had other usernames (apart from "Hokum" when i joined a IRC server where "Jops" was already in use).

Avatar:
It's a weird roadsign i found a when i was driving from San Francisco to Flagstaff (a city pretty close to the Grand Canyon).
It's also where, in my comic, is located the SDXF secret headquater.

Jeffrey6283 · Post by **Jeffrey6283** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:07 pm

The username is just my first name.... and then my birthdate. I use that 4 number code so damn much its burned into my brain. easy to remember though

The avatar is one of the main characters from my comic. The old "Sah-weet" avatar was a characature of me.

Nd · Post by Nd » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:19 pm

My real world nickname is Indy. On video games, I'd put 'nd' on the top score bits. I liked the nick "indybuda" better, but it crapped out on me on these boards. My avatar is a monkey with glowy eyes. I am that monkey! OOK!!!

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:22 pm

Username comes from a bball nickname I've always had. And I've been too lazy to actually get an avatar over these last years.

McBean · Post by **McBean** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:23 pm

I've got this thing about capturing waldo and having him tied up and torture. It's a sick (nonsexual) fantasy of mine.

VileTerror · Post by **VileTerror** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:24 pm

VileTerror - this has been my name since the Dawn. I intend for it to be my name until the end.

ArchVileTerror and ImpousVileTerror were both created originally on ezboard to get around banning issues. I use them here in an attempt to divide post count, *information missing*, and to keep people less suspicious of my true plans. The good ol' classic misdirection, GLEE!

This avatar image is that of Mel Scarlet. Mel Scarlet is a character who is introduced in my comic around the 4th or 5th season. He is also known as The Pissed Scientist (for two reasons).

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:24 pm

My Username?
Alas! I cannot tell you... for to do so would be to plague your poor innocent heart by my wretched misery.
It is a terrible secret that is mine alone to bear, and one that shall never be revealed due to my dark, hideous, hideous past that will forever haunt my dreams and that I can only, hope to forget...

And my Avatar?
It's Boovock.
Consider that an incentive to read my comic.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:00 pm

Username
Phalanx was the name of my first Diablo character on battle.net. She later became the heroine of my first fantasy story, and then my Keenspot forum nickname. That was back in 2000.
I dropped it for a while. Then when I registered for a Keenspace account, I wanted it to match with my Keenspot one, so now I find myself back with the same handle I had almost four years ago.

Other Handles
Ping (My real name, so not really a handle)
Pinky
(The) Sphingx

Avatar
Jin, the main character of my comic. She blinks! *evil*
I have fun modifying the picture every now and then. Right now she's wearing a cheong sam for Chinese New Year.

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:13 pm

Username:
Well... that would be our names...

Avatar:
And that would be us...

It's kind of magical, really....

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