Many years ago when I was in Middle School our Social Studies class was given the assignment to research and give a presentation on a person from the either the Roman or Greek Mythos. They could be a real person or fictional as long as they were from that era.

Naturally most people chose a god like Zeus or Apollo. Other people chose noted scholars like Plato or Hippocrates. Myself, I had always been fascinated with the legend of the Minotaur. While the Minotaur himself fascinated me, his origins had always fascinated me more. After a bit of research I settled on making my report on Pasiphaë, the Wife of King Minos and Mother of the Minotaur.

I received an A+ on my report, but was asked not to present my extensive illustrations of the mechanical creation it was believed that Pasiphaë had the master craftsman Daedalus create. It was essentially a sophisticated modification of a torture device used around the time called the Brazen Bull, a hollow bronze cow that was used to roast people alive. Instead this one was designed to allow the Bull to mount and inside Pasiphaë would be able to consummate with the bull with ease and safety. After that I read more about the Greek and Roman Mythology and found that apparently the Gods were quite freaky and that Zeus in particular liked to take the form of animals and molest and even rape poor human women. I credit it with eventually leading me to the realm of anthropomorphism and furry fandom.

I like the word "zephyr" and wanted to make it sound more feminine, I guess. :D

"Ryuzaki" just sounds and looks, in some weird way that honestly sounds like my subconscious is trolling me, like it should be my name.

the only fucking problem is that I'm a straight white male who's actually just a massive weaboo

I'm secretly a fan of ponies.

why slay dragons when you can fuck them

I am a fan of metal.

well for a long time I've been known as Imaderule34 and my personality kinda just evolved with it. hell I've even had people point me out as Imr34 on tf2 when I was under a different username. But something didn't feel quite right. So i became a little skeptical. So for like a week I was skeptic tank.

but then I found what was missing. I needed a name to accurately describe my stance on digletts.

Thus The Diggler was born. Best name I've ever had.

i...honestly? i have no idea. i know, my previous username i used to use everywhere was neo32x but this one... i guess it could be partly due to my disliking of so many people on the internet having no originality in the slightest when it comes to user names. things like anime or video game titles or character names with random numbers tacked onto the end.

could be that after seeing such a vast lacking of originality and uniqueness over the years i just wanted something different, something you don't see that often.

we live on a planet with only our one single species being sentient. humans all look alike with minor variations as a whole. or to put it another way: If all are unique then no one is unique. and boy does that ever sound B.O.R.I.N.G.

compared to our world, furries (anthros) are like a rainbow of diversity.

and so...afaik, my user name has no relation to pretty much anything really. it's just...different. (though personally, i do prefer it pronounced in a japanese way, like how they say the letter e. like so: tray-os, treos)

other names i've gone by (usually in mmorpg's with multiple alt characters) include Lunae and Zaern.

for that matter, the last place i remember going by neo32x was Kongregate and that account was made way back in '08. i don't know when i changed the name but it must've been at least several years ago now.

edit: oh yeah, i know something mr. diggler there hates and possibly fears and it's not the cheese grater. lol :P

The_Diggler said:
Thus The Diggler was born. Best name I've ever had.

Fo' Diggle mah Niggle

Fifteen.
Because Fifteen is enough.
...
N-not that anyone should make any deductions from the previous statement.

The_Diggler said:
well for a long time I've been known as Imaderule34 and my personality kinda just evolved with it. hell I've even had people point me out as Imr34 on tf2 when I was under a different username. But something didn't feel quite right. So i became a little skeptical. So for like a week I was skeptic tank.

but then I found what was missing. I needed a name to accurately describe my stance on digletts.

Thus The Diggler was born. Best name I've ever had.

Diggle me this.

It's my middle name.

You'll never know my first or last though!

My original name wasn't too great or creative so I used my love for the Japanese language to change it up a bit, the word Tsuki has several meanings in Japanese but I meant for it to be interpreted as MoonWolf.

treos said:
(though personally, i do prefer it pronounced in a japanese way, like how they say the letter e. like so: tray-os, treos)

*to-re-o-su

If you want it pronounced in a Japanese way, that is.

Edit: fixed typo

Snowy said:
*tu-re-o-su

If you want it pronounced in a Japanese way, that is.

Isn't that how they would read it? I'm sure he meant the vocals, which are more common around the world. Tre-os?

Sorrowless said:
Isn't that how they would read it? I'm sure he meant the vocals, which are more common around the world. Tre-os?

indeed

If I have no name is there any story?

​​​​​​​ said:
If I have no name is there any story?

There must be a story why you picked 7 zero-width spaces.

Tuvalu said:
There must be a story why you picked 7 zero-width spaces.

I thought it would be better than using the black-joker playing card, props on seeing that though.

​​​​​​​ said:
I thought it would be better than using the black-joker playing card, props on seeing that though.

how i am supposed to view your profile when you have username like that

Mutisija said:
how i am supposed to view your profile when you have username like that

I'm just going to call him 202834.

Tuvalu said:
I'm just going to call him 202834.

him? last time I checked I didn't have a dick'n'balls

Mutisija said:
how i am supposed to view your profile when you have username like that

https://e621.net/user/show/202834

"":/user/show/202834 said:
him? last time I checked I didn't have a dick'n'balls

Well, it's normal to assume everyone on the internet is a dude. Imo, it's just an innocent mistake

Edit: Would you look at that, blank quotes don't get linked (I deleted the characters to count them and in fact, they are 7)

darn i just realized that i could have just fished the url out of the code.

​​​​​​​ said:
If I have no name is there any story?

you and I will get along well

Xch3l said:
Well, it's normal to assume everyone on the internet is a dude. Imo, it's just an innocent mistake

I prefer peafowl pronouns, like pea/pear and peaself

I like FMA
:I Yeah I'm just too lazy to find something else...

Well, I'm Russian. And I really like Huskies. Russki (Anglicised form of русский) And Husky, cause I like them.

I made mine up on the spot.
It's a popular cake-thing in my country.

Siral Exan is a pseudo-OC: he is who I "would" be. I like to practice AUs (multiple-verse, I call them), so I created an omni-character, that'd be who I am if I would do X in life, or if I had X in life and had to act on it. His name came from a shortened anagram of my full name, read from an official document style (last name(s), first name). Since I feel like AU questions always present a good or bad choice, I like to say "I don't know what I'd do, but I know Siral would...", since saying "I would..." is assuming that you know you would do that in future tense.

If you remember my old title, Dark Knight, my favorite class in Final Fantasy was the Dark Knight, because I loved the concept of using health to deal massive damage to foes. Others would include "what if I continued martial arts", or "what would happen if I lived in medieval times", etc. to infinity. Every time I do a what if, I say Siral instead of me, 'cause I choose to believe I'd act differently if I was there, instead of him.

Or, in shorthand: Siral is my way of fixing an AU flaw by being another character; instead of saying "I would...", I'd say "Siral would..". He is what I would be, not what I am. He has a background story, but it changes to the AU's whim.

The initials FG hold an importance to me, so I made the username "Furry Geek", but when I lost the password to the account that used that username, I had to change it, and ended up with Furrin Gok out of nowhere. It might be that in the one time I tried to self-insert a furry character of me into a story I decided upon that name, but that was so long ago I have no idea if the name was in play for the story or not. No, that story never got released, and the files were completely lost.

Looking into the username on Google, it's a common name used by several people, so I'm glad I don't use it anymore.

American thrash metal band

The necro is strong with this one.

Buuuut, since five people have already done it... Aeruginis is the Latin for verdigris. Verdigris is the greenish patina that forms on copper and alloys containing copper (such as brass and bronze) when exposed to air, seawater, or acetic acid. I've always loved verdigris and for some reason for my username made it even more obscure than it already is.

Fun side note: aluminum oxidizes or "rusts"—and unlike iron oxide, which is powdery and spreads virulently, destroying iron structures, aluminum oxide is extremely hard and makes a protective coating on aluminum surfaces. Cool stuff ^^

HotUnderTheCollar... I actually don't know. I like English idioms a lot so I was bound to come across this one. It means that you are angry/agitated with someone or something. I don't really consider myself as that, but when I used to play certain video games, I did get quite annoyed with some at times, which made me pick this name among other silly and random names for my alt Steam account (which is no longer in use). Then, as I made my account on e621 6 months ago, I thought, "Heh, why not?"

It's supposed to be Rusty but some punk ass took that so I had to go with Rustyy.

Idk it sounds cool.

May change it.

I like Doom but mostly it was because I was looking around me trying to think of a good username and I have a little doomguy figure by my tv then I remembered my avatar picture and I was happy with that. But trying to come up with a username from what's around me I also could have called myself dagger, bayonet, poison, wee ninja, machete, butcher, candy or something to do with either a fox or bunny but I thought most of those sounded like I was trying too hard to be cool and tough. Oh yeah and the 666 because of hell and stuff.

I've got balls of steel.

Also its my sense of humor

I have this name because that is the class of my Cyclops PC in D&D.

Doomguy666 said:
But trying to come up with a username from what's around me I also could have called myself dagger, bayonet, poison, wee ninja, machete, butcher, candy or something to do with either a fox or bunny but I thought most of those sounded like I was trying too hard to be cool and tough. Oh yeah and the 666 because of hell and stuff.

Get the bandages, someone might get hurt on that edge

Lucas Mota is my actual name, and Rony is a reference to a nickname I had when I was younger, Ronaldo.

Started stringing together random sounds that made me happy, turns out to be a male African name. Who knew?

Rustyy said:
Get the bandages, someone might get hurt on that edge

Yeah me I'm always accidentally getting hurt playing with all that stuff. I was right though I didn't use any of those because they were to edgey, ha it's kind of like a pun.

Doomguy666 said:
Yeah me I'm always accidentally getting hurt playing with all that stuff. I was right though I didn't use any of those because they were to edgey, ha it's kind of like a pun.

Even just tacking 666 onto it seems like you're trying too hard, but if the username was already taken then it's a sensible number, considering the game's content.

I have a fennec character so I made this silly name up.

Needed a good name to go along with a shoebill avatar

My name is an obvious pun

Since someone already made an effort to dig this up through 6 feet of threads, it'd be a waste not to desecrate it more.

So, IIRC: I came up with some long-ass username that didn't work, bcause e6 has a 20-char limit on usernames. At first i tried to come up with a name that fits exactly, but then I thought, 'I want a name that doesn't fit!' So 20 min later, my name is over 20 charac-

we were doing inkwash drawings in my life drawing class one semester, and I had a small little container in my drawing box filled with ink

while it was very cold one day the container froze in my car

I made a yahoo games account when I was 11 or something, the default profile name was Unnamed.
I wanted to be clever and put in Unnamed and Untamed because it rhymed (unbeknownst to me, it's also the name of a Monster Truck), but it had too many characters, so I stuck with Untamed.

16 or so years later and it's still my go-to username

I was looking up the image macro Taco Cat Is A Palindrome and thought of wolves.

Turns out someone had photoshopped a wolf head and legs on a taco and it showed up when I typed "wolf taco".

Story behind "Chaser": random name generator
Story behind "Félix": random name generator

I'm not very creative when it comes to names.

I finally remembered the origin of my nick.
I didn't want to use my usual nick here, so I picked a random name from a book I was reading at the time. Minor antagonist from P.C. Hodgell's God Stalk. (Good book if I remember right, though it's been a long time since I read it.)

hilarious play on words

My origin is on page 6

idem

shortened to id

shortened to i and usually found with e

It is what it always is.

Fenrick said:
hilarious play on words

Oooohhhhhhhh. I get it now. Hah.

Mine is a play on words on my real name. I just put "A" on "Lex" and "Yorim" is my last name backwards.

Though I'm planning to change my username in line with my real name soon...

I was watching spongebob and i remembered of squidward
I cant spell

Some asshole turned me into a strawberry.

AStrawberry said:
Some asshole turned me into a strawberry.

Don't you just hate when that happends?

Hot rock.

My name is that of my fursona Kodanís the Dragon, as for why I chose it... it just popped into my head when I was writing his backstory, and I liked it.

Because I was socially isolated as a kid.

Yes, I am still using the same username as I was when I was 13.

Yes, I've considered a new username.

No, I haven't thought of a good one yet.

I thought it would be funny and changed it on a whim. Got approved within seconds and I'm having an out of body experience.

Based on dumb finnish meme.

Oneday I was just sitting around when the word mawjaw came into my head. That's pretty much it.

Spontaneous unassociated name with any of my online accounts that was easy to remember and phonetically pleasing. Honestly I wasn't expecting the name to be available when I made the account given its relative simplicity. Haven't touched it since - it still accomplishes the same job as effectively as day one.

Mine is the name of my Fursona (which I need to commission at some point). Just a name that sounded kind of cool to me and Viking-ish.

It's random.

it's one of the two usernames I've used on the internet since 2009, alongside the username Evillord, and I just stuck with it for 10 years at this point.

Random said:
It's random.

By this definition of random, I think everyone else's usernames would also qualify as random.

My username: Taken from an absurdist and somewhat deliberately bad pixel art I did once.

i hate coming up with new usernames

dangitusernames said:
i hate coming up with new usernames

Lol